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Author Topic: On This Date in History Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-18-2006 10:39 AM                        Rated G January 18 On this day in history .. 1644 - 1st UFO sighting in America by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston 1778 - Capt James Cook stumbles over Hawaiian Islands 1817 - San Mart¡n leads a revolutionary army over Andes 1869 - Elegant Calif Theatre opens in SF 1871 - German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I 1911 - 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania) 1913 - Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches South Pole 1919 - Versailles Peace Conference 1949 - 1st US Congressional Standing Committee headed by Negro -W Dawson 1956 - Tunisian Revolution Day (National Day) 1969 - Soyuz 5 returns to Earth 1973 - Islanders break 12 game losing streak 20 game road winless streak 1980 - Barbara Britton dies 1984 - 80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win 1985 - US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous agreement 1986 - 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 returns to Earth Famous birthdays for this day .. 1779 - Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame--invented Slide Rule and pocket chessboard 1782 - Daniel Webster, early American orator & politician 1813 - Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented 1st coml useable barbed wire 1849 - Sir Edmund Barton, 1st prime minister of Australia (1900-03) 1854 - Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell 1867 - Ruben Dario, national poet of Nicaragua 1882 - A.A. Milne, author of Winnie-the-Pooh 1892 - Oliver Hardy, of comedy team Laurel & Hardy 1904 - Cary Grant, actor (Arsenic & Old Lace and North by Northwest) 1913 - Danny Kaye, comedian and actor and UNICEF 1922 - Constance Moore, in Sioux City Iowa 1942 - Muhammad Ali, (aka Cassius Clay) -- boxer  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-18-2006 09:48 PM                        Rated G On January 19 in history .. 1747 - Johann Bode founder of "Bode's Law " dies 1770 - Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan) 1839 - Aden conquered by East India Company 1861 - Georgia becomes 5th state to secede from US 1903 - 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England 1921 - Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union 1955 - Millionaire TV program premiers Famous birthdays on January 19 .. 1095 - St Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester--ended sale of slaves at Bristol 1736 - James Watt, made steam engine workable (or 1753) 1749 - Isaiah Thomas, American printer and editor and publisher and historian 1798 - Auguste Comte, philosopher and founder of sociology & Positivism 1807 - Robert E Lee, Confederate gen 1809 - Edgar Allen Poe, author (The Pit & the Pendulum) 1813 - Sir Henry Bessemer, engineer-inventor 1839 - Paul Cezanne, painter 1859 - Alice Eastwood, 1906 - Lanny Ross, singer 1917 - John Raitt, singer 1922 - Guy Madison, actor (Computer Wizard and Jet over the Atlantic) 1923 - Jean Stapleton, actress (Damn Yankees and Klute) in NYC 1926 - Fritz Weaver, actor (Day of the Dolphin and Demon Seed) 1932 - Joe Schmidt, NFL linebacker (Detroit) 1935 - Tippi Hedren, in Minnesota (The Birds) 1943 - Janis Joplin, in Port Arthur Texas 1944 - Shelly Fabraes, in Santa Monica 1946 - Dolly Parton, country singer and bra buster in Tennessee 1947 - Ann Compton, TV news reporter 1951 - Linda Hayden, 1953 - Desi Arnez Jr, actor  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-19-2006 10:11 PM                        Rated G On January 20 in history .. 1265 - 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester 1783 - End of Revolutionary War 1866 - Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends 1872 - Calif Stock Exchange Board organized 1887 - Pearl Harbor obtained by US from Hawaii for use as a naval base 1892 - 1st basketball game played 1929 - 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors "In Old Arizona" 1937 - Inauguration day every 4th year 1953 - 1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address 1964 - Meet The Beatles" album released in US 1981 - Iran hostages are freed after 444 days 1981 - Islander Glenn Resch's 25th & last shut-out opponent - Flames 5-0 1981 - US embassy hostages freed in Tehran Famous birthdays on January 20 .. 1760 - Charles III, king of Spain (1759-88) 1775 - Andre-Marie Ampre, founder of science of electromagnetism 1891 - Mischa Elman Violinist, 1896 - Nathan Birnbaum, (better known as George Burns) 1903 - Leon Ames, actor 1920 - Federico Fellini, director (8« and Satyricon 1926 - Patricia Neal, actress (Hud and The Subject Was Roses) in Packard Ky 1930 - Edwin E (Buzz) Aldrin Jr, US astronaut (Gemini 12 and Apollo 11) 1937 - Dorothy Provine, in Deadwood SD 1956 - John Naber, swimmer  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-21-2006 08:50 AM                        Rated G January 21.. On this day in history .. 1793 - King Louis XVI beheaded by French revolutionaries 1813 - Pineapple introduced to Hawaii 1892 - John Couch Adams English co-discoverer of Neptune dies 1954 - 1st atomic sub USS Nautilus launched 1954 - 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited - NYC 1962 - Snow falls in SF 1967 - Ann Sheridan dies at 51 1979 - Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer) 1982 - Islanders start NHL record 15 game win streak (15-0-0) Famous birthdays for this day .. 1338 - Charles V, (The Wise) King of France (1364-80) 1743 - John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton 1813 - John C Fremont, map maker & explorer of western US 1815 - Horace Wells, dentist and pioneer in use of medical anethesia 1821 - John Cabell Breckinridge, (D) 14th US vice-president (1857-61) 1824 - Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, Confederate gen 1884 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of American Civil Liberties Union 1887 - Wolfgang Kohler, Gestalt psychologist (The Mentality of Apes) 1921 - Barney Clark, 1st person to receive a permanent artificial heart 1922 - Paul Scofield, author 1924 - Benny Hill, British comedian 1924 - Telly Savalas, actor "Who Loves Ya Baby?" 1932 - Boris Shakhlin, Soviet Olympic gymnast 1940 - Jack Nicklaus, golfer  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-22-2006 11:01 AM                        Rated G January 22.. On this day in history .. 1813 - Americans capture Frenchtown Canada 1840 - New Zealand settled by British 1850 - Alta California becomes a daily paper 1st such in Calif 1905 - Bloody Sunday; Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops 1939 - Aquatic Park dedicated 1943 - Battle of Anzio Allies stopped on the beach 1947 - 1st coml TV station west of Mississippi opens Hollywood Ca 1949 - Chinatown telephone exchange closed 1968 - Apollo 5 launched to moon Unmanned lunar module tests made 1973 - Supreme Court approves abortions 1975 - Lansat 2 an Earth Resources Technology Satellite is launched 1981 - 40th Islander shut-out opponent - 3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th Famous birthdays for this day .. 1440 - Ivan III (The Great), grand prince of Russia 1561 - Francis Bacon, English statesman and essayist (Novum Organum) 1729 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German critic and dramatist 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) 1909 - U Thant, 3rd secretary-general of UN (1962-72) Burma 1912 - Ann Sothern, voice of my mother the car 1920 - William Warfield, singer (Show Boat) 1928 - Birch Bayh, (D) former US senator from Indiana 1932 - Piper Laurie, in Detroit Michigan 1934 - Bill Bixby, actor (Incredible Hulk and My Favorite Martian) 1937 - Joseph Wambaugh, police writer (The Onionfields) 1959 - Linda Blair, actress (The Exorcist) in St Louis Mo  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-22-2006 08:40 PM                        Rated G On January 23 in history .. 1579 - Union of Utrecht signed forming protestant Dutch Republic 1793 - 2nd partition of Poland between Prussia & Russia 1856 - Steamer Pacific lost 1909 - 1st radio rescue at sea 1944 - Red Wings beat Rangers 15-0 1953 - Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts) 1960 - Piccard & Walsh in bathyscaph reach 10 900 m in Mariana Trench 1964 - 24th Amendment ratified Barred poll tax in federal elections 1977 - Miniseries Roots premiers 1983 - A-Team with Mr T premiers Famous birthdays on January 23 .. 1730 - Joseph Hewes, Decl of Ind signer 1756 - Wolfgang A Mozart, musical prodigy 1783 - Marie-Henri Beyle, aka Stendhal and French novelist 1832 - Edouard Manet, French Impressionist painter 1857 - Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian geologist (Moho discontinuity) 1862 - David Hilbert, mathematician 1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film maker (Battleship Potemkin) 1899 - Humphrey Bogart, actor 1903 - Randolph Scott, actor 1915 - Potter Stewart, US Supreme Court justice 1919 - Eisenstein, 1930 - William R Pogue, US astronaut (Skylab 4) 1933 - Arlene Golonka, 1933 - Chita Rivera, actress (West Side Story) in Washington DC 1936 - Jerry Kramer, Green Bay Packer and author 1943 - Gil Gerard, 1958 - Princess Caroline of Monaco,  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-23-2006 09:46 PM                        Rated G On January 24 in history .. 1556 - Most deadly earthquake kills 830 000 in Shensi Province China 1639 - Connecticut colony organized under Fundamental Orders 1764 - Gov Winthrop Telescope is destroyed in a Harvard fire 1848 - James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma Calif 1861 - Arsenal at Augusta Ga seized by Confederacy 1899 - Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan 1935 - Beer 1st sold in cans Richmond Va 1965 - Sir Winston Churchill died in England 1981 - Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques 1982 - SF 49'ers win their 1st Super Bowl 26-21 1985 - 15th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 is launched 1986 - Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81 593 km) finds new moons Famous birthdays on January 24 .. 1712 - Frederick I (The Great), King of Prussia (1740-86) 1746 - Gustav III, king during Swedish Enlightenment (1771-92) 1862 - Edith Wharton, Novelist US 1880 - Elisabeth Achelis, inventor of World Calendar 1888 - Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft 1917 - Ernest Borgnine, actor (Ice Station Zebra and Young Warriors) 1918 - Oral Roberts, Evangelist 1922 - Ava Gardner, 1925 - Maria Tallchief, ballerina in Fairfax Ok 1927 - Paula Hawkins, (R-sen-Fla) 1941 - Neil Diamond, Jazz-Singer 1946 - Barry Bostwick, actor 1947 - Giorgio Chinaglia, soccer star (Lazio of Italy and NY Cosmos) 1949 - John Belushi, commedian and actor (Sat Night Live and Blues Brothers) 1960 - Nastassia Kinski, in Berlin Germany  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-24-2006 06:53 PM                        Rated G On January 25 in history .. 1875 - Anti-slavery society formed in NY 1915 - Alexander Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF 1925 - Largest diamond Cullinan (3106 carets) found in South Africa 1945 - Topping Webb & MacPhail purchase Yanks for $28 million 1949 - 1st Emmy Awards 1949 - 1st Israeli election 1959 - 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301) 1961 - 1st live nationally televised Presidential news conference (JFK) 1961 - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" is released 1964 - Echo 2 US communications satellite launched 1975 - 10th hat trick in Islander history - Denis Potvin's 1st Famous birthdays on January 25 .. 0749 - Leo IV (the Khazar), Byzantine emperor (775-80) 1627 - Robert Boyle, Irish physicist and chemist and author 1736 - Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange and mathematician 1759 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet 1860 - Charles Curtis, (R) 31st US vice-president (1929-33) 1874 - Somerset Maugham, novelist and poet (Of Human Bondage and Cakes & Ale) 1882 - Virginia Woolf, author (Jacob's Room and To the Lighthouse) 1899 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian statesman and leader in European integration 1919 - Edwin Newman, newscaster 1924 - Lou (the Toe) Groza, AAFC and NFL tackle and kicker (Cleveland Browns) 1933 - Corazon Aquino, president of Philippines (1986- ) 1934 - Elizabeth Allen, in New Jersey 1935 - Dean Jones, actor (Love Bug and That Darn Cat) 1945 - Leigh Taylor Young, in Washington DC  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-25-2006 07:56 PM                        Rated G On January 26 in history .. 1697 - Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time limit - solves problem before going to bed that same night 1788 - 1st settlement established by English in Australia (Sydney) 1837 - Mich admitted as 26th US state 1841 - Hong Kong was proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain 1861 - La becomes 6th state to secede from US 1871 - American income tax repealed 1885 - Gen Gordon & troops slain by Sudanese in Khartoum 1905 - World's largest diamond found Cullinan diamond 1946 - Indian Republic Day 1950 - India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion 1954 - Ground breaking begins on Disneyland 1961 - 1st woman `personal physician to President' - JG Travell 1976 - Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon 1979 - Nelson Rockefeller former VP & 4 time governor of NY died 1980 - Islanders & Whalers had a penality free game 1982 - Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38 5 within 2:37 vs Penguins 1984 - Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders 1986 - Chicago Bears defeat Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl 20 Famous birthdays on January 26 .. 1715 - Claude Helvetius, French philosopher 1763 - Charles XIV, French marshall and king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44) 1826 - Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady 1831 - Writer Mary Dodge, (`Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates') 1880 - Gen Douglas MacArthur, he did return! 1904 - Sean MacBride, Irish statesman and minister (Nobel Peace Prize 1974) 1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen, songwriter 1918 - Nicolae Ceausescu, Rumanian president 1923 - Anne Jeffereys, in North Carolina 1925 - Joan Leslie, actress 1925 - Paul Newman, actor (Hud - Hombre - Hustler) and racer & popcorn mogul 1928 - Eartha Kitt, in South Carolina 1928 - Roger Vadim, Director 1929 - Jules Feiffer, cartoonist (Passionella) 1931 - Mary Murphy, 1935 - Bob Uecker, Sports personality 1944 - Angela Davis, black activist 1961 - Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oiler  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-26-2006 09:54 PM                        Rated G On January 27 in history .. 1736 - Abdication of Stanislas King of Poland 1880 - Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp 1888 - National Geographic Society founded in Washington DC 1894 - Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park 1915 - US Marines occupy Haiti 1926 - 1st public TV demonstration 1948 - 1st locomotive to carry 1 000 000 pounds operated 1948 - 1st Tape Recorder is sold 1964 - Introducing the Beatles" album released in US 1964 - Sen Margaret Chase Smith of Maine tried for Republican Pres bid 1965 - Groundbreaking for 'Dragon Gateway' at Grant Avenue 1967 - Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom White & Chaffee 1967 - Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space is signed 1971 - Montgomery St Station last link in BART 'holed thru' 1973 - US & Vietnam sign cease-fire ending longest US war & milt draft 1977 - Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10 000) 1979 - Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8) 1985 - Fifteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 returns to Earth Famous birthdays on January 27 .. 1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, musical prodigy and Salzburg Austria 1823 - Edouard Lalo, French composer (Symphonie espagnole) 1832 - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, (you know him as Lewis Carroll) 1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, discoverer of periodic table (or 1919) 1850 - Samuel Gompers, 1st pres of AFL 1885 - Jerome Kern, Broadway composer 1891 - Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet writer 1894 - Fritz Pollard, early black NFL star (1920-26) 1900 - Admiral Hyman G Rickover, father of modern nuclear navy 1901 - Art Rooney, NFL team owner (Pittsburgh) 1911 - Benay Venuta, actress 1918 - Skitch Henderson, Bandleader 1921 - Donna Reed, in Denison Iowa 1927 - Joe Perry, AAFC and NFL fullback (SF 49ers and Baltimore Colts) 1929 - Ingrid Thulin, in Sweden 1936 - Troy Donahue, actor (Cockfighter and Grandview USA)  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-28-2006 08:09 AM                        Rated G On this day in history .. Jauary 28... 1613 - Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune 1687 - Johannes Hevelius dies 1807 - London's Pall Mall is 1st st lit by gaslight 1821 - Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica 1860 - Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua 1871 - Paris surrenders to Germans 1878 - 1st telephone exchange New Haven Connecticut George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator 1878 - Yale Daily News published - 1st college daily newspaper 1909 - US milt forces leave Cuba for 2nd time 1915 - US Coast Guard established 1932 - 1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted - Wisconsin 1938 - 1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont) 1953 - J Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins Today show 1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show) 1958 - Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor 1960 - 1st photograph bounced off moon Washington DC 1978 - Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders 1986 - 25th Space Shuttle - Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff Famous birthdays for this day .. 1457 - Henry VII, king of England (1485-1509) 1611 - Johannes Hevelius, Danzig star cataloguer 1822 - Alexander MacKenzie, (L) 2nd prime minister of Canada (1873-78) 1841 - Henry Stanley, explorer who found Livingstone 1853 - Jose Marti, Cuban poet and essayist and politician 1855 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor of recording adding machine 1869 - Ozaki Koyo, Japanese novelist and essayist and haiku poet (The Heart) 1884 - Auguste & Jean Felix Piccard, Swiss scientists and explorers 1887 - Artur Rubinstein, pianist 1922 - Robert W Holley, American biochemist and worked with tRNA (Nobel '68) 1929 - Claes Oldenburg, sculptor 1933 - Susan Sontag, author and film director 1936 - Alan Alda, actor (Hawkeye Pierce) 1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-28-2006 05:16 PM                        Rated G On January 29 in history .. 1788 - Australia Day 1861 - Kansas becomes 34th state 1900 - American (baseball) League formed with 8 teams 1904 - 1st athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team 1919 - Prohibition goes into effect (18th amendment) 1920 - Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist $40 week with KC Slide Co 1922 - Union of Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras & El Salvador dissolved 1936 - 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1955 - William Cox buys Yankee Stadium 1958 - Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming 1959 - Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released 1984 - 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched 1986 - 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange Famous birthdays on January 29 .. 1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish religious leader 1737 - Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common Sense and Age of Reason) 1756 - Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee, cavalryman 1843 - William McKinley, (R) 24th US pres (1897-1901) 1850 - Lawrence Hargrave, invented box kite 1860 - Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard) 1862 - Frederick Delius, English composer 1866 - Romain Rolland, French writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel 1915) 1874 - John D Rockefeller Jr, financier 1880 - Claude William Dukenfield, (better known as WC Fields) 1901 - Allen B DuMont, perfected 1st coml practical cathode ray tube 1916 - Victor Mature, actor (One Million BC and Robe) 1918 - John Forsythe, actor 1939 - Germaine Greer, in Melbourne Australia 1942 - Claudine Longet, in France - Former Mrs Andy Williams 1943 - Katharine Ross, in Hollywood Cal 1945 - Tom Selleck, actor (Magnum PI) 1951 - Ann Jillian, in Cambridge Mass 1953 - Oprah Winfrey, actress and TV host (The Color Purple) 1958 - Judy Norton-Taylor, in Santa Monica - Cal (Waltons) 1960 - Gregory Louganis, champion diver  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-30-2006 06:30 AM                        Rated G On this day in history January 30 1487 - Bell chimes invented 1649 - King Charles I of Great Britain executed by Parliament 1774 - Capt Cook reaches 71ø 10' S 1820 km from S pole (record) 1847 - Yerba Buena renamed SF 1854 - 1st election in Washington Territory; 1 682 votes cast 1862 - US Navy's 1st ironclad warship "Monitor" launched 1889 - John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48-inch telescope 1894 - US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham 1917 - 1st jazz record in US cut 1922 - World Law Day 1933 - Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor 1948 - Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi 1958 - 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service Dallas Texas 1969 - US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere Famous birthdays for this day .. 1882 - Franklin D Roosevelt, 32nd Pres (1933-1945) in New Hyde Park NY 1894 - Boris III, tsar of Bulgaria (1918-43) 1912 - Barbara Tuchman, historian and author (The Guns of August) 1914 - David Wayne, actor 1922 - Barbara Hale, in Dekalb Ill 1922 - Dick Martin, actor and comedian (Laugh-In) 1925 - Dorothy Malone, actress (At Gunpoint! and Night & Day) in Chic 1928 - Harold Prince, stage producer 1931 - Gene Hackman, actor (Bonnie & Clyde and Under Fire) 1936 - Tammy Grimes, in Lynn Mass 1937 - Boris Spassky, of USSR--world chess champion (1969-72) 1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, actress (Blow-Up and Julia and Orient Express) in London  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-30-2006 09:33 PM                        Rated G On January 31 in history .. 1849 - Corn Laws abolished in Britain 1851 - SF Orphan's Asylum 1st in Calif founded 1862 - Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius 1871 - Birds fly over SF in such large numbers they actually darken sky 1911 - Congress names SF as Panama Canal opening celebration site 1945 - Eddie Slovik 1st American executed for desertion since Civil War 1950 - Pres Truman authorized production of H-Bomb 1958 - 1st US satellite launched Explorer I from Cape Canaveral 1958 - James van Allen discovers radiation belt 1958 - US launches 1st artificial satellite Explorer 1 1961 - Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2 1966 - Luna 9 launched for moon 1968 - Nauru gains independence from Australia 1968 - Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb 32") at Agata USSR 1971 - Apollo 14 launched 1st landing in lunar highlands Famous birthdays on January 31 .. 1797 - Franz Schubert, composer (Unfinished Symphony) 1830 - James G Blaine, 'Plumed Knight' 1872 - Zane Gray, American West novelist 1881 - Irving Langmuir, physical chemist/colloid researcher (Nobel '32) 1892 - Eddie Cantor, comedian 1902 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish pacifist (Nobel 1981) 1913 - Don Hutson, NFL end (Packers) 1913 - Wayne Millner, NFL end (Boston/Washington Redskins) 1914 - Jersey Joe Walcott, heavyweight boxing champ (1951-52) 1919 - Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player 1923 - Carol Channing, in Seattle Wash - Diamonds are her best friend 1923 - Joanne Dru, in West Virginia 1923 - Normal Mailer, novelist and NYC mayoral candidate (Naked & the Dead) 1929 - Jean Simmons, actress in London 1929 - Rudolf Mossbauer, German physicist (Nobel 1961) 1937 - Suzanne Pleshette, actress (The Birds and Bob Newhart Show) in NYC 1938 - Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, queen of Netherlands(1980- ) 1938 - James G Watt, former sec't of interior 1944 - Jessica Walters, in NYC 1947 - Nolan Ryan, baseball player 1957 - Shirley Babashoff, US Olympic swimmer  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-01-2006 04:01 PM                        Rated G On this day in history .. February 1.. 1709 - Alexander Selkirk (aka Robinson Crusoe) rescued from Juan Fernandez 1783 - William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex 1790 - US Supreme Court convened for 1st time (NYC) 1865 - 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day) 1865 - Sherman's march through SC 1867 - Bricklayers start working 8-hour days 1920 - 1st armored car introduced 1951 - 1st telecast of atomic explosion 1951 - 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated 1957 - 1st Negro pilot on scheduled passenger airline - PH Young 1958 - Egypt & Syria join to form United Arab Republic 1960 - 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in - at Greensboro Woolworth's 1966 - Nicholas Piantanida sets unofficial world altitude record for manned balloon flight (123 -800 ft or 37 -700 m) - but dies in descent 1972 - 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced 1975 - Lorne Henning scored in 3rd Islander penalty shot 1976 - Sonny & Cher resumes on TV despite real life divorce 1982 - Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia) Famous birthdays for this day .. 1805 - Auguste Blanqui, French revolutionary workers' leader 1859 - Victor Herbert, composer 1882 - Louis St. Laurent ,(L) 12th Canadian prime minister (1948-57) 1901 - Clark Gable, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara 1902 - Langston Hughes, poet & translator (The Weary Blues) 1904 - S.J. Perelman, author & humorist 1915 - Sir Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted 1918 - Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist 1935 - Vladimir V. Aksyonov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 22 & T-2) 1968 - Lisa Marie Presley, (Elvis' daughter)  |  IP: Logged

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