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Epic Idiot's what happened
On This Day
January 2Copyright 1989-2007 epicidiot.com
2002 Buddy: Pres. Clinton's chocolate Labrador retriever is hit by a car and killed while running loose near their Chappaqua, New York home.
1971 Sixty-six people are killed at a soccer game in Glasgow, Scotland. Metal barriers collapsed causing a stampede crushing more than 200 fans.
1960 16-year-old Bobby Fischer wins the U.S. Chess championship.
1959 First moon shot: The USSR Lunik I is launched. It missed, becoming the first man-made object to pass near the moon and the first man-made object to orbit the Sun.
1959 Fidel Castro becomes prime minister of Cuba.
1953 Sen. Joseph McCarthy is condemned by the U.S. Senate for his actions during his investigations into Communist activity.
1953 The Life of Riley debuts on NBC for the second time, starring William Bendix as Chester A. Riley.
1952 Pope Pius XII declares TV as a threat to family life.
1921 First religious radio broadcast in the U.S., by the Calvary Episcopal Church over KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1903 Pres. Roosevelt closes a Missouri post office for refusing to employ Minnie Cox, a black female, as postmaster.
1888 Drinking straw: Marvin Chester Stone of Washington D.C. patents his invention.
1788 Georgia becomes the 4th state.
1776 Flag of the United Colonies is first raised by General George Washington.
1762 England declares war on Spain.
1965 Diane Lane, American actress. Film: The Cotton Club (1984) and Chaplin (1992).
1939 Jim Bakker (James Orsen), American televangelist. He served 4½ years in prison (1989-94) for defrauding his followers of $158,000,000.
1936 d. 1992 Roger Miller, American Grammy (11 from 1964-65) and Tony-winning composer. He wrote King of the Road (1965, #1), which became the hobo anthem.
1928 Howard Caine, American actor. TV: Hogan's Heroes (Major Hochstedder).
1920 d. 1992 Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American science-fiction author and giver of the "three laws of robotics." Writings: I Robot (1950)
1913 Anna Lee, English actress. TV: General Hospital (Lila Quartermaine).
1857 d. 1937 Frederick Burr Opper, American cartoonist. He created Happy Hooligan (1902) and illustrated works for Mark Twain.
1647 d. 1676 Nathaniel Bacon, American colonial leader. He led Bacon's Rebellion (1676), overthrowing the governor of Virginia. The settlers were upset due to excessive taxes, loss of self rule, and the governor's refusal to protect them against Indians.
1990 b. 1918 Alan Hale Jr., American actor. TV: Gilligan's Island (Skipper Jonas Grumby).
1989 b. 1915 Eddie Heywood, American jazz pianist, composed Canadian Sunset.
1963 b. 1904 Dick Powell, American actor, singer. His death was attributed to radiation exposure received from an A-bomb test near the filming of a movie in 1953.
1924 b. 1834 Sabine Baring-Gould, English clergyman, author of the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers. (Source: An Almanac of the Christian Church)
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