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Today in History ~ January 21
Events1664 - Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army
1793 - Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)
1793 - During the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine. [H]
1846 - 1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"
1861 - Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & four other Southerner senators resigned from the U.S. Senate.
1880 - 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis
1903 - Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam
1903 - International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle NYC
1908 - NYC regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
1910 - British-Russian military intervention in Persia
1913 - Aristide Briand forms French government
1915 - Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
1941 - Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya
1941 - British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
1942 - Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
1942 - Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
1944 - 447 German bombers attack London
1944 - 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg
1950 - NY jury finds former State Dept official Alger Hiss, accused of being part of a Communist spy ring, guilty of perjury. (Hiss, who always maintained his innocence, served less than four years in prison.)
1954 - The first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched at Groton, Conn.
1970 - Boeing 747's 1st transatlantic flight (NY-London)
1976 - Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France [H]
1977 - Pres Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders, and ordered a case-by-case study of deserters.
1978 - Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks
1979 - Neptune becomes outermost planet; Pluto moves closer (due to their highly elliptical orbits)
1985 - -19F (-28C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record)
1985 - -34F (-37C), Mt Mitchell, North Carolina (state record)
1986 - 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38F (3C), Indiana
1987 - BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to U of Mississippi
1990 - Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry said he would seek help but did not publicly concede he had used illegal drugs. He left the next day for a treatment program in Florida.
1991 - Iraq announced that it would use hostages as human shields against allied warplanes.
1992 - The Supreme Court agreed to review a Pennsylvania law imposing waiting periods and other restrictions on abortions. (The court later upheld most of the restrictions while reaffirming women's constitutional right to abortion.)
1993 - It was announced that Hillary Clinton would work out of a White House office near the Oval Office, an unprecedented move in first lady history.
1994 - Lorena Bobbitt was found innocent by reason of insanity in the June 1993 attack on her husband, John. She had cut off his penis while he slept. The organ was surgically reattached.
1994 - Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20)
1997 - Speaker Newt Gingrich was reprimanded and fined for violating House rules and misleading congressional investigators looking into his possible misuse of tax-exempt donations for political purposes as the The full House voted 395-28 for the first time in history to discipline its leader for ethical misconduct.
1997 - In the face of continuing reports of legally dubious fund-raising practices, the Democratic National Committee announced it would no longer take donations from foreign nationals or from U.S. subsidiaries of foreign companies and would limit contributions from labor unions and wealthy benefactors.
1998 - Allegations of President Clinton's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky first became public when newspapers reported the story. President Clinton angrily denied reports he'd had an affair with Ms Lewinsky and had tried to get her to lie about it.
1998 - Pope John Paul II arrived in Havana for his first-ever visit to Cuba.
1999 - The brother of former Mexican Pres. Carlos Salinas de Gortari was convicted of masterminding the 1994 shooting death of a ruling party official.
2000 - A military junta seized power in Ecuador. The next day, following expressions of international concern, the junta leaders turned the government over to the country’s vice president.
2001 - Pope John Paul II elevated archbishops of New York and Washington and 35 other church leaders to the College of Cardinals.
2001 - The Roman epic "Gladiator" claimed best dramatic movie and the 1970's rock-and-roll story "Almost Famous" won best comedy at the Golden Globes Awards.
Birthdays Today
1337 - Charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80)
1743 - John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)
1813 - Explorer and historian John Fremont
1815 - Horace Wells, dentist (pioneered use of medical anesthesia)
1824 - Stonewall (Thomas Jonathan) Jackson (Confederate Lt. General 2nd Corps: one of the Civil War's most famous military officers)
1855 - John M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer [H]
1884 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union
1897 - J. (Joseph) Carrol Naish (actor: 50's radio/TV series: Life with Luigi; plus over forty films)
1905 - Christian Dior, Normandy France, fashion designer (long-skirted look)
1917 - Billy Maxted (bandleader)
1919 - Jinx (Eugenia) Falkenberg (entertainer)(Nice name, Jinx...)
1921 - Barney Clark, 1st to receive a permanent artificial heart
1922 - Paul Scofield (Academy award-winning actor: A Man for All Seasons [1966]; Scorpio, Anna Karenina, King Lear, Henry V, Hamlet)
1924 - Benny Hill, Southampton England, comedian (Benny Hill Show)
1926 - Steve Reeves (Mr. Universe; actor: Hercules, Hercules Unchained, Goliath and the Barbarians, The Last Days of Pompeii)
1927 - Telly (Aristotle) Savalas (Emmy Award-winning actor: Kojak [1973-'74]; The Dirty Dozen, Birdman of Alcatraz, Battle of the Bulge, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Kelly's Heroes)
1930 - Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1932 - Boris Shakhlin, Russia, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1956-60-64)
1933 - Itzhak Fuks, Israeli El Al captain, crashed in Amsterdam
1934 - Audrey Dalton (actress: Casanova's Big Night, The Prodigal, Titanic)
1939 - Wolfman Jack, [Bob Smith], Bkln NY, DJ (Midnight Special)
1940 - Jack Nicklaus (golfer: holds the record for winning the most majors, 18 professional titles: 4 US Opens, 3 British Opens, 5 PGA and 6 Masters Championships: one of only 2 players to win back-to-back Masters)
1941 - Edwin Starr, [Charles Hatcher], US singer (War)
1941 - Placido Domingo (singer: opera tenor: Perhaps Love; sings My Way as well as Frank Sinatra and Frank agrees...)
1941 - Richie Havens, Bkln, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun)
1942 - Mac (Scott) Davis (singer: Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me; Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife; actor: North Dallas Forty; host: The Mac Davis Show; songwriter: In the Ghetto, Memories; ACM Entertainer of the Year [1975])
1945 - Andrew Stein, pres of NYC council (D)
1947 - Jill Eikenberry (actress: L.A. Law, Arthur, The Manhattan Project)
1950 - Billy Ocean (Grammy Award-winning R&B Male Vocal: Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) [1984]; Love Really Hurts Without You, There'll Be Sad Songs)
1952 - Billy 'White Shoes' Johnson (football: Houston Oilers WR)
1956 - Robby Benson (Robert Segal) (actor: Search for Tomorrow, Ode to Billy Joe, National Lampoon Goes to the Movies, The Chosen)
1957 - Geena Davis (Academy Award-winning supporting actress: The Accidental Tourist [1988]; Beetlejuice, Fletch, The Fly, Tootsie, Thelma and Louise, Buffalo Bill)
Famous deaths
1793 - Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38 [H]
1924 - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 53
1950 - George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46
1959 - Cecil B[lount] de Mille, producer (10 Commandments), dies at 77
1992 - William T "Champion Jack" Dupree, US boxer/pianist, dies at 81
1997 - Colonel Tom Parker, manager (Elvis Presley), dies at 87
2001 - Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist convicted three decades after the fact for assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Evers, died in Jackson, Miss., at age 80. [H]
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