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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 21 2007 at 21:17
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, one of the Confederate army's best generals, was born January 21, 1824


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 21 2007 at 21:21
Today in music history:

January 21st:

2003, David Palmer, former keyboard player for Jethro Tull changed his name to Dee Palmer after a successful sex change operation. Palmer was the keyboard player for Jethro Tull between 1969 and 1980. He played on all the Tull classics including 'Thick As A Brick' and 'Aqualung.'

1989, Phil Collins scored his seventh US No.1 single with 'Two Hearts'.

1984, Yes started a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart 'a No.28 hit in the UK.

1966, George Harrison married Patti Boyd at Leatherhead Register Office in Surrey with Paul McCartney as Best man.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2007 at 17:09
On January 22nd:

1901-King Edward VII is the second oldest man to ascend the British throne ever

1905-Father Gapon and his peacefuil demonstators are massacred outside the Winter PAlace in St. Petersburg on what came to be known as Bloody Sunday

1973-The landmark Supreme Court case Roe V. Wade makes all abortion up to the six or seven months of preganancy legal in the United States

1980-Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov is arrested in Moscow after protesting the Soviet War in Afganistan


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2007 at 17:13
Sir Francis Bcon was born Jnuary 22, 1561

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Michael Kelland Hutchence was born January 22, 1960

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2007 at 17:15
Today in music history:

1983, The new 24-hour music video network MTV started broadcasting to the West Coast of America after being picked up by Group W Cable, Los Angeles.

1972, David Bowie 'came out' as bisexual during an interview in the British music weekly Melody Maker.

1967, The Monkees performed live for the very first time at The Cow Palace, San Francisco to a sell-out crowd.
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On January 23rd:

1556-The deadliest earthquake in human history, the Shaanxi Earthquake, occurs in the Shaanxi province of China, killing upwards of 830,000 people

1570-Regent James Stewart is assasinated, throwing Sctoland into Civil War

1571-The London Royal Exchange opens

1897-Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Her husband's folowing trial is the only case in US history where the statement of a supposed undead ghost was permitted as evidence!LOL

1943-The Warwsaw Ghetto Uprisising

1964-The 24th Amendment to the US Constituiton prohibtis the use of poll taxes.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2007 at 19:11
John Hancock, founding father of America who left quite a large "hancock" on the Decleration of Independence, was born January 23, 1737

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2007 at 19:23
Today in music history:

January 23rd:

1993-Genesis went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Live-The Way We Walk Volume II'.

1990-David Bowie announced his forthcoming and final world tour, 'Sound And Vision' 1990, during which he will invite each local audience to decide on a 'greatest hits' running order, organised through local radio stations.

1971-George Harrison became the first solo Beatle to have a No.1 when 'My Sweet Lord' went to the top of the UK single charts. The song stayed at No.1 for five weeks.



1986-The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members:

Chuck Berry 
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Ray Charles
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Fats Domino
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Everly Brothers
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Buddy Holly
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Jerry Lee Lewis
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Elvis Presley

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2007 at 18:13
On January 24th:

1438-Pope Eugene IV was suspended by the Council of Basel

1848-James W. Marshall discovers gold in Sutter's Mill, sparking the California Gold Rush

1924-Petragrad is renamed Leningrad

1984-The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale
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Neil Diamond was born January 24, 1941
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Blues Brother John Belushi (AKA Jack Blues) was born January 24, 1949

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2007 at 20:26
On January 24th:

-1927: Alfred Hitchcock released his first movie The Pleasure Garden



-1986: Director Vincent Minelli dies



-1935: CANNED BEERS GOES ON SALE!!!



-1965: Wisnton Churchill dies




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On January 25th...

-1971: Charles Manson and his followers were convicted in LA of the murder of Sharon Tate and six others...



-1924: First Winter Olympics at Chamonix (French Alps)



-1949: The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presents its first industry award (best known as the EMMY) at the Hollywood Athletic Club in Los Angeles.



-1554: BRazilian city Sao Paulo was founded.



-1882: British writer Virginia Woolf born.



-1990: American actress Ava Gardner dies.



-1947: Gangster Al Capone dies.



1943: Legendary soccer player Eusebio born in Portugal. He is worldwide know as The Black Panther.




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2007 at 07:11
Today is St. Tatiana's day.
This day in 1755 the First Russian University was founded, and St. Tatiana's day became known on ex-Soviet Union territory as All Students Day.
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2007 at 10:07
1919: The League of Nations was created (unfortunately)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2007 at 13:15
Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

1919: The League of Nations was created (unfortunately)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2007 at 16:23
On January 25th:

1327-Edward III ascends the English throne, but the country is ruled by his mother and her lover.

2004-Mars Exploration Rover Oppotunity lands on Mars.
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It is also Burns Night in Scot culture




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2007 at 16:27
Robert Burns, composer of "Auld Lang Syne" was born January 25, 1759
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Ed Newman was born January 25, 1919
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My congrats to the huge city of Săo Paulo, with its more than 20 million inhabitants. Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2007 at 17:37
On January 26th:

1700-A magnitude 9 earthquake strikes of the Pacific coast of the American northwest, it is now called the Cascadia Earthquake

1788-The British First Fleet and Captain Arthur Philip land at Sidney Cove and establish the first permanent European settlement in Australia

1950-President Rajendra Prasad succeedes Rajaji, the last Governor General in India who serves as the head of state

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2007 at 17:43
General Douglas MacArthur was born on January 26, 1880


Paul Newman was born January 26, 1925


Eddie Van Halen was born January 26, 1955


Ellen Degeneres was born January 26, 1958


Wayne Gretzky was born January 26, 1961
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