January 10
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January 10
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January is:
National Hot Tea Month - Promotes soothing, relaxing hot tea. Sponsor: Tea Counsel of USA.
Today is:
Black Scientist Day - On the birthday of George Washington Carver, we honor all black scientists. He was born on this day in 1864, in Diamond Grove, Missouri.
Where's the Beef Day - In 1984 a television commercial "staring" Clara Peller first appeared. Clara, a spokesperson for Wendy's, first uttered those immortal words, "Where's the beef?"
Born on this Day
1738: Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mountain
Boys)
1877: Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic
precipitator, used for polution control and air ionizers.
1883: Silent screen actor Francis X. Bushman (The Rosary, Neptune's
Daughter, The Thirteenth Man, Dick Tracy, Hollywood Boulevard, David and Bathsheba,
Sabrina, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini)
1887: Poet Robinson
Jeffers
19??: Jeoffrey
Benward (Aaron+Jeoffrey)
19??: Ian
Tanner (One Hundred Days)
1904: Actor and dancer Ray Bolger (The Wizard of Oz)
1908: Actor Paul Henreid (The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse, Deep in My Heart, Casablanca)
1925: Jazz musician Max Roach
1927: Singer Gisele (LaFleche) MacKenzie
1927: Singer Johnnie Ray (Cry, Please, Mr. Sun, The Little White Cloud
That Cried, Walkin' My Baby Back Home, Just Walking in the Rain)
1928: Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak ( Where the Wild Things Are)
1935: Opera singer Sherrill Milnes
1935: Rock singer-musician Ronnie Hawkins
1938: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Willie McCovey
1939: Singer Scott McKenzie
1939: Singer Sal Mineo
1939: U.S. Decathlon Olympic Gold Medalist 1968 Bill Toomey
1942: Movie director Walter Hill ("48 Hours")
1943: Singer and songwriter Jim Croce ( You Don't Mess Around with Jim,
Time in a Bottle, Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, I've Got a Name
1944: Singer Frank Sinatra Junior
1945: Singer Rod Stewart
1948: Rock singer-musician Donald Fagen (Steely Dan)
1949: Boxer George Foreman (oldest heavyweight champion at age 45 —
11/5/94)
1953: Singer Pat Benatar
1953: Auto racer Bobby Raha
1955: Rock musician Michel Schenker (The Scorpions)
1958: Singer Shawn Colvin
1959: Rock singer-musician Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets)
1961: Actor Evan Handler
1964: Rock singer Brad Roberts (Crash Test Dummies)
1967: Actress Trini Alvarado (The Frighteners, Little Women, Stella, The
Chair, Mrs. Soffel, Rich Kids)
1979: Rapper Chris Smith (Kris Kross)
1982: Actor Josh Ryan Evans
0681: Death of St. Agatho, Pope
0976: Death of John Tzimiskes, Emperor of Byzantium
1072: Palermo, Sicily, taken by the Normans
1209: Death of St. William Bourges
1276: Death of Pope Gregory X
1295: Monks of Paisley, in Scotland, chartered
1430: Order of the Golden Fleece established by Phillip
the Good, Duke of Burgundy
1615: Sir Thomas Roe, first English ambassador to India,
received by Jahangir, Moghul Emperor
1645: Archbishop William Laud beheaded
1776: "Common Sense"
by political philosopher Thomas Paine was published. The pamphlet advocated independence
from England.
1796: On this day in 1796, Beethoven and Haydn performed
together at a concert in Vienna.
1840: The Penny Post mail system is started.
1861: Florida seceded from the Union.
1863: London's Metropolitan, the world's first underground
passenger railway, opened to the public.
1870: John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.
1901: The Automobile Club of America, installs signs on
major highways.
1903: Argentina bans the importation of American beef,
because of sanitation problems.
1907: Two companies are convicted of holding an illegal
monopoly on licorice paste, which is widely used as flavoring in cigars, cigarettes, and
chewing tobacco.
1910: Wilbur Wright appeals for tighter patent laws.
1911: Major Jimmie Erickson shot the first photograph from
an airplane whiles flying over San Diego, California.
1912: The World’s first flying-boat airplane,
designed by Glenn Curtiss, makes its maiden flight at Hammondsport.
1918: In Washington, the House passes suffrage--274-136.
Women’s History
1920: The League of Nations came into being as the Treaty
of Versailles went into effect. The United States did NOT join the League.
1928: The Soviet Union ordered the exile of Leon Trotsky.
1931: Nicholas Slominsky conducted "Three Places in
New England" by Charles Ives. The Boston premiere featured Slominsky conducting the
polyrhythmic parts with each hand defining a different beat.
1940: Nazi planes attack 12 ships off the British coast;
three sink and 35 are dead.
1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt sailed from Miami,
Florida to Trinidad to become the first American President to visit a foreign country
during wartime.
1946: The first meeting of the United Nations General
Assembly was held in London.
1947: The musical fantasy "Finian's Rainbow,"
with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, opened on Broadway.
1949: The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) announced a
new 7-inch, 45 rpm phonograph record. Soon, the 45, the record with the big hole in the
middle, would change the pop music business.
1951: Donald Howard Rogers piloted the first passenger jet
on a trip from Chicago to New York City. He got to the Big Apple in one hour and 42
minutes.
1956: Elvis Presley recorded his first tunes as an RCA
Victor artist. Recording in Nashville, Elvis sang "Heartbreak Hotel", "I
Was the One", "I’m Counting On You", "I Got a Woman" and
"Money Honey."
1957: Harold Macmillan became prime minister of Britain,
following the resignation of Anthony Eden.
1964: Panama breaks ties with the U.S. and demands
revision of canal treaty.
1967: Massachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke, the first
black elected to the U-S Senate by popular vote, took his seat.
1969: The final issue of "The Saturday Evening Post"
appeared after 147 years of publication.
1978: The Soviet Union launched two cosmonauts aboard a
"Soyuz" capsule for a rendezvous with the "Salyut Six" space
laboratory.
1984: The U.S. and the Vatican establish full diplomatic
relations for the first time in 117 years.
1984: The premiere recording of Frank Zappa's classical
composition "The Perfect Stranger" was made by the Ensemble InterContemporain
under the direction of Pierre Boulez. He claimed the composition was about a vacuum
cleaner salesman visiting a housewife, as viewed by the dog.
1984: Singer, Cyndi Lauper became the first female
recording artist since Bobbie Gentry [1967] to be nominated for five Grammy Awards.
1987: Saying he felt "just fine" after recent
surgery, President Ronald Reagan warned Congress in his weekly radio address that he was
ready to do battle over his new trillion-dollar budget.
1988: Soviet media reported on an interview given to
Chinese journalists by Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who praised the state of Sino-Soviet
relations and called for a summit. (However, the Beijing government turned aside the
summit call, saying Soviet-backed Vietnamese forces first had to withdraw from Cambodia.)
1989: Cuba began withdrawing its troops from Angola, more
than 13 years after its first contingents arrived.
1990: Chinese Premier Li Peng lifted Beijing's
seven-month-old martial law, and said that by crushing pro-democracy protests, the army
had saved China from "the abyss of misery."
1991: Five days before a UN deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, peace efforts intensified, with UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar setting off on a mission aimed at averting war.
1992: President George Bush returned home from his
grueling 12-day journey to Australia, Singapore, South Korea and Japan, boasting of
"dramatic progress" on trade issues.
1993: An unidentified 62-year-old man at the University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center underwent the world's second baboon liver transplant; however,
the man died less than a month later without regaining full consciousness.
1994: On the first day of a two-day NATO summit in
Belgium, leaders signed a document inviting nations of the former Warsaw Pact to join in a
"partnership for peace."
1994: Talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators
resumed in Taba, Egypt.
1994: In Manassas, Virginia, Lorena Bobbitt went on trial,
charged with malicious wounding of her husband, John (she was acquitted by reason of
temporary insanity).
1995: President Clinton declared flood-stricken areas of
California major disaster areas.
1995: Russia announced a 48-hour truce in breakaway
Chechnya, but the cease-fire fell apart after only a few hours
1996: Russian troops allowed a convoy of Chechen rebels
and 160 hostages to head for Chechnya, then surrounded them in the village of
Pervomayskaya. (After a five-day standoff, Russian troops launched a massive military
assault that resulted in the deaths of most of the rebels and some of the hostages.)
1997: Dallas police ended their investigation into Dallas
Cowboys stars Erik Williams and Michael Irvin, saying a woman's claim that Williams raped
her while Irvin held a gun to her head was false.
1998: In his weekly radio address, President Clinton
denounced Chicago physicist Richard Seed's expressed desire to clone humans, calling it
"morally unacceptable."
1998: Michelle Kwan won the ladies' US Figure Skating
Championship in Philadelphia; Tara Lipinski came in second and Nicole Bobek, third.
1999: Republicans and Democrats disagreed over whether to
call witnesses in President Clinton's impeachment trial, with Republicans pressing to hear
testimony from Monica Lewinsky and others, and Democrats saying such testimony could
unnecessarily prolong the proceedings.
2000: America Online announced it was buying Time Warner for $162 billion.
2000: Peace talks between Israel and Syria recessed in West Virginia without agreement on new borders or any other major elements of a land-for-peace treaty.
2002: Marines began flying hundreds of al-Qaida
prisoners in Afghanistan to a U.S. base on Cuba.
2002: The White House revealed that Enron
Corporation had sought the administration's help shortly before collapsing
with the life savings of many workers.
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