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On This Day

January 22

1993
Jack in the Box food poisoning: A 2-year-old boy dies from food poisoning after eating an E. coli contaminated hamburger. Two other children died and more than 500 people were sickened by the outbreak.

1991
Kimberly Bergalis wins a $1,000,000 settlement against the insurer of her dentist, Dr. David Acer, who infected her with AIDS during a Dec. 1987 tooth extraction.

1984
Airwolf debuts on CBS.

1976
Charlie's Angels debuts on ABC.

1973
Roe vs. Wade: U.S. Supreme Court rules that a state may not prevent a woman from having an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy.

1973
George Foreman: The boxing champ wins his first heavyweight title match by stopping Joe Frazier with a second-round knockout.

1946
The Central Intelligence Group (CIG) is established by Pres. Truman.

1943
The temperature rises from -4ºF to 45ºF in 2 minutes (7:30 a.m. Speardish, South Dakota).

1917
World War I: Pres. Woodrow Wilson declares that a just peace must be a peace without victory.

1907
Dance of Seven Veils: Richard Strauss' opera Salome premiers, featuring the famous dance.

1976
Bud Bundy, character on the TV show Married...With Children.

1959
Linda Blair, American actress. Film: The Exorcist (1973) and Repossessed (1990).

1948
George Foreman, American boxer, Olympic heavyweight gold medalist (1968) and world heavyweight champion (1973-74).

1940
John Hurt, British actor. Film: Midnight Express (1978, British Academy Award) and The Elephant Man (1980, title role).

1937
Joseph Wambaugh, American police officer, author. He created the TV series Police Story (1973). Writings: The New Centurions (1971) and The Blue Knight (1972).

1934     d. 1993
Bill Bixby, American actor. TV: My Favorite Martian (reporter Tim O'Hara), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (Eddie's father), and The Incredible Hulk (David Banner - You don't want to make him mad).

1932
Piper Laurie (Rosetta Jacobs), American Emmy-winning actress. Film: The Hustler (1961) and Carrie (1976). TV: Twin Peaks (Catherine Martell).

1931     d. 1964
Sam Cooke, American soul singer. Music: You Send Me (1957 #1) and Chain Gang (1960 #2), inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986). He was shot and killed by the motel manager in a Los Angeles motel.

1909
Ann Sothern, American actress. Film: Heroine of the Maisie movies (1939-47). TV: My Mother the Car (voice of the car).

1907
Wrong-Way Corrigan (Douglas Groce Corrigan), American aviator, made a nonstop transatlantic flight from N.Y. to Ireland without a permit (1938), claiming he had intended to fly to Los Angeles, but had followed the wrong end of his compass.

1875     d. 1948
D.W. Griffith, American film producer, director, screenwriter, co-founder of United Artists (1919). Film: The Birth of a Nation (1915).

1788     d. 1824
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron), English poet. Writings: Don Juan (1818-24).

1775     d. 1836
André Marie Ampère, French physicist, mathematician, for whom the electrical measurement "ampere" is named. He also developed the science of electro-magnetism.

1561     d. 1626
Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman, one of principal founders of systematic thought. There is much debate as to whether he was the true author of Shakespeare's writings. While stuffing a chicken with snow to test the feasibility of using snow to preserve meat, he contracted a fatal case of pneumonia.

1995     b. 1890
Rose Kennedy, American first mother, mother of John F. Kennedy.

1994     b. 1924
Telly Savalas (Aristotle Savalas), American Emmy-winning actor. Film: The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965, Pontius Pilate - for which he shaved his head). TV: Kojak (Emmy, detective Theo Kojak).

1973     b. 1908
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th U.S. President (1963-69) and 37th U.S. Vice-President (1961-63). He was the first president to use the Hot Line.

1966     b. 1880
Albert Wallace Hull, American physicist.  Inventor of a number of vacuum tubes, including the magnetron (1921) which was important for its use in RADAR.

1951     b. 1873
Charles Nessler, American beautician, invented the permanent wave (1914) and false eyelashes.

1922     b. 1854
Benedict XV, Italian religious leader, 258th Pope (1914-22).

1901     b. 1819
Victoria, Queen of England and Ireland (1837-1901).

1840     b. 1752
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German naturalist and physiologist. He originated the science of natural anthropology and proposed the division of humans into the five species: Caucasian, Mongolian, Malay, American, and African/Ethiopian).

1832     b. 1754
Molly Pitcher (Mary Hays McCauley), American Revolutionary War heroine. She risked her life to carry water to the troops during the Battle of Monmouth (June 1778) and operated her husband's cannon after he was wounded. For her bravery, Gen. Washington made her a noncommissioned officer.

1818     b. 1761
Caspar Wistar, American physician, for whom the wisteria is named.

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