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Today in History ~ January 19
Events1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling
1770 - Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
1793 - French King Louis XVI sentenced to death
1806 - Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope
1825 - Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans
1829 - Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres
1839 - Aden conquered by East India Company
1840 - Wilkes claims portion of Antarctica for U.S. [H]
1847 - Mexican rebels kill the American-born New Mexican governor Charles Bent
1853 - Giuseppi Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," premieres in Rome
1853 - Napoleon III marries Eugenie de Montijo
1861 - Georgia becomes 5th state to secede from US
1884 - Jules Massenet's opera "Manon," premieres in Paris
1903 - 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England
1903 - King Edward VII and President Theodore Roosevelt exchanged greetings in first transatlantic radio broadcast
1903 - New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced
1915 - During World War I, Britain suffers its first air raid when two German zeppelins drop bombs on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn on the eastern coast of England.
1915 - Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude
1917 - Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes; 300 die
1920 - US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations
1921 - Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union
1927 - British government decides to send troops to China
1929 - Acadia National Park, Maine established
1937 - Millionaire Howard Hughes sets transcontinental flight record (7h28m25s)
1938 - GM began mass production of diesel engines
1939 - Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 sec
1940 - The Three Stooges' You Natzy Spy premieres
1942 - Japanese forces invade Burma
1950 - Communist China recognizes North Vietnam
1955 - "Scrabble" debuts on board game market
1955 - Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the first president to hold news conferences to be filmed by TV and newsreels.
1955 - Millionaire TV program premiers
1961 - 1st episode for "Dick Van Dyke Show" is filmed
1966 - Indira Gandhi, daughter of the late Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, became India's 3rd prime minister. [H]
1966 - Neil Simon's, Coleman's & Fields' musical "Sweet Charity," premieres
1971 - "No, No Nanette" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 861 performances
1971 - Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is played at Charles Manson trial
1977 - Pres Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose)
1979 - John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison
1981 - US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages
1983 - Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Gestapo chief of Lyons know as the Butcher of Lyons is arrested in Bolivia [H]
1985 - "Born In The USA" by Bruce Springsteen peaks at #9
1989 - Pres Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon
1992 - "City of Angels" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 878 performances
1992 - IBM announces a nearly $5B loss for 1992
1993 - Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal
1994 - Jeff Gillooly, the former husband of ice skating vixen Tonya Harding, was arrested and charged with conspiracy in the attack two weeks earlier on skater Nancy Kerrigan.
1999 - Gary Dellapenta becomes the first person Charged in California for CyberstalkingPresidential inaugurals are always quite a show:
1957 - Pat Boone sang at President Eisenhower's inaugural ball.
1977 - Jimmy Carter's presidential inaugural festivities included a concert featuring Aretha Franklin, Linda Ronstadt and Loretta Lynn. John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul Simon and Gregg Allman were in the audience.
1981 - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Charlie Pride joined Donny and Marie Osmond among the entertainers at Ronald Reagan's inauguration.
1993 - A rare public concert by Barbra Streisand and a reunion by Fleetwood Mac highlighted a Bill Clinton pre-inaugural bash in suburban Washington, D.C.
Birthdays Today
1095 - St Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester--ended sale of slaves at Bristol
1736 - James Watt (inventor: condensing steam engine; the watt, a unit of power, was named after him)
1749 - Isaiah Thomas, American printer and editor and publisher and historian
1798 - Auguste Comte, philosopher and founder of sociology & Positivism
1807 - Robert E. (Edward) Lee (Civil War: Confederate General surrendered to the North's General Ulysses S. Grant)
1809 - Edgar Allan Poe (poet: The Raven; author of suspense tales: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall of the House of Usher)
1813 - Sir Henry Bessemer (inventor: the Bessemer process of converting pig iron to steel)
1839 - Paul Cezanne, France, impressionist painter (Bathers)
1859 - Alice Eastwood,
1904 - James Winston Watts, surgical developer (Frontal Lobotomy)
1906 - Lanny Ross, singer
1908 - Ish Kabibble (Merwyn Bogue) (comic singer: Three Little Fishies; sang and played trumpet with Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge; big bandleader; combo: The Shy Guys)
1914 - Lester Flatt, country musician (Flatt & Scruggs)
1917 - John Raitt, Bonnie Raitt's father/singer/actor (Pajama Game, Carousel)
1922 - Guy Madison (actor: Zorro, Drums in the Deep South, Special Forces, Hell Commandos, Till the End of Time)
1923 - Jean Stapleton (Murray) (Emmy Award-winning actress- Comedy Series: All in the Family [1970-71, 1971-72, 1977-78]; Bells are Ringing, Cinderella, Damn Yankees, Klute)
1926 - Fritz Weaver (actor: Holocaust, Marathon Man, Black Sunday, Day of the Dolphin and Demon Seed)
1931 - Tippi (Natalie) Hedren (actress: The Birds, Deadly Spygames, Harrad Experiment, Pacific Heights)
1932 - Joe Schmidt, NFL linebacker (Detroit)
1939 - Phil Everly (singer: The Everly Brothers with brother, Don: Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie, All I Have to Do is Dream, Bird Dog, Cathy's Clown; solo: When Will I Be Loved; radio host: In Session)
1940 - Mary Mills (golfer: U.S. Open Champion [1963]; LPGA Champion [1964, 1973]
1943 - Janis Joplin (singer: with Big Brother and The Holding Company: Piece of My Heart, How Hard It Is; formed Kozmic Blues Band, then Full Tilt Boogie Band: Pearl, Me and Bobby McGee)
1944 - Richard [Erskine Frere] Leakey, Nairobi Kenya, anthropologist
1944 - Shelley Fabares (singer: Johnny Angel, Johnny Loves Me; Nanette Fabray's niece)
1946 - Dolly Rebecca Parton, Sevierville Tennessee, (songwriter, singer: ACM Entertainer of the Year [1977], CMA Entertainer of the year [1978]: Jolene, Coat of Many Colors, Here You Come Again, 9-to-5, You're the Only One, Islands in the Stream with Kenny Rogers; Grand Ol' Opry member; actress: 9-to-5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias; owns Dollywood amusement park in Tennessee)
1947 - Ann Compton (newscaster: ABC News, CNN)
1948 - Terry Hanratty (football: Pittsburgh Steelers QB: Super Bowl IX, X)
1949 - Robert Palmer (singer, guitarist: Sneakin' Sally through the Alley, Hey Julia, Addicted to Love, Every Kinda People, I Didn't Mean to Turn You On, It Could Happen To You)
1950 - Jon Matlack (baseball: New York Mets pitcher: National League Rookie of the Year [1972])
1951 - Linda Hayden,
1951 - Ron Behagen (basketball)
1953 - Desi Arnaz, Jr. (entertainer, singer: group: Dino, Desi and Billy: Through Spray Colored Glasses;
1953 - Larry Goodenough (hockey)
1955 - Sir Simon Rattle, England, orchestra conductor (Berlin Philharmonic)
Famous deaths
1547 - Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29
1576 - Hans Sachs, cobbler/poet/composer, inspiration for Wagner's "Die Meistersinger", at 81
1629 - Abbas I, Shah of Persia (1588-1629), dies at 57
1729 - William Congreve, English dramatist (Love for Love), dies at 58
1747 - Johann Bode founder of "Bode's Law " dies
1833 - Louis-J-Ferdinand Herold, French composer (Zampa), dies at 41
1975 - Thomas Hart Benson, US artist, dies at 85
1980 - Richard Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 69
1980 - William O Douglas, member US Supreme court (1939-75), dies at 81
1990 - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian guru, dies at 58
1997 - James Dickey, poet/novelist, dies at 84
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