1) Historic Events; 2) Famous Stiffs; 3) Famous Birthdays; 4) Select List - Historic Events & Birthdays with Pics; Each pic has the Select List entry as description {Click on 5th photo & scroll right to see remaining photos} Historical Events on 19th January: 1419 - French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, first cousin of Anne Boleyn, executed in the Tower of London for treason due to the intrigues by the family of Jane Seymour 1770 - Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan) 1825 - Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans 1861 - Misssissippi troops take Fort Massachusetts and Ship Island (US Civil War) 1861 - Georgia secedes from the Union (US Civil War) 1862 - Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Fishing Creek, Logans Crossroads) 1883 - The first electric lighting system in the world to be lighted by Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb, employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. It was set up as an experiment to prove that a town could be lighted by electricity from a single generating station. 1903 - 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England 1903 - New bicycle race Tour de France announced 1915 - Neon Tube sign patented by Georges Claude; Considered by some to be the Edison of France, he was an active collaborator with the German occupiers of France during the Second World War, for which he was imprisoned in 1945 and stripped of his honors. 1920 - US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations 1935 - During a blizzard, Coopers Inc. (which later became Jockey) sold the worlds first briefs at the Marshall Fields State Street store in downtown Chicago. Designed by an apparel engineer named Arthur Kneibler, briefs dispensed with leg sections and had a Y-shaped overlapping fly. The company dubbed the design the macky, since it offered a degree of support that had previously only been available from the jockstrap. Macky briefs proved so popular that over 30,000 pairs were sold within three months of their introduction. Coopers, having renamed the company Jockey, sent its Mascul-liner plane to make special deliveries of masculine support briefs to retailers across the US. In 1938, when macky were introduced in the UK, they sold at the rate of 3,000 a week. 1937 - Millionaire Howard Hughes sets transcontinental air record (7h28m25s) 1938 - General Motors begins mass production of diesel engines 1939 - Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record of 4.4 sec 1942 - Japanese forces invade Burma 1942 - Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers; he was a Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest and professor of philosophy, vehemently opposed to Nazi ideology and spoke out against it many times before the Second World War. He was imprisoned in the infamous Dachau concentration camp, where he died. 1943 - Uprising in Warsaw ghetto 1953 - Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary 1955 - Scrabble debuts on board game market 1955 - 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower) 1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 1966 - Indira Gandhi elected Indias 3rd prime minister 1970 - Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails) 1970 - UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist 1971 - Beatles Helter Skelter is played at Charles Manson trial 1977 - US President Ford pardons Iva Toguri DAquino (Tokyo Rose) 1977 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred. It also fell in the Bahamas. 1979 - John N Mitchell (former Attorney General) released on parole from federal prison 1981 - Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide 1981 - US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages 1983 - Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia 1989 - President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon 2013 - Lance Armstrong admits to doping in all seven of his Tour de France victories Happy Birthday to famous stiffs Jean Stapleton, Golden Globe-winning actress who gained widespread fame for playing Edith Bunker on the television series All in the Family. She was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2002 (92), Janis Joplin, icon of 1960s psychedelic rock for her rough sound and released five charted singles during her four-year career, including Me and Bobby McGee. She was found dead at the Landmark Motor Hotel in Hollywood, California by one of her road managers, John Cooke (72), Edgar Allan Poe, American literary icon known for his macabre tales and poems, he is most famous for The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, and other works of Gothic fiction. His timeless poems include Lenore, The Raven, and Annabel Lee (206), Robert E. Lee, American career military officer who commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. He surrendered to Union General Ulysses S Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 (208), Robert Palmer, singer-songwriter who recorded Addicted to Love in 1986 and who has won multiple Grammy Awards for his music and videos (66), James Watt, scientist and entrepreneur who popularized the first steam engines, which had an integral effect on the course of the Industrial Revolution. He also developed the term horsepower as a measurement of power and the SI unit of power is named after him because of it (279), Paul Cezanne, post-Impressionist painter whose best-known works included The Card Players and The Bathers. His work formed the bridge between Impressionism and Cubism (176), Junior Seau, former NFL linebacker, 12-time Pro Bowl selection, and one of the most celebrated players in San Diego Chargers history. He spent his last seven NFL seasons with the Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots and retired with 1,849 career tackles (46), Patricia Highsmith, an American writer of psychological thrillers, she is best known for Strangers on a Train and the popular Tom Ripley series. Many of her novels and short stories, including The Talented Mr. Ripley, were adapted into films (94), Guy Madison, who baby boomers came to know him as TVs Wild Bill Hickok; during a career that spanned four decades, he received the 1986 Golden Boot Award and a Special Golden Globe Award for Best Western Star (93) and Nicholas Colasanto, who played the role of Coach Ernie Pantusso on the famous Boston based sitcom, Cheers. His last major role was in Martin Scorseses masterpiece, Raging Bull (91). Dolly Parton, blonde, flamboyant country singer who released twenty-six #1 Billboard hits, including Jolene, Coat of Many Colors, and 9 to 5 (69), Shawn Johnson, artistic gymnast who won the 2008 Olympic gold medal for the womens balance beam and became the 2007 World Champion on floor exercise. She won season eight of Dancing with the Stars in 2009 and three years later, she finished second place in the Dancing with the Stars All-Star edition (23), Shawn Wayans, actor, writer, and producer best known for his work on the Scary Movie franchise. Four of his nine siblings (Marlon, Keenen, Damon and Kim) also became successful actors (44), Paula Deen, chef, Emmy-Award-winning television host, actress and author best known for her cooking shows on the Food Network (68), Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-born comedian who appeared in Born in East L.A., a film directed by Cheech Marin. He also co-owned the Laugh Factory comedy venue in West Hollywood, California (60), Katey Sagal, who rose to fame after playing the role of Peggy Bundy on the Fox TV series Married... With Children. In 2011, she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama TV Series for her role as Gemma Teller Morrow in Sons of Anarchy, created by Kurt Sutter; she was married to Steppenwolf drummer Jack White from 1993 to 2000. In 2004, she married Kurt Sutter (61), Michael Crawford, who won acclaim for portraying the title character in The Phantom of the Opera. As a stage actor, he played Charlie Gordon in Flowers for Algernon and The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz (73), Desi Arnaz Jr., musician and son of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. He served as the drummer for the band Dino, Desi, and Billy (62), Tippi Hedren, cool blonde actress who played major roles in director Alfred Hitchcocks The Birds and Marnie. Later in her career, she appeared in Free Samples and the Ghost and the Whale; she is the mother of fellow actress Melanie Griffith (85), Drea De Matteo, actress who portrayed Adriana La Cerva on HBOs hit series The Sopranos. She also played Joeys sister on the TV show Joey, and Wendy Teller on FXs Sons of Anarchy (43) and Dewey Bunnell, singer with the folk rock band America who sang hits like Horse with No Name and Ventura Highway (63) are celebrating because theyre not dead yet. Select list with photos: 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, first cousin of Anne Boleyn, executed in the Tower of London for treason due to the intrigues by the family of Jane Seymour 1736 - James Watt, scientist and entrepreneur who popularized the first steam engines, which had an integral effect on the course of the Industrial Revolution. He also developed the term horsepower as a measurement of power and the SI unit of power is named after him because of it (279) 1807 - Robert E. Lee, American career military officer who commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. He surrendered to Union General Ulysses S Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 (208) 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, American literary icon known for his macabre tales and poems, he is most famous for The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, and other works of Gothic fiction. His timeless poems include Lenore, The Raven, and Annabel Lee (206) 1825 - Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans 1839 - Paul Cezanne, post-Impressionist painter whose best-known works included The Card Players and The Bathers. His work formed the bridge between Impressionism and Cubism (176) 1883 - The first electric lighting system in the world to be lighted by Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb, employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. It was set up as an experiment to prove that a town could be lighted by electricity from a single generating station. 1915 - Neon Tube sign patented by Georges Claude; Considered by some to be the Edison of France, he was an active collaborator with the German occupiers of France during the Second World War, for which he was imprisoned in 1945 and stripped of his honors. 1920 - US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations 1923 - Jean Stapleton, Golden Globe-winning actress who gained widespread fame for playing Edith Bunker on the television series All in the Family. She was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2002 (92) 1930 - Tippi Hedren, cool blonde actress who played major roles in director Alfred Hitchcocks The Birds and Marnie. Later in her career, she appeared in Free Samples and the Ghost and the Whale; she is the mother of fellow actress Melanie Griffith (85) 1935 - During a blizzard, Coopers Inc. (which later became Jockey) sold the worlds first briefs at the Marshall Fields State Street store in downtown Chicago. Designed by an apparel engineer named Arthur Kneibler, briefs dispensed with leg sections and had a Y-shaped overlapping fly. The company dubbed the design the macky, since it offered a degree of support that had previously only been available from the jockstrap. Macky briefs proved so popular that over 30,000 pairs were sold within three months of their introduction. Coopers, having renamed the company Jockey, sent its Mascul-liner plane to make special deliveries of masculine support briefs to retailers across the US. In 1938, when macky were introduced in the UK, they sold at the rate of 3,000 a week. 1937 - Millionaire Howard Hughes sets transcontinental air record (7h28m25s) 1939 - Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record of 4.4 sec 1942 - Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers; he was a Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest and professor of philosophy, vehemently opposed to Nazi ideology and spoke out against it many times before the Second World War. He was imprisoned in the infamous Dachau concentration camp, where he died. 1943 - Uprising in Warsaw ghetto 1943 - Janis Joplin, icon of 1960s psychedelic rock for her rough sound and released five charted singles during her four-year career, including Me and Bobby McGee; she was found dead at the Landmark Motor Hotel in Hollywood, California by one of her road managers, John Cooke (72) 1946 - Dolly Parton, blonde, flamboyant country singer who released twenty-six #1 Billboard hits, including Jolene, Coat of Many Colors, and 9 to 5 (69) 1952 - Dewey Bunnell, singer with the folk rock band America who sang hits like Horse with No Name and Ventura Highway (63) 1954 - Katey Sagal, who rose to fame after playing the role of Peggy Bundy on the Fox TV series Married... With Children. In 2011, she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama TV Series for her role as Gemma Teller Morrow in Sons of Anarchy, created by Kurt Sutter; she was married to Steppenwolf drummer Jack White from 1993 to 2000. In 2004, she married Kurt Sutter (61) 1955 - Scrabble debuts on board game market 1955 - 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower) 1966 - Indira Gandhi elected Indias 3rd prime minister 1970 - Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails) 1970 - UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist 1971 - Beatles Helter Skelter is played at Charles Manson trial 1972 - Drea De Matteo, actress who portrayed Adriana La Cerva on HBOs hit series The Sopranos. She also played Joeys sister on the TV show Joey, and Wendy Teller on FXs Sons of Anarchy (43) 1977 - US President Ford pardons Iva Toguri DAquino (Tokyo Rose) 1981 - Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide 1981 - US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages 1983 - Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia 1989 - President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon
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