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Bob Maar
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posted 12-18-2005 04:49 PM
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On December 19 in history ..
1686 - Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
1732 - Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
1741 - Vitus Bering Dutch navigator & explorer died
1776 - Thomas Paine publishes his 1st `American Crisis' essay
1777 - Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge Pa for the winter
1842 - US recognized independence of Hawaii
1843 - Charles Dickens publishes `A Christmas Carol ' in England
1859 - Grading started for Market Street RR
1861 - Battle of Black Water
1889 - Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
1907 - 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek Penn
1932 - British Broadcasting Corp. began transmitting overseas
1933 - Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc authorized
1946 - War broke out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacked French
1950 - Gen. Eisenhower named NATO commander
1957 - The Music Man starring Robert Preston opens on Broadway
1962 - Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
1971 - NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
1972 - Apollo 17 returns to Earth
1974 - Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st VP
1977 - Nellie Tayloe Ross 1st woman governor dies at 101
1984 - Fire at the Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
1986 - USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
Famous birthdays on December 19 ..
1683 - Philip V, 1st Bourbon king of Spain (1700-46)
1790 - Sir William Parry, British Arctic explorer
1821 - Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer women's suffrage leader
1849 - Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie
1865 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, American stage actress
1906 - H. Allen Smith, author
1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, Ukraine
1910 - Jean Genet, French novelist and playwright (The Blacks)
1920 - David Susskind, TV producer
1926 - Bobby Layne, pro quarterback (Detroit Lions)
1928 - Galt MacDermot, Canadian composer
1933 - Cicely Tyson, in NYC (Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman)
1941 - Maurice White, Singer
1944 - Tim Reid, Actor (WKRP)
1945 - Elaine Joyce, Actress (Dating Game)
1946 - Robert Urich, Actor (Starman Vegas Spencer for Hire)
1947 - Janie Fricke, Singer
1949 - Claudia Kolb, swimmer
1963 - Jennifer Beals, in Chicago (Flashdance)
1972 - Alyassa Milano, (Who's the Boss)
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posted 12-20-2005 06:46 AM
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On this day in history December 20..
1606 - Va Co settlers leave London to establish Jamestown
1699 - Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed - Sept 1 to Jan 1
1790 - 1st successful US cotton mill (Pawtucket RI)
1803 - Louisiana Purchase was formally transferred from France to US
1812 - Sacagawea Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark dies
1820 - Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
1850 - Hawaiian PO established
1860 - SC becomes 1st state to secede from US
1864 - Union Gen. Sherman continued his `march to the sea.' Savannah Ga
1879 - Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
1883 - Intl cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
1892 - Phileas Fogg completes around world trip according to Verne
1892 - Pneumatic automobile tire patented
1919 - Canadian National Railways established (longest on continent with more than 50 000 kilometers of track in US & Canada)
1922 - 14 republics formed USSR
1929 - Mt Davidson dedicated as city park
1939 - Radio Australia starts shortwave service
1944 - Battle of Bastogne Nazis surrounded 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
1963 - Berlin Wall opened for 1st time to West Berliners
1968 - Author John Steinbeck dies in NY at 66
1976 - Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley dies at 74
1976 - Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns
1977 - 1st Space walk made by G. Grechko from Salyut
1982 - Arthur Rubinstein pianists dies in Geneva Switzerland at 95
1983 - Islanders scored 11 goals against Penguins
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1805 - Thomas Graham, Father of colloid chemistry
1819 - John Geary, 1st SF postmaster 1st mayor (May 1 1850)
1833 - Dr Samuel A. Mudd, convicted of giving medical aid to J.W. Booth
1841 - Ferdinand-douard Buisson, French educator (Nobel Peace Prize 1927)
1868 - Harvey S Firestone, where the rubber meets the road
1894 - Sir Robert Menzies, Australian PM (1939-41 1949-66)
1895 - Susanne Langer, US philosopher educator (Philosophy in a New Key)
1904 - Irene Dunne, in Louisville Ky
1922 - George Roy Hill, Movie director
1928 - Dr Joyce Brothers,
1928 - Jack Christiansen, NFL defensive back (Det Lions)
1952 - Jenny Agutter, in London
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posted 12-21-2005 05:32 AM
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December 21
On this day in history ..
1375 - Boccaccio author of Decameron dies
1620 - Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
1790 - Samuel Slater opens 1st textile factory in US in Rhode Island
1909 - U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole
1913 - 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
1929 - 1st group hospital insurance plan effected Dallas Tx
1933 - Human blood serum 1st prepared
1937 - 1st feature-length cartoon with color & sound premieres (Snow White)
1952 - Broadway Tunnel opens in SF
1954 - Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn was murdered
1968 - Apollo 8 (Frank Borman Jim Lovell Bill Anders) 1st manned moon voyage
1973 - Israel Egypt Syria Jordan US & USSR meet in Geneva
1976 - 20th Islander shut-out opponent - Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins
1984 - Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win - Whalers 1-0
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1804 - Benjamin Disraeli (Tory), British prime minister (1868 1874-80)
1874 - Juan Bautista Sacasa, president of Nicaragua (1932-36)
1879 - Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator
1891 - John W McCormack, (D) Speaker of the House (1962-70)
1909 - George Ball, former undersecretary of state
1911 - Josh Gibson, pro baseball player "Negro Babe Ruth"
1917 - Heinrich Bll, German writer (Group Portrait with Lady) (Nobel '72)
1918 - Donald Regan, White House staffer
1918 - Kurt Waldheim, 4th UN sec-gen (1972-81) Austrian Pres Nazi
1922 - Paul Winchell, ventriloquist
1935 - Phil Donahue, TV host
1937 - Jane Fonda NYC, actress (Barbarella Klute)
1939 - Diane Lennon, in LA
1940 - Frank Zappa, rock singer (Grateful Dead)
1944 - Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
1948 - Dave Kingman, Baseball player
1954 - Chris Evert Lloyd, Ft Lauderdale tennis pro 'Miss pokerface'
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posted 12-22-2005 07:13 AM
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December 22
On this day in history ..
1772 - Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1783 - Washington resigns his milt commission
1850 - Hawaiian PO established
1919 - US deports 250 alien radicals
1937 - Lincoln Tunnel opened to traffic
1964 - Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3 530 kph (record for a jet)
1983 - Islanders scored 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
1984 - Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 teenagers on a subway train
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1696 - James Oglethorpe, English general author colonizer of Georgia
1727 - William Ellery, signed Decl of Ind
1856 - Frank Kellogg, sec of state tried to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)
1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian operatic composer (La Bohme Tosca)
1862 - Connie Mack, HOF baseball manager executive (Phil A's)
1869 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet
1903 - H Keffer Hartline, US biophysicist (Nobel 1967)
1912 - Claudia (Lady Bird) Johnson, 1st lady
1917 - Gene Rayburn, game show host
1922 - James C Wright Jr, (D-Texas) Speaker of the House
1944 - Steve Carlton, baseball player
1945 - Diane Sawyer, TV news personality
1949 - Maurice and Robin Gibb, (Beegees)
1951 - Jan Stephenson, in Australia golfer
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posted 12-23-2005 08:52 AM
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December 23...
On this day in history ..
1569 - St Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
1672 - Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea a satellite of Saturn
1690 - John Flamsteed observes Uranus but doesn't realize its undiscovered
1783 - Washington resigns as US Army's commander-in-chief
1913 - US Federal Reserve system authorized
1920 - Ireland divided into two parts each with its own parliament
1947 - Transistor invented by Bardeen Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs
1948 - PM Tojo 6 other Japanese hung for war crimes by US
1968 - Borman Lovell & Anders 1st men to orbit moon
1972 - Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua
1972 - Islanders end 15 games winless streak
1973 - 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
1975 - Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
1978 - Islanders scored 7 goals in one period against the Rangers Trottier scores 8 pts vs Rangers 5 goals-NHL rec 6 pts in 1 pd
1986 - Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1732 - Sir Richard Arkwright, invented spinning frame
1777 - Alexander I, tsar of Russia (1801-25)
1790 - Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics
1805 - Joesph Smith, founded Mormon church
1812 - Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer (Self-Help Character Duty)
1860 - Harriet Monroe, American poet editor of Poetry magazine
1918 - Jose Greco, dancer
1924 - Ruth Roman, in Boston Mass
1925 - Harry Guardino, actor (Hill Street Blues)
1935 - Paul Hornung, Green Bay Packer (the Golden Boy)
1941 - Elizabeth Hartman, in Youngstown Ohio
1949 - Susan Lucci, soap star
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posted 12-23-2005 08:56 PM
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December 24..in history ..
1524 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama dies in Cochin India
1582 - Vasco daGama Day
1814 - Treaty of Ghent signed ending War of 1812 (This news did not arrive until after Battle of New Orleans)
1818 - Silent Night composed by Franz Gruber sung next day
1851 - Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash destroys 35 000 volumes
1865 - Several Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski Tn
1871 - Giuseppe Verdi's `Aida' premiere in Cairo at Suez canal opening
1906 - 1st radio program broadcast in Brant Rock Mass
1906 - Reginald A. Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio
1910 - Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250 000 people at Lotta's Fountain
1920 - Enrico Caruso gave his last public performance
1936 - 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered Berkeley Ca
1943 - FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
1951 - Libya gains independence from Italy
1966 - Luna 13 lands on moon
1968 - Apollo 8 astronauts read Old Testament Book of Genesis passages
1970 - Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released
1980 - Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
Famous birthdays on December 24 ..
1745 - Benjamin Rush, American physician patriot humanitarian
1809 - Kit Carson, Western scout
1818 - James Prescott Joule, physicist discovered conservation of energy
1822 - Matthew Arnold, English poet (Dover Beach)
1868 - Emanuel Lasker, of Germany world chess champion (1894-21)
1881 - Juan Ram˘n Jimnez, Spanish poet (Distant Gardens) (Nobel 1956)
1905 - Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire
1907 - I.F. Stone, American journalist told it like it was
1910 - Mary McGann Kennedy Bob Maar's Mother-in-Law
1921 - Bill Dudley, NFL halfback (Pittsburgh Detroit Washington)
1922 - Ava Gardner, actress (On the Beach Night of the Iguana)
1930 - Robert Joffrey, Choreographer
1959 - Madonna, rock singer actress (Desperately Seeking Susan)
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posted 12-25-2005 10:35 AM
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On this day in history December 25th...
0336 - 1st recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec. 25 took place in Rome
1066 - William the Conqueror was crowned king of England
1758 - Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
1776 - Washington crosses Delaware & surprises Hessians
1818 - Silent Night by Franz Joseph Gruber & Joseph Mohr sung for 1st time
1868 - Despite bitter opposition Pres Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion (the Civil War)
1926 - Hirohito became emperor of Japan
1931 - NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
1939 - Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
1941 - Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
1963 - Walt Disney's "The Sword In The Stone" is released
1968 - Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting moon
1977 - Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland at 88
1977 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin met in Egypt with Egyptian Pres Sadat
1983 - 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1642 - Isaac Newton, (sir) in Grantham England
1752 - Mithra,
1821 - Clara Barton, American Red Cross founder in Oxford Mass
1865 - Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army general
1876 - Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan
1881 - Joseph McCarthy, Yank manager
1883 - Maurice Utrillo, French painter
1887 - Conrad Hilton, hotelman
1892 - Dame Rebecca West, author critic feminist (or 12-21-81)
1899 - Humphrey Bogart, actor Here's looking at you kid
1899 - Raphael Soyer, painter
1904 - Gerhard Herzberg, Can physicist (molecular structure) (Nobel 1971)
1906 - Lord Grade,
1907 - Cab Calloway, bandleader
1909 - Mike Mazurki, actor wrestler
1913 - Tony Martin, singer
1918 - Anwar Sadat, Egyptian pres (1970-81) (Nobel 1978)
1940 - Phil Spector, rock producer
1945 - Gary Sandy, Actor
1945 - Kenny Stabler, NFL QB (Oakland Raiders)
1946 - Larry Csonka, Former football player
1948 - Barbara Mandrell, in Houston Tx
1949 - Sissy Spacek, in Quitman Tx (Badlands Coal Miner's Daughter)
1954 - Annie Lennox, Singer (Eurithemics)
1958 - Rickey Henderson, baseball player
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posted 12-26-2005 08:09 AM
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December 26....
On this day in history ..
1492 - 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded by Columbus
1773 - Expulsion of tea ships from Phila
1848 - 1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
1860 - Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
1865 - James Mason patents 1st American coffee percolator
1917 - Fed govt took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I
1919 - Yanks & Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth
1925 - 1st East-West football game at Ewing Park before 25 000 fans
1933 - US foreswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere
1972 - Harry Truman 33rd US Pres dies at 88
1973 - Soyuz 13 returns to Earth
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1194 - Frederick II Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman emperor
1716 - Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard)
1738 - Thomas Nelson, merchant signed Decl of Ind
1778 - Juan Lovera, Venezuelan artist
1792 - Charles Babbage, invented calculating machine
1837 - Adm. George Dewey, the American naval hero of Manila
1891 - Henry Miller, author (Tropic of Capricorn Tropic of Cancer)
1893 - Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame
1914 - Richard Widmark, actor (Alamo Judgement at Nuremberg)
1917 - Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary keep her away from your tapes
1921 - Steve Allen, comedian
1927 - Alan King, comedian
1942 - Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arvalo, president of Guatemala (1986- )
1948 - Chris Chambliss, NY Yankee 1st baseman
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posted 12-28-2005 06:15 AM
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December 28...
On this day in history ..
1669 - William Semple patents chewing gum
1832 - John Calhoun became the 1st Vice-president to resign
1846 - Iowa becomes 29th state
1890 - Battle of Wounded Knee SD - Last major conflict with Indians
1902 - Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
1908 - Earthquake strikes Messina Italy; 80 000 die
1912 - SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St. (MUNI)
1915 - SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
1950 - Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel into South Korea
1978 - 30th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy
1985 - Warring Lebanese Moslem and Christian leaders sign peace agreement
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1763 - John Molson, founder of a Montreal brewery
1856 - Woodrow Wilson, (D) 28th pres (1912-21) (Nobel 1919)
1882 - Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist and cosmologist
1882 - Sir Arthur Eddington, astronomer physicist mathematician
1894 - Ed Healey, NFL tackle (Rock Island Independents Chicago Bears)
1896 - Roger Sessions, American composer
1903 - John Von Neumann,
1905 - Earl `Fatha' Hines, jazz pianist
1908 - Lew Ayres, actor (All Quiet on the Western Front)
1920 - Steve Van Buren, NFL halfback (Eagles)
1925 - Heldegarde Neff, in Ulm Germany
1929 - Owen Bieber, president of United Auto Workers
1931 - Martin Milner, (Adam-12)
1934 - Maggie Smith, in Ilford Eng (Death on the Nile Clash of Titans)
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posted 12-29-2005 08:32 AM
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December 29....
On this day in history ..
1170 - Archbishop Thomas A Becket murdered by King Henry II supporters
1845 - Texas becomes 28th state
1848 - Gas lights installed at White House for 1st time
1851 - 1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened in Boston
1864 - Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball
1890 - Federal troops massacre 300 captive Sioux at Wounded Knee SD
1911 - SF Symphony formed
1916 - Death of Rasputin
1921 - William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM
1931 - Identification of heavy water publicly announced HC Urey
1937 - Pan Am starts SF to Auckland New Zealand service
1949 - 1st UHF television station operating regular basis Bridgeport Ct
1949 - Hungary nationalized its industries
1952 - 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale Elmsford NY
1975 - 11 killed 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC
1983 - US announced withdrawal from UNESCO
1984 - Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1721 - Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th
1776 - Charles Macintosh, Scotland patented waterproof fabric
1800 - Charles Goodyear, invented vulcanization process for rubber
1808 - Andrew Johnson, (Unionist) 17th pres (1865-69)
1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, (Lib) British PM (1868-74 '80-86 '92-94)
1859 - Venustiano Carranza, president of Mexico (1915-20)
1879 - Billy Mitchell, WW I aviation hero Gen
1917 - Tom Bradley, LA Mayor
1920 - Viveca Lindfors, actress (The Way We Were Welcome to LA)
1921 - Marla Powers,
1934 - Inga Swenson, in Omaha Nebraska
1936 - Ray Nitschke, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers)
1937 - Mary Tyler Moore, in Bkln (Mary Tyler Moore Show Ordinary People)
1938 - Barbara Steele,
1938 - Jon Voight, actor (Deliverance Midnight Cowboy)
1946 - Marianne Faithful, Rocker
1947 - Ted Danson, (Cheers)
1949 - Angel Tompkins,
1952 - Gelsey Kirkland, ballerina
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posted 12-30-2005 06:58 AM
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December 30.............
On this day in history ..
1809 - Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
1817 - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii
1853 - Gadsden Purchase 45 000 sq miles by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million. Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico
1903 - 602 die as flames swept through Iroquois Theater in Chicago
1916 - Grigori Rasputin Russian monk advisor to tsarina is assassinated
1922 - USSR organized as a federation
1924 - Edwin Hubble announces existence of other Milky Way systems
1935 - Italian bombers destroyed Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
1938 - Electronic television system patented VK Zworykin
1971 - Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders)
1972 - Pres. Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
1975 - Democratic Republic of Madagascar founded
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1851 - Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
1865 - Rudyard Kipling, author who coined "White man's burden" (Nobel '07)
1867 - Simon Guggenheim, sen
1869 - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist humorist
1876 - Pablo Casals, Spanish violinist conductor composer
1884 - Tojo Hideki, Japanese PM in WWII
1911 - Jeanette Nolan,
1914 - Bert Parks, Miss America emcee
1919 - Jo Van Fleet, actress (Gunfight at the OK Corral East of Eden)
1928 - Bo Diddley, Rock `n' roll pioneer
1928 - Jack Lord, (Hawaii 5-0)
1929 - Barbara Nichols,
1931 - Skeeter Davis, in Dry Ridge Ky
1935 - Sandy Koufax, Dodger pitcher
1942 - Mike Nesmith, (Monkees)
1959 - Tracy Ullman,
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On December 31 in history ..
1384 - John Wycliffe English religious reformer died
1600 - British East India Company chartered
1719 - John Flamsteed 1st Astronomer Royal dies at 73
1744 - James Bradley announces discovery of earth's motion of nutation
1775 - Battle of Qubec
1805 - End of French Republican calendar
1852 - Future Pres & Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes marry
1857 - Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as new capital of Canada
1862 - Pres Lincoln signs an act admitting West Virginia to the Union
1862 - Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank at Cape Hatteras NC
1879 - Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)
1879 - Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
1890 - Ellis Is opens as a US immigration depot
1921 - Last SF firehorses retired
1943 - NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater
1944 - 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden Utah
1946 - Pres Truman officially proclaims end of WW II
1951 - 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
1958 - Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X
1961 - Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
1974 - Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3 million Yank contract
1974 - US citizens allowed to buy & own gold for 1st time in 40 years
1981 - Lt Rawlings stages coup in Ghana
1984 - Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH
1984 - Rajiv Gandhi took office as India's 6th PM
1999 - Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama
Famous birthdays on December 31 ..
1869 - Henri Matisse, French Impressionist painter
1880 - George C Marshall, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953)
1904 - Nathan Milstein, concert violinist
1905 - Jule Styne, English songwriter
1928 - Hugh McElhenny, NFL halfback (SF Minnesota Giants Detroit)
1930 - Odetta, folk singer
1932 - George Schlatter, TV producer
1937 - Anthony Hopkins, Actor
1941 - Sarah Miles, in England
1943 - Ben Kingsley, Actor
1943 - John Denver, (Thank God he's a country boy)
1946 - Diane von Frstenberg, fashion designer in Brussels Belgium
1946 - Patty Smith, in Chic
1947 - Tim Matheson, actor (Animal House To Be or Not to Be)
1948 - Donna Summer, in Boston (On the Radio)
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On January 1 in history ..
1643 - Isaac Newton baptized in St. John's Church in Colsterworth England
1801 - Giuseppe Piazzi discoved 1st asteroid later named Ceres
1801 - United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland established
1804 - Haiti gains independence from France (National Day)
1808 - Congress prohibits importation of slaves
1848 - Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
1863 - Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln
1892 - Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY - Ellis Island became reception center for new immigrants
1894 - Manchester Ship Canal in England opened to traffic
1898 - Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of SF Bay
1899 - Cuba liberated from Spain by US (National Day)
1901 - Commonwealth of Australia established
1902 - 1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena California
1912 - 1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (763 miles)
1913 - Post office begins parcel post deliveries
1934 - Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison
1934 - Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantees) effective
1936 - 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues NY Herald Tribune
1946 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god
1948 - 1st newsreel in color Pasadena Ca
1954 - Rose & Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts
1956 - Sudan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1957 - International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958
1958 - European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation
1960 - Cameroon gains independence from France
1962 - Beatles Decca audition
1962 - Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand
1965 - International Cooperation Year
1971 - Cigarette advertisements banned on TV
1972 - International Book Year
1973 - Britain Ireland & Denmark join Common Market
1974 - World Population Year
1975 - International Women's Year
1978 - Pres. Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
1979 - International Year of the Child
1980 - Decade of Water & Sanitation
1981 - International Year for Disabled
1981 - Palau (Trust Territory of Pacific Is.) becomes self-governing
1983 - World Communications Year
1984 - AT & T broken up into 8 companies
1984 - Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
1985 - International Youth Year
1986 - International Peace Year
1986 - Spain & Portugal become 11th & 12th members of Common Market
1987 - Internat'l Year of Shelter
1988 - NY Carnegie Deli's owner Leo Steiner dies
2304 - Mid- CALENDAR day
4713 - B.C. Julian calendar begins at Greenwich mean noon
Famous birthdays on January 1 ..
1449 - Lorenzo de'Medici, (The Magnificent) of Florence
1481 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer
1735 - Paul Revere, US patriot and The British are coming
1745 - General Anthony Wayne, military leader ("Mad Anthony")
1752 - Elizabeth Griscom, (Betsy) Ross--flag maker
1819 - Arthur Hugh Clough, poet and friend of Matthew Arnold
1854 - Sir James Frazer, British anthropologist and author (The Golden Bough)
1864 - Alfred Stieglitz, father of modern photography
1867 - Lew Fields, comedian (of Weber & Fields)
1873 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (The Flies and The Bosses)
1879 - E.M. Forster, English novelist (Howard's End and A Passage to India)
1895 - J Edgar Hoover, Mr FBI
1900 - Xavier Cugat, bandleader
1909 - Barry Goldwater (R), former US senator from Az
1909 - Dana Andrews, actor (Battle of the Bulge and Laura)
1909 - John Glenn, astronaut
1911 - Hank Greenberg, Detroit Tiger Hall of Famer
1919 - Carole Landis,
1919 - J D Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'
1922 - Ernest Hollings (D), US senator from SC
1925 - George Conner, NFL tackle and linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1927 - Yuri Grigorovich, Russian choreographer
1932 - Terry Moore, in Los Angeles Calif
1942 - Country Joe McDonald,
1942 - Gennadi V. Sarafanov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
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Bob Maar
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posted 01-02-2006 04:01 PM
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January 2...
On this day in history ..
1776 - 1st revolutionary flag displayed
1788 - Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
1893 - World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
1917 - Royal Bank of Canada took over Quebec Bank
1921 - D eYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
1933 - Bruins beat Rangers in NY 13-3
1935 - Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for kidnap-murder of Charles
1936 - 1st electron tube described St Louis Mo
1942 - 28 nations at war with Axis pledge no separate peace
1942 - Japanese occupied Manila
1955 - President Jose Antonio Remon of Panama assassinated
1957 - SF & Los Angeles stock exchanges merge
1959 - USSR launches Mechta 1st lunar probe & artificial in solar orbit
1968 - Dr Christian Barnard performs 1st successful heart transplant
1972 - Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
1979 - 30th Islander shut-out opponent - Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver
1982 - Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins
1983 - Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes
1985 - 90th hat trick in Islander history - Brent Sutter
1986 - 191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1647 - Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion of Va. (1676)
1727 - James Wolfe, commander of British Army at capture of Qubec
1861 - Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady
1863 - Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)
1920 - Isaac Asimov, scientist-writer
1922 - Renata Tebaldi, lyric soprano
1927 - Gino Marchetti, NFL defensive end (Dallas Texans and Baltimore Colts)
1927 - Richard Belmont Ray, Democrat-Georgia
1936 - Roger Miller, singer (King of the Road)
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