On this Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on January 07:
1611 James Harrington England, political author (Commonwealth of Oceans)
1653 Bernhard Albinus Germany, court-physician (Frederick of Prussia)
1685 Gerard George Clifford Dutch director of East India Company
1799 Daniel Tyler Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1800 Millard Fillmore Locke NY, (Whig) 13th President (1850-53)
1808 Jacob Ammen Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1821 Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1822 Lucius C M Bakker Frisian physician/author (Goethe)
1824 James Morrison Hawes Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1844 Marie-Bernarde Soubirous [St Bernadette of Lourdes], saint/visionary
http://www.christianmystics.com/traditional/women/bernadette1.shtml
1845 Louis III last king of Bavaria (1913-18)
1855 Eliëzer Ben-Jehuda [Perelmann], Latvia, writer (1st Hebrew newspaper)
1873 Adolph Zukor Hungary, movie producer/director/executive (Paramount)
1873 Charles Pierre Péguy Orléans France, Catholic writer (God Speaks)
1883 Andrew Browne Irish/British admiral (WWII)
1898 Art Baker New York City NY, TV host (You Asked For It)
1910 Alain de Rothschild France, banker/baron
1911 Butterfly [Thelma] McQueen Tampa FL, actress (Prissy-Gone With the Wind)
1918 Alessadro Natta Italian political leader (Communist Party)
1922 Vincent Gardenia Naples Italy, actor (All in the Family, LA Law)
1928 William Peter Blatty New York City NY, author (The Exorcist)
1939 Maury Povich TV host (Current Affair, Maury)/Connie Chung's husband
1941 Frederick Drew Gregory Washington DC, Colonel USAF/astronaut (STS 51-B, 33, 44)
1942 Paul Revere Boise ID, keyboardist (Paul Revere & Raiders)
1942 Vasili Alexeyev USSR, weightlifter (Olympics-gold-72, 76)
1957 "Perky" Katie Couric [Katherine], Arlington VA, TV news host/*itch (Today)
1958 Donna Rice New Orleans La, model/Gary Hart's Very close personal friend
1964 Nicolas Cage actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon)
Deaths which occurred on January 07:
0312 Lucianus of Antioch theologist/saint, dies
1285 Charles I of Anjou king of Naples/brother of King Louis IX, dies at 58
1325 Dionysius the justified, King of Portugal (1279-1325), dies
1536 Catherine of Aragon 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies
1537 Alessandro de' Medici Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/medici.html 1598 Theodorus I [Fedor Ivanovitch], czar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40
1655 Innocentius X [Giambattista Pamfili], pope (1644-55), dies at 80
1695 Mary II Stuart queen of England, dies at 32
1892 Tewfik Pasja viceroy of Egypt, dies at 39
1943 Nikola Tesla Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86
1958 Dr Petru Groza premier of Romania, dies at 74
1961 Clarice Baright 1st woman admitted to American Bar Association dies at 74
1989 Hirohito Japan`s emperor (1922-89), dies of duodenal cancer at 87 after 62-year reign (1/2 Million line Tokyo streets)
1990 Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski football hall of famer, dies at 81
1992 Richard Hunt puppeteer/actor (Muppet Movie), dies of AIDS at 40
1995 Viktor Vorobyov Russian General Major, dies in battle
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/9-7-2004-59009.asp
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
07-Jan-2004 2 | US: 1 | UK: 1 | Other: 0
UK Lance Corporal Andrew Jason Craw Basra (near) - Basrah Non-hostile - weapon malfunction
US Private 1st Class Jesse D. Mizener Log. Base Seitz (W. of Baghdad) Hostile - hostile fire - mortar attack
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
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On this day...
1271 Francois Grimaldi (Francois the Crafty) founds Monaco.
1325 Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as king of Portugal
1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French under Francois, Duke of Guise
1584 Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia & Holy Roman empire
1598 Boris Godunov seizes the Russian throne on death of Feodore I
http://www.answers.com/topic/boris-godunov 1601 Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1610 Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede
1618 Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor
1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1761 Battle at Panipat India Afghan army defeats the Mahratten
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/india/in04.html 1782 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
1784 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries)
1789 1st national (Presidential) election in US
1822 Liberia colonized by Americans
1830 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co begins carrying revenue traffic - 1st US Railroad Station (Baltimore MD)
1861 Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine
1862 Battle of Manassas Junction VA
1868 Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock
1868 Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson
1890 W B Purvis patents fountain pen
1892 Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs OK-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
1894 Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing
1896 Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook
1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco
1913 William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum
1914 1st steamboat passes through the Panamá Canal
1916 German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun
1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York & London
1927 Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley IL)
1929 "Buck Rogers", 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres
1929 "Tarzan", one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
1934 "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
1934 Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld
1942 WWII siege of Bataan starts
1944 Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
1945 Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen
1946 Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union
1948 US President Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan
1949 1st photo of genes taken at University of Southern California by Pease & Baker
1950 Hank Snow's 1st appearance on "Grand Ole Opry"
1953 President Truman announces development of the hydrogen bomb
1959 US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government
1964 Bahamas achieves internal self-government & cabinet responsibility
1964 Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in the air (Boeing 707)
http://www.pba.com/players/hof/playerbio.asp?ID=33 1967 "Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV
1968 1st class postage raised from 5¢ to 6¢
1968 Surveyor 7 lands on the Moon
1968 "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV
1969 US Congress doubles presidential salary
1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
1971 -40ºF Hawley Lake AZ (state record)
1972 Lewis F Powell Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1972 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1973 British Darts Organization founded in North London
1975 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage
1977 Human Rights Charter '77 established in Prague
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/19/documents/charter.77/ 1985 Lou Brock & Hoyt Wilhelm, elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1986 US President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1989 Akhito becomes emperor of Japan
1990 Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
1991 Soviet paratroopers sent to Baltic Republics
1992 Tom Seaver & Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1997 Jorge Semprun (Spanish author) wins The Jerusalem Prize for literature
1998 At a time when her association with President Clinton was not yet public, former White House intern Monica Lewinsky reportedly denied in an affidavit filed in the Paula Jones case that she had had an affair with him.
1998 A federal jury in Denver was unable to agree on a penalty for Terry Nichols, convicted in December 1997 in connection with the April 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. That meant he would not face the death penalty.
1998 600 civilians dragged from their homes and shot by the Taliban army in the northwest, Most of the victims were said to be Uzbeks
1999 President Clinton's impeachment trial opened in the Senate.
"You're not dumping this garbage on us"
Trent Lott
2000 Johnny Ely (66), a short-order cook, won the New York State Lottery Millennium Millions $100 million jackpot
2001 Turkish troops push 100 miles into northern Iraq in response to a call for help from the PUK, who are fighting the PPK.
2003 In Egypt Orthodox Christmas was marked for the first time as a national holiday in this predominantly Muslim nation
2004 Stephen Gough (44) convicted of breaching the peace and sentenced to three months in jail for trying to walk the length of Britain naked to promote public nudity.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Liberia : Pioneers' Day
US : Diet Resolution Week (Final Day)
US : National Pass Gas Day
US : Universal Letter-Writing Week (Final Day)
US : Pun Week ends
A good pun is it's own reword
Old Rock Day
National Hot Tea Month
Religious Observances
Andorra : St Lucia's Day
Christian-Andorra : St Lucia's Day
Christian-Ethiopia : Ganna Christmas
Roman Catholic : Feast of St Vitalis
Russian Orthodox : Julian Calendar Christmas in 20th, 21st century
Roman Catholic : Memorial of Raymond of Penafort, priest (opt)
Religious History
1450 In Scotland, the University of Glasgow was founded.
1610 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, 46, discovered four satellites of Jupiter with the aid of the newly invented telescope. His discovery revolutionized astronomy, and led Galileo to adopt the Copernican (heliocentric) model of the solar system in place of the older, less adequate, Ptolemaic (earth-centered) view.
1856 In London, famed English Baptist preacher Charles H. Spurgeon, 22, married Susannah Thompson, one of the parishioners at the New Park Street Baptist Chapel, where he was pastoring.
1934 Converted major league baseball player Billy Sunday, at age 72, began a two-week revival at Calvary Baptist Church in NY City. (Sunday was an evangelist from 1893 until his death in 1935.)
1941 In England, the four-day Anglican gathering known as the Malvern Conference opened. It was presided over by Archbishop William Temple.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Cow Escapes Meat Plant, Dodges SUV, Train
Jan 6, 10:32 PM (ET)
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - A cow that escaped a slaughterhouse dodged vehicles, ran in front of a train, braved the icy Missouri River and took three tranquilizer darts before being recaptured six hours later. News of the heifer's adventures prompted a number of people to offer to buy the animal.
The black, 1,200 pound heifer jumped a gate at the packing plant at around 5 a.m. Thursday and apparently wandered through residential areas. Police received reports at about 9:30 a.m. that it was in the middle of a busy intersection.
Police tried to catch the cow, and had her wedged between a stock trailer and a fence, but the heifer barreled through the fence toward the river, nearly being hit by a Chevrolet Suburban.
It was the first of many near-death experiences.
With the police in pursuit, the cow ran toward the railroad tracks and darted in front of an oncoming locomotive, briefly giving the police the slip again.
Crossing another road, the cow was nearly struck by a semi tractor-trailer.
"By then it was a madhouse," said police officer Corey Reeves. "People were coming out of the woodwork to see."
When police, animal control officers and slaughterhouse workers surrounded the cow in a park near the Missouri River, the cow jumped into the icy water.
As she swam to the west bank of the river, Reeves said she sank lower in the water and was being swept downstream. But the cow found a sandbar near the river's west bank and walked to shore.
"I was totally amazed she was able to swim the river," said Del Morris, the slaughterhouse manager.
As police scrambled to head off the cow on the other side of the river, a veterinarian with a tranquilizer gun was called.
Pursuers again believed they had the cow cornered at a chain link fence, but the heifer ran through a perimeter set up by officials.
The chase began to slow as the cow ran up against several strong fences. Dr. Jennifer Evans of Big Sky Medical Center shot the cow with a tranquilizer dart.
It had little effect.
Two darts later, the heifer showed no signs of going down. Slaughterhouse workers created a makeshift pen with metal panels that led to a stock trailer.
The heifer walked into the trailer at 11:45 a.m.
The cow was taken back to the slaughterhouse, where it was put in a pen - with a stronger fence - and given food and water.
(FREE THE COW)
Thought for the day :
"Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it."
Zora Neale Hurston
