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Old 01-04-2017, 01:39 PM   #486
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January 4

Today is World Braille Day, celebrating Louis Braille, who developed the 6-dot finger tip reading system known as Braille [by the age of 15].


Events

1490 – Anne of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the King of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lèse-majesté.

1642 – King Charles I of England sends soldiers to arrest members of Parliament, commencing England's slide into civil war.

1717 – The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance.

1847 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government. ["God created all men. Sam Colt made them equal."]

1853 – After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller.

1865 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters near Wall Street in New York City.

1889 – The Oklahoma Land Run opens two million acres of unused Oklahoma Territory to first-come first-served settlers on April 22.

1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.

1903 – Topsy, a performing elephant, is poisoned, strangled, and electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island, . The Edison film company shoots the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.

1912 – The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.

1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.

1958 – Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.

1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.

1972 – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England.

1976 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.

1987 – The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, killing 16 people.

1989 – Second Gulf of Sidra incident: A pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.

1998 – A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.

1999 – Former professional wrestler Jesse 'The Body' Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.

2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars.

2007 – The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.

Births

1785 – Jacob Grimm (Grimm's Fairy Tales); 1809 – Louis Braille; 1838 – General Tom Thumb; 1890 – Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (founder DC Comics); 1895 – Leroy Grumman (co-founded Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co.); 1900 – Bond, James Bond (no, not that one, this one's an orthin- an onritho- he studies birds); 1905 – Sterling Holloway; 1920 – William Colby; 1927 – Barbara Rush (Peyton Place, All My Children); 1930 – Don Shula [Bum Phillips was asked who was the greatest coach, he said "Don Shula. He can take his'n, and beat yourn, then take yourn, and beat his'n."]; 1935 – Floyd Patterson; 1937 – Dyan Cannon; 1957 – Patty Loveless♪ ♫; 1958 – Matt Frewer; 1958 – Julian Sands; 1959 – Vanity♪ ♫; 1960 – Michael Stipe♪ ♫(R.E.M.); 1962 – Robin Guthrie♪ ♫(Cocteau Twins); 1962 – Peter Steele(Type O Negative); 1963 – Dave Foley; 1963 – Till Lindemann♪ ♫(Rammstein); 1965 – Julia Ormond; 1966 – Deana Carter♪ ♫

Deaths

1821 – Elizabeth Ann Seton; 1877 – Cornelius Vanderbilt; 1960 – Albert Camus; 1961 – Erwin Schrödinger (Schrödinger's cat); 1965 – T. S. Eliot; 1967 – Donald Campbell; 1986 – Phil Lynott(Thin Lizzy); 1997 – Harry Helmsley (Leona's husband); 1999 – Iron Eyes Cody (the crying Native American in the old anti-pollution commercial); 2001 – Les Brown♪ ♫; 2011 – Gerry Rafferty♪ ♫(Stealer's Wheel)
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