This Day In History

A Day In History - January

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1st

1 Origin of Christian Era
In 1895 J Edgar Hoover, Mr. FBI, born.
In 1969 Ian Fleming writer (James Bond), dies at 80
In 1995 Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980)
In 2000 or 2001 Beginning of the new Millennium, depending on your point of view.

2nd

In 1800 Free black commission of Philadelphia petitioned Congress to abolish slavery.
In 1870 Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins
In 1917 Royal Bank of Canada took over the Quebec Bank.
In 1920 Isaac Asimov, scientist-writer, born.
In 1935 Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for kidnap-murder of Charles Lindberg's baby.
In 1939 Jim Bakker, televangelist, con-man, born.
In 1942 Japanese occupied Manila.
In 1942 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace.
In 1955 President Jose Antonio Remon of Panama assassinated.
In 1959 Luna 1(USSR) launched.
In 1968 Dr. Christian Barnard performs the second successful heart transplant.

3rd

In 106 B.C. Cicero, Roman statesman, born.
In 1888 First drinking straw is patented by M.C. Stone in Washington, D.C.
In 1892 J.R.R. Tolkien, linguist, author (The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings), born.
In 1909 Victor Borge, pianist, comedian, born.
In 1920 NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from the Red Sox.
In 1921 Turkey makes peace with Armenia.
In 1933 Dabney Coleman, actor, born.
In 1943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa.
In 1951 Victoria Principal, actress, born.
In 1952 "Dragnet" is suddenly plastered on TV across America
In 1956 Mel Gibson, actor, born.
In 1957 First electric watch introduced at Lancaster, PA.
In 1958 Sir Edmund Hillary reached South Pole overland.
In 1961 Experimental reactor kills three in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
In 1961 U.S. breaks relations with Cuba.
In 1964 Jack Ruby, assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald, died
In 1977 Apple Computer incorporated.
In 1980 Alfred Hitchcock knighted -- Good Evening.
In 1980 BSD UNIX 3.0 released
In 1993 President Bush and President Yeltsin sign historic nuclear arms reduction treaty.

4th

In 1643 Sir Isaac Newton, scientist, discovered laws of gravity.
In 1785 Jacob Grimm (in Germany), storyteller
In 1797 Wilhelm Beer, first to map Mars
In 1809 Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind
In 1863 Four-wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of New York.
In 1943 Josef Stalin Declared Time Magazine's "Man Of The Year"
In 1948 Burmese National Day.
In 1951 Chinese and North Koreans capture Seoul, South Korea
In 1958 Sputnik 1 destroyed on reentry
In 1959 Matt Frewer, actor (Doctor Doctor, Max Headroom), born.
In 1954 Elvis Presley records his first two singles at Sun Record Studios.
In 1960 Michael Stipe (REM Lead Singer), born.
In 1965 Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot, poet, died.
In 1970 The Beatles have their last recording session at EMI studios.
In 1986 Phil Lynott, Thin Lizzy Lead Singer, died.

5th

In 1066 St. Edward the Confessor, died.
In 1589 Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, died.
In 1809 Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain and France.
In 1855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor, born.
In 1889 Hamburger invented.
In 1919 National Socialist (Nazi) Party formed in Germany.
In 1922 Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, died aboard his ship.
In 1931 Robert Duvall, actor, born.
In 1933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side.
In 1933 Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President, died.
In 1938 Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, born.
In 1940 First FM radio transmission.
In 1945 'Pepe Le Pew' debuts in his first cartoon.
In 1946 Diane Keaton (in Los Angeles, CA), actor, born.
In 1954 Pamela Sue Martin (in Connecticut), actor (Dallas), born.
In 1962 Tony Sheridan and Beatles produce My Bonnie and The Saints.
In 1964 Pope Paul VI visits Jordan and Israel.
In 1968 Dr Spock indicted on draft law violations.
In 1969 Venera 5 launched. First successful landing on another planet.
In 1972 NASA announced the start of the space shuttle program.
In 1987 Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ.

6th

In 548 (Israel) This was the last year the Church in Jerusalem observed the birth of Jesus on this date. (Celebrating Christmas on December 25th began in the late 300s in the Western Church.).
In 1367 (England) Richard II, Bordeaux, France, king of England (1377-99), born.
In 1412 (France) Joan of Arc, Domremy, martyr, born.
In 1540 (England) King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves.
In 1745 (France) Jacques Montgolfier, aeronaut (1st pioneer balloonist), born.
In 1838 (USA) Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph.
In 1857 (USA) Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill.
In 1880 (USA) Tom Mix silent screen cowboy actor, born.
In 1883 (Lebanon) Khalil Gibran, mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings), born.
In 1919 (USA) Theodore Roosevelt dies at his home in Oyster Bay, NY, at 60.
In 1929 (Yugoslavia) Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia.
In 1941 (USA) FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want & from fear).
In 1946 (England) Syd Barrett, rocker (Pink Floyd-The Wall), born.
In 1949 (USA) Robert Englund, actor (V, Nightmare on Elm Street), born.
In 1950 (England) Britain recognizes Communist government of China.
In 1956 (England) Rowan Atkinson, comedian/actor (Never Say Never Again, Mr. Bean, Blackadder), born.
In 1977 (England) EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols.
In 1989 (Japan) Emperor Hirohito of Japan, dies at 87 after 62-year reign.

7th

In 1536 (England) Catherine of Aragon 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies.
In 1537 (Italy) Alessandro de' Medici of Florence, assassinated.
In 1845 (Germany) Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18), born.
In 1558 (France) Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French.
In 1598 (Russia) Boris Godunov seizes the Russian throne on death of Feodore I.
In 1610 (Italy) Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede.
In 1904 (USA) Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st int'l radio distress signal.
In 1912 (USA) Charles Addams, cartoonist (New Yorker, Addams Family), born.
In 1929 (USA) "Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premiers.
In 1929 (USA) "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears.
In 1934 (USA) "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts.
In 1953 (USA) Pres Truman announces development of the hydrogen bomb.
In 1958 (Romania) Dr Petru Groza premier of Romania, dies at 74.
In 1964 (USA) Nicolas Cage, actor (The Rock, Face/Off), born.
In 1964 (Bahamas) Bahamas achieves internal self-government & cabinet responsibility.
In 1979 (Vietnam) Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge.

8th

In 1798 11th Amendment of American Constitution ratified, Judicial powers construed.
In 1799 First Income Tax imposed.
In 1862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher and founder of Doubleday and Co., born.
In 1868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity, born.
In 1880 The passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico.
In 1908 Simone De Beauvoir, writer, born.
In 1914 Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque entertainer born.
In 1926 Milton Hinkes (AKA Soupy Sales), comedian, born.
In 1935 Elvis Presley, singer, born.
In 1937 Shirley Bassey (in Wales), born.
In 1941 Suzannah York, actress, born.
In 1947 David Bowie, musician, actor, born.
In 1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect.

9th

In 1285 St. Thorfinn, Norwegian Bishop, Died.
In 1901 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip, born.
In 1913 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President (1968-1974), born.
In 1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army.
In 1937 Shirley Bassey (Singer), born.
In 1941 Joan Baez (in Staten Island, NY), folk singer, born.
In 1941 Susannah York (in London, England), actress, born
In 1945 As he vowed, General Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines.
In 1951 Crystal Gayle (in Kentucky), singer, born.
In 1956 Rowan Atikinson (Comedian), born.
In 1959 Fidel Castro seizes power in Cuba. In 1982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.

10th

In 1863 First underground railway opens in London.
In 1877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic precipitator, used for pollution control and air ionizers, born.
In 1920 League of Nations established.
In 1925 Max Roach, jazz drummer, born.
In 1944 First mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia PA.
In 1945 Rod Stewart, singer, born.
In 1945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.
In 1946 First radar signal to moon, Belmar, NJ.
In 1946 UN General Assembly meets for first time.
In 1949 George Foreman, boxer, born.
In 1953 Pat Benatar, singer, born.

11th

In 1755 Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the US Treasury, born.
In 1787 Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel.
In 1813 First pineapples planted in Hawaii.
In 1842 William James, Philospher, born.
In 1906 Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, discoverer of LSD, born.
In 1935 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California (non-stop, of course).
In 1963 Beatles release Please Please Me & Ask Me Why.
In 1975 Soyuz 17 is launched.

12th

In 1876 Jack London, writer (Call of the Wild), born.
In 1944 Joe Frazier, boxer, born.
In 1945 US Navy destroys 41 Japanese ships in the Battle of South China Sea.
In 1955 Kirstie Alley, actress (Cheers, Star Trek II), born.
In 1971 "All in the Family" premiers.
In 1986 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 is launched.
In 1991 U.S. Congress backs war in Gulf.

13th

In 1381 St Colette abbess/reformer (Poor Clares), born.
In 1559 Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey.
In 1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter.
In 1628 Charles Perrault France, lawyer/writer (Mother Goose), born.
In 1888 National Geographic Society founded (Washington, DC).
In 1906 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to ONE MILE.
In 1919 Robert Stack LA Calif, actor (Eliot Ness-Untouchables, Airplane), born.
In 1930 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears.
In 1941 James Joyce novelist, dies in Zurich, Switzerland, at 58.
In 1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast.
In 1942 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies.
In 1958 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban.
In 1961 Graham "Suggs" McPherson rocker (Madness-Our House), born.
In 1961 Julia Louis-Dreyfus NYC, comedienne (SNL, Steinfeld, Day by Day), born.
In 1986 Bloody coup overthrows government of South Yemen.
In 1987 7 top NY Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each.
In 1988 Ching-Kao Chiang president of Taiwan, dies at 81.
In 1989 "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain.
In 1989 Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq.
In 1991 UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.

14th

In 1237 St Sava, son of Serbia's king, dies.
In 1526 Francis I forced to give up claims in Burgundy, Italy & Flanders.
In 1742 Edmund Halley genius eclipsed by Newton, dies at 86.
In 1799 King of Naples flees before the advancing French armies.
In 1814 King of Denmark cedes Norway to King of Sweden by treaty of Kiel.
In 1861 Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22), born.
In 1875 Albert Schweitzer, doctor/humanitarian/organist (Nobel 1952), born.
In 1898 Lewis Carroll writer (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 65.
In 1914 Henry Ford introduces assembly line for cars.
In 1941 Faye Dunaway, actress (Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde), born.
In 1953 Yugoslavia elects it's 1st president (Marshal Tito).
In 1954 Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star Joe DiMaggio.
In 1957 Humphrey Bogart actor, dies at 57.
In 1964 Jacqueline Kennedy's 1st public appearance (TV) since assassination.
In 1965 Vanity [Dee Dee Williams], singer/actress (Action Jackson), born.
In 1966 David Bowie releases his 1st record (Can't Help Thinking About Me).
In 1967 20,000 attend the Human Be-In, SF.
In 1978 Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, SF).
In 1984 Ray Kroc founder of MacDonalds/owner San Diego Padres, dies at 82.
In 1986 Vinicio Cerezo becomes only the 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since the CIA-sponsored coup in 1954.
In 1989 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris.

15th

In 69 Galba, Roman emperor, killed by Praetorian guard in the Forum, Rome.
In 1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church.
In 1582 Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to the Baltic.
In 1622 Moli�re, France, dramatist (Tartuffe, Les Misanthrope), baptized.
In 1892 Basketball rules first published.
In 1895 Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premiers, St Petersburg.
In 1906 Aristotle Onassis, Greece, rich shipping magnate, born.
In 1908 Edward Teller, Budapest, Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project), born.
In 1913 Lloyd Bridges, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Flying High), born.
In 1918 Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (1954-1971?), born.
In 1919 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston, USA, drowning 21.
In 1919 Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland
In 1922 Irish Free State forms
In 1923 Lithuania seize & annex the country of Memel
In 1929 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Atlanta, dreamer (Nobel 1964), born.
In 1936 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio
In 1943 World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
In 1970 Israeli archaeologists reported uncovering the first evidence supporting the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. by military forces of the ancient Roman Empire.1973 Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
In 1974 "Happy Days" premiers on ABC-TV in the US.
In 1975 Space Mountain opens (Disneyland).
In 1985 Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years.
In 1987 Ray Bolger actor/dancer (Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz), dies at 83.
In 1988 Sean MacBride Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83.
In 1991 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait passes - (they don't).
In 1992 EC recognizes Slovenian and Croatian independence.

16th

In 1547 Ivan IV the Terrible crowned 1st tsar of Russia.
In 1765 Charles Messier catalogs M41 (galactic cluster in Canis Major).
In 1853 Andre Michelin, France, industrialist/tire manufacturer (Michelin), born.
In 1908 Ethel Merman stage & screen actress (Anything Goes, Call Me Madam), born.
In 1948 John Carpenter, director/composer (Halloween, The Thing), born.
In 1957 Cavern Club opens on Matthews Street in England.
In 1963 Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb.
In 1979 Ted Cassidy Pittsburgh, actor (Lurch-Addams Family), dies at 46.
In 1979 Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt.
In 1989 USSR announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars.
In 1991 Operation Desert Storm begins. US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (US times).

17th

In 1706 Benjamin Franklin, famous kite flyer, statesman, wit, born.
In 1746 Battle Of Falkirk, Scotland.
In 1860 Anton Checkov (in Russia), writer, born.
In 1861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (honest!!).
In 1871 First Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
In 1880 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops, born.
In 1899 Al Capone, Crime Boss, born.
In 1929 Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theatre."
In 1931 James Earl Jones, actor, narrator, voice of Darth Vader, born.
In 1934 Shari Lewis (in Bronx, NY), puppeteer (Lambchop), born.
In 1942 Muhammad Ali, boxer who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee, born.
In 1950 Great Brink's robbery in Boston, $28 million.
In 1955 World's first nuclear powered ship, USS Nautilus.
In 1969 Led Zepplin's Debut Album released.
In 1991 At approx. 1:00 am Baghdad local time, allied forces attacked, beginning Gulf War.
In 1994 Earthquake in California.
In 1995 Earthquake in Kobe.

8th

In 1520 Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde.
In 1778 Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands).
In 1779 Peter Roget, thesaurus fame, inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard), born.
In 1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire), born.
In 1849 Sir Edmund Barton 1st PM of Australia (1900-03), born.
In 1871 German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I.
In 1882 Alan Alexander Milne author (Winnie-the-Pooh), born.
In 1892 Oliver Hardy Harlem Ga, comedy team member (Laurel & Hardy), born.
In 1904 Cary Grant actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest), born.
In 1913 Danny Kaye Bkln NY, UNICEF/comedian/actor (Danny Kaye Show), born.
In 1919 WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France.
In 1936 Rudyard Kipling author, dies in Burwash, England.
In 1943 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis.
In 1943 Soviets announce they broke the long Nazi siege of Leningrad.
In 1955 Kevin Costner actor (Fandango, Silverado, Bull Durham), born.
In 1964 Beatles 1st appearance in Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35).
In 1980 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" hits #1.

19th

In 1493 France cedes Roussillon & Cerdogne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona.
In 1544 Francis II, king of France (1559-60), born.
In 1629 Abbas I Shah of Persia (1588-1629), dies at 57.
In 1736 James Watt, Scotland, inventor (steam engine), born.
In 1806 Britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
In 1809 Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum), born.
In 1825 Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans.
In 1839 Paul Cezanne, France, impressionist painter (Bathers), born.
In 1853 Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" premiers, in Rome.
In 1899 Anglo-Egyptian country of Sudan forms.
In 1915 Electric neon sign patented.
In 1920 Javier Perez de Cuellar, Lima, Peru, 5th secretary-general of UN (1982-1996), born.
In 1935 Tippi Hedren Minnesota, actress (The Birds), born.
In 1937 Millionaire Howard Hughes sets transcontinental air record (7h28m25s).
In 1939 Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 sec..
In 1942 Michael Crawford England, Broadway star (Phantom of the Opera), born.
In 1943 Janis Joplin, bluesy rock singer (Down on Me), born.
In 1946 Dolly Parton, country singer (Dolly, 9 to 5), born.
In 1954 Sydney Greenstreet actor (Maltese Falcon), dies at 74.
In 1966 Stefan Edberg, Sweden, tennis player (Wimbeldon 1988), born.
In 1971 Beatles' Helter Skelter is played at the Charles Manson trial.
In 1981 Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide.
In 1981 US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages.
In 1990 Bhadwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian guru, dies at 58.

20th

In 1265 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester.
In 1760 Charles III king of Spain (1759-88), born.
In 1775 Andre-Marie Ampere France, discovered electromagnetism, born.
In 1841 China cedes Hong Kong to the British.
In 1888 Leadbelly, blues 12 string guitarist (Rock Island Line), born.
In 1896 George Burns [Nathan Birnbaum], NYC, actor/comedian (Oh God), born.
In 1920 DeForest Kelly actor (Dr McCoy-Star Trek), born.
In 1920 Federico Fellini Italian director (Satyricon, La Dolce Vita), born.
In 1921 Turkey declared in remnants of the Ottoman Empire.
In 1930 Edwin E "Buzz" Aldrin Jr, USAF/astro (Gem 12, Ap 11), born.
In 1936 King George V of Britain dies, succeeded by Edward VIII.
In 1946 David Lynch, director (Dune, Eraserhead), born.
In 1947 Malcolm McLaren founded rock group (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen), born.
In 1948 Mahatma Gandhi India's pacifist, assassinated.
In 1952 Paul Stanley, rock guitarist (KISS), born.
In 1984 Johnny Weismuller actor (Tarzan, Jungle Jim), dies in Acapulco at 79.
In 1993 Audrey Hepburn actress (Breakfast at Tiffany's), dies at 63 of colon cancer in Tolochenaz, Switzerland.

21st

In 1338 Charles V (the Wise), king of France (1364-80), born.
In 1604 Tsar Ivan IV defeats the False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar.
In 1793 Louis XVI French king, beheaded by French revolutionaries.
In 1799 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced.
In 1813 Pineapple introduced to Hawaii.
In 1824 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Lt Gen 2nd Corps (ANV, Confed), born.
In 1905 Christian Dior, Normandy France, fashion designer (long-skirted look), born.
In 1920 Errol Walton Barrow, PM of Barbados (DLP) (1966-76, 1986-?), born.
In 1921 Barney Clark, 1st to receive a permanent artificial heart, born.
In 1924 Benny Hill, Southampton England, comedian (Benny Hill Show), born.
In 1924 Telly Savalas Garden City NJ, actor (Acapulco, Kojak), born.
In 1924 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 54.
In 1940 Jack Nicklaus, golfer (Player of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76), born.
In 1941 Placido Domingo, Madrid Spain, opera tenor, born.
In 1950 George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46.
In 1954 Nautilus, 1st atomic powered submarine launched.
In 1957 Geena Davis, actress (Beetlejuice, Fly), born.
In 1959 Cecil Blount de Mille, producer (10 Commandments), dies 77.
In 1961 Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria.
In 1976 Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France.
In 1977 Pres Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.
In 1978 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks.
In 1979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).
In 1990 John McEnroe becomes the 1st ever expelled from the Australian Open for throwing a tantrum & swearing at an official.

22nd

In 1440 Ivan III (the Great) grand prince of Russia, born.
In 1517 Turks conquer Cairo.
In 1528 England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V of Spain.
In 1561 Francis Bacon, England, statesman/essayist (Novum Organum), born.
In 1771 Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to Britain.
In 1788 Lord George Gordon Noel Byron, England, romantic poet (Don Juan), born.
In 1901 Queen Victoria, Britain's Queen, dies at 82.
In 1905 "Bloody Sunday"; Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops.
In 1909 U. Thant, Burma, 3rd UN sec-genl (1962-72), born.
In 1918 Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet).
In 1934 Bill Bixby, SF Calif, actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian), born.
In 1939 Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University.
In 1940 John Hurt, England, actor (Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express), born.
In 1957 Israeli forces withdraw from the Sinai Penisula.
In 1959 Linda Blair, St Louis Mo, actress (Exorcist, Chained Heat, Savage St), born.
In 1960 Michael Hutchence, Australia, rocker (Inxs-I Need You Tonight), born.
In 1967 Olivia d'Abo, London England, actress, born.
In 1969 Judy Garland, singer/actress, dies at 48 of an alcohol overdose.
In 1976 Bank robbery in Beirut nets $20-50 million (record).
In 1987 R. Budd Dwyer, Pennsylvania State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy & perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference.

23rd

In 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, musical prodigy, composer, born.
In 1832 Edouard Manet, French painter, born.
In 1849 Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman physician in U.S..
In 1899 Humphrey Bogart, actor, born.
In 1903 Randolph Scott, actor, born.
In 1909 First radio-assisted rescue at sea.
In 1944 Rutger Hauer, actor (Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Osterman Weekend), born.
In 1958 Princess Caroline of Monaco, born.
In 1983 "The A-Team" (with Mr. T and George Peppard) premiers.

24th

In 638 Start of Islamic calendar.
In 1265 1st English Parliament formally convened (some authorities).
In 1570 Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out.
In 1579 Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic.
In 1719 Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire.
In 1832 Edouard Manet, France, Impressionist painter, born.
In 1896 Charlotte, grand duchess of Luxembourg (1919-64), born.
In 1899 Humphrey Bogart, actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny, African Queen), born.
In 1913 Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM assassinated.
In 1920 Dutch govt refuses to turn over ex-kaiser of Germany to the allies.
In 1950 George Orwell, British novelist, dies in London at 46.
In 1957 Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite of Monaco, born.
In 1970 Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched.
In 1989 Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter, dies in Spain at 84.
In 1991 High-denomination banknotes withdrawn in USSR.

25th

In 1759 Robert Burns, Scottish poet, born.
In 1858 Mendelssohn's Wedding March first played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter to the Crown Prince of Prussia.
In 1874 Somerset Maugham, poet, born.
In 1882 Virginia Woolf, author, born.
In 1915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
In 1949 First Emmy Awards are given out.
In 1949 First Israeli election.
In 1961 First live, nationally televised, Presidential news conference (JFK)

26th

In 1715 Claude Helvetius born, French philosopher.
In 1788 First settlement established by the English in Australia. AUSTRALIA DAY !!!!
In 1841 Hong Kong was proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain.
In 1880 Gen. Douglas MacArthur born, he did return!
In 1905 The Cullinan diamond, the world's largest, is found.
In 1925 Paul Newman born, actor, racer, popcorn and salad dressing mogul
In 1926 Television is first demonstrated by John Logie Baird in London.
In 1928 Eartha Kitt born (in South Carolina)
In 1950 India becomes a republic ceasing to be a British dominion. Indian Republic Day Celebrated.
In 1954 Ground breaking for Disneyland, the Magic Kingdom, in Anaheim, CA.
In 1961 Wayne Gretzky born, hockey player
In 1976 Israel opens the "Good Fence" to Lebanon.

27th

In 1832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you may know him as Lewis Carroll), born.
In 1880 Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp.
In 1885 Jerome Kern, Broadway composer, born.
In 1888 National Geographic Society founded in Washington, DC.
In 1921 Donna Reed (in Denison, Iowa), actor, born.
In 1926 First public demonstration of television.
In 1948 First Tape Recorder is sold.
In 1948 Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer, actor, born.
In 1964 "Introducing the Beatles" album released in U.S.
In 1967 Fatal Apollo I fire kills Grissom, Chaffee, and White.
In 1973 US and North Vietnam signed a cease-fire agreement.
In 1985 Fifteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 returns to Earth.

28th

In 814 Charlemagne German emperor, dies at 71.
In 1256 William of Holland Holy Roman emperor, dies at about 28.
In 1457 Henry VII king of England (1485-1509), born.
In 1547 Henry VIII King of England (1509-47), dies at 55.
In 1547 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England.
In 1581 James VI signs the 2nd Confession of Faith in Scotland.
In 1595 Sir Francis Drake English navigator, dies at about 50.
In 1600 Clement IX Pistoia, Italy, 238th Roman Catholic pope (1667-69), born.
In 1613 Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune.
In 1693 Anna "Ivanovna" tsarina of Russia (1730-40), born.
In 1768 Frederick VI Danish king (1808-39); lost Norway to Sweden (1814), born.
In 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore.
In 1841 Henry Stanley journalist/explorer (found Livingston in Africa), born.
In 1855 William Seward Burroughs inventor (recording adding machine), born.
In 1912 Jackson Pollack abstract artist (Lavender Mist), born.
In 1928 Christopher Hornsrud chosen PM of Norway at age 101.
In 1933 Susan Sontag NYC, author/film director (1966 Pol Award), born.
In 1936 Alan Alda NYC, actor (Hawkeye Pierce-M*A*S*H), born.
In 1939 William Butler Yeats Irish poet, dies in France at 73.
In 1958 Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor.
In 1961 Republic of Rwanda proclaimed.
In 1980 Jimmy Durante NYC, comedian (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 86.
In 1986 Christa McAuliffe, Dr Judith Arlene Resnik, Ellison S Onizuka, Francis R Scobee, Michael J Smith and Ronald E McNair, die in the Challenger Space shuttle disaster.

29th

In 1559 Sir Thomas Pope, English politician, benefactor, dies at about 52.
In 1700 Daniel Bernoulli, Basel, Switzerland, mathematician, born.
In 1737 Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason), born.
In 1834 Pres Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute.
In 1837 Aleksandr Pushkin, poet, novelist, dramatist, killed in a duel.
In 1845 Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" 1st published.
In 1856 Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery.
In 1860 Anton Pavlovich, Chekhov Russia, writer (Cherry Orchard), born.
In 1880 W.C. Fields [Claude William Dukenfield], actor (Bank Dick), born.
In 1916 1st zeppelin raid (on Paris).
In 1920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with KC Slide Co..
In 1923 1st flight of the autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain).
In 1939 Germaine Greer, Melbourne, Australia, feminist/author (Female Eunich), born.
In 1945 Tom Selleck, actor (Lance-Rockford Files, Magnum PI), born.
In 1953 Oprah Winfrey, actress/TV host (Color Purple), born.
In 1956 H.L. Mencken, satirist, critic, dies in Baltimore at 75.
In 1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released.
In 1964 9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria.
In 1969 Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars.
In 1974 Sara Gilbert, actress (Melissa-Roseanne), born.
In 1979 Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays".
In 1989 USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit.
In 1991 Nelson Mandela meets Chief Buthelezi in Durban.
In 1991 Battle for Khafji in Saudia Arabia(begins).

30th

In 1882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (1933-1945) in New Hyde Park NY, born.
In 1917 First jazz record in United States is cut.
In 1922 Barbara Hale, (in Dekalb, IL), actor (Perry Mason), born.
In 1930 Gene Hackman, actor (Target, Uncommon Valor), born.
In 1933 Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor.
In 1937 Vanessa Redgrave (in London, England), actor, born.
In 1937 Boris Spassky, chess player, born.
In 1941 Phil Collins, musician (Genesis), actor (Buster), born.
In 1950 Victoria Principal (in Japan), actor (Dallas), born.
In 1975 Tim Hamilton, On This Day page author !, born.

31st

In 1504 By treaty of Lyons, French cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon.
In 1797 Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal Austria, composer (Unfinished Symphony), born.
In 1862 Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius.
In 1882 Anna Pavlova, St Petersburg Russia, ballerina/choreographer, born.
In 1901 Chekhov's "Three Sisters" opens at the Moscow Art Theater.
In 1903 Tallulah Bankhead, Huntsville Ala, actress (Lifeboat, Die Die Darling), born.
In 1905 1st auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A.G. MacDonald, Daytona Beach.
In 1921 Carol Channing, actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), born.
In 1926 Jean Simmons, London England, actress (Thorn Birds, Guys & Dolls), born.
In 1928 Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company.
In 1929 Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia.
In 1937 Philip Glass, composer (Einstein on the Beach), born.
In 1946 Yugoslavia adopts new constitution, becomes a federal republic.
In 1951 Phil Collins, England, singer/drummer (Genesis-Against All Odds), born.
In 1956 Johnny Rotten [John Lydon], rocker (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen), born.
In 1958 James van Allen discovers radiation belt around Earth.
In 1958 US launches 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1.
In 1961 Lloyd Cole, guitar/vocals (& the Commotions-Rattlesnakes), born.
In 1968 Nauru gains independence from Australia (1982 pop 8,421).
In 1970 Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges.
In 1990 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds.
In 1991 Battle for Khafji in Saudi Arabia (ends after 3 days).

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