5 Jan 07 - Friday
1779 Zebulon Montgomery Pike explorer (Pike's Peak)
1855 King Camp Gillette inventor (safety razor)
19-- Kelly Nickels rock bassist (LA Guns-It's Over Now)
1923 Robert L Bernstein New York City NY, publisher (Random House)
1923 Sam Phillips musician/record company founder (Sun)
1931 Robert Duvall San Diego CA, actor (Great Santini, Taxi Driver)
1949 Chris Stein Brooklyn NY, rock guitarist (Blondie-Heart of Glass, Call Me)
1954 Bryan Hitt rocker (REO Speedwagon-Keep on Loving You)
1969 Marilyn Manson singer/musician
1899 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton (BG)
1919 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party
1933 Calvin Coolidge 30th President (1923-29), dies in Northampton MA at 60
1943 George Washington Carver famous American agricultural scientist dies at 81
1949 President Harry S Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal"
1956 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel"
1959 "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV
1962 Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce "My Bonnie" & "The Saints"
1991 Marie Madeline Sullivan actress (Elvira Mistress of Dark), dies at 80
1993 Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame
1995 Yahya Ayyash PLO bomb maker, booby trapped cellular phone at 28
1996 2 Cold Scorpio defeated Mikey Whipwreck for the ECW television title
1998 Sonny Bono (Representative-R-CA)/singer (Sonny & Cher), dies skiing at 62
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
