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Today in History ~ January 6
Armenian Christmas [T]
Events1066 - King Harold of England crowned
1496 - Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christians
1497 - Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria)
1535 - City of Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro
1540 - King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
1639 - Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
1663 - Great earthquake in New England
1681 - 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)
1759 - George Washington marries widow Martha Dandridge Curtis
1838 - Samuel Morse offers 1st public demonstration of telegraph
1857 - Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn
1861 - Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachiola
1861 - NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading with N & S
1893 - Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
1912 - New Mexico becomes 47th state [H]
1914 - Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
1925 - Paavo Nurmi, known as the "Flying Finn" and regarded as the greatest runner of his day, set world records in the mile and 5,000-meter run within the space of one hour in his first U.S. appearance, an indoor meet at New York City's new Madison Square Garden. [H]
1938 - Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx (becomes known locally as "Gen Pablo Bronx")
1941 - FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want & from fear)
1942 - A Pan American Airways "Pacific Clipper" arrived in New York to complete the first around-the-world flight by a commercial airliner.
1945 - George Herbert Walker Bush married Barbara Pierce in Rye New York.
1950 - Britain formally recognized the communist government of China.
1957 - Elvis Presley makes his 7th & final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
1963 - "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC
1963 - "Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 774 performances
1967 - U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation "Deckhouse V", an offensive in the Mekong River delta.
1968 - Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 for 8 weeks
1968 - Dr Norman E Shumway of Stanford performs 1st US adult heart transplant
1976 - Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million
1980 - Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India
1982 - Truck driver William G. Bonin was convicted in Los Angeles of being the "freeway killer" who had murdered 14 young men and boys.
1984 - The first test-tube quadruplets, all boys, were born in Melbourne, Australia.
1986 - Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg
1987 - Astronomers at U of Calif see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
1993 - Jennifer Stolpa and her infant son Clayton were rescued after her husband James reached help following the families 8 day ordeal in the snow covered Nevada desert.
1994 - Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard. The attack had left an injured Kerrigan unable to compete in the U.S. skating championships, which Harding won. Both women were named to the U.S Olympic figure skating team -- Kerrigan brought home a silver medal, but Harding could do no better than eighth place. [H]
1999 - An agreement ended the six-month player lockout by owners of National Basketball Association teams. The labor dispute had threatened to wipe out the entire 1998-99 season.
2002 - Argentina announced the devaluation of it's peso.
Birthdays Today
1367 - Richard II, Bordeaux, France, king of England (1377-99)
1412 - Joan of Arc (Jeanne D'Arc) (Maid of Orleans: French heroine: liberated the city of Orleans from the English; burned at the stake as a witch; Roman Catholic saint)
1695 - Giuseppe Sammartini, composer
1745 - Jacques Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (1st pioneer balloonist)
1811 - Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874
1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German polyglot/archeologist (discovered Troy)
1832 - Gustave Dore, Strasbourg Fr, illustrator (Inferno, Ancient Mariner)
1838 - Max Bruch, Cologne, Germany, composer Scottish Fantasy)
1850 - Franz Xaver Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha)
1872 - Alexander N Scriabin, Moscow, composer (Prometheus)
1878 - Carl Sandburg (author: Abraham Lincoln; poet: Chicago, Grass, The People, Yes; folk balladeer: The American Songbag)
1880 - Tom Mix (Dick Turpin) (actor: silent movies beginning 1909; Hollywood's biggest 1920s cowboy star, Tom Mix radio series)
1903 - Maurice Abravanel, Saloniki Greece, conductor/composer
1911 - Joey Adams (Abramowitz) (comedian: "He's the kind of doctor who feels your purse -- watch it!" "A bore never opens his mouth unless he has nothing to say.")
1913 - Loretta (Gretchen) Young (Academy Award-winning actress: The Farmer's Daughter [1947]; The Loretta Young Show)
1914 - Danny Thomas (Amos Jacobs) (Emmy Award-winning Best Actor: Make Room for Daddy [1954]; philanthropist: St. Jude's Children's Research Center, Memphis, TN; Marlo's Dad)
1920 - Early Wynn (Chicago White Sox pitcher: Cy Young Award [1959])
1920 - Sun Myung Moon, evangelist (Unification Church - Moonies)
1921 - Cary Middlecoff (golfer: Masters Champion [1955]; U.S. Open Champion [1949, 1956])
1921 - Lou Harris (pollster)
1924 - Early Scruggs (musician: banjo: groups: Bluegrass Boys, Foggy Mountain Boys: Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Ballad of Jed Clampett; Earl Scruggs Review w/sons; member: Grand Ole Opry)
1926 - Pat Flaherty (auto racer: Indianapolis 500 winner [1956])
1929 - Wilbert Harrison (singer: Kansas City, Let's Work Together)
1931 - Dickie Moore (hockey: Montreal Canadiens: Stanley Cup Individual Record for points scored in a period [4][3/25/54])
1931 - E[dgar] L[aurence] Doctorow,, NYC, novelist (World's Fair, Ragtime)
1934 - Bobby Lord (country singer: Bobby Lord TV Show)
1934 - Sylvia Sims (actress, singer)
1936 - Darlene Hard (tennis: Women's Singles Champion: French Open [1960], US Open [1960, 1961])
1936 - Ruben Amaro (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies)
1937 - Doris Troy (singer: Just One Look)
1937 - Nino Tempo (sax musician, singer: Deep Purple [w/April Stevens])
1939 - Vic Tayback (Tabback) (actor: Alice)
1944 - Bonnie Franklin (actress: Applause, One Day at a Time)
1957 - Nancy Lopez (golfer: Nabisco Dinah Shore Champion [1981), LPGA Champion [1978, 1985, 1989], most consecutive wins [5] in LPGA events [1978])
1977 - Actor Danny Pintauro ("Who's the Boss?")
Famous deaths
1785 - Haym Salomon, dies in Phila at 44, helped finance the US revolution (not repaid)
1790 - Johann Trier, composer, dies at 73
1884 - Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61
1917 - Hendrik P G Quack, lawyer (Bank of Neth), dies at 82
1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th Pres (1901-09), dies in NY at 60 [H]
1950 - Isaiah Bowman, geographer/co-founder (Geographical Review), dies at 71
1978 - John D MacArthur, US insurance billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 80
1989 - Hirohito, Japan`s emperor (1922-89), dies at 87 after 62-year reign
1993 - John B "Dizzy" Gillespe, blues trumpeter, dies of cancer at 75
1993 - Rudolph Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (Kirov), dies of AIDS at 54
1994 - Virginia Kelley Clinton, Mother of Pres Clinton, dies at 70
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