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Today in History ~ January 10
Events0069 - Roman emperor Galba adopts Marcus Piso Licinianus as Caesar
1429 - Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain
1642 - King Charles I & family flee London for Oxford
1663 - King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company
1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published. [H]
1810 - French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Josephine
1861 - Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
1861 - Ft Jackson & Ft Philip are taken over by LA state troops
1861 - US forts & property seized by Mississippi
1862 - Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek)
1862 - Battle of Romney, WV
1863 - London's 1st subway opens
1870 - John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
1878 - A constitutional amendment that would give women the right to vote was introduced into the U.S. Senate. (It wasn’t until 42 years later that the amendment was signed into law.)
1883 - Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame escapes unhurt.
1901 - Oil was discovered at the Spindletop claim near Beaumont, Texas, launching the Southwest oil boom.
1912 - World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
1920 - League of Nations came into being as the Treaty of Versailles went into effect. The United States did not join the League. [H]
1923 - Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
1925 - France-Saarland forms
1935 - Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks
1938 - Eduard van Beinum becomes 1st conductor of Amsterdam Concert orchestra
1943 - Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad
1946 - United Nations General Assembly meets for 1st time (London)
1946 - US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ
1947 - "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 725 performances
1949 - RCA introduces 45 RPM record
1951 - UN headquarters opens in Manhattan, NY
1957 - Harold Macmillan became prime minister of Britain, following the resignation of Anthony Eden.
1958 - Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1
1962 - Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages and kill 3,500
1964 - Battles between Muslims & Hindus in Calcutta
1966 - India & Pakistan sign peace accord
1966 - Julian Bond denied seat in Ga legislature for opposing Vietnam War
1967 - PBS begins as a 70 station network
1967 - Massachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke, the first black elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, took his seat.
1967 - Illiterate segregationist Lester Maddox inaugurated as governor of Georgia
1971 - "Masterpiece Theatre" premiered on PBS with host Alistair Cooke introducing a drama series, "The First Churchills."
1973 - Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
1978 - The Soviet Union launched two cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz capsule for a rendezvous with the Salyut 6 space laboratory.
1979 - 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks
1980 - Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC
1984 - Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?"
1984 - The United States established full diplomatic relations with the Vatican for the first time in 116 years.
1990 - China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
1990 - NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
1992 - President Bush returned home from his grueling 12-day journey to Australia, Singapore, South Korea and Japan, boasting of "dramatic progress" on trade issues.
1994 - Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins
1994 - NATO approved a plan for a limited expansion of the membership to Eastern European nations.
1995 - The Senate unanimously approved President Clinton's nomination of Robert Rubin as Secretary of the Treasury.
1996 - Rebels in the Russian republic of Chechnya holding 2,000 hostages released all but 130 and were allowed to flee. However, before they reached the border, Russian troops attacked the convoy, causing the rebels to hole up in a nearby town and beginning a five-day standoff.
1996 - Israel freed 812 Palestinians from jails.
1997 - Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits
1997 - Dallas police ended their investigation into Dallas Cowboys stars Erik Williams and Michael Irvin, saying a woman's claim that Williams had raped her while Irvin held a gun to her head was false.
2000 - America Online announced it had agreed to buy Time Warner for $165 billion, in what would be the biggest merger in history.
2001 - President-elect Bush and his national security team received a top-secret Pentagon briefing on military challenges around the world.
Birthdays Today
1738 - Ethan Allen (Revolutionary War hero, leader of The Green Mountain Boys) (furniture builder?)
1769 - Michel Ney, French marshal (Waterloo)
1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (naming plants & animals)
1843 - Outlaw Frank James born in Missouri [H]
1883 - Francis X. (Xavier) Bushman (actor)
1898 - Sergei M Eisenstein, Russian director (Alexandr Nevski) [OS]
1904 - Ray Bolger, Dorchester Mass, actor/dancer (Scarecrow-Wizard of Oz)
1917 - Jerry Wexler (record producer: Atlantic Records)
1921 - Rodger Ward (auto racer: Indianapolis 500 winner [1959 and 1962])
1925 - Max Roach (jazz drummer, composer: Freedom Now Suite; educator: taught at Lennox, MA School of Jazz and Yale; Professor of Music at University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
1927 - Gisele MacKenzie (LaFleche) (singer: Your Hit Parade, Hard to Get)
1927 - Johnnie Ray (singer: Cry, Please, Mr. Sun, The Little White Cloud That Cried, Walkin' My Baby Back Home, Just Walking in the Rain)
1928 - Donald Brooks (fashion designer)
1935 - Sherrill Milnes, Hinsdale Illinois, baritone (Scarpia, Rigoletto)
1938 - Frank Mahovlich (hockey)
1938 - Willie McCovey (baseball: San Francisco Giants 1st Baseman, National League Rookie of the Year [1959]; Baseball's Writer's National League MVP Award [1969])
1939 - Bill Toomey (U.S. Decathlon Olympic Gold Medalist [1968])
1939 - Sal Mineo (singer: Start Movin', Lasting Love; actor: The Gene Krupa Story)
1943 - Jim Croce (singer, songwriter: You Don't Mess Around with Jim, Time in a Bottle, Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, I've Got a Name; died in plane crash [1973])
1944 - Frank Sinatra Jr. (singer: It's All Right; bandleader)
1945 - Rod Stewart (singer, musician: Maggie May, Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?)
1945 - Ronny Light (songwriter)
1949 - George Foreman (boxer: oldest heavyweight champion at age 45 [11/5/94]; commercial pitchman)
1949 - Randy Manery (hockey)
1953 - Bobby Rahal (auto racer: Indianapolis 500 winner [1986])
1953 - Pat Benatar (Grammy award-winning singer: Crimes of Passion [1980], and Fire and Ice [1981], Hit Me with Your Best Shot)
1968 - Lyle Menendez, NY, accused of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers)
Famous deaths
1645 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71
1862 - Samuel Colt, inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47
1895 - Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer, dies at 45
1917 - Buffalo Bill Cody, army scout & Indian fighter, dies
1934 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, guillotined in Berlin at 24
1951 - [Harry] Sinclair Lewis, US writer (Nobel 1930), dies at 65
1971 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87
1978 - John D Rockefeller III, US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71
1980 - Former AFL-CIO president George Meany died in Washington, D.C., at age 85.
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