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Today, January 2, 2026
January 2: Swiss Cheese Day: -- Swiss
Cheese Day is celebrated on January 2 every year, and we couldn't
be happier about it. This beloved smelly and holey cheese has
stolen the hearts of many around the world. Swiss Cheese is a
yellow, medium-hard cheese originating from around Emmental in
Switzerland. Did you know that not all Swiss cheeses have holes?
Since the holes in Swiss cheese are called 'eyes,' those without
holes are 'blind Swiss Cheese.' Swiss cheese as we know it was
first manufactured in the 1300s in the West Central Region of
Switzerland, also known as the Emmental area. This is why Swiss
Cheese is also known as Emmental cheese. In fact, if you ever go
to Europe and want some Swiss cheese, you'd have to ask for
Emmental cheese, or you'd only get blank stares. Since the 1300s,
the Emmental area has remained great for pastures on which local
farmers graze their cattle. The milk obtained from these cows is
used to produce the Swiss cheese we all know and love today.
Farmers in Emmental don't keep more than 20 cows at a time so that
they can take care of them more thoroughly. Over time, cheese has
become synonymous with Emmental. Around the 1800s, the first Swiss
cheese diaries made their way out of Switzerland and into the
world. Today, Swiss cheese is available throughout the world, but
the best of them can still be found in the plains of Emmental,
where farmers carefully select their cows' diet to get the best
flavor of the cheese. The origin of cheese actually predates
recorded history, making it an ancient food. The earliest records
of cheese-making date back to 5500 B.C. in what is now Poland.
Archeologists have even found evidence of Egyptian cheese dating
back to 2000 B.C. No one is sure who first thought to turn milk
into cheese, but we're certainly thankful for them. If you believe
the ancient Greeks, the culture god Aristaeus was the first to
discover cheese. The story goes that he learned how to make milk
into cheese from some nymphs. That might explain why cheese tastes
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Today, January 2, 2026
January 2: National Science Fiction Day:
-- In honor of the #BOTD birthday of Isaac Asimov,
Russian-American chemist, science fiction and popular science
author, Boston University professor and academic (d. April 6,
1992), National Science Fiction Day promotes the celebration of
science fiction as a genre, its creators, history, and various
media, too. On January 2nd annually, millions of science fiction
fans across the United States read and watch their favorites in
science fiction. Isaac Asimov was #born #HBD Isaak Yudovich Ozimov
in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR, on an unknown date between October 4,
1919, and January 2, 1920, inclusive; Asimov celebrated his
birthday on January 2, which is why this date was seleted as
National Science Fiction Day. Considered a master of hard science
fiction, Asimov, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C.
Clarke, was considered one of the "Big Three"
science-fiction writers during his lifetime. Many regard the
Foundation Series as Asimov's most outstanding piece. His other
major series are the Galactic Empire Series and the Robot Series.
Science fiction film genre has existed since the early years of
silent cinema, when Georges Melies' A Trip to the Moon (1902)
employed trick photography effects. There was the mother of all
modern science fiction films, the Russian film Aelita: Queen Of
Mars, and of course there were the great movie serials such as
Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Gene Autry And The Phantom Empire.
The next major example (first in feature length in the genre) was
the film Metropolis (1927). From the 1930s to the 1950s, the genre
consisted mainly of low-budget B movies. After Stanley Kubrick's
landmark 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the science fiction film
genre was taken more seriously. In the late 1970s, big-budget
science fiction films filled with special effects became popular
with audiences after the success of Star Wars (1977) and paved the
way for the blockbuster hits of subsequent decades. Radio had a
foundational impact on the science fiction genre, which shows like
Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, Flash Gordon, The Fantastic Four,
Journey Into Space, Planet Man, Space Patrol, Tom Corbett Space
Cadet, Dimension X, and the ground-breaking X Minus One, which
featured adaptations of the works of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury,
Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, Theodore
Sturgeon, Robert Sheckley, J. T. McIntosh, Fritz Leiber And George
Lefferts. Some of the successful television shows recognized by
science fiction fans include Captain Video, Space Patrol, Tom
Corbett Space Cadet, Star Trek-The Next Generation, The X-Files,
Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, and The Twilight Zone. As we
look back at some older science fiction in our current
technology-infused world, how close do the writers come to imaging
our futures? Long before Asimov created his first work, humans
imagined machines that allowed them to soar like birds. Another
man, Leonardo Di Vinci, looked to the future, too. He designed
contraptions worthy of the science fiction in his time. Science
fiction impacts life in ways we may not even consider - even those
who don't enjoy reading or watching science fiction. The day
encourages reading or watching science fiction. However, consider
exploring science fiction in other ways. For example: Introduce
science fiction to an entirely new generation by offering to read
excerpts from your favorite science fiction author to a youth
group at a library. Explore the authors of science fiction you've
never read before. Study the history of science fiction and how it
has impacted modern culture. Share your favorite science fiction
story or character. Whatever you do, use #ScienceFictionDay to
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Today, January 2, 2026
January 2, 366: Rome: Ancient Rome: The
Roman Empire: The Migration Period (The Barbarian Invasions): The
Alemanni: -- The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers
and invade the Gallic provinces of the Roman Empire. The Alemanni
(also Alamanni; Suebi "Swabians") were a confederation
of Germanic tribes on the upper Rhine river. First mentioned by
Cassius Dio in the context of the campaign of Caracalla of 213,
the Alemanni captured the Agri Decumates in 260, and later
expanded into present-day Alsace, and northern Switzerland,
leading to the establishment of the Old High German language in
those regions. The Alemanni were continually engaged in conflicts
with the Roman Empire in the 3rd and 4th centuries. On January 2,
366, the Alemanni yet again crossed the frozen Rhine in large
numbers, to invade the Gallic provinces, this time being repelled
and defeated by a Roman army led by Emperor Valentinian I at the
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Today, January 2, 2026
January 2, 1920: Anti-Communism In The
United States: Red Scare: The First Red Scare: The Palmer Raids:
The Second Palmer Raid: -- The second of a series of raids ordered
by the US Department of Justice under the administration of
President Woodrow Wilson results in 6,000 suspected communists and
anarchists being arrested and held without trial. The Palmer Raids
were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920
during the First Red Scare by the United States Department of
Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to
capture and arrest suspected leftists, mostly Italian and Eastern
European immigrants and especially anarchists and communists, and
deport them from the United States. The raids particularly
targeted Italian immigrants and Eastern European Jewish immigrants
with alleged leftist ties, with particular focus on Italian
anarchists and immigrant leftist labor activists. The raids and
arrests occurred under the leadership of Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer, with 3,000 arrested. Though 556 foreign citizens
were deported, including a number of prominent leftist leaders,
Palmer's efforts were largely frustrated by officials at the U.S.
Department Of Labor, which had authority for deportations and
objected to Palmer's methods. The Palmer Raids occurred in the
larger context of the Red Scare, the reaction against communists
in the U.S. in the years immediately following World War I and the
Russian Revolution. There were strikes that garnered national
attention, race riots in more than 30 cities, and two sets of
bombings in April and June 1919, including one bomb mailed to
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Today, January 2, 2026
January 2, 1942: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of
World War II: The Philippines Campaign (1941-1942) (The Battle Of
The Philippines, The Fall Of The Philippines): -- Manila, the
capital of the Philippines, falls to the Japanese along with its
nearby air base at Cavite. On December 26, Manila had been
declared an open city by MacArthur. However, the United States
military was still using the city for logistical purposes while
the city was declared open, and the Japanese army ignored the
declaration and bombed the city. Units of both the US and
Philippine defense forces were maneuvered to hold open the escape
routes into Bataan, in particular San Fernando, the steel bridges
at Calumpit over the deep Pampanga River at the north end of
Manila Bay, and Plaridel north of Manila. The South Luzon Force,
despite its inexperience and equivocating orders to both withdraw
and hold, successfully executed "leapfrogging" tactical
withdrawal techniques and crossed the bridges by January 1.
Japanese air commanders rejected appeals by the 48th Division to
bomb the bridges to trap the retreating forces, which were
subsequently demolished by Philippine Scout engineers on January
1. The Japanese had realized the full extent of MacArthur's plan
on December 30, and ordered the 48th Division to press forward and
seal off Bataan. Also on December 30, the American 31st Infantry
had moved to the vicinity of Dalton Pass to cover the flanks of
troops withdrawing from central and southern Luzon, while other
units of the Philippine Division organized positions at Bataan. In
a series of actions between January 2 to January 4, the 11th and
21st Divisions of the Philippine Army, the 26th Cavalry (PS) and
the American M3 Stuart tanks of the Provisional Tank Group held
open the road from San Fernando to Dinalupihan at the neck of the
peninsula for the retreating forces of the South Luzon Force, then
made good their own escape. Despite 50% losses in the 194th Tank
Battalion during the retreat, the Stuarts and a supporting battery
of 75mm SPM halftracks repeatedly stopped Japanese thrusts and
were the final units to enter Bataan. The 31st Infantry then moved
to a defensive position on the west side of the Olongapo-Manila
road, near Layac Junction, at the neck of Bataan Peninsula, on
January 5. The junction was given up on January 6, but the
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Today, January 2, 2026
January 2, 1942: World War II: The United
States Home Front During World War II: The European Civil War: The
Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): World
War II Espionage: Spy Rings: World War II Spies For Germany: The
Duquesne Spy Ring: -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
sentences 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert
Duquesne to serve a total of over 300 years in prison in the
largest espionage case in United States history. The Duquesne Spy
Ring is the largest espionage case in the United States history
that ended in convictions. A total of 33 members of a German
espionage network headed by Frederick "Fritz" Joubert
Duquesne were convicted after a lengthy investigation by the FBI.
Of those indicted, 19 pleaded guilty. The remaining 14 were
brought to jury trial in Federal District Court, Brooklyn, New
York, on September 3, 1941; all were found guilty on December 13,
1941. The agents who formed the Duquesne Ring were placed in key
jobs in the United States to get information that could be used in
the event of war and to carry out acts of sabotage: one opened a
restaurant and used his position to get information from his
customers; another worked on an airline so that he could report
Allied ships that were crossing the Atlantic Ocean; others worked
as delivery people as a cover for carrying secret messages.
William G. Sebold, who had been blackmailed into becoming a spy
for Germany, became a double agent and helped the FBI gather
evidence. For nearly two years, the FBI ran a shortwave radio
station in New York for the ring. They learned what information
Germany was sending its spies in the United States and controlled
what was sent to Germany. Sebold's success as a counterespionage
agent was demonstrated by the successful prosecution of the German
agents. One German spymaster later commented the ring's roundup
delivered "the death blow" to their espionage efforts in
the United States. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover called his
concerted FBI swoop on Duquesne's ring the greatest spy roundup in
U.S. history. The 1945 film The House on 92nd Street was a thinly
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Today, January 2, 2026
January 2-3, 1945: The European Civil
War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater
Of World War II): The Western Front Of World War II: Air Warfare
Of World War II: Strategic Bombing During World War II: The
Bombing Of Nuremberg In World War II: The Nuremburg Air Raids Of
The Nights Of January 2/3, 1945: -- The most destructive of the
Allied bombings of Nuremberg occurs when on the night of January 2
into the morning of January 3 a total of 521 British Bombers
dropped 6,000 high-explosive bombs and one million incendiary
devices on the city. It was in the urban section of town (though
not in the old historic portion of it) where there were numerous
military targets that the most severe damage occurred by the
attack; nevertheless, the raid resulted in the complete
destruction of the Nuremberg old town, with irrecoverable damage
to the historic building structure. Among the intended targets
were the factories of MAN in the south of the city built diesel
engines for submarines and relevant components for Panther tanks;
Siemens-Schuckert, TEKADE, Nural (Nurnberger Aluminiumwerke, now
Federal-Mogul), and Diehl. In addition the bombers targeted the
Nuremberg motorcycle industry (Zundapp/Neumeyer, Hercules,
Triumph, Victoria) and 120 other armament and companies that
employed forced labor as well as the facilities of the German
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Today, January 2, 2026
January 2, 1959: The History Of
Spaceflight: The Cold War: The Space Race: Missions To The Moon:
Space Probes: Lunar Space Probes: The Soviet Space Program: The
Luna Programme (Pejorative: The Lunik Program): Outer Space
Firsts: Luna 1 (Russian: Mechta, "Dream"): -- Luna 1,
referred to as the "First Cosmic Rocket" in reference to
its achievement of escape velocity which made it the first
spacecraft to leave geocentric orbit, the first spacecraft to
reach the vicinity of the Earth's Moon, and the first spacecraft
to be placed (accidentally) in heliocentric orbit (orbit around
the Sun) which resulted in the spacecraft being dubbed a "new
planet" and renamed Mechta (Day Dream), is launched atop a
Luna 8K72 launch vehicle (derived from the R-7 Semyorka design)
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome's Launch Site 1/5 (now known as
Gagarin's Start Launch Site) by the Soviet Union. Luna 1 also
performed the first ever direct observations and measurements of
the solar wind, a strong flow of ionized plasma emanating from the
Sun and streaming through interplanetary space, and was the
spacecraft to engage in radio communication at the
half-million-kilometer distance. Intended as an impactor lunar
probe (designed to impact the Moon) as part of the Soviet Luna
Programme of robotic spacecraft missions sent to the Moon by the
Soviet Union between 1959 and 1976, a malfunction in the
ground-based control system caused an error in the rocket's upper
stage burntime, and the spacecraft missed the Moon at a distance
of 5,900 km at the closest point, and traveled beyond it. Despite
this, Luna 1 found that the Moon had no detectable magnetic field.
While traveling through the outer Van Allen Radiation Belt, a zone
of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the
solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that
planet's magnetosphere, the spacecraft's scintillator, a material
that exhibits luminescence (scintillation) when excited by
ionizing radiation, made observations indicating that a small
number of high energy particles exist in the outer belt. The
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Today, January 2, 2026
January 2, 1960: Elections: Elections In
The United States: The 1960 United States Presidential Election:
-- In Washington, DC, Senator John F. Kennedy announces his
intention to seek the Democratic presidential nomination. On
Tuesday, November 8, 1960, Kennedy was elected the 35th president
of the United States in one of the closest presidential elections
of the 20th century. Democratic United States Senator John F.
Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the
Republican Party nominee. This was the first election in which
fifty states participated and the last in which the District of
Columbia did not. It was also the first election in which an
incumbent president was ineligible to run for a third term because
of the term limits established by the 22nd Amendment. Nixon faced
little opposition in the Republican race to succeed popular
incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower. Kennedy, a junior U.S. Senator
from Massachusetts, established himself as the Democratic
front-runner with his strong performance in the 1960 Democratic
primaries, including a key victory in West Virginia over United
States Senator Hubert Humphrey. He defeated Senate Majority Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson on the first presidential ballot of the 1960
Democratic National Convention, and asked Johnson to serve as his
running mate. The issue of the Cold War dominated the election, as
tensions were high between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Kennedy won a 303 to 219 Electoral College victory and is
generally considered to have won the national popular vote by
112,827, a margin of 0.17 percent. Fourteen unpledged electors
from Mississippi and Alabama cast their vote for Senator Harry F.
Byrd, as did a faithless elector from Oklahoma. The 1960
presidential election was the closest election since 1916, and
this closeness can be explained by a number of factors. Kennedy
benefited from the economic recession of 1957-58, which hurt the
standing of the incumbent Republican Party, and he had the
advantage of 17 million more registered Democrats than
Republicans. Furthermore, the new votes that Kennedy, the first
Roman Catholic president, gained among Catholics almost
neutralized the new votes Nixon gained among Protestants.
Kennedy's campaigning skills decisively outmatched Nixon's, who
wasted time and resources campaigning in all fifty states while
Kennedy focused on campaigning in populous swing states. Nixon's
emphasis on his experience carried little weight for most voters.
Kennedy relied on Johnson to hold the South, and used television
effectively. Despite this, Kennedy's popular vote margin was the
narrowest in the 20th century. On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was
assassinated in Dallas, Texas and was succeeded by Johnson. Nixon
would later successfully seek the presidency in 1968 and win
reelection in 1972, but would resign in August 1974 due to the
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Today, January 2, 2026
January 2, 1963: The Cold War: The Cold
War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The Vietnam War (The Second
Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The Resistance War Against
America): The Battle Of Ap Bac: -- The Viet Cong wins its first
major victory at the Battle Of Ap Bac. It was fought in Dinh Tuong
Province (now part of Tien Giang Province), South Vietnam. On 28
December 1962 US intelligence detected the presence of a radio
transmitter along with a sizable force of National Front for the
Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF/Viet Cong) soldiers, reported to
number around 120, in the hamlet of Ap Tan Thoi in Dinh Tuong
Province, home of the Army of the Republic of South Vietnam (ARVN)
7th Infantry Division. To destroy the NLF force, the South
Vietnamese and their US advisers planned to attack Ap Tan Thoi
from three directions by using two provincial Civil Guard
battalions and elements of the 11th Infantry Regiment, ARVN 7th
Infantry Division. The infantry units would be supported by
artillery, M113 armored personnel carriers (APCs), and
helicopters. On the morning of 2 January 1963, unaware that their
battle plans had been leaked to the enemy, the South Vietnamese
Civil Guards spearheaded the attack by marching toward Ap Tan Thoi
from the south. However, when they reached the hamlet of Ap Bac,
southeast of Ap Tan Thoi, they were immediately pinned down by
elements of the Viet Cong 261st Battalion. Shortly afterwards,
three companies of the 11th Infantry Regiment were committed into
battle in northern Ap Tan Thoi, but they too could not overcome
the NLF soldiers who had entrenched themselves in the area. Just
before midday, further reinforcements were flown in from Tan Hiep.
The 15 US helicopters ferrying the troops were riddled by NLF
gunfire and five helicopters were lost as a result. The ARVN 4th
Mechanized Rifle Squadron was then deployed to rescue the South
Vietnamese soldiers and US aircrews who were trapped at the
southwest end of Ap Bac, but its commander was highly reluctant to
move heavy M113 APCs across the local terrain. Ultimately, their
presence made little difference as the NLF stood its ground and
killed more than a dozen South Vietnamese M113 crew members in the
process. Late in the afternoon, the ARVN 8th Airborne Battalion
was dropped onto the battlefield and, in a scene that
characterized much of the day's fighting, were pinned down and
could not break the NLF's line of defense. Under the cover of
darkness the Viet Cong withdrew from the battlefield, having won
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Today, January 2, 2026
January 2: Happy Mew Year For Cats Day:
-- We all know our feline friends treat every day as if it were
their special holiday. With all the praise and attention they
receive, it's hard to fathom how we could love them even more!
However, there really is a day when cat lovers around the nation
pay extra attention to their kitties. It's on nd. Not only does
this day give us a reason to slip a little more catnip to our
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Today, January 2, 2026January 2: National Buffet Day: -- The
perfect excuse to fill your plate and feast. Let's be real - food
unites us all. The ingenuity of buffets is the endless variety on
offer. A good buffet is like getting all of the presents on your
Christmas-wish-list. Every member of the family is left satisfied
and you leave feeling like you won't need to eat again for at
least a week. National Buffet Day is for those who can never
decide what they want from the menu, for those who enjoy a plate
piled high, and for those who just love to eat. The buffet table
itself derives from the Brannvinsbord, a type of Swedish beverage
table from the 16th Century. This was a buffet system where women
and men ate in different rooms but still had an array of food to
choose from. In the 18th century, the modern buffet began
appearing as a smorgasbord. The smorgasbord was initially a table
where pre-dinner drinks and nibbles were served to a group of
guests separately from the main dinner, but over time people
started to use it to serve the main meal too. The word 'buffet''
actually originates from a type of French sideboard used to serve
food. It was used in the 17th century by French men who would
unexpectedly arrive at the home of women they wanted to woo, and
it was simply a piece of furniture. It became popular in the
second half of the 20th century long after the smorgasbord. The
word buffet was much easier to pronounce in the English-speaking
world and was considerably easier to remember. It was 1939 when
Swedish entrants at the New York World's Fair exhibition debuted
and displayed a smorgasbord while displaying the best of Swedish
food to lots of visitors attending that year. From then onwards,
the smorgasbord was popular in New York and the word ''buffet''
was being used to describe it. In the 1940s the American buffet
began in Las Vegas. The Buckaroo Buffet was created by Herb
McDonald with people choosing what they would eat from a range of
food, a ploy used to keep people inside casinos for longer. The
buffet expanded all over the country and in the 1980s, TV
commercials for buffets were commonplace. The buffet's popularity
has declined a little in recent years but they will always hold a
special place in our hearts. January 2 is the day to go to a
buffet and make the most of what is on offer. When President
Theodore Roovelt was mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War,
he used the excuse of hosting a buffet to end the dispute between
the Russian and Japanese ambassadors as to who would sit on the
right hand of the president at dinner.
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Today, January 2, 2026January 2: Ancestry Day (Haiti): -- A
national holiday to commemorate the sacrifices and struggles of
the Haitian ancestors who laid down their lives in the fight for
freedom. It is a day to remember all the loss of lives during the
Haitian Revolution and the people's struggle for emancipation and
self-determination, which pinnacled in a declaration of
independence on January 1, 1804. Haitians have these two holidays
back to back and they commemorate them by having state events,
dancing, and eating the traditional 'joumou' soup.On January 1,
1804, the Republic of Haiti, formerly called 'Saint Domingue,'
proclaimed its independence from the French colonial government.
Thus, Haiti became the first post-colonial independent, black-led
nation in the world and the first Caribbean nation to abolish
slavery. The African bondsmen working for the French on coffee and
sugar plantations, allowing them to gain wealth through a brutally
effective enslavement system, had been at war with one another for
many decades before this victory. By 1789, Haiti was a colonized
state with over 500,000 imported African bondsmen who were
overworked, malnourished, and severely oppressed. The oppressed
bondsmen began seeking retribution on the night of August 21,
1791, in what is now known as the Haitian Revolution. The
proprietors of the plantations were killed after being dragged
from their homes and burned at the stake. Over 4,000 French
citizens were slain in the following two months, and 180
plantations were destroyed. About two million French francs were
lost as a result. In retaliation, the French quickly formed a
militia and started fighting back resulting in the death of 15,000
African bondsmen. To mitigate the volatile situation, The French
National Assembly extended citizenship, civil, and political
rights to free Africans and mulattoes in March 1792. Slavery was
likewise abolished in the island's Northern Province by
Leger-Felicite Sonthonax, a recently appointed governor. These
actions did not affect the struggle until January 1, 1804, when
independence was declared. According to the "Encyclopedia of
African American Politics," about 200,000 blacks and
thousands of mulattos lost their lives because of disease and war.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Timeline Middle Ages TV Newscast Series + Bonus MP4 Video Download
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Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1492: The History Of Spain:
The Reconquista (Spanish: "Reconquest") (The Reconquest
Of Al-Andalus): The Granada War: -- The armies of the Catholic
Monarchs Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II Of Aragon conquer
the Emirate of Granada as the armies of Muhammad XII of Granada,
known in Europe as Boabdil, Sultan of the last Moorish stronghold
in Spain, todays Province of Granada, surrender the last Moorish
stronghold in Spain, the capital city of Granada. Christopher
Columbus appears to have been present then; as he wrote of the
surrender: "After your Highnesses ended the war of the Moors
who reigned in Europe, and finished the war of the great city of
Granada, where this present year 1492 on the January 2nd I saw the
royal banners of Your Highnesses planted by force of arms on the
towers of the Alhambra." Four days later, on January 6, 1492,
the ten-year-long Granada War, and the 780-year-long reconquest of
Muslim Spain by Christian forces known as The Reconquista, at last
came to an end when the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella
of Spain entered the city of Granada. The Granada War (Spanish:
Guerra de Granada) was a series of military campaigns between 1482
and 1491, during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs Isabella I of
Castile and Ferdinand II Of Aragon, against the Nasrid dynasty's
Emirate of Granada. It ended with the defeat of Granada and its
annexation by Castile, ending all Islamic rule on the Iberian
peninsula. The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for
"reconquest") was a period in the history of the Iberian
Peninsula of about 780 years between the Umayyad conquest of
Hispania in 711, the expansion of the Christian kingdoms
throughout Hispania, and the fall of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada
in 1492.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Know
Your Enemy: Japan 1945 Frank Capra WWII Film DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1905: The Russo-Japanese War
(Russian: Russko-Yaponskaya Voyna, "The Russian-Japanese
War"; Japanese: Nichiro Senso, "The Japanese-Russian
War"): -- The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur,
China, ending the Siege Of Port Arthur during the Battle Of Port
Arthur stage of the Russo-Japanese War, and thereby Japan won the
war. A peace conference was later held in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, with President Theodore Roosevelt serving as mediator.
In September of 1905, the Russians agreed to the Treaty of
Portsmouth yielding Port Arthur and the rest of the Liaodong
Peninsula to Japan. Russia also agreed to evacuate Manchuria and
to recognize Japan's interests in Korea. The Russo-Japanese War
(Russian: Russko-Yaponskaya Voyna, "Russo-Japanese War";
Japanese: Nichiro Senso, "Japanese-Russian War") was
fought during 1904 and 1905 between the Russian Empire and the
Empire Of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and
Korea. The major theatres of operations were the Liaodong
Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria and the seas around
Korea, Japan and the Yellow Sea. Russia sought a warm-water port
on the Pacific Ocean for its navy and for maritime trade.
Vladivostok was operational only during the summer, whereas Port
Arthur, a naval base in Liaodong Province leased to Russia by the
Qing dynasty of China, was operational all year. Since the end of
the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895, Japan feared Russian
encroachment on its plans to create a sphere of influence in Korea
and Manchuria. Russia had demonstrated an expansionist policy in
the Siberian Far East from the reign of Ivan The Terrible in the
16th century. Seeing Russia as a rival, Japan offered to recognize
Russian dominance in Manchuria in exchange for recognition of
Korea as being within the Japanese sphere of influence. Russia
refused and demanded Korea north of the 39th parallel to be a
neutral buffer zone between Russia and Japan. The Japanese
government perceived a Russian threat to their plans for expansion
into Asia and chose to go to war. After negotiations broke down in
1904, the Japanese Navy opened hostilities by attacking the
Russian Eastern Fleet at Port Arthur, China, in a surprise attack.
Russia suffered a number of defeats, but Tsar Nicholas II was
convinced that Russia would win and chose to remain engaged in the
war; at first, to await the outcomes of certain naval battles, and
later to preserve the dignity of Russia by averting a "humiliating
peace". Russia ignored Japan's willingness early on to agree
to an armistice and rejected the idea of bringing the dispute to
the Arbitration Court at The Hague. The war concluded with the
Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
The complete victory of the Japanese military surprised world
observers. The consequences transformed the balance of power in
East Asia, resulting in Japan's emergence as a great power. In
contrast, the losses to manpower and prestige for the Russian
empire contributed to growing unrest which culminated in the 1905
Russian Revolution.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 2021: #DOTD: #RIP: Brian
Urquhart, English soldier and diplomat, World War II veteran,
author, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. February
28, 1919) #dies of natural causes at his home in Tyringham,
Massachusetts at the age of 101. His burial details are not
publicly disclosed. Sir Brian Edward Urquhart KCMG MBE played a
significant role in the founding of the United Nations, where he
went on to serve as Under-Secretary General. Born and raised in
Dorset, Urquhart was educated at Westminster School and Christ
Church, Oxford. He is the son of the artist Murray McNeel Caird
Urquhart (1880-1972), who abandoned his family in 1925 when Brian
was six years old, and Bertha Rendall (1883-1984). When World War
II broke out, Urquhart joined the Army and, after a brief training
period, was commissioned as an officer in The Dorset Regiment. The
Battle Of France ended before his unit could deploy to the
Continent, and he and his men were part of the coastal defence
forces in and around Dover during the Battle Of Britain. He later
transferred to the Airborne Division as an Intelligence Officer.
In August 1942, he was severely injured in a training drop,
damaging three vertebrae in his lower spine and breaking several
bones. He spent months in the hospital, recovering and regaining
his strength. After his recovery, Urquhart served in North Africa
and the Mediterranean, before returning to England to participate
in the planning of airborne operations associated with Operation
Overlord. In the autumn, as the 1st Airborne Corps Intelligence
Officer, he assisted with the planning for Operation Market
Garden, an ambitious airborne operation designed to seize the
Dutch bridges over the rivers barring the Allied advance into
northern Germany. He became convinced that the plan was critically
flawed, and attempted to persuade his superiors to modify or abort
their plans in light of crucial information obtained from aerial
reconnaissance and the Dutch resistance. The episode was described
by Cornelius Ryan in his book on "Market Garden", A
Bridge Too Far. (In the film version, directed by Richard
Attenborough, Urquhart's character was renamed "Major
Fuller", to avoid confusion with a similarly named British
General.) The subsequent failure of the operation and the heavy
casualties that resulted vindicated Urquhart's judgment, but he
became deeply depressed by his failure to persuade his superiors
to halt the operation and requested a transfer out of the airborne
forces. After leaving the Airborne Division, he was transferred to
T-Force, a unit responsible for searching for German scientists
and military technology. Urquhart captured the German nuclear
scientist Wilhelm Groth. In 1945, Urquhart was one of the first
allied personnel to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Urquhart was a member of the British diplomatic staff involved in
the setting-up of the United Nations in 1945, assisting the
Executive Committee of the Preparatory Commission of the United
Nations in establishing the administrative framework of the
organization that had been created by the U.N. Charter. He
subsequently became an aide to Trygve Lie, the first
Secretary-General of the United Nations. Urquhart helped handle
the administrative and logistical challenges involved in getting
the U.N. established in New York City. Not particularly well liked
by Lie, Urquhart was subsequently moved to a minor U.N.
administrative post. When Dag Hammarskjold became the second
Secretary-General in 1953, however, he appointed Urquhart as one
of his main advisors. He loyally served by Hammarskjold's side
until the latter's death in 1961, admiring him greatly in spite of
admittedly never getting to know him very well on a personal
level. During the Suez Crisis of 1956, Urquhart played a critical
role in creating what turned out to be the first major U.N. effort
towards conflict resolution and peacekeeping. Urquhart, as the
only major adviser of Hammarskjold's with military experience,
took the lead in organizing the first U.N. peacekeeping force,
which was designed to separate the Egyptian and Israeli forces
then fighting each other in the Sinai Peninsula. To differentiate
the peacekeepers from other soldiers, the U.N. wanted to have the
soldiers wear blue berets. When that turned out to take six weeks
to make, Urquhart proposed the characteristic blue helmets, which
could be converted in a day by painting over regular ones. In the
early 1960s, Urquhart served as the main U.N. representative in
the Congo, succeeding his friend Ralph Bunche. His efforts to
stabilize the war-torn country were hampered by the chaos created
by innumerable warring factions. At one point, Urquhart was
abducted, brutally beaten, and threatened with death by
undisciplined Katangese troops. He survived only by persuading his
captors that his death would bring retribution by U.N. Gurkha
troops, whom the Katangans greatly feared. As
Undersecretary-General, Urquhart's main functions were the
direction of peacekeeping forces in the Middle East and Cyprus,
and negotiations in these two areas; amongst others, his
contributions also included work on the negotiations relating to a
Namibia peace settlement, negotiations in Kashmir, Lebanon and
work on peaceful uses for nuclear energy. Alongside his
autobiography, A Life in Peace and War, his work with Erskine B
Childers includes several books of methods which he believes would
make the United Nations more effective. In Renewing the United
Nations System, he recommended the establishment of a United
Nations Parliamentary Assembly through Article 22 of the United
Nations Charter. His book Decolonization and World Peace is based
on his 1988 Tom Slick world peace lectures that he gave at the
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of
Texas, Austin. The appendices offer further insight into his views
on the peacekeeping potential of the United Nations. Included are
his remarks at the Nobel Prize banquet in Norway on the occasion
of the award of the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize to the United Nations
Peace-Keeping Forces. He also wrote biographies of Dag
Hammarskjold and Ralph Bunche.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Exodus:
The Birth Of Israel + Bonus Title DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1895: #BOTD: #HBD! Folke
Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat and Count Of Wisborg, who was
appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab
nations and Israel and was assassinated by The Lehi (also known as
the Stern gang) paramilitary Zionist group for doing so (b.
September 17, 1948) is #born in Stockholm, Sweden into the House
of Bernadotte, the Swedish royal family. In World War II, he
negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550
non-Jewish prisoners of many nations from the Nazi German
Theresienstadt concentration camp. They were released on April 14,
1945. In 1945 he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich
Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected by the allies.
After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen to be the United
Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict of
1947-1948. Folke Bernadotte died by assassination in Jerusalem at
the hands of the corrupt Stern gang in 1948 by the Lehi while
pursuing his official duties. He is buried in the Norra
Begravningsplatsen in Solna, Stockholm, Sweden. Upon his death,
Ralph Bunche took up his work at the UN, successfully mediating
the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Egypt. After the
assassination, the new Israeli government declared Lehi a
terrorist organization, arresting some 200 members and convicting
some of the leaders. Just before the first Israeli elections in
January 1949, a general amnesty to Lehi members was granted by the
government. Despite Lehi's record, in 1980 Israel instituted a
military decoration, an "award for activity in the struggle
for the establishment of Israel", the Lehi ribbon. Former
Lehi leader Yitzhak Shamir ultimately became Prime Minister of
Israel in 1983.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: King: A
Filmed Record: Montgomery To Memphis DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1965: The American Civil
Rights Movement: Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Racial
Segregation: Black Suffrage (Black Political Franchise, Black
Franchise, Black Right To Vote, Black Active Suffrage): Civil
Rights Protests: Civil Rights Protests In The United States: The
Selma To Montgomery Marches: The Selma Voting Rights Campaign: --
The Selma Voting Rights Campaign officially starts when King
addresses a mass meeting in Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in order to
lead a voting registration drive in Selma, Alabama to oppose
discriminatory voting restrictions designed to block Selma blacks
from voting. The meeting was held in defiance of a July 9, 1964
injunction by Judge James Hare forbidding any gathering of three
or more people under the sponsorship of civil rights organizations
or leaders. This injunction made it illegal for more than two
people at a time to talk about civil rights or voter registration
in Selma, suppressing public civil rights activity there for the
next six months. This injunction was issued in response to John
Lewis' leading 50 black citizens to the Dallas County Courthouse
on July 6, 1964, whereupon violently racist Dallas County Sheriff
Jim Clark arrested them all instead of allowing them to apply to
vote. The January 2, 1965 date for King's meeting was chosen
because Sheriff Jim Clark was out of town, and Selma Police Chief
Wilson Baker had stated he would not enforce the injunction. Over
the following weeks, SCLC and SNCC activists expanded voter
registration drives and protests in Selma and the adjacent Black
Belt counties. With King out of town fundraising, were largely
under the leadership of the distinguished young civil rights
activist veteran Diane Nash. On January 15, King called President
Johnson regarding the drive, and the two agreed to begin a major
push for voting rights legislation which would assist in advancing
the passage of more anti-poverty legislation. After King returned
to Selma, the first big "Freedom Day", a mobilization of
blacks to line up at the Dallas County voter registration office,
occurred on January 18. The campaign would be the impetus for a
series of marches from Selma to the state's capital of Montgomery.
In the end, the group's effort would convince President Lyndon B.
Johnson to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which bans racial
discrimination in voting practices by the federal, state and local
governments.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Simple
Justice Brown v Board Of Education Docudrama DVD, Download, USB
Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1915: #BOTD: #HBD! John Hope
Franklin, African American historian of the United States and
former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American
Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern
Historical Association, NAACP Legal Defense Fund team member who
helped develop the sociological case for Brown v. Board of
Education that ended racial segregation in American public
schools, Presidential Medal Of Freedom recipient in 1995 (d. March
25, 2009) is #born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma in 1915 to attorney
Buck (Charles) Colbert Franklin and his wife Mollie (Parker)
Franklin. He was named after John Hope, a prominent educator who
was the first African American president of Atlanta University.
Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first
published in 1947, and continually updated. More than three
million copies have been sold. In 1995, he was awarded the , the
nation's highest civilian honor. Franklin attended Fisk University
and then Harvard University, receiving his doctorate in 1941. In
the early 1950s, Franklin served on the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
team led by Thurgood Marshall, successfully challenging de jure
segregated education in the South in the Brown v. Board of
Education case when the United States Supreme Court ruled in 1954
that the legal segregation of black and white children in public
schools was unconstitutional, leading to integration of schools.
He was a professor at Howard University, and in 1956 was named to
head the history department at Brooklyn College, part of the City
University of New York. Recruited to the University of Chicago in
1964, he eventually led the history department and was appointed
to a named chair. He then moved to Duke University in 1983, as an
appointee to a named chair in history.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Old
War Horse: James Longstreet Civil War MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1904: #DOTD: James Longstreet,
American general and diplomat, one of the foremost Confederate
generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate
to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse",
United States Ambassador to Turkey (b. January 8, 1821) #dies of
pneumonia in Gainesville, Georgia, six days before his 83rd
birthday. Bishop Benjamin Joseph Keiley, who had served under
Longstreet, said his funeral Mass. Longstreet's remains are buried
in Alta Vista Cemetery in Gainesville. He outlived most of his
detractors and was one of only a few general officers from the
Civil War to live into the 20th century. James Longstreet was born
in Edgefield District, South Carolina. He served under Lee as a
corps commander for most of the battles fought by the Army of
Northern Virginia in the Eastern Theater, and briefly with Braxton
Bragg in the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater. After
graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point,
Longstreet served in the United States Army during the
Mexican-American War. He was wounded in the thigh at the Battle Of
Chapultepec, and during recovery married his first wife, Louise
Garland. Throughout the 1850s, he served on frontier duty in the
American Southwest. In June 1861, Longstreet resigned his U.S.
Army commission and joined the Confederate Army. He commanded
Confederate troops during an early victory at Blackburn's Ford in
July and played a minor role at the First Battle Of Bull Run.
Longstreet made significant contributions to most major
Confederate victories, primarily in the Eastern Theater as one of
Robert E. Lee's chief subordinates in the Army of Northern
Virginia. He performed poorly at Seven Pines by accidentally
marching his men down the wrong road, causing them to arrive late,
but played an important role in the Confederate success of the
Seven Days Battles in the summer of 1862, where he helped
supervise repeated attacks which drove the Union army away from
the Confederate capital of Richmond. Longstreet led a devastating
counterattack that routed the Union army at Second Bull Run in
August. His men held their ground in defensive roles at Antietam
and Fredericksburg. He did not participate in the Confederate
victory at Chancellorsville, as he and most of his soldiers had
been detached on the comparatively minor Siege of Suffolk.
Longstreet's most controversial service was at the Battle Of
Gettysburg in July 1863, where he openly disagreed with General
Lee on the tactics to be employed and reluctantly supervised
several unsuccessful attacks on Union forces. Afterward,
Longstreet was, at his own request, sent to the Western Theater to
fight under Braxton Bragg, where his troops launched a ferocious
assault on the Union lines at Chickamauga that carried the day.
Afterward, his performance in semi-autonomous command during the
Knoxville campaign resulted in a Confederate defeat. Longstreet's
tenure in the Western Theater was marred by his central role in
numerous conflicts amongst Confederate generals. Unhappy serving
under Bragg, Longstreet and his men were sent back to Lee. He ably
commanded troops during the Battle Of The Wilderness in 1864,
where he was seriously wounded by friendly fire. He later returned
to the field, serving under Lee in the Siege of Petersburg and the
Appomattox campaign. Longstreet enjoyed a successful post-war
career working for the U.S. government as a diplomat, civil
servant, and administrator. His support for the Republican Party
and his cooperation with his old friend, President Ulysses S.
Grant, as well as critical comments he wrote about Lee's wartime
performance, made him anathema to many of his former Confederate
colleagues. His reputation in the South further suffered when he
led African American militia against the anti-Reconstruction White
League at the Battle of Liberty Place in 1874. Authors of the Lost
Cause movement focused on Longstreet's actions at Gettysburg as a
principal reason for why the South lost the Civil War. As an
elderly man, he married Helen Dortch Longstreet, a woman several
decades younger than he was, who after his death worked to restore
her husband's image. Since the late 20th century, Longstreet's
reputation has undergone a slow reassessment. Many Civil War
historians now consider him among the war's most gifted tactical
commanders.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1647: #BOTD: Nathaniel Bacon,
English-American rebel leader and colonist of the Virginia Colony,
famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which
collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery (d. October 26,
1676) is #born in Friston Hall in Suffolk, England, to influential
landowner parents Thomas Bacon (English lawyer and politician who
sat in the House Of Commons of England) and his wife Elizabeth
(daughter of Sir Robert Brooke of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, an
English landowner, magistrate, commissioner, administrator and MP
who sat in the House Of Commons, and his wife Dame Elizabeth
Brooke, English religious writer and matriarch of the landed
manorial Brooke family in East Suffolk, East Anglia, during the
English Civil War and Restoration periods). On September 19, 1676,
Jamestown was burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel
Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion, an armed rebellion in 1676 by
Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of
Governor William Berkeley. Berkeley enacted friendly policies
toward the Native Americans that led to the revolt. The colony's
dismissive policy as it related to the political challenges of its
western frontier, along with other challenges including leaving
Bacon out of his inner circle, refusing to allow Bacon to be a
part of his fur trade with the Indians, and Doeg American Indian
attacks, helped to motivate a popular uprising against Berkeley,
who had failed to address the demands of the colonists regarding
their safety. A thousand Virginians of all classes and races rose
up in arms against Berkeley, attacking Indians, chasing Berkeley
from Jamestown, Virginia, and ultimately torching the capital. The
rebellion was first suppressed by a few armed merchant ships from
London whose captains sided with Berkeley and the loyalists.
Government forces from England arrived soon after and spent
several years defeating pockets of resistance and reforming the
colonial government to be once more under direct royal control. It
was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which
discontented frontiersmen took part. A somewhat similar uprising
in Maryland involving John Coode and Josias Fendall took place
shortly afterwards. The alliance between indentured servants and
Africans (most enslaved until death or freed), united by their
bond-servitude, disturbed the ruling class, who responded by
hardening the racial caste of slavery in an attempt to divide the
two races from subsequent united uprisings with the passage of the
Virginia Slave Codes of 1705. While the farmers did not succeed in
their initial goal of driving the Indians from Virginia, the
rebellion did result in Berkeley being recalled to England. The
rebellion collapsed when Bacon died from dysentery. His burial
details are not publicly disclosed.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Fall
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Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1940: #BOTD: Jim Bakker,
American televangelist and convicted fraudster, is #born James
Orsen Bakkerin in Muskegon, Michigan. Between 1974 and 1987,
Bakker hosted the television program The PTL Club with his then
wife, Tammy Faye, and developed Heritage USA, a now-defunct
Christian theme park in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Bakker resigned
as head of the PTL Club, also known as The Jim and Tammy Show, a
Christian television program that was first hosted by evangelists
Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, on March 19, 1987 due to a brewing sex
scandal involving a cover-up of hush money paid to a church
secretary, Jessica Hahn, for an alleged rape; he hands over
control to Southern Baptist televangelist and conservative
activist Jerry Falwell. The PTL Club ("Praise The Lord"
or "People That Love") ran from 1974 to 1989. The
program was later known as PTL Today and as Heritage Today. During
its final days , The PTL Club, which adopted a talk show format,
was the flagship television program of the Bakkers' PTL Satellite
Network. The scandal involved a 279K USD payoff that was made to
obtain the silence of Jessica Hahn, who alleged that Jim Bakker
and former PTL Club co-host John Wesley Fletcher had drugged and
raped her, a payment made using PTL's funds through Bakker's
associate Roe Messner. Bakker, who made the PTL organization's
financial decisions, allegedly kept two sets of books to conceal
accounting irregularities. Reporters for the Charlotte Observer
newspaper, led by Charles Shepard, investigated the PTL
organization's finances and published a series of articles.
Although Bakker acknowledged that he had a sexual encounter with
Hahn at a hotel room in Clearwater, Florida, he denied raping her.
Bakker was the subject of homosexual and bisexual allegations made
by John Wesley Fletcher and PTL director Jay Babcock, which he
denied under oath. Rival televangelist John Ankerberg appeared on
Larry King Live and made several allegations against Bakker, which
both Bakkers denied. Bakker was succeeded as PTL head by Southern
Baptist pastor Jerry Falwell. He chose Falwell as his successor
because he feared that fellow Pentecostal pastor Jimmy Swaggart
was attempting to take over his ministry. Swaggart had initiated a
church investigation into Bakker over allegations of Bakker's
sexual misconduct. Bakker believed that Falwell would temporarily
lead the ministry until the scandal died down, but Falwell barred
Bakker from returning to PTL on April 28, 1987. Later that summer,
as donations declined sharply in the wake of Bakker's resignation
and the end of the Bakkers' PTL Club TV program, Falwell raised
20M USD to keep PTL solvent and took a promised water slide ride
at Heritage USA. Falwell and the remaining members of the PTL
board resigned in October 1987, stating that a ruling from a
bankruptcy court judge made rebuilding the ministry impossible. In
response to the scandal, Falwell called Bakker a liar, an
embezzler, a sexual deviant, and "the greatest scab and
cancer on the face of Christianity in 2,000 years of church
history." On CNN, Swaggart told Larry King that Bakker was a
"cancer in the body of Christ". In February 1988,
Swaggart became involved in a sex scandal of his own after being
caught visiting prostitutes in New Orleans. The Bakker and
Swaggart scandals had a profound effect on the world of
televangelism, causing greater media scrutiny of televangelists
and their finances.
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Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1909: #BOTD: Barry Goldwater,
American Air Force general, politician, businessman, author and
Freemason who was a five-term Senator from Arizona (1953-1965,
1969-1987) and the Republican Party nominee for president of the
United States in 1964 (d. May 29, 1998) is #born Barry Morris
Goldwater in Phoenix in what was then the Arizona Territory, the
son of Baron M. Goldwater and his wife, Hattie Josephine "JoJo"
Williams. His father's family founded Goldwater's Department
Store, a leading upscale department store in Phoenix. Goldwater's
paternal grandfather, Michel Goldwasser, a Polish Jew, was born in
1821 in Konin, then part of Congress Poland, he emigrated to
London following the Revolutions of 1848. Soon after arriving in
London, Michel anglicized his name to Michael Goldwater. Michel
married Sarah Nathan, a member of an English-Jewish family, in the
Great Synagogue of London. The Goldwaters later emigrated to the
United States, first arriving in San Francisco, California before
finally settling in the Arizona Territory, where Michael Goldwater
opened a small department store that was later taken over and
expanded by his three sons, Henry, Baron and Morris. Morris
Goldwater (1852-1939) was an Arizona territorial and state
legislator, mayor of Prescott, Arizona, delegate to the Arizona
Constitutional Convention and later President of the Arizona State
Senate. Goldwater's father, Baron, was Jewish; but he was raised
in his mother's Episcopalian faith. Hattie Williams came from an
established New England family that included the theologian Roger
Williams of Rhode Island. Goldwater's parents were married in an
Episcopal church in Phoenix; for his entire life, Goldwater was an
Episcopalian, though on rare occasions he referred to himself as
Jewish. While he did not often attend church, he stated that "If
a man acts in a religious way, an ethical way, then he's really a
religious man - and it doesn't have a lot to do with how often he
gets inside a church.". Despite Barry Goldwater's loss of the
1964 presidential election in a landslide, Goldwater is the
politician most often credited with having sparked the resurgence
of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He
also had a substantial impact on the libertarian movement.
Goldwater rejected the legacy of the New Deal and, along with the
conservative coalition, fought against the New Deal coalition. A
member of the NAACP and active supporter of desegregation in
Phoenix, Goldwater voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act Of 1957
and the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but opposed the
Civil Rights Act Of 1964, believing it to be an overreach by the
federal government - a decision that considerably anguished him.
In 1964, Goldwater mobilized a large conservative constituency to
win the hard-fought Republican presidential primaries. Although
raised as an Episcopalian, Goldwater was the first candidate of
ethnically Jewish heritage to be nominated for President by a
major American party (his father was Jewish). Goldwater's platform
ultimately failed to gain the support of the electorate and he
lost the 1964 presidential election to incumbent Democrat Lyndon
B. Johnson by one of the largest margins in history. Goldwater
returned to the Senate in 1969 and specialized in defense and
foreign policy. As an elder statesman of the party, Goldwater
successfully urged President Richard Nixon to resign in 1974 when
evidence of a cover-up in the Watergate scandal became
overwhelming and impeachment was imminent. Goldwater narrowly won
re-election in 1980 for what would be his final and most
influential term in the senate. In 1986, Goldwater oversaw passage
of the Goldwater-Nichols Act, arguably his most significant
legislative achievement. The following year, he retired from the
Senate and was succeeded by John McCain, who praised his
predecessor as the man who "transformed the Republican Party
from an Eastern elitist organization to the breeding ground for
the election of Ronald Reagan". Goldwater strongly supported
the 1980 presidential campaign of Reagan, who had become the
standard-bearer of the conservative movement after his "A
Time for Choosing" speech. Reagan reflected many of the
principles of Goldwater's earlier run in his campaign. The
Washington Post columnist George Will took note of this, writing:
"We [...] who voted for him in 1964 believe he won, it just
took 16 years to count the votes". He belonged to both the
York Rite and Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, and was awarded the
33rd degree in the Scottish Rite. Goldwater's views grew
increasingly libertarian as he neared the end of his career. After
leaving the Senate, Goldwater's views cemented as libertarian. He
criticized the "moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat
Robertson and others [in the Republican Party] who are trying
to...make a religious organization out of it." He lobbied for
homosexuals to be able to serve openly in the military, opposed
the Clinton administration's plan for health care reform,
supported abortion rights and the legalization of medicinal
marijuana. Barry Goldwater died at the age of 89 at his long-time
home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, of complications from a stroke.
His funeral was co-officiated by both a reverend and a rabbi. His
ashes were buried at the Episcopal Christ Church of the Ascension
in Paradise Valley, Arizona. A memorial statue set in a small park
has been erected to honor the memory of Goldwater in that town,
near his former home and current resting place.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Ronald
Reagan Documentary Biography DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1967: Elections: Elections In
The United States: The 1966 California Gubernatorial Election: --
Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of
the United States from 1981 to 1989 (February 6, 1911 - June 5,
2004) is sworn in as Governor of California. Born Ronald Wilson
Reagan in an apartment on the second floor of a commercial
building in Tampico, Illinois, he was, prior to the presidency, a
Hollywood actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd
Governor of California from 1967 to 1975. Reagan was raised in a
poor family in small towns of northern Illinois. He graduated from
Eureka College in 1932 and worked as a sports announcer on several
regional radio stations. After moving to Hollywood in 1937, he
became an actor and starred in a few major productions. Reagan was
twice elected President of the Screen Actors Guild, the labor
union for actors, where he worked to root out Communist influence.
In the 1950s, he moved into television and was a motivational
speaker at General Electric factories while appearing in
television shows that GE sponsored. Reagan had been a Democrat
until 1962, when he became a conservative and switched to the
Republican Party. In 1964, Reagan's speech, "A Time for
Choosing", supported Barry Goldwater's foundering
presidential campaign and earned him national attention as a new
conservative spokesman. Building a network of supporters, he was
elected Governor of California in 1966. As governor, Reagan raised
taxes, turned a state budget deficit to a surplus, challenged the
protesters at the University of California, ordered in National
Guard troops during a period of protest movements in 1969, and was
re-elected in 1970. He twice ran unsuccessfully for the Republican
nomination for the U.S. presidency in 1968 and 1976. Four years
later in 1980, he easily won the nomination outright and became
the oldest elected U.S. president up to that time, when he
defeated incumbent Jimmy Carter in a landslide. Entering the
presidency in 1981, Reagan implemented sweeping new political and
economic initiatives. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed
"Reaganomics", advocated tax rate reduction to spur
economic growth, economic deregulation, and reduction in
government spending. In his first term he survived an
assassination attempt, spurred the War on Drugs, and fought public
sector labor. Over his two terms, the economy saw a reduction of
inflation from 12.5% to 4.4%, and an average annual growth of real
GDP of 3.4; while Reagan did enact cuts in domestic discretionary
spending, tax cuts and increased military spending contributed to
increased federal outlays overall, even after adjustment for
inflation. During his re-election bid, Reagan campaigned on the
notion that it was "Morning in America", winning a
landslide in 1984 with the largest electoral college victory in
American history. Foreign affairs dominated his second term,
including ending of the Cold War, the bombing of Libya, and the
Iran-Contra Affair. Publicly describing the Soviet Union as an
"evil empire", and during his famous speech at the
Brandenburg Gate, President Reagan challenged Soviet General
Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!".
He transitioned Cold War policy from detente to rollback by
escalating an arms race with the USSR while engaging in talks with
Gorbachev. The talks culminated in the INF Treaty, which shrank
both countries' nuclear arsenals. Reagan began his presidency
during the decline of the Soviet Union, and the Berlin Wall fell
just ten months after the end of his term. Germany reunified the
following year, and on December 26, 1991 (nearly three years after
he left office), the Soviet Union collapsed. When Reagan left
office in 1989, he held an approval rating of sixty-eight percent,
matching those of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and later Bill Clinton,
as the highest ratings for departing presidents in the modern era.
He was the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve two
full terms, after a succession of five prior presidents did not.
Although he had planned an active post-presidency, Reagan
disclosed in November 1994 that he had been diagnosed with
Alzheimer's disease earlier that year. Afterward, his informal
public appearances became more infrequent as the disease
progressed. He died at home on June 5, 2004, an icon among
Republicans.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Falklands War: The Untold Story TV Series DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1833: The British Empire: The
Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas): The Falkland Islands
Sovereignty Dispute: -- The British reassert sovereignty over the
Falkland Islands, having claimed sovereignty the day before. In
December 1832, two naval vessels were sent by the United Kingdom
to re-assert British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands
(Spanish: Islas Malvinas), after the United Provinces of the River
Plate (part of which later became Argentina) ignored British
diplomatic protests over the appointment of Luis Vernet as
governor of the Falkland Islands and a dispute over fishing
rights. Under the command of Captain John James Onslow, the
brig-sloop HMS Clio, previously stationed at Rio de Janeiro,
reached Port Egmont on 20 December 1832. It was later joined by
HMS Tyne. Their first actions were to repair the fort at Port
Egmont and affix a notice of possession. Onslow arrived at Puerto
Louis on 2 January 1833. Pinedo sent an officer to the British
ship, where he was presented with the following written request to
replace the Argentine flag with the British one, and leave the
location: "I have to direct you that I have received
directions from His Excellency and Commander-in-Chief of His
Britannic Majesty's ships and vessels of war, South America
station, in the name of His Britannic Majesty, to exercise the
rights of sovereignty over these Islands. It is my intention to
hoist to-morrow the national flag of Great Britain on shore when I
request you will be pleased to haul down your flag on shore and
withdraw your force, taking all stores belonging to your
Government.". Pinedo entertained plans for resisting, but
finally desisted because of his obvious numerical inferiority and
the want of enough nationals among his crew (approximately 80% of
his forces were British mercenaries who refused to fight their
countrymen). The British forces disembarked on 3 January and
switched the flags, delivering the Argentine one to Pinedo, who
left on January 5.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Secret
Files: History Of Washington, Israel & The Gulf DVD, MP4, USB
Today, January 2, 2026January 2: 55 mph Speed Limit Day:
January 2, 1974: Oil (Petroleum): The Oil Industry (The Petroleum
Industry): Petroleum Politics: Energy Crises: Oil Crises: The
1973-1974 Oil Crisis (The First Oil Crisis): The National Maximum
Speed Law: -- United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill
lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH, a bill drafted in
response to oil price spikes and in order to conserve gasoline in
the face of supply disruptions caused by The 1973 Oil Crisis, an
oil embargo by the Organization Of Arab Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OAPEC) members of the Organization Of The Petroleum
Exporting Countries (OPEC). The embargo was targeted at nations
that had supported Israel during the Yom Kippur War (also known as
the Ramadan War, October War and The 1973 Arab-Israeli War), a war
fought by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria
against Israel from October 6 to 25, 1973. The embargo was a major
influence on global oil prices that were previously determined by
American-dominated multinational oil companies. The initial
nations targeted were Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, the United
Kingdom and the United States with the embargo also later extended
to Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa. By the end of the embargo
in March 1974, the price of oil had risen from 3 USD per barrel to
nearly 12 USD globally; US prices were significantly higher. The
embargo caused an oil crisis, or "shock", with many
short term and long term effects on global politics and the global
economy. It was later called the "first oil shock",
followed by the 1979 oil crisis, termed the "second oil
shock.". The National Maximum Speed Limit (NMSL) was a
provision of the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act
that effectively prohibited speed limits higher than 55 miles per
hour. The law became effective 60 days after it was signed, and it
requiried the limit as a condition of each state receiving highway
funds, a use of the Commerce Clause of the United States
Constitution. The law remained in force until 1995. While federal
officials hoped gasoline consumption would fall by 2.2%, the
actual savings were estimated at between 0.5% and 1%. The law was
widely disregarded by motorists nationwide, and some states
opposed the law, but many jurisdictions discovered it to be a
major source of revenue. Actions ranged from proposing deals for
an exemption to de-emphasizing speed limit enforcement. The NMSL
was modified in 1987 and 1988 to allow up to 65 mph limits on
certain limited-access rural roads. Congress repealed the NMSL in
1995, fully returning speed limit-setting authority to the
individual states. The law's safety benefit is disputed as
research found conflicting results. Both during the time the law
was enacted and after it was repealed, automobile fatalities
decreased, which was widely attributed mainly to automobile safety
improvements, owing to an increase in the safety of cars
themselves, and the passage of mandatory seat belt legislation by
all states except New Hampshire from the mid-1980s to the early
1990s. This decrease in fatalities from automobile accidents makes
figuring out the actual impact of the law difficult. Although the
vast majority of states reported fewer traffic deaths in 1974
compared with 1973, there were in fact three states where traffic
deaths actually increased in 1974, 1975 and 1976, compared to
1973, notwithstanding the 55 mph (90 km/h) speed limit: Alaska,
New Hampshire and Wyoming. The power to set speed limits
historically belonged to the states. Prior to the NMSL, the sole
exception to this occurred during World War II, when the U.S.
Office of Defense Transportation established a national maximum
"Victory Speed Limit" of 35 miles per hour, in addition
to gasoline and tire rationing, to help conserve fuel and rubber
for the American war effort. Immediately before the NMSL became
effective, speed limits were as high as 75_mph. Montana and Nevada
generally posted no speed limits on highways, limiting drivers to
only whatever was safe for conditions.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Arthur
Godfrey & His Talent Scouts & More MP3 Set CD, Download,
USB
Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1930: #BOTD: #HBD! Julius La
Rosa, Italian-American traditional popular music singer (d. May
12, 2016) is #born to Italian immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New
York. He worked in both radio and television beginning in the
1950s, most famously as one of the regularly featured singers on
Arthur Godfrey's various television show series and most
infamously for his on-air firing of LaRosa. LaRosa hired a manager
following a minor dispute with Godfrey. Godfrey consulted CBS
President Frank Stanton, who suggested that he fire the popular
LaRosa, then a rising star, on the air: just as he'd hired him on
the air in 1951. Godfrey did so on October 19, 1953, without
informing LaRosa before the airing, announcing "that was
Julie's swan song with us.". The move caused an enormous
backlash against Godfrey, undermined his folksy image and resulted
in a gradual decline of his popularity. Godfrey subsequently
explained that LaRosa had been fired because he lacked "humility."
This comment backfired badly on Godfrey; comedians began working
the phrase "no humility" into their routines. Stanton
later told Godfrey biographer Arthur Singer that "Maybe (the
recommendation) was a mistake.". Julius and his wife Rosemary
Meyer La Rosa lived for over 40 years in Irvington, New York,
until November 2015 when they moved to Crivitz, Wisconsin, where
he died of natural causes on May 12, 2016, at age 86. His remains
were cremated, and the ashes given to his widow Rosemary.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
History Of Jazz A Video Retrospective DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 2000: #DOTD: #RIP: Nat
Adderley, African American cornet and trumpet player, an innovator
in the popularization of soul jazz and was one of the most
prolific jazz artists of his time, recording nearly 100 albums,
who proved that cornet could be a modern jazz instrument (b.
November 25, 1931) #dies as a result of complications from
diabetes at the age of 68 in Lakeland, Florida. He was interred
near his brother in the Southside Cemetery in Tallahassee,
Florida. He was survived by his wife, Ann; a son, Nat Adderley Jr.
of West Orange, N.J.; a daughter, Alison Adderley-Pittman of Palm
Bay, Florida; and five grandchildren. Nat Adderley was born
Nathaniel Carlyle Adderley in Tampa, Florida. He was the brother
of saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, whom he
remained very close to in his career but under whose shadow he
lived for most of his life. Nat Adderley's "Work Song"
is a jazz standard which also became a success on the pop charts
after singer Oscar Brown Jr. wrote lyrics for the tune.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Divided Union: American Civil War TV Series DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1863: The American Civil War
(The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Western Theater
Of The American Civil War: The Stones River Campaign: The Battle
Of Stones River (The Second Battle Of Murfreesboro): -- Fighting
resumes in Middle Tennessee after a day's respite, resulting in a
significant but costly Union victory. Of the major battles of the
Civil War, Stones River had the highest percentage of casualties
on both sides. Although the battle itself was inconclusive, the
Union Army's repulse of two Confederate attacks and the subsequent
Confederate withdrawal were a much-needed boost to Union morale
after the defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg, and it dashed
Confederate aspirations for control of Middle Tennessee. Union
Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland marched
from Nashville, Tennessee, on December 26, 1862, to challenge
General Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee at Murfreesboro. On
December 31, each army commander planned to attack his opponent's
right flank, but Bragg struck first. A massive assault by the
corps of Maj. Gen. William J. Hardee, followed by that of Leonidas
Polk, overran the wing commanded by Maj. Gen. Alexander M. McCook.
A stout defense by the division of Brig. Gen. Philip Sheridan in
the right center of the line prevented a total collapse, and the
Union assumed a tight defensive position backing up to the
Nashville Turnpike. Repeated Confederate attacks were repulsed
from this concentrated line, most notably in the cedar "Round
Forest" salient against the brigade of Col. William B. Hazen.
Bragg attempted to continue the assault with the division of Maj.
Gen. John C. Breckinridge, but the troops were slow in arriving
and their multiple piecemeal attacks failed. Fighting resumed on
January 2, 1863, when Bragg ordered Breckinridge to assault the
well-fortified Union position on a hill to the east of the Stones
River. Faced with overwhelming artillery, the Confederates were
repulsed with heavy losses. Falsely believing that Rosecrans was
receiving reinforcements, Bragg chose to withdraw his army on
January 3 to Tullahoma, Tennessee. This caused Bragg to lose the
confidence of the Army of Tennessee.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Command
Performance WWII Old Time Radio Series MP3 DVD, Download, USB
Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1974: #DOTD: #RIP: Tex Ritter,
pioneer of American country music, a popular singer and actor from
the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter
acting family (son John, grandsons Jason and Tyler, and
granddaughter Carly) (b. January 12, 1905) #dies in Nashville,
Tennessee aged 68 of what was diagnosed as a heart attack; Tex
Ritter's son John died at the age of 54 of an aortic dissection,
and because John was initially diagnosed as having a heart attack,
and because aortic dissection is known to run in the families, the
family now believes that Tex died of an aortic dissection rather
than a heart attack. He is buried at Oak Bluff Memorial Park in
Port Neches, Texas. Tex Ritter was born Woodward Maurice Ritter in
Murvaul, Texas. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Patti
Page Music TV Shows DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1977: #DOTD: #RIP: Erroll
Garner, African American jazz pianist and composer (b. June 15,
1923) #dies of cardiac arrest related to emphysema at the age of
55. He is buried in Pittsburgh's Homewood Cemetery. He was born
Erroll Louis Garner with his twin brother Ernest in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. He was known for his swing playing and ballads. His
best-known composition, the ballad "Misty", has become a
jazz standard. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at
6363 Hollywood Blvd.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: DJ
Madness! 1950s-60s-70s Radio Shows DVD, MP3 Download, USB Drive
Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1936: #BOTD: #HBD! Roger
Miller, American singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor, widely
known for his honky-tonk-influenced novelty songs and his
chart-topping country and pop hits "King of the Road",
"Dang Me", and "England Swings", all from the
mid-1960s Nashville sound era (d. October 25, 1992) is #born Roger
Dean Miller Sr. in Fort Worth, Texas. After growing up in Oklahoma
and serving in the United States Army, Miller began his musical
career as a songwriter in the late 1950s, writing such hits as
"Billy Bayou" and "Home" for Jim Reeves and
"Invitation to the Blues" for Ray Price. He later began
a recording career and reached the peak of his fame in the
mid-1960s, continuing to record and tour into the 1990s, charting
his final top 20 country hit "Old Friends" with Price
and Willie Nelson in 1982. He also wrote and performed several of
the songs for the 1973 Disney animated film Robin Hood. Later in
his life, he wrote the music and lyrics for the 1985 Tony
Award-winning Broadway musical Big River, in which he acted. His
songs continued to be recorded by other singers, with covers of
"Tall, Tall Trees" by Alan Jackson and "Husbands
and Wives" by Brooks & Dunn; both reached the number one
spot on country charts in the 1990s. Roger Miller died of lung and
throat cancer at age 56, shortly after the discovery of a
malignant tumor under his vocal cords; he was inducted into the
Country Music Hall of Fame three years later.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WABC
Radio Airchecks MP3 Collection 1960s-1980s DVD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1981: #DOTD: #RIP: David
Lynch, African American singer for The Platters from 1953 to 1970,
when the group produced all of their most popular singles (b. July
3, 1929) #dies of cancer at age 51 in Long beach, California. He
was survived by his wife, Ethel, and eight children. David Lynch
was born in St. Louis, Missouri. When he moved to Los Angeles in
the early 1950'sm Lynch was asked to join the vocal quartet The
Platters which then included Herb Reed and Tony Williams. His
debonair look, smooth dance moves. a distinct tenor voice added to
The Platters unique style. An American vocal group formed in 1952,
The Platters are one of the most successful vocal groups of the
early rock and roll era. Originally, their distinctive sound was a
bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition and the
burgeoning new genre. The act went through several personnel
changes, with one of the most successful incarnations comprising
lead tenor Tony Williams, David Lynch, Paul Robi, Herb Reed, and
Zola Taylor. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard
Hot 100 chart between 1955 and 1967, including four number-one
hits. In 1990, David Lynch was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame as a member of The Platters.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Rowan &
Martin's Laugh-In (1968) Comedy Album CD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, January 2, 2026January 2: 2004: #DOTD: #RIP: Paul Keyes,
writer and producer specializing in television comedy, known for
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (b. March 18, 1924) #dies in
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, aged 79. His burial
details are not publicly disclosed. Paul Keyes was born in
Dorchester, Massachusetts. He was also known for The Dean Martin
Show (1965) and All-Star Party for Lucille Ball (1984). He was
nominated for 10 and won 3 Emmy Awards. As a teenager Paul Keyes
met Frank Sinatra and the two became lifelong friends. Keyes
became interested in writing while serving with U.S. Army Special
Services during World War II. Keyes watched election returns in
1968 with Richard Nixon and claims to be the first person to have
addressed him as "Mr. President." Paul W. Keyes's
credits on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" went beyond
producing and comedy writing. Mr. Keyes cajoled Richard Nixon to
appear on the satirical TV show and exclaim "Sock it to me"
to the camera. Mr. Keyes also hid Goldie Hawn's cue cards to
induce her to giggle and helped make the elfin former go-go dancer
a star. He began his career as an announcer at a radio station in
Portland, Maine. He left the post to serve in the Army during
World War II. After victory in Europe, he was assigned to the
Special Services unit that operated an Armed Services Network
station in Munich, where he wrote news reports and produced his
own weekly show. When he returned to Boston after the war, he had
difficulty resuming his radio career. He credited Edwin O'Connor
for giving him his start. "Ed was a production director at
WNAC," Mr. Keyes recalled in a story published in the Globe
in 1961. "When I came in to see him, he looked over my stuff
and listened to my story with interest. Next thing I heard,
O'Connor had resigned to write a book and had recommended that I
be taken on in his place." The book, of course, was "The
Last Hurrah." Mr. Keyes dreamed of working for a network, so
he soon moved to New York City and began writing every day. "It
was tough trying to make a go of it, " he recalled. "My
stuff was slow selling." He supported himself in New York by
writing sketches for Gordon Swan's "Swan Boat Show" on
WBZ in Boston, which provided him with a salary of 35 USD a week.
"There's no platform in this game, no escalator for success,"
he said in 1961. "You learn your craft by hard work, until
you find you're earning more by working less, which means you are
beginning to get recognition." Mr. Keyes wrote for Kay
Ballard's nightclub act, scripts for the Senator Claghorn
character on the "Jackie Gleason Show" and summer-stock
material for Tallulah Bankhead before getting a job at NBC. There,
he worked as a writer and producer for Steve Allen and Jack Paar,
early hosts of the "Tonight Show." While at the "Tonight
Show," he met Richard Nixon and they became friends. They
kept in touch when Mr. Keyes moved to Los Angeles to write for the
"Dean Martin Show" and later for "Laugh-In."
"Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" first appeared as a TV
special on Sept. 9, 1967. It returned as a series that ran from
Jan. 22, 1968, to the fall of 1973. The sassy, satirical show with
the jump cuts, jive talk, and breezy sketches had a strong
influence on TV programming that followed. Popularized on the show
were such catchphrases as "Look that up in your Funk &
Wagnalls," "You bet your bippy," and "Sock it
to me." Mr. Keyes won an Emmy Award as a writer for the show
in 1968 and another as its producer in 1969. He then left the
show, because "the program has become slanted, and vulgar,
and dirty," he said in a story published in the Globe at the
time. Some suspected he disapproved at the potshots taken at Nixon
on the show, but Mr. Keyes denied it. He returned to the show 18
months later. Mr. Keyes won another Emmy Award in 1974 for
producing "The American Film Institute Salute to James
Cagney." He was nominated for seven other Emmys during a long
career in TV, which included writing for the Academy Awards and
People's Choice Award shows. A pal of movie actor John Wayne and
singer Frank Sinatra, he often wrote bits for each. His
behind-the-scenes role in the appearance of Nixon on "Laugh-In"
produced one of the most bizarre moments in TV history. "Nixon
had a reputation for no sense of humor," George Schlatter,
the creator of "Laugh-In," said in a story published
last year in the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Keyes persuaded him to
appear on "Laugh-In" to change his image. "Paul
convinced him that this would expose him to a different kind of
audience as a good guy," Schlatter said. So on Sept. 16,
1968, the year of the Tet Offensive in Vietnam and the
assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the
jowly former vice president with the 5 o'clock shadow glared into
a TV camera and exclaimed, "Sock it to me." Millions of
TV viewers were alternately appalled and impressed. "We tried
to get Humphrey to appear on the show," said Schlatter. "We
chased him all over, but he wouldn't do it." Two months
later, Richard Milhous Nixon beat Hubert Horatio Humphrey in the
presidential election. In 1994 he was inducted into the Producers
Guild of America Hall of Fame. Paul Keyes died on January 2, 2004
in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1963: #DOTD: #RIP: Dick
Powell, American actor, singer, musician, director, producer and
studio head (b. November 14, 1904) #dies of cancer of his neck and
chest. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale,
California. It is speculated Powell developed cancer as a result
of his participation in the film The Conqueror, which was filmed
at St. George, Utah, near a site used by the U.S. military for
nuclear testing. About a third of the actors who participated in
the film developed cancer, including Powell, who directed the
film, John Wayne, Susan Hayward and Agnes Moorehead. However, in a
2001 interview with Larry King, Powell's widow June Allyson stated
that the cause of death was lung cancer due to his chain smoking.
Dick Powell was born Richard Ewing Powell in Mountain View,
Arkansas. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer,
he showed versatility and successfully transformed into a
hardboiled leading man, starring in projects of a more dramatic
nature. He was the first actor to portray private detective Philip
Marlowe on screen.
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Today, January 2, 2026January 2, 1986: #DOTD: #RIP: Una Merkel,
American stage, film, radio, and television actress, and beauty
(b. December 10, 1903) #dies in Los Angeles at the age of 82. She
is buried near her parents, Arno and Bessie Merkel, in Highland
Cemetery in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. For her contribution to the
motion picture industry, Una Merkel has a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame (6230 Hollywood Boulevard). In 1991, a historical
marker was dedicated to her in her hometown of Covington. Una
Merkel was born in Covington, Kentucky. She acted on stage in New
York in the 1920s. She went to Hollywood in 1930 and became a
popular film actress. Two of her best-known performances are in
the films 42nd Street and Destry Rides Again. She won a Tony Award
in 1956 for her role on Broadway in The Ponder Heart, and was
nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in
Summer and Smoke (1961). She was also featured as Brian Keith's
character's housekeeper, Verbena, in the Walt Disney comedy The
Parent Trap in 1961. Her final film role was opposite Elvis
Presley in Spinout (1966).
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