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January is:
National Oatmeal Month - This month long celebration is to encourage the eating of more oatmeal. Sponsor: Quaker Oats Company.
Today is:
International Thank You Day - Thank someone today who has done you a favor in the past. Sponsor: All My Events.
Send a Dollar to the Treasury Day - On the birthday of Alexander Hamilton, the first treasurer of the U.S., send an extra dollar to the U.S. Treasury. Hamilton was born on this day in 1755, in the British West Indies. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.
Smoking May Be Hazardous to Your Health Day - U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the first government report stating that smoking may be hazardous to your health on this day in 1964.
0347: Theodosius I, the Great, Spain, Roman emperor
1503: Francesco Parmigianino, Italian artist
1757: The first secretary of the US Treasury -- Alexander Hamilton
-- He was born in the West Indies.
1807: Ezra Cornell, founder of Western Union Telegraph company and
Cornell University
1815: Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, He was born in
Glasgow, Scotland.
1839: Puerto Rican patriot Eugenio De Hostos
1842: Psychologist and philosopher William
James
1885: Womens rights activist Alice Paul (founder of
National Womens Party in 1913)
1890: Actor Monte Blue (Rootin Tootin Rhythm, Thunder Pass,
Song of the Gringo, Wagon Wheels, So This is Paris, Orphans of the Storm)
19??: James Cooke (Singing Cookes)
1903: South African novelist Alan Paton ("Cry the Beloved
Country")
1910: Baseball pitcher Schoolboy (Lynwood Thomas) Rowe
1912: Roger Lewis, aviation executive
1923: Auto racer Carroll Shelby
1924: Singer Don Cherry (Band of Gold)
1926: Producer Grant Tinker
1928: Producer David L. Wolper
1929: Actor Rod Taylor (The Birds, Masquerade, The Time Machine) some
sources list 1930
1934: The prime minister of Canada, Jean Chretien
1942: Rock musician Clarence Clemons (Bruce Springsteen and the E
Street Band)
1943: Radio host Jim Hightower
1945: Actress Christine Kaufmann (Bagdad Cafe, Murders in the Rue
Morgue, Taras Bulba, The Last Days of Pompeii)
1946: Country singer Naomi (Diane) Judd
1949: Singer Dennis (Frederick) Greene (Group: Sha-Na-Na, Rock &
Roll is Here to Stay!, The Golden Age of Rock n Roll)
1952: Golfer Ben Crenshaw
1958: Musician Guitar Vicki Peterson (Group; The Bangles: Walk like an
Egyptian, Manic Monday)
1962: Actress Kim Coles ("Living Single")
1969: Rhythm-and-blues singer Maxee Maxwell (Brownstone)
1971: Singer Mary J. Blige
1971: Musician Tom Rowlands (The Chemical Brothers)
1972: Actress Amanda Peet
0049 BC: Julius Caesar leads his army across the Rubicon,
plunging Rome into civil war.
0314: Death of St. Militiades, Pope
0529: Death of St. Theodosius
0705: Death of Pope John VI
1153: Death of David I, King of Scotland
1254: An Armenian monk attempts to baptize the KaKhan of
the Mongols
1569: First lottery is held in England, at St. Paul's
Cathedral
1770: The first shipment of rhubarb was sent to the United
States from London. Benjamin Franklin sent the plant to his buddy, John Bartram in
Philadelphia.
1785: The Continental Congress convened in New York City.
1805: The Michigan Territory was created.
1813: The first pineapples are planted in Hawaii.
1843: Francis Scott Key, poet of "The Star-Spangled
Banner," dies in Baltimore.
1861: Alabama secedes from the Union.
1862: Lincoln accepts Simon Camerons resignation as
Secretary of War.
1863: Bizet's music was first performed in public. He
described it as "badly played, badly heard."
1878: Milk was delivered in glass bottles for the first
time by one Alexander Campbell, in New York.
1902: "Popular Mechanics" magazine was published
for the first time.
1904: British troops massacre 1,000 dervishes in
Somaliland.
1913: The first sedan-type car was unveiled at the
National Automobile Show in New York City. The car was manufactured by the Hudson Motor
Company.
1925: Aaron Copland's jazzy, dissonant Organ Symphony was
performed in New York. The Organ Symphony's outer movements are a little hard on the ears
even today. But the middle movement, a scherzo, is jumpy, fun music, well worth hearing.
1929: Turkey adopts the European metric system.
1929: In the Soviet Union, the Bolsheviks reduce the work
day to seven hours.
1934: The German police raid the homes of dissident clergy
in Berlin.
1935: Aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu to
Oakland, California, that made her the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.
1938: The first woman bank president, Frances Moulton,
assumed her duties in Limerick, Maine.
1940: Charles Edison, son of the inventor, is appointed as
Secretary of the Navy.
1942: Japan declared war against the Netherlands, the same
day that Japanese forces invaded the Dutch East Indies.
1943: The United States and Britain signed treaties
relinquishing extraterritorial rights in China.
1948: Truman proposes free, two-year community colleges
for all who want an education.
1958: Lloyd Bridges starred as Mike Nelson, an ex-Navy
frogman who became an underwater trouble shooter in "Seahunt" on CBS-TV. The
show remained on the network for four years.
1964: US Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the first
government report saying smoking may be hazardous to one's health.
1964: Some Picasso works that have never been seen before
go on exhibit in Toronto.
1965: The Interagency Council on Smoking Health says
125,000 Americans will die from cigarettes in 1965 alone.
1973: Owners of American League baseball teams voted to
adopt the designated-hitter rule on a trial basis.
1977: France set off an international uproar by releasing
Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at
the 1972 Munich Olympics.
1978: Two Soviet cosmonauts aboard the "Soyuz
27" capsule linked up with the "Salyut Six" orbiting space station, where
the "Soyuz 26" capsule was already docked.
1979: Surgeon generals report leaves no doubt that
smoking causes lung cancer.
1980: Honda to build Japans first U.S. passenger-car
assembly plant in Ohio.
1987: The Denver Broncos edged the Cleveland Browns
23-to-20 in overtime and the New York Giants trounced the Washington Redskins 17-0,
sending the two winning teams to the Super Bowl.
1988: Vice President George Bush met with representatives
of independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh to answer questions about the Iran-Contra affair.
1988: The Soviet Union announced it would participate in
the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics.
1988: World War Two flying ace Gregory "Pappy"
Boyington died in Fresno, California, at age 75.
1989: President Reagan bade the nation farewell in an
address from the Oval Office.
1990: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev visited
Lithuania, where he sought to assure supporters of independence that they would have a say
in their republic's future.
1990: Martial law, imposed during the June 1989 Tiananmen
Square pro-democracy movement, was lifted in Beijing.
1991: The United States and Iraq intensified their rhetoric, with Secretary of State James A. Baker the Third telling Air Force pilots in Saudi Arabia, "We pass the brink at midnight January 15," and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein boasting of his army's readiness.
1992: The president of Algeria (Chadli Bendjedid)
resigned, two weeks after Muslim fundamentalists had defeated his ruling party in
legislative elections.
1993: Andrew Davis and the BBC Philharmonic recorded a
whole bunch of brief Delius pieces for Teldec. It included a piece called
"Paris" and another called "Walk to the Paradise Garden."
1993: Former independent presidential candidate Ross Perot
publicly returned to politics, recruiting Americans for a watchdog group which, he told
CNN, would counter special interests that were preventing government reform and deficit
reduction.
1994: NATO leaders concluded a two-day summit in Belgium
by warning Bosnian Serbs of their willingness to order bombing raids in former Yugoslavia
to relieve embattled Muslim enclaves. President Clinton, who attended the summit, then
traveled to the Czech Republic for a short visit.
1995: 52 people were killed when a Colombian airliner
crashed as it was preparing to land near the Caribbean resort of Cartagena;
a nine-year-old girl survived.
1995: Fifty-two people were killed when a Colombian
airliner crashed as it was preparing to land near the Caribbean resort of Cartagena; a
nine-year-old girl survived.
1995: Sleaseball President Clinton and Japanese Prime
Minister Tomiichi Murayama held a low-key summit in Washington, playing down differences
over trade
1996: Addressing pointed questions about the first lady,
President Clinton offered a rousing defense of his wife, Hillary, during a news
conference.
1996: The space shuttle "Endeavour" blasted off
on a nine-day mission.
1996: Ryutaro Hashimoto was chosen the new prime minister
of Japan.
1996: Funeral services were held for former French
president Francois Mitterrand.
1997: President Clinton summoned top administration
officials to a daylong planning session for his second term.
1997: An earthquake of magnitude seven-point-three shook
Mexico City and the southern part of Mexico, but no deaths were reported.
1998: The Denver Broncos beat the Pittsburgh Steelers,
24-to-21, to win the American Football Conference Championship; the Green Bay Packers
defeated the San Francisco 49ers, 23-to-10, to claim the National Football Conference
Championship.
1998: Utility workers and the National Guard struggled to
clear roads and restore electric power to thousands of people in New England and New York
state as cold weather descended on the battered region. Storms blamed on El Nino hammered
the area with three days of freezing rain.
1988: At the 24th Annual People's Choice Awards
"ER" was chosen favorite TV drama series for the fourth straight year and
Seinfeld was chosen the favorite comedy for the third year running.
1998: Hundreds of prisoners rioted at a jail in southwest
Colombia and by nightfall they were still holding 567 visitors hostage, most of them
women, after freeing 18 hostages earlier in the day. The prisoners were calling for
improvements in squalid jail conditions.
1998: Two Spanish lovers were literally caught with their
pants down at church Sunday when members of a stunned congregation surprised them in the
throes of passion. "They weren't actually having sex but the girl's trousers were
down around her ankles and they were very touchy-feely," a police spokesman in the
northern Spanish city of Valladolid said. The man was detained when he resisted police
efforts to stop what the spokesman called "obscene acts."
1999: President Clinton and House Republicans clashed in impeachment trial papers, with the White House claiming the perjury and obstruction allegations fell short of high crimes and misdemeanors and GOP lawmakers rebutting: "If this is not enough, what is?"
2000: Whittling away more of the federal government's power over states, the US Supreme Court ruled, 5-to-4, that state employees cannot go into federal court to sue over age bias.
2000: Carlton Fisk and Tony Perez were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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