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Birthdates which occurred on January 18:
1641 François Michel le Tellier French statesman (Marquis de Louvois)
1657 Hendrik Casimir II Dutch Fieldmarshal (Nassau)
1726 Hendrik prince of Prussia/diplomat
1779 Peter Roget thesaurus fame/inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard)
1782 Daniel Webster Salisbury NH, orator/politician/lawyer
1809 Richard Caswell Gatlin Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden inventor (1st commercial usable barbed wire)
1815 James Chesnut Jr Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
1820 Abraham Buford Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
1831 Edward Ferrero Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1849 Sir Edmund Barton 1st PM of Australia (1900-03)
1854 Thomas A Watson needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone)
1857 Otto von Below German commandant (WWI)
1880 Paul Ehrenfest Austria/Netherlands physicist (adiabates hypothesis)
1882 A A Milne English author (Winnie-the-Pooh)
1892 Oliver Hardy Harlem GA, comedy team member (Laurel & Hardy)
1904 Cary Grant England, actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest)
1908 Jacob Bronowsky British mathematician/cultural historian
1913 Danny Kaye Brooklyn NY, UNICEF/comedian/actor (Danny Kaye Show)
1932 Joe Schmidt NFL Hall-of-Famer
1932 Robert Anton Wilson US, sci-fi author (Trick Top Hat)
1933 John Boorman producer/director (Exorcist II, Deliverance, Zardoz)
1933 Ray Dolby sound expert/inventor (Dolby noise limiting system)
1941 Bobby Goldsboro Marianna FL, singer (Honey)
1941 David Ruffin Mississippi, vocalist (Temptations-Papa Was a Rolling Stone)
1948 Takeshi Kitano Tokyo Japan, actor (Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)
1950 John Hughes director (Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science)
1955 Kevin Costner Los Angeles CA, actor (Fandango, Silverado, Bull Durham, Waterworld)
1958 Jeffrey N Williams Superior WI, Major Army/astronaut
1981 Kimberly Gloudemans Miss California Teen-USA (1997)
1981 Latoya Farley Miss Oklahoma Teen-USA (1996)

Deaths which occurred on January 18:
1367 Pedro I king of Portugal (1357-67), dies at 46
1659 Benedikt Lechler composer, dies at 64
1664 Moise Amyrault French theologist/vicar, dies
1666 Adriaen A Bloemaert Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 56
1677 John A van Riebeeck Dutch founder Cape Colony, dies at 57
1730 Peter II czar of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14
1862 John Tyler 10th US President (1841-45), dies in Richmond VA at 71
1921 Adolf von Hildebrand German sculptor, dies at 73
1923 Wallace Reid actor (Birth of a Nation), dies at 31
1936 Rudyard Kipling author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies in Burwash England at 70
1954 Sydney Greenstreet actor (Conflict, Maltese Falcon), dies at 74
1967 Harry Antrim actor (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies of heart attack at 83
1967 Reese "Goose" Tatum basketballer (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 45
1978 Carl Betz actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show), dies at 56
1984 Malcolm H Kerr 9th president of American University of Beirut, shot dead
1985 Mahmoud Taha Sudanese Moslem leader, hanged at 76
1991 Nita Krebs actor (Munchkin-Wizard of Oz), dies of heart attack at 85
1996 Minnesota Fats [Rudolf Wanderone Jr], billiard hustler, dies at 82
1997 Paul Tsongas (Senator-D-MA), dies at 55

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1964 METOYER BRYFORD G.---OAKDALE LA.
1964 STRALEY JOHN L.---BEAVER FALLS PA.
1967 MADSEN MARLOW E.---MINNEAPOLIS MN.
1968 BOLES WARREN W.---MARBLEHEAD NECK MA.
1968 HINCKLEY ROBERT B.---SPRINGFIELD ME.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1968 JONES ROBERT C.---MADISON NJ.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1968 ROEHRICH RONALD L.---SPRINGDALE AR.
1968 SMITH WAYNE O.---LOUISVILLE KY.
[/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1968 SIMONET KENNETH A.---CHICAGO IL.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV]
1969 COADY ROBERT F.---NEW ORLEANS LA.

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

On this day...
0336 St Mark begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0350 General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans
0532 Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die
1307 German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia
1478 Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod
1486 King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV
1520 Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde
1535 Francisco Pizarro founds Lima Peru
1644 Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
1671 Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panamá
1733 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)
1777 San Jose CA founded
1778 Captain James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
1840 Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears
1862 Confederate Territory of Arizona is formed
1865 Battle of Fort Moultrie SC
1869 Elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco CA
1871 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Bismarck
1884 General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum
1896 1st demonstration of an x-ray machine in the US, New York City NY
1901 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re
1911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
1919 WWI Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France
1929 "New York Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
1929 Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
1930 -27ºF (-33ºC), Watts OK (state record)
1933 White Sands National Monument, NM established
1938 Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to the Hall of Fame
1943 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis
1943 Soviets announce they broke the long Nazi siege of Leningrad
1944 1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts
1947 Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for $25-35,000)
1948 Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS)
1950 Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season, takes $20,000 salary cut to $45,000, pay cut is Feller's own suggestion
1951 NFL rules tackles, guards & centers ineligible for forward pass
1951 NFL takes control of the failing Baltimore Colts
1951 Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against German Democratic Republic"
1954 Fanfani forms Italian government
1956 German Democratic Republic forms own army (National People's Army)
1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hours 19 minutes
1962 US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Beatles 1st appearance in Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35)
1964 Plans for the World Trade Center announced (New York City NY)
1967 Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada
1967 Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison
1969 Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris
1969 Soyuz 5 returns to Earth
1973 Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH
1973 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on BBC
1974 "The $6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
1975 "The Jeffersons" spin-off from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
1976 Super Bowl X Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Lynn Swann, Pittsburgh, Wide Receiver
1978 Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB
1980 Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce
1980 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" hits #1
1980 Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3½ years in prison for tax evasion & fined $20,000
1981 Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets
1983 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball
1985 US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise
1989 Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
1989 Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1990 Washington DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
1991 Eastern Airlines goes out of business after 62 years
1991 Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel
1991 US acknowledges CIA and US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career
1993 Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time
1996 Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY

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

World : Pooh Day
Tunisia : Revolution Day (1956)
US : Martin Luther King Jr Day (1929) (Monday)
Virginia : Lee-Jackson Day (Monday)
US : Cuckoo Dancing Week Begins
US : Healthy Weight Week Begins
US : Pizza Week Begins
Wheat Bread Month

Religious Observances
Judism : Tu B'Shvat
Anglican, Lutheran : Commemoration of the Confession of St Peter the Apostle
Lutheran : Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins
Roman Catholic-Mexico : Commemoration of St Prisca, virgin/martyr at 13
Roman Catholic : Feast of Blessed Beatrix d'Este
Roman Catholic : Feast of St Leobardus
Christian : Church & Economic Life Week begins
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Margaret of Hungary

Religious History
1562 The Council of Trent Ä called by the popes to deal with the monumental problems caused by the Reformation Ä reconvened, following a suspension of ten years.
1815 Birth of L.F.K. Tischendorf, German biblical and textual scholar. In 1844 he discovered one of the oldest and most valuable manuscripts of the Greek Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus, which dates back to the 4th century.
1846 Taylor University was established in Fort Wayne, Indiana, under Methodist sponsorship.
1891 The first Armenian Church in the U.S. was consecrated in Worcester, MA. New churches were later consecrated in Fresno, CA (1900); West Hoboken, NJ (1907); and Fowler, CA (1910).
1936 In Washington, DC, Catholic biblical scholars met to discuss two proposals: the preparation of a new Bible translation and the formation of a society of Catholic biblical scholars. In result, the Catholic Biblical Association (CBA) was formed in 1937, and the New American Bible (NAB) was published in 1970.

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

Thought for the day :
"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."

Question of the day...
Did Noah keep his bees in archives?

Murphys Law of the day...(Young's Handy Guide to the Modern Sciences)
If it is green or it wiggles -- it is Biology.
If it stinks -- it is Chemistry.
If it doesn't work -- it is Physics.

Amazing fact #678...
Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.