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Mostly Rerunning From Last Year...
Jan. 17th, 2007 10:27 amToday is the birthday of:
-- Me
-- Naveen Andrews
-- Joshua Malina
-- Jim Carrey
-- Muhammad Ali
-- James Earl Jones
-- Betty White
-- Some claim today as the birthday of Joshua A. Norton, first and only emperor of the United States
-- Al Capone
-- Benjamin Franklin
Among the events that occurred on this day:
-- 1919: Ignace Jan Paderewski becomes the first premier of the newly created republic of Poland
-- 1950: The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in Boston, MA.
-- 1966: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 jet tanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
-- 1971: The Baltimore Colts (now the Indianapolis Colts) beat the Dallas Cowboys 16-13 in Superbowl V.
-- 1977: Gary Gilmore put to death.
-- 1991: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
-- 2006: California executes Clarence Ray Allen, the oldest man on the state's Death Row.
Natural disasters seem to occur on this date:
-- 1994: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurs in Northridge, California
-- 1995: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake near Kobe, Japan
-- 2002: Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
(source for much of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_17)
-- Me
-- Naveen Andrews
-- Joshua Malina
-- Jim Carrey
-- Muhammad Ali
-- James Earl Jones
-- Betty White
-- Some claim today as the birthday of Joshua A. Norton, first and only emperor of the United States
-- Al Capone
-- Benjamin Franklin
Among the events that occurred on this day:
-- 1919: Ignace Jan Paderewski becomes the first premier of the newly created republic of Poland
-- 1950: The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in Boston, MA.
-- 1966: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 jet tanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
-- 1971: The Baltimore Colts (now the Indianapolis Colts) beat the Dallas Cowboys 16-13 in Superbowl V.
-- 1977: Gary Gilmore put to death.
-- 1991: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
-- 2006: California executes Clarence Ray Allen, the oldest man on the state's Death Row.
Natural disasters seem to occur on this date:
-- 1994: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurs in Northridge, California
-- 1995: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake near Kobe, Japan
-- 2002: Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
(source for much of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_17)
