On
This Date In 1128 Pope
Honorius II granted a papal sanction to the military order known as
the Knights Templar, declaring it to be an army of God.
On
This Date In 1794 President
George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes
to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky
to the union.
On
This Date In 1833 President
Andrew Jackson wrote Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his
opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority. He
closed with the assertion, “nothing must be permitted to weaken our
government at home or abroad.”
On
This Date In 1842 British
army doctor William Bryde reaches the British sentry post at
Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the lone survivor of a 16,000-strong
Anglo-Indian expeditionary force that was massacred in its retreat
from Kabul. He told of a terrible massacre in the Khyber Pass, in
which the Afghans gave the defeated Anglo-Indian force and their camp
followers no quarter.
On
This Date In 1847 The
Treaty of Cahuenga. usually called the “Capitulation of Cahuenga,”
was signed, and ended the fighting of the Mexican-American War in
California in 1847.
On
This Date In 1864 Stephen
Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as the
“father of American music,” was the pre-eminent songwriter in the
United States of the 19th century. In an era before transfusions and
antibiotics, he succumbed to persistent fever three days after his
admittance to Bellevue Hospital at the age of 37. Foster was buried
in the Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh. One of his most beloved
works, “Beautiful Dreamer,” was published shortly after his
death.
On
This Date In 1865 Through
January 15, 1865. the Second Battle of Fort Fisher was fought. It was
a joint assault by Union Army and naval forces against Fort Fisher,
outside Wilmington, North Carolina, near the end of the American
Civil War. Sometimes referred to as the “Gibraltar of the South”
and the last major coastal stronghold of the Confederacy, Fort Fisher
had tremendous strategic value during the war.
On
This Date In 1898 French
writer Emile Zola's inflammatory newspaper editorial, entitled
“J'accuse,” was printed. The letter exposed a military cover-up
regarding Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Dreyfus, a French army captain, had
been accused of espionage in 1894 and sentenced in a secret military
court-martial to imprisonment in a South American penal colony. Two
years later, evidence of Dreyfus' innocence surfaced, but the army
suppressed the information. Zola's letter excoriated the military for
concealing its mistaken conviction.
On
This Date In 1902 The
Battle of Riyadh was fought, a minor battle of the Unification War
between Rashidi and Ibn Saud rebels, in Masmak Castle in Riyadh, The
capital of present day Saudi Arabia.
On
This Date In 1908 The
Rhoads Opera House, located in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, caught fire
during a church-sponsored stage play. The fire started when a
kerosene lamp was knocked over, lighting gasoline from a stereoscopic
machine. The stage and auditorium were located on the 2nd floor and
all auxiliary exits were either unmarked or locked. One fire escape
was available but unable to be accessed through a locked window above
a 3 foot sill. 171 people perished when the exit was crowded against
to escape the fire. Entire families were wiped out.
On
This Date In 1915 The
1915 Avezzano earthquake occurred in southern Italy, by L'Aquila. The
epicenter was located in the town of Avezzano in southern Italy.
30,000 direct fatalities resulted from the earthquake, destroying the
epicentral area.
On
This Date In 1916 The
Battle of Wadi was fought, an unsuccessful attempt by British forces
fighting in present-day Iraq during the First World War to relieve
beleaguered forces under Sir Charles Townshend, then under siege by
the Turks at Kut-al-Amara.
On
This Date In 1940 “Brother
Rat and a Baby”, the sequel to the 1938 film Brother
Rat,
about cadets at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington,
Virginia, was released.
It stars Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Jane Bryan, Eddie Albert, Jane
Wyman, and Ronald Reagan. Mayo Methot and Alan Ladd appear in small
roles. The movie was directed by Ray Enright and remains notable for
featuring future US president Reagan and wife Wyman.
On
This Date In 1941 James
Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941),
Irish novelist and poet, and considered to be one of the most
influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th
century, died from a perforated ulcer and gastrointestinal
hemorrhaging. He is buried in the Fluntern Cemetery near Zurich Zoo.
On
This Date In 1945 The
East Prussian Offensive was a strategic offensive by the Red Army
against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front during World War
II. It lasted from January 13, 1945 to April 25, 1945, though some
German units did not surrender until May 9. The Battle of Königsberg
was a major part of the offensive, which ended with a total victory
for the Red Army.
On
This Date In 1962 During
the Vietnam War, Operation Farm Gate, initially designed to provide
advisory support to assist the South Vietnamese Air Force in
increasing its capability, flew its first combat missions with T-28
fighter-bombers in support of a South Vietnamese outpost under Viet
Cong attack. By the end of the month, U.S. Air Force pilots had flown
229 Farm Gate sorties.
On
This Date In 1962 Ernie
Kovacs (January 23, 1919 – January 13, 1962), a Hungarian American
comedian and actor who hosted his own television shows during the
1950s and is said to have influenced such TV hosts as Johnny Carson
and David Letterman, died at the age of 42 after crashing his
Chevrolet Corvair into a telephone pole in Los Angeles, California,
while driving in a rainstorm.
On
This Date In 1966 President
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the first African-American cabinet
member, making Robert C. Weaver head of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD), the agency that develops and implements
national housing policy and enforces fair housing laws.
On
This Date In 1972 President
Richard Nixon announced that 70,000 U.S. troops would leave South
Vietnam over the next three months, reducing U.S. troop strength
there by May 1 to 69,000 troops.
On
This Date In 1974 Super
Bowl VIII was played at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas to decide the
National Football League (NFL) champion following the 1973 regular
season. The American Football Conference (AFC) champion Miami
Dolphins (15-2) defeated the National Football Conference (NFC)
champion Minnesota Vikings (14-3), 24–7. Scoring the first 24
points of the game and leading 24-0 entering the fourth quarter, the
Dolphins easily won their second consecutive Super Bowl, and became
the first team to appear in three consecutive Super Bowls.
On
This Date In 1982 Air
Florida Boeing 727 plunged into the Potomac River in Washington,
D.C., killing 78 people. The crash, caused by bad weather, took place
only two miles from the White House.
On
This Date In 1999 National
Basketball Association (NBA) superstar Michael Jordan of the Chicago
Bulls announced
his retirement from professional basketball, for the second time, in
front of a crowd at Chicago's United Center.
On
This Date In 2010 Theodore
DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass (March 26, 1950 – January 13,
2010), American R&B/soul singer and songwriter, died of
respiratory failure at age 59 with his wife Joan by his side, while
hospitalized at Bryn Mawr Hospital in suburban Philadelphia.
Pendergrass first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin &
the Blue Notes in the 1970s before a successful solo career at the
end of the decade.
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tip to any included contributing sources, along with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
, http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
, http://timelines.com/
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Happy
Birthday
Frances Sternhagen (1930), Rip Taylor (1934), Julia Louis-Dreyfus
(1961), Trace Adkins (1962), Penelope Ann Miller (1964), Patrick
Dempsey (1966), Traci Bingham (1968), Nicole Eggert (1972), Bam
Morris (1972), Orlando Bloom (1977), and Jill Wagner (1979).
RIP
Wilhelm Wien (1864 – 1928),
Kay Francis (1905 – 1968), Robert Stack (1919 – 2003), Gwen
Verdon (1925 – 2000), and Ian Hendry (1931 – 1984).
Quotes
Life moves on, whether we act as
cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we
would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything
we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny,
denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems
nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and
strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one
for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Henry
Miller
Whatever we plant in our subconscious
mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a
reality. Earl Nightingale
The way you activate the seeds of your
creation is by making choices about results you want to create. When
you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources
which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their
choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If
you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you
disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is
a compromise. Robert Fritz
People who have attained things worth
having in this world have worked while others have idled, have
perservered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early
in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness
of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often
erroneously attributed to good luck. Grenville Kleiser
Cease trying to work everything out
with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and
inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation. Eileen
Caddy
The person with a fixed goal, a clear
picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it,
through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and
is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to
realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical
effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will
achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become
directed to that end. Claude Bristol
When our eyes see our hands doing the
work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us,
the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal
everything in sight. Michael Bridge
Courtesy
YouTube et al
NASA's
Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory mission's two spacecraft
achieve lunar orbit at beginning of new year and begin their study of
the moon, from crust to core. Also, FIRST season starts; Booster Day;
Commander's Comet; Booms and Whispers; and Curiosity's RAD! Also,
Aggies get shuttle sim; Butch & The Titans; and STS-81
anniversary.
Chess Queen Alexandra
Kosteniuk comments her game against Olivier Kurmann at the 2011 Swiss
Chess Championship of Leukerbad.
the first
montage and video of RAWPr0ductions, the theme is pictures taken at
the right moment. Hope you Enjoy.
Just as our religious
institutions are guaranteed freedom in this land, so also do we
cherish the diversity of our faiths and the freedom afforded to each
of us to pray according to the promptings of our individual
conscience. - President Ronald Reagan, January 13, 1986
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