DBKP Today in Weird History: March 13, 2008

WAR, DISASTER, SCIENCE, RESIGNING, MURDER, TRAGEDY, ABORTION, JEWS, DEALS, ICONS, PATENTS, ATTEMPTS, ASSASSINATION, NAZIS, CLIMATE, INVENTIONS, TRIALS, POLITICALLY CORRECT, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH
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ICONS

1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly.

...and later

WAR!

2003 U.S. officials said President Bush might delay a vote on his troubled United Nations resolution or even drop it - and fight Iraq without the international body's backing.

DISASTER

1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die.

1928 Hundreds of people died when the San Francisquito Valley in California was inundated with water after the St. Francis Dam burst just before midnight the evening of March 12.

1961 Landslide in USSR, kills 145.

1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake.

1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed).

ATTEMPTS

1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit.

PATENTS

1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs.

DEALS

1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000.

CLIMATE

1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages.

1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US.

INVENTIONS

1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate.

ASSASSINATION

1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca.

NAZIS

1933 Josef Göbbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda.

1938 Anschluß-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany.

TRIALS

1998 Sgt. Maj. Gene McKinney, once the Army's top enlisted man, was acquitted at his court-martial of pressuring military women for sex, but was convicted of trying to persuade his chief accuser to lie.

SCIENCE

1781 The planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel. He thought it was a comet.

1925 A law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution.

JEWS

1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam.

1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany.

MURDER

1964 Bar manager Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her New York home; the case generated controversy over charges that Genovese's neighbors had failed to respond to her cries for help.

RESIGNING

1980 Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II announced he was stepping down, the same day a jury in Winamac, Ind., found the company innocent of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women in a Ford Pinto.

2007 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales admitted mistakes in how the Justice Department handled the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors but said he wouldn't resign.

POLITICALLY CORRECT

1988 yielding to student protests, the board of trustees of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a liberal arts college for the hearing-impaired, chose I. King Jordan to become the school's first deaf president.

TRAGEDY

1996 a gunman burst into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

2007 President Bush sought to soothe strained ties with Mexico by promising to prod Congress to overhaul tough U.S. immigration policies, but Mexican President Felipe Calderon criticized U.S. plans for a 700-mile border fence.

ABORTION

2003 The Senate voted 64-33 to ban partial birth abortion.

BORN

1733 Joseph Priestly England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen).

1770 Daniel Lambert England, giant (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death).

1908 American billionaire, publisher and diplomat Walter Annenberg (TV Guide) was born in Milwaukee.

BIRTHDAYS

Jazz musician Roy Haynes is 83. Country singer Jan Howard is 78. Songwriter Mike Stoller is 75. Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka is 69. Actor William H. Macy is 58. Actress Deborah Raffin is 55. Comedian Robin Duke is 54. Actress Glenne Headly is 53. Actress Dana Delany is 52. Rock musician Adam Clayton (U2) is 48. Jazz musician Terence Blanchard is 46. Actor Christopher Collet is 40. Actress Annabeth Gish is 37. Actress Tracy Wells is 37. Rapper Common is 36. Rapper Khujo (Goodie Mob, The Lumberjacks) is 36. Singer Glenn Lewis is 33. Actor Danny Masterson is 32. Actor Emile Hirsch is 23. Singers Nicole and Natalie Albino (Nina Sky) are 22.

DEATH

1901 Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, died in Indianapolis.

1938 Clarence S Darrow Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80.

Today is March 13, the 73rd day of the year. There are 293 days left in 2008.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: January 30, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, SPIT, HOT TIME, INVENTIONS, PATENTS, JAZZ, CENSUS, SHOOT OUT, POLITICS, BEHEADING, DICTATORS, CIVIL RIGHTS, NAZIs, SPORTS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, ASSASSINATION, MUSIC, WITHDRAWN, DAREDEVILS, CLASH, PUB FIGHT, JEWS, TRIAL, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH



WAR!

1968 The Tet Offensive began during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals; although the Communists were beaten back, the offensive was seen as a major setback for the U.S. and its allies.

1941 Australian troops conquer Derna Libya.

1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon.

1943 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin.

1943 German assault on French in Tunisia.

1943 German under officers shot down in Haarlem Netherlands.

1943 Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to General - field marshal.

1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean.

1944 US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands.

1945 German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die.

2003 President Bush put allies on notice that diplomacy would give way to a decision on war with Iraq in "weeks, not months." Wary world leaders and congressional critics urged patience and demanded proof of Iraq's transgressions.

TERRORISM

1956 Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed.

1995 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured.

2003 Richard Reid, the British citizen and al-Qaida follower who had tried to blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoes, was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Boston.

DISASTERS

1877 Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces.

1939 Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile.

2007 A propane tank explosion leveled the Little General Store in Ghent, W.Va., killing four people.

SPIT

1798 Representative Matthew Lyon (Vermont) spits in face of Representative Roger Griswold (Connecticut) in US House of Representatives, after an argument.

HOT TIME

1393 Aimery Poitiers French nobleman, and Yvain son of Earl of Foix burned to death at royal ball.

INVENTIONS

1487 Bell chimes invented.

PROGRESS

1958 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas TX.

JAZZ

1917 1st jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball).

CENSUS

1800 US population 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%).

SHOOT-OUTS

2007 Two gunmen shot and killed the wife of the Jackson County, Fla., sheriff and a deputy sent to check on her; other deputies opened fire and killed the assailants.

POLITICS

1781 Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland.

1854 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast.

DICTATORS

1935 Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos".

BEHEADING

1649 England's King Charles I was beheaded.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1797 Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks.

PATENTS

1883 James Ritty and John Birch received a U.S. patent for the first cash register.

1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit.

NAZIS

1933 Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.

SPORTS

1936 Fans asked to pick a new name for Boston Braves; they choose "The Bees" it doesn't catch on & is scrapped by 1940 season.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1933 The first episode of the "Lone Ranger" radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit.

1961 Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC.

1978 Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio.

ASSASSINATION

1835 Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington DC.

1948 Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist.

MUSIC

1965 "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3.

1969 Beatles perform their last gig together, a 42-minute free concert on the roof of Apple HQs.

1973 KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY).

WITHDRAWN

1972 Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth.

DAREDEVILS

1962 Two members of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit.

CLASH

1972 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday."

PUB FIGHT

2005 In Belfast, Northern Ireland, Robert McCartney, 33, was killed after intervening in a pub fight between Irish Republican Army members and a friend of his.

JEWS

1349 Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred.

1939 Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews.

TRIALS

1989 Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter.

1989 Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident.

BORN

1882 the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was born in Hyde Park, N.Y.

1912 Barbara Tuchman US, historian/author (Pulitzer, Guns of August).

BIRTHDAYS

Comedian Dick Martin is 86. Actress Dorothy Malone is 83. Producer-director Harold Prince is 80. Actor Gene Hackman is 78. Actress Tammy Grimes is 74. Actress Vanessa Redgrave is 71. Country singer Jeanne Pruett is 71. Country singer Norma Jean is 70. Vice President Dick Cheney is 67. Rock singer Marty Balin is 66. Rhythm-and-blues musician William King (The Commodores) is 59. Singer Phil Collins is 57. Actor Charles S. Dutton is 57. Actress-comedian Brett Butler is 50. Singer Jody Watley is 49. Country singer Tammy Cochran is 36. Actor Christian Bale is 34. Pop-rock singer-songwriter Josh Kelley is 28. Actor Wilmer Valderrama is 28. Actor Jake Thomas is 18.

DEATH

1951 Ferdinand Porsche German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75.

1969 Allan Welsh Dulles US diplomat/director (CIA 1953-61), dies at 75.

1982 Stanley Holloway comedian (My Fair Lady, Our Man Higgins), dies at 91.

2007 Hollywood writer-producer and novelist Sidney Sheldon died in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at age 89.

January 30, the 30th day of 2008. There are 336 days left in the year.

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DBKP Today in History: January 14, 2008

WHITEWATER, WAR!, DISASTERS, UNCLE SUGAR, EXECUTION, REVOLT, REMORSE, CONQUEST, JEWS, POLITICS, INVENTIONS, MEDICINE, CONSPIRACY, ASSASSINATION, CONSTITUTION, TRADEMARKS, CIVIL RIGHTS, CUTBACKS, LABOR, PROGRESS, SOCIETIES, RECORDS, MOVIES, DIPLOMACY, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, RATIONING, MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, MUSIC, THE KING, SEGREGATION, The 60s, GERMS, SPORTS, SCIENCE, DRUGS, HOLIDAYS, DEREGULATION, FINANCE, SEETHE, KIDNAPPED, DUI, FUNERAL, LOSER, PLEAS, BORN, DEATH



WHITEWATER

1998 Whitewater prosecutors questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House for 10 minutes about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees. (Sources quoted the first lady as saying she knew nothing about any such collection of files.)

WAR!

1783 Congress ratifies peace treaty between US & England

1784 Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris

1861 Fort Pikens FL falls into state hands

1863 Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teched LA

1864 Battle of Cosby Creek TN

1864 General Sherman begins his march to the South

1942 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo

1943 FDR & Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WWII

1943 Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw

1944 Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow

DISASTER

1916 Dutch South Sea dike cracks

1946 2 jetties collapse in Ganges-160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed

1952 Snow storm in Sierra NV kills 26

1960 Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded

1967 Earthquake in Sicily kills 231

1969 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers

1993 Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die

UNCLE SUGAR

1799 Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets

EXECUTION

1717 German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam

1948 Anna "Ans" van Dike Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42

REVOLT

1847 Governor Bent 5 others in US occupation, killed by revolt in New Mexico

1949 Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die

REMORSE

1699 Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches"

CONQUEST

1641 United East Indian Company conquerors city of Malakka, 7,000 killed

JEWS

1601 Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome

POLITICS

1639 1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted in Hartford

1639 Rodger Ludlow publishes"Fundamental Orders of Connecticut"

2007 President Bush, facing opposition from both parties over his plan to send more troops to Iraq, said on CBS' "60 Minutes" that he had the authority to act no matter what Congress wanted. On "Fox News Sunday," Vice President Dick Cheney asserted that lawmakers' criticism would not influence Bush's plans and he dismissed any effort to "run a war by committee."

INVENTIONS

1690 Clarinet is invented, in Nüremberg, Germany

MEDICINE

1794 Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom VA, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife

CONSPIRACY

1847 Conspiracy in New Mexico against US

ASSASSINATION

1858 French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed

CONSTITUTION

1868 North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh

1868 South Carolina constitutional convention, meets with a black majority

TRADEMARKS

1873 "Celluloid" registered as a trademark

CIVIL RIGHTS

1878 US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional

CUTBACKS

2003 Kmart Corp. announced its biggest round of cutbacks yet, saying it would close 326 more stores and eliminate 37,000 more jobs in hopes of getting out of bankruptcy by the end of April 2003. (Kmart emerged from Chapter 11 protection in May 2003.)

LABOR

2003 Thousands of General Electric Co. employees across the country began a two-day strike to protest higher health insurance costs.

PROGRESS

1914 Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords

SOCIETIES

1938 National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia formed (NY)

RECORDS

1973 Tap dancer Ray Castle measured at 1440 taps/minutes on BBC TV

MOVIES

1980 "Blues Brothers" movie with Dan Akroyd & John Belushi opens

DIPLOMACY

1950 US recalls all consular officials from China

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1952 "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV

1972 "Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV

1976 "The Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC)

1990 "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV

1990 11th ACE Cable Awards

1993 David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS

1998 100th episode of "Ellen" airs

1998 NBC agreed to pay Warner Brothers $13 million per episode to retain the highly rated TV show "ER."

RATIONING

1952 Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends

MARRIAGE

1954 Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star, New York Yankee, Joe DiMaggio

DIVORCE

1994 Kathleen Kinmont files for divorce from Lorenzo Lamas

MUSIC

1956 Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti"

1966 David Bowie releases his 1st record (Can't Help Thinking About Me)

1967 Sonny & Cher release "The Beat Goes On"

THE KING

1960 US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant

SEGREGATION

1963 George C Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"

The 60s

1967 20,000 attend the Human Be-In, San Francisco

GERMS

1967 New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments

SPORTS

1968 Super Bowl II Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders, 33-14 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Bart Starr, Green Bay, Quarterback

1973 Super Bowl VII Miami Dolphins beat Washington Redskins, 14-7 in Los Angeles; Super Bowl MVP Jake Scott, Miami, Safety

1974 World Football League founded

1976 Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves

SCIENCE

1969 Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later

1994 Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands

DRUGS

1973 Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted for drugs in California

HOLIDAYS

1979 President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday

DEREGULATION

1981 FCC frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish

FINANCE

1985 British pound (£) sinks to record low-$1.11

SEETHE

1989 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England

KIDNAPPED

1989 Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped

LOSERS

1990 Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in the Gulf

DUI

1991 Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys CA

FUNERAL

1995 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo

PLEAS

1998 Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge

BORN

1730 William Whipple merchant/judge/patriot (Declaration of Independence signer)
1741 Benedict Arnold US General turned traitor (Revolutionary War)
1791 Calvin Phillips became shortest known adult male (67cm; 2'2")
1861 Mehmed VI last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22)
1892 Hal Roach early film director/producer (1 Million BC)
1892 Martin Niemöller clergyman (German Protestant); imprisoned by Hitler
1896 John dos Passos novelist (1919, Big Money, 42nd Parallel)
1906 William Bendix New York City NY, actor (Lifeboat, Babe Ruth Story, Life of Riley)
1919 Andy Rooney Albany NY, CBS news correspondent (60 Minutes)
1924 Guy Williams New York City NY, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space)
1936 Clarence Carter US singer (Thread the Needle, Patches)
1937 Billie Jo Spears country singer
1938 Jack Jones Los Angeles CA, singer (Love Boat Theme)
1938 Allen Toussaint [Naomi Neville], pianist/songwriter (Ride Your Pony, Wild Sign of New Orleans)
1940 Julian Bond Nashville TN, (D-GA) civil rights leader
1941 [Dorothy] Faye Dunaway Bascom FL, actress (Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde)
1948 Carl Weathers New Orleans LA, actor (Apollo Creed-Rocky)
1948 T-Bone Burnett musician/producer
1949 Lawrence Kasdan Miami FL, director/writer (Accidental Tourist)
1952 Sydney Biddle Barrow madam/author (Mayflower Madam)
1958 Colin Ferguson murderer (6 people on the Long Island Railroad on Dec 7, 1993)
1959 Susan Smith Beloit WI, playmate (Sept, 1981)
1964 Steven Soderbergh writer (Mimi, Schizoplis)
1965 Vanity [Dee Dee Williams], singer/actress (Action Jackson)
1968 L L Cool J [James Todd Smith], St Albans NY, rapper (Bigger & Deffer)
1969 Jason Kent Bateman Rye NY, actor (David-Valerie, Hogan Family)
1969 Dave Grohl drummer (Nirvana, Foo Fighters)
1973 Lethon Flowers NFL defensive back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1988 Jamie Altman son of Lynda Carter & Robert Altman
1989 Sextuplets Paris France, (to a 29-year-old woman)

DEATH

1595 Ferdinand archduke of Austria/mayor of Bohemenia, dies
1742 Edmund Halley genius eclipsed by Newton, dies at 86
1898 Reverend Charles L Dodgson better known as Lewis Carroll, dies at 66
1957 Humphrey Bogart actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny), dies at 57
1965 Jeanette MacDonald soprano (When I'm Calling You), dies at 63
1977 Anthony Eden British premier (1955-57), dies at 79
1977 Peter Finch actor (Network, Nun's Story, Judith), dies at 60
1978 Blossom Rock actress (Grandmamma-Addams Family), dies at 81
1984 Ray Kroc founder of MacDonalds/owner San Diego Padres, dies at 82
1986 Donna Reed actress (Donna Reed Show, Dallas), dies of cancer at 64
2007 Actress Darlene Conley, feisty fashion mogul Sally Spectra on "The Bold and the Beautiful," died in Los Angeles at age 72.

January 14, the 14th day of 2008. There are 352 days remaining.

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