On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on January 02:
1642 Mehmed IV sultan (Turkey)
1647 Nathaniel Bacon leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia (1676)
http://www.famousamericans.net/nathanielbacon/
1699 Osman III sultan (Turkey)
1727 James Wolfe commanded British Army (captured Québec)
1752 Philip Freneau poet of American Revolution (The American Village)
1822 Rudolph J E Clausius Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)
1835 Charles Russell Lowell Jr Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1857 Frederick Opper cartoonist (Willie and His Papa, Maud the Mule, Alphonse & Gaston)
1860 William C Mills museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds)
1861 Helen Herron Taft 1st lady (1909-13)
1880 Louis Breguet French aviation pioneer
1901 Robert Marshall founder (Wilderness Society)
1904 Sally Rand Hickory County MO, stripper (fan dance)
http://www.geocities.com/~jimlowe/sally/sallydex.html
1913 Ernest Sidey British air marshal
1920 Isaac Asimov Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)
1925 William J Crowe Jr Kentucky, chairman joint chiefs of staff
1928 Dan Rostenkowski (Representative-D-IL, -94), House Ways & Means Committee chair
1928 Vaughn Beals Cambridge MA, CEO (Harley Davidson motorcycle)
1932 Dabney Coleman Austin Texas, (That Girl, Mary Hartman, Buffalo Bill)
1936 Roger Miller Fort Worth TX, country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me)
1939 Jim Bakker televangelist (PTL Club)/philanderer (Jessica Hahn)
1949 Chick Churchill Wales, keyboardist (Ten Years After-I'm Going Home)
1952 Ricky Van Shelton Grit VA, country singer (Wild-Eyed Dream)
1968 Cuba Gooding Jr actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)
Deaths which occurred on January 02:
0017 Publius Ovidius Naso Roman poet, dies
1861 Frederik Willem IV king Prussia (1840-61)/Germ (1849-61), dies at 65
1863 Roger Weightman Hanson Confederate Brigadier General, dies in battle at 35
http://www.geocities.com/weightmn/genrogerweightmanhanson.htm 1892 George B Airy English astronomer/writer, dies at 90
1904 James Longstreet Confederate General, dies at 82
1918 Sijbe K Bakker vicar/theologist (Christian-Socialism), dies at 42
1923 Sam Carter black resident of Rosewood FL, lynched by KKK
1963 Jack Carson actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce), dies at 52
1963 Dick Powell actor/director (Dick Powell Theater), dies at 58
1974 Tex Ritter country singer (5 Star Jubilee), dies at 67
1977 Erroll Garner jazz pianist (Misty), dies at 53
1981 David Lynch singer (Platters-My Prayer), dies at 51
1990 Alan Hale Jr actor (Skipper Jonas Grumby-Gilligan's Island), dies of cancer at 71
1994 Dixy Lee Ray chairwoman (US Atomic Energy Commission) first woman to be elected governor of Washington, dies at 79
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=601 1995 Mohammed Siyad Barre President of Somalia (1969-91), dies
2001 Former Attorney General and Secretary of State William P. Rogers died in Bethesda, Md., at age 87.
2002 Qari Ahmadullah (Taliban's intelligence chief) holds a short meeting with a US bomb.
2005 H. David Dalquist (86), creator of the aluminum Bundt pan (1950) dies
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
02-Jan-2004 5 | US: 5 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Marc S. Seiden Baghdad (S of) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Specialist Solomon C. "Kelly" Bangayan Baghdad (S of) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Captain Eric Thomas Paliwoda Balad (near) - Salah ad Din Hostile - hostile fire - mortar attack
US Captain Kimberly N. Hampton Fallujah (near) - Anbar Hostile - helicopter crash
US Sergeant Dennis A. Corral Lake Habbaniyah (S of) - Anbar Non-hostile - vehicle accident
Afghanistan
01/02/05 Munoz, Pedro A. Sergeant 1st Class 47 US U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group Hostile - hostile fire Shindand Airfield [Herat Prov.]
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0069 Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor
0533 John II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1235 Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names
1492 Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day)
http://www.bartleby.com/65/mu/Muhammd11-Gran.html 1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins
1585 Spain & Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville
1602 Spanish forces in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale
1757 British troops occupy Calcutta India
1776 Austria ends interrogation torture
1788 Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
1800 Free black community of Philadelphia PA petitions Congress to abolish slavery
1811 US Senator Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the President of the US)
1831 Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston
1832 1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens
1839 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)
1861 Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia
1861 SC seizes inactive Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor
1863 Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends
http://www.civilwarhome.com/stones.htm 1870 Building Brooklyn Bridge begins
1882 Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust
1885 General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum
1890 Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny
1896 Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops)
1900 E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7" single-sided records (Montréal)
1903 President T. Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola MI, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
1905 Japanese troops capture Port Arthur
1908 Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa
1910 1st junior high schools in US open in Berkeley CA
1911 Brooklyn Dodgers president Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000
1913 National Woman's Party forms
1919 Anti-British uprising in Ireland
1919 Lithuania gains independence
1920 10,000 US union & socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USApalmerR.htm 1921 1st religious service radio broadcast in US, KDKA-Pittsburgh
1923 Ku Klux Klan kill 8 in a black residential area Rosewood FL.(compensation awarded in 1995)
http://www.displaysforschools.com/history.html 1929 US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls
1933 US troops leave Nicaragua
1934 1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania
1935 Bruno R Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Lindbergh baby
1936 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis MO
1938 Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded
1942 Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines
1944 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)
1945 Allied air raid on Neurenberg
1947 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
1948 WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, New York (PBS) begins
1949 KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny" premieres in New York City NY
1954 US Senate condems Joseph McCarthy
1955 1st "Bob Cummings Show" premieres on NBC (later on CBS)
1959 USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit
1960 Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for President
1960 1st redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax)
1960 John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years (7 months, 3 days 14 hrs.)
1961 Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14ºF recorded atop Haleakale
1962 Nighttime version of "Password" with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS
1965 New York Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath
1966 American G.I.s move into the Mekong Delta for the first time.
1966 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion
1967 U.S. planes down seven enemy planes
1968 Christiaan Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant
1974 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon
1974 Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
1975 US Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species
1977 Bowie Kuhn suspends Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing
1978 Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania"
1979 Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spingen begins
1984 Riot in Tunis kills over 100
1984 Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Philadelphia's 1st black mayor
1988 Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement
1990 Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson)
1994 Battles between army & rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57
1995 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated 15 billion light years away)
1997 Letter bombs arrive in the US from Egypt. Four were addressed to the Washington bureau of Al-Hayat, an Arab language daily. Others went to Leavenworth, Kansas. They contained the plastic explosive semtex.
2001 Pres.-elect Bush chose Spencer Abraham of Michigan as Sec. of Energy; Linda Chavez as Sec. of labor; and Norm Mineta, Pres. Clinton’s Commerce Sec., as Sec. of Transportation. Chavez ended up withdrawing after it was disclosed she had given money and shelter to an illegal immigrant who once did chores around Chavez's house.
2002 Foreign ministers of India and Pakistan shook hands at a regional summit in Nepal
2003 Sen. John "Sliky Pony" Edwards of North Carolina announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for president
2004 NASA Stardust spacecraft takes pictures of the Wild-2 comet tail and collected particles on "aerogel," a silica foam 99.8% air, the lightest material ever made
2004 Norwegian police arrest Mullah Krekar, Muslim Kurd leader of Ansar al-Islam, on charges connected to 2 suicide bombings in Iraq 2 years ago.
2005 1,500 people inhabite the artificial Maldive island of Hulhumale. Some $60 million had already been spent on its creation and completion was expected in 2040
http://www.deme.be/projects/maldive_hulhumale.html
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Georgia : Constitution Ratification Day (1788)
Haiti : Ancestor/Hero's Day
Japan : Shigoto Hajime-Begin Work Day [beginning of the work year]
Spain : Granada Day (1492)
Switzerland : Berchtold's Tag, founding of Berne
US : Betsy Ross Day (1776)
Run up the Flagpole and See if Anyone Salutes Day
US : Diet Resolution Week (Day 2)
Date Your Mate Month.
Religious Observances
Christian : Commemoration of St Macarius the Younger, martyr
old Roman Catholic : Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (most years)
Unification Church : Day of Victory of Love
Roman Catholic : Memorial of St Basil the Great, Gregory Nazianzen, bishops
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Gaspar del Bufalo, Italian priest
Lutheran : Commemoration of Johann Loehe, pastor
Jewish : Asarah B'Tevet (Siege of Jerusalem); Tevet 10, 5756
Religious History
1744 Colonial missionary to the American Indians David Brainerd wrote in his journal: 'We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.'
1909 Future Foursquare Gospel church founder Aimee Elizabeth [n‚e Kennedy] Semple [later McPherson], 19, along with her husband Robert Semple, was ordained to the ministry in Chicago by evangelist William H. Durham.
1921 The first religious program heard over the radio was broadcast from Calvary Episcopal Church of Pittsburgh over local radio station KDKA. (The first licensed radio station in the US, KDKA had been on the air only two months.)
1968 Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.'
1971 A team of Israeli scholars announced the discovery in Jerusalem of a 2,000-year-old skeleton of a crucified male. Found in a cave-tomb, it was the first direct physical evidence of the well-documented Roman method of execution.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Cat Calls 911 to Help Owner, Police Say
Jan 2, 6:39 AM (ET)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Police aren't sure how else to explain it. But when an officer walked into an apartment Thursday night to answer a 911 call, an orange-and-tan striped cat was lying by a telephone on the living room floor. The cat's owner, Gary Rosheisen, was on the ground near his bed having fallen out of his wheelchair.
Rosheisen said his cat, Tommy, must have hit the right buttons to call 911.
"I know it sounds kind of weird," Officer Patrick Daugherty said, unsuccessfully searching for some other explanation.
Rosheisen said he couldn't get up because of pain from osteoporosis and ministrokes that disrupt his balance. He also wasn't wearing his medical-alert necklace and couldn't reach a cord above his pillow that alerts paramedics that he needs help.
Daugherty said police received a 911 call from Rosheisen's apartment, but there was no one on the phone. Police called back to make sure everything was OK, and when no one answered, they decided to check things out.
That's when Daugherty found Tommy next to the phone.
Rosheisen got the cat three years ago to help lower his blood pressure. He tried to train him to call 911, unsure if the training ever stuck.
The phone in the living room is always on the floor, and there are 12 small buttons - including a speed dial for 911 right above the button for the speaker phone.
"He's my hero," Rosheisen said.
Thought for the day :
"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; but an American cow."
William Lyon Phelps
In some ways the Mosaic law is to the Christian what a crutch is to an athlete. It is good when needed and used properly. But a crutch cannot be employed to win a 100-yard dash, nor can leaning on a system of legal statements ever bring us spiritual victory. 