Birthdays: James Watt, Edgar Allen
Poe, Robert E. Lee, Paul Cezanne', Janis Joplin, Tipi Hedren, Slobodan
Milosovic’, radio star Ish Kabibble, Dolly Parton, Michael Crawford, Chic
Young, Guy Madison, Richard Lester, John H. Johnson publisher of Ebony and Jet
Magazines, Jean Stapleton, Fritz Weaver, Sean Wayans, Robin MacNeill, Paul
Rodriquez, Antoine Fuqua, Drea Di Matteo is 43, and Bart the Bear-1977 Bear who
starred in movies like Clan of the Cave Bear, The Bear, White Fang and Legends
of the Fall.
Happy Martin Luther King Day,
observed.
1829 Johann Von Goethe published
Faust Part 1.
1869- New York City controller of
Central Park Andrew Green received a petition from 18 of the city’s wealthiest
citizens. It called for the establishment of a Museum of Natural History. The
famous building was built in 1874.
1919- Famed dancer of the Ballet
Russe Vasclav Nijinsky danced his last dance at a hotel in San Moritz Switzerland.
He later became an incarcerated mental patient and underwent numerous extreme
shock therapies until his death in 1950.
1940- The Three Stooges do their
impression of Hitler and the top Nazis in the Columbia Pictures short comedy
“You Natzy Spy”. Moe Howard was still the best Hitler impersonator.
“Hail-Hail-Hailstone of Moronica! Waahoo!”
1961- The first episode of the
Dick Van Dyke Show was filmed.
1985- Bruce Springsteen's Born in
the USA peaked the pop charts at #9.
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