20 Jan 07 - Saturday
1894 Harold L Gray creator (Little Orphan Annie)
1896 George Burns [Nathan Birnbaum], New York City NY, actor/comedian (Oh God)
1910 Joy Adamson naturalist/author (Born Free)
1920 DeForest Kelley Atlanta GA, actor (Dr McCoy-Star Trek)
1929 Arte Johnson Chicago IL, comedian (Laugh-in, Don't Call Me Charlie)
1942 Slim Whitman yodeler/country singer (Home on the Range)
1947 Malcolm McLaren founded rock group (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen)
1952 Ian Hill bass guitarist (Judas Priest-Breakin the Law)
1952 Paul Stanley [Eisen], rock guitarist (KISS-Beth)
1955 Joe Doherty Ireland, IRA activist (jailed in US)
1955 Michael Anthony rock bassist/singer (Van Halen)
1956 Bill Maher comedian (Politically Incorrect)
1966 Tracii Guns rock guitarist (LA Guns-It's Over Now)
1265 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester
1862 General Felix Zollicoffer killed after mistakenly riding into union lines
1921 Turkey declared in remnants of the Ottoman Empire
1930 1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit)
1939 Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews
1945 FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as President
1948 Mahatma Gandhi India's pacifist, assassinated
1949 J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen
1964 "Meet The Beatles" album released in US
1965 The Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man"
1965 Alan Freed DJ (Big Beat), dies at 42
1969 Richard M Nixon inaugurated as President
1977 George Bush, ends term as 11th director of CIA
1980 President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow
1981 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed
1981 Ronald Reagan inaugurated as President
1986 1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr
1989 Bush inaugurated as 41st President & Quayle becomes 44th Vice President
1989 Reagan becomes 1st President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
1993 Audrey Hepburn actress dies of colon cancer in Tolochenaz, Switzerland at 63
1993 Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd President
1997 Edith Haisman the oldest survivor of Titanic, dies at 100
1998 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Mama & Papas, Eagles
1998 Owen Hart defeated Goldust for the WWF European Heavyweight title
We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
Bill Maher