sábado, 22 de enero de 2011

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On This Day in HistorySaturday, January 22nd
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On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized abortion. (Go to article.)On Jan. 22 , 1890Fred M. Vinson ,13th Chief Justice of the United States , was born. Following his death on Sept. 8 , 1953, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. |Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day

On January 22, 1887Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about New York City's government. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)

On this date in:
1901Queen Victoria died at age 81 after 63 years on the British throne.
1905Russian troops opened fired on marching workers in St. Petersburg, killing more than 100 in what became known as "Bloody Sunday."
1922Pope Benedict XV died.
1938Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" premiered in Princeton, N.J.
1944Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy, during World War II.
1953The Arthur Miller drama "The Crucible" opened on Broadway.
1968"Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premiered on NBC.
1970The Boeing 747 went on its first regularly scheduled commercial flight, from New York to London.
1973Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, died at his ranch in Johnson City, Texas, at age 64.
1995Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the mother of President John F. Kennedy, died in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 104.
1997The Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the nation's first female secretary of state.
1998Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in Sacramento, Calif., to being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole.
2006Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indian president, took office.
2008Actor Heath Ledger, 28, was found dead of an accidental prescription drug overdose.
2008Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced by a U.S. federal judge in Miami to more than 17 years in prison on terrorism conspiracy charges.
2009President Barack Obama ordered the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay closed within a year and banned harsh interrogation of terror suspects.
2010Conan O'Brien ended his brief tenure on "The Tonight Show" after accepting a $45 million buyout from NBC to leave the show after only seven months.

Current Birthdays
Diane Lane turns 46 years old today.

AP Photo/Dan Steinberg Actress Diane Lane turns 46 years old today.

83Birch Bayh
Former U.S. senator, D-Ind.
79Piper Laurie
Actress
74Joseph Wambaugh
Author
71John Hurt
Actor
62Steve Perry
Rock singer (Journey)
58Jim Jarmusch
Director
54Mike Bossy
Hockey Hall of Famer
52Linda Blair
Actress ("The Excorcist")
46Jazzy Jeff
Actor, rapper ("The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air")
30Beverley Mitchell
Actress ("7th Heaven")
Historic Birthdays
Fred Vinson
 
1/22/1890 - 9/8/1953
Chief Justice of the United States 

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36Lord George Gordon Byron
1/22/1788 - 4/19/1824
English Romantic poet

63August Strindberg
1/22/1849 - 5/14/1912
Swedish playwright/novelist

82Robert Brookings
1/22/1850 - 11/15/1932
American businessman/philanthropist

73D. W. Griffith
1/22/1875 - 7/23/1948
American film director

94Marcel Dassault
1/22/1892 - 4/18/1986
French aircraft designer

84Rosa Ponselle
1/22/1897 - 5/25/1981
American coloratura soprano

79George Balanchine
1/22/1904 - 4/30/1983
Russian-bn. American choreographer

65U Thant
1/22/1909 - 11/25/1974
Myanmar 3rd U.N. Secy. General

65Howard Moss
1/22/1922 - 9/16/1987
American poet/editor of The New Yorker

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