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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 7, 2012 11:21:22 GMT
January 07.
1610 - Galileo Galilei sighted four of Jupiter's moons. He named them Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
1965: Krays in custody over menace charge. Identical twin brothers Ronald and Reginald Kray were remanded in custody charged in connection with running a protection racket in London.
1976: Iceland and Britain clash at sea. A British naval frigate was involved in another collision with an Icelandic gunboat in the Atlantic. HMS Andromeda was dented when the gunboat, Thor, sailed close to the bow. Thor sustained a hole in its hull.
1998: Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signed an affidavit denying that she had an affair with U.S. President Clinton.
1999: U.S. President Clinton went on trial before the Senate. It was only the second time in U.S. history that an impeached president had gone to trial. Clinton was later acquitted of perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 8, 2012 21:31:13 GMT
January 08.
1877: Crazy Horse (Tashunca-uitco) and his warriors fought their final battle against the U.S. Cavalry in Montana.
1886: The Severn Railway Tunnel, Britain's longest, was opened.
1989: Dozens die as plane crashes on motorway. A Boeing 737 airplane crashed onto the M1 motorway near East Midlands airport, killing 46 people. Eighty survived, of whom ten were seriously injured. The British Midland flight 092 was forced to crash land after both engines of the brand new aircraft failed.
1996: France's former president Mitterrand dies. France was mourning the loss of its longest-serving president, Francois Mitterrand, who died at the age of 79 from prostate cancer.
1998: Ramzi Yousef was sentenced to life in prison for his role of mastermind behind the World Trade Center bombing in New York.
1998: Scientists announced that they had discovered that galaxies were accelerating and moving apart and at faster speeds.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 9, 2012 18:59:42 GMT
January 09.
1799: British prime minister William Pitt the Younger introduced income tax, at two shillings (10p) in the pound, to raise funds for the Napoleonic Wars.
1951: The United Nations headquarters officially opened in New York City.
1969: The supersonic aeroplane Concorde made its first trial flight, at Bristol.
1972 - The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth was destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor.
1995: Russian cosmonaut Valeri Poliakov, 51, completed his 366th day in outer space aboard the Mir space station, breaking the record for the longest continuous time spent in outer space.
1997: Bullimore rescued after five days. The lone yachtsman, Tony Bullimore, feared drowned after his boat capsized in the Southern Ocean five days ago, was found safe and well. Mr Bullimore survived on "a little chocolate, water and sheer determination" crouched in the upturned hull of his yacht.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 10, 2012 22:55:02 GMT
January 10.
1863 - Prime Minister Gladstone opened the first section of the London Underground Railway system, from Paddington to Farringdon Street.
1949 - Vinyl records were introduced by RCA (45 rpm) and Columbia (33.3 rpm).
1954: Comet jet crashes with 35 on board. Thirty-five people are missing, feared dead, after a Comet jet airliner crashed into the Mediterranean. The plane - a British Overseas Airways Corporation jet - was on its way from Singapore to London. It came down in the sea about 20 minutes after taking off from Rome, in Italy, on the last leg of its journey.
1956 - Elvis Presley recorded his first songs as an RCA Victor artist in Nashville. Elvis recorded "Heartbreak Hotel," "I Was the One," "I’m Counting On You," "I Got a Woman" and "Money Honey."
1994 - In Manassas, VA, Lorena Bobbitt went on trial. She had been charged with maliciously wounding her husband, John, by cutting his penis off with a knife. She was acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 11, 2012 20:25:03 GMT
January 11.
1569 - England's first state lottery was held.
1770 - The first shipment of rhubarb was sent to the United States from London.
1962: Thousands killed in Peru landslide. At least 2,000 people were believed to have been killed after a massive avalanche of rocks and ice buried an entire mountain village and several settlements in north-west Peru.
1977 - Rolling Stone Keith Richards was tried in London for possession of cocaine, found in his car after an accident, and fined £750.
1993: BA dirty tricks against Virgin cost £3m. British Airways ended one of the most bitter and protracted libel actions in aviation history in a humiliating climb-down.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 12, 2012 17:59:16 GMT
January 12.
1966: "Batman" debuted on ABC-TV.
1976: Crime writer Agatha Christie dies. The most popular novelist in the world, Dame Agatha Christie, died leaving rumours of a multi-million pound fortune and a final book waiting to be published.
2001: Swedish 'Iceman' starts England job. The first foreigner to coach the England football team, Sven Goran Eriksson, flew into the country to begin his new job.
2003: Maurice Gibb dies after stomach op. Bee Gee Maurice Gibb died from complications following an operation to correct an intestinal blockage.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 13, 2012 19:37:38 GMT
January 13.
1928: Ernst F. W. Alexanderson gave the first public demonstration of television.
1998: One of the 110 missing episodes of the TV show "Doctor Who" was found in New Zealand.
2002: U.S. President George W. Bush fainted after choking on a pretzel.
2004: Serial killer Shipman found hanged. Harold Shipman, the former GP who is believed to have killed more than 200 people, was found dead in his prison cell. He was found hanging by a bed sheet strung around the bars of his cell at Wakefield Prison at 0620 GMT. Prison staff tried to revive him but he was pronounced dead at 0810 GMT.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 15, 2012 8:29:23 GMT
January 14.
1878: Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for Queen Victoria.
1954: Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married. The marriage only lasted nine months.
1969: Football legend Sir Matt Busby announced he would retire as manager of Manchester United at the end of the season - FA Cup final day on 26 April.
1975: Heiress Lesley Whittle a 17-year-old heiress was kidnapped from her home in Shropshire. Lesley Whittle, left £82,000 in her father's will, was snatched from her bed at the family home in Highley.
1994: The Duchess of Kent became the first member of the Royal Family to convert to Catholicism for more than 300 years.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 15, 2012 8:38:25 GMT
January 15.
1559: Queen Elizabeth I (Elizabeth Tudor) was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1973: President Nixon ordered a halt to American bombing in North Vietnam following peace talks in Paris.
1974: "Happy Days" premiered on ABC-TV.
1978: Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman, two students at Florida State University in Tallahassee, were murdered in their sorority house. Ted Bundy was later convicted of the crime and was executed.
1997: Princess Diana angered government ministers after calling for an international ban on landmines.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 16, 2012 22:17:43 GMT
January 16.
1547: Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of Russia.
1572: The Duke of Norfolk was tried for treason for complicity in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. He was executed on June 2.
1759: The British Museum opened.
1957: The Cavern Club opened for business in Liverpool, England. The rock club was where the Beatles began.
1970: Colonel Muammar Gaddafi took direct control of Libya four months after a bloodless coup that brought an end to the monarchy under King Idris.
2009: Boy George was sentenced to 15 months in jail for falsely imprisoning a male escort.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 17, 2012 21:02:33 GMT
January 17.
1773: Captain Cook's Resolution became the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle.
1912: English explorer Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole. Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him there by one month. Scott and his party died during the return trip.
1966: A B-52 carrying four H-bombs collided with a refuelling tanker. The bombs were released and eight crewmembers were killed.
1977: Gary Gilmore, the convicted murderer, was executed today by firing squad in the Utah state prison in Salt Lake City. This is the first execution to have been carried out in the United States for almost 10 years.
1983: People have been switching on their televisions a little earlier than usual to catch Britain's first breakfast news programme. The BBC's new Breakfast Time programme went on air at 0630 GMT, presented by Nationwide's Frank Bough and former ITN news reader Selina Scott.
1991: 'Mother of all Battles' begins. The Gulf War Allies have sent hundreds of planes on bombing raids into Iraq, at the start of Operation Desert Storm.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 18, 2012 21:26:13 GMT
January 18.
1778: English navigator Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he called the "Sandwich Islands."
1788: The first English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay to establish a penal colony. The group moved north eight days later and settled at Port Jackson.
1967: The man who claims to be the 'Boston Strangler' has been jailed for life after being found guilty of assault and armed robbery against four women in Connecticut.
1969: Pete Best won his defamation suit against the Beatles. He was asking for 8 million dollars, but won considerably less.
1996: Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 19, 2012 18:14:00 GMT
January 19.
1419 - Rouen surrendered to Henry V, completing his conquest of Normandy.
1764 - John Wilkes was expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
1793 - King Louis XVI was tried by the French Convention, found guilty of treason and sentenced to the guillotine.
1971 - At the Charles Manson murder trial, the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" was played. At the scene of one of his gruesome murders, the words "helter skelter" were written on a mirror.
1976 - The Beatles turned down an offer of $30 million to play together again on the same stage. The offer was made by rock promoter Bill Sargent.
1999 - Jean-Michel Jarre delivered a petition to the European Parliment signed by hundreds of leading European recording artists asking for better legal protection against music piracy on the internet.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 21, 2012 9:17:58 GMT
January 20.
1265: The first English parliament met in Westminster Hall.
1885 - The roller coaster was patented by L.A. Thompson.
1886 - The Mersey Railway Tunnel was officially opened by the Prince of Wales.
1942 - Nazi officials held the Wannsee conference, during which they arrived at their "final solution" that called for exterminating Europe's Jews.
1944 - The British RAF dropped 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin.
1961: The Democrat John F Kennedy has been sworn in as the youngest ever elected president of the United States.
1986 - New footage of the 1931 "Frankenstein" was found. The footage was originally deleted because it was considered to be too shocking.
1987 - Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite was kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon. He was there attempting to negotiate the release of Western hostages. He was not freed until November 1991.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 21, 2012 9:28:41 GMT
21 January.
1793: During the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was executed on the guillotine. He had been condemned for treason.
1911: The first Monte Carlo car rally was held. Seven days later it was won by Henri Rougier.
1950: The writer, George Orwell, died after a three-year battle against tuberculosis.
1970: The Boeing 747 made its first commercial flight from New York to London for Pan American.
1976: The French Concorde SST aircraft began regular commercial service for Air France and British Airways.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 22, 2012 7:21:07 GMT
January 22.
1561: Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman considered by many to be the father of the scientific revolution, was born on this day.
1948: Project Sign, the US government's first effort to investigate the UFO phenomenon, began its work at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
1962: The man accused of the "A6 murder" entered a plea of "not guilty" at the start of his trial at Bedfordshire Assizes in Bedford. James Hanratty denied shooting Michael Gregsten, a physicist, twice in the head.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 23, 2012 22:02:42 GMT
January 23.
1943 - The British captured Tripoli from the Germans.
1955: Fourteen people were killed and dozens injured when an express train travelling from York to Bristol derailed and overturned at Sutton Coldfield station.
1974 - Mike Oldfield’s "Tubular Bells" opened the credits of the movie, "The Exorcist".
1985 - The proceedings of the House of Lords were televised for the first time.
1989 - Surrealist artist Salvador Dali died in Spain at age 84.
1997 - A British woman received a record £186,000 damages for Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 24, 2012 18:57:59 GMT
January 24.
1848: James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California. The discovery led to the gold rush of '49.
1908 - In England, the first Boy Scout troop was organized by Robert Baden-Powell.
1916 - Conscription was introduced in Britain.
1965: Sir Winston Churchill died at the age of 90 with his wife Lady Clementine Churchill and other members of the family at his bedside.
1966: Up to 117 people have been killed after an Air India Boeing 707 crashed near the summit of Mont Blanc in the Alps.
1989: Ted Bundy, the confessed serial killer, was put to death in Florida's electric chair for the 1978 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 26, 2012 0:59:08 GMT
January 25.
1533 - England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife Anne Boleyn. Boleyn later gave birth to Elizabeth I.
1858 - Mendelssohn’s "Wedding March" was presented for the first time, as the daughter of Queen Victoria married the Crown Prince of Prussia.
1924 - The 1st Winter Olympic Games were inaugurated in Chamonix in the French Alps.
1971 - Charles Manson and three female members of his "family" were found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit murder and seven counts of murder in the first degree. They were all sentenced to death for the 1969 killings. The sentences were later commuted to life sentences.
1995 - The defense gave its opening statement in the O.J. Simpson trial.
2002 - "Les Miserables" played for the 6,138th time to become the second-longest running show in Broadway history. "Cats" closed in 2000 with the record of 7,485 shows.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Jan 26, 2012 6:16:07 GMT
January 26.
1841 - Britain formally occupied Hong Kong, which the Chinese had ceded to the British.
1992 - Russian president Boris Yeltsin announced that his country would stop targeting U.S. cities with nuclear weapons.
1999 - Gary Busey was released from jail after being arrested the night before for investigation of misdemeanor spousal abuse. Tiana Busey had no visible injuries.
2010 - It was announced that James Cameron's movie "Avatar" had become the highest-grossing film worldwide.
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