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January is:
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Born on this Day
1081: Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
1587: Johannes Fabricius, Dutch astronomer who discovered sunspots
1786: Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US 1st effective central bank.
1792: Educator and hymn writer Lowell Mason ("Nearer My
God To Thee")
1821: James Longstreet, Confederate general in the Civil War
1862: Frank Nelson Doubleday, founder of Doubleday publishing house.
1868: Sir Frank Dyson,
proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
1892: The famous conductor Hans von Bulow was born. Von Bulow, who was
also a talented pianist, became the leading exponent of Wagner's music, a devout Wagnerite
even after Wagner stole his wife Cosima away from him. 19??: Tammy Spencer (Kevin Spencer
Family)
1912: Actor and director Jose (Cintron) Ferrer (some sources say 1909)
1923: Actor-comedian Larry Storch (F Troop)
1924: Actor and singer Ron Moody (Oliver Twist)
1926: Comedian (Morton Supman) Soupy Sales (The Soupy Sales Show; fired
for asking kids to "...go into mommy's purse or daddy's wallet and find all the
little green pieces of paper and send them to me!")
1927: Hockey player Walter Hergesheimer
1928: Broadcast journalist Sander Vanocur
1933: CBS newsman Charles Osgood
1935: Rock-and-roll legend Elvis Presley in Tupelo, Mississippi.
1937: Singer Shirley Bassey (James Bond themes: Goldfinger, Diamond's
Are Forever)
1940: Country-gospel singer Cristy Lane
1940: Singer Anthony Gourdine (Group: Little Anthony and The Imperials:
Tears on My Pillow, Hurt So Bad)
1941: Actress Yvette Mimieux (The Time Machine, The Most Deadly Game)
1942: Physicist Stephen Hawking
1945: Hocky player Ron Ellis
1946: Rock musician Robby Krieger (The Doors)
1948: Rock singer David (Jones) Bowie
1951: Movie director John McTiernan ("Die Hard")
1965: Actress Maria Pitillo ("Godzilla")
1969: Actress Ami Dolenz
1969: ock musician Jeff Abercrombie (Fuel)
1969: Singer R. Kelly
1976: Actress Jenny Lewis
1982: Actress Gaby Hoffman ("Now and Then")
0482: Death of St. Severinus of Noricum
0712: Death of St. Gedula
0786: Death of St. Abo
1198: Death of Pope Clestine III
1198: Election of Pope Innocent III
1337: Death of Giotto
1506: Sigsimund I elected King of Poland
1536: Death of Catherine of Aragon
1547: Death of King Henry VIII of England
1570: Philibert Delorme, Renaissance architect, dies at
about 55
1598: Don Juan de Onate leaves Mexico for New Mexico with
500 colonists
1642: Astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri, Italy.
1654: Ukrainian Cossacks submit to Russian rule -
Russian-Polish war follows
1675: The first corporation, the New York Fishing Company,
was charted in the United States.
1815: US forces led by General Andrew Jackson defeated the
British in the Battle of New Orleans -- the closing engagement of the War of 1812.
1856: Borax (hydrated sodium borate) was discovered by Dr.
John Veatch in Tuscan Springs, California. It became a multiuse product that was
popularized during the era of TV's "Death Valley Days."
1853: A bronze statue of Andrew Jackson on a horse was
unveiled in Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C. The statue was the work of Clark Mills.
1867: Congress approved legislation that allowed blacks to
vote in the District of Columbia.
1880: The passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US,
Protector of Mexico
1889: The tabulating machine was patented by Dr. Herman
Hollerith.
1894: Fire caused serious damage at the World's Columbian
Exposition in Chicago.
1900: President William McKinley places Alaska under
military rule.
1901: The first tournament sanctioned by the American
Bowling Congress was held in Chicago, Illinois.
1906: Arthur Rubinstein made his debut at Carnegie Hall in
New York City.
1908: A subway linking New York’s Brooklyn and
Manhattan opens.
1918: President Wilson outlined his 14 points for peace
after World War One.
1923: An opera was broadcasted for the first time. The BBC
broadcasted "The Magic Flute" from Covent Garden.
1925: California ratifies the child labor amendment.
1925: Russian composer, Igor Stravinsky, appeared in his
first American concert, as he conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in a program
of his own compositions.
1933: American physicist Dr. Irving Langmuir successfully
measures the force of a single atom.
1946: President Truman vows to stand by the Yalta accord
on self-determination for the Balkans.
1954: President Dwight Eisenhower proposes stripping
convicted Communists of their U.S. citizenship.
1957: In an article appearing in "LOOK"
magazine, Jackie Robinson announced his retirement from baseball.
1958: Bobby Fisher, then age 14, won the United States
Chess Championship for the first time.
1959: Charles De Gaulle was inaugurated as president of
France's Fifth Republic.
1961: Robert Goulet made his national TV debut on
"The Ed Sullivan Show."
1963: President John F. Kennedy attends the unveiling of
the Mona Lisa.
1964: President Johnson declared a "War on
Poverty."
1972: Dmitri Shostakovich's last symphony, the 15th, was
premiered in Moscow.
1973: Secret peace talks between the United States and
North Vietnam resumed near Paris.
1973: Carly Simon received a gold record for the single,
"You're So Vain."
1975: Ella Grasso became the governor of Connecticut. She
was the first woman to become a governor of a state without a husband preceding her in the
governor's chair.
1976: Chinese premier Chou En-lai died in Beijing at age
78.
1982: American Telephone and Telegraph settled the Justice
Department's antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell
System companies.
1987: For the first time, the Dow Jones industrial average
closed above 2,000, ending the day at 2,002.25.
1987: President Ronald Reagan returned to the White House
from Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he'd undergone prostate surgery.
1987: Kay Orr was sworn in as the first female governor of
Nebraska.
1988: An Arizona state grand jury indicted Governor Evan
Mecham and his brother, Willard, on charges of concealing a campaign loan -- both were
later acquitted.
1989: Forty-seven people were killed when a British
Midland Boeing 737-400 carrying 126 people crashed in central England.
1990: Military tribunals in Romania began trying the first
captured members of the country's dreaded security forces, who stood accused of resisting
the revolution that toppled Nicolae Ceausescu
1991: Pan American World Airways filed for bankruptcy.
1991: Secretary of State James A. Baker the Third and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz arrived in Geneva for the first high-level talks between their countries since the Persian Gulf crisis began.
1992: President George Bush collapsed during a state
dinner in Tokyo; White House officials said Bush was suffering from stomach flu.
1993: Serb gunmen shot and killed Bosnia's deputy prime
minister (Hakija Turajlic) in the presence of French peacekeepers.
1993: At post offices across America, commemorative Elvis
Presley stamps went on sale on what would have been "the king's" 58th birthday.
1994: Tonya Harding won the US Figure Skating Championship
in Detroit, a day after Nancy Kerrigan dropped out following the clubbing attack on her
knee. (The US Figure Skating Association later stripped Harding of the title because of
her involvement in the attack.)
1995: Russian forces in Chechnya pounded the capital of
Grozny with rocket and mortar fire in an attempt to scatter Chechen fighters defending the
presidential palace.
1996: Federal employees who had been out of work for weeks
while the government was shut down began returning to their jobs; however, along the East
Coast, many government workers were idled by a huge blizzard that paralyzed the nation's
capital.
1996: More than 300 people were killed in Kinshasa, Zaire,
when a cargo plane crashed into a market on takeoff.
1996: Former French president Francois Mitterrand died at
age 79.
1997: The state of Arkansas put three men to death in the
second triple execution since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
1997: The US Supreme Court heard arguments on whether to
allow physician-assisted suicide.
1997: Russian President Boris Yeltsin was hospitalized
with early signs of pneumonia. years.
1998: A federal judge condemned Ramzi Ahmed Yousef as an
"apostle of evil," and sentenced him to life in prison for masterminding the
1993 World Trade Center explosion and a plot to bomb a dozen U.S. passenger jets. U.S.
District Judge Kevin Duffy sentenced Yousef to 240 years in prison without parole for the
trade center explosion and an additional life term for the airline plot. The judge imposed
restrictions on Yousef that amount to solitary confinement in which only proven family
members can visit him. The judge also fined Yousef $4.5 million and ordered restitution in
the amount of $250 million.
1998: Air traffic control over the Pacific broke down for
16 hours; officials said the outage posed no real danger.
1998: At the US Figure Skating Championships in
Philadelphia, Michelle Kwan received seven perfect presentation marks out of nine for her
short program.
1998: Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski tried to commit
suicide just hours before stunning a packed courtroom by saying he wanted to be his own
lawyer and argue he is sane. He appeared in court with a red mark on his neck and missing
his undershorts, leading police to conclude he attempted to kill himself in his cell at
the Sacramento County Jail. He was placed under 24-hour-a-day security surveillance.
1998: A winter storm spread from Quebec into New England
and New York. The storm splintered trees, caused flooding and leaft thousands of people
without electricity. Maine Gov. Angus King declared a state of emergency so the National
Guard could be called to supply shelters with generators. Emergencies were also declared
for several counties in northern New York.
1998: Scientists identified a chemical compound which
explains how nicotine becomes addictive. It was announced that this discovery could help
point the way to new drugs for people who want to stop smoking.
1998: Emergency crews worked to contain an oil spill along
the Louisiana coast after a tugboat struck a Chevron Corp. pipeline on January 6. The
Coast Guard said 31,000 gallons of crude had spilled before the pipeline was shut down
late in the day January 7.
1999: The top two executives of Salt Lake City's Olympic
organizing committee resigned amid disclosures that civic boosters had given cash to
members of the International Olympic Committee.
1999: By a unanimous vote, senators formally ratified the
rules for President Clinton's impeachment trial.
2000: During a debate in Johnston, Iowa, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley accused Al Gore of trying to scare voters by misrepresenting his health care proposal; for his part, the vice president said he had not been hiding in a Washington bunker but campaigning on "the front lines in the fight for our future."
2002: President Bush signed the most
far-reaching federal education bill in nearly four decades.
2002: Wendy's fast food chain founder Dave
Thomas died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at age 69.
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