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Friday, January 26, 2007

This Day in History

0066 - 5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1340 - English king Edward III proclaimed king of France
1531 - Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die
1654 - Portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife
1666 - France declares war on England & Münster
1697 - Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
1699 - Venice, Poland & Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey
1736 - Stanislaw Lesczynski flees Polish throne
1748 - England, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty
1784 - Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over the eagle as America's symbol (he wanted the turkey)
1788 - Captain Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Sydney, Botany Bay New South Wales as a penal colony
1797 - Russia, Prussia & Austria sign treaty
1802 - Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library
1837 - Michigan admitted as 26th US state
1838 - Tennessee becomes 1st state to prohibit alcohol
1841 - Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
1861 - Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede
1862 - Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order
1863 - War Department authorizes Massachusetts Governor to recruit black troops; 54th MA Regiment (Black) infantry forms
1870 - Virginia rejoins the US
1871 - US income tax repealed
1875 - Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green
1882 - France government of Gambetta falls
1885 - Muhammad Ahmed ("Mahdi") rebels conquer Khartoum
1886 - Karl Benz patents 1st auto with burning motor
1887 - Battle of Dogali Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians
1897 - Battle at Bida Gold Coast British troops beat Nupe's army
1905 - World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa
1907 - 1st federal corrupt election practices law passed
1910 - Heavy rains cause floods in Paris
1911 - Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane, San Diego CA
1913 - Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for being a pro
1915 - Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established
1918 - US food administrator Hoover calls for "wheatless" & "meatless" days for war effort
1926 - Television 1st demonstrated (John L Baird, London)
1929 - Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence
1930 - Cleveland's Terminal Tower opens (52 stories)
1931 - Hungary-Austria sign peace treaty
1932 - British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead)
1934 - Nazi Germany & Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years
1939 - Federal Hall National Monument established; Franco conquers Barcelona
1940 - Nazis forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains
1942 - 1st US force in Europe during WWII goes ashore in Northern Ireland; Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel
1945 - Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp
1947 - KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die
1948 - Executive Order 9981, ending segregation in US Armed Forces signed
1954 - Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
1956 - 7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy; Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR
1957 - Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms; India annexes Kashmir
1958 - H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan as Israeli minister of Defense
1959 - Italy government of Fanfani resigns
1961 - 1st woman "personal physician to President"-JG Travell
1962 - US launches Ranger 3, misses Moon by 22,000-mile (37,000-km); Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard
1965 - South Vietnam military coup under General Nguyen Khanh
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1968 - Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die
1971 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes
1972 - Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute
1973 - Belgium government of Leburton forms
1976 - Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon
1976 - Belgium - catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals
1978 - International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit; Mario Soares forms Portuguese government; Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40
1980 - Israel & Egypt establish diplomatic relations
1982 - Mauno Koivisto elected President of Finland
1983 - Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from California
1984 - US Navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters & a blimp able to lift 26 tons, in Lakehurst, New Jersey
1986 - Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquerors Kampala Uganda
1989 - US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus
1990 - Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic
1991 - Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church
1992 - Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect
1998 - Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip; President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"

Birthdays
1667 - Henricus Zwaardecroon Governor-General of Netherland-Indies
1716 - George Sackville Germain 1st Viscount Sackville
1763 - Charles XIV French marshall, king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44)
1770 - Alexander Carlyle Moderator of General Assembly
1771 - Jacob Andries van Braam colonial director (Suriname)
1814 - Rufus King Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
1816 - Lloyd Tilghman Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1826 - Julia Dent Grant 1st lady (1869-77)
1852 - Pierre Brazza explorer/colonial administrator (French Africa)
1880 - Douglas MacArthur Little Rock AR, General of the Army (WWII), he did return!
1886 - Joannes A Veraart Dutch economist/MP (Jews of the Netherlands)
1887 - Enrique E Ecker Curaçao, bacteriologist; Marc A "Pete" Mitscher US Lieutenant-Admiral (WWII-Task Force 58)
1893 - Bessie Coleman 1st black airplane pilot
1902 - Laurence "Bill" Craigie jet pioneer
1904 - Sean MacBride Dublin Ireland, statesman/Amnesty International co-founder (Nobel '74)
1905 - Maria Augusta von Trapp Austria, singer, inspired "Sound of Music"; Marquess of Bath English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1911 - Polykarp Kusch US, nuclear physicist Nobel 1955
1925 - Desmond Cassidi British admiral
1927 - José Simón Azcona Hoyo President of Honduras (1986-90)
1928 - Gene Snyder (Representative-R-KY, 1963-65, 67- )
1937 - Gerrit Gerritse Dutch MP (CDA); Joseph Saidu Momoh General/President (Sierra Leone)
1943 - Sherian Grace Cadoria Brigadier General
1952 - Mario Runco Jr Bronx NY, Lieutenant-Commander USN/astronaut (STS 44, 54, 77)
1953 - Andrée C van Es Dutch MP (PSP)
1997 - Pasaye Twins (Palatine, IL), twin born 92 days after his brother (Oct 26)

Passings
1109 - Albericus of Cîteaux, French saint
1850 - Francis Jeffrey Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic
1885 - Charles George Gordon, British Governor-General, executed (slain with troops by Sudanese in Khartoum) at 51
1891 - Nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine)
1893 - Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing baseball, on 74th birthday
1904 - John P. R. Tak, Dutch liberal politician, at 64
1911 - Charles Wentworth Dilke, English undersecretary of State, at 67
1920 - Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered
1939 - Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard
1943 - Nikolai Vavilov, geneticist, in the Saratovv labour camp
1947 - Gustav Adolf, crown prince of Sweden, in air crash
1962 - Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Mafia gangster, at 65
1965 - Ali Mansoer, premier of Persia, murdered
1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, former Vice President & 4 time Governor of NY, at 70
1983 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach, in Alabama at 69
1990 - FHP "Boy" Trip, Dutch minister
1993 - Axel Von Dem Bussche, German aristocrat; Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (helped Anne Frank), at 87
1995 - Bernardo Leighton, Chilean politician (1964-70)
1997 - Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/the Rhine, at 83

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Grubb, Wilmer N., USAF (PA); RF101C shot down, KIC - remains returned March, 1974

1967
Morgan, Thomas Raymond, USAF (OH); F100D shot down - remains ID'd July, 1997

1968
Dunn, Michael E., USN (IL); A6A disappeared inbound from mission (pilot, w/Eidsmoe) - remains returned December, 1999

Eidsmoe, Norman E., USN (SD); A6A disappeared inbound from mission (w/Dunn) - remains returned December, 1999

1969
Singleton, Daniel L., USAF (OH); F4E shot down (pilot w/Utley)

Utley, Russel K., USAF (CA); F4E shot down (EWO, w/Singleton)

1971
Carter, Gerald Lynn, USN (OR); A4F shot down - KIA/BNR
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