| 175701. |
On This Day In January 1968 - Evel Knievel, stunt performing______ , lost control of his motorcycle midway through a jump of 141 feet over the ornamental fountains in front of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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| 175702. |
On This Day In January 1971 - ______ ads representing $20 million dollars in advertising were banned from TV and radio broadcast.
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| 175703. |
On This Day In January 1973 - Britain, Ireland, ______ and Norway joined the EEC.
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| 175704. |
On This Day In January 1979 - The United States and ______ held celebrations in Washington, DC, and Beijing to mark the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
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| 175705. |
On This Day In January 1981 - Greece joined the ______ Community.
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| 175706. |
On This Day In January 1984 - AT&T was broken up into ______ Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement.
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| 175707. |
On This Day In January 1986 - Spain and ______ joined the European Community (EC.
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| 175708. |
On This Day In January 1987 - A pro-democracy rally took place in Beijing's ______ Square (China.
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| 175709. |
On This Day In January 1990 - David ______ was sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
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| 175710. |
On This Day In January 1992 - The ESPN Radio Network was officially______ .
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| 175711. |
On This Day In January 1993 - ______ split into two separate states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The peaceful division had been engineered in 1992.
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| 175712. |
On This Day In January 1994 - Bill Gates, Chief Executive Officer of ______ married Marilyn French.
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| 175713. |
On This Day In January 1994 - The North American Free Trade ______ went into effect.
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| 175714. |
On This Day In January 1995 - ______ West, an alleged killer of 12 women and girls, was found hanged in his jail cell in Winston Green prison, in Birmingham. West had been under almost continuous watch since his arrest in 1994, but security had reportedly been relaxed in the months preceding the apparent suicide.
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| 175715. |
On This Day In January 1995 - The World Trade Organization came into existance. The group of ______ nations monitors global trade.
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| 175716. |
On This Day In January 1998 - A new anti-______ law went into effect in California. The law prohibiting people from lighting up in bars.
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| 175717. |
On This Day In January 1999 - The ______ became currency for 11 Member States of the European Union. Coins and notes were not available until January 1, 2002.
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| 175718. |
On This Day In January 1999 - In California, a law went into effect that defined "invasion of ______ as trespassing with the intent to capture audio or video images of a celebrity or crime victim engaging in a personal of family activity.
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| 175719. |
On This Day In January 2001 - The "______ 7," rented space in an RV park in Woodland Park, CO.
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| 175720. |
On This Day In January 1732 - Composer Franz Xaver ______ was born.
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| 175721. |
On This Day In January 1837 - Composer Mili Alexeyevich ______ was born.
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| 175722. |
On This Day In January 1905 - Composer Sir ______ Kemp Tippett was born.
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| 175723. |
On This Day In January 1932 - Freddy Martin formed a new band and was hired to play the ______ Grill in New York City. Merv Griffin later became Martins lead vocalist.
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| 175724. |
On This Day In January 1941 - The Andrews ______ recorded "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.
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| 175725. |
On This Day In January 1968 - Newark, NJ, police confiscated a shipment of John ______ and Yoko Ono's album "Two Virgins". The album featured a nude cover.
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| 175726. |
On This Day In January 1975 - U.S. District Court Judge Richard ______ ruled in New York, that John Lennon and his lawyers will have access to Department of Immigration files pertaining to his deportation case.
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| 175727. |
This Day In January 1975 - The Allman ______ Band were named "Outstanding Community Organization" by the Georgia Department of Corrections.
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| 175728. |
On This Day In January 1979 - The trial of ex-Sex______ , Sid Vicious for the October 1978 murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, opened in New York City. Vicious died of a heroin overdose, thereby not living to hear the verdict.
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| 175729. |
On This Day In January 1980 - Larry Williams was found dead in his home in Los Angeles, CA. The gunshot wound to the head was never confirmed as the result of a murder or______ .
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| 175730. |
On This Day In January 1983 - The ______ "Annie" closed on Broadway at the Uris Theatre after 2,377 performances.
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| 175731. |
On This Day In January 1993 - The musical "Gypsy Passion" closed after 55______ .
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| 175732. |
On This Day In January 1492 - The leader of the last ______ stronghold in Spain surrendered to Spanish forces loyal to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.
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| 175733. |
On This Day In January 1788 - ______ became the 4th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
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| 175734. |
On This Day In January 1842 - In Fairmount, PA, the first wire ______ bridge was opened to traffic.
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| 175735. |
On This Day In January 1859 - Erastus Beadle published "The Dime Book of ______ Etiquette.
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| 175736. |
On This Day In January 1872 - Brigham Young, the 71-year-old leader of the ______ Church, was arrested on a charge of bigamy. He had 25 wives.
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| 175737. |
On This Day In January 1879 - Thomas Edison began ______ on his first generator.
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| 175738. |
On This Day In January 1890 - Alice ______ became the first female White House staffer.
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| 175739. |
On This Day In January 1893 - The first commemorative ______ stamps were issued.
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| 175740. |
On This Day In January 1900 - U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announced the Open ______ Policy to prompt trade with China.
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| 175741. |
On This Day In January 1900 - The Chicago ______ opened.
|
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| 175742. |
On This Day In January 1910 - The first junior high school in the United States opened. ______ School in Berkeley, CA, housed seventh and eighth grade students. In a separate building students were housed who attended grades 9-12.
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| 175743. |
On This Day In January 1917 - Royal Bank of ______ took over the Quebec Bank.
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| 175744. |
On This Day In January 1921 - The first religious ______ on radio was heard on KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh, PA, as Dr. E.J. Van Etten of Calvary Episcopal Church preached.
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| 175745. |
On This Day In January 1921 - DeYoung ______ in Golden Gate Park opened.
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| 175746. |
On This Day In January 1929 - The United States and Cananda reached an ______ on joint action to preserve Niagara Falls.
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| 175747. |
On This Day In January 1935 - Bruno Richard ______ went on trial for the kidnap-murder of Charles Lindberghs baby. Hauptmann was found guilt and executed.
|
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| 175748. |
On This Day In January 1942 - The Philippine capital of ______ was captured by Japanese forces during World War II.
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| 175749. |
On This Day In January 1953 - "The Life of ______ " debuted on NBC-TV.
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| 175750. |
On This Day In January 1955 - ______ President Jose Antonio Remon was assassinated.
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| 175751. |
On This Day In January 1957 - The San Francisco and Los Angeles ______ exchanges merged.
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| 175752. |
On This Day In January 1959 - ______ Radio ended four soap operas. "Our Gal Sunday", "This is Nora Drake", "Backstage Wife" and "Road of Life" all aired for the last time.
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| 175753. |
On This Day In January 1960 - U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy of ______ announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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| 175754. |
On This Day In January 1965 - "Broadway" Joe ______ signed the richest rookie contract ($400,000) in the history of pro football.
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| 175755. |
On This Day In January 1968 - Dr. Christian ______ performed the first successful heart transplant.
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| 175756. |
On This Day In January 1968 - ______ Castro announced petroleum and sugar rationing in Cuba.
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| 175757. |
On This Day In January 1971 - In the U.S., a federally imposed ban on ______ cigarette advertisements went into effect.
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| 175758. |
On This Day In January 1974 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon signed a bill requiring all states to lower the maximum speed limit to ______ MPH. The law was intended to conserve gasoline supplies during an embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries. Federal speed limits were abolished in 1995.
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| 175759. |
On This Day In January 1983 - The final edition of Garry Trudeaus comic strip, ______ , appeared in 726 newspapers. "Doonesbury" began runnning again in September 1984.
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| 175760. |
On This Day In January 1985 - The Rebels of UNLV beat Utah State in three overtime periods. The final score of 142-140 set a new new NCAA record for total points in a ______ game (282). The game took over three hours to play.
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| 175761. |
On This Day In January 1991 - Sharon Pratt Dixon was sworn in as mayor of______ , DC. She was the first black woman to head a city of that size and prominence.
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| 175762. |
On This Day In January 1996 - AT&T announced that it would eliminate 40,000 ______ over three years.
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| 175763. |
On This Day In January 1998 - Russia began circulating new ______ in effort to keep inflation in check and promote confidence.
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| 175764. |
On This Day In January 1999 - It was announced that ______ people had been killed in Sri Lanka, Columbia, during two days of fighting between rebels and government troops.
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| 175765. |
On This Day In January 1900 - ______ Verdi's "Aida" was performed in New York.
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| 175766. |
On This Day In January 1940 - The "Southland Shuffle" was recorded on Bluebird Records by Charlie Barnet and his______ . Billy May was featured as a trumpet player.
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| 175767. |
On This Day In January 1957 - Fats ______ recorded "I'm Walkin'.
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| 175768. |
On This Day In January 1960 - Bobby Darin and Connie Francis ______ together on the "Ed Sullivan Show.
|
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| 175769. |
On This Day In January 1964 - The Beatles made their first ______ on U.S. television in a film clip shown on the "Jack Paar Show." It was a performance of the song "She Loves You.
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| 175770. |
On This Day In January 1966 - The ______ appeared on "Hullabaloo.
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| 175771. |
On This Day In January 1967 - Carl Wilson (Beach Boys) refused to be ______ in after receiving a U.S. Army draft notice. He said he was a conscientious objector.
|
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| 175772. |
On This Day In January 1970 - "I Me Mine" was recorded by the______ . It was the last song that the band would record together.
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| 175773. |
On This Day In January 1970 - Davy Jones announced he was leaving the______ .
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| 175774. |
On This Day In January 1987 - ______ Franklin inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with Bill Haley and 14 others.
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| 175775. |
On This Day In January 1996 - ______ testified in an L.A. Court against Robert Dewey Hoskins. He had been accused of stalking and threatening to kill her.
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| 175776. |
On This Day In January 1998 - Swedish police arrested a total of ______ people following a neo-Nazi concert near Stolkholm. Crowd members allegedly gave Hitler salutes, classified as a "hate crime" under Swedish law, during a performance by U.S. group Max Resist.
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| 175777. |
On This Day In January 1496 - References in ______ da Vinci notebooks suggested that he tested his flying machine. The test didn't succeed and he didn't try to fly again for several years.
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| 175778. |
On This Day In January 1521 - Pope Leo X ______ Martin Luther.
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| 175779. |
On This Day In January 1777 - The Battle of Princeton took place in the War of______ , in which George Washington defeated the British forces, led by Cornwallis.
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| 175780. |
On This Day In January 1815 - By secret treaty, Austria, Britain, and ______ formed a defensive alliance against Prusso-Russian plans to solve the Saxon and Polish problems.
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| 175781. |
On This Day In January 1823 - Stephen F. Austin received a grant from the ______ government and began colonization in the region of the Brazos River in Texas.
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| 175782. |
On This Day In January 1825 - The first engineering college in the U.S. , Rensselaer School, opened in Troy, NY. It is now known as ______ Polytechnic Institute.
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| 175783. |
On This Day In January 1833 - Britain seized control of the ______ Islands in the South Atlantic. About 150 years later, Argentina seized the islands from the British, but Britain took them back after a 74-day war.
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| 175784. |
On This Day In January 1868 - The Shogunate was ______ in Japan and Meiji dynasty was restored.
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| 175785. |
On This Day In January 1871 - Henry W. Bradley patented______ .
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| 175786. |
On This Day In January 1888 - The drinking ______ was patented by Marvin C. Stone.
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| 175787. |
On This Day In January 1924 - English ______ Howard Carter discovered the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.
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| 175788. |
On This Day In January 1925 - In Italy, ______ announced that he would take dictatorial powers.
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| 175789. |
On This Day In January 1938 - The first broadcast of "Woman in White" was presented on the NBC Red network. The program remained on ______ for 10 years.
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| 175790. |
On This Day In January 1938 - The March of ______ was established by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The organization fights poliomyelitis. The original name of the organization was the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
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| 175791. |
On This Day In January 1947 - U.S. Congressional proceedings were televised for the first time. Viewers in Washington, Philadelphia and New York City saw some of the opening ceremonies of the 80th______ .
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| 175792. |
On This Day In January 1947 - In Trenton, NJ, Al Herrin, passed away at age______ . He had claimed that he had not slept at all during his life.
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| 175793. |
On This Day In January 1951 - NBC-TV debuted______ .
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| 175794. |
On This Day In January 1953 - Frances ______ and her son, Oliver from Ohio, became the first mother-son combination to serve at the same time in the U.S. Congress.
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| 175795. |
On This Day In January 1957 - The ______ Watch Company introduced the first electric watch.
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| 175796. |
On This Day In January 1959 - In the U.S., Alaska became the 49th______ .
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| 175797. |
On This Day In January 1961 - The U.S. severed diplomatic ______ with Cuba.
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| 175798. |
On This Day In January 1962 - ______ John XXIII excommunicated Cuban prime minister Fidel Castro.
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| 175799. |
On This Day In January 1967 - Jack ______ died in a Dallas, TX, hospital.
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| 175800. |
On This Day In January 1973 - The Columbia ______ System (CBS) sold the New York Yankees to a 12-man syndicate headed by George Steinbrenner for $10 million.
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