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Today in History ~ January 7
Events1558 - Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
1598 - Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodore I
1601 - Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
1584 - Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia & Holy Roman empire
1608 - Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1610 - Galileo discovers 1st 4 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
1618 - Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor
1714 - Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1782 - 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
1785 - 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries) [H]
1789 - The first nationwide U.S. presidential election was held. The electors chosen by the voters unanimously picked George Washington as president and John Adams as vice president.
1830 - 1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
1842 - Gioacchino Rossini's "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris
1862 - Battle of Manassas Junction, VA
1890 - William B. Puris patents fountain pen
1894 - W.K. Dickson was given a patent for motion picture film. The 2 second demonstration was a 47-frame film showing a man sneezing.
1895 - Korea proclaimed its independence from China.
1896 - Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook
1924 - George Gershwin completed the incomparable score of "Rhapsody in Blue" at the age of 26. George didn't have an interest in music until his family got him a piano when he was 12.
1927 - Commercial trans-Atlantic telephone service between New York and London was inaugurated. 31 calls were made.
1929 - "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
1929 - In newspapers around the United States, "Buck Rogers 2429 A.D." debuted. The comic strip was later renamed "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century".
1931 - As the Great Depression was getting under way, a report to President Hoover estimated that four-million to five-million Americans were out of work.
1939 - US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)
1940 - Gene Autry's Melody Ranch debuts [H]
1942 - WW II siege of Bataan starts
1944 - Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
1945 - British Gen. Bernard Montgomery gives a press conference in which he all but claims complete credit for saving the Allied cause in the Battle of the Bulge. [H]
1948 - US president Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan
1953 - President Truman announced in his State of the Union address that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb.
1955 - Singer Marian Anderson made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera."
1958 - USSR shrinks army to 300,000
1959 - The United States recognized Fidel Castro's new government in Cuba.
1969 - US Congress doubles president salary
1970 - Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
1972- Lewis F. Powell Jr. and William H. Rehnquist were sworn in as the 99th and 100th members of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1975 - "Shenandoah" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 1050 performances
1979 - Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government. [H]
1987 - In the United States, government sources said the combined local, state, and national debt had increased to $10,047 per person; the Federal debt, alone, amounted to $7,650 per person.
1986 - US president Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1989 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan died in Tokyo at age 87; he was succeeded by his son, Crown Prince Akihito.
1990 - Jeffrey Lundgren, a self-proclaimed prophet and leader of a breakaway religious sect wanted for the slayings of five Ohio followers, was arrested in California at a motel near the Mexican border.
1991 - Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney announced he was canceling the Navy's A-12 Stealth attack plane project.
1991 - Loyalist troops attacked Haiti's presidential palace, rescuing President Ertha Pascal-Trouillot and capturing the coup plotters.
1992 - President Bush arrived in Japan on a tough-talk trade mission.
1992 - Serb forces shot down a European Community helicopter in Croatia, killing five truce observers.
1992 - Pitchers Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers were elected to baseball's Hall of Fame.
1993 - The EPA released a long-awaited report that classified environmental tobacco smoke as a carcinogen.
1996 - "Crazy after You" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 1622 performances
1996 - An immense storm system dumped up to three feet of snow onto the Mid-Atlantic and New England states.
1997 - Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House (first Republican re-elected House speaker in 68 years) and then reprimanded for violating House rules and misled the House Ethics Committee in its probe of possible political use of tax-exempt donations.
1998 - At a time when her association with President Clinton was not yet public, former White House intern Monica Lewinsky reportedly denied in an affidavit filed in the Paula Jones case that she had had an affair with him.
1998 - A federal jury in Denver was unable to agree on a penalty for Terry Nichols, convicted in December 1997 in connection with the April 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. That meant he would not face the death penalty.
1999 - President Clinton's impeachment trial opened in the Senate.
2001 - President-elect George W. Bush's transition team acknowledged that Labor Secretary-designate Linda Chavez had provided housing and financial aid to an illegal immigrant (Chavez ended up withdrawing her nomination).
Birthdays Today
1800 - Millard S. Fillmore (U.S. Vice President [1848-50]; 13th U.S. President [1850-1853]; Whig Party U.S. presidential nominee [1856])
1830 - Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter (US landscapes)
1845 - Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18)
1873 - Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive (Paramount)
1898 - Art Baker, NYC, TV host (You Asked For It)
1903 - Alan Napier, Birmingham England, actor (Alfred-Batman)
1910 - Alain JG de Rothschild, France, banker/baron
1912 - Charles Addams (cartoonist: The New Yorker; TV and films: The Addams Family)
1922 - Alvin Dark (baseball: Boston Braves shortstop: Rookie of the Year [1948])
1922 - Jean-Pierre [Louis] Rampal, Marseilles France, flautist
1928 - William Peter Blatty, NYC, author/director (The Exorcist)
1929 - Terry Moore (Helen Koford) (actress)
1930 - Douglas Kiker (newscaster: NBC-TV News)
1930 - Jack Greene (The Green Giant: singer: CMA Male Vocalist, Album, Single and Song of the Year: There Goes My Everything [1967])
1938 - Lou Graham (golfer: U.S. Open Champion [1975])
1942 - or 1938 - or 1946 - (singer, musician: group: Paul Revere and The Raiders: Hungry, Kicks, Him or Me-What's it Gonna Be, Indian Reservation)
1942 - Vasili Alexeyev, USSR, weightlifer (Olympic-gold-72, 76)
1943 - Jim Lefebvre (baseball: LA Dodgers: 2nd base: NL Rookie of the Year [1965])
1945 - Tony Conigliaro (baseball: Boston Red Sox)
1948 - Kenny Loggins, Everett WA (musician, singer: I'm Alright, This is It, Welcome to Heartlight, Danger Zone, & Messina-This is it, Footloose )
1952 - Steve Reese (football)
1953 - Morris Titanic (hockey)
1957 - Katie Couric, [Katherine], Arlington VA, TV news host (Today)
1964 - Nicolas Cage, [Coppola], actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon)
Famous deaths
1537 - Alessandro de' Medici, Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated
1598 - Theodorus I, [Fedor Ivanovitch], czar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40
1695 - Mary II Stuart, queen of England, dies at 32
1958 - Petru Groza, premier/president (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74
1972 - John Berryman, US poet (Imaginary Jew), dies (jumps off bridge)
1989 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan died in Tokyo at age 87
1990 - Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at 81
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