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January 3rd
106BC - Born this day, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman. Died 43BC. 1322 - Died this day, Philip V of France died and was succeeded by his brother, Charles IV. 1521 - German Reformer Martin Luther, aged 38, was excommunicated by Pope Leo X for challenging Catholic Church doctrine. Luther soon after began translating the Bible into the German language. 1621 - Born this day, William Tucker, believed to be first African-American born in the New World. (Another source says 1624). 1680 - Born this day, Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker. 1730 - Born this day, Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer, politician. 1757 - Born this day, Johann Abraham Sixt, composer. 1763 - Born this day, Joseph Fesch, French cardinal, war commission, earl, senator. 1777 - Born this day, Louis Poinsot, French instrument worker. 1777 - Born this day, M.A. Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca/Piombino. 1777 - In the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey, George Washington defeated British forces led by British General Lord Charles Cornwallis in the War of Independence. 1785 - The famed Methodist 'Christmas Conference' concluded in Baltimore, Maryland. Having opened on Christmas Eve 1784, this body brought into being the Methodist Episcopal Church (in America), and elected Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke the first two American 'general superintendents'. 1786 - Born this day, Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer. 1789 - Born this day, Carl G. Carus, German physician, psychologist, philosopher. 1793 - Born this day, Lucretia Coffin Mott, US women’s rights activist, one of the founders of the movement, abolitionist, feminist, teacher, minister, antislavery leader. 1802 - Born this day, Feliks Ostrowski, composer. 1803 - Born this day, Douglas William Jerrold, in London, author, playwright, wit (Punch Magazine). 1810 - Born this day, Eliza Von Bretton di Zerega, Danish West Indies, baroness. 1810 - Born this day, Antoine T. d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia). 1819 - Born this day, Thomas Hill Watts, Attorney General (Confederacy), Died in 1892. 1823 - Born this day, Jaak-Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer. 1825 - The first engineering college in America, Rensselaer School, opened in Troy, New York. It’s still there today, and is now known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 1825 - Robert Owen bought 30,000 acres for New Harmony, Indiana. 1829 - Born this day, John G.R. Acquoy, theologist, church historian. 1829 - Born this day, Konrad Duden, German linguist (Der grosse Duden). 1830 - Born this day, Alexander Ewing, composer. 1835 - Born this day, Larkin Goldsmith Mead, sculptor. 1840 - Born this day, Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, in Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii. 1847 - Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco. (Another source suggests 30 January). 1852 - The first Chinese arrived in Hawaii. 1853 - Born this day, Iwan Knorr, composer. 1857 - In France, Sebour, the Archbishop of Paris, was assassinated by a priest. 1861 - Delaware rejected a proposal that it join the South in seceding from the Union. 1863 - The Battle of Stone's River (Tennessee) ended. 1868 - Born this day, Franz V.M. Cumont, Belgian religious historian. 1869 - Born this day, Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer. 1870 - Born this day, Henry Handel Richardson, in Australia, novelist (Richard Mahoney). 1870 - Born this day, Henry Eichheim, composer. 1870 - The first sods of earth were turned for the Brooklyn Bridge. 1871 - A Binghamton, New York man named Henry W. Bradley patented oleomargarine. It was originally white and was sold in plastic bags with a colour tab inside the bag. You broke the tab and mixed the yellow colour through the oleomargarine. 1872 - The first patent list was issued. 1874 - Marshal Francisco Serrano became dictator of Spain. 1876 - Born this day, Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party, President (1949-1960). 1879 - Born this day, Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, First Lady, wife of 30th US President Calvin Coolidge [1923-29]. Died 8 July 1957. 1882 - Born this day, Willem Benoy, Flemish actor, director (Pygmalion). 
1883 - Born this day, (Richard) Clement Attlee, 1st Earl, British Labour politician, former Prime Minister (1945-51). Died 8 October 1967. 1884 - Born this day, Eli S. Jones, US evangelist (Christ of Indian road). 1884 - Born this day, Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski composer. 1886 - Born this day, Arthur Mailey, cricketer (great Aussie leg-spinner & cartoonist). 1886 - Born this day, John G. Fletcher, US poet (Epic of Arkansas). 1886 - Born this day, Josephine Hull, in Newtonville, Massachusetts, Academy award character actress (Harvey). 1887 - Born this day, Helen Parkhurst, US educator (Education on the Dalton plan). 1888 - Marvin C. Stone of Washington, DC, patented the drinking straw. 1891 - Born this day, Osip E. Mandelstam, Polish-Russian poet, author (Kamenj). 1892 - Born this day, [John Ronald Reuel Tolkien] J.R.R. Tolkien, South African born English writer, creator of The Lord of the Rings, was born in South Africa. Died 2 September 1973. 1893 - Born this born, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist, essayist (Gilles). 1895 - Born this born, Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshynsky, composer. 1895 - Born this born, Mihail Andricu, composer. 1897 - Born this born, Pola Negri [Barbara A Chalupec], Polish-US actress (Madame Bovary). 1897 - Born this born, [Marion Cecelia Douras] Marion Davies, in Brooklyn, New York, actress. Died in 1961. 1898 - Born this day, Zasu Pitts, in Parsons, Kansas, actress (Life With Father, Dames). Died in 1963. 1898 - Born this day, Johannes Hin, in Holland, yachtsman (Olympics-gold-1920). 1900 - Born this day, Dorothy Arnzer, director. 1900 - Born this day, Maurice Jaubert, composer. 1901 - Born this day, Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese president, dictator (1955-63), assassinated by his own generals. 1901 - Born this day, Eric Voegelin, in Germany, US philosopher (Order & History). 1902 - Born this day, Henry Lennox d'Aubigny Hopkinson, diplomat, politician. 1903 - Born this day, Charles Foulkes, in Canada, General. 1903 - The Bulgarian government renounced the Treaty of Commerce tying it to the Austro-Hungarian empire. 1904 - Born this day, Boris Kochno, Russian ballet dancer (La Chatte). 1905 - Born this day, Dante Giacosa, engineer, designer. 1906 - Born this day, Roman Brandstaetter, writer. 1907 - Born this day, Anna May Wong, in Los Angeles, California, actress (Impact, Study in Scarlet). 1908 - Born this day, Ray Milland (Reginald Truscott-Jones), in Neath, Wales, Academy Award-winning actor, (The Lost Weekend [1945], We’re Not Dressing, Star-Spangled Rhythm, Lady in the Dark, Let’s Do It Again, X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes. Died 10 March 1986. 1909 - Born this day, Victor Borge [Borge Rosenbaum], in Copenhagen, Denmark, pianist, comedian. Died 23 December 2000. 1910 - The Social Democratic Congress in Germany demanded universal suffrage. 1911 - In London, three anarchists who had killed policemen were besieged at 100 Sydney Street by authorities and killed in the early afternoon. 1911 - Born this day, Joseph Rauh, American civil rights activist, cofounded Americans for Democratic Action, member: executive board of NAACP, general counsel, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Died in 1992. 1911 - Born this day, John Sturges, director, (Bad Day at Black Rock, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Ice Station Zebra, The Eagle Has Landed). Died 18 August 1992. 1912 - Plans were announced for a new $150,000 Brooklyn stadium for the Trolley Dodgers baseball team. 1916 - Three armored Japanese cruisers were ordered to guard the Suez Canal. 1916 - Born this day, (Elizabeth Mary) Betty Furness, actress, (Renegades of the West, Flying Down to Rio, Magnificent Obsession; TV host: Penthouse Party, News Gal/Byline, Meet Betty Furness; consumer advocate, TV spokesperson for refrigerators: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse). Died 2 April 1994. 1918 - Born this day, (Angelyn) Maxine Andrews, singer, with sisters LaVerne and Patti, The Andrews Sisters, Why Talk About Love?, A Simple Melody, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, Rum and Coca Cola. Also solo, I Suppose. On Broadway with Patti, Over Here. Died 21 October 1995. 1920 - Babe Ruth was sold to New York Yankees by Boston Red Sox. 1920 - The last of the US troops departed France. 1921 - Italy halted the issuing of passports to those emigrating to the United States. 1921 - Born this day, John (William Lawrence) Russell, actor, (Forever Amber, Rio Bravo, Pale Rider). Died 19 January 1991. 1921 - Turkey made peace with Armenia. 1922 - Born this day, Bill Travers, producer, director, actor, (Born Free). Died 29 March 1994. 1924 - English explorer and egyptologist Howard Carter, discovered the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in Egypt's Valley of Kings near Luxor. 1926 - Born this day, Sir George Martin, record producer, arranger, keyboard. (Beatles, AIR Studios). 1960's EMI in-house record producer and so called 5th Beatle, he produced all but one of The Beatles albums as well as working with comedy acts The Goons and Beyond The Fringe, and Paul Raven [Gary Glitter]. 1926 - Theodoros Pangalos proclaimed himself dictator of Greece following a coup the previous June. He was deposed in August 1926. 1926 - Born this day, Joan Walsh Anglund, author, illustrator. 1930 - Born this day, Robert Loggia, actor. 1930 - American Congregational missionary Frank C. Laubach wrote in a letter: 'I have done nothing but open windows Ä God has done the rest'. 1930 - The second conference on Germany's war reparations began at the Hague, in the Netherlands. 1931 - Hundreds of farmers stormed a small town in depression-plagued Arkansas demanding food. 1932 - Born this day, Dabney Coleman, actor. 1932 - Born this day, Coo Coo [Clifton] Marlin, auto racer. 1933 - The Japanese attacked and took Shuangyashan, China, killing 500 Chinese. 1934 - At Barmen-Gemarke, in Germany, 320 pastors of the German Confessing Church met to draw up a theological statement opposing the Nazi German Nationalist Church. Led by Karl Barth and Martin Niem”ller, the gathering led to the formula afterward known as the Barmen Declaration. 1935 - Born this day, David Vine, Sports Commentator. 1938 - The first broadcast of Woman in White was presented on the NBC Red network. The program remained on radio for 10 years and was one of the first to feature real, honest-to-goodness doctors and nurses in leading roles. 1938 - The March of Dimes was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to fight poliomyelitis (Roosevelt himself was afflicted with polio). The organization was originally called the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (as the disease was commonly known). The March of Dimes accomplished its mission within 20 years. Research led by Dr. Jonas Salk and supported by funds (those marching little dimes) raised annually by thousands of volunteers, resulted in the announcement in April 1955 that the Salk polio vaccine was “safe, potent and effective.” The foundation also supported the research that led to the Sabin oral vaccine; another safe, effective polio preventative discovered by Dr. Albert B. Sabin. 1938 - The first broadcast of Woman in White was presented on the NBC Red network. The program remained on radio for 10 years and was one of the first to feature real, honest-to-goodness doctors and nurses in leading roles. 1939 - Tennis legend Don Budge played a pro tennis match, his first in Madison Square Garden, New York, before 6,000 spectators. Budge was touring the country as the top US tennis player, having won the grand slam of tennis (Australian, French and US Opens and Wimbledon) the year before. 1939 - Gene Cox, 13, became the first female congressional page. 1940 - Born this day, Bobby Hull, Hockey Hall of Famer. 1940 - The Southland Shuffle was recorded on Bluebird Records by Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra. A young trumpet player named Billy May was featured. 
1942 - Born this day, John Thaw, UK actor, (Sweeney, Morse, Kavanagh QC, Home to roost, A year in Provence). 1943 - Canadian Army troops arrived in North Africa. 1944 - Born this day, Chris Von Saltza, US swimming star, a child of Swedish nobility. She won three gold medals and a silver at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. 1945 - Born this day, Victoria Principal, US actress (Dallas, Fantasy Island, Scott Turow’s The Burden of Proof, Naked Lie, Blind Witness, Mistress, Pleasure Palace, Earthquake, Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean). 1945 - Born this day, Stephen Stills, singer, songwriter, guitarist, (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Manassas, Buffalo Springfield). CSN&Y - 1969 UK No.17 single with Marrakesh Express, and 1970 US No.1 album Deja Vu, plus 1971 solo UK No.37 single Love The One Your With. 1945 - Following the civil war in Greece, a new government was formed under General Plastiras, who immediately appealed for calm. 1945 - Born this day, Philip Goodhand-Tait, singer, songwriter. 1946 - William Joyce, the 'Lord Haw Haw' who broadcast Nazi propaganda to Britain during World War II (WWII), was hanged for treason in London. 1946 - Evelyn Waugh's novel, Brideshead Revisited, was published on this date in New York. 1946 - Born this day, John Paul Jones [Baldwin], rock musician, (Led Zepplin). 1946 - President Harry S. Truman called on Americans to spur Congress to act on the on-going labor crisis. 1947 - In Trenton, New Jersey, Al Herrin, the handyman who claimed he had no bed to sleep in because he had never slept a wink in his life, passed away at the age of 92. Doctors said there was evidence that he had gone several months without sleep and they confirmed that if he went that long, it could well be that he was awake his entire life. 1947 - The Opening of Congress was televised for the first time. 1950 - Born this day, Victoria Principal, actress (Dallas). 1952 - Jack Webb's brain-child TV police drama, Dragnet, aired on NBC for the first time. It became the highest-rated police show in television history, and was the first to be produced, directed, written, and starred-in by one person. 1953 - Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, became the first mother-son combination to serve at the same time in the United States Congress. 1955 - Born this day, Melody Anderson, actress. 1956 - The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, established in 1870, officially changed its name to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. The denomination is headquartered today in Memphis, Tennessee, and comprises a membership of nearly 500,000. 1956 - Born this day, (Columcille) Mel Gibson, Academy Award-winning director: Braveheart [1995]; actor: Braveheart, Maverick, The Man Without a Face, Lethal Weapon series, Forever Young, Hamlet, Bird on a Wire, Tequila Sunrise, Mad Max series, Mrs. Soffel, The Road Warrior, The Year of Living Dangerously, Summer City, Conspiracy Theory. 1957 - Fats Domino recorded I'm Walkin'. 1957 - The Hamilton Watch Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was the first to introduce an electric watch; now a standard in the watch world. 1958 - Sir Edmund Hillary, with a New Zealand party, reached the South Pole, the first man to do so overland since Captain Robert Falcon Scott. 1958 - The British created the West Indies Federation with Lord Hailes as governor general. 1959 - Fidel Castro took command of the Cuban army. 1959 - On this date in 1959, President Eisenhower signed a special proclamation admitting the territory of Alaska into the Union as the 49th and largest state. The European discovery of Alaska came in 1741, when a Russian expedition led by Danish navigator Vitus Bering sighted the Alaskan mainland. Russian hunters were soon making incursions into Alaska, and the native Aleut population suffered greatly after being exposed to foreign diseases. In 1784, Grigory Shelikhov established the first permanent Russian colony in Alaska on Kodiak Island. In the early 19th century, Russian settlements spread down the west coast of North America, with the southernmost fort located near Bodega Bay in California. Russian activity in the New World declined in the 1820s, and the British and Americans were granted trading rights in Alaska after a few minor diplomatic conflicts. In the 1860s, a nearly bankrupt Russia decided to offer Alaska for sale to the United States, which earlier had expressed interest in such a purchase. On 30 March 1867, Secretary of State William H. Seward signed a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7.2 million. Despite the bargain price of roughly two cents an acre, the Alaskan purchase was ridiculed in Congress and in the press as 'Seward's folly', 'Seward's icebox', and President Andrew Johnson's 'polar bear garden'. Nevertheless, the Senate ratified purchase of the tremendous landmass, one-fifth the size of the rest of the United States. Despite a slow start in settlement by Americans from the continental United States, the discovery of gold in 1898 brought a rapid influx of people to the territory. Alaska, rich in natural resources, has been contributing to American prosperity ever since. Capital - Juneau; bird - willow ptarmigan; flower - forget-me-not; nickname - The Last Frontier. 1960 - Bobby Darin and Connie Francis performed together on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show. 1961 - An experimental reactor killed three in Idaho Falls, Idaho. 1961 - The millionth Morris Minor came off the assembly line at Oxford. 1961 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower severed diplomatic ties with Cuba after Fidel Castro announced he was a communist. 1962 - Born this day, Gavin Hastings, rugby player. 1963 - The Beatles began their first headlining tour with four nights in Scotland, two of the dates were cancelled due to bad weather. 1963 - Cliff Richard had his sixth UK No.1 single with The Next Time / Bachelor Boy. 1964 - The Beatles were seen for the first time on a US TV show when a clip from the BBC's The Mersey Sound showing the group playing She Loves You was shown on The Jack Par Show. Jack Paar's show was the first to broadcast footage of them on a major US show. At that point Paar was not a fan, and he disparaged their haircuts on air. 1964 - Born this day, Raymond McGinley, guitar, vocals, Teenage Fanclub, 1992 UK No.31 single What You Do To Me. 1964 - Barry Goldwater announced that he was a candidate for the US Presidency. Later that year he lost - Lyndon B. Johnson: 43,126,506; Goldwater: 27,176,799. 1964 - Russia first bought wheat from the US. 1966 - Cambodia warned the United Nations (UN) of retaliation unless the United States and South Vietnam end intrusions. 1967 - Died this day, Jack Ruby, who was convicted of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, who shot President Kennedy, died from a blood clot that lodged in his lungs. He was suffering from lung cancer. 1967 - Having received a US army draft notice, Beach Boy Carl Wilson refused to be sworn in, saying he was a conscientious objector. 1967 - The Bee Gees were at No.1 in the Australian singles chart with the single Spickes and Speckes. 1969 - Born this day, Michael Schumacher, auto racer. 1969 - 30,000 copies of the John Lennon/Yoko Ono album Two Virgins, were confiscated by police in Newark, New Jersey. The nude photo of John and Yoko on the cover violated pornography laws in Jersey. 1969 - Appearing live on The Lulu Show (A Happening For Lulu), to the horror of the producer, Jimi Hendrix stopped playing his new single Hey Joe after a few bars and instead, launched into an unscheduled instrumental blast through Sunshine Of Your Love, dedicated to the recently disbanded Cream. 1970 - Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head, recorded by B.J. Thomas, hit No.1 on Billboard's record chart on this date and stayed there for 4 weeks. Thomas had been ordered the day before recording the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid soundtrack not to sing for 2 weeks due to laryngitis. After pleading with the doctor, he received throat medication, and did the recording. It made No.38 in the UK. 1970 - The Beatles recorded what would be their last song together, I Me Mine. A decade later it became the title of George Harrison's autobiography. 1971 - The Open University started. 1972 - Don McLean received a gold record for his 8-minute-plus hit, American Pie. 1973 - The Columbia Broadcasting System or CBS, as it’s known, got out of the baseball business by selling the New York Yankees to a 12-man syndicate headed by George Steinbrenner. The price tag? A cool $10 million. 1973 - Two thousand international fashion editors and experts voted Mick and Bianca Jagger two of the top dozen best dressed men and women of 1972. 1974 - Bob Dylan and The Band started a 39 date US tour, Dylan's first live appearance for over 7 years, there were more than 5 million applications for the 660,000 tickets. 1974 - Following eight years of inactivity, Bob Dylan commenced a tour of 39 dates in 25 cities. His first stop was in Chicago, Illinois. The tour was recorded and later released as a double-LP set titled Before the Flood. 1975 - Born this day, Danica McKellar (Danice?), actress, (The Wonder Years). 1976 - The Bay City Rollers went to No.1 on the US singles chart with Saturday Night. At the height of their US success, they signed a deal to have their faces on cereal boxes. 1977 - Born this day, Lee Bowyer, footballer, Leeds United. 1977 - Apple Computer was founded and incorporated. 1978 - North Vietnamese troops reportedly occupied 400 square miles in Cambodia. North Vietnamese Army (NVA) troops were using Laos and Cambodia as staging areas for attacks against allied forces. 1979 - Appearing at McGonagils, Dublin, were The Hype (U2). 1980 - BSD UNIX 3.0 was released. 1980 - Alfred Hitchcock received his knighthood. 1981 - John Lennon’s (Just Like) Starting Over and the album Double Fantasy topped the pop music charts just weeks after the death of the former Beatle. 1981 - David Bowie made his final appearance as the Elephant Man in the Broadway show. 1983 - Until the January 1983 issue of Time magazine, Time's 'Man of the Year' had always been a human being. But the 1983 'Man of the Year' issue, released on this day in 1983, gave the honour to the personal computer. The issue proclaimed that the home computer industry would dramatically change both office and home, despite the fact that it was still in its infancy. The Apple II, the first truly mass-market home computer, had come out just six years before this. At the time, the most powerful processor on the market was an Intel 286 chip, the Macintosh had not yet been invented, and Apple still led the market. 1985 - Soprano Leontyne Price bid adieu to the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She sang the title role of Aida. Price had been part of the Met since 1961. 1985 - Rolling Stone Ron Wood married Jo Howard at St Mary’s Church, Denham, Buckinghamshire, England. 1985 - President Ronald Reagan condemned a rash of arson attacks on abortion clinics. 1986 - The Liberty Foundation (a political party organized by Jerry Falwell) was formed. 1987 - The first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was ‘Lady Soul’: Aretha Franklin. Bill Haley was among the 14 others inducted as well. 1990 - In Panama, deposed leader Manuel Antonio Noriega surrendered to US authorities after spending 10 days under siege in the Vatican embassy following the US invasion. He was whisked to Florida to face narcotics trafficking charges. 1991 - Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) was removed from the list of diseases that would automatically bar an infected person from entering the United States. 1992 - American TV-network helicopters filmed a suspect in a slaying being shot to death by California Highway Patrol officers on a freeway off-ramp in Westminster, California, giving a grisly view of a killing to television viewers. Darren M. Stroh, age 22, allegedly shot a .12-gauge shotgun twice and killed a motorist who had stopped to help him when his car broke down, and then led officers on a four-hour, 300-mile chase. Stroh had dragged the victim's body out of the car, and then asked a hitchhiker he had picked up if he wanted to come along. The hitchhiker declined, and Stroh sped away in the victim's Cabriolet. 1992 - Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr married actress Patsy Kensit at a Chelsea register office. 1993 - US president George Bush and Russian president Boris Yeltsin signed the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Moscow, eliminating about two-thirds of both nations' nuclear stockpiles. 1993 - Catskills on Broadway closed at Lunt-Fontanne in New York City, NY, after 452 performances. 1993 - Christmas Carol closed at Broadhurst Theatre New York City, NY, after 22 performances. 1993 - Lost in Yonkers closed at Richard Rodgers in New York City, NY, after 780 performances. 1993 - Secret Garden closed at St James Theatre in New York City, NY, after 706 performances. 1993 - Tommy Tune Tonite! closed at Gershwin Theatre in New York City, NY, after 10 performances. 1993 - Junk bond king Michael Milkin was released from jail after 22 months. 1994 - Gray's Anatomy closed at Beaumont Theatre in New York City, NY, after 13 performances. 1994 - 100s were killed in Venezuela in a prison revolt. 1994 - 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, was taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field. 1994 - A Tupolev-154M crashed at Irkutsk, Siberia, 122 were killed. 1995 - Died this day, Byron MacGregor, singer (The Americans). 1997 - Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final Today show on NBC-TV. 1997 - Eddo Brandes took a ODI hat-trick vs England at Harare. 1997 - Zimbabwe clean-sweeped the ODI series vs England 3-0. 1998 - Side Show closed at Richard Rodgers theatre in New York City, NY, after 91 performances. 1998 - Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke. 1999 - Steps scored their first UK No.1 single with their version of The Bee Gees song Tragedy. 2000 - Luciano Pavarotti agreed to pay the Italian authorities £1.6 million after losing an appeal against tax evasion charges. It was reported that the singer was worth £300 million. 2000 - Peace talks between Israeli and Syrian leaders opened in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. 2001 - The 107th US Congress convened for the first time with the Senate equally divided 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans had a 10-member advantage in the House. 2001 - The family of a teenage British holidaymaker watched in horror as she was crushed to death by a cable car platform as she prepared to abseil down a mountain in South Africa. 2001 - The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates by half a percent to stem an economic slowdown. 2002 - Miami won the national collegiate football championship by defeating Nebraska 37-14. 2002 - Liam and Noel Gallagher topped a poll of celebrities you would least like to live next to, getting 40% of the vote. The brothers from Oasis were voted as 'Neighbours From Hell' by readers of Your Home magazine. 2002 - Rail services were crippled when a strike brought trains to a standstill. |
Trivia
Trivia - petty details or considerations, matters or things that are very unimportant, inconsequential, or nonessential; trifles; trivialities.
Trivial - of very little importance or value; insignificant: "Don't bother me with trivial matters." Trivially - unimportant, nugatory, slight, immaterial, inconsequential, frivolous, trifling.