12 Jan 07 - Friday
1737 John Hancock patriot (1st to sign Declaration of Independence)
1906 Tex Ritter Texas, country singer (5 Star Jubilee, The Wayward Wind)
1926 Ray Price country singer (For The Good Times)
1939 William Lee Golden Brewton AL, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys)
1943 Ray Manzarek rock pianist (Doors-Light my Fire, People are Strange)
1944 Joe Frazier Beaufort SC, heavyweight champion boxer (Olympics-gold-1964)/champ (1968-73)
1952 Ricky Van Shelton Danville VA, country musician (Somebody Lied, From a Jack to a King, Rockin' Years)
1954 Howard Stern Roosevelt NY, "Radio's Bad Boy" (WKRK, WYSP, WJFK)
1966 Luna Vachon WWF
1974 Melanie Jayne Chisholm "Sporty Spice", Widnes, vocalist (Spice Girls)
1816 France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever
1863 President Davis delivers his "State of the Confederacy" address
1903 Harry Houdini performs at Rembrandt theater, Amsterdam
1915 House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote
1928 Ruth Snyder 1st woman to die in electric chair
1943 Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat & soy meal)
1945 German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of the Bulge
1948 Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast
1966 "Batman" with Adam West & Burt Ward premieres on ABC TV
1967 Louisville KY, draft board refuses exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali
1968 Beatles Film Production Ltd changes name to Apple Film Production Ltd
1968 Nighttime version of "Hollywood Squares" premieres on NBC TV
1971 "All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV
1976 Agatha Christie mystery writer (10 Little Indians), dies at 85
1978 Nancy Spungen stabbed to death by boyfriend Sid Vicious
1994 Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakhan's murder
1995 Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in Los Angeles
1998 Scott Hall & Kevin Nash defeated the Steiners for the WCW Tag title
Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.
Marvin Harris
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