16 Jan 07 - Tuesday
1935 A J Foyt Houston TX, auto race driver (Indy 500 1961, 64, 67, 77)
1941 Abdullah the Butcher
1944 Ronnie Milsap Robbinsville NC, country singer
1947 Juliet Berto Grenoble France, actress (Le Sex Shop)
1948 John Carpenter Carthage NY, director (Halloween, The Thing)
1959 Sadé [Helen Folsade Ady] Ibadan Nigeria, rocker
1547 Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself 1st tsar of Russia
1581 English parliament passes laws against Catholicism
1777 Vermont declares independence from NY
1865 Drunken sailor attacks munitions at Fort Fisher NC, 40 die
1920 18th Amendment, prohibition, becomes the law of the land - one year after ratification; it is repealed in 1933
1920 1st assembly of League of Nations (Paris)
1938 Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing
1939 Comic strip "Superman" debuts
1939 Albert Fish mass murderer, executed
1951 Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi
1957 Cavern Club (home of Beatles' 1st appearance) opens on Mathew Street in England
1965 "Outer Limits" last airs on ABC-TV
1976 "Donny & Marie" [Osmond] musical variety show premieres on ABC TV
1976 Peter Frampton released platinum live album "Frampton Comes Alive"
1980 Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession
1981 John Lennon's "Woman" is released in UK
1984 Paul & Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados-possession of cannabis
1985 "Playboy" announces end of stapling centerfolds
1991 Operation Desert Storm begins - US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (air war begins January 17 at 2:38AM (local time) or January 16 at 6:38PM EST due to an 8 hour time difference, with an Apache helicopter attack)
1992 Arn Anderson & Bobby Eaton defeated Dustin Rhodes & Rick Steamboat for the WCW World Tag Team title
1997 Innis Cosby son of Bill Cosby, murdered on Los Angeles highway at 29
It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
W. C. Fields
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