9 Jan 07 - Tuesday
1901 Chic Young cartoonist (Blondie)
1913 Richard Milhouse Nixon Yorba Linda CA, (R) 37th President (1969-74)
1914 Gypsy Rose Lee [Rose Hovick], Seattle, burlesque actress (Gypsy)
1915 Les Paul guitarist/inventor (Les Paul Guitar)
1941 Joan Baez Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate
1944 Jimmy Page London England, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1948 Paul King rocker (Blue Oyster Cult)
1951 Crystal Gayle Kentucky, country singer (Don't it make my brown eyes blue)
1962 Phil Lewis London England, rock vocalist (LA Guns-It's Over Now)
1967 Dave Matthews singer/musician (Dave Matthews Band)
1324 Marco Polo Italian explorer, dies
1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod
1893 Mohara Arab ivory/slave trader, dies in battle & is eaten
1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
1959 Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St Louis MO, to become NWA champ
1962 Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minnesota, to become NWA champ
1967 The NFL New Orleans franchise takes the name "Saints"
1976 CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts
1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"
1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
2000 The Impact Players (Lance Storm & Justin Credible) defeated Tommy Dreamer & Raven for the ECW Tag Title
"…3rd Medical Command is by far the best MEDCOM in the world!"
- Maj Gen Ronald D. Silverman
(we got that general visiting us today)
