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Today in History ~ January 18
Events0532 - Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die
1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV
1535 - Francisco Pizarro founds Lima Peru
1644 - 1st reported UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston
1671 - Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panama
1733 - 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)
1777 - San Jose California, founded
1778 - Captain James Cook (English navigator) stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands).
1788 - English settlers arrive in Australia's Botany Bay to setup penal colony [H]
1817 - San Martin leads a revolutionary army over Andes
1840 - "Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer", 1st US electrical journal, appears
1862 - Confederate Territory of Arizona forms
1865 - Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC
1871 - 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Otto von Bismarck, William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor.
1884 - General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon departs London for Khartoum
1912 - English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before [H]
1915 - Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die
1929 - "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
1929 - Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
1919 - WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France
1933 - White Sands National Monument, NM established
1943 - Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin uprising against Nazis
1943 - Soviets announce they broke long Nazi siege of Leningrad
1943 - US rations bread & metal
1945 - Warsaw freed by Soviet army
1947 - "Red Mill" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 831 performances
1962 - US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas (using "Agent Orange" from Dow Chemical, and other defoliants)
1964 - Plans for World Trade Center announced (NYC)
1964 - Beatles 1st appear on Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35)
1966 - 1st African-American to hold a post in the presidential cabinet, Robert Clifton Weaver is sworn in as head of the newly created Department of Housing and Urban Development
1967 - Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the "Boston Strangler," was convicted in Cambridge, Mass., of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses. (Sentenced to life, DeSalvo was killed by a fellow inmate in 1973.)
1968 - the United States and Soviet Union agreed on a draft of a nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
1968 - Hester & Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing," premieres in NYC
1969 - Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris
1974 - "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
1974 - Israel & Egypt sign weapons accord
1975 - "Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
1980 - Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion & fined $20,000
1981 - Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets
1981 - Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity
1983 - IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball
1989 - Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
1990 - Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry was arrested in an FBI sting at a downtown hotel and charged with buying and smoking crack cocaine.
1990 - A Los Angeles jury in the nation's longest criminal trial acquitted Raymond Buckey, 31, and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, 63, on 52 charges of molestation of students at the McMartin Pre-School. A mistrial was declared on the 13 other counts. All charges were dropped against Mrs. Buckey. Her son was retried later in the year, with the trial ending in a hung jury July 27. All remaining charges were dropped Aug. 1.
1991 - US acknowledges CIA & US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career
1991 - Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel again. Israel refrains from responding at the request of President Bush.
1993 - Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time.
1993 - Seven people were killed and nearly 70 more injured when two commuter trains collided on a bridge in Gary, Ind.
1994 - Iran-Contra independent counsel Lawrence Walsh issued his final report on the scandal. He blasted former President Bush for his Christmas Eve 1992 pardons of six Iran-Contra defendants.
1994 - Adm. Bobby Ray Inman withdrew his nomination as defense secretary, asserting the news media and the Republicans were out to destroy his reputation.
1995 - Officials in Paris announced the discovery of a magnificent display of Paleolithic cave art in southern France.
1996 - Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of "The King" Elvis Presley, filed for divorce from the self-proclaimed "Prince of Pop" Michael Jackson after 20 months of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.
1997 - Franz Vranitzky announced he was resigning as chancellor of Austria.
1997 - Norwegian Borge Ousland completed a 1,675-mile trek across Antarctica, the first time anyone transversed the continent alone.
2001 - Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson admitted he had fathered a daughter born out of wedlock in 1999 to an employee of his Rainbow/PUSH coalition.
Birthdays Today
1689 - Charles de Montesquieu, France, philosopher/writer (Letters Persanes)
1779 - Peter Roget (lexicographer: the man behind the Thesaurus; inventor: log-log slide rule)
1782 - Daniel Webster (statesman: "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."; subject of Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster)
1813 - Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire)
1835 - Cesar A Cui, Vilna Lithuania, fort architect/composer
1841 - Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier, France, composer (Le Roi Malgr^Â Louise)
1854 - Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone)
1856 - Daniel Nathan Hale Williams, surgeon (1st open heart operation)
1882 - A.A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (author: Winnie the Pooh)
1892 - Oliver Hardy (comedian: vaudeville team with Stan Laurel: uncountable number of Laurel and Hardy feature films, most from the early 1930s)
1903 - Berthold Goldschmidt, German/British (opera)composer (Beatrice Cenci)
1904 - Cary Grant (Archibald Leach) (actor: Hollywood heartthrob for 30+ years: She Done Him Wrong, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, Arsenic and Old Lace, To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest; never said, "Judy, Judy, Judy")
1904 - Henri-Georges Adam, French etcher/painter/sculptor (Grand Nude)
1908 - Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian
1910 - Lillian Bond (actress)
1913 - Danny Kaye (David Kominski) (comedian, dancer, singer, actor: Up In Arms, Hans Christian Anderson, White Christmas, The Danny Kaye Show; UNICEF ambassador; broadcaster: partner in Kaye/Smith Broadcasting: KJR AM/FM, Seattle, KJRB, Spokane)
1932 - Joe Schmidt (Pro Football Hall of Famer: linebacker: Detroit Lions All-Pro [1954-1959, 61, 62]; Detroit Lions coach [1967-1972])
1932 - Robert Anton Wilson, US, sci-fi author (Trick Top Hat)
1933 - Ray Dolby, sound expert/inventor (Dolby noise limiting system)
1938 - Curt Flood (baseball: outfielder: St. Louis Cardinals: opposed reserve clause that force him to play for Philadelphia, lost that fight against "baseball player slavery")
1941 - Bobby Goldsboro (singer: Honey, See the Funny Little Clown, Summer: The First Time, Watching Scotty Grow)
1944 - Carl Morton (baseball: Montreal Expos pitcher: National League Rookie of the Year [1970])
1944 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) (boxing: held the heavy-weight title three times; activist)
1945 - Jimmy Caruthers (auto racer)
1946 - Katia Ricclarelli, opera soprano (Met Opera) (Falstaff, Otello, urandot)
1950 - Bud Stallworth (basketball)
1950 - Council Rudolph (football)
1950 - John Hughes, director (Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science)
1950 - Pat Sullivan (football: Atlanta Falcons QB; Auburn: Heisman Trophy winner [1971])
1950 - Pete Laframboise (hockey)
1953 - Brett Hudson (singer, comedian: Hudson Brothers)
1955 - Kevin Costner (actor: Field of Dreams, JFK, The Bodyguard, The Untouchables, Waterworld; Academy Award-winning director: Dances with Wolves [1990]; builder of controversial entertainment complex on sacred Lakota Indian land in Black Hills of South Dakota)
Famous deaths
1580 - Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of John), dies at 63
1659 - Benedikt Lechler, composer, dies at 64
1862 - John Tyler, 10th US pres (1841-45), dies in Richmond Va at 71 [H]
1936 - Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies at 70
1996 - Minnesota Fats, [Rudolf Wanderone Jr], billiard hustler, dies at 82
1980 - Cecil Beaton, British photographer, dies at 76
1997 - Paul Tsongas, (Sen-D-Mass), dies at 55
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