DBKP Today in Weird History: April 7 2008

War, Terrorism, Disaster, TV, Trolleys, Ooops, Wimps, I GOT YOU, Rockets, Unhappy Birthday, Smells Like Suicide, Jews, Inventions, Big Oil, Ouch, Nanny State, Wow, Pro Wrestling, Born, Birthdays, Death

SMELLS LIKE SUICIDE

1994 Kurt Cobain grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27.

WAR!

1862 Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.

1945 During World War II, American planes intercepted and effectively destroyed a Japanese fleet that was headed to Okinawa on a suicide mission.

2003 U.S. troops in more than 100 U.S. armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Baghdad, seizing one of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces and toppling a 40-foot statue of the Iraqi ruler.

TERRORISM

1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis.

DISASTER

1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo CA).

1990 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma.

OUCH!

1926 Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose.

OOOPS!

1966 The U.S. Navy recovered a hydrogen bomb it had lost off the coast of Spain.

UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY

1972 "Crazy" Joe Gallo mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party.

WOW!

1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 seconds.

PRO WRESTLING

1986 Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy.

1991 Wrestlemania VII scheduled in Los Angeles CA, actually performed 03/24.

NANNY STATE

1933 Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment.

1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years.

1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.

WIMPS

1978 President Carter announced he was deferring development of the neutron bomb, a high-radiation weapon.

INVENTIONS

1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches.

BIG OIL

1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms.

ROCKETS

2007 A Russian rocket carrying American billionaire Charles Simonyi roared into the night skies over Kazakhstan, sending its three occupants on a trip to the international space station.

JEWS

1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil.

1933 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bar Jews from legal & public service.

1994 Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi's killing Jews) for 1st time.

TV

1927 An audience in New York watched as the image as well as voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover were transmitted live from Washington in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.

TROLLEYS

1957 Shortly after midnight, the last of New York's electric trolleys completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan.

I GOT YOU

1998 Mary Bono, the widow of entertainer-turned-politician Sonny Bono, won a special election to serve out the remainder of her husband's congressional term.

BORN

1860 W K Kellogg - the original corn flake.

BIRTHDAYS

Actor R.G. Armstrong is 91. Sitar player Ravi Shankar is 88. Actor James Garner is 80. Country singer Cal Smith is 76. Actor Wayne Rogers is 75. Media commentator Hodding Carter III is 73. Country singer Bobby Bare is 73. Rhythm-and-blues singer Charlie Thomas (The Drifters) is 71. Jazz musician Freddie Hubbard is 70. California Attorney General Jerry Brown is 70. Movie director Francis Ford Coppola is 69. TV personality David Frost is 69. Singer Patricia Bennett (The Chiffons) is 61. Singer John Oates is 59. Singer Janis Ian is 57. Country musician John Dittrich is 57. Actor Jackie Chan is 54. Football Hall-of-Famer Tony Dorsett is 54. Actor Russell Crowe is 44. Rhythm-and-blues singer Mark Kibble (Take 6) is 44. Actor Bill Bellamy is 43. Rock musician Dave "Yorkie" Palmer (Space) is 43. Former football player-turned-analyst Tiki Barber is 33. Actress Heather Burns is 33. Actor Conner Rayburn is 9.

DEATH

30 Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem (scholars' estimate, according to astronomer Schaefer).

1891 P[hineas] T Barnum US circus promoter (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 80.

2007 "B.C." comic strip creator Johnny Hart died in Nineveh, N.Y., at age 76.

2007 Actor Barry Nelson died in Bucks County, Pa., at age 89.

April 7, the 98th day of 2008. There are 268 days left in the year.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: March 13, 2008

WAR, DISASTER, SCIENCE, RESIGNING, MURDER, TRAGEDY, ABORTION, JEWS, DEALS, ICONS, PATENTS, ATTEMPTS, ASSASSINATION, NAZIS, CLIMATE, INVENTIONS, TRIALS, POLITICALLY CORRECT, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH
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ICONS

1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly.

...and later

WAR!

2003 U.S. officials said President Bush might delay a vote on his troubled United Nations resolution or even drop it - and fight Iraq without the international body's backing.

DISASTER

1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die.

1928 Hundreds of people died when the San Francisquito Valley in California was inundated with water after the St. Francis Dam burst just before midnight the evening of March 12.

1961 Landslide in USSR, kills 145.

1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake.

1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed).

ATTEMPTS

1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit.

PATENTS

1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs.

DEALS

1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000.

CLIMATE

1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages.

1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US.

INVENTIONS

1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate.

ASSASSINATION

1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca.

NAZIS

1933 Josef Göbbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda.

1938 Anschluß-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany.

TRIALS

1998 Sgt. Maj. Gene McKinney, once the Army's top enlisted man, was acquitted at his court-martial of pressuring military women for sex, but was convicted of trying to persuade his chief accuser to lie.

SCIENCE

1781 The planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel. He thought it was a comet.

1925 A law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution.

JEWS

1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam.

1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany.

MURDER

1964 Bar manager Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her New York home; the case generated controversy over charges that Genovese's neighbors had failed to respond to her cries for help.

RESIGNING

1980 Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II announced he was stepping down, the same day a jury in Winamac, Ind., found the company innocent of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women in a Ford Pinto.

2007 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales admitted mistakes in how the Justice Department handled the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors but said he wouldn't resign.

POLITICALLY CORRECT

1988 yielding to student protests, the board of trustees of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a liberal arts college for the hearing-impaired, chose I. King Jordan to become the school's first deaf president.

TRAGEDY

1996 a gunman burst into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

2007 President Bush sought to soothe strained ties with Mexico by promising to prod Congress to overhaul tough U.S. immigration policies, but Mexican President Felipe Calderon criticized U.S. plans for a 700-mile border fence.

ABORTION

2003 The Senate voted 64-33 to ban partial birth abortion.

BORN

1733 Joseph Priestly England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen).

1770 Daniel Lambert England, giant (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death).

1908 American billionaire, publisher and diplomat Walter Annenberg (TV Guide) was born in Milwaukee.

BIRTHDAYS

Jazz musician Roy Haynes is 83. Country singer Jan Howard is 78. Songwriter Mike Stoller is 75. Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka is 69. Actor William H. Macy is 58. Actress Deborah Raffin is 55. Comedian Robin Duke is 54. Actress Glenne Headly is 53. Actress Dana Delany is 52. Rock musician Adam Clayton (U2) is 48. Jazz musician Terence Blanchard is 46. Actor Christopher Collet is 40. Actress Annabeth Gish is 37. Actress Tracy Wells is 37. Rapper Common is 36. Rapper Khujo (Goodie Mob, The Lumberjacks) is 36. Singer Glenn Lewis is 33. Actor Danny Masterson is 32. Actor Emile Hirsch is 23. Singers Nicole and Natalie Albino (Nina Sky) are 22.

DEATH

1901 Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, died in Indianapolis.

1938 Clarence S Darrow Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80.

Today is March 13, the 73rd day of the year. There are 293 days left in 2008.

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Kidnappings, Inventions, War, Television, Periodicals, Births, Deaths, Terrorism, Lost Bets, Government, The Clintons, Convicted Racist Murderers, Space Frontier


1974 - Patty Hearst is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)


Government

1783 - Sweden recognizes U.S. independence.
1900 - The United States and Great Britain sign the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, giving the United States the right to build a canal in Nicaragua but not to fortify it.
1904 - American occupation of Cuba ends
1917 - Congress passed the Immigration Act, which restricted Asian immigration, over President Wilson's veto.
1937 - FDR proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices—"packing" the court.
1969 - US population reaches 200 million
1972 - US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage
1981 - President Reagan, in a nationwide address, said the United States was in "the worst economic mess since the Great Depression" and called for sweeping spending and tax cuts.
1992 - The House of Representatives authorized an investigation into whether the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign conspired with Iran to delay release of the American hostages. (The task force investigating the "October Surprise" allegations later said it found no credible evidence of such a conspiracy.)

"Mad" King George III

1811 - After George III was declared insane, the Prince of Wales became Prince Regent of England, and later George IV.

1788 - London’s finest, known as Bobbies, were named after Robert Peel, who was born on this day in Lancashire, England.

Television

1969 - For one of the few times in television history, a scheduled series (usually 13 or 26 weeks of shows) turned into a one-night wonder. ABC-TV premiered Turn On, hosted by Tim Conway, a show similar to NBC’s Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. TV critics called the show, “offbeat and distasteful.” It never aired again.



1967 - "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC)



THE CLINTONS

1996 - A judge ordered President Clinton to testify in the Whitewater trial.

CONVICTED RACIST MURDERERS

1994 - Byron De La Beckwith was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Medgar Evers, 30 years after the crime in Jackson, Mississippi.

TERRORISM

2001 - Four disciples of Osama bin Laden went on trial in New York in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. (The four were convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole.)

BIG BUSINESS

1901 - Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel

PERIODICALS

1846 - The Oregon Spectator became the first newspaper published in American territory west of the Rocky Mountains.
1922 - The Reader's Digest begins publication in New York.

SPACE FRONTIER

1971 - The US Apollo 14 (Shepard and Mitchell onboard) lands on the Moon

PRIZES

1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

COMMUNISM

1918 - The Soviets proclaim separation of church and state.

WAR

1864 - Federal forces occupy Jackson, Miss.
1865 - The three-day Battle of Hatcher's Run, Va., begins.
1973 - Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War
1981 - A military jury in North Carolina convicted Marine Pfc. Robert Garwood of collaborating with the enemy while a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

INVENTIONS

1850 - Gail Borden of Brooklyn, NY, was issued a U.S. patent his process that baked a combination of extracts from meat with flour to produce a meat biscuit capable of long term storage No. 7,066). This gave a convenient method that a preserved meat-based product could be carried by the military, seamen and other travelers. Because it could be reconstituted with hot water as a soup, the patent title was "Preparation of Portable Soup-Bread."



1861 - Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati, OH patented the moving picture peep show machine.

1861 - A U.S. patent was issued for the kinematoscope - a photographic attempt to show motion - to Coleman Sellers of Philadelphia as an "improvement in exhibiting stereoscopic pictures of moving objects.

1870 - An animated photographic picture projection before a theater audience was presented by Henry R. Heyl using his Phasmatrope. This was a converted projecting lantern in front of which rotated a disc with 16 openings near the edge, each carrying a photographic plate. The series of plates showed dancers, who appeared to move as the rotating disc showed successive positions. The pictures were a continuous loop that did not change.

1884 - Black American inventor Willis Johnson of Cincinnati, Ohio, was issued a U.S. patent for an "Egg Beater" (No. 292,821). It was designed so that eggs, batter and similar ingredients used by bakers or confectioners could be mixed intimately efficiently.

1899 - Thomas A. Edison was issued a U.S. patent for a "Phonograph Recorder and Reproducer" (No. 397,280).

1901 - A loop-the-loop centrifugal railway was patented by Edwin Prescott of Arlington, Mass. (No. 667,455) which he had installed at Coney Island in 1900 where it was known as Boynton's Centrifugal Railway. It had a 75-ft incline and a 20-ft-wide loop.

1922 - William Larned's steel-framed tennis racquet gets its first test.

1929 - The first U.S. patent for starting blocks, titled "Foot Support," was issued to George T. Bresnahan of Iowa City, Iowa (No.1,701,026). He described his invention as "what might be termed a starting block" to be used on a running track or field.

BETS

1991 - Howard Stern kisses NY Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Superbowl

BIRTHS

1723 - John Witherspoon, clergyman signed Declaration of Independence
1837 - Dwight Lyman Moody, US evangelist (Moody Institute in Chicago)
1840 - Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)
1840 - Scotsman John Dunlop, inventor of the pneumatic tire
1848 - Outlaw Belle Starr
1900 - Adlai E Stevenson, (Gov-D-Ill), intellectual, politician, and presidental candidate (D) (1952, 1956)
1906 - Actor John Carradine
1934 - Henry Aaron (Baseball Hall of Famer: Milwaukee & Atlanta Braves: home run champ: eclipsed Babe Ruth's record of 714; baseball executive: Atlanta Braves)
1942 - Roger Staubach (football: Dallas Cowboys QB: Super Bowl V, VI, X, XII, XIII; Heisman Trophy Winner: Navy [1963])
1943 - Craig Morton (football: Dallas Cowboys QB: Super Bowl V, VI; Denver Broncos: Super Bowl XII)
1947 - Darrell Waltrip (auto racer: Daytona 500 winner [1989])

Deaths

1973 - L C William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam, funeral
U.S. Ambassador Pamela Harriman died in Paris at age 76.


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DBKP Today in Weird History: January 30, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, SPIT, HOT TIME, INVENTIONS, PATENTS, JAZZ, CENSUS, SHOOT OUT, POLITICS, BEHEADING, DICTATORS, CIVIL RIGHTS, NAZIs, SPORTS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, ASSASSINATION, MUSIC, WITHDRAWN, DAREDEVILS, CLASH, PUB FIGHT, JEWS, TRIAL, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH



WAR!

1968 The Tet Offensive began during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals; although the Communists were beaten back, the offensive was seen as a major setback for the U.S. and its allies.

1941 Australian troops conquer Derna Libya.

1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon.

1943 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin.

1943 German assault on French in Tunisia.

1943 German under officers shot down in Haarlem Netherlands.

1943 Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to General - field marshal.

1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean.

1944 US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands.

1945 German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die.

2003 President Bush put allies on notice that diplomacy would give way to a decision on war with Iraq in "weeks, not months." Wary world leaders and congressional critics urged patience and demanded proof of Iraq's transgressions.

TERRORISM

1956 Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed.

1995 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured.

2003 Richard Reid, the British citizen and al-Qaida follower who had tried to blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoes, was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Boston.

DISASTERS

1877 Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces.

1939 Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile.

2007 A propane tank explosion leveled the Little General Store in Ghent, W.Va., killing four people.

SPIT

1798 Representative Matthew Lyon (Vermont) spits in face of Representative Roger Griswold (Connecticut) in US House of Representatives, after an argument.

HOT TIME

1393 Aimery Poitiers French nobleman, and Yvain son of Earl of Foix burned to death at royal ball.

INVENTIONS

1487 Bell chimes invented.

PROGRESS

1958 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas TX.

JAZZ

1917 1st jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball).

CENSUS

1800 US population 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%).

SHOOT-OUTS

2007 Two gunmen shot and killed the wife of the Jackson County, Fla., sheriff and a deputy sent to check on her; other deputies opened fire and killed the assailants.

POLITICS

1781 Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland.

1854 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast.

DICTATORS

1935 Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos".

BEHEADING

1649 England's King Charles I was beheaded.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1797 Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks.

PATENTS

1883 James Ritty and John Birch received a U.S. patent for the first cash register.

1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit.

NAZIS

1933 Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.

SPORTS

1936 Fans asked to pick a new name for Boston Braves; they choose "The Bees" it doesn't catch on & is scrapped by 1940 season.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1933 The first episode of the "Lone Ranger" radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit.

1961 Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC.

1978 Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio.

ASSASSINATION

1835 Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington DC.

1948 Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist.

MUSIC

1965 "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3.

1969 Beatles perform their last gig together, a 42-minute free concert on the roof of Apple HQs.

1973 KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY).

WITHDRAWN

1972 Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth.

DAREDEVILS

1962 Two members of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit.

CLASH

1972 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday."

PUB FIGHT

2005 In Belfast, Northern Ireland, Robert McCartney, 33, was killed after intervening in a pub fight between Irish Republican Army members and a friend of his.

JEWS

1349 Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred.

1939 Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews.

TRIALS

1989 Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter.

1989 Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident.

BORN

1882 the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was born in Hyde Park, N.Y.

1912 Barbara Tuchman US, historian/author (Pulitzer, Guns of August).

BIRTHDAYS

Comedian Dick Martin is 86. Actress Dorothy Malone is 83. Producer-director Harold Prince is 80. Actor Gene Hackman is 78. Actress Tammy Grimes is 74. Actress Vanessa Redgrave is 71. Country singer Jeanne Pruett is 71. Country singer Norma Jean is 70. Vice President Dick Cheney is 67. Rock singer Marty Balin is 66. Rhythm-and-blues musician William King (The Commodores) is 59. Singer Phil Collins is 57. Actor Charles S. Dutton is 57. Actress-comedian Brett Butler is 50. Singer Jody Watley is 49. Country singer Tammy Cochran is 36. Actor Christian Bale is 34. Pop-rock singer-songwriter Josh Kelley is 28. Actor Wilmer Valderrama is 28. Actor Jake Thomas is 18.

DEATH

1951 Ferdinand Porsche German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75.

1969 Allan Welsh Dulles US diplomat/director (CIA 1953-61), dies at 75.

1982 Stanley Holloway comedian (My Fair Lady, Our Man Higgins), dies at 91.

2007 Hollywood writer-producer and novelist Sidney Sheldon died in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at age 89.

January 30, the 30th day of 2008. There are 336 days left in the year.

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Today in History: January 14, 2008

WHITEWATER, WAR!, DISASTERS, UNCLE SUGAR, EXECUTION, REVOLT, REMORSE, CONQUEST, JEWS, POLITICS, INVENTIONS, MEDICINE, CONSPIRACY, ASSASSINATION, CONSTITUTION, TRADEMARKS, CIVIL RIGHTS, CUTBACKS, LABOR, PROGRESS, SOCIETIES, RECORDS, MOVIES, DIPLOMACY, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, RATIONING, MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, MUSIC, THE KING, SEGREGATION, The 60s, GERMS, SPORTS, SCIENCE, DRUGS, HOLIDAYS, DEREGULATION, FINANCE, SEETHE, KIDNAPPED, DUI, FUNERAL, LOSER, PLEAS, BORN, DEATH



WHITEWATER

1998 Whitewater prosecutors questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House for 10 minutes about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees. (Sources quoted the first lady as saying she knew nothing about any such collection of files.)

WAR!

1783 Congress ratifies peace treaty between US & England

1784 Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris

1861 Fort Pikens FL falls into state hands

1863 Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teched LA

1864 Battle of Cosby Creek TN

1864 General Sherman begins his march to the South

1942 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo

1943 FDR & Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WWII

1943 Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw

1944 Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow

DISASTER

1916 Dutch South Sea dike cracks

1946 2 jetties collapse in Ganges-160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed

1952 Snow storm in Sierra NV kills 26

1960 Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded

1967 Earthquake in Sicily kills 231

1969 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers

1993 Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die

UNCLE SUGAR

1799 Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets

EXECUTION

1717 German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam

1948 Anna "Ans" van Dike Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42

REVOLT

1847 Governor Bent 5 others in US occupation, killed by revolt in New Mexico

1949 Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die

REMORSE

1699 Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches"

CONQUEST

1641 United East Indian Company conquerors city of Malakka, 7,000 killed

JEWS

1601 Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome

POLITICS

1639 1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted in Hartford

1639 Rodger Ludlow publishes"Fundamental Orders of Connecticut"

2007 President Bush, facing opposition from both parties over his plan to send more troops to Iraq, said on CBS' "60 Minutes" that he had the authority to act no matter what Congress wanted. On "Fox News Sunday," Vice President Dick Cheney asserted that lawmakers' criticism would not influence Bush's plans and he dismissed any effort to "run a war by committee."

INVENTIONS

1690 Clarinet is invented, in Nüremberg, Germany

MEDICINE

1794 Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom VA, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife

CONSPIRACY

1847 Conspiracy in New Mexico against US

ASSASSINATION

1858 French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed

CONSTITUTION

1868 North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh

1868 South Carolina constitutional convention, meets with a black majority

TRADEMARKS

1873 "Celluloid" registered as a trademark

CIVIL RIGHTS

1878 US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional

CUTBACKS

2003 Kmart Corp. announced its biggest round of cutbacks yet, saying it would close 326 more stores and eliminate 37,000 more jobs in hopes of getting out of bankruptcy by the end of April 2003. (Kmart emerged from Chapter 11 protection in May 2003.)

LABOR

2003 Thousands of General Electric Co. employees across the country began a two-day strike to protest higher health insurance costs.

PROGRESS

1914 Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords

SOCIETIES

1938 National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia formed (NY)

RECORDS

1973 Tap dancer Ray Castle measured at 1440 taps/minutes on BBC TV

MOVIES

1980 "Blues Brothers" movie with Dan Akroyd & John Belushi opens

DIPLOMACY

1950 US recalls all consular officials from China

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1952 "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV

1972 "Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV

1976 "The Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC)

1990 "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV

1990 11th ACE Cable Awards

1993 David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS

1998 100th episode of "Ellen" airs

1998 NBC agreed to pay Warner Brothers $13 million per episode to retain the highly rated TV show "ER."

RATIONING

1952 Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends

MARRIAGE

1954 Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star, New York Yankee, Joe DiMaggio

DIVORCE

1994 Kathleen Kinmont files for divorce from Lorenzo Lamas

MUSIC

1956 Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti"

1966 David Bowie releases his 1st record (Can't Help Thinking About Me)

1967 Sonny & Cher release "The Beat Goes On"

THE KING

1960 US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant

SEGREGATION

1963 George C Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"

The 60s

1967 20,000 attend the Human Be-In, San Francisco

GERMS

1967 New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments

SPORTS

1968 Super Bowl II Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders, 33-14 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Bart Starr, Green Bay, Quarterback

1973 Super Bowl VII Miami Dolphins beat Washington Redskins, 14-7 in Los Angeles; Super Bowl MVP Jake Scott, Miami, Safety

1974 World Football League founded

1976 Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves

SCIENCE

1969 Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later

1994 Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands

DRUGS

1973 Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted for drugs in California

HOLIDAYS

1979 President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday

DEREGULATION

1981 FCC frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish

FINANCE

1985 British pound (£) sinks to record low-$1.11

SEETHE

1989 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England

KIDNAPPED

1989 Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped

LOSERS

1990 Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in the Gulf

DUI

1991 Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys CA

FUNERAL

1995 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo

PLEAS

1998 Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge

BORN

1730 William Whipple merchant/judge/patriot (Declaration of Independence signer)
1741 Benedict Arnold US General turned traitor (Revolutionary War)
1791 Calvin Phillips became shortest known adult male (67cm; 2'2")
1861 Mehmed VI last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22)
1892 Hal Roach early film director/producer (1 Million BC)
1892 Martin Niemöller clergyman (German Protestant); imprisoned by Hitler
1896 John dos Passos novelist (1919, Big Money, 42nd Parallel)
1906 William Bendix New York City NY, actor (Lifeboat, Babe Ruth Story, Life of Riley)
1919 Andy Rooney Albany NY, CBS news correspondent (60 Minutes)
1924 Guy Williams New York City NY, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space)
1936 Clarence Carter US singer (Thread the Needle, Patches)
1937 Billie Jo Spears country singer
1938 Jack Jones Los Angeles CA, singer (Love Boat Theme)
1938 Allen Toussaint [Naomi Neville], pianist/songwriter (Ride Your Pony, Wild Sign of New Orleans)
1940 Julian Bond Nashville TN, (D-GA) civil rights leader
1941 [Dorothy] Faye Dunaway Bascom FL, actress (Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde)
1948 Carl Weathers New Orleans LA, actor (Apollo Creed-Rocky)
1948 T-Bone Burnett musician/producer
1949 Lawrence Kasdan Miami FL, director/writer (Accidental Tourist)
1952 Sydney Biddle Barrow madam/author (Mayflower Madam)
1958 Colin Ferguson murderer (6 people on the Long Island Railroad on Dec 7, 1993)
1959 Susan Smith Beloit WI, playmate (Sept, 1981)
1964 Steven Soderbergh writer (Mimi, Schizoplis)
1965 Vanity [Dee Dee Williams], singer/actress (Action Jackson)
1968 L L Cool J [James Todd Smith], St Albans NY, rapper (Bigger & Deffer)
1969 Jason Kent Bateman Rye NY, actor (David-Valerie, Hogan Family)
1969 Dave Grohl drummer (Nirvana, Foo Fighters)
1973 Lethon Flowers NFL defensive back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1988 Jamie Altman son of Lynda Carter & Robert Altman
1989 Sextuplets Paris France, (to a 29-year-old woman)

DEATH

1595 Ferdinand archduke of Austria/mayor of Bohemenia, dies
1742 Edmund Halley genius eclipsed by Newton, dies at 86
1898 Reverend Charles L Dodgson better known as Lewis Carroll, dies at 66
1957 Humphrey Bogart actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny), dies at 57
1965 Jeanette MacDonald soprano (When I'm Calling You), dies at 63
1977 Anthony Eden British premier (1955-57), dies at 79
1977 Peter Finch actor (Network, Nun's Story, Judith), dies at 60
1978 Blossom Rock actress (Grandmamma-Addams Family), dies at 81
1984 Ray Kroc founder of MacDonalds/owner San Diego Padres, dies at 82
1986 Donna Reed actress (Donna Reed Show, Dallas), dies of cancer at 64
2007 Actress Darlene Conley, feisty fashion mogul Sally Spectra on "The Bold and the Beautiful," died in Los Angeles at age 72.

January 14, the 14th day of 2008. There are 352 days remaining.

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Today in History: January 6, 2008

Drama, WAR!, SCANDAL, POLITICS, JEWS, CITIES, MARRIAGE, SMOKE NAZIS, DISASTER, SPORTS, CIVIL RIGHTS, INVENTIONS, PATENTS, POPES, CLIMATE, PROGRESS, EDUCATION, FINANCE, DICTATORS, WOMEN, SCIENCE, MUSIC, POETS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, LABOR, CROWNS, LOTTERIES, BORN, DEATH


DRAMA

1994 Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard.

WAR!

1496 Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi.

1842 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India.

1861 Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola.

1900 Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured.

1967, U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Deckhouse Five, an offensive in the Mekong River delta.

SCANDAL

1987, the U.S. Senate voted 88-4 to establish a panel to hold hearings on the Iran-Contra affair.

POLITICS

1896 Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony.

1912 New Mexico becomes 47th state.

1941 FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want & from fear).

1980 Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India.

1987 100th US Congress convenes.

JEWS

1497 Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria).

CITIES

1535 City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro.

MARRIAGE

1540 King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves.

1759 George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis.

1945 Future President George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY.

SMOKE NAZIS

1639 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed.

DISASTER

1663 Great earthquake in New England.

1839 2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "The Big Wind".

1967 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140.

SPORTS

1681 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher).

1964 Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move Kansas City A's to Louisville.

1976 Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million.

1980 Philadelphia Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat.

1995 Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939).

1998 Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach.

1998 Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1773 Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom.

1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston).

INVENTIONS

1838 Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph.

PATENTS

1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Pennsylvania.

POPES

1873 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia".

1928 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene).

1946 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum.

CLIMATE

1880 Record snow cover in Seattle-120cm.

PROGRESS

1893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast.

1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake.

1930 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed.

1942 1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper").

EDUCATION

1907 Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome).

FINANCE

1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.

1994 Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88.

DICTATORS

1929 Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia.

WOMEN

1936 Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario).

1938 Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in the Bronx.

SCIENCE

1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon.

1987 Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy.

1993 Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a.

MUSIC

1957 Elvis Presley makes his 7th & final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show.

1958 Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar.

1964 Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes).

1968 Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 8 weeks.

1977 EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols.

1993 Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones.

POETS

1958 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1963 "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC.

1967 "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV.

1973 "Schoolhouse Rock" premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock.

1974 "CBS Mystery Theater" premieres on radio.

1975 "Wheel Of Fortune" debuts on NBC-TV.

MEDICINE

1968 Dr N E Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation.

1971 Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones.

LABOR

1974 England begins 3 day work week during mine strike.

1986 Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg.

CROWNS

1978 US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary.

LOTTERIES

1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44).

1996 Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44).

BORN

1412 Joan of Arc Domremy, martyr
1745 Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier Annonay France, aeronaut (1st pioneer balloonist/brother of Joseph-Michel/co-inventor of calorimeter, hydraulic ram, and process for producing vellum)
1822 Heinrich Schliemann German polyglot/archeologist (Troje)
1854 Sherlock Holmes Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle)
1864 Ban Johnson Norwalk CT, baseball founder (American League)
1878 Carl Sandburg US, poet/biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes)
1880 Tom Mix Mix Run PA, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin)
1882 Samuel Rayburn Tennessee, (Representative-D-TX), speaker of the House (1940-57)
1883 Khalil Gibran Lebanon, mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings)
1913 Loretta Young Salt Lake City UT, actress (Farmer's Daughter, Stranger)
1914 Danny Thomas Deerfield MI, comedian (Danny Thomas Show)
1920 Early Wynn Hartford AL, baseball Hall of famer (pitcher)
1920 Reverand Sun Myung Moon evangelist (Unification Church-Moonies)
1921 Lou Harris pollster (Lou Harris Poll)
1924 Earl Scruggs NC, bluegrass musician (Flatt & Scruggs-Ballad of Jed Clampett, Rocky Top)
1925 John Z DeLorean former automaker (DeLorean)
1930 Vic Tayback Brooklyn NY, actor (Mel-Alice, Khan, Portrait of a Stripper)
1931 E[dgar] L[aurence] Doctorow New York City NY, novelist (World's Fair)
1937 Lou Holtz US, football coach (New Jersey Jets)
1944 Bonnie Franklin Santa Monica CA, TV actress (Ann-1 Day at a Time)
1946 Roger Keith (Syd) Barrett Cambridge England, lead guitarist (Pink Floyd-The Piper at the Gates of Dawn)
1949 Robert Englund Glendale CA, actor (V, Nightmare on Elm Street)
1957 Nancy Lopez Knight Torrance CA, pro golfer (1988 Mazda, 1981 Dinah Shore)
1961 Howie Long former NFL tackle/actor/broadcaster (Broken Arrow)
1975 James Farrior linebacker (New York Jets, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1989 Baby lion-tailed macaques at Woodland Park Zoo (Seattle)

DEATH

1884 Gregor Mendel Augustine monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61
1919 Theodore Roosevelt 26th President (1901-09), dies at his home in Oyster Bay NY at 60
1988 Brent Collins soap actor (Another World), dies of heart attack at 46
1993 John B "Dizzy" Gillespe blues trumpeter, dies of cancer at 75
1993 Rudolph Nureyev Russian ballet dancer (Kirov), dies of AIDS at 54
1994 Morty the Moose (Northern Exposure), dies at 6
1994 Tip O'Neill speaker of the house, dies of cancer
1994 Virginia Kelley Clinton Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70
1997 Vince Williams actor (Hamp-Guiding Light), dies of cancer at 39

January 6, the 6th day of 2008. There are 360 days left in the year. This is the 12th day of Christmas, also known as the Epiphany (12th Night of Christmas), (England) 3 Kings/Adoration of Magi.

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Today in History: January 4, 2008

WAR!, REAGAN, JEWS, CIVIL RIGHTS, POLITICS, EDUCATION, FAST, INVENTIONS, ENDANGERED SPECIES, DICTATORS, MEDICINE, AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, LABOR, PHILOSOPHY, MUSIC, SPORTS, WATERGATE, CLIMATE, BOYCOTTS, SERIAL KILLERS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, DISASTERS, PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING, SCIENCE, BORN, DEATH



EXPLORERS

1493 Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage.

WAR!

871 Battle at Reading Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army.

1780 Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown New Jersey.

1861 US Fort Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama.

1862 Battle of Fort Hindman, AR (Arkansas Post).

1862 Battle of Helena, AR.

1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath.

1915 Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops.

1945 Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam.

1945 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack.

1951 During Korean conflict, North Korean forces captured Seoul.

REAGAN

1989 US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean.

JEWS

1570 Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew".

1915 1st elected Jewish Governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho.

1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration.

1969 France begins arms embargo against Israel.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1944 Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department.

POLITICS

1642 King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament.

1896 Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state.

1932 British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru.

1965 LBJ's "Great Society" State of the Union Address.

1971 Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims.

1971 Congressional Black Caucus organizes.

1975 Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the US (No 11828).

1989 Vice President Bush is 1st since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself President.

1995 Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the House.

EDUCATION

1754 Columbia University founded, as Kings College (New York City NY).

FAST

1861 President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession.

INVENTIONS

1863 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY.

ENDANGERED SPECIES

1884 Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario).

1968 Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas.

DICTATORS

1923 Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin.

MEDICINE

1885 Dr W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22).

AMNESTY

1893 US President Harrison grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy.

IMMIGRATION

1904 Supreme Court rules Puerto Ricans cannot be denied admission to US.

LABOR

1920 Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits.

1961 Longest recorded strike ends-33 years-Danish barbers' assistants.

PHILOSOPHY

1925 French psychologist Emil Coué brings his self-esteem therapy to US "Every day in every way I am getting better & better".

MUSIC

1936 Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade.

1954 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville.

1968 Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million.

1970 Beatles last recording session at EMI studios.

SPORTS

1920 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes.

1942 Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame.

1957 Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000.

1986 NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots.

WATERGATE

1974 Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee.

CLIMATE

1975 Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica.

1982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm.

BOYCOTTS

1980 President Carter announces US boycott of Moscow Olympics

SERIAL KILLERS

1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper".

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1970 Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary.

1982 Chris Wallace becomes co-anchor of the Today Show.

1982 Bryant Gumbel became co-host of NBC's "Today Show".

1984 "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV.

DISASTERS

1987 16 die in a train crash in Chase MD.

PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

1992 8th largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome).

SCIENCE

1958 Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere & burns up.

1959 Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity.

1963 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon.

1989 Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion.

BORN

1785 Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm Germany, librarian (fairy tale collector)
1813 Sir Isaac Pitman inventor (shorthand)
1883 Max F Eastman US, critic/essayist (Masses)
1890 Alfred G Jodl German Wehrmacht General/Chief of Staff
1908 Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal Austrian nude model/Hitler's lover
1914 Jane Wyman St Joseph MO, 1st Mrs Ron Reagan, (Magnificent Obsession)
1914 Mohammed Sahir shah (Afghanistan)
1920 William Egan Colby CIA director (Nixon)
1930 Don Shula winningest NFL coach (Miami Dolphins)
1935 Floyd Patterson heavyweight champ (1956-59, 1960-62) (Olympics-gold-1952)
1937 Dyan Cannon Tacoma WA, Mrs Cary Grant, actress (Heaven Can Wait)
1941 Maureen Reagan 1st daughter (Ronald Reagan)
1946 Bernard Sumner rocker (New Order-Round & Round)
1956 Ann Magnuson Charleston WV, actress (Anything But Love, Hunger)
1957 Patty Loveless [Ramey], Pikeville KY, singer (Blue Side of Town)
1966 Deana Carter country singer (Strawberry Wine)
1973 Todd Sauerbrun NFL punter/kicker (WVU, Chicago Bears)

DEATH

41 Caligula murdered
1761 Stephen Hales English vicar/inventor (ventilator), dies at 83
1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt US robber baron, dies at 82
1913 Alfred von Schlieffen Prussian General-field marshal, dies at 79
1946 Barney Oldfield daredevil, dies at 67
1960 Albert Camus French author (Stranger), dies in an automobile accident at 46
1961 Barry Fitzgerald actor (Going My Way), dies at 72
1965 T S Eliot poet (Washed Country), dies in London at 76
1986 Phil Lynott rocker (Thin Lizzy), dies of overdose at 34
1992 William Walker stuntman/actor (Our Man Flint), dies at 74
1997 Harry B Helmsley owner (Empire State Building), dies at 87

January 4, the 4th day of the year. There are 362 days left.

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Ahead of the Crowd: Pixelaneous 22

13 New Ideas From Japan

Japan continues to lead the way in innovation. The home of the robot pet and anime cartoons, The Land of the Rising Sun keeps churning out devices to make life easier. We've gathered 13--a baker's dozen--of them together for you today.

Coming soon to a Wal-Mart near you.

The noodle-eating hair guard

Someone to hold you tight, while you sleep at night

For when the rug gets away from the rug rats

You need never fear the rain again

Swiss gardening tool

For when you can't hold your up on that long ride home

If the Wicked Witch had had one, Dorothy would have been in trouble

When you're in too big a hurry to blow

Ingenious commuter sleep aid

Soothing goggles relieve stress on the run

Control freaks rejoice; knife makers work out counter strategy

Hay fever sufferers have a new weapon in the battle against the runny nose

Environmentally friendly!

That's it for Pixelaneous #22: Ahead of the Crowd.
Pixelaneous 21: Don't Blink! 12 Things Too Fast to See

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