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In The News:
A Bulgarian woman who killed her son was released from prison because of terminal cancer. She then went home and killed her husband. Nice.
Saddam expelled from court as punch thrown. Sore losers!
1780 - The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
1845 - In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors
1877 - Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer is given a funeral with full military honors.
1913 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
1933 - A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage while en route from Cleveland, Ohio to Chicago, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
1935 - A tornado destroyed the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Langenberg. As a result of this catastrophe, few wooden towers were constructed after this date.
1944 - Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp.
1957 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he was refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
1966 - Simon and Garfunkel release the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
1967 - The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, enters into force.
1971 - Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
1973 - Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
1978 - US President Jimmy Carter signs a bill into law that authorizes the minting of the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
1979 - The Pac-Man arcade game is released to the Japanese market by Namco.
1985 - United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
1991 - Pink Floyd are inducted in the British National Association of Brick Distributors' Hall of Fame in recognition of services to the brick industry through their The Wall album.
1997 - An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
Happy Birthday:
1941 - Peter Coyote, American actor
1946 - John Prine, American singer
1946 - Ben Vereen, American actor
1953 - David Lee Roth, American singer
1958 - Tanya Tucker, American singer
1959 - Bradley Whitford, American actor
1961 - Julia Sweeney, American actress and comedian
1965 - Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr., American race car driver
Deaths on this day:
1939 - Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895)
1985 - Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
A Bulgarian woman who killed her son was released from prison because of terminal cancer. She then went home and killed her husband. Nice.
Saddam expelled from court as punch thrown. Sore losers!
1780 - The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
1845 - In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors
1877 - Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer is given a funeral with full military honors.
1913 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
1933 - A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage while en route from Cleveland, Ohio to Chicago, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
1935 - A tornado destroyed the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Langenberg. As a result of this catastrophe, few wooden towers were constructed after this date.
1944 - Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp.
1957 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he was refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
1966 - Simon and Garfunkel release the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
1967 - The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, enters into force.
1971 - Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
1973 - Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
1978 - US President Jimmy Carter signs a bill into law that authorizes the minting of the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
1979 - The Pac-Man arcade game is released to the Japanese market by Namco.
1985 - United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
1991 - Pink Floyd are inducted in the British National Association of Brick Distributors' Hall of Fame in recognition of services to the brick industry through their The Wall album.
1997 - An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
Happy Birthday:
1941 - Peter Coyote, American actor
1946 - John Prine, American singer
1946 - Ben Vereen, American actor
1953 - David Lee Roth, American singer
1958 - Tanya Tucker, American singer
1959 - Bradley Whitford, American actor
1961 - Julia Sweeney, American actress and comedian
1965 - Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr., American race car driver
Deaths on this day:
1939 - Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895)
1985 - Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
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