29 Jan 07 - Monday
1843 William McKinley Niles OH, (R) 25th President (1897-1901)
1880 W C Fields [William Claude Dukenfield]
1945 Tom Selleck
1947 David Byron vocalist (Uriah Heep)
1952 Tommy Ramone [Thomas Erdelyi] rock drummer/bassist (Ramones)
1954 Oprah Winfrey
1957 Irlene Mandrell Corpus Christi TX, country singer (Mandrell Sisters)
1959 Paul McGann actor (Dr Who)
1960 Eddie Jackson bassist (Queensryche)
1834 President Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
1845 Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" 1st published (New York City NY)
1856 Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery
1920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co
1936 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson
1951 Liz Taylor's 1st divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr)
1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
1963 Robert Lee Frost US poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers), dies at 88
1964 Stanley Kubrick's"Dr Strangelove" premieres
1969 Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars
1977 Freddie Prinze comedian/actor (Chico & the Man), shoots himself at 22
1979 Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together
1980 Jimmy Durante New York City NY, singer/comedian, dies at 86
1992 Willie Dixon blues composer (I'm a Man, Backdoor Man), dies at 76
1998 Singers Bobby Brown found guilty of DWI in Fort Lauderdale FL
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
W. C. Fields
