On this Day - January 8th
Events
1198 - Innocent III becomes Pope.
1297 - Monaco gains its independence.
1499 - Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address address in New York City.
1815 - U.S. forces led by Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, the closing engagement of the War of 1812.
1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.
1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry (Montana).
1912 - The African National Congress was founded.
1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.
1935 - Arthur C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.
1958 - Fourteen-year-old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.
1959 - Conquest of Cuba by Fidel Castro is completed with the conquest of Santiago de Cuba. Charles De Gaulle was inaugurated as president of France's Fifth Republic.
1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.).
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
1975 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.
1977 - Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
1994 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
2006 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake epicentered just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Births
1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
1735 - John Carroll (priest), first American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)
1763 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States (d. 1834)
1792 - Lowell Mason, American composer (d. 1872)
1805 - John Bigler, Governor of California (d. 1871)
1821 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (d. 1904)
1821 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general (d. 1862)
1824 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)
1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
1830 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1894)
1836 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch artist (d. 1912)
1852 - James Milton Carroll, was a Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author.
1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)
1867 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1961)
1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain (d. 1930)
1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1940)
1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1891 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972)
1905 - Franjo Cardinal Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)
1905 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)
1931 - Bill Graham, German-born American music promoter (d. 1991)
1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
1937 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host
1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan
1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors)
1947 - David Bowie, English musician
1958 - Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican professional wrestler
1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete
1967 - Michelle Forbes, American actress
1967 - R. Kelly, American singer
1969 - Jeff Abercrombie, American musician (Fuel (band))
1970 - Dave Eggers, American writer and publisher
1971 - Jason Giambi, baseball player
1975 - DJ Clue, American DJ and producer
1975 - Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
1976 - Jenny Lewis, American actress and musician (Rilo Kiley)
1977 - Amber Benson, American actress
1979 - Adrian Mutu, Romanian soccer player
1980 - Rachel Nichols, American actress
1981 - JA, me, mine, Mr.Bojangels'
Deaths
482 - Saint Severinus
1100 - Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029)
1107 - Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
1198 - Pope Celestine III (bc. 1106)
1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer (b. 1564)
1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
1878 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
1935 - Jesse Presley, stillborn, born and died the same day
1963 - Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)
1991 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)
1996 - François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
1997 - Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)
Hvala Igoru, Turku, Naoko, Jordan, Tati, Mami, Marci, i burazu na dosadasnjim cestitkama.
You are always in my heart, B
Original Of The Species
Baby slow down
The end is not as fun as the start
Please stay a child somewhere in your heart
I'll give you everything you want
Except the thing that you want
You are the first one of your kind
And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
And I kneel ‘cos I want you some more
I want the lot of what you got
And I want nothing that you're not
Everywhere you go you shout it
You don't have to be shy about it
Some things you shouldn't get too good at
Like smiling, crying and celebrity
Some people got way too much confidence baby
I'll give you everything you want
Except the thing that you want
You are the first one of your kind
And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
I kneel ‘cos I want you some more
I want the lot of what you got
And I want nothing that you're not
Everywhere you go you shout it
You don't have to be shy about it, no
And you'll never be alone
Come on now show your soul
You've been keeping your love under control
Everywhere you go you shout it
You don't have to be shy about it
Everywhere you go you shout it
Oh my my
And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
I kneel ‘cos I want you some more
I want you some more, I want you some more...
Post je objavljen 08.01.2007. u 19:40 sati.