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On this Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on January 09:
1554 Gregory XV [Alessandro Ludovisi], Roman Catholic pope (1621-23)
1803 Christopher Gustavus Memminger Secretary Treasurer (Confederacy) died in 1888
1816 John Palmer Usher Secretary Interior (Union) died in 1889
1822 John Porter Hatch volunteers Brevet Major General (Union), died in 1901
1859 Carrie Lane Chapman Catt women's rights leader/founder (League of Women Voters)
1870 Joseph B Strauss civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge)
1890 Karel Capek Czechoslovakia, writer (R U R ); coined the word "robot"
1898 Gracie Fields [Stansfield], England, music hall/vaudeville performer
1901 Chic Young cartoonist (Blondie)
1902 Rudolph Bing opera manager (New York Metropolitan Opera)
1904 George Balanchine dancer/choreographer/ballet producer
1908 Simone de Beauvoir France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex)
1913 Richard Milhouse Nixon Yorba Linda CA, (R) 37th President (1969-74)
1914 Gypsy Rose Lee [Rose Hovick], Seattle, burlesque actress (Gypsy)
1915 Fernando Lamas Buenos Aires Argentina, actor ("You look marvelous")
1915 Les Paul guitarist/inventor (Les Paul Guitar)
1917 Herbert Lom Czech, actor (Pink Panther Strikes Again, Dorian Gray)
1925 Lee Van Cleef New Jersey, actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from New York)
1933 Robert Garcia (Representative-D-New York, 1978- )
1934 Bart Starr NFL quarterback/coach (Green Bay)
1935 Bob Denver New Rochelle NY, actor (Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island)
1941 Joan Baez Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate
1941 Susannah York London, actress (A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones)
1944 Jimmy Page London England, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1972 Kristie Hicks Bardstown KY, Miss Kentucky-America (1995)

Deaths which occurred on January 09:
1324 Marco Polo Italian explorer, dies
1499 Johan Cicero elector of (Brandenburg, 1486-99), dies at 43
1843 Caroline Herschel "1st lady of astronomy", dies at 98 in Germany
1878 Victor Emmanuel II king of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78), dies at 57
1893 Mohara, Arab ivory/slave trader, dies in battle & is eaten
1979 Sara Carter vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family), dies at 80
1993 Felix Grucci fireworks expert, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 87

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 SCHIMBERG JAMES P.---CEDAR RAPIDS IA.
[REMAINS RETURNED 12/22/98]
1966 WILLIAMS THADDEUS E.---MOBILE AL.
[REMAINS RETURNED 12/22/98]
1968 DALY JAMES A. JR.---BROOKLYN NY.
[03/16/73 RELEASED BY PRG, DECEASED]
1968 GREEN NORMAN M.---WASHINGTON DC.
1968 IRSCH WAYNE C.---TULSA OK.
1968 NEWTON WARREN E.---CANBY OR.
1968 PHIPPS JAMES L.---MATOON IL.
1968 RAMOS RAINIER S.---BELLINGHAM WA.
1968 REHE RICHARD R.---LONG BEACH CA.
1968 SYKES DERRI---CHICAGO IL.
1968 WATKINS WILLIE A.---SUMTER NC.
[11/05/69 RELEASED]
1969 BYRD HUGH M. JR.---BEREA KY.
1969 O'BRIEN KEVIN---FARMINGVILLE NY.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
1296 Earl Floris V signs accord with French king
1317 Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France
1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
1428 Pope Martinus V declares Jacoba van Beierens marriage invalid
1464 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands
1493 1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)
1522 Adriaan F Boeyens of Utrecht elected only Dutch/last non-Italian pope (Adrian VI)
1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod
1718 France declares war on Spain
1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat
1776 Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, a scathing attack on King George III's reign over the colonies and a call for complete independence.
1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state
1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America (Philadelphia)
1799 Income Tax introduced in UK
1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held
1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon
1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
1847 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)
1848 People's uprising in Palermo Sicily
1854 Astor Library opens in New York City NY
1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies
1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon CA
1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of the West fired on, Sumter SC
1861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede
1863 -Jan 11th] Battle of Arkansas Post AR (Fort Hindman)
1866 Fisk University establishes
1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson
1880 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days
1903 Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace
1903 Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota established
1903 Frank Farrell & Bill Devery purchase AL Baltimore franchise for $18,000 & move it to New York City NY (Yankees)
1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California established
1908 Count Zeppelin announces plans for his airship to carry 100 passengers
1909 Ernest Shackleton reaches 88º23' south
1912 US marines invade Honduras
1929 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians
1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
1942 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
1945 US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade Philippines
1951 Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres
1952 Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty
1954 -87ºF (-66ºC), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)
1956 Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers
1956 Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan
1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR
1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns
1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
1958 In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cincinnati OH) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54
1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
1962 Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minnesota, to become NWA champ
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
1967 Georgia legislature seats Representative Julian Bond
1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on the Moon
1969 Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight (Bristol England)
1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted
1972 Billionaire Howard Hughes said Clifford Irving's biography is a fake
1976 CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts
1977 Super Bowl XI Oakland Raiders defeat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14, in Pasadena; Super Bowl MVP Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, Wide Receiver
1979 High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws
1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
1983 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits the Falkland Islands
1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
1989 Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
1991 Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse the gulf crisis
1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
1997 Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital
1998 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
1999 French NATO forces killed a suspected war criminal in Bosnia while trying to arrest him. Dragan Gagovic had been charged in the rape and torture of Muslim women during a Serb offensive in eastern Bosnia in 1992-93.

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Connecticut : Ratification Day (1788)
Panamá, Canal Zone : Martyrs' Day/Dia de los Martires
Switzerland : Meitlisunntig Festival-Woman in Villmergen War (1712) (Sunday)
US : Pun Week (Day 6)
Fungal Infection Awareness Month.

Religious Observances
Roman Catholic : Feast of St Adrian
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Julian the Hospitaller & companions

Religious History
1569 St. Philip of Moscow, primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, was murdered by Czar Ivan IV ("Ivan the Terrible").
1777 Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'My soul lives constantly as in the presence of God, and enjoys much of His divine favor. His love is better than life!'
1836 The first Roman Catholic college to be founded in the Deep South, Spring Hill College was established in Spring Hill, Arkansas.
1924 Death of British Armenian scholar F. C. Conybeare, 68. His researches did much to relate the Armenian language and culture to the Greek Old Testament (the Septuagint).
1970 After 140 years of unofficial racial discrimination, the Mormons issued an official statement declaring that blacks were not yet to receive the priesthood "for reasons which we believe are known to God, but which He has not made fully known to man."

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"Imagination is only intelligence having fun."

Question of the day...
How did a fool and his money get together?

Murphys Law of the day...(Frisbee Law)
The most powerful force in the world is that of a disc straining to land under a car, just beyond reach.

Astoundingly Amazing fact #47...
There are one million ants for every human being.