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│ TODAY IN HISTORY │
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│ COMPUTER ASSOCIATES OF LOUISIANA BBS │
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" NewDay / PC " version 4.50 of Feb 3rd, 1989 - (C) 1989 by Mike Ratledge
Plus "TODAY.OWN" - Personal Birthdays, Reminders & Important Dates
Birthdates Which Occur on January 17:
1961 32 Maia Chiburdanidze Georgian SSR, women's world chess champ (1978- )
1960 33 John Crawford Palo Alto, bass (Berlin - You Take My Breath Away)
1954 39 Sen. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D-NY), politician
1952 41 Ryuichi Sakamoto Japanese rock musician (Academy Award 1988)
1949 44 Andy Kaufman comedian, actor, wrestler (Taxi)
1948 45 Mick Taylor rock guitarist (Rolling Stones, Bluesbreakers)
1943 50 Daniel C. Brandenstein Wisc., astronaut (STS-8, STS-51G)
1942 51 Muhammad Ali who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee
1940 53 H. Kipchoge (Kip) Keino Kenya, 1500-m runner (Olympic gold 1968, 72)
1939 54 Toini Gustafson Sweden, 5K/10K cross-country skier (Olympic gold '68)
1934 59 Shari Lewis Bronx, NY, ventriloquist, puppeteer (Lamb Chop)
1931 62 James Earl Jones actor (Darth Vader, Exorcist II, Soul Man)
1929 64 Jacques Plante (Jake the Snake) Québec, NHL goaltender
1928 65 Vidal Sassoon London, hair stylist
1927 66 Donald Erb Youngstown, Ohio, composer
1926 67 Moira Shearer Scottish ballerina (Red Shoes)
1925 68 Fern Formica munchkin (The Wizard of Oz)
1924 69 Betty White Oak Park, Ill., actress (Mary Tyler Moore, Golden Girls)
1922 71 Luis Echeverría A. president of México (1970-76)
1920 73 Nora Kaye NYC, prima ballerina
1917 76 Oskar Morawetz Svetla, Czechoslovakia, composer
and Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran (MGR) Indian film star, politician
1907 86 Henk Badings Bandung, Indonesia, Dutch composer
1899 94 Al Capone gangster
and Nevil Shute London, novelist (On the Beach, A Town Like Alice)
and Robert Maynard Hutchins US educator, civil libertarian
1886 107 Ronald Firbank London, novelist (The Flower Beneath the Foot)
1880 113 Mack Sennett creator of Keystone Kops
1863 130 David Lloyd George (Liberal) PM of Britain (1916-22)
1860 133 Anton P. Chekhov playwright, short-story writer (Cherry Orchard) (OS)
1857 136 Eugene Augustin Lauste developer of 1st sound-on-film recording
1820 173 Anne Brontë Thornton, England, novelist (Agnes Grey)
1818 175 Sir Antoine Dorion (L) joint premier of Canada (1858, 1863-64)
1806 187 James Madison Randolph 1st baby born in the White House
1771 222 Charles Brockden Brown father of the American novel (Wieland)
1706 287 Benjamin Franklin Boston, kite-flyer, statesman, inventor, wit
1600 393 Pedro Caldéron de la Barca Spanish poet, dramatist
1560 433 Gaspard Bauhin Swiss botanist, anatomist; named the potato
1501 492 Leonhard Fuchs Germany, botanist (History of Plants)
1463 530 Frederick III the Wise elector of Saxony, protector of Luther
Deaths Which Occured January 17:
1977 16 Gary Gilmore murderer, executed in Utah; 1st US execution since 1967
1961 32 Patrice Lumumba premier of the Congo, assassinated at CIA instigation
1691 302 Richard Lower English physician (1st animal-animal blood transfusion)
1468 525 Gjergj Kastrioti Scanderbeg Albanian rebel prince, dies at about 63
395 Theodosius I Roman emperor, dies - Empire divided into East & West
Holidays Which Occur January 17:
Religious Observances on January 17:
355 Memorial of St. Anthony, abbot, patron of domestic animals (RC, Ang)
Benediction of Animals
Church & Economic Life Week begins
Things to Remember for January 17:
Flowers - Carnation & Snowdrop Gem - Garnet
3 Days Astrological sign: Capricorn
3 Days Delta Cancrid meteor shower, radiant in Cancer, west of Praesepe
Highlights in History Which Occur January 17:
1718 275 53 killed at the spa at Leuherbad (Wallis) Switzerland by two
snowslides.
1989 4 Gunman opens fire in Calif. schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded
and Murden & Metz are 1st women to reach the south pole overland (on skis)
1986 7 Pres. Reagan signs secret order permitting sale of arms to Iran
1984 9 Supreme Court rules (5-4) private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs
for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws
1983 10 Nigeria expels 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Ghanaians
1980 13 GAO reports 145.5 kg of plutonium missing from Savannah River plant
1979 14 Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran
1973 20 New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life
1971 22 Super Bowl 5 - Baltimore Colts 16, Dallas Cowboys 13
1966 27 USAF B-52 carrying 4 unarmed hydrogen bombs crashes on Spanish coast
1963 30 NASA civilian pilot Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
1960 33 Popular uprising under NLF direction begins in Ben Tre, South Vietnam
1958 35 Canadian Football League established
1957 36 9-county commission recommends creation of BART
1954 39 Jacques Cousteau's 1st network telecast airs on "Omnibus" (CBS)
1950 43 11 men rob Brink's office in Boston of $2.7 million
1946 47 United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting
1945 48 Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (Liberation Day in Poland)
and Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Jews
from the Nazis, taken prisoner by Soviets in Budapest
1943 50 Tin Can Drive Day
1936 57 37° C (98° F), Laredo, Texas - 48-state record high for January
1934 59 Electric Home & Farm Authority incorporated
1929 64 Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theatre"
1928 65 1st fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented
1912 81 Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen
1910 83 Great Daylight Comet of 1910 (not Halley's) at perihelion, 0.13 AU
1899 94 US takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific
1893 100 Queen Liliuokalani deposed; Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
and -27° C (-17° F), Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
1873 120 Modocs defeat soldiers at Lava Beds - 35 whites, 0 Indians killed
1871 122 Cable street car patented, by Andrew S. Hallidie
1864 129 General Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridge, Tenn.
1861 132 Flush toilet patented by Thomas Crapper (honest!)
1821 172 México permits Moses Austin & 300 US families to settle in Texas
1811 182 Father Hidalgo & Mexican rebels defeated by Spanish at Calderón
1786 207 Comet Encke 1st sighted, by Pierre Mechain
1773 220 Capt. James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66° 33' S)
1746 247 Battle of Falkirk, Scotland - Edward I defeats & massacres the Scots
That's all for TODAY!