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Bob Maar
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posted 01-03-2006 06:33 AM
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January 3..
On this day in history ..
1521 - Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
1543 - Juan Cabrillo conqueror of Cen. America discoverer of Calif dies
1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks English astronomical prodigy dies at 22
1777 - Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton NJ
1852 - 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
1870 - Brooklyn Bridge begun completed on May 24 1883
1888 - 1st drinking straw is patented
1900 - Perihelion Passage
1912 - S Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition free
1920 - NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from the Red Sox
1921 - Turkey made peace with Armenia
1929 - 27 year old William S Paley becomes president of CBS
1941 - Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
1943 - 1st missing persons telecast NYC
1943 - Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa
1946 - William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) hanged in Britain for treason
1957 - 1st electric watch introduced Lancaster Pa
1958 - Sir Edmund Hillary reached South Pole overland
1959 - Alaska becomes 49th state
1973 - George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
1977 - Apple Computer incorporated
Famous birthdays for this day ..
0106 - Cicero, Roman statesman
1543 - Juan Cabrillo, discoverer of California
1793 - Lucretia Coffin Mott, Woman's right leader
1840 - Father Damien, helped lepers in Hawaii
1870 - Henry Handel Richardson, Australian novelist (Richard Mahoney)
1879 - Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady
1883 - Clement R. Attlee (Labour), British prime minister (1945-51)
1892 - J.R.R. Tolkien, REAL Lord of the Rings
1905 - Ray Milland, actor (Dial M for Murder and The Lost Weekend)
1909 - Victor Borge, pianist and comedian--Denmark
1916 - Betty Furness, in NYC
1918 - Maxine Andrews, of singing Andrew Sister
1928 - Jeanne Moreau, in Paris France
1930 - Robert Loggia, actor (1st Love and An Officer & a Gentleman)
1939 - Bobby Hull, hockey player
1945 - Stephen Stills, singer and songwriter
1947 - Melanie (Safka), in Astoria Queens
1950 - Victoria Principal, actress (Earthquake and Dallas) in Japan
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posted 01-04-2006 06:38 AM
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January 4..
On this day in history ..
1754 - Columbia University opened
1784 - US treaty with Great Britain ratified
1790 - Pres Washington delivers 1st "State of the Union"
1883 - Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) formed
1896 - Utah becomes 45th state
1948 - Burma gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1959 - Luna 1 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity
1962 - 1st unmanned subway train to run automatically - NYC
1982 - Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1581 - Bishop James Ussher, calculated that earth began Nov. 23-4004 BC
1643 - Sir Issac Newton, scientist (Whatever goes up)
1785 - Jacob Grimm, German librarian and philologist and fairy tale collector
1789 - Benjamin Lundy, philanthropist and abolitionist
1797 - Wilhelm Beer, German amateur who helps to construct 1st moon map
1809 - Louis Braille, developed reading system for blind
1813 - Sir Issac Pitman, shorthand inventor
1838 - Charles Stratton, (alias General Tom Thumb and famous short person)
1914 - Jane Wyman, in St Joseph Missouri 1st Mrs Ronald Reagan
1930 - Barbara Rush, in Denver Colorodo (Hombre and When Worlds Collide)
1930 - Don Shula, NFL coach (Miami Dolphins)
1930 - Sorrell Brooke, actor
1935 - Floyd Patterson, world heavyweight champ (1956-59 and 1960-62)
1937 - Dyan Cannon, Former Mrs Cary Grant and actress in Tacoma Wash
1943 - Tom Wilkinson, CFL quarterback (Edmonton Eskimos)
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posted 01-05-2006 06:49 AM
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January 5......
On this day in history ..
1589 - Catherine de Medici Queen of France died
1809 - Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain & France
1822 - Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire
1850 - Calif Exchange opens
1854 - Steamship SF wrecked
1905 - C Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite Elara
1911 - SF has it's 1st air meet
1914 - Henry Ford announced a minimum wage of $5 for an eight hour day
1922 - Sir Ernest Shackleton Antarctic explorer died aboard his ship
1925 - Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming 1st woman gov in USA
1926 - James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hr day & $5 daily minimum wage
1933 - Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins on Marin County side
1962 - Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce My Bonnie & The Saints
1964 - Pope Paul VI visits Jordan & Israel
1969 - USSR Venera 5 launched. 1st successful planet landing - Venus
1972 - NASA announces development of Space Shuttle
1975 - Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
1985 - Bryan Trottier failed in 9th Islander penalty shot
1987 - Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack NJ
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1592 - Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58) and builder of Taj Mahal
1779 - Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero
1846 - Rudolf Eucken, German Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908)
1855 - King Camp Gillette, inventor of safety razor
1876 - Konrad Adenauer, German Chancellor
1895 - Jeannette Piccard, balloonist and Episcopal priest
1911 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (Cat & Mouse and Happy Hooker)
1921 - Jean, grand duke of Luxembourg (1964- )
1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor of Wyoming
1926 - Claude (Buddy) Young, NFL running back (Yankees and Texans and Colts)
1928 - Walter Mondale (D), 42nd US vp (1977-81)
1938 - Jim Otto, NFL center (Oakland Raiders)
1938 - Juan Carlos I, king of Spain (1975- )
1940 - Dany Saval,
1946 - Diane Keaton, actress (Annie Hall and Little Drummer Girl) LA
1954 - Pamela Sue Martin,
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posted 01-05-2006 08:36 PM
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On January 6 in history ..
1663 - Great earthquake in New England
1753 - Epiphany
1838 - Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
1884 - Gregor Mendel Augustine monk & heredity pioneer died
1893 - Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
1912 - New Mexico becomes 47th state
1914 - Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
1930 - 1st diesel engine automobile trip completed
1936 - Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood Ontario)
1941 - FDR names 4 freedoms (freedom of speech religion; from want fear)
1942 - 1st around world flight by Pan Am "Pacific Clipper"
1951 - Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
1981 - 50th hat trick in Islander history - John Tonelli scored 5 goals
1987 - 100th US Congress convenes
Famous birthdays on January 6 ..
1412 - Joan of Arc, martyr
1799 - Jedediah Smith, fur trader and explorer
1811 - Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator
1823 - Gustave Dore, illustrator (Inferno and Rime of Ancient Mariner)
1838 - Max Bruch, German composer
1842 - Clarence King, geologist and mining engineer
1854 - Sherlock Holmes, according to Arthur Conan Doyle
1871 - Aleksandr Scriabin, Russian composer
1878 - Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer of Lincoln (The People and Yes)
1880 - Tom Mix, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin)
1882 - Samuel Rayburn (D), speaker of House (1940-57)
1883 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese mystic poet (The Prophet and Broken Wings)
1911 - Joey Adams, comedian
1913 - Loretta Young, (Farmer's Daughter and Stranger) in Salt Lake City
1914 - Danny Thomas, comedian and actor
1915 - Don Edwards (D), US representative from California
1920 - Sun Myung Moon, evangelist (Unification Church)
1924 - Earl Scruggs, bluegrass musician
1934 - Sylvia Sims,
1945 - Bonnie Franklin, TV actress (One Day at a Time) in Santa Monica
1957 - Nancy Lopez, Golf pro
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posted 01-07-2006 08:22 PM
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On January 8 in history ..
1336 - Giotto Italian Renaissance painter dies (birth date unknown)
1583 - Iotto Day
1642 - Galileo Galilei dies at 78 in Arceti Italy
1798 - 11th Amendment ratified Judicial powers construed
1815 - Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew
1880 - Passing of Norton I Emperor of US Protector of Mexico
1913 - Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager
1932 - Ratification of present SF City Charter
1935 - Spectrophotometer patented AC Hardy
1952 - Antonia Maury discoverer of supergiant giant & dwarf stars dies
1958 - Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
1968 - US Surveyor 7 lands near crater Tycho on moon
1973 - USSR launches Luna 21 for moon landing
1980 - Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent - Canucks 3-0
Famous birthdays on January 8 ..
1587 - Johannes Fabricius, Dutch astronomer who discovered sunspots
1786 - Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US 1st effective central bank
1823 - Alfred Russel Wallace, codiscoverer of evolution
1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co
1864 - William Wilkie Collins, English novelist (The Moonstone)
1867 - Emily Balch, US sociologist and feminist and pacifist (Nobel 1946)
1868 - Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
1891 - Walther Bothe, German subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954)
1902 - Carl R. Rogers, psychologist
1904 - Peter Arno, Cartoonist
1912 - Jose Ferrer, actor and director (Cyrano de Bergerac)
1923 - Joseph Wiezenbaum, artificial intelligence pioneer
1926 - Milton Hines, AKA Soupy Sales
1934 - Jacques Anquetil, 5-time winner of Tour de France bicycle race
1935 - Elvis Presley, singer (Blue Suede Shoes and Hounddog)
1937 - Shirley Bassey, in Wales
1942 - Vyacheslav D. Zudov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
1942 - Yvette Mimieux, in Hollywood Cal (Time Machine and Where the Boys Are)
1946 - Tod Brannan,
1947 - David Bowie, singer and actor
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posted 01-08-2006 07:26 PM
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On January 9 in history ..
1788 - Conneticut becomes 5th state
1793 - Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America
1799 - 1st income tax imposed in England
1839 - Daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science
1839 - Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax Alpha Centauri
1843 - Caroline Herschel "1st lady of astronomy " dies at 98 in Germany
1847 - 1st SF paper 'California Star' published
1848 - 1st commercial bank in SF established
1854 - Astor Library opened in NY
1861 - Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede from US
1903 - AL Baltimore baseball team bought to move to NY for $18 000
1912 - US marines invade Honduras
1915 - Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated
1936 - Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
1945 - As vowed MacArthur returned to Philippines
1976 - Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
1978 - Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
1982 - 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855
1987 - New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
Famous birthdays on January 9 ..
1728 - Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy)
1859 - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder of League of Women Voters
1870 - Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge
1898 - Gracie Fields,
1901 - Chic Young, creator of "Blondie" comic strip
1902 - Rudolph Bing, opera manager
1904 - George Balanchine, dancer-choreographer
1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author (The Mandarins and The Second Sex)
1913 - Richard Milhous Nixon, (R) and 36th pres (1968-74) (I am not a crook!)
1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque entertainer and actress
1925 - Lee Van Cleef, actor (For a Few Dollars More and Escape from NY)
1934 - Bart Starr, NFL quarterback and coach (Green Bay)
1941 - Joan Baez, folk singer and human rights advocate in Staten Island
1941 - Susannah York, actress (A Man for All Seasons and Tom Jones) in London
1951 - Crystal Gale, in Kentucky
1951 - Rosalyn Kind, singer in Bkln
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posted 01-09-2006 09:37 PM
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On January 10 in history ..
1776 - Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" published
1806 - Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
1840 - Penny Post mail system is started
1861 - Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
1863 - 1st underground railway opens in London
1911 - Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1920 - League of Nations established
1932 - Mickey Mouse & Silly Symphony comics syndicated
1944 - 1st mobile electric power plant delivered Phila
1945 - Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
1946 - UN General Assembly meets for 1st time
1946 - US Army establishes 1st radar contact with moon Belmar NJ
1949 - 1st Jewish family show - The Goldberg's begin
1951 - 1st jet passenger trip made
1964 - That Was The Week That Was premiers
1969 - USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
1970 - Preview Center Opens
1977 - 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
1978 - Pedro Joaqu¡n Chamorro of La Prensa assassinated in Managua
1978 - Soyuz 27 is launched
Famous birthdays on January 10 ..
1738 - Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys)
1877 - Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented elecrostatic precipitator
1880 - Manuel Azasa y Diaz, P.M. and president of 2nd Spanish republic
1883 - Florence Reed, silent film actress (The Dancing Girl)
1883 - Francis X. Bushman, silent film actor (The Spy's Defeat)
1887 - Robinson Jeffers, American poet and playwright (Tamar & Other Poems)
1888 - Grock, Swiss clown
1904 - Ray Bolger, dancer and actor (Once in Love with Amy and Wizard of Oz)
1910 - Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina
1926 - June Haver,
1927 - Gisele MacKenzie, in Winnipeg Manitoba
1927 - Johnnie Ray, pop singer
1938 - Willie McCovey, baseball player
1945 - Rod Stewart, singer
1949 - George Foreman, world heavyweight boxing champ (1973-74)
1953 - Pat Benatar, in Brooklyn--Hell is for Children
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posted 01-10-2006 08:07 PM
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On January 11 in history ..
1935 - 1st woman to fly solo across Pacific left Honolulu AE Putnam
1642 - Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
1787 - Titania & Oberon moons of Uranus discovered by William Herschel
1805 - Michigan Territory organized
1813 - 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii
1861 - Alabama becomes 4th state to secede from US
1861 - Mexico City captured by Juarez
1892 - Hawaiian Historical Society founded
1915 - Jacob Ruppert & Huston purchase Yankees for $460,000.
1923 - French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
1935 - Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California (non-stop of course)
1963 - Beatles release Please Please Me & Ask Me Why
1975 - Soyuz 17 is launched
1978 - Gov. Askew dedicates the RCUC solar office building
1983 - Billy Martin named Yankee manager for 3rd time
Famous birthdays on January 11 ..
1755 - Alexander Hamilton, 1st Sec of US Treasury
1807 - Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University
1815 - Sir John A. MacDonald, (C)--1st prime minister of Canada (1867-73)
1839 - Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican patriot and scholar
1842 - William James, American psychologist and philosopher
1850 - Philipp la Renotiere von Ferrary, famous philatelist
1885 - Alice Paul, founder of National Woman's Party and ERA advocate
1896 - Eva Le Gallienne, actress
1896 - Paddy Driscoll, NFL quarterback and coach (Chicago, Cardinals and Bears)
1903 - Alan Paton, South African writer (Cry and the Beloved Country)
1906 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and discoverer of LSD
1926 - Grant Tinker, broadcasting executive
1926 - Lev S. Demin, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
1930 - Rod Taylor, actor
1948 - Madeline Manning, runner
1974 - Rosenkowitz sextuplets, (1st known to have survived infancy)
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posted 01-12-2006 06:56 AM
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January 12..
On this day in history ..
1777 - Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded in Cal
1820 - Royal Astronomical Society founded in England
1836 - Battle of Wetumka Fla
1945 - US Navy destroys 41 Jap ships in Battle of S China Sea
1969 - AFC wins its 1st Super Bowl (III) (NY Jets 16 Balt Colts 7)
1971 - All in the Family premiers
1986 - 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 is launched
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1588 - John Winthrop, 1st gov of Mass Bay Colony
1729 - Edmund Burke, famous Whig
1737 - John Hancock, Decl of Ind signer (or 0123)
1856 - John Singer Sargent, American painter
1876 - Jack London, writer (Call of the Wild)
1910 - Luise Rainer, actress
1913 - Edward Gurney, senator
1920 - James Farmer, black activist
1926 - Ray Price, country singer
1930 - Glenn Yarborough, singer
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posted 01-13-2006 08:51 PM
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On January 14 in history ..
1742 - Edmund Halley genius eclipsed by Newton dies at 86
1784 - Revolutionary War ends when Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris
1847 - Conspiracy in New Mexico against US
1914 - Henry Ford introduces assembly line for cars
1936 - L.M. (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America
1939 - All coml ferry service to East Bay ends
1952 - Today show premiers
1969 - Soyuz 4 is launched
Famous birthdays on January 14 ..
1730 - William Whipple, Decl of Ind signer
1741 - Gen Benedict Arnold, fink
1791 - Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm)
1861 - Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22)
1875 - Albert Schweitzer, doctor and humanitarian and organist (Nobel 1952)
1892 - Hal Roach, early film director & producer
1896 - John dos Passos, novelist (1919 and Big Money and 42nd Parallel)
1919 - Andy Rooney, TV commentator (60 Minutes)
1926 - Thomas Tryon, actor and novelist
1932 - Catarina Valenti, singer in Paris France
1940 - Julian Bond (D), civil rights leader and Georgia legislator
1941 - Faye Dunaway, actress (Chinatown and Bonnie & Clyde) in Fla
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posted 01-15-2006 06:02 AM
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January 15..
On this day in history ..
1535 - Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
1759 - British Museum opens
1778 - Nootka Sound discovered by Capt. Cook
1861 - Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
1927 - Dunbarton Bridge 1st bridge in Bay Area opens
1939 - Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
1943 - World's largest office building Pentagon completed
1967 - Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs 35-10 in Super Bowl I (NBC & CBS)
1968 - Soyuz 5 launched
1973 - Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
1974 - Happy Days premiers
1975 - Space Mountain opens
1981 - Hill Street Blues premiers
1986 - Living Seas opens
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1622 - Molire, French dramatist (baptized)
1809 - Pierre Joseph Proudhon, French libertarian socialist
1850 - Sofya Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician
1866 - Nathan Soderblom, Lutheran archbishop and internationalist (Nobel '30)
1899 - Goodman Ace, radio & TV writer and actor and columnist and humorist
1906 - Aristotle Onassis, industrialist
1908 - Edward Teller, fathered H-bomb
1913 - Lloyd Bridges, actor (Sea Hunt and Roots and Airplane)
1918 - Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian leader
1919 - S. Kovalevskaya,
1926 - Chuck Berry, singer (Johnny B. Goode)
1926 - Maria Schell, in Vienna Austria - Space 1999
1929 - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., dreamer (Nobel Peace Prize 1964)
1937 - Margaret O'Brien, in San Diego Calif
1946 - Janet Lennon, in Culver City
1951 - Charo, in Spain
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posted 01-16-2006 06:38 AM
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January 16..
On this day in history ..
1777 - Vermont declares independence from NY
1865 - SF Dramatic Chronicle started
1870 - Virginia readmitted to US after Civil War
1883 - Pendleton Act creates basis of federal civil service system
1887 - Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes
1909 - David Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole
1920 - 18th Amendment prohibition went into effect; repealed in 1933
1938 - William Pickering pioneer American stellar spectroscopist dies
1956 - Egyptian President Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine
1969 - Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
1973 - USSR's Lunakhod begins radio-controlled exploration of moon
1977 - Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders
1978 - Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
1979 - Iranian revolution overthrows shah
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1853 - Andre Michelin, French industrialist and tire manufacturer
1874 - Robert Service, Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee)
1894 - Guy Chamberlin, early NFL end and coach
1909 - Ethel Merman, everythings coming up roses
1911 - Dizzy Dean, baseball player (St Louis Cardinals)
1924 - Katy Jurado, in Mexico
1929 - Allard Lowenstein, Students for Democratic Action
1930 - Norman Podhoretz, author
1933 - Oleg G Makarov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12 & 18-1 & 27 & T-3)
1934 - Marilyn Horne, in Pennsylvania
1935 - A.J. Foyt, auto race driver
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On January 17 in history ..
0355 - Death of St Anthony of Egypt founder of Christian monasticism
1746 - Battle of Falkirk Scotland
1773 - Capt James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66ø 33' S)
1852 - British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
1861 - Flush toilet is patented by Mr Thomas Crapper (Honest!)
1871 - 1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S Hallidie
1893 - Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
1899 - US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
1910 - Thomas Crapper inventor of flush toilet dies
1943 - Tin Can Drive Day
1945 - Liberation Day in Poland (end of Nazi occupation)
1950 - Great Brink's robbery in Boston $28 million
1957 - 9-county commission recommends creation of BART
1963 - Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
1968 - Soyuz 4 & 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
1976 - Hermes rocket launched by ESA
1977 - Gary Gilmore executed in Utah 1st since 1967
1979 - Islanders didn't get a shot off in one period against the Rangers
Famous birthdays on January 17 ..
1706 - Benjamin Franklin, Boston and kite flyer and statesman and wit
1732 - Stanislaw II, last king of Poland (1764-95)
1771 - Charles Brockden Brown, father of American novel
1818 - Sir Antoine Dorion (L), joint premier of Canada (1858 and 1863-64)
1857 - Eugene Augustin Lauste, developed 1st sound-on-film recording
1863 - David Lloyd George (Liberal), prime minister of Britain (1916-22)
1863 - Konstantin Stanislavsky, actor and director and producer and methodist
1880 - Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops
1899 - Robert Maynard Hutchins, American educator and civil libertarian
1919 - A Chekhov,
1924 - Betty White, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show and Golden Girls) in Oak Pk
1926 - Moira Shearer, Scottish ballerina
1931 - James Earl Jones, actor (Darth Vader)
1933 - Sheree North, in Los Angeles
1934 - Shari Lewis, puppeteer in Bronx NY
1944 - Joe Frazier, heavyweight champion boxer (1968-73)
1949 - Debbie Watson, in Culver City California
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