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  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Thu, Jan 22 2015 7:52 AM

    January 22

                            ~ 1980 - The Senior PGA Tour begins ~

    1440 - Ivan III, The Great ~ Grand Prince of Moscow & Russia

    1561 - Francis Bacon ~ London ~ Statesman ~ Essayist ~ Philosopher ~ considered by Jefferson as one of the three greatest minds along with Newton and Locke

    1788 - Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron ~ England ~ Romantic Poet

    1869 - Grigori Rasputin ~ confidant of Tsar Nicolas II of Russia

    1875 - DW Griffith ~ Film Producer

    1935 - Sam Cooke ~ the boy could sing

    1949 - Steve Perry ~ Very serious pipes

    ~ By the Bye ~

    1371 ~ King Robert II Stuart of Scotland is crowned

    1510 ~ Jews are expelled from Colmar, Germany

    1673 ~ Postal service between New York and Boston begins

    1775 ~ Jews are expelled from Warsaw, Poland

    1881 ~ Ancient Egyptian Obelisk, Cleopatria's Needle is erected in Central Park, NYC

    ~ Fun is in the Aire ~

  • SJU92
    12 Posts
    Thu, Jan 22 2015 3:41 PM

    Mine is coming up...on the 29th...can't wait to see what happened...

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Fri, Jan 23 2015 7:56 AM

    January 23

    1730 - Joseph Hewes ~ US Merchant ~ Signer of The Declaration of Independence

    1737 - John Hancock ~ US Merchant ~ 1st Signer of The Declaration of Independence   

    1832 - Edouard Manet ~ French impressionist painter

    1840 - Ernst Abbe ~ Germany ~ physicist of the Carl Zeiss Optics Co ...none finer 

    ~ By the Bye ~

    1556 ~ EARTHQUAKE!!! yep, in the Shensi Province of China shakes the daylight out of 830,000 rice lovers

    1571 ~ Queen Elizabeth I ~ House of Tudor ~ Opens Royal Exchange in London

    1668 ~ England, Netherlands & Sweden sign Triple Alliance against France

    1779 ~ Charles Messier catalogs M56, a beautiful globular star cluster located in Lyra

    ~ Peace to All ~

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Sat, Jan 24 2015 7:41 AM

    January 24

        76 - Hadrian ~ Roman Emperor ~ built the famous "Hadrian's Wall"

    1444 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza ~ Duke of Milan ~ amazingly powerful

    1712 - Frederick II "The Great" ~ King of Prussia

    1746 - Gustav III ~ King of Sweden

    1862 - Edith Warton ~ Novelist

    1917 - Ernest Borgnine

    1918 - Oral Roberts

    1943 - Sharon Tate ~ faced horror up on Cielo Drive

    1949 - John Belushi ~ stupnagel with a speed-ball

    1968 - Mary Lou Retton ~ "10" 

    ~ By the Bye ~

        41 ~ Claudius succeeds the mega-pervert Caligula as Roman Emperor after Cali's assassination by Praetorian Guards :-}}

    1639 ~ Connecticut colony organizes

    1848 ~ James Marshall finds GOLD!!! in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California...I love GOLD!!!  and there are many who would love to dig my Gold...not gonna happen :-}

    1857 ~ University of Calcutta is founded....to do what?  It's a scream :-}

    1922 ~ Eskimo Pie is patented...yummy

    1935 ~ 1st canned beer "Kruger Creme Ale" is sold to people...yep, in cans

    1936 ~ EARTHQUAKE!!! yep, peppers 30,000 in Conception, Chile

    ~ Play Well ~

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Sun, Jan 25 2015 6:21 AM

    January 25

        17 - Messalina ~ Rome ~ Roman Empress and insatiable nymphomaniac wife of Claudius

      749 - Leo IV ~ Byzantine emperor

    1759 - Robert Burns ~ Scotland ~ Poet ~ Auld Lang Syne

    1882 - Virginia Woolf ~ London ~ Author

    1923 - Shirley Mason ~ unfortunate "nut case" aka Sybil

    1938 - Etta James

    ~ By the Bye ~

    1327 ~ King Edward III ~ House of Plantagenet ~ accedes to the English Throne

    1554 ~ Founding of Sao Paulo, Brazil

    1579 ~ Treaty of Utrecht is signed ~ Dutch Republic begins

    1890 ~ Nellie Bly goes around the world in 72 days beating Phileas Fogg's time by 8 days

    1904 ~ EXPLOSION!!! yep, at a coal mine at Cheswick, PA flings 179 fellas

    1949 ~ 1st Israeli election ~ Ben-Gurion selected

    1964 ~ BEATLES!!! ~ "I want to hold your hand" hits #1

    ~ see ya ~

  • PaulTon
    10,731 Posts
    Sun, Jan 25 2015 7:11 AM

    SweetiePie:
    1964 ~ BEATLES!!! ~ "I want to hold your hand" hits #1

    Can't let that 1 pass without a tune -

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Mon, Jan 26 2015 9:32 AM

    PaulTon:

    SweetiePie:
    1964 ~ BEATLES!!! ~ "I want to hold your hand" hits #1

    Can't let that 1 pass without a tune -

    And many thanks, Sir Paul....my Father has related to me the story of the impact. He was 16 when it came out, he at once purchased the 1st album and was crazed with it...just like everyone else...it was (the music & sound) just so different, new, and capturing. He also lost his crew-cut and zoomed to the Beatle hairdo.  ;-}

    January 26

    ~ 1907 - Henry Cotton ~

    1715 - Claude Helvetius ~ Paris ~ Big brain Philosopher whose wife, Madame Helvetius, was the apple of Benjamin Franklin's eye. He proposed to her...she declined.

    1763 - Charles XIV of France ~ King of Sweden & Norway

    1819 - Abner Doubleday ~ invented Baseball

    1826 - Julia Dent Grant ~ 1st Lady who demanded that her husband General Grant decline the invitation to attend Ford's Theater with President & Mrs. Lincoln....Julia couldn't stand Mrs. Lincoln...it saved their life by not attending.

    1880 - Douglas MacArthur ~ General with ego issues

    1891 - Frank Costello ~ Lauropoli, Italy ~ Gangster Prime Minister of the underworld

    1893 - Giuseppo Genco Russo ~ Sicilian Mafioso

    1905 - Marquess of Bath ~ seriously large English Landowner $$$$$

    1925 - Paul Newman

    1941 - Scott Glenn

    1955 - Eddie Van Halen ~ guitar dude with a booze problem

    1958 - Anita Baker

    1961 - Wayne Gretzky

    ~ By the Bye ~

    66 ~ 5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

    1340 ~ English King Edward III ~ House of Plantagenet ~ proclaimed King of France

    1531 ~ EARTHQUAKE!!! yep, does the job on 30,000 in Lisbon

    1666 ~ France declares WAR on England & Munster....I love Munster cheese

    1697 ~ Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernouili's "impossible" 6-month time limit problem and solves the problem before going to bed that night  ;-}}}

    1998 ~ Slick Willy Clinton says to America " I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." He wins 5 Pinocchio's...both he and his "old lady" are pathological story tellers...

    ~ ya, you betcha ~

     

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Tue, Jan 27 2015 4:40 AM

    January 27

    1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~ Austria

    1805 - Sophie of Bavaria ~ archduchess of Austria

    1805 - Maria Anna of Bavaria ~ queen consort of Saxony

    1832 - Lewis Carroll ~ Alice in Wonderland

    1850 - Samuel Gompers ~ London ~ Founder AFL

    1921 - Donna Reed

    1933 - Mohamed Al Fayed ~ CEO Harrods ~ Daddy of Doti, Doti died with Di

    ~ By the Bye ~

        98 ~ Trajan becomes Roman Emperor at the death of Nerva

    1891 ~ EXPLOSION!!! - yep, scatters 109 laddies at Mount Pleasant, PA

    1888 ~ National Geographic Society organizes

    1900 ~ Social Democrat Party of America holds 1st convention...0h boy, here we go

    1909 ~ The Young Left is founded in Norway...QUICK!!! turn back..you're going the wrong way!!

    ~ G'day ~

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Wed, Jan 28 2015 7:21 AM

    January 28

                                 ~ 1957 - Nick Price ~ South Africa ~

    1225 - Saint Thomas Aquinas ~ Italy

    1457 - Henry VII ~ House of Tudor ~ King of England

    Henry VII was an unlikely founder of England's most storied dynasty, but he proved a capable and forward-thinking monarch. In the wake of the Wars of the Roses, he fended off multiple challanges to his rule and left his heirs a legacy of shrewd diplomacy, tight-fisted control of the nobility, and enormous royal wealth.

    1600 - Clement IX [Giulio Rospigliusi] ~ Pope

    1717 - Mustafa III ~ Ottoman Sultan

    1768 - Frederic VI ~ Danish King who lost Norway to Sweden

    1841 - Henry Morton Stanley ~ Wales explorer ~ "Dr. Livingstone, I presume ?"

    1873 - Colette [Sidonie-Gabrielle] ~ Paris ~ novelist & performer (Gigi)

    1890 - Robert Stroud ~ criminal ~ Birdman

    1936 - Alan Alda

    1955 - Nicolas Sarkozy ~ France

    ~ By the Bye ~

    1099 ~ 1st Crusaders begin siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria - Yipee!!

    1547 ~ 9 year old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as King of England

    1754 ~ Horace Walpole coins the word "Serendipity"

    1813 ~ Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is published

    1917 ~ Yep, streetcars for "Frisco"

    1935 ~ Iceland legalizes abortion...how cold

    1967 ~ The Stones release "Let's spend the night together"

    ~ Peace and Grace ~

  • ZioMio
    4,680 Posts
    Wed, Jan 28 2015 9:01 AM

    SweetiePie:
    1967 ~ The Stones release "Let's spend the night together"

    ..and still worth a listen

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