MOVIES
1964 Stanley Kubrick's"Dr Strangelove" premieres.
WAR!
1863 Battle at Bear River WA US Army vs Indians.
1864 Battle of Moorefield WV (Rosser's Raid).
1900 Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed.
1944 285 German bombers attack London.
TERRORISM
1998 A bomb rocked an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer working as a security guard, and critically injuring Emily Lyons, a nurse. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.)
2007 A Palestinian suicide bomber killed three Israelis at a bakery in Eilat in the first such attack inside Israel in nine months.
2007 Deeply distrustful of Iran, President Bush said "we will respond firmly" if Tehran escalated its military actions in Iraq and threatened American forces or Iraqi citizens.
DISASTERS
1966 Snow storm in north east US kills 165.
1996 Fire destroyed Venice, Italy's La Fenice opera house.
1998 Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die.
2003 A dust explosion at the West Pharmaceutical Services plant in Kinston, N.C., killed six people and injured dozens more.
THE GIPPER
1984 President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term.
CREEPY
1845 Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.
OOPS
1994 Ulrike Maier Olympic skier, breaks neck during world cup skiing at 26.
INSPIRATION
1979 Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays".
POLITICS
1850 Henry Clay introduced in the Senate compromise proposals on slavery.
1861 Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.
EXECUTED
1997 Eric Schneider murderer of 2 teachers, executed in MO at 35.
NANNY STATE
1919 Secretary of state proclaims the 18th amendment (prohibition).
PATENTS
1886 1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe.
1924 Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland.
STARTS
1920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co.
SPORTS
1936 The first members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.
1963 The first members of pro football's Hall of Fame were named in Canton, Ohio.
1989 Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt.
EUTHANASIA
2007 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was euthanized because of medical complications eight months after his gruesome breakdown at the Preakness.
LABOR
1834 President Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute.
1912 Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence MA.
MARRIAGE
1958 50 years ago, actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married in Las Vegas.
DIVORCE
1951 Liz Taylor's 1st divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr).
DIPLOMACY
1979 President Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations.
SUICIDE
1977 Freddie Prinze comedian/actor (Chico & the Man), shoots himself at 22.
BUDGETS
2003 The Congressional Budget Office predicted the current year's federal deficit would soar to $199 billion even without President Bush's new tax cut plan or war against Iraq.
KILLERS
1958 Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming.
BORN
1737 Thomas Paine political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason).
1843 The 25th president of the United States, William McKinley, was born in Niles, Ohio.
1860 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Tagarov Russia, playwright (Cherry Orchard).
1878 Barney Oldfield Ohio, daredevil.
1880 W C Fields [William Claude Dukenfield] Philadelphia PA, "on the whole, he'd rather be in Philadelphia"/actor (My Little Chickadee, Bank Dick).
1912 Professor Irwin Corey Brooklyn NY, comedian (Car Wash, Doc).
1913 Victor Mature Louisville KY, actor (One Million BC, The Robe, Samson & Delilah).
BIRTHDAYS
Actor John Forsythe is 90. Actor Noel Harrison is 74. Author Germaine Greer is 69. Actress Katharine Ross is 68. Actor Tom Selleck is 63. Rhythm-and-blues singer Bettye LaVette is 62. Actor Marc Singer is 60. Actress Ann Jillian is 58. Rock musician Tommy Ramone (Ramones) is 56. Rock musician Louie Perez (Los Lobos) is 55. Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is 54. Country singer Irlene Mandrell is 52. Actress Diane Delano is 51. Actress Judy Norton Taylor ("The Waltons") is 50. Rock musician Johnny Spampinato (NRBQ) is 49. Olympic gold-medal diver Greg Louganis is 48. Rock musician David Baynton-Power (James) is 47. Rock musician Eddie Jackson (Queensryche) is 47. Actor Nicholas Turturro is 46. Rock singer-musician Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera) is 44. Actor-director Edward Burns is 40. Actress Heather Graham is 38. Actor Sharif Atkins is 33. Actress Sara Gilbert is 33. Actor Andrew Keegan is 29. Actor Jason James Richter is 28. Blues musician Jonny Lang is 27.
DEATH
1820 Britain's King George III died at Windsor Castle, ending a reign that had seen both the American and French revolutions.
1888 Edward Lear poet/author, dies at 75.
1956 H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken US essayist/critic/satirist (Smart Set), dies in Baltimore MD at 75.
1963 poet Robert Frost died in Boston at age 88.
1980 Jimmy Durante New York City NY, singer/comedian (Ink-a-dink-a-doo, Palooka, The Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 86.
January 29, the 29th day of 2008. There are 337 days left in the year.
compiled by Mondoreb
image: kilby
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
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