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January 3: Humiliation Day: -- Unlike its
literal meaning, this is not a day to humiliate one another or
spread hatred, but to relinquish our pride and become humble
before a higher power or other people. In this context, the idea
of humiliation has its origins in Protestant Christianity, where
it means to leave one's pride behind and come as equal human
beings before God. It is important to humble ourselves to stop
judging others based on their differences. Humiliation Day should
be observed by all, regardless of religion. On July 20, 1775,
Congress issued a proclamation recommending the observance of a
day of fasting, public humiliation, and prayer for the English
Colonies under the blessing of King George the Third. The
declaration was distributed to all the towns in the colonies. The
goal was to pray for the civil and religious rights and privileges
of the colonies. It became a big success with broad participation,
and ever since then, Congress has issued a day of humiliation and
prayer every year. General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief
of the Continental Army, also called for a day of fasting,
humiliation, and prayer for his soldiers on May 6, 1779. The
soldiers ceased all activities and labor for one day. Some
Presidents didn't make the proclamation during their term. Still,
on March 23, 1798, U.S. President John Adams revived the
tradition. He recommended the observance of a day of solemn
humiliation, fasting, and prayer where the citizens would halt
their worldly preoccupations and show their humble selves to a
higher power. In the year 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
wrote to the Senate stating that the country had to observe a day
of humiliation, fasting, and prayer to please God. It was a plea
to help the country and its citizens find inner peace and become
more spiritual and devoted to God. Humiliation Day has become more
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January 3: Memento Mori "Remember
You Die" Day: -- One of the few days we celebrate life
through looming death. The subject of life and death is not
something many people want to talk about, but that makes this day
so meaningful. It forces people to come out of their comfort
zones, think about their time on the earth and what's left of it,
and consider making a change to be more hands-on with their
future. It can be argued that we are only truly living life as
soon as we realize that it is fleeting, and through this concept,
we start living with direction and drive. Memento Mori "Remember
You Die" Day, is a day where people reflect on their
mortality and the amount of time they have left to live. They
consider their past, present, and future, and for many, the end is
full of great excitement if they choose to live life to the
fullest, knowing that they will no longer be here one day. The
concept of 'Memento Mori' is very similar to the notion of "all
men must die" as heard in the H.B.O. mega-hit "Game of
Thrones" and does give you a sense of drive and inspiration
something not necessarily associated with death. In observing the
day, we emphasize should be on the importance of the afterlife
because earthly life is fleeting and full of doubt that keeps many
people from fully experiencing life. Greek philosophers like Plato
and Socrates spent their lives finding meaning and, through their
work and many conversations and lessons around death and the
importance of life, came to the conclusion that life, after all,
comes to an end, and we must do what we can until we are no longer
able to. It is a notion that has stood the test of time through
centuries. There is no factual or official establishing of the
day, and no writings can be found with proof of who exactly
created this day. Still, somehow we celebrate it every year with
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Today, January 3, 2026
January 3: Women Rock! Day: -- A day to
specially honor the many brilliant women who contributed to the
rock genre and caused giant waves in the world of music. These
women paved the way for future generations by breaking into
male-dominated spaces. On this day, we pay tribute to the many
female musicians who were pioneers in their own right. From famous
solo artists like Grace Slick and Janis Joplin to female rock
bands like The Runaways, who helped set the stage for female
artists to perform freely, many women have created a niche and
assumed their rightful position within the mainstream rock scene.
The queen of rock 'n' roll, Tina Turner, whose career began in the
mid-'50s, performed for more than half a century before retiring
in 2009. She has sold more than 200 million records worldwide -
one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. In the
1960s, Janis Joplin became one of the first female artists to
overturn the 'girl singer' stereotype in folk and pop music. She
fused rock and blues into her music and influenced many artists.
Joplin's career shot to success in 1967 when she performed with
Big Brother and The Holding Company at the Monterey Pop Festival.
Unfortunately, she passed away soon after. Pat Benatar was one of
the first women to contribute to the genre of hard rock. In 1979,
she released her first album titled "In the Heat of the
Night," which shot her to instant fame. Her subsequent albums
solidified her position as one of the most famous rock acts, and
she became one of the first and most frequently played artists on
MTV in 1981. Around the same time, Chrissie Hynde, after many
unsuccessful attempts to get her name out there, was chosen by a
record label owner based on her demo tape. The label put her in a
band with a few others, and they became known as 'The Pretenders.'
Their self-titled debut album was released in 1979, and the band
became one of the forerunners of the '80s New Wave movement. It
isn't possible to talk about rock music without mentioning Joan
Jett. After breaking out of one of the first female rock bands in
the '70s, The Runaways, Jett went on to have an even more
successful career with her own band, The Blackhearts. They
released their first album in 1981, titled "I Love Rock 'n'
Roll," and it became a super hit. On January 3, 1987, Aretha
Franklin, famously called the queen of soul, became the first
woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Women
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January 3: J.R.R. Tolkien Day: -- January
3, 1892: #BOTD: #HBD! J.R.R. Tolkien, English novelist, short
story writer, poet, and philologist (d. September 2, 1973) is
#born John Ronald Reuel Tolkien in Bloemfontein, Orange Free
State, an independent Boer sovereign republic under British
suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th
century, which ceased to exist after it was defeated and
surrendered to the British Empire at the end of the Second Boer
War in 1902. He was an English writer, poet, philologist, and
university professor who is best known as the author of the
classic high-fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and
The Silmarillion. He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth
Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford,
from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and
Literature and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1945 to
1959. He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis - they were
both members of the informal literary discussion group known as
the Inklings. Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of
the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on March 28, 1972.
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January 3, 106 BC: #BOTD: #HBD! Cicero
(Marcus Tullius), Roman politician, orator and lawyer, consul in
the year 63 BC (d. December 7, 43 BC) is #born Marcus Tullius
Cicero in Arpinum, a hill town 100 kilometers (62 mi) southeast of
Rome. He belonged to the tribus Cornelia (a tribus, or tribe, was
a division of the Roman people, constituting the voting units of a
legislative assembly of the Roman Republic). His father was a
well-to-do member of the equestrian order and possessed good
connections in Rome. However, being a semi-invalid, he could not
enter public life and studied extensively to compensate. Although
little is known about Cicero's mother, Helvia, it was common for
the wives of important Roman citizens to be responsible for the
management of the household. Cicero's brother Quintus wrote in a
letter that she was a thrifty housewife. Cicero's cognomen, or
personal surname, comes from the Latin for chickpea, cicer.
Plutarch explains that the name was originally given to one of
Cicero's ancestors who had a cleft in the tip of his nose
resembling a chickpea. However, it is more likely that Cicero's
ancestors prospered through the cultivation and sale of chickpeas.
Romans often chose down-to-earth personal surnames. The famous
family names of Fabius, Lentulus, and Piso come from the Latin
names of beans, lentils, and peas, respectively. Plutarch writes
that Cicero was urged to change this deprecatory name when he
entered politics, but refused, saying that he would make Cicero
more glorious than Scaurus ("Swollen-ankled") and
Catulus ("Puppy"). Cicero is considered one of Rome's
greatest orators and prose stylists. His influence on the Latin
language was so immense that the subsequent history of prose, not
only in Latin but in European languages up to the 19th century,
was said to be either a reaction against or a return to his style.
According to Michael Grant, "the influence of Cicero upon the
history of European literature and ideas greatly exceeds that of
any other prose writer in any language". Cicero introduced
the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a
Latin philosophical vocabulary (with neologisms such as evidentia,
humanitas, qualitas, quantitas, and essentia) distinguishing
himself as a translator and philosopher. Though he was an
accomplished orator and successful lawyer, Cicero believed his
political career was his most important achievement. It was during
his consulship that the second Catilinarian conspiracy attempted
to overthrow the government through an attack on the city by
outside forces, and Cicero suppressed the revolt by executing five
conspirators without due process. During the chaotic latter half
of the 1st century BC marked by civil wars and the dictatorship of
Gaius Julius Caesar, Cicero championed a return to the traditional
republican government. Following Julius Caesar's death, Cicero
became an enemy of Mark Antony in the ensuing power struggle,
attacking him in a series of speeches. He was proscribed as an
enemy of the state by the Second Triumvirate and consequently died
when he was executed by soldiers operating on their behalf in 43
BC after having been intercepted during attempted flight from the
Italian peninsula, aged 63. His burial details are unknown. His
severed hands and head were then, as a final revenge of Mark
Antony, displayed in the Roman Forum, and his hands and tongue
were thereafter nailed to the rostrum of the Roman Senate, the
setting where he had given some of his greatest orations, as a
warning to the Senate and all those who agreed with Cicero.
Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited for
initiating the 14th-century Renaissance in public affairs,
humanism, and classical Roman culture. According to Polish
historian Tadeusz Zielinski, "the Renaissance was above all
things a revival of Cicero, and only after him and through him of
the rest of Classical antiquity." The peak of Cicero's
authority and prestige came during the 18th-century Enlightenment,
and his impact on leading Enlightenment thinkers and political
theorists such as John Locke, David Hume, Montesquieu and Edmund
Burke was substantial. His works rank among the most influential
in European culture, and today still constitute one of the most
important bodies of primary material for the writing and revision
of Roman history, especially the last days of the Roman Republic.
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January 3, 1521: Christianity: Roman
Catholicism: The Latin Church (Latin: Ecclesia Latina):
Excommunication: Excommunication In The Catholic Church: The
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Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, bearing
the title of the first three Latin words of the text. It was
issued on January 3, 1521, by Pope Leo X to effect the
excommunication threatened in his earlier papal bull Exsurge
Domine (1520) since Luther failed to recant. Luther had burned his
copy of Exsurge Domine on December 10, 1520, at the Elster Gate in
Wittenberg, indicating his response to it. Pope Leo X was used to
reformers and heretics, and he responded slowly, "with great
care as is proper." For three years he deployed a series of
papal theologians and envoys against Luther, which served only to
harden the reformer's anti-papal theology. After a heresy case
against Luther was drafted, the Elector Frederick persuaded the
pope to have Luther examined at Augsburg, where the Imperial Diet
was held. There, over a three-day period in October 1518, Luther
defended himself under questioning by papal legate Cardinal
Cajetan. The Pope's right to issue indulgences was at the centre
of the dispute between the two men. The hearings degenerated into
a shouting match. More than writing his theses, Luther's
confrontation with the church cast him as an enemy of the pope.
Cajetan's original instructions had been to arrest Luther if he
failed to recant, but the legate desisted from doing so. Luther
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January 3, 1868: The History Of Japan:
Imperial Japan (The Empire Of Japan, The Japanese Empire, Japan):
The Boshin War (The Japanese Revolution, The Japanese Civil War):
Bakumatsu (Japanese: "Tent Goverment", The End Of The
Shogunate, The End Of Tokugawa Shogunate, The End Of The Edo
Shogunate, The End Of The Edo Period): The Meiji Restoration
(Japanese: Meiji Ishin) (The Meiji Renovation, The Meiji
Revolution, The Meiji Reform, The Meiji Renewal): -- The Tokugawa
Shogunate, the military government of Japan during the Edo period
from 1603 to 1868, is abolished as agents of the Satsuma Domain
and Choshu Domain, domains (han) of the shogunate, seize power, an
event that restored practical imperial rule to the Empire Of
Japan, whose emperor at the time was the Emperor Meiji, also known
as Meiji The Great. A shogun was the military dictator of Japan
during the period from 1185 to 1868 (with exceptions). In most of
this period, the shoguns were the de facto rulers of the country,
although nominally they were appointed by the Emperor as a
ceremonial formality. The shoguns held almost absolute power over
territories through military means. Prince Tokugawa Yoshinobu
(October 28, 1837 - November 22, 1913) was the 15th and last
shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. He was part of a
movement which aimed to reform the aging shogunate, but was
ultimately unsuccessful; on April 11, 1868, Prince Yoshinobu
surrendered Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the
Tokugawa shogunate. After resigning, he went into retirement, and
largely avoided the public eye for the rest of his life. Edo
Castle, also known as Chiyoda Castle, is a flatland castle that
was built in 1457 by Ota Dokan. It is today part of the Tokyo
Imperial Palace and is located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, then known as
Edo, Toshima District, Musashi Province. Tokugawa Ieyasu
established the Tokugawa shogunate here. It was the residence of
the shogun and location of the shogunate, and also functioned as
the military capital during the Edo period of Japanese history.
After the resignation of the shogun and the Meiji Restoration, it
became the Tokyo Imperial Palace. Some moats, walls and ramparts
of the castle survive to this day. However, the grounds were more
extensive during the Edo period, with Tokyo Station and the
Marunouchi section of the city lying within the outermost moat. It
also encompassed Kitanomaru Park, the Nippon Budokan Hall and
other landmarks of the surrounding area. The Tokugawa shogunate,
also known as the Tokugawa bakufu, was the last feudal Japanese
military government, which existed between 1600 and 1868. The head
of government was the shogun, and each was a member of the
Tokugawa clan. The Tokugawa shogunate ruled from Edo Castle and
the years of the shogunate became known as the Edo period. This
time is also called the Tokugawa or pre-modern period. The Meiji
Restoration, also known as the Meiji Ishin, Renovation,
Revolution, Reform, or Renewal, was an event that restored
practical imperial rule to the Empire Of Japan in 1868 under
Emperor Meiji. Although there were ruling Emperors before the
Meiji Restoration, the events restored practical abilities and
consolidated the political system under the Emperor of Japan. The
goals of the restored government were expressed by the new Emperor
in the Charter Oath, which set the legal stage for Japan's
modernization. The Restoration led to enormous changes in Japan's
political and social structure and spanned both the late Edo
period (often called the Bakumatsu) and the beginning of the Meiji
period. Emperor Meiji or Meiji The Great, was the 122nd Emperor of
Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning
from February 3, 1867 until his death on July 30, 1912. He
presided over a time of rapid change in the Empire Of Japan, as
the nation quickly changed from an isolationist feudal state to a
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January 3, 1894: #BOTD: #HBD! ZaSu Pitts,
American actress who starred in many silent dramas, including
Erich von Stroheim's epic 1924 silent film Greed, and comedies,
transitioning successfully to mostly comedy films with the advent
of sound films (d. June 7, 1963) is #born Eliza Susan Pitts in
Parsons, Kansas, to Rulandus and Nelly (nee Shay) Pitts. Her
father, who had lost a leg while serving in the 76th New York
Infantry in the Civil War, had settled the family in Kansas by the
time ZaSu was born, the third of four children. She also appeared
on numerous radio shows. Her career as an entertainer spanned
nearly 50 years, and she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame in 1960. ZaSu Pitts died in Hollywood at the age of 69,
and was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City. Pitts wrote
a book of candy recipes, Candy Hits by ZaSu Pitts, which was
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January 3, 1905: #BOTD: #HBD! Anna May
Wong, Chinese American actress and beauty, considered the first
Chinese-American movie star in Hollywood, the first Asian American
star of a television series and the first Chinese-American actress
to gain international recognition (d. February 3, 1961) is #born
Wong Liu Tsong to second-generation Taishanese (people from
Southern Guangdong Province, China) Chinese-American parents on
Flower Street in Los Angeles, one block north of Chinatown, in an
integrated community of Chinese, Irish, German and Japanese
residents. Her varied career spanned silent film, sound film,
television, stage, and radio. As one of the first women depicted
on the reverse of the quarter in the 2022-2025 American Women
quarters series, she is also the first Asian American to appear on
a U.S. coin; In 2021, the United States Mint announced that Wong
would be among the first women depicted on the reverse of the
quarter coin as a part of the American Women quarters series. When
the quarters with her depicted on them went into circulation in
2022, Wong became the first Asian-American depicted on American
coinage. Wong became infatuated with films and began acting in
films at an early age. During the silent film era, she acted in
The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first films made in color,
and in Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Wong became
a fashion icon and had achieved international stardom in 1924.
Wong had been one of the first to embrace the flapper look. In
1934, the Mayfair Mannequin Society of New York voted her the
"world's best dressed woman." In the 1920s and 1930s,
Wong was acclaimed as one of the top fashion icons. Frustrated by
the stereotypical supporting roles she reluctantly played in
Hollywood, Wong left for Europe in March 1928, where she starred
in several notable plays and films, among them Piccadilly (1929).
She spent the first half of the 1930s traveling between the United
States and Europe for film and stage work. Wong was featured in
films of the early sound era, such as Daughter of the Dragon
(1931), Java Head (1934), Daughter of Shanghai (1937), and with
Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express (1932).
In 1935, Wong was dealt the most severe disappointment of her
career, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer refused to consider her for the
leading role of the Chinese character O-Lan in the film version of
Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth. MGM instead cast Luise Rainer to
play the leading role in yellowface. One biographer believes that
the choice was due to the Hays Code anti-miscegenation rules
requiring the wife of a white actor, Paul Muni (ironically playing
a Chinese character in yellowface) to be played by a white
actress. But the 1930-1934 Hays Code of the Motion Picture
Producers and Distributors of America insisted only that
"miscegenation (sex relationship between the white and black
races) was forbidden" and said nothing about Asian/white
intermarriages. Other biographers have not corroborated this
theory, including historian Shirley Jennifer Lim's Anna May Wong:
Performing the Modern. MGM screen-tested Wong for the supporting
role of Lotus, the seductress, but it is ambiguous whether she
refused the role on principle or was rejected. Wong spent the next
year touring China, visiting her family's ancestral village,
studying Chinese culture, and documenting the experience on film
at a time when prominent female directors in Hollywood were few.
In the late 1930s, she starred in several B movies for Paramount
Pictures, portraying Chinese and Chinese Americans in a positive
light. She paid less attention to her film career during World War
II, when she devoted her time and money to help the Chinese cause
against Japan. Wong returned to the public eye in the 1950s in
several television appearances. In 1951, Wong made history with
her television show The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, the
first-ever U.S. television show starring an Asian American series
lead. Before she died, she was scheduled to play the role of
Madame Liang in the film production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's
Flower Drum Song, but was unable to take the role due to her
health issues. She died at the age of 56 of a heart attack as she
slept at home in Santa Monica, two days after her final screen
performance on television's The Barbara Stanwyck Show in an
episode entitled "Dragon by the Tail". Her cremated
remains are interred in her mother's grave at Rosedale Cemetery in
Los Angeles. The headstone is marked with her mother's Anglicized
name on top, and the Chinese names of Anna May (on the right) and
her sister Mary (on the left) along the sides. . For decades after
her death, Wong was remembered principally for the stereotypical
"Dragon Lady" and demure "Butterfly" roles
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January 3, 1916: #BOTD: #HBD! Maxene
Andrews, American singer, actress and beauty, best known as the
middle sister soprano member of the Andrews Sisters, the American
close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras,
the most popular female vocal group of the first half of the 20th
century (d. October 21, 1995) is #born Maxene Angelyn Andreas in
Mound, Minnesota to Olga "Ollie"(nee Sollie) and Peter
Andreas. Mr. Andreas (later 'Andrews') was Greek, and his wife was
of Norwegian ancestry raised in the Lutheran faith. The Andrews
Sisters consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne Sophia (July
6, 1911 - May 8, 1967), soprano Maxene Anglyn (January 3, 1916 -
October 21, 1995), and mezzo-soprano Patricia Marie "Patty"
(February 16, 1918 - January 30, 2013). Throughout their career,
the sisters sold over 75 million records (the last official count
released by MCA Records in the mid-1970s). Their 1941 hit "Boogie
Woogie Bugle Boy" can be considered an early example of
rhythm and blues or jump blues. Other songs closely associated
with the Andrews Sisters include their first major hit, "Bei
Mir Bist Du Schon (Means That You're Grand)" (1938), "Beer
Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel)" (1939), "Beat Me
Daddy, Eight to the Bar" (1940), "Don't Sit Under the
Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me)" (1943), and "Rum
and Coca Cola" (1945), which helped introduce American
audiences to calypso. The Andrews Sisters' harmonies and songs are
still influential today, and have been copied and recorded by
entertainers such as Bette Midler, Christina Aguilera, Pentatonix,
and others. They are still widely acclaimed today for their famous
close harmonies. Maxene Andrews died on a Saturday at Cape Cod
Hospital in Hyannis, Mass of a heart attack, aged 79; her ashes
and those of her sister LaVerne are interred in the Columbarium Of
Memory of the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale,
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January 3, 1924: Archaeology (Archeology)
Archaeology (Archeology): Great Discoveries Of Archaeology: Egypt:
Ancient Egypt: New Kingdom: Eighteenth Dynasty (The Eighteenth
Dynasty Of Egypt, Dynasty XVIIII, 18th Dynasty, Dynasty 18):
Tutankhamun: The Tomb Of Tutankhamun (Valley Of The Kings Tomb
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his workmen discovered the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen near
Luxor, Egypt, they uncover the greatest treasure of the tomb: a
stone sarcophagus containing a solid gold coffin that holds the
mummy of Tutankhamen. On November 26, 1922, Carter and fellow
archaeologist Lord Carnarvon entered the tomb, finding it
miraculously intact. Thus began a monumental excavation process in
which Carter carefully explored the four-room tomb over four
years, uncovering an incredible collection of several thousand
objects. The most splendid architectural find was a stone
sarcophagus containing three coffins nested within each other.
Inside the final coffin, made out of solid gold, was the mummy of
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Today, January 3, 2026
January 3, 1925: Italy: The History Of
Italy: The History Of Fascist Italy (Fascist Italy 1922-1943): --
Benito Mussolini, who had pretended his regime was a democracy
since he became Prime Minister of Italy in 1922, begins the
process of dismantling virtually all constitutional and
conventional restraints on his power when he makes a belligerent
speech before the Italian Chamber of Deputies, where he took full
responsibility for the violence the Blackshirts used to hand him
and his National Fascist Party victory in the 1924 Italian General
Election, and announces he was taking dictatorial powers over
Italy, ushering in the Italian fascist police state. On December
31, 1924, Blackshirt consuls had met with Mussolini and gave him
an ultimatum: crush the opposition or they would do so without
him. Fearing a revolt by his own militants, Mussolini decided to
drop all pretense of democracy. The assassination of the socialist
deputy Giacomo Matteotti, who had requested in the Italian
Parliament that the results of the April 6, 1924 Italian General
Election be annulled because the Fascists committed fraud and used
violence used to gain votes, and was kidnapped and killed by
Fascists eleven days later for saying so, provoked a momentary
crisis in the Mussolini government. Mussolini ordered a cover-up,
but witnesses saw the car that transported Matteotti's body parked
outside Matteotti's residence, which linked Amerigo Dumini, an
American-born Italian fascist hitman who led the group responsible
for Matteotti's assassination, to the murder. Mussolini later
confessed that a few resolute men could have altered public
opinion and started a coup that would have swept fascism away.
Dumini was imprisoned for two years. On his release, Dumini
allegedly told other people that Mussolini was responsible, for
which he served further prison time. The opposition parties
responded weakly or were generally unresponsive. Many of the
socialists, liberals, and moderates boycotted Parliament in the
Aventine Secession, hoping to force Victor Emmanuel to dismiss
Mussolini. On December 31, 1924, Blackshirt MVSN consuls had met
with Mussolini and gave him an ultimatum that unless he crushed
their opposition, they would act do so without him. Fearing a
revolt by his own militants, On January 3, 1925, Mussolini made a
truculent speech before the Italian Chamber of Deputies, the lower
house of the bicameral Parliament of Italy (the other being the
Senate of the Republic), in which he took responsibility for the
Blackshirt violence (though he did not mention the assassination
of Matteotti). Ultimately, Mussolini abolished the Blackshirts in
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Today, January 3, 2026
January 3, 1926: #BOTD: #HBD! George
Martin, English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor,
audio engineer, and musician (d. March 8, 2016) is #born George
Henry Martin in Highbury, London, England. Sir George Henry Martin
CBE was referred to as the "Fifth Beatle", including by
Paul McCartney, in reference to his extensive involvement on each
of the Beatles' original albums. Martin produced 30 number-one hit
singles in the United Kingdom and 23 number-one hits in the United
States. Martin produced comedy and novelty records in the early
1950s, working with Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Bernard
Cribbins, among others. His career spanned more than six decades
of work in music, film, television and live performance. He held a
number of senior executive roles at media companies and
contributed to a wide range of charitable causes, including his
work for The Prince's Trust and the Caribbean island of
Montserrat. In recognition of his services to the music industry
and popular culture, he was made a Knight Bachelor in 1996. George
Martin died in his sleep in the evening at his home in Wiltshire,
England, aged of 90. His death was announced by Ringo Starr on his
Twitter account, and a spokesperson for Universal Music Group
confirmed his death. The cause of his death was not immediately
disclosed though biographer Kenneth Womack subsequently wrote that
Martin had battled stomach cancer. His funeral was held on March
14 at All Saints Church in Coleshill, Warwickshire, England, and
he was buried nearby. A memorial service was held on May 11 at St
Martin-in-the-Fields, attended by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr,
Yoko Ono, Olivia Harrison, Elton John, and former colleagues. On
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Today, January 3, 2026
January 3, 1945: #BOTD: #HBD! Stephen
Stills, American singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer and
multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Buffalo
Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, is #born in
Dallas, Texas to a military family, the son of Talitha Quintilla
Collard (1919-1996) and William Arthur Stills (1915-1986).
Stills's solo career and bands have combined sales of over 35
million albums. Stills was ranked number 28 in Rolling Stone's
2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"
and number 47 in the 2011 list. He became the first person to be
inducted twice on the same night into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame. According to Neil Young, "Stephen is a genius."
Beginning his professional career with Buffalo Springfield, a band
named for the Buffalo-Springfield Roller Company steamroller
brand, he composed one of their few hits "For What It's
Worth", which became one of the most recognizable songs of
the 1960s. Other notable songs he contributed to the band were
"Sit Down, I Think I Love You", "Bluebird" and
"Rock & Roll Woman". According to bandmate Richie
Furay, he was "the heart and soul of Buffalo Springfield".
After Buffalo Springfield disbanded, Stills began working with
David Crosby and Graham Nash as a trio called Crosby, Stills &
Nash (CSN). Stills, in addition to writing many of the band's
songs, he played bass, guitar, and keyboards on their debut album.
The album sold over four million copies and at that point had
outsold anything from the three members' prior bands: the Byrds,
Buffalo Springfield, and the Hollies. The album won the trio a
Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Stills's first solo album,
Stephen Stills, went gold and is the only album to feature both
Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Its hit single, "Love the One
You're With", became his biggest solo hit, peaking at number
14 on the Billboard Hot 100. A string of solo albums, and a band
with Chris Hillman called Manassas, followed in 1972. In summer
1974 Young reunited with CSN after a four-year hiatus for a
concert tour which was recorded and released in 2014 as CSNY 1974.
It was one of the first stadium tours and the largest tour the
band has done to date. CSN reunited in 1977 for their album CSN,
which became the trio's best-selling record. CSN and CSNY
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Today, January 3, 2026
January 3, 1961: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1953-1962): The Cuban Cold
War: -- The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba
over Fidel Castro's nationalization of American assets. In the
summer of 1959, Castro began nationalizing plantation lands owned
by American investors as well as confiscating the property of
foreign landowners. He also seized property previously held by
wealthy Cubans who had fled. He nationalized sugar production and
oil refinement, over the objection of foreign investors who owned
stakes in these commodities. By 1960, the Cold War raged between
two superpowers: the United States, a capitalist liberal
democracy, and the Soviet Union (USSR), a Marxist-Leninist
socialist state ruled by the Communist Party. Expressing contempt
for the U.S., Castro shared the ideological views of the USSR,
establishing relations with several Marxist-Leninist states.
Meeting with Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, Castro
agreed to provide the USSR with sugar, fruit, fibers, and hides in
return for crude oil, fertilizers, industrial goods, and a 100M
USD loan. Cuba's government ordered the country's refineries -
then controlled by the U.S. corporations Shell and Esso - to
process Soviet oil, but under U.S. orders the refineries willingly
refused. Castro responded by expropriating and nationalizing the
refineries. Retaliating, the U.S. cancelled its import of Cuban
sugar, provoking Castro to nationalize most U.S.-owned assets on
the island, including banks and sugar mills. Relations between
Cuba and the U.S. were further strained following the explosion of
a French vessel, the La Coubre, in Havana harbor in March 1960.
The ship carried weapons purchased from Belgium, and the cause of
the explosion was never determined, but Castro publicly insinuated
that the U.S. government was guilty of sabotage. He ended this
speech with "Patria o Muerte" ("Fatherland or
Death"), a proclamation that he made much use of in ensuing
years. Inspired by their earlier success with the 1954 Guatemalan
coup d'etat, in March 1960, U.S. President Eisenhower authorized
the CIA to overthrow Castro's government. He provided them with a
budget of 13M USD and permitted them to ally with the Mafia, who
were aggrieved that Castro's government closed down their brothel
and casino businesses in Cuba. On 13 October 1960, the U.S.
prohibited the majority of exports to Cuba, initiating an economic
embargo. In retaliation, Cuba's National Institute for Agrarian
Reform (INRA) took control of 383 private-run businesses on
1October 4, and on 25 October a further 166 U.S. companies
operating in Cuba had their premises seized and nationalized. On
16 December, the U.S. ended its import quota of Cuban sugar, the
country's primary export. #FidelCastro #Cuba #UnitedStates #US
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Today, January 3, 2026
January 3, 1962: Religion: The History Of
Religion: Abrahamic Religions: Christianity: Roman Catholicism:
The Latin Church (Latin: Ecclesia Latina): Excommunication:
Excommunication In The Catholic Church: The Excommunication Of
Fidel Castro: -- Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro after
Castro suppressed Catholic institutions in Cuba. Castro was
baptized and raised a Roman Catholic as a child but did not
practice as one. In Oliver Stone's documentary Comandante, Castro
states "I have never been a believer", and has total
conviction that there is only one life. Castro has publicly
criticized what he sees as elements of the Bible that have been
used to justify the oppression of both women and people of African
descent throughout history. Nevertheless, in 1992, Castro agreed
to loosen restrictions on religion and even permitted church-going
Catholics to join the Communist Party of Cuba. He began describing
his country as "secular" rather than "atheist".
Castro organized Pope John Paul II's visit Cuba in 1998, the first
visit by a reigning pontiff to the island. Castro and the Pope
appeared side by side in public on several occasions during the
visit. Castro wore a dark blue business suit rather than fatigues
in his public meetings with the Pope and treated him with
reverence and respect. In December 1998, Castro formally
re-instated Christmas Day as the official celebration for the
first time since its abolition by the Communist Party in 1969.
Cubans were again allowed to mark Christmas as a holiday and to
openly hold religious processions. The Pope sent a telegram to
Castro thanking him for restoring Christmas as a public holiday.
After Pope John Paul II's death in April 2005, an emotional Castro
attended a mass in his honor in Havana's cathedral and signed the
Pope's condolence book at the Vatican Embassy. He had last visited
the cathedral in 1959, 46 years earlier, for the wedding of one of
his sisters. Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino led the mass
and welcomed Castro, who was dressed in a black suit, expressing
his gratitude for the "heartfelt way to the death of our Holy
Father John Paul II was received (in Cuba)." In his 2009
spoken autobiography, Castro said that Christianity exhibited "a
group of very humane precepts" which gave the world "ethical
values" and a "sense of social justice", before
relating that "If people call me Christian, not from the
standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I
declare that I am a Christian." On March 28, 2012, Castro had
a 30-minute meeting with Pope Benedict XVI, during the Pope's
three day visit to Cuba. The Pope had previously called for an end
to the U.S. embargo on Cuba, and the Pope made statements
encouraging a more open Cuban society, while Castro asked the Pope
about his role and about the changes the Church had experienced
over the last century. On September 20, 2015, Castro met with Pope
Francis during the Pope's three day visit to Cuba. where they
discussed protecting the environment and the problems of the
modern world. #PopeJohnXXIII #FidelCastro #Excommunication
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Today, January 3, 2026
January 3: Fruitcake Toss Day: -- On this
day, take that fruitcake you never got around to eating and send
it spiraling hundreds or thousands of feet into the air, depending
on the power of your throwing arm. Every year, a few hundred
people gather in downtown Manitou Springs, Colorado, to hurl
hundreds of fruitcakes into the air by hand, cannon, or slingshot.
Fruitcakes last for ages, so don't throw out that fruitcake we
both know no one in your home will eat; throw it into the air! A
fruitcake is a delicious cake made with candied or dried fruits
and nuts often soaked in rum. In the United States, fruitcakes
have become a ridiculed dessert, with many jokes about their
longevity and age. From 20th century cartoons to TV programs like
"Father Knows Best," "The Donna Reed Show,"
and "The Tonight Show," there is an American subculture
that involves good-natured jabs at fruitcakes, which led to the
first Great Fruitcake Toss in 1996. Fruitcake Toss Day started
when a group of locals in Manitou Springs, Colorado, decided to
make some fun out of tossing their old fruitcakes in the air. They
went to a public park and made a competition out of it. The day
was so fun that it has been celebrated every year since then, save
for a few canceled editions. Every year, hundreds of spectators
and participants gather for the quirky tradition of tossing
fruitcakes. Traditionally, people participate in various
competitions that test strength, accuracy, and balance, all
revolving around launching fruitcakes into the air. The leftovers
are then fed to a local pig named 'Jezebel.' Over the years, the
celebration has included a slew of advancements on the classic
hand toss, such as robotic or mechanical devices and a pneumatic
weapon launch. In January 2007, 8 Boeing engineers set the record
for the highest Great Fruitcake Toss when their mock artillery
piece, the "Omega 8," flung a fruitcake 1,430 feet into
the air. Did you know that the fruitcake from U.S. President
Grover Cleveland's wedding in 1886 is still intact in his hometown
of Caldwell, New Jersey? Love or hate them, fruitcakes are
probably one of the most regifted items in the U.S.A. Why not put
them to good use by flinging them into glory in a grand gesture of
hearty fun?
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Today, January 3, 2026January 3: Festival Of Sleep Day: -- No
need to stifle those yawns today! Created to help you catch up on
your Zs after a busy festive season, this day of rest and
relaxation means you can snuggle up and doze off. So cancel those
plans and plump your best pillow, because we've got the dreamiest
ideas for getting a bit of shut-eye, along with some fun facts to
make sleep your new favorite hobby. We've been enjoying forty
winks ever since the human race came into existence, but we
haven't always understood it. Early speculation by the Ancient
Greeks about the reason for sleep was that it is due to lack of
circulation, causing the body to become unconscious for a period
of time while it rebalanced. Theorists were divided at first on
whether this was due to the brain or the heart, which were known
to be the two most important organs. Back then, sleep was
separated into a first and second sleep of the day, instead of the
single long stretch we enjoy today. In the interlude between
sleep, people would socialize and relax. This routine stayed the
same for centuries but was disrupted by the Industrial Revolution
and the invention of artificial light, which allowed for a longer
working day and therefore pushed together the periods of sleep.
The socializing section of the day was moved to before bed
instead. The desire for success in the newly industrialized world
would eat into the sleeping time of many workers and
businesspeople, as it continues to do today. A new regulation was
introduced by Ford in 1926, when it became the first American
company to provide employees with a fixed schedule of an
eight-hour working day and a 40-hour working week, allowing those
on the payroll to get to bed on time. Festival of Sleep Day is a
modern-day celebration, supposedly invented to help us recharge
our batteries from all the lost sleep around the festive season at
the end of the year. It reminds us to practice self-care for the
coming year and take advantage of the numerous benefits of a good
night's sleep.
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Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 1870: New York City (New York,
NYC): Bridges And Tunnels In New York City: Suspension Bridges:
The Brooklyn Bridge (The New York And Brooklyn Bridge, The East
River Bridge): -- Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins, a
hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City spanning
the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed
crossing of the East River. It was also the longest suspension
bridge in the world at the time of its opening, with a main span
of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m) and a deck 127 ft (38.7 m) above mean
high water. The span was originally called the New York and
Brooklyn Bridge or the East River Bridge but was officially
renamed the Brooklyn Bridge in 1915. Proposals for a bridge
connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn were first made in the early
19th century, which eventually led to the construction of the
current span, designed by John A. Roebling. The project's chief
engineer, his son Washington Roebling, contributed further design
work, assisted by the latter's wife, Emily Warren Roebling.
Construction started in 1870, with the Tammany Hall-controlled New
York Bridge Company overseeing construction, although numerous
controversies and the novelty of the design prolonged the project
over thirteen years. Since opening, the Brooklyn Bridge has
undergone several reconfigurations, having carried horse-drawn
vehicles and elevated railway lines until 1950. To alleviate
increasing traffic flows, additional bridges and tunnels were
built across the East River. Following gradual deterioration, the
Brooklyn Bridge has been renovated several times, including in the
1950s, 1980s, and 2010s. The Brooklyn Bridge is the southernmost
of the four toll-free vehicular bridges connecting Manhattan
Island and Long Island, with the Manhattan Bridge, the
Williamsburg Bridge, and the Queensboro Bridge to the north. Only
passenger vehicles and pedestrian and bicycle traffic are
permitted. A major tourist attraction since its opening, the
Brooklyn Bridge has become an icon of New York City. Over the
years, the bridge has been used as the location of various stunts
and performances, as well as several crimes and attacks. The
Brooklyn Bridge has been designated a National Historic Landmark,
a New York City landmark, and a National Historic Civil
Engineering Landmark.
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Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 1969: Louis Stokes, African
American attorney civil rights pioneer, politician and Prince Hall
Freemason, is sworn in as first African American congressman from
Ohio. He would go on to serve 15 terms in the House Of
Representatives representing the east side of Cleveland, becomeing
founding member and head of the Congressional Black Caucus,
chairman of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, charged
with investigating the murders of President John F. Kennedy and
civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, Cold War-era chairmen
of the House Intelligence Committee, and the first African
American on the House Appropriations Committee. Louis Stokes
(February 23, 1925 - August 18, 2015) was father of Angela Stokes,
Cleveland Municipal Court judge, father of television journalist
and news anchor Lori Stokes, father of television journalist and
news anchor Chuck Stokes, brother of Carl B. Stokes, the first
African American mayor of a large American city (Cleveland), and a
cousin of funk and R & B musician Rick James. Louis Stokes was
born in Cleveland, Ohio, where he and his brother Carl B. Stokes
lived in one of the first federally funded housing projects, the
Outhwaite Homes. Stokes attended Central High School and later
served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946. After attending Western
Reserve University and the Cleveland State University College of
Law on the G.I. Bill, Stokes began practicing law in Cleveland in
1953. He argued the "stop and frisk" case of Terry v.
Ohio before the United States Supreme Court in 1968. Later in
1968, he was elected to the House, representing the 21st District
of Ohio on Cleveland's East Side. He shifted to the newly created
11th District, covering much of the same area following a 1992
redistricting. Stokes served 30 years in total, retiring in 1999.
He served on the House committee that investigated the Iran-Contra
Affair. As chairman of the House Ethics Committee, Stokes oversaw
the committee's investigation of a bribery and corruption scandal
known as ABSCAM in 1979-80, an FBI sting operation which
eventually led to convictions of one senator and six House
members. Recalling Stokes, U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach said:
"We were in the midst of a huge ... corruption scandal, and
public service was taking a public beating. But Lou Stokes was
there as a shining beacon of integrity, of excellence and most
important of all for us, of justice." In 1971, he was a
founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus. In 1992, Stokes
ran for president as an Ohio favorite son, winning the delegates
from his home district in Ohio, and then, in a minor Democratic
convention drama, refused to release the delegate's votes until
the Clinton campaign formally asked for them. Following his time
in Congress, Stokes became a distinguished visiting professor at
the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social
Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. He actively served in
this role until the time of his death. Stokes was a Prince Hall
Freemason, and a member of the Cleveland Alumni chapter of Kappa
Alpha Psi fraternity. He married the beautiful and brilliant
Jeanette "Jay" Stokes in 1960, when she was 22 years old
and he 35, at East Mt. Zion Baptist Church, and she became
stepmother to his three young children, whose mother(s) is/are not
listed online as of 2023. The Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing
Authority opened the Louis Stokes Museum on September 13, 2007.
This museum houses Stokes memorabilia, video interviews,
miscellaneous video footage, awards and a written history about
Stokes and his rise to prominence. The museum is located at
Outhwaite Homes, 4302 Quincy Avenue. From 2006 to 2008, the
Western Reserve Historical Society opened an exhibition on the
lives of Congressman Stokes and his brother titled "Carl and
Louis Stokes: From the Projects to Politics". The exhibit
uses photographs, manuscript collections, and personal items to
showcase Louis Stokes' rise from the Outhwaite homes, his legal
career, and his Congressional service. The former Congressman was
inducted into the Karamu House Hall of Fame in 2007 for his
contributions to the continued legacy of Cleveland's black
settlement house and theatre. Many buildings throughout the
country have been named in Stokes honor including: Howard
University's medical library, the Cleveland Public Library's main
building expansion, and the GCRTA's Windermere station Louis
Stokes Station at Windermere. The greater Cleveland area Veteran's
hospital was renamed the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of
Veteran Affairs Medical Center. Building 50 on the campus of the
National Institutes of Health is named the Louis Stokes
Laboratories. Congressman Stokes' alma mater, Case Western Reserve
University, offers the Louis Stokes Congressional Black Caucus
Foundation Scholarship worth full tuition to an incoming
first-year or transfer undergraduate student. It is intended to
help economically and educationally disadvantaged students attain
an education at the school. Louis Stokes died of both brain cancer
and lung cancer at his home in Cleveland, Ohio at the age of 90.
He is interred at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.
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Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 1945: #DOTD: #RIP: Edgar
Cayce, American mystic, prophet, psychic, channeler and
clairvoyant who claimed to channel his higher self (b. March 18,
1877) #dies at the age of 67 in Virginia Beach, Virginia from the
effects of a stroke suffered in September 1944. He is buried in
Riverside Cemetery in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Edgar Cayce was born
near Beverly, south of Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Cayce's channeling
sessions happened in a trance state that he would induce with help
from his friend Al Layne or his wife until later in life, when he
became accustomed enough to do so on his own. During these
sessions, Cayce would answer questions on subjects as varied as
healing, reincarnation, dreams, the afterlife, past-life,
nutrition, Atlantis and future events. As a devout Christian and
Sunday school teacher, his channelling claims were a source of
trouble for him because channelling was typically criticized by
practitioners of his faith as being demonic. Cayce, in contrast,
believed that it was his subconscious mind exploring the dream
realm, where he believed minds were timelessly connected. Cayce
founded a nonprofit organization, the Association for Research and
Enlightenment, to store and facilitate the study of his
channelings, as well as run a hospital. A biographer gave him the
nickname The Sleeping Prophet.
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Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 1995: #DOTD: #RIP: Andrija
Puharich, medical and parapsychological researcher, medical
inventor, physician and author, known as the person who brought
Israeli Uri Geller (born 1946) and Dutch-born Peter Hurkos
(1911-1988) to the United States for scientific investigation (b.
February 19, 1918) #dies after suffering a heart attack and
falling down a flight of steps aged 76 at his residence on the
Surry County estate of Richard Joshua Reynolds (R.J. Reynolds,
founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company) in Dobson, North
Carolina. In 1980, "Josh" Reynolds had invited Andrija
to the estate to study the effects of electromagnetic field on
brain waves. He was one of the three scientists, the others being
Elizabeth Rauscher and William Van Bise, who were ordered by a
magistrate to leave the estate before Puharich's fall. His remains
were cremated, and his son Andrija Puharich Jr. poured his ashes
the Mitchell River off of a wooden bridge at the reynolds estate.
Andrija Puharich was born Henry Karel Puharic in Chicago,
Illinois, one of seven children born to Croatian immigrants. His
father had emigrated from what was then the Austro-Hungarian
Empire, entering the U.S. in 1912 as a stowaway. At home Karel's
parents always called him "Andrija," which apparently
wasn't his name at birth but just his parents' nickname for him.
When Karel, as a young boy, started attending school, his parents
enrolled him under the name "Henry Karl Puharich,"
feeling he would be more easily accepted with that name than with
the foreign-sounding name "Karel Puharic." Thereafter he
often signed his name as "Henry Karl Puharich." He
didn't start using his nickname "Andrija" as his first
name until sometime in the later part of his life. During World
War II, Puharich attended Northwestern University as a student in
the Army Specialized Training Program. He earned an undergraduate
degree in philosophy and pre-medicine in 1943 and received his
M.D. from the Northwestern University School of Medicine in 1947.
His residency was completed at the Permanente Research Foundation
in Oakland, California, where he specialized in internal medicine.
From 1953 to 1955, he served as a captain in the Army Medical
Corps; in this capacity, he was assigned as Chief, Outpatient
Service, U.S. Army Dispensary, Army Chemical Center, Edgewood
Arsenal, Maryland. By this time he was already presenting papers
on the possible military usefulness of paranormal phenemona.
During that time, he was in and out of Edgewood Arsenal Research
Laboratories and Fort Detrick, meeting with various high-ranking
officers and officials, primarily from The Pentagon, CIA, and
Naval Intelligence. Puharich was impressed by the stories about
the Dutch psychic Peter Hurkos and invited him to the U.S. in 1956
to investigate his alleged abilities. In 1960, Puharich
investigated materialization seances at Camp Chesterfield, but
discovered the use of cheesecloth being used to fake ectoplasm.
Puharich played himself on Perry Mason television series, in the
episode, "The Case of the Meddling Medium," in 1961. He
conducted a series of three tests to help determine the ESP of
Mason's client accused of murder. During the third test, the
actual murderer was exposed. In 1971, Puharich met Israeli psychic
Uri Geller and endorsed him as a genuine psychic. Puharich wrote a
supportive 1974 biography of Geller, a subject he had investigated
with the help of Itzhak Bentov, among others. He also investigated
and thought favorably of the Brazilian psychic surgeon Ze Arigo,
providing an afterword for his 1974 biographer. Puharich also
investigated Mexican psychic surgeon Pachita. One of his books is
The Sacred Mushroom: Key to the Door of Eternity, describes his
work with psychics.In the 1970s, Puharich claimed he had
investigated the effects of a low frequency radiation beam that
the Soviet Union had been testing. According to Puharich the beam
was based on the work of Nikola Tesla and could be used as a
weapon to control people. He also claimed the beam was responsible
for climatic disturbances, earthquakes, Legionnaires' disease and
violent riots. Puharich wrote Tesla was contacted several times by
extraterrestrials. Two of the most famous of Puharich's 50-plus
patents were devices that assist hearing: the "Means For
Aiding Hearing" U.S. Patent 2,995,633 and "Method And
Apparatus For Improving Neural Performance In Human Subjects By
Electrotherapy" U.S. Patent 3,563,246". He was also
granted a U.S. Patent 4,394,230 in 1983 for a "Method and
Apparatus for Splitting Water Molecules." His research
included studying the influence of extremely low frequency ELF
electromagnetic wave emissions on the mind, and he invented
several devices allegedly blocking or converting ELF waves to
prevent harm. While working in Mexico, Puharich married and later
divorced Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, the future founder and director
of The American Visionary Art Museum, America's official national
museum for outsider art, located in Baltimore, Maryland. A
colorful public figure, she has been called by Stephanie Mansfield
"the P. T. Barnum of the outsider art world". In
December, 1952, Puharich invited Hindu mystic D. G. Vinod to one
of his channeling sessions. During the experiment Vinod went into
a trance and claimed to have contacted a group of entities calling
themselves "The Nine". Puharich was impressed by the
stories about the Dutch psychic Peter Hurkos and invited him to
the U.S. in 1956 to investigate his alleged abilities. Hurkos was
studied at Puharich's Glen Cove, Maine, medical research
laboratory under what Puharich considered to be controlled
conditions. The results convinced Puharich that Hurkos had genuine
psychic abilities. However the experiments were not repeated by
other scientists. Puharich was described as a "credulous
investigator." Raymond Buckland has written "with the
exception of Dr. Andrija Puharich, not a single recognized psychic
investigator has been impressed with Hurkos's performances."
Puharich met Uri Geller in 1971 and endorsed him as a genuine
psychic. Under hypnosis, Geller claimed he was sent to earth by
extraterrestrials from a spaceship 53,000 light years away. Geller
would later deny the space-fantasy claims, but affirmed there "is
a slight possibility that some of my energies do have
extraterrestrial connection." In 1974, Puharich claimed he
had observed Geller transmute base metal into gold by psychic
power. Puharich also stated that Geller teleported a dog through
the walls of his house. Martin Gardner wrote as "no expert on
fraud was there as an observer" then nobody should take the
claim of Puharich seriously. His paranormal claims about Geller
were criticized by the psychologist David Marks. In his biography
of Geller, Uri: A Journal of the Mystery of Uri Geller (1974)
Puharich claimed that with Geller he had communicated with super
intelligent computers from outer space. According to Puharich the
computers sent messages to warn humanity that a disaster is likely
to occur if humans do not change their ways. Puharich claimed that
extraterrestrial beings had communicated to him that Geller was
the chosen savior of humanity and had been given the ability to
contact flying saucers and perform paranormal phenomena such as
psychokinesis, spoon bending, telepathy and teleportation. He also
claimed to have experienced poltergeist phenomena with Geller. The
psychologist Christopher Evans who reviewed the book in the New
Scientist, wrote that although Puharich believed in every word he
had written, the book was credulous and "those fans of
Geller's who might have hoped to have used the book as ammunition
to impress the sceptics. They will be the most disappointed of
all". James Randi has written the biography contained "silly
theories" but was "both a boost and a millstone to
Geller". Puharich is said to have conducted some form of
hypnosis with Greta Woodrew at Lab Nine on his estate in Ossining,
New York. It was through these sessions that Woodrew allegedly
made psychic contact with extraterrestrial beings.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
American Revolutionary War Documentaries DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 1777: The Age Of Enlightenment
(The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The
Atlantic Revolutions: The American Enlightenment: The American
Revolution: The American Revolutionary War: The New York And New
Jersey Campaign: The Battle Of Princeton: -- American General
George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the
Battle of Princeton and drives them back toward New Brunswick.
Washington then established winter quarters at Morristown, New
Jersey. During the long harsh winter, Washington's army shrank to
about a thousand men as enlistments expired and deserters fled;
howver, the victories at Princeton and at Trenton boosted the
morale of the Continental troops, leading many recruits to join
the Continental Army in the spring. General Lord Cornwallis had
left 1,400 British troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel
Charles Mawhood in Princeton. Following a surprise attack at
Trenton early in the morning of December 26, 1776, General George
Washington of the Continental Army decided to attack the British
in New Jersey before entering the winter quarters. On December 30,
he crossed the Delaware River back into New Jersey. His troops
followed on January 3, 1777. Washington advanced to Princeton by a
back road, where he pushed back a smaller British force but had to
retreat before Cornwallis arrived with reinforcements. The battles
of Trenton and Princeton were a boost to the morale of the patriot
cause. After defeating the Hessians at the Battle of Trenton on
the morning of December 26, 1776, Washington withdrew back to
Pennsylvania. He subsequently decided to attack the British forces
before going into winter quarters. On December 29, he led his army
back into Trenton. On the night of January 2, 1777, Washington
repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek.
That night, he evacuated his position, circled around General
Cornwallis' army, and went to attack the British garrison at
Princeton. On January 3, Brigadier General Hugh Mercer of the
Continental Army clashed with two regiments under the command of
Mawhood. Mercer and his troops were overrun, and Mercer was
mortally wounded. Washington sent a brigade of militia under
Brigadier General John Cadwalader to help them. The militia, on
seeing the flight of Mercer's men, also began to flee. Washington
rode up with reinforcements and rallied the fleeing militia. He
then led the attack on Mawhood's troops, driving them back.
Mawhood gave the order to retreat, and most of the troops tried to
flee to Cornwallis in Trenton. In Princeton, Brigadier General
John Sullivan encouraged some British troops who had taken refuge
in Nassau Hall to surrender, ending the battle. After the battle,
Washington moved his army to Morristown, and with their third
defeat in 10 days, the British evacuated Central Jersey. The
battle was the last major action of Washington's winter New Jersey
campaign.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Admiral
Chester Nimitz Documentaries DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 1945: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of
World War II: The Volcano And Ryukyu Islands Campaign: -- Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in
preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in
Japan. Chester William Nimitz, Sr. , American admiral (1885-1966)
was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He played a major role in
the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, U.S.
Pacific Fleet (CinCPac) and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean
Areas (CinCPOA), commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces
during World War II. He signed the Japanese surrender document on
September 2, 1945. Nimitz was the leading US Navy authority on
submarines. Qualified in submarines during his early years, he
later oversaw the conversion of these vessels' propulsion from
gasoline to diesel, and then later was key in acquiring approval
to build the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, USS
Nautilus, whose propulsion system later completely superseded
diesel-powered submarines in the US. He also, beginning in 1917,
was the Navy's leading developer of underway replenishment
techniques, the tool which during the Pacific war would allow the
US fleet to operate away from port almost indefinitely. The chief
of the Navy's Bureau of Navigation in 1939, Nimitz served as Chief
of Naval Operations (CNO) from 1945 until 1947. He was the United
States' last surviving officer who served in the rank of fleet
admiral.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Allied
Codebreakers Of WWI & WWII DVD MP4 Video Download USB Drive
Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 2016: #DOTD: #RIP: David
Balme, Lieutenant Commander of the Royal Navy who led a boarding
party which captured the secrets of Enigma from German U-boat
U-110 during the Battle of Convoy OB138 at midday on May 9, 1941,
a turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic, an operation that
remained secret until his death (b. October 1 1920) #dies on a
Sunday at the age of 95 of undisclosed causes at an undisclosed
location. After torpedoes fired from U-110, commanded by the
U-boat ace Fritz-Julius Lemp, struck two merchant ships in quick
succession. The British corvette Aubretia, commanded by Lieutenant
Commander Vivian Smith, commenced a counter-attack with depth
charges which blew U-110 to the surface. The destroyer Broadway
attempted to ram the surfaced U-boat as the British destroyers
Bulldog and Broadway, as well as corvette Aubretia, opened fire
with their guns. There was panic in U-110 and the crew abandoned
ship: 15 men were killed or drowned including Lemp, and 32
survivors were picked up and hurried below deck in Aubretia. The
action was over in minutes, and when Baker-Cresswell stopped
Bulldog alongside the U-boat he found it wallowing stern-down in
the Atlantic rollers. Balme was ordered to row across in Bulldog's
whaler to "get whatever you can out of her - documents,
books, charts, and get the wireless settings, anything like that".
Jumping on to the U-boat's outer hull he walked, revolver in hand,
to the conning tower, at which point he had to holster his pistol
in order to climb three ladders to the top of the tower and down
again inside the U-boat to the control room. It was, he later
recalled, "a very nasty moment because both my hands were
occupied and I was a sitting target to anyone down below".
Balme was very frightened; he expected the boat to sink, or
scuttling charges to blow up at any moment, or to be overcome by
chlorine from damaged batteries. The inside of the boat was dimly
lit, there was a "nasty" hissing noise, and he could
hear water slopping in the bilges. "I immediately went right
for'd and right aft with my revolver in my hand to see if there
was anybody about," he said later. Noting that despite damage
the U-boat was clean and well-kept and there was food on the
table, but finding no Germans aboard, Balme called down the
boarding party and "started ransacking all the treasures of
the U-boat". In the wireless office, telegraphist Alan Long
found "a funny sort of instrument, Sir, it looks like a
typewriter but when you press the keys something else comes up on
it". Balme recognised this as "some sort of coding
machine", which he ordered to be unscrewed, and he organised
a human chain to carry the machine and other equipment, charts and
documents up the ladders and into the whaler. Balme and Long had
found an Enigma machine, the cipher device which the German U-boat
service used to communicate to its fleet in, as the Germans
thought, an unbreakable code. Besides that day's settings they
also recovered the daily settings until the end of June, which,
when delivered later to Bletchley Park, enabled Alan Turing and
his team to read the German naval "Hydra" code, the
officer-only code, and, with the knowledge and experience gained,
to go on to crack several other codes. Lemp's crew were so
demoralised and ill-disciplined that later in prison camp they
talked freely to their interrogators about U-110 and about other
boats in which they had served. Balme and his men spent six hours
inside U-110, where for some time they were left alone in the
Atlantic, listening to the distant sound of depth charges while
the 3rd Escort Group hunted another U-boat. When Bulldog returned,
Balme passed a towline, and for a day U-110 was pulled towards
Iceland, until about 11.00 on May 10 1941 when the German vessel
reared its bows in the air and sank stern-first. The loss of U-110
enabled the British to throw a cloak of secrecy over the whole
affair, a cloak so dark that even when Captain Stephen Roskill,
the official historian of the Royal Navy, wrote about the capture
in 1959, only those already in the know were able to read between
the lines and would have realised that the secret of the capture
was not the U-boat but the Enigma material which was salvaged from
it. Balme had been told that the truth of his secret capture would
be kept forever, and was surprised when in the 1970s its secrets
began to leak out. Commander Joe Baker-Cresswell, captain of the
destroyer Bulldog Baker-Cresswell and Lieutenant Commander Vivian
Smith of the Aubretia were awarded the DSO, Balme the DSC, and
telegraphis lan Long who discovered the Enigma cypher machine the
DSM, for enterprise and skill in action against enemy submarines.
There were also breaches of security: Baker-Cresswell had told
Balme to bring him back a pair of binoculars. Balme brought back
two, and he used these swastika-stamped Zeiss binoculars in his
yacht for 50 years. He also pinched Lemp's cap from his cabin,
keeping it as a souvenir until he presented it to the Imperial War
Museum in 2003. David Edward Balme was born in Kensington, London,
on October 1 1920, of Huguenot stock. Aged 13, David entered
Dartmouth Naval College in the Anson term of 1934. Balme's naval
career was unusually varied. Pre-war, as a midshipman, he served
in the cruisers London and Shropshire in the Mediterranean during
the Spanish Civil War; he recorded the rising tension in Europe in
his midshipman's journal. When he was re-appointed to the
destroyer Ivanhoe in June 1939 she was on the Palestine Patrol,
preventing illegal immigration into the Holy Land, and when she
was recalled to Britain at the outbreak of war he witnessed the
torpedoing of the carrier Courageous in September. In mid-October
he took part in the Battle of Convoy KJF3 when two U-boats were
sunk. Balme had a very enjoyable few months on his foreshortened
sub-lieutenant's courses in Portsmouth and Greenwich in early 1940
and his next appointment was as sub-lieutenant of the gunroom in
the cruiser Berwick. On November 27 1940 she fought against the
Italian fleet in the Battle of Cape Spartivento, when she was hit
by two 8in shells which knocked out her after turrets, killing
seven men, wounding nine others and igniting a fire which took an
hour to subdue. Then on Christmas Day that year Berwick was off
the Canaries escorting Convoy WS-5A when, despite being hit
several times, she drove off the German heavy cruiser Admiral
Hipper, thus saving a valuable troop convoy bound round the Cape
for the Middle East. When Berwick returned to Plymouth for
repairs, Balme was appointed to Bulldog as her navigator. Bulldog,
he declared, was "a happy little ship and far the best time
that I ever had in the Navy". While in her he took part in
several trans-Atlantic convoys, and in the occupation of Iceland.
Balme's navigational skill led to him being selected as an
observer in the Fleet Air Arm. En route to Egypt in June 1942 he
commanded a party of British gunners on-board the American
merchantman Chant, part of a convoy intended for the relief of
Malta - but was sunk. Rescued from the water, he spent two nights
in an air raid shelter in Malta before flying on to take up his
duty as senior observer of 826 Naval Air Squadron. Balme's Fairey
Albacore bombers perfected the technique of pathfinding - dropping
flares for RAF Wellingtons to bomb. When he left, in February
1943, the Air Officer Commanding sent him a signal of thanks for
the "magnificent work with and for the Wellingtons. There is
no doubt that these night attacks were one of the decisive factors
in crushing the enemy's attack. The successful conclusion of the
land battle may well prove to be a turning point in the war in
Africa." Balme was mentioned in despatches. Next Balme
qualified as fighter direction officer (FDO) and was sent to the
battleship Renown, and when she brought Winston Churchill and his
staff back from the Quebec Conference in September 1943 Balme
studied him closely. Balme also attended the 21st birthday party
of Mary Churchill (later Lady Soames). Almost Balme's last
appointment was as staff FDO in the Eastern Fleet, in the
battleship Queen Elizabeth, when with acting rank he became the
youngest lieutenant commander in the fleet. His service included a
month in the escort carrier Empress directing her aircraft on
photo-reconnaissance missions over Malaya. Post-war Balme joined
the family's wool-broking business. He hunted with the New Forest
Hounds and, as a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron, sailed the
coasts of Western Europe. In 1999 Balme was historical adviser
during the making of the Oscar-winning film U-571, which recast
the capture and boarding of U-110 as an American victory. When the
prime minister at the time, Tony Blair, called this an affront to
British sailors, Balme, the one-time chairman of Lymington
Conservatives, pointed out that it was a great film, that it would
not have been financially viable without being Americanised, that
the credits acknowledged the Royal Navy's role in capturing Enigma
machines and code documents, and that he was glad the story had
been told in tribute to all the men involved. Balme married Susan
im Thurn in 1947. She survived him with their two sons and a
daughter.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Air
Power WWII TV Series With Walter Cronkite DVD, Video Download, USB
Today, January 3, 2026January 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
Reichsbahn: the marshaling yard in the south of the city and the
main railway lines running over Nuremberg.
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Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 1946: #DOTD: William Joyce, an
American-born Anglo-Irish Fascist known during World War II as
"Lord Haw-Haw", who broadcast Nazi propaganda to Britain
from Germany by radio during the Second World War (b. April 24,
1906) #dies by hanging for treason at Wandsworth Prison in London,
the last person to be executed for treason in the United
Kingdom.He is buried in Bohermore Cemetery in Galway, Ireland. He
was convicted of one count of high treason in 1945 and was
therefore sentenced to death. The Court of Appeal and the House of
Lords upheld his conviction. William Brooke Joyce was born on
Herkimer Street in Brooklyn, New York. A member of the British
Union of Fascists from 1932, he fled to Germany at the outset of
the war and took German citizenship in 1940.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: A
Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia WWI Aftermath DVD, MP4, USB
Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 1919: The Aftermath Of World
War I: The Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920) (The Versailles
Peace Conference [1919-1920]): The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement: --
While the victorious Allied Powers meet to set the peace terms for
the defeated Central Powers following the end of World War I, Emir
Faisal I Of Iraq, the third son of King Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi
of the short-lived the Kingdom of Hejaz, signs an agreement with
Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, who had negotiated the 1917 Balfour
Declaration with the British Government that supported the
establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people"
in the former Ottoman region of Palestine, on the development of a
Jewish homeland in Palestine known as the Faisal-Weizmann
Agreement. Together with a letter written by T. E. Lawrence in
Faisal's name sent in March 1919 to Felix Frankfurter, the future
SCOTUS judge who was then Judge Advocate General for the US War
Department and a Zionist advocate to the Paris Peace Conference,
it was one of two documents used by the Zionist delegation at the
Peace Conference to argue that the Zionist plans for Palestine had
prior approval of Arabs. The agreement was presented to Faisal in
his room at the Carlton Hotel on 3 January in English, which
Faisal could not read, and its contents were explained to Faisal
by Lawrence as the sole translator. Faisal signed the document in
the same meeting, without consulting his advisors awaiting him in
a separate room, but added a caveat in Arabic next to his
signature, such that Faisal considered the agreement was
conditional on Palestine being within the area of Arab
independence. The Zionist Organization submitted the Agreement to
the Paris Peace Conference without the caveat. Yoav Gelber,
professor of history at the University of Haifa and former
visiting professor at The University of Texas at Austin, described
the document as "of propaganda value only", since it
quickly became clear that Faisal's conditions would not be met.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: War
Props: The Chance Vought F4U Corsair DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 1944: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of
World War II: The New Guinea Campaign: Air Warfare Of World War
II: -- Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down
in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a
Mitsubishi A6M Zero. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (December
4, 1912: January 11, 1988), American colonel and Medal Of Honor
recipient, was an American combat pilot who was a United States
Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II. He received both the
Medal Of Honor and the Navy Cross. Boyington was initially a US
Marine Corps aviator with the Pacific fleet before being recruited
by the legendary "Flying Tigers" (1st American Volunteer
Group) in the Republic Of China Air Force in Burma at the end of
1941 and part of 1942, during the military conflict between China
and Japan, and the beginning of World War II. In September 1942,
he rejoined the Marine Corps, and in early 1943, he deployed to
the South Pacific and began flying combat missions as a Marine F4U
Corsair fighter pilot. In September 1943, he took command of
Marine fighter squadron VMF-214, known as "The Black Sheep"
squadron. When he was shot down, after downing one of the enemy
planes though he was outnumbered by Japanese "Zero"
fighter planes, he was captured by a Japanese submarine crew and
was held as a prisoner of war for more than a year and a half. He
was released shortly after the surrender of Japan, and a few days
before the official surrender documents were signed. The
television series Baa Baa Black Sheep was inspired by Boyington
and his men in the "Black Sheep" squadron. It ran for
two seasons in the late 1970s.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Universal Newsreels Video Super Mega Set DVD, MP4 Download, USB
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Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 1883: #BOTD: #HBD! Clement
Attlee, English soldier, lawyer, and politician, Prime Minister of
the United Kingdom (d. October 8, 1967) is #born Clement Richard
Attlee in Putney, Surrey (now part of London), into a middle-class
family, the seventh of eight children. Clement Richard Attlee, 1st
Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS was a British Labour politician
who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to
1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. In 1940,
Attlee took Labour into the wartime coalition government and
served under Winston Churchill, becoming the first person to hold
the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He went
on to lead the Labour Party to an unexpected landslide victory at
the 1945 general election; forming the first Labour majority
government, and a mandate to implement its postwar reforms. The
12.0% national swing from the Conservatives to Labour was
unprecedented at that time and remains the largest ever achieved
by any party at a general election in British electoral history.
He was re-elected with a narrow majority at the 1950 general
election. In the following year, Attlee called a snap general
election, hoping to increase his parliamentary majority. However,
he was narrowly defeated by the Conservatives under the leadership
of Winston Churchill, despite winning the most votes of any
political party in any general election in British political
history until the Conservative Party's fourth consecutive victory
in 1992. Attlee remains the longest-ever serving Leader of the
Labour Party. Clement Attlee died peacefully in his sleep of
pneumonia, at the age of 84 at Westminster Hospital. Two thousand
people attended his funeral in November, including the then-Prime
Minister Harold Wilson and the Duke of Kent, representing the
Queen. He was cremated and his ashes were buried at Westminster
Abbey.
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Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 1917: #BOTD: #HBD! Vernon A.
Walters, United States Army general and diplomat, 17th United
States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. February 10, 2002) is
#born in New York City, his father being a British immigrant and
insurance salesman. Vernon Walters most notably served from 1972
to 1976 as Deputy Director and then acting Director of Central
Intelligence under President Richard Nixon, from 1985 to 1989 as
the United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President
Ronald Reagan, and from 1989 to 1991 as Ambassador to the Federal
Republic of Germany under President George H. W. Bush during the
decisive phase of German Reunification. Walters rose to the rank
of lieutenant general in the U.S. Army and is a member of the
Military Intelligence Hall of Fame. Vernon Walters died of natural
causes in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. at the age of 85. He was
buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Victor
Borge: Then And Now DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 1909: #BOTD: #HBD! Victor
Borge, Danish-American comedian, pianist, and conductor who
achieved great popularity in radio and television in the United
States and Europe (d. December 23, 2000) is #born Borge Rosenbaum
in Copenhagen, Denmark, into an Ashkenazi Jewish family. Victor
Borge's mixing of classical music with comedy earned him the
nicknames "The Clown Prince of Denmark," "The
Unmelancholy Dane," and "The Great Dane." His
parents, Bernhard and Frederikke (nee Lichtinger) Rosenbaum, were
both musicians: his father a violist in the Royal Danish
Orchestra, and his mother a pianist. Borge began piano lessons at
the age of two, and it was soon apparent that he was a prodigy. He
gave his first piano recital when he was eight years old, and in
1918 was awarded a full scholarship at the Royal Danish Academy of
Music, studying under Olivo Krause. Later on, he was taught by
Victor Schioler, Liszt's student Frederic Lamond, and Busoni's
pupil Egon Petri. Borge played his first major concert in 1926 at
the Danish Odd Fellow Palaeet (The Odd Fellow's Lodge building)
concert hall. After a few years as a classical concert pianist, he
started his now famous "stand-up" act, with the
signature blend of piano music and jokes. He married the American
Elsie Chilton in 1933; the same year he debuted with his revue
acts. Borge started touring extensively in Europe, where he began
telling anti-Nazi jokes. When the German armed forces occupied
Denmark on April 9 1940, during World War II, Borge was playing a
concert in Sweden and managed to escape to Finland. He traveled to
America on the United States Army transport American Legion, the
last neutral ship to make it out of Petsamo, Finland, and arrived
28 August 1940, with only 20 USD (about 369 USD in 2021), with 3
USD going to the customs fee. Disguised as a sailor, Borge
returned to Denmark once during the occupation to visit his dying
mother. Even though Borge did not speak a word of English upon
arrival, he quickly managed to adapt his jokes to the American
audience, learning English by watching movies. He took the name of
Victor Borge, and in 1941, he started on Rudy Vallee's radio show.
He was hired soon after by Bing Crosby for his Kraft Music Hall
programme. Borge quickly rose to fame, winning Best New Radio
Performer of the Year in 1942. Soon after the award, he was
offered film roles with stars such as Frank Sinatra (in Higher and
Higher). While hosting The Victor Borge Show on NBC beginning in
1946, he developed many of his trademarks, including repeatedly
announcing his intent to play a piece but getting "distracted"
by something or other, making comments about the audience, or
discussing the usefulness of Chopin's "Minute Waltz" as
an egg timer. He would also start out with some well-known
classical piece like Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" and
suddenly move into a harmonically similar pop or jazz tune, such
as Cole Porter's "Night and Day" or "Happy Birthday
to You." Victor Borge died peacefully in his sleep at the age
of 91 in Greenwich, Connecticut, a day after returning from a
concert in Denmark, thereby ending 75 years of entertaining. "It
was just his time to go," Frederikke Borge said. "He's
been missing my mother terribly", who had died only three
months earlier.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 2014: #DOTD: #RIP: Phil
Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Everly
Brothers) (b. January 19, 1939) #dies at Providence Saint Joseph
Medical Center in Burbank, California, on January 3, 2014, 16 days
before his 75th birthday, of lung disease. Phil's widow Patti
blamed her husband's death on his smoking habit, which caused him
to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and recounted
Phil's spending his final years having to carry oxygen tanks with
him wherever he went and taking 20 different types of medications
per day. Phil's last public appearance was in 2011, at Buddy
Holly's induction to Hollywood Boulevard's Star Walk of Fame, and
he was then struggling to catch his breath as he addressed the
crowd. Phil Everly was born Phillip Jason Everly in Brownie,
Muhlenberg County, Kentucky to Isaac Milford "Ike"
Everly, Jr. (1908-1975), a guitar player, and Margaret Embry
Everly (born 1919); actor James Best (born Jules Guy), also from
Muhlenberg County, was the son of Ike's sister. The Everly
Brothers were an American country-influenced rock and roll duo,
known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony
singing. Phillip "Phil" Everly, and his brother Isaac
Donald "Don" Everly were elected to The Rock And Roll
Hall Of Fame in 1986 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: British
Rock: The First Wave DVD, MP4 Video Download. USB Flash Drive
Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 2021: #DOTD: #RIP: Gerry
Marsden, English singer, songwriter, guitarist and television
personality, best known for being leader of the British Merseybeat
band Gerry and the Pacemakers (b. September 24, 1942) #dies of a
blood infection in his heart at Arrowe Park Hospital in
Merseyside, aged 78. Gerard Marsden MBE was born Gerard at 8
Menzies Street, Toxteth, Liverpool, Lancashire, and his interest
in music began at an early age. He remembers standing on top of an
air raid shelter singing "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" and
getting a great reception from onlookers. Gerry and the Pacemakers
was the second group signed by Brian Epstein and remained among
his favourite artists. Their first single was "How Do You Do
It," recommended by George Martin after it was initially
given to the Beatles. This was the first number one hit for the
Pacemakers. It was recorded at Abbey Road Studios and was released
on EMI's Columbia label. Marsden said the recording took four or
five takes. The group's second number one was "I Like It",
followed by "You'll Never Walk Alone". Other singles
included "It's Gonna Be Alright", "I'm the One",
"Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" and "Ferry
Cross the Mersey".
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Roll An Unruly History 10 Part TV Series MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 1943: #BOTD: #HBD! Van Dyke
Parks, American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer,
and former Warner Bros. Records executive whose work encompasses
orchestral pop, elaborate recording experiments, Americana
iconography, free-associative lyrics, and Caribbean sounds, best
known for his 1967 album Song Cycle and his collaborative work
with acts such as the Beach Boys, Lowell George, and Harry
Nilsson, as well as various film and television scores. Born in
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Parks toured nationally with the
American Boychoir School in Princeton, New Jersey and concurrently
pursued child acting roles in television and theater productions.
After relocating to California in 1963, he performed folk music
with his brother Carson along the West Coast and contributed
arrangements to Disney film soundtracks, including "The Bare
Necessities" for The Jungle Book (1967). By the mid-1960s, he
was an active session musician in Laurel Canyon, working with
artists such as Tim Buckley, Judy Collins, and the Byrds before
collaborating with Brian Wilson on the Beach Boys' Smile, later
completed in 2004 as Wilson's solo album. In 1966, Parks joined
Warner Bros. through producer Lenny Waronker, with whom he
collaborated on numerous albums, including those by Harpers
Bizarre, Randy Newman, Arlo Guthrie, and Ry Cooder, and formed
part of a creative circle at the label. One of the most expensive
LPs ever produced at the time, Song Cycle achieved critical
acclaim and influenced the 1970s singer-songwriter movement
despite poor sales. He transitioned to an executive role at Warner
Bros., where he spearheaded the first ever label division centered
on promotional films for artists. Influenced by the 1969 Santa
Barbara oil spill, he also pursued Caribbean musical traditions,
including calypso and steel pan, in projects such as his album
Discover America (1971), productions for Mighty Sparrow and the
Esso Trinidad Steel Band, and Nilsson's mid-1970s recordings.
After the late 1970s, Parks focused on composing for film and
television, contributing to works including Popeye (with Nilsson,
1980), Follow That Bird (1985), and The Brave Little Toaster
(1987). He authored a trilogy of children's books based on his
1984 album Jump!, a musical adaptation of Br'er Rabbit folktales.
He has remained active as a collaborator and arranger, working
with artists such as Rufus Wainwright, Silverchair, and Joanna
Newsom, while releasing three additional studio albums: Tokyo Rose
(1989), Orange Crate Art (with Wilson, 1995), and Songs Cycled
(2013).
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Led
Zeppelin Reunion Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary DVD, MP4, USB
Today, January 3, 2026January 3, 1946: #BOTD: #HBD! John Paul
Jones, English songwriter and record producer who was the bassist
and keyboardist in the rock band Led Zeppelin, is #born John
Richard Baldwin in Sidcup, Kent, England. Prior to forming Led
Zeppelin with Jimmy Page in 1968, he was a session musician and
arranger. After the death of drummer John Bonham in 1980, Led
Zeppelin disbanded, and Jones developed a solo career. He has
collaborated with musicians across a variety of genres, including
Josh Homme and Dave Grohl with the supergroup Them Crooked
Vultures.
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