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Today in History ~ January 28
Events1077 - Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV
1495 - Pope Alexander VI gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France
1547 - England's King Henry VIII died; he was succeeded by his 9-year-old son, Edward VI.
1561 - By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended
1613 - Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
1782 - Congress authorized creation of the Great Seal of the United States.
1807 - London's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight
1830 - Daniel Auber's opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris
1851 - Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered
1858 - John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry
1871 - Paris surrenders to Prussians
1878 - 1st telephone exchange (New Haven, CT)
1878 - Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
1878 - The first commercial telephone switchboard began operation in New Haven, Connecticut
1902 - Carnegie Institute founded in Wash DC
1909 - The United States ended direct control over Cuba.
1914 - Beverly Hills, Ca, is incorporated
1915 - 1st US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)
1915 - US Coast Guard created by an act of Congress.
1915 - Pres Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates
1916 - 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis D. Brandeis was appointed by President Wilson to the Supreme Court, becoming its first Jewish member.
1917 - US forces are recalled from Mexico after nearly eleven months of fruitless searching for Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. [H]
1918 - Leon Trotsky becomes leader of Russian Communists
1922 - American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League"
1923 - 1st "National Socialist German Workers Party" (NSDAP, aka NAZI) forms in Munich
1932 - Japan occupies Shanghai
1934 - 1st US ski tow (rope) begins operation (Woodstock, Vermont)
1944 - 683 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 - Leonard Bernstein's "Jeremiah," premieres in Pittsburgh
1945 - During World War II, Allied supplies began reaching China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
1949 - NY Giants sign their 1st black players, Monte Irvin & Ford Smith
1953 - J Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins NBC's "Today Show"
1958 - Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in an automobile wreck
1973 - "Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV
1974 - Israel lifted its siege of Suez City and turned over 300,000 square miles of Egyptian territory to the United Nations, ending the occupation that had begun during the October 1973 war.
1978 - Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife
1979 - "The Wiz" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1672 performances
1980 - Six U.S. diplomats who had avoided being taken hostage at their embassy in Tehran flew out of Iran with the help of Canadian diplomats.
1981 - William J Casey becomes 13th director of CIA
1982 - Italian anti-terrorism forces rescued U.S. Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier, 42 days after he had been kidnapped by the Red Brigades.
1984 - Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, W Germany
1986 - 25th Space Shuttle (51L) Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff, killing all seven crewmembers, including civilian teacher Christa McAuliffe. It was the U.S. space program's worst disaster. [H]
1988 - Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional
1988 - Members of a polygamist clan surrendered in rural Marion, Utah, ending a 13-day siege.
1992 - President George H.W. Bush, in his State of the Union address, proposed tax breaks and business incentives to revive the economy, and announced dramatic cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
1992 - A multinational Middle East peace conference opened in Moscow.
1993 - A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that the U.S. military's policy against homosexuals was unconstitutional because it was "based on cultural myths and false stereotypes."
1994 - Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose, Calif, 1 dead
1994 - A mistrial was declared in the case of Lyle Menendez, charged with his brother Eric in the murders of their parents. The jury had been unable to reach a verdict in Eric's case two weeks earlier. They both were later convicted
1995 - The United States and Vietnam agreed to exchange low-level diplomats and open liaison offices in each other's capital cities.
1996 - Dallas beat Pittsburgh, 27-17, in Super Bowl XXX.
1997 - Four former police officers in South Africa admitted to killing anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko, who'd died in police custody in 1977 and whose death had been officially listed as an accident. [H]
1997 - O.J. Simpson's fate was placed in the hands of a civil court jury that was charged with deciding whether Simpson should be held liable for the slayings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. (The jury found that Simpson was liable, and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages.)
1998 - Michelangelo's "Christ & the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million
2000 - After decades of denial, the U.S. government finally admitted that workers making nuclear weapons were exposed to radiation and chemicals that led to cancer and early death.
2001 - Only a week after naming a record-setting 37 new cardinals, Pope John Paul II announced five more cardinals _ two Germans, and one each from South Africa, Bolivia and Ukraine.
2001 - The Baltimore Ravens' brazen defense backed up its bragging, beating the New York Giants 34-to-7 in Super Bowl XXXV.
Birthdays Today
1457 - Henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509)
1578 - Cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39)
1608 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer
1706 - John Baskerville, English printer (typeface inventor)
1757 - Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer
1822 - Canadian prime minister and statesman Alexander MacKenzie
1825 - George E. Pickett (Confederate General) (When blame was being sought for why his ill-fated charge was the final action of the Battle of Gettysburg, and why the Confederacy did not win the three-day battle, George Pickett suggested that "The Union Army might have had something to do with it.")
1833 - Charles George "Chinese" Gordon, London, general (China, Khartoum)
1841 - Sir Henry Morton Stanley (explorer: leader of African expedition to find the missing missionary, David Livingstone: "Mr. Livingstone, I presume?" said Mr. Stanley)
1853 - Cuban revolutionary and poet Jose Marti was born in Havana.
1873 - French novelist Colette
1884 - Jean Felix Piccard, Switzerland, scientist/explorer (balloonist)
1889 - Artur Rubinstein (American pianist: played solo for the Berlin Symphony at the age of 12)
1912 - Jackson Pollock, Cody Wyoming, expressionist painter (Lavender Mist)
1927 - Jim Bryan (auto racer: Indianapolis 500 winner [1958])
1927 - Ronnie Scott (Schatt) (jazz musician: tenor sax, bandleader; jazz club owner in London)
1929 - Acker (Bernard) Bilk (clarinetist, composer: Stranger on the Shore)
1929 - Claes Oldenburg, Stockholm Sweden, US pop artist (Alphabet/Good Humor)
1933 - Susan Sontag (author: Against Interpretation, The Volcano Lover: A Romance)
1934 - Bill White (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies first baseman; broadcaster: NY Yankees)
1936 - Alan Alda [Alphonso D'Abruzzo](actor: Hawkeye Pierce-M*A*S*H, Paper Lion, The Four Seasons, Same Time Next Year, California Suite)
1937 - Charles Krueger (football)
1938 - Bill Phillips (country singer: Put It Off till Tomorrow, Georgia Town Blues with Mel Tillis)
1943 - Paul Henderson (hockey)
1943 - Susan Howard (Jeri Mooney) (actress: Sidewinder One, The Power Within, Dallas)
1944 - Fred Hoaglin (football)
1947 - Greg Smith (basketball)
1948 - Ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov
1949 - Jack Egers (hockey)
1950 - Barbi Benton (centerfold: appeared in Playboy five times, was a significant other of Hugh Hefner; actress: For the Love of It, Deathstalker)
Famous deaths
0814 - Charlemagne, German emperor/Holy Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71
1547 - Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47), dies at 55
1595 - Sir Francis Drake, English ship captain/pirate (Porto Bello West Indies), dies at 50
1725 - Peter I "the Great" Romanov, czar of Russia, dies at 52
1829 - William Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh
1959 - Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israel Knesset (1949-59), dies at 73
1963 - Jean Felix Piccard, swiss explorer, dies on his 79th birthday
1980 - Jimmy Durante, NYC, comedian (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 86
1986 - Christa McAuliffe, teacher/astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster
1986 - Ellison S Onizuka, Hawaii, Mjr USAF/ast, dies in Challenger disaster
1986 - Francis R Scobee, Wash, USAF/astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster
1986 - Judith Arlene Resnik, Akron Oh, astr, dies in Challenger disaster
1986 - Michael J Smith, Beaufort NC, Cmdr USN, astr, dies in Challenger disaster
1986 - Ronald E McNair, Lake City SC, astr, dies in Challenger disaster
1996 - Jerry Seigel, creator of Superman, dies at age 81 [H]
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