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Today in History ~ January 13
Events1099 - Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria
1559 - Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey
1733 - James Oglethorpe & 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC
1830 - Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves
1842 - First British-Afghan War, British troops retreating from Kabul are ambushed and nearly all slaughtered at the Khyber Pass.
1863 - Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet
1874 - Battle between jobless & police in NYC, 100s injured
1883 - Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430
1888 - National Geographic Society founded (Washington, DC)
1898 - French novelist Emile Zola publishes J'Accuse, an open letter to French President Felix Faure that accuses the French judiciary of giving into pressure from the military to perpetuate a cover-up in the Dreyfus treason case. [H]
1912 - -40F (-40C), Oakland, Maryland (state record)
1915 - Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 29,800
1920 - NY Times editorial (falsely) reports that rockets can never fly
1957 - Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee
1958 - 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban
1967 - Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1968 - Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam
1982 - Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into 14th St Bridge in Washington, DC, & falls into Potomac River, killing 78
1985 - Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428
1989 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence
1992 - US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane in fifteen of the seventeen murders he confessed to committing
1994 - Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan
Birthdays Today
1628 - Charles Perrault, France, lawyer/writer (Mother Goose)
1834 - Horatio Alger (Unitarian minister, author of rags to riches tales: Ragged Dick, Luck and Pluck, Tattered Tom, etc.)
1864 - Wilhelm K W Wien, German physicist (Nobel 1911)
1884 - Sophie Tucker (Abuza) (singer, vaudeville: 'Last of the Red Hot Mamas'; "I've been poor, I've been rich. Believe me, rich is better.")
1885 - Alfred Fuller (company founder: The Fuller Brush man!)
1908 - Earle Wheeler (WWII U.S. Army General, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff [1964-70]; namesake for Hawaii's Wheeler Army Air Force Base)
1909 - Butter (Quentin) Jackson (musician: trombone: played with Duke Ellington)
1909 - Danny Berker (guitarist)
1913 - Jeff Morrow (actor: The Robe; The Creature Walks Among Us, The Giant Claw; The Story of Ruth, Octaman)
1913 - Ralph Edwards, Merino Colo, TV host (This is Your Life)
1913 - Wayne Millner (football)
1919 - Army (Armand) Archerd (show biz columnist, author)
1919 - Robert Stack (Modini) (Emmy Award-winning actor: The Untouchables [1959-60]; Written on the Wind, Strike Force, Airplane, Unsolved Mysteries)
1926 - Gwen Verdon (dancer; Tony Award-winning Actress: Damn Yankees [1956], Can-Can [1954], High Button Shoes; film: Damn Yankees, Cocoon)
1930 - Liz Anderson (country singer, songwriter: Pick of the Week, [My Friends are Gonna Be] Strangers, Ride, Ride, Ride; mother of country-pop singer, Lynn Anderson)
1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly (comedian, actor: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Cannonball Run; game show panelist: Match Game P.M.)
1933 - Tom Gola (basketball: NCAA Division I Men's Record: Career Rebounds: 2,201 for La Salle [1952-55])
1934 - Rip Taylor, comedian (Gong Show, $1.98 Beauty Show)
1938 - Billy Gray (actor: On Moonlight Bay, Two for the Seesaw)
1939 - Cesare Manigo (hockey)
1941 - Sharon Miller (golfer)
1947 - Bill Stanfill (football)
1948 - T Bone Burnett, rocker
1950 - Bob Forsch (baseball: pitcher: St. Louis Cardinals)
1950 - Mike Tyson (baseball)
1950 - Sharon Gabet (actress)
1952 - Cornelius Bumpus, keyboardist (Doobie Bros-Minute by Minute)
1966 - Tabitha Stevens, fictional character (Bewitched)
Famous deaths
1691 - George Fox, founder of Quakers, dies at 66
1929 - Wyatt Earp, US marshal (OK Corral), dies at 80 [H]
1939 - Jacob Ruppert, CEO (NY Yankees, 1915-39), dies
1941 - James Joyce (IRE), novelist (Ulysses), dies in Zurich Switzerland, at 58. His first work, Dubliners, was composed, in his words, 'in a style of scrupulous meanness.' [H]
1962 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42
1978 - Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn, VP), dies at 66 in Waverly, Minn
1978 - Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager (NY Yankees), dies at 96
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