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MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1933 1st issue of "Newsweek" magazine published.
WAR!
1864 The Confederate submarine Hunley, equipped with an explosive at the end of a protruding spar, rammed and sank the Union's ship Housatonic off the coast of Charleston, S.C.
1865 Columbia, S.C., burned as the Confederates evacuated and Union forces moved in. (It's not clear which side set the blaze.)
1915 Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WWI, is mortally wounded.
1979 China invades Vietnam.
2003 European Union leaders declared their solidarity with the United States, warning Saddam Hussein that Iraq faced one "last chance" to disarm peacefully but calling war a last resort.
2007 Senate Republicans foiled a Democratic bid to repudiate President Bush's deployment of 21,500 additional combat troops to Iraq.
2007 Marine Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington was sentenced to eight years in military prison for his role in the kidnapping and killing of an Iraqi civilian.
TERRORISM
1986 Libyan bombers attack N'djamena Airport in Chad.
1988 US Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists & later killed.
1993 Alfredo de Leon leader (Philippines Red Scorpio Gang), killed.
1998 Larry Wayne Harris & Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax.
DISASTER
1926 Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch Bingham UT, 40 die.
1950 31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center, New York.
1957 Fire in Warreton MO, kills 72.
1962 Storm in Hamburg, kills 265.
1974 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt.
1993 Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die.
2003 Twenty-one people were killed in a stampede at the crowded E2 nightclub in Chicago.
HANGED
1688 Reverend James Renwick hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian.
VEGETABLES
1795 Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England.
TOILETS
1883 A Ashwell patents free-toilet in London.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCARE
1989 6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole".
MUSIC
1962 Beach Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin".
HUSTLER
1997 Weekly Standard shows evidence Larry Flint sex abused his daughter.
CARTOONS
1933 Blondie Boopadoop marries Dagwood Bumstead; Dagwood's father promptly disinherits him.
1958 Comic strip "BC" 1st appears.
JIHAD
1568 Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay annual tribute to Sultan for peace.
CLINTONS
1998 President Clinton, preparing Americans for possible air strikes against Iraq, said military force is never the first answer "but sometimes it's the only answer."
KILLERS
1970 Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife & daughter.
1995 Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the Long Island Railroad in New York.
1998 Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder.
FINANCE
1981 Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in US history.
NANNY STATE
1913 1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon).
BURNED
1600 Italian philospher, alchemist, and Copernican theory advocate Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy by the Inquisition.
JEWS
1943 Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews.
1949 Chaim Weizman elected 1st President of Israel.
1969 Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister.
2007 Former French Cabinet minister Maurice Papon, convicted of complicity in crimes against humanity for his role in deporting Jews during World War II, died near Paris at age 96.
POLITICS
1801 The electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr was broken by the House of Representatives who elected Jefferson president.
CHINA CARD
1972 President Richard Nixon left on his trip to China.
PROGRESS
1817 Baltimore became the first U.S. city lit by gas.
CHESS
1996 Chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM computer, Deep Blue, winning the six-game match.
BORN
1817 Frederick Douglass famous African-American.
1844 A. Montgomery Ward founded mail-order business (Montgomery Ward).
1854 Friedrich A Krupp German arms manufacturer.
1908 sportscaster Walter Lanier "Red" Barber was born in Columbus, Miss.
BIRTHDAYS
Bandleader Orrin Tucker is 97. Actor Hal Holbrook is 83. Mystery writer Ruth Rendell is 78. Singer Bobby Lewis is 75. Comedian Dame Edna (AKA Barry Humphries) is 74. Country singer-songwriter Johnny Bush is 73. Football Hall-of-Famer Jim Brown is 72. Actress Mary Ann Mobley is 69. Actress Brenda Fricker is 63. Actress Rene Russo is 54. Actor Richard Karn is 52. Actor Lou Diamond Phillips is 46. Basketball player Michael Jordan is 45. Actor-comedian Larry, the Cable Guy is 45. TV personality Rene Syler is 45. Movie director Michael Bay is 44. Singer Chante Moore is 41. Rock musician Timothy J. Mahoney (311) is 38. Actor Dominic Purcell is 38. Actress Denise Richards is 37. Rock singer-musician Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day) is 36. Actor Jerry O'Connell is 34. Country singer Bryan White is 34. Actress Kelly Carlson is 32. Actor Jason Ritter is 28. TV personality Paris Hilton is 27. Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is 27.
DEATH
1908 Geronimo Apache chief, dies at about 79.
1982 Theolonious S Monk US, jazz pianist/composer (Blue Monk), dies at 64.
1990 Keith Haring US graffiti-artist, dies at 31.
February 17, the 48th day of 2008. There are 318 days left in the year.
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Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
WAR!
1898 USS Maine blew up in Havana harbor, touching off the Spanish-American War.
1989 More than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan almost 10 years after the USSR invaded the country.
1918 1st WWI US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland.
1942 Singapore surrenders to the Japanese.
1984 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq.
TERRORISM
1993 Bombings by Mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogotá Colombia.
DISASTER
1864 Fire in Rotterdam Netherlands damages Museum Boymans.
1898 USS Maine blows up in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die.
1961 73 people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to Czechoslovakia, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium.
1970 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102.
1982 Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die.
1991 Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die.
DREAMS
1967 Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23).
VAMPIRES
1931 1st Dracula movie released.
SERIAL KILLERS
1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola FL.
1992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys.
CLINTONS
1998 Monica Lewinsky's attorney, William Ginsburg, continued his harsh criticism of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr for alleged leaks of information to the news media, charging on CNN that his client's constitutional rights were being trampled.
TOYS
1903 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom.
FINANCE
1995 Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17
CONDIMENTS
1768 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia.
BEETLES
1936 Hitler announces building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game).
BEATLES
1965 John Lennon passes his driving test.
BOOTLEG
1967 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted.
FAKES
1955 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced.
GLOBAL WARMING
2007 National Guardsmen in Humvees ferried food, fuel and baby supplies to hundreds of motorists stranded for nearly a day on a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 78 in eastern Pennsylvania because of a monster storm.
CARTOONS
1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released.
COMMIES
1933 Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party.
POPULATION
1995 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion.
MEAT
1882 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves New Zealand for Britain, on SS Dunedin.
SPORTS
1956 Pirates & Kansas City A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham AL, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white.
SLAVERY
1804 New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery.
JEWS
1989 Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt.
CLIMATE
1895 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans.
CHESS
1985 World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23.
SCANDAL
2002 Olympics officials resolved the judging scandal by awarding Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a gold medal while allowing the Russians, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, to keep their medal.
TREASON
1869 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped.
RESCUE
1851 Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave.
TREES
1876 Historic Elm at Boston blown down.
WOMEN
1879 President Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
ASSASSINATION
1933 Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in an assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami.
EXECUTED
1979 Mehdi Rahimi Iran General/military Governor of Tehran, executed.
1994 Andrei Tsjikatilo [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed.
CITIES
1764 St. Louis, Mo., was founded as a French fur-trading post.
COMMIES
1984 Leamon Hunt US director-General in Sinai, killed by communists.
BORN
1564 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa.
1803 John Augustus Sutter Swiss/US colonist of California gold rush fame (New Helvetia CA, Sutter Mill).
1820 Susan Brownell Anthony Adams MA, women's suffragette.
1882 John Barrymore [Blythe], Philadelphia PA, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, The Tempest, Beloved Rogue).
1907 Cesar Romero New York NY, actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, The Thin Man).
BIRTHDAYS
Actor Kevin McCarthy is 94. Actor Allan Arbus is 90. Country singer Hank Locklin is 90. Former Illinois Rep. John Anderson is 86. Comedian Harvey Korman is 81. Actress Claire Bloom is 77. Author Susan Brownmiller is 73. Songwriter Brian Holland is 67. Rock musician Mick Avory (The Kinks) is 64. Jazz musician Henry Threadgill is 64. Actress Jane Seymour is 57. Singer Melissa Manchester is 57. Actress Lynn Whitfield is 55. "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening is 54. Model Janice Dickinson is 53. Actor Christopher McDonald is 53. Reggae singer Ali Campbell is 49. Actor Joseph R. Gannascoli is 49. Musician Mikey Craig (Culture Club) is 48. Country singer Michael Reynolds (Pinmonkey) is 44. Actor Michael Easton is 41. Actress Renee O'Connor is 37. Actress Sarah Wynter is 35. Rock singer Brandon Boyd (Incubus) is 32. Rock musician Ronnie Vannucci (The Killers) is 32. Actress Ashley Lyn Cafagna is 25.
DEATH
1943 Thomas "Fats" Waller US jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 38.
1973 Wally Cox actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies at 48.
1984 Ethel Merman singer/actress (Kid Million), dies in her sleep at 76.
February 15, the 46th day of 2008. There are 320 days left in the year.
compiled by Mondoreb
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Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
GANGSTERS
1929 Members of Al Capone's gang killed rival gang members in the St. Valentine's Day massacre.
WAR!
1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden.
2003 In a dramatic showdown, major powers rebuffed the United States in the U.N. Security Council and insisted on more time for weapons inspections in Iraq. Earlier, chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix told the Council his teams had not found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
TERRORISM
1975 Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station.
1979 Adolph Dubs, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was kidnapped in Kabul by Muslim extremists and killed in a shootout between his abductors and police.
1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut.
1998 Authorities officially declared Eric Rudolph a suspect in the bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., abortion clinic and offered a $100,000 reward.
2007 Challenged on the accuracy of U.S. intelligence, President Bush told a news conference there was no doubt the Iranian government was providing armor-piercing weapons to kill American soldiers in Iraq, and he said he would fight any attempt by the Democratic-controlled Congress to cut off money for the war.
DISASTER
1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million damages for Bhopol disaster.
FATWAS
1989 Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
WATERGATE
1971 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House.
FRUIT
1889 1st trainload of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for the east.
COMMIES
1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference.
PATENTS
1803 Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington PA.
FRACAS
1779 James Cook British explorer, murdered by natives in fracas with Hawaiians.
JEWS
1349 2,000 Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg France.
DRUGS
1959 $3.6 million heroin seizure in New York NY.
BUSINESS
1924 IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson.
EDUCATION
2001 The Kansas Board of Education reversed its 1999 ruling and restored evolution to the state's science curriculum.
MARRIAGE
1952 Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller.
1995 Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas.
MURDER
1943 Frieda Reiss French 11 month old baby, murdered in Auschwitz.
CARTOONS
1921 Skeezix of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallets' doorstep.
POLITICS
1859 Oregon became the 33rd state in the United States.
1912 Arizona became the 48th state in the United States.
BORN
1894 comedian Jack Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky in Waukegan, Ill.
1913 Jimmy Hoffa Teamsters leader who disappeared in 1975.
BIRTHDAYS
TV personality Hugh Downs is 87. Actress-singer Florence Henderson is 74. Country singer Razzy Bailey is 69. Jazz musician Maceo Parker is 65. Movie director Alan Parker is 64. Journalist Carl Bernstein is 64. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-New Hampshire) is 61. TV personality Pat O'Brien is 60. Magician Teller (Penn and Teller) is 60. Cajun singer-musician Michael Doucet is 57. Actor Ken Wahl is 51. Opera singer Renee Fleming is 49. Actress Meg Tilly is 48. Singer-producer Dwayne Wiggins is 47. Actor Enrico Colantoni is 45. Actor Zach Galligan is 44. Actor Valente Rodriguez is 44. Rock musician Ricky Wolking (The Nixons) is 42. Tennis player Manuela Maleeva is 41. Rock musician Kevin Baldes (Lit) is 36. Rock singer Rob Thomas (Matchbox Twenty) is 36. Actor Freddie Highmore is 16.
DEATH
1969 Vito Genovese US mafia chief, dies at 71.
1994 Gary "BB" Coleman blues vocal/guitarist/producer, dies at 47.
2003 Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was euthanized because of incurable lung cancer.
February 14, the 45th day of 2008. There are 321 days left in the year. Today is Valentine's Day.
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Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
THIEF!
1994 Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo).
WAR!
1861 State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon AK.
1973 Operation Homecoming began as the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place.
TERRORISM
2003 The U.N. nuclear agency declared North Korea in violation of international treaties, sending the dispute to the Security Council.
2007 Car bombs shattered Baghdad's oldest and largest market, killing at least 78 people.
DISASTERS
1998 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt.
FIREBALL
1947 Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia.
CLINTONS
1998 A federal judge threw out President Clinton's new line-item veto authority.
1999 The Senate acquitted President Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice.
STARTS
1876 Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop.
BUSTED
1967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs.
OJ
1997 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgment.
VIETNAM
1955 President Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to South Vietnam.
PATENTS
1878 Frederick Thayer patents the catcher's mask (pat # 200,358).
RECORDS
1981 Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Building, 10m.
TABLOID
1994 Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose.
CLASH
1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1924 President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech.
JEWS
1941 Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen; Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome".
BEHEADED
1554 Lady Jane Grey, who'd claimed the throne of England for nine days, and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were beheaded after being condemned for high treason.
FREE
1818 Chile officially proclaimed its independence, more than seven years after initially renouncing Spanish rule.
MURDER
1976 Sal Mineo actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at 37.
WOMEN
1870 women in the Utah Territory gained the right to vote. (However, that right was taken away in 1887).
RACE
1908 the first round-the-world automobile race began in New York. (It ended in Paris the following July with the drivers of the American car, a Thomas Flyer, declared the winners over teams from Germany and Italy.)
CIVIL RIGHTS
1909 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded.
ABDICATE
1912 Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, abdicated, marking the end of the Qing Dynasty.
MEMORIALS
1915 the cornerstone for the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington, D.C., a year to the day after groundbreaking.
COMICS
1940 The radio play "The Adventures of Superman" debuted with Bud Collyer as the Man of Steel.
GUNMAN
2007 Teen gunman Sulejman Talovic shot nine people, killing five, at a Salt Lake City mall before he was shot and killed by police.
BORN
1809 Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in present-day Larue County, Ky.
1880 John Llewellyn Lewis union leader (United Mine Workers, 1920-60).
1904 Ted Mack Denver CO, TV host (Original Amateur Hour).
BIRTHDAYS
Movie director Franco Zeffirelli is 85. Actor Louis Zorich is 84. Baseball Hall-of-Fame sportscaster Joe Garagiola is 82. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) is 78. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Bill Russell is 74. Actor Joe Don Baker is 72. Author Judy Blume is 70. Rock musician Ray Manzarek (The Doors) is 69. Country singer Moe Bandy is 64. Actress Maud Adams is 63. Actor Cliff DeYoung is 63. Actor Michael Ironside is 58. Rock musician Steve Hackett is 58. Rock singer Michael McDonald is 56. Actress Joanna Kerns is 55. Actor-former talk show host Arsenio Hall is 53. Actress Christine Elise is 43. Actor Josh Brolin is 40. Singer Chynna Phillips is 40. Rock musician Jim Creeggan (Barenaked Ladies) is 38. Rhythm-and-blues musician Keri Lewis is 37. Actor Jesse Spencer ("House, M.D.") is 29. Actress Sarah Lancaster is 28. Actress Christina Ricci is 28.
DEATH
1983 Eubie Blake ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You), dies at 100.
2003 Holiday Inn chain founder Kemmons Wilson died in Memphis, Tenn., at age 90.
February 12, the 43rd day of 2008. There are 323 days left in the year.
compiled by Mondoreb
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Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
WAR!
On Dec. 7, 1941, without warning, Japanese forces attacked American and British territories and possessions in the Pacific, including the home base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
In 2002, Iraq handed over its long-awaited arms declaration to the United Nations, denying it had doomsday weapons. President Saddam Hussein grudgingly apologized to Kuwait for his 1990 invasion.
POLITICS
In 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
In 1796, electors chose John Adams to be the second president of the United States.
In 1836, Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the U.S.
In 1987, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time, arriving for a Washington summit with President Reagan.
In 1997, Republicans threatened Attorney General Janet Reno with contempt of Congress over her decision to forgo an independent counsel's investigation of Clinton White House campaign fund raising.
TERROR
In 1987, 43 people were killed after a gunman aboard a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner in California apparently opened fire on a fellow passenger, the two pilots and himself, causing the plane to crash.
In 2002, bombs tore through four movie theaters in Bangladesh, killing 19.
In 2006, the U.S. military transferred the first group of Guantanamo Bay detainees to a new maximum-security prison on the naval base.
DISASTERS
In 1946, fire broke out at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta; the blaze killed 119 people, including hotel founder W. Frank Winecoff.
In 1983, in Madrid, Spain, an Aviaco DC-9 collided on a runway with an Iberia Air Lines Boeing 727 that was accelerating for takeoff, killing all 42 people aboard the DC-9 and 51 aboard the Iberia jet.
Azra Akin, Miss Turkey, won the Miss World contest in London, bringing to a close an international pageant that had incited deadly rioting in Nigeria, the original site of the event.
SOCIETY and CULTURE
In 1907, the first Christmas Seals to help the fight against tuberculosis were sold, in Wilmington, Del. (Some sources say Dec. 9.)
In 1982, convicted murderer Charlie Brooks Jr. became the first U.S. prisoner to be executed by injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS
Actor Eli Wallach is 92. Bluegrass singer Bobby Osborne is 76. Actress Ellen Burstyn is 75. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., is 70. Broadcast journalist Carole Simpson is 67. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Johnny Bench is 60. Country singer Gary Morris is 59. Singer-songwriter Tom Waits is 58. Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, is 55. Actress Priscilla Barnes is 52. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Larry Bird is 51. Former "Tonight Show" announcer Edd Hall is 49. Rock musician Tim Butler (The Psychedelic Furs) is 49. Actor Jeffrey Wright is 42. Actor C. Thomas Howell is 41. Pop singer Nicole Appleton (All Saints) is 32. Country singer Sunny Sweeney is 31. Actress Shiri Appleby is 29. Singer Aaron Carter is 20.
Today is Friday, Dec. 7, the 341st day of 2007. There are 24 days left in the year.
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Source:
Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
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