6 Jan 07 - Saturday
1412 Joan of Arc Domremy, martyr
1854 Sherlock Holmes
19-- Muzz Skillings heavy metal rocker (Living Colour)
1924 Earl Scruggs
1945 Pepe Le Pew
1964 Jacqueline WWE Diva
1953 Malcolm Young
1838 Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
1893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
1912 New Mexico becomes 47th state
1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
1919 Theodore Roosevelt 26th President (1901-09), dies at 60
1927 US marines sent to Nicaragua
1941 FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want & from fear)
1958 Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar
1963 "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC
1964 Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
1967 "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV
1973 "Schoolhouse Rock" premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock
1975 "Wheel Of Fortune" debuts on NBC-TV
1977 EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols
1984 Harry Race defeated David Von Erich for the MO State Heavyweight title
1993 John B "Dizzy" Gillespe blues trumpeter, dies of cancer at 75
1993 Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones
1994 Morty the Moose (Northern Exposure), dies at 6
"The trouble with your profession journalism is that you are all confused about what you have a right to do under the Constitution and the right thing to do."
- Former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart to Fred W. Friendly
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