On this day

[fuhrel at ccmail.ccsn.nevada.edu]

     Very impressive list but it omits the birth in 1864 of Constance 
     Gore-Booth, later Countess Markievicz, Irish patriot and soldier in 
     the 1916 Rising.  Oh yeah, what about the opening of Wilder's Our 
     Town?
     
     Bob Fuhrel


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Author:  	"Henry M" <gravity at nicom.com> at SMTP-CCSN
Date:    2/4/97 8:33 AM


 In 211, Lucius Septimius Severus, the Roman emperor responsible for 
 making the empire's government a military monarchy, died.  
     
 In 1746, Tadeusz Andrezei Bonawentura Kosciuszko, the Polish soldier 
 and patriot, was born. As well as battling the Russians at home, he 
 fought in the American War of Independence.  (Makes a great mustard, 
but lousy highways - ed.)
     
 In 1787, Shays' Rebellion, an uprising of Massachusetts farmers led 
 by Daniel Shays, ended with defeat at Petersham.  
     
 In 1789, presidential electors met and chose George Washington as 
 America's first president.  
     
 In 1861, America's 25-year-long Apache wars began with the arrest of 
 the Apache Chief Cochise.  
     
 In 1874, the Battle of Kumasi ended the Ashanti War between Britain 
 and Ghana.  
     
 In 1902, Charles Lindbergh, the U.S. aviator and the first person to 
 make a solo flight across the Atlantic in May 1927, was born.  
     
 In 1904, the Russo-Japanese War began when Japan laid siege to Port 
 Arthur.  
     
 In 1924, Mahatma Gandhi was released after spending two years in 
jail in Bombay.  
     
1926: John Gila of New York set a record when he danced THE 
CHARLESTON for 22 and a half hours.
     
 In 1927, British driver Malcolm Campbell broke the world land speed 
 record in his car Bluebird, driving at 174.224 miles per hour.  
(3/5's of a mile in ten seconds?- ed.)
     
 In 1938, Adolf Hitler became Germany's war minister and Joachim von 
 Ribbentrop took over foreign affairs.  
     
 In 1945, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met 
 at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss plans for the defeat of the Axis 
 powers and to decide on the post-war future.  
     
1971: The OSMONDS received their  first gold record for "One Bad 
Apple"
     
 In 1974, Patricia Hearst, the grand-daughter of the late William 
 Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.  
     
1976: An earthquake registering 7.5 on the Richter scale struck 
Guatemala, killing more than 22,000 people
     
 In 1987, Liberace, the U.S. pianist and showman, died.        
     
Former VP Dan Quayle is 50
     
Betty Friedan is 76
     
Rosa Parks is 84
     
Today President Clinton delivers his State of the Union address to a 
joint session of Congress.  
     
while
     
 Iranian dissident Ayatollah Ganjei visits Copenhagen, Denmark today; 
he is expected to address parliament where he will argue that the 
fatwa against Salman Rushdie is theologically invalid.
     
AsB4
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