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0106 B.C.: Cicero, Roman Philosopher/Orator.
1521: Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X.
1543: Deaths: Juan Cabrillo Conqueror of Central America, discoverer of California.
1624: Birthdays: William Tucker First (recorded) Black child born in America.
1641: Deaths: Jeremiah Horrocks English astronomical prodigy, died at 22.
1670: Deaths: George Monck English General (to the sea), died at 61.
1777: The Continental Army commanded by General George Washington defeated Lord Cornwallis’s British forces at the Battle of Princeton at Princeton, N.J.
1793: Birthdays: Lucretia Coffin Mott, 1793-1880, American Teacher/Minister/Abolitionist/Feminist. Born in Nantucket, Mass. She moved (1804) with her family to Boston and later (1809) to Philadelphia. A Quaker, she studied and taught at a Friends school near Poughkeepsie, N.Y. After 1818 she became known as a lecturer for temperance, peace, the rights of labor, and the abolition of slavery. She aided fugitive slaves, and following the meeting (1833) of the American Anti-Slavery Society, she was a leader in organizing the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. Refusal by the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London (1840) to recognize women delegates led to her championship of the cause of woman’s rights. With Elizabeth Cady Stanton she organized (1848) at Seneca Falls, N.Y., the first woman’s rights convention in the United States. Her husband, James Mott, 1788-1868, whom she married in 1811, was also a Quaker who worked constantly for the antislavery cause and for woman suffrage. He was a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, and he presided (1848) at the first national woman’s rights convention at Seneca Falls. He also aided in the founding (1864) of Swarthmore College.
1795: Deaths: Josiah Wedgwood British, ceramic craftsman/woodworker, died at 64.
1816: Birthdays: Anne Ayres, nun.
1825: The first engineering college in the country, Rensselaer School, opened in Troy, New York It’s still there today, and is now known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Scottish factory owner Robert Owen bought 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community.
1833: Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
1840: Birthdays: St. Damien of Molokai, a missionary to lepers in Hawaii.
1847: The California town of Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco.
1852: First Chinese arrive in Hawaii.
1861: United States Fort Pulaski and Fort Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia, Delaware legislature rejected proposal to join Confederacy.
1868: The Meiji Restoration re-established the authority of Japan’s emperor and heralded the fall of the military rulers known as shoguns.
1870: Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began.
1871: Oleomargarine was patented by Henry Bradley of Binghamton, New York.
1875: Deaths: George Bizet Composer (Carmen).
1883: Birthdays: Clement Richard Attlee, Liberal/British Prime Minister (1945-51).
1888: The first wax drinking straw was patented by Marvin C. Stone in Washington, District of Columbia.
1892: Birthdays: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Bloemfontein, South Africa, British Philologist/Writer/Author (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy).
1894: Birthdays: ZaSu Pitts, Actor
1901: Birthdays: Ngo Dinh Diem President/Dictator of South Vietnam (1955-63).
1907: Birthdays: Ray Milland, Actor
1909: Birthdays: Victor Borgev( Borge Rosenbaum), Copenhagen, Denmark, Pianist/Comedian/Entertainer.
1910: British miners struck for an 8 hour working day.
1915: Birthdays: Jane Wyman Actress.
1916: Birthdays: Betty Furness, Actor; Maxene Andrews, of the Andrews Sisters singing trio
1917: Birthdays: Vernon Walters Former United States Ambassador.
1918: Birthdays: Maxene Andrews Minneapolis, Minnesota, Singer (Andrew Sisters-Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy).
1920: The New York Yankees acquired pitcher/outfielder Babe Ruth from Harry Frazee’s Boston Red Sox for $125,000 plus a $350,000 loan. The loan was used to turn the play ‘No, No, Nannette’ into a hit. And so began the “curse of the Bambino” that haunted the Boston Red Sox until 2004.
1923: Birthdays: Hank Stram, Football Hall of Fame Coach
1924: British Egyptologist Howard Carter found the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Birthdays: Hank Stram Sportscaster.
1925: Benito Mussolini dissolved Italian parliament and became dictator.
1926: Birthdays: George Martin, Beatles record producer
1927: Birthdays: Sir George Martin Music/Record Producer (Beatles).
1929: 27 year old William S. Paley became CBS President. Birthdays: Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer; Sergio Leone, Italian film director.
1930: Birthdays: Robert Loggia, Actor.
1931: Birthdays: Robert Loggia Actor (Independence Day); Don Shula Football Hall-of-Fame coach.
1932: Birthdays: Dabney Coleman, Actor
1933: Birthdays: Dabney Coleman Actor (Tootsie).
1936: Birthdays: Floyd Patterson Former heavyweight boxing champion.
1937: Birthdays: Betty Rollin Journalist/Author.
1938: The first broadcast of ‘Woman in White’ was presented on the NBC Red network. The program remained on radio for 10 years and was one of the first to feature real, honest-to-goodness doctors and nurses in leading roles, The March of Dimes was established by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The first March of Dimes campaign to fight polio was organized. Birthdays: Dyan Cannon Actress.
1939: Birthdays: Bobby Hull, Hockey Hall of Fame member
1939: Tennis legend Don Budge played a pro tennis match, his first in New York City’s Madison Square Garden before 6,000 spectators. Budge was touring the country as the top United States tennis player, having won the grand slam of tennis (Australian, French and United States Opens and Wimbledon) the year before.
1940: The ‘Southland Shuffle’ was recorded on Bluebird Records by Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra. A young trumpet player named Billy May was featured. Birthdays: Bobby Hull National Hockey League Forward/Hall of Famer.
1941: Canada and the United States acquired air bases in Newfoundland under a 99 year lease.
1943: Birthdays: Van Dyke Parks, Musician
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1945: United States aircraft carriers attacked Okinawa, Birthdays: Stephen Stills Dallas, Texas, Singer/Musician/Songwriter/Guitarist/Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member (Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills and Nash).
1946: Birthdays: John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member. Deaths: William Joyce, [Lord Haw Haw] Hanged in Britain for treason. He broadcast for the Nazis to British and American fighting troops.
1947: William Dawson became the first black to head a congressional committee. In Trenton, New Jersey, Al Herrin, the handyman who claimed he had no bed to sleep in because he had never slept a wink in his life, passed away at age 92. Doctors said there was evidence that he had gone several months without sleep and they confirmed that if he went that long, it could well be that he was awake his entire life. Congressional proceedings were televised for the first time as viewers in Washington. Philadelphia and New York witnessed some of the opening ceremonies of the 80th Congress.
1951: Birthdays: Victoria Principal Actress.
1952: ‘Dragnet’ with Jack Webb premiered on NBC television.
1953: Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, became the first mother-son combination to serve at the same time in the United States Congress.
1955: Chart Toppers: The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane The Ames Brothers; Mr. Sandman The Chordettes; More and More Webb Pierce; Let Me Go, Lover Joan Weber.
1957: The first electric watch was introduced in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, by the Hamilton Watch Company. Birthdays: Mel Gibson, Peekskill, New York, Director/Actor (Mad Max, Mrs. Lethal Weapon, Braveheart); Bernard Sumner, Rock musician (New Order); Ann Magnuson, Actress.
1958: Sir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole overland. Birthdays: Patty Loveless Country singer.
1959: President Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Alaska to the United States as the 49th state.
1961: The United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba after Fidel Castro announced he was a communist. Castro became such a staunch ally of the Soviet Union that Cuba was heavily subsidized by Moscow until the last months of Milhail Gorbachev’s tenure as Soviet leader. Cuban soldiers, using Soviet hardware, were an active destabilizing force in Africa during the 1960s and ’70s. Birthdays: Michael Stipe Rock singer (R.E.M.).
1962: Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro.
1963: Chart Toppers: Telstar The Tornadoes; Go Away Little Girl Steve Lawrence; Don’t Let Me Cross Over Carl Butler and Pearl – Dee Jones; Bobby’s Girl Marcie Blane.
1964: Barry Goldwater announced that he was a candidate for the United States Presidency. Later that year he lost – Lyndon B. Johnson: 43,126,506; Goldwater: 27,176,799. Birthdays: Jim Everett National Football League Quarterback; Dave Foley Actor.
1966: Birthdays: Julia Ormond Actress.
1967: Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys refused to be sworn in after receiving a United States Army draft notice, saying he was a conscientious objector. Deaths: Mary Garden Opera star, died at 92; Jack Ruby, the assassin who killed accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald before he could be tried for the assassination of President Kennedy, died at age 55 of cancer in a Dallas hospital.
1969: Police in Newark, N.J., confiscated a shipment of 30,000 copies of the John Lennon-Yoko Ono album ‘Two Virgins’ because the cover photo, featuring full frontal nudity, violated pornography laws in Jersey. Birthdays: Michael Schumacher, German racing champion; Shannon Sturges, Actress (Savannah).
1970: ‘Mame’ closed at Winter Garden Theater New York City, New York after 1508 performances. Birthdays: James Carter Jazz Musician.
1971: Chart Toppers: Rose Garden Lynn Anderson; My Sweet Lord/Isn’t It a Pity George Harrison; Knock Three Times Dawn; Black Magic Woman Santana.
1972: Birthdays: Jeremy Licht Actor.
1972: Don McLean received a gold record for his 8-minute-plus hit, ‘American Pie’.
1973: A 12-member syndicate headed by George Steinbrenner III bought the New York Yankees from The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) for a reported $10-12 million.
1974: Following eight years of inactivity, Bob Dylan toured for 39 dates in 25 cities. His first stop was in Chicago. The tour was recorded and later released as a double-LP set titled, ‘Before the Flood’.
1975: Birthdays: Danica McKellar, Actor. Deaths: Milton J. Cross Television announcer (Met Opera broadcasts), died at 87.
1976: Birthdays: Jason Marsden Actor; Danica McKellar Actress (The Wonder Years).
1977: Apple Computers was incorporated.
1979: Deaths: Conrad Hilton United States founder (Hilton Hotels), died at 91. Chart Toppers: Too Much Heaven Bee Gees; The Gambler Kenny Rogers; My Life Billy Joel; Le Freak Chic.
1980: Deaths: Joy Adamson Austrian, British Naturalist/Conservationist/Writer/Author (Born Free-her work with lions), murdered at age 69, in northern Kenya by her servant.
1981: John Lennon’s ‘(Just Like) Starting Over’ and the album ‘Double Fantasy’ topped the pop music charts just weeks after the death of the former Beatle. Birthdays: Eli Manning, Pro football quarterback
1985: Soprano Leontyne Price bid adieu to the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She sang the title role of ‘Aida.’ Price had been part of the Met since 1961. Israel government confirmed resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews.
1987: The first female artist inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was ‘Lady Soul’ Aretha Franklin. Bill Haley was among the 14 others inducted as well. Chart Toppers: Walk Like an Egyptian Bangles; Notorious Duran Duran; Mind Your Own Business Hank Williams Junior; Everybody Have Fun Tonight Wang Chung.
1988: Margaret Thatcher became longest-serving British Prime Minister this century. Israel ordered 9 Palestinian ‘instigators’ deported from West Beirut.
1989: Russian newspaper Izvestia printed its first commercial advertisement.
1990: Deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega left his refuge in the Vatican Embassy in Panama City and surrendered to United States troops, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vatican’s diplomatic mission following the United States invasion of Panama. He was taken to Florida to face narcotics trafficking charges.
1991: AIDS was removed from the list of diseases that would automatically bar an infected person from entering the United States.
1993: U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the START II treaty in Moscow, reducing strategic nuclear arsenals by two-thirds. Junk bond king Michael Milkin was released from jail after 22 months.
1995: Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo announced an emergency plan for wage and price controls and budget cuts to stabilize the peso and combat spiraling
inflation.
1997: Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final ‘Today’ show on NBC.
1999: Israeli authorities detained, and later expelled, 14 members of Concerned Christians, a Denver-based cult which Israeli officials feared was plotting violence in Jerusalem to bring about the Second Coming of Christ. Chicagoans dug out from their biggest snowstorm in more than 30 years. Israeli authorities detained, and later expelled, 14 members of Concerned Christians, a Denver-based cult which Israeli officials feared was plotting violence in Jerusalem to bring about the Second Coming of Christ.
2001: The 107th U.S. Congress convened for the first time with the Senate equally divided 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans had a 10-member advantage in the House of Representatives.
2003: Democrats John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean and Al Sharpton announced runs for their party’s 2004 presidential nomination.
2004: A Flash Airline Boeing 737 crashed shortly after takeoff in Egypt, killing 148 people. A NASA robotic explorer called Spirit touched down on Mars, sending a signal that it survived the descent through the Martian atmosphere.
2005: Indonesia’s Ministry of Health announced another 14,000 deaths, bringing the total of lives lost in Asia’s earthquake and tsunami disaster to 155,000.
2006: Jack Abramoff, a powerful Washington lobbyist, agreed to plead guilty to fraud, public corruption and tax evasion charges and to testify against politicians and former colleagues. Iran advised the International Atomic Energy Agency it planned to restart work on what it called its peaceful nuclear energy program.
2008: The Iowa caucuses got the U.S. presidential nomination campaign under way at its earliest date with Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee the initial winners.
2009: After more than a week of intense airstrikes, Israeli troops crossed into Gaza, launching a ground assault against the militant Palestinian group Hamas. More than 430 Palestinians and four Israelis were reported killed at that point.
2010: The U.S. government announced new stricter security screening procedures for airline passengers from certain countries, among them Iran, Pakistan, Yemen and Nigeria, as part of a crackdown following the botched Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound flight and including random patdowns and body scanning.
2011: Two boats sank in the Red Sea in bad weather off Yemen, leaving about 80 Africans dead or presumed dead, the Yemeni Interior Ministry said. U.N. peacekeepers were ordered to search for proof of reported atrocities and mass graves in Ivory Coast where the bloody aftermath of a hotly disputed presidential election is said to have left more than 200 people dead.
2012: The Iowa caucus officially kicked off the U.S. presidential election process with more than half a dozen Republican candidates seeking the GOP nomination to face U.S. President Barack Obama, the uncontested Democratic incumbent, in November. Mitt Romney was initially declared the GOP winner in the first test with 25 percent of the vote. Subsequent counts, however, gave the win to Rick Santorum. The Taliban, chief insurgency group in Afghanistan, announced it would open a political office in Qatar. Observers saw the move as a positive sign that could lead to peace talks between the insurgents and the U.S.-led Afghan coalition.
2013: A suicide bomber killed at least 27 Shiite pilgrims at a bus station in Iraq. The bombing followed days of demonstrations against the country’s Shiite-dominated government.