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Today in History ~ January 22
Events1510 - Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany
1517 - Turks conquer Cairo
1528 - England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V of Spain
1575 - English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis & William Byrd music press monopoly
1771 - Spain ceded the Falkland Islands to Britain.
1775 - Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland
1813 - Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada
1837 - Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
1840 - New Zealand settled by British
1850 - Alta California becomes a daily paper 1st such in Calif
1859 - Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover
1862 - Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20
1863 - Union Gen Burnside's "Mud March"
1881 - Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park
1890 - Jose Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in NYC
1895 - "National Association of Manufacturers" was Founded.
1901 - After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series & begins King Edward VII series
1905 - Thousands of demonstrating Russian workers were fired on by Imperial army troops in St. Petersburg on what became known as "Red Sunday" or "Bloody Sunday."
1917 - President Woodrow Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory." (By April, however, America also was at war.)
1932 - British Anglicans & Old-Catholic church merge
1938 - "Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, NH, premieres (NJ)
1939 - Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University
1941 - 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania
1941 - British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians
1942 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
1943 - American and Australian troops took New Guinea in the first land victory over the Japanese in World War II.
1944 - During World War II, Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy, in a move to outflank German defensive positions.
1945 - Burma highway reopens
1945 - Heavy US air raid on Okinawa
1946 - President Truman sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
1947 - 1st coml TV station west of Mississippi opens Hollywood Ca
1949 - Chinatown telephone exchange closed
1951 - Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter
1953 - The Arthur Miller drama "The Crucible" opened on Broadway.
1957 - Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested
1959 - USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects
1960 - Coal mine of Johnburg caves in, 417 die
1961 - A Portuguese ocean liner, the Santa Maria, was hijacked in the Caribbean with some 600 passengers aboard; the drama ended 11 days later when the ship docked in Brazil.
1964 - World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin
1968 - "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC [H]
1968 - Apollo 5 launched to moon Unmanned lunar module tests made
1970 - The first regularly scheduled commercial flight of the Boeing 747 began in New York and ended in London some six and a half hours later.
1972 - Britain, Denmark, Ireland and Norway joined the European Economic Community.
1973 - The Supreme Court handed down its Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion using a trimester approach.
1975 - Lansat 2 an Earth Resources Technology Satellite is launched
1976 - Bank robbery in Beirut nets $20-50 million (world record)
1980 - Dissidents Andrei Sacharov & Jelena Bonner banished [H]
1981 - 40th Islander shut-out opponent - 3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th
1985 - A cold wave damaged 90 percent of the Florida citrus crop.
1987 - Glen Tremml, 27, pedaled the ultralight aircraft Eagle over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., for a human-powered flight record of 37.2 miles.
1991 - During the Gulf War, Iraq fired six Scud missiles into Saudi Arabia; all were either intercepted, or fell into unpopulated areas. However, in Tel Aviv, Israel, a Scud eluded the Patriot missile defense system and struck the city, resulting in three deaths.
1992 - Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
1993 - Zoe Baird withdrew her nomination for attorney general after it was revealed that she had hired an illegal immigrant couple.
1995 - Two Palestinians killed 18 Israeli soldiers, a civilian and themselves in a bombing outside a military camp in central Israel.
1996 - Costas Simitis was chosen to be the new prime minister of Greece. His predecessor, Andreas Papandreou, had stepped down due to ill health.
1996 - O.J. Simpson testified for the first time since the killings of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend, Ronald Goldman, as he gave a videotaped deposition for a wrongful death lawsuit.
1996 - The White House announced that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had been subpoenaed by the Whitewater special prosecutor to testify before a grand jury investigating the mysterious discovery of her law firm billing records in the White House residence.
1997 - The Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the nation's first female secretary of state.
1998 - Accused UNAbomber Ted Kaczynski pleaded guilty to all counts against him in California and New Jersey. He was sentenced to life in prison on May 4.
1999 - Pope John Paul II arrived in Mexico City on a visit to Mexico and the United States.
2000 - Elian Gonzalez's grandmothers met privately with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno as they appealed for help in removing the boy from his Florida relatives and reuniting him with his father in Cuba.
2001 - On the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, President Bush signed a memorandum reinstating full abortion restrictions on U.S. overseas aid.
2001 - Four of the seven convicts who had broken out of a Texas prison the previous month were captured southwest of Denver; a fifth inmate killed himself. The last two would be captured on Jan. 24
Birthdays Today
1440 - Ivan III , (known later as Russian Czar Ivan the Great) grand prince of Russia
1561 - Francis Bacon (philosopher, writer: The Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum)
1729 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German critic and dramatist
1775 - French physicist Andre Ampere
1788 - George Gordon, Lord Byron and English Romantic poet
1802 - Richard Upjohn, American Gothic architect (Trinity Chapel NY)
1849 - August Strindberg, Swedish dramatist and novelist
1875 - D.W. Griffith, movie producer (Birth of a Nation)
1890 - Frederick Vinson (13th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; Congressman, WWII Director of War Mobilization; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury [1945])
1909 - U Thant (statesman from Burma: United Nations Secretary-General [1961-1971])
1911 - Ann Sothern (Harriette Lake) (actress: Lady Be Good, Panama Hattie, The Whales of August, The Ann Sothern Show, voice of my mother the car )
1920 - William Warfield, singer (Show Boat)
1924 - J.J. (James) Johnson (musician: trombone, composer, bandleader; one of first to use the trombone in modern jazz)
1928 - Birch Bayh, (D) former US senator from Indiana
1931 - Galina Zybina (Russian Olympic Gold Medalist: women's shot-put [1952])
1932 - Piper Laurie (Rosetta Jacobs) (actress: Days of Wine and Roses, Carrie, The Hustler, The Thorn Birds, Twin Peaks)
1934 - Bill Bixby (actor: My Favorite Martian, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, The Incredible Hulk, Fantasy Island, Rich Man Poor Man)
1935 - Sam Cooke (singer: You Send Me, Chain Gang, Wonderful World, A Change is Gonna Come)
1937 - Joseph Wambaugh, police writer (The Onionfields)
1939 - J.C. (Jean Claude) Tremblay (hockey)
1945 - Michael Cristofer (playwright: The Witches of Eastwick, The Bonfire of the Vanities)
1948 - Bob Stein (football: Kansas City Chiefs, linebacker: Super Bowl IV)
1948 - George Foreman (boxer: became the oldest heavyweight boxing champion: on November 5, 1994: age 45)
1949 - Mike Caldwell (baseball)
1950 - Bryant Salter (football)
1953 - Steve Perry (musician: drums: group: Radio Stars; Journey: Oh Sherrie, Don't Fight It [w/Kenny Loggins])
1959 - Linda Blair (actress, vomits on cue: The Exorcist, Airport '75, A Woman Obsessed, Bail Out)
1967 - Actress Olivia D'Abo
1975 - Actor Balthazar Getty
Famous deaths
1531 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter, dies at 44
1552 - Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, beheaded for treason
1798 - Lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at 71
1901 - Britain's Queen Victoria died at age 82. [H]
1922 - Pope Benedict XV died; he was succeeded by Pius XI.
1969 - Judy Garland, singer/actress (Wizard of Oz), dies at 48 of an overdose
1973 - Lyndon B Johnson, president (1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64
1979 - Ali Hassan Salameh, [Abu Hassan], killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes
1987 - R Budd Dwyer, Penns State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy & perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference
1994 - Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor (La Ronde), dies at 83
1994 - Telly Savalas, actor (Kojak), dies of prostate cancer at 70
1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy died at the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 104.
1997 - Irwin Levine, composer (Tie a Yellow Ribbon), dies at 58
2000 - Food writer Craig Claiborne died at a New York hospital at age 79.
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