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Today in History ~ January 24
Chinese New Year
Events1568 - In Netherlands, Duke of Alba declares (future King) William of Orange an outlaw
1656 - 1st Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland
1679 - King Charles II disbands English parliament
1839 - Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society
1847 - 1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Col Price
1848 - James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, a discovery that led to the gold rush of '49.
1899 - Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
1908 - The Boy Scouts movement begins in England with the publication of the first installment of Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys. [H]
1916 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Sixteenth Amendment, paving the way for federal income tax.
1922 - Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo)
1924 - 1924, the Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad in honor of the late revolutionary leader (however, it has since been renamed St. Petersburg).
1927 - First Alfred Hitchcock film opens [H]
1935 - 1st canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Krueger Brewing Co in Richmond, Va.
1939 - 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion, Chile
1942 - A special court of inquiry into America's lack of preparedness for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor placed much of the blame on Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, the Navy and Army commanders.
1943 - President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.
1943 - Hitler orders Nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death
1950 - Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history
1958 - After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion
1962 - Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles
1962 - Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1972 - The Supreme Court struck down laws that denied welfare benefits to people who had resided in a state for less than a year.
1978 - A nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated, scattering radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada.
1984 - Apple Computer Inc unveils its Macintosh personal computer
1987 - Gunmen in Lebanon kidnapped educators Alann Steen, Jesse Turner and Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh (all were later released).
1986 - Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons
1989 - 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex
1990 - Soviet forces shelled merchant ships blockading the harbor in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku.
1991, Saudi jet fighters shot down the first enemy planes of the Persian Gulf War, while U.S. forces sank an Iraqi minesweeper and forced Iraqi troops off an island near Kuwait.
1992 - A judge in El Salvador sentenced an army colonel and a lieutenant to 30 years in prison for their part in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter.
1994 - A federal judge upheld a subpoena from the Senate Ethics Committee for the diaries of Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., who was facing allegations of sexual harassment and other possible misconduct.
1995 - New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman delivered the Republican response to President Clinton's State of the Union address, becoming the first governor and the first woman to give such a reply.
1995 - Opening statements began in the double-murder trial of O.J. Simpson in Los Angeles.
1997 - The White House released guest lists showing that in the year and a half before his re-election, President Clinton invited more than 400 of his party's top financial supporters to coffee klatches for informal chats about his policies.
1997 - Publix Super Markets, accused of relegating women to dead-end, low-paying jobs, agreed to pay $81.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit.
1999 - The International Olympic Committee voted to expel six IOC members in the wake of charges that committee members had accepted money and other compensation from officials whose cities were bidding to host the Olympic games.
1999 - Jordan’s King Hussein, who was seriously ill, named his son Abdullah as crown prince. Abdullah replaced his father’s younger brother as successor to the throne.
2000 - Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore were the winners in the Iowa presidential caucuses.
2001 - The last two of seven escaped convicts from Texas were captured in Colorado after 42 days on the run; four others were captured on Jan. 22, and one committed suicide.
Birthdays Today
0076 - Publius A Hadrianus, 14th Roman Emperor (117-138)
1712 - Frederick II, (the Great), king of Prussia (1740-86)
1732 - Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais, France, playwright (Marriage of Figaro, Barber of Seville), conduit for French gold and arms to American Revolution
1746 - Gustav III, king during Swedish Enlightenment (1771-92)
1800 - Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer
1862 - Edith Wharton (Jones) (Pulitzer Prize winning author: The Age of Innocence [1921])
1888 - Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, German inventor (1st rocket-powered aircraft)
1888 - Henry King, US, director (Jesse James, 12 O'Clock High)
1891 - Max Ernst, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor
1905 - Cy (Marvin) Wentworth (baseball)
1915 - Mark Goodson (TV game show producer: Pop the Question; Goodson-Todman Productions: What's My Line, I've Got a Secret, Family Feud, The Price is Right)
1916 - C. Gene Mako (tennis)
1917 - Ernest Borgnine (Academy Award-winning actor: Marty [1955], The Poseidon Adventure, The Dirty Dozen, McHale's Navy)
1918 - Oral Roberts, Televangelist/founder Oral Roberts University
1925 - Gus (James) Mortson (hockey)
1935 - Manuel Yczaza (jockey)
1936 - Doug Kershaw (musician: Cajun fiddle, songwriter, singer: Louisiana Man, Diggy Liggy Lo)
1936 - Jack Scott (Scafone) (singer: My True Love, Goodbye Baby, What In the World's Come Over You, Burning Bridges)
1937 - Bobby Scott (singer, pianist: Chain Gang; songwriter: A Taste of Honey)
1937 - Monty Clark (football)
1941 - Neil Diamond, Brooklyn NY, singer/actor (Jazz Singer)
1941 - Ray Stevens (Ragsdale) (singer, entertainer: Everything Is Beautiful, Mr. Businessman; #1 novelty recording artist: Ahab, the Arab, Gitarzan, The Streak)
1944 - Bobby Lee Bryant (football: Minnesota Vikings corner back, Super Bowls VIII, XI)
1944 - Julie Gregg (actress: From Hell to Borneo, The Seekers)
1945 - Elaine Giftos (actress: The Student Nurses, The Wrestler, Angel)
1947 - Warren Zevon (singer: Werewolves of London)
1948 - Elliott Abrams, asst secretary of state/supplied arms to the Contras
1949 - Guy Charron (hockey)
1949 - John Belushi (comedian: Second City improvisational troupe, original cast: Saturday Night Live; actor: 1942, The Blues Brothers)
1968 - Mary Lou Retton - (Olympic Gold Medalist: 1st American woman to win an individual medal in gymnastics [1984]) (Oly-gold/2 silver/2 bronze-84)
Famous deaths
0041 - Gaius Caligula Germanicus, self-indulgent Roman emperor (37-41), assassinated at 28
0661 - Ali ibn Abu Talib, kalief of Islam (656-61), murdered
1953 - [Karl R] Gerd von Rundstedt, gen-field marshal (Normandy), dies at 77
1965 - Winston Churchill, PM of Britain (C) (1940-45, 51-55), dies at 90 [H]
1986 - L[aFayette] Ron[ald] Hubbard, science fiction author (Dyanetics), dies at 74
1988 - Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C), dies at 91
1989 - Ted (Theodore) Bundy, serial killer of up to one hundred women, executed in Florida's electric chair at 42
1992 - The state of Arkansas executed convicted cop-killer Rickey Ray Rector after Gov. Bill Clinton refused to intervene.
1993 - Thurgood Marshall, 1st black supreme court justice (1967-91), dies 84
1993 - Thomas A. Dorsey, known as the father of gospel music for adding rhythm to church hymns, died at age 93.
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