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January is:
Today is:
Born on this Day
1799: American inventor and manufacturer Joseph Dixon
1779: English physician Peter Roget, who
compiled "Roget's Thesaurus," invented Slide Rule,and pocket chessboard
1782: Lawyer and statesman Daniel Webster in
Salisbury, New Hampshire.
1813: Joseph Glidden, inventor. (first
comercial Barbed wire)
1835: Cesar Cui was born in Vilnia, then
part of Russia but today Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Cui was a member of the Mighty
Five, or Mighty Handful, the group including Rimsky-Korsakov, Moussorgsky, Borodin, and
Balakirev.
1841: Emmanuel Chabrier was born in the
Auvergne province of France. He knew Renoir, Mallarme and Faure. Manet died in his arms.
He's remembered for his orchestral suite "Espana" and the popular "Joyeuse
March."
1854: Inventor Thomas A Watson assistant to
Bell.
1882: Author A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
"Winnie the Pooh"
1892: Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team
Laurel and Hardy.
1904: Actor (Archibald Leach) Cary Grant
(She Done Him Wrong, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, Arsenic and Old Lace, To
Catch a Thief, North by Northwest)
1912: Writer of short stories, novels, and
travel books William Sansom
1913: Comedian, dancer, singer, actor Danny
Kaye (David Kominski)
1932: Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Schmidt
1933: Movie director John Boorman
1941: Singer David Ruffin lead singer for
The Temptations
1941: Singer-songwriter Bobby Goldsboro
(Honey, See the Funny Little Clown, Summer: The First Time, Watching Scotty Grow)
1944: Montreal Expos pitcher Carl Morton
1945: Auto racer Jimmy Caruthers
1950: Football's Pat Sullivan Atlanta
Falcons quarterback; Auburn: Heisman Trophy winner [1971]
1953: Comedian-singer-musician Brett Hudson
1955: Actor-director Kevin Costner (Field of
Dreams, JFK, The Bodyguard, The Untouchables, Waterworld, Dances with Wolves)
1956: Country singer Mark Collie
1970: Rapper DJ Quik
1973: Singer Christian Burns (BBMak)
0336: St. Mark becomes Pope
0888: Death of Charles III, "the Fat" King of the West Franks
1095: Death of St. Wulfstan
1256: Beheading of Marie, wife
of King Louis II of Bavaria
1270: Death of St. Margaret of
Hungary
1414: Death of John Stanley,
first Lord of Manx
1486: Henry VII marries
Elizabeth of York.
1514: Balboa returns to Darien
from the Pacific
1535: Pizarro founds Lima,
Peru
1574: Gilles Garnier burned as
a werewolf in Dole, France
1610: Mansfredo and Fernando
Donady denounced as being the Devil's bankers, arrested, tortured and burned
1701: Frederick the Third of
Brandenburg was crowned as King Frederick the First of Prussia.
1778: English navigator
Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he dubbed the "Sandwich
Islands."
1871: William of Prussia was
crowned the first German emperor in a nice little ceremony at Versailles.
1911: The first landing of an
aircraft on a ship took place as pilot Eugene B. Ely brought his plane in for a safe
landing on the deck of the USS "Pennsylvania" in San Francisco Harbor.
1912: English explorer Robert
F. Scott and his expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen
had gotten there first. (Scott and his party died during the return trip.)
1919: The World War One Peace
Congress opened in Versailles, France.
1929: "New York Daily
Mirror" columnist, Walter Winchell made his debut on radio, broadcasting a blend of
political commentary and celebrity gossip to ‘Mr. and Mrs. America.’
1936: Su-Lin arrived in San
Francisco, California. She was the first giant panda to come to the U.S. from China. The
bear was sold to the Brookfield Zoo for $8,750.
1939: Louis Armstrong and his
orchestra recorded "Jeepers Creepers" on Decca Records.
1942: General MacArthur repels
the Japanese in Bataan.
1943: During World War Two,
the Soviets announced they'd broken the long Nazi siege (16 months) of Leningrad.
1943: A wartime ban on the
sale of pre-sliced bread in the US -- aimed at reducing bakeries' demand for metal
replacement parts -- went into effect.
1948: Ghandi breaks a 121-hour
fast after halting Moslem-Hindu riots.
1948: Ted Mack came to
television as "The Original Amateur Hour" debuted on the DuMont Network. The
program continued on different networks for a 22-year run on the tube. Mack presented many
young, up-and-coming stars who later claimed great fame in show biz. Teresa Brewer and Pat
Boone are just a couple.
1962: The U.S. sprays foliage
with pesticide in South Vietnam, in order to reveal the whereabouts of Vietcong
guerrillas.
1966: Indira Gandhi, daughter
of the late Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, became prime minister of India.
1967: Albert DeSalvo, who
claimed to be the "Boston Strangler," was convicted in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses. (Sentenced to life, DeSalvo was killed by a
fellow inmate in 1973.)
1975: "The
Jeffersons" appeared for the first time on CBS-TV. The show was a spin-off; based on
the black family that moved next door to the bigoted Archie Bunker in "All in the
Family."
1978: Center for Disease
Control isolates the cause of Legionnaire’s disease.
1986: Dionne Warwick’s
single for AID’s research, "That’s What Friends are For", became her
second #1 song on the music charts.
1988: An airliner crashed in
southwestern China, killing all 108 people on board, according to the official Xinhua news
agency.
1989: The US Supreme Court
upheld a tough, year-old sentencing system for people convicted of federal crimes,
overruling more than 150 trial judges who had struck down the guidelines.
1990: Washington mayor Marion
Barry was arrested in an FBI sting at a hotel in the capital. He was charged with buying
and smoking crack cocaine. He was videotaped doing it. (he was later convicted of a
misdemeanor).
1990: A jury in Los Angeles
acquitted former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey,
of 52 child molestation charges.
1991: Financially strapped
Eastern Airlines shut down after 62 years in business.
1991: Former New York Congressman Hamilton Fish Sr. died in Cold Spring, N.Y., at age 102.
1991: Three young people were crushed to death at an AC-DC concert in Salt Lake City.
1991: Iraq fired at least
eight missiles at Israel in a bid to drag the Jewish state into the Gulf War the day after
the allies had launched operation "Desert Storm."
1993: Allied warplanes
attacked targets in "no fly" zones in southern and northern Iraq.
1993: The Martin Luther King
Junior holiday was observed in all 50 states for the first time.
1994: Retired Admiral Bobby
Inman withdrew his nomination to be defense secretary, denouncing what he described as
attacks on his character and reputation.
1994: Iran-Contra prosecutor
Lawrence Walsh released his final report in which he said former President Reagan had
acquiesced in a cover-up of the scandal, an accusation Reagan called "baseless."
1995: The death toll continued
to climb in Kobe, Japan, where a major earthquake had claimed more than six-thousand
lives.
1995: South African President
Nelson Mandela's cabinet denied amnesty sought by 3500 police officers in apartheid's
waning days
1996: Greece's ruling
socialist party elected Costas Simitis, an avid party reformer, to replace its ailing
founder Andreas Papandreou as prime minister.
1996: Russian President Boris Yeltsin announced that 82 hostages were freed when his forces wiped out Chechen fighters in Pervomayskaya, ending a weeklong standoff; however, he said 18 other hostages were missing.
1996: Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson filed for divorce from Michael Jackson.
1997: Former Massachusetts
Senator Paul Tsongas, who rebounded from cancer to briefly become the Democratic
front-runner for president in 1992, died in Boston of pneumonia at age 55.
1998: Pope John Paul the
Second named 22 new cardinals, including Archbishop Francis Eugene George of Chicago and
James Francis Stafford, the former archbishop of Denver.
1998: The motion picture
"Titanic" won four Golden Globes, including best drama and best director for
James Cameron. "Ally McBeal" beat out "Seinfeld" as the best TV
comedy. Peter Fonda grabbed the best dramatic actor award for his portrayal of a bee
keeper in "Ulee's Gold." British actress Judi Dench won the Golden Globe for
best actress in a dramatic film for "Mrs. Brown."
1998: Former President Jimmy
Carter asked Florida vegetable growers and farm workers to begin talks because of a hunger
strike in protest against low wages. 3 workers reached the 30th day of their hunger
strike, which they have vowed to continue until their deaths to prod central Florida
growers to improve wages for tomato pickers.
1998: Jordan's Prime Minister
Abdul Salam al-Majali condemned the killing of Iraq's charge d'affaires and 7 others in
Amman by unknown assailants, saying it was an attack on his country.
1999: Defying global outrage
over the massacre of 45 ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo, Serb forces pounded villages
with artillery. The Yugoslav government also ordered the American head of the Kosovo peace
mission to leave the country and barred a UN investigator looking into the massacre.
2000: In a blow to the Pentagon's push to develop a national missile defense by 2005, officials announced that a prototype missile interceptor had roared into space in search of a mock warhead over the Pacific, but had failed to hit it.
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