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January 19th
1807 ~ Birthday of Robert E. Lee, General, Army of Northern Virginia, CSA.
1809 ~ Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, Poet & short story Author.
1839 ~ Birthday of Paul Cézanne, Painter.
1853 ~ Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premiered.
1937 ~ Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record by flying from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just under 7 ½ hours.
1943 ~ Birthday of Janis Joplin, Blues/Rock Singer.
1966 ~ Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India.
1977 ~ President Gerald Ford pardoned Tokyo Rose.
1983 ~ The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, was announced..
1983 ~ Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was arrested in Bolivia.
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01-20-2008, 06:24 PM
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January 20th
1907 ~ Death of Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian Chemist and inventor of the Periodic table.
1920 ~ Birthday of Federico Fellini, Italian film director.
1930 ~ Birthday of Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut.
1942 ~ Nazi officials arrived at a ''final solution'' to Europe's Jewry, during a conference at Lake Wannsee in Berlin.
1961 ~ John F. Kennedy sworn in as U.S. President.
1967 ~ The first pulsar was discovered.
1981 ~ The American hostages held by Iran were released following Ronald Reagan’s inauguration.
1984 ~ Death of Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic swimming gold medalist & Actor (Tarzan).
1986 ~ Britain and France announced plans to build the Channel Tunnel.
1993 ~ Death of Audrey Hepburn, actress.
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01-21-2008, 04:38 PM
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January 21st
1793 ~ King Louis XVI of France, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine.
1924 ~ Death of Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the U.S.S.R.
1941 ~ Birthday of Plácido Domingo, tenor Opera Singer.
1950 ~ Death of George Orwell, Writer.
1950 ~ A federal jury in New York City found former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury.
1954 ~ The USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear powered submarine, was launched.
1959 ~ Death of Cecil B. DeMille, Movie Director.
1968 ~ Start of the Battle of Khe Sanh.
1998 ~ Pope John Paul II began his first visit to Cuba.
2003 ~ The U.S. Census Bureau announced that Hispanics had surpassed blacks as America's largest minority group.
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01-22-2008, 07:54 AM
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There is a song by an Aussie Band (a long gone icon called Cold Chisel) titled Khe Sanh. A powerful lyric about returning Oz vets from VietNam. Yes, we were there too.
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01-22-2008, 12:45 PM
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January 22nd
1788 ~ Birthday of Lord Byron, Poet.
1840 ~ British colonists reached New Zealand.
1879 ~ Zulu troops defeated British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana.
1909 ~ Birthday of U Thant, 3rd UN Secretary General.
1953 ~ "The Crucible", a drama by Arthur Miller, opened on Broadway.
1970 ~ The Boeing 747 went on its first regularly scheduled commercial flight, from New York to London.
1973 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court, in the Roe vs. Wade decision, legalized abortions, using a trimester approach.
1973 ~ Death of Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. President.
1984 ~ The Apple Macintosh was introduced with the famous television commercial "1984" (requires QuickTime and patience [but is generally considered among the better commercials in history]).
1992 ~ Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman astronaut.
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01-23-2008, 11:48 AM
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January 23rd
1789 ~ Georgetown College, founded by Archbishop John Carroll, became the first Catholic, Jesuit college in the U.S.
1832 ~ Birthday of Edouard Manet, Impressionist artist.
1849 ~ Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree, from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y.
1857 ~ Birthday of Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist.
1862 ~ Birthday of David Hilbert, Mathematician.
1968 ~ North Korea seized the USS Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the communist nation's territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was held for 11 months.
1973 ~ President Nixon appeared on national television to announce "peace with honor" in Vietnam.
1989 ~ Death of Salvador Dalí, Artist.
2002 ~ Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan.
2004 ~ Death of Bob Keeshan, TV's “Captain Kangaroo”.
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01-24-2008, 01:15 PM
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01-25-2008, 01:08 PM
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01-26-2008, 05:48 PM
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01-28-2008, 10:04 PM
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01-29-2008, 01:22 PM
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January 29th
1845 ~ Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.
1856 ~ Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross.
1880 ~ Birthday of W.C. Fields, Actor.
1933 ~ Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.
1936 ~ The first members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.
1956 ~ Death of H. L. Mencken, Journalist.
1962 ~ Death of Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist.
1963 ~ Death of Robert Frost, Poet.
1996 ~ France ended nuclear testing.
2002 ~ In his State of the Union Address, President Bush coined the term "Axis of Evil".
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01-30-2008, 01:11 PM
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January 30th
1649 ~ King Charles I of England was beheaded.
1862 ~ The first Union ironclad warship, the USS Monitor was launched.
1933 ~ The first episode of the ''Lone Ranger'' radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit.
1937 ~ Birthday of Boris Spassky, World Chess Champion.
1948 ~ Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated.
1968 ~ Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese soldiers launched the Tet offensive.
1969 ~ Last public performance by The Beatles.
1972 ~ Thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday”.
1991 ~ The first major ground battle of the Gulf War was fought at the frontier port of Al Khafji in Saudi Arabia.
2003 ~ Richard Reid, the "Shoe bomber" jailed for life.
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01-31-2008, 03:11 PM
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02-01-2008, 12:45 PM
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