1 Feb 07 - Thursday
1859 Victor August Herbert Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland)
1901 Clark Gable Cadiz OH, actor (Gone With the Wind)
1904 S J Perelman Brooklyn NY, author/humorist (Around the World in 80 Days)
1918 Muriel Spark Edinburgh Scotland, novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1934 Bob Shane vocalist (Kingston Trio)
1937 Don Everly Brownie KY, singer (Everly Brothers)
1937 Ray Sawyer [Dr Hook] Alabama, vocalist (Dr Hook)
1937 Garrett Morris New Orleans LA, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1942 Terry Jones Colwyn Bay North Wales, actor/comedian (Monty Python)
1952 Rick James [James Johnson], rock/soul/funk vocalist (Super Freak)
1954 Mike Campbell guitarist (Tom Petty & Heartbreakers)
1964 Jani Lane rocker (Warrant)
1965 Brandon Lee Emerson CO, actor (Showdown in Little Tokyo)
1968 Lisa Marie Presley
1968 Pauly Shore
1587 English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence
1709 British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island (Fernandez Island) for 5 years, his story is the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
1733 August II the Strong, King of Poland (355 children), dies at 62
1788 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
1790 Supreme Court convenes for the 1st time (New York NY)
1851 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53
1862 Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
1887 Harvey Wilcox of Kansas subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
1892 Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning the use of the "400" to describe the socially elite
1893 Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
1906 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth KS
1920 Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms
1923 Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini
1949 RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
1953 "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television
1954 1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres
1960 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
1964 Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity
1965 Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma AL
1966 Nicholas Piantanida sets balloon flight record & dies in descent
1968 Famous photo Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head
1968 Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers
1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert
1974 Lynda Ann Healy 1st Bundy murder victim, abducted in Seattle
1974 "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV
1975 Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
1976 "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV
1976 Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
1977 Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball
1978 Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl
1978 Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp
1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile
1979 Patricia Hearst is released from a San Francisco prison for bank robbery
1981 French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq
1982 "Late Night With David Letterman" debuts on NBC-TV
1988 Heather O'Rourke "Poltergeist" star dies of intestinal ailment at 12
1991 James G MacDonald cartoon voice (Mickey Mouse), dies at 84
1995 Michael Caesar pope of pot, dies of liver cancer at 52
It is As you know, you go to war with the Army you have. They're not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
Donald Rumsfeld
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