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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Commercials: The Cable Age Classics Vol. 4 MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, January 12, 2026

January 12: National Hot Tea Day: -- Tea has been in our cups since as far back as the 2nd century B.C. Originating in China, tea has grown to become the second most consumed beverage in the world, after water. This delicious blend of spices energizes, detoxifies, relaxes, and does so much more. Tea has been consumed for almost 5,000 years. In 2737 B.C., during the Tang Dynasty, legend has it that some tea leaves fell into a pot of water that was being boiled for Chinese emperor Shen Nung. He drank the brew and found it delicious and relaxing. In 2016, the earliest known physical evidence of tea was discovered in the mausoleum of Emperor Jing of Han in Xi'an, indicating that tea, from the genus Camellia, was drunk by Han dynasty emperors, as early as the 2nd century B.C. The Han dynasty work, "the Contract for a Youth," written in 59 B.C., contains the first known reference to boiling tea. The first record of tea cultivation is also dated to this period, during which tea was cultivated on Meng Mountain. Tea was first introduced to Western priests and merchants in China during the 16th century. The first recorded shipment of tea by a European nation was in 1607, when the Dutch East India Company moved a cargo of tea from Macao to Java. Tea was sold in a coffee house in London in 1657, Samuel Pepys tasted tea in 1660, and Catherine of Braganza took the tea-drinking habit to the English court when she married Charles II in 1662. Tea smuggling during the 18th century made tea accessible to the public. The British government removed the tax on tea, thereby eliminating the smuggling trade, in 1785. The popularity of tea played a role in historical events - the Tea Act of 1773 provoked the Boston Tea Party that escalated into the American Revolution. By the late 19th century, tea had become an everyday beverage for every social society. The Tea Council of the U.S.A. was founded in 1950, and National Hot Tea Day was created by the council in 2016. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-vol-4-mp4-video-download-d44.html

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Today, January 12, 2026

January 12: Kiss A Ginger Day: -- Red hair has always been unique and striking to all of us. While many redheads are unfortunately subject to jokes and mockery, we all love their fiery tresses, so today's the perfect opportunity to show them our love. At some point, we all wish we had red hair ourselves, but as it occurs in only 2% of the population, we go for hair dyes to get the color. Many believe red hair is and has always been an Irish, British, and European trait, but that isn't the case. Ancient accounts and archaeological discoveries indicate red hair existed in Greece and Asia. Today the trait is most prevalent in north western Europe. Red hair is slowly disappearing around the world, so kiss a ginger while you still can! Vivid reds have always represented power, passion, and high energy, just like lovable redheads around the world. On Kiss A Ginger Day, we express our appreciation for redheads, who pull off the color so well and have a personality to match! So, find your favorite ginger and give them a kiss. In the olden days, red hair had a bad reputation. Associated with witches and the ability to overpower the senses of others, redheads were often shunned from society, or worse. Thankfully, this myth went away with time, and we can't get enough of enchanting redheads today. It is quite trendy to sport red hair today, with more and more people dying their hair in striking hues of red. Even though redheads are no longer considered to be practitioners of witchcraft, a holiday exists that isn't the kindest towards them. To counter it, Kiss A Ginger Day was started by Derek Forgie in 2009 on a Facebook group, and it went viral. The red hair gene requires a duplicate for it to materialize. Even then, there is no guarantee that it will. There is a one in four chance of your child being redheaded if both parents have the gene. Blue-eyed gingers are the rarest, making up only 1% of the world's total population. So really, if you know a redhead or are one, consider yourself lucky. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/teaserama-1955-stripper-film-dvd-tempest-storm-bettie-1955.html

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Today, January 12, 2026

January 11-12, 2026: Sunrise Manhattanhenge occurs, when the rising Sun's disk is visible above the horizon as it lines up with the east-west streets of the main street grid of Manhattan, New York City. Excellent places for viewing Manhattanhenge are 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, and 57th Streets. Manhattanhenge, also jocularly called the Manhattan Solstice, an event during which the setting sun or the rising sun is aligned with the east-west streets of the main street grid of Manhattan, New York City. The sunsets and sunrises each align twice a year, on dates evenly spaced around the summer solstice and winter solstice. The Summer Solstice 2026 Manhattanhenge dates are as follows: On May 29, 2026, Half-Sun Manhattanhenge occurs, when the upper half of the setting Sun's disk is visible above the horizon; On May 30, 2026, Full-Sun Manhattanhenge occurs, when the full setting Sun's disk is visible above the horizon; On July 11, 2026, Full-Sun Manhattanhenge occurs, when the full setting Sun's disk is visible above the horizon; On July 12, 2026, Half-Sun Manhattanhenge occurs, when the upper half of the setting Sun's disk is visible above the horizon. On November 29 -30, 2026, Sunrise Manhattanhenge occurs, when the rising Sund's disk is visible above the horizon; Sunrise Manhattanhenge repeats on January 11-12, 2024. The term Manhattanhenge was coined in 1997 by astrophysicist and native New Yorker Neil deGrasse Tyson of The American Museum of Natural History in their magazine "Natural History". It is a reference to Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument located in Wiltshire, England, which was constructed so that the rising sun, seen from the center of the monument at the time of the summer solstice, aligned with the outer "Heel Stone" of the monument. The precise dates of Manhattanhenge depend on the date of the summer solstice, which varies from year to year, but remains close to June 21. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/new-york-city-history-videos-3-dvd-se3.html

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Today, January 12, 2026

January 12, 1876: #BOTD: #HBD! Jack London, American novelist, journalist and activist (d. November 22, 1916) is #born John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco, California. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers' rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction expose The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen". Jack London died in a sleeping porch in a cottage on his ranch in Glen Ellen, California, aged 40. London had been a robust man but had suffered several serious illnesses, including scurvy in the Klondike. Additionally, during travels on the Snark, he and Charmian picked up unspecified tropical infections and diseases, including yaws, a tropical infection of the skin, bones, and joints. At the time of his death, he suffered from dysentery, late-stage alcoholism, and uremia; he was in extreme pain and taking morphine and opium, both common over-the-counter drugs at the time. London's ashes were buried on his property not far from the Wolf House. London's funeral took place on November 26, 1916, attended only by close friends, relatives, and workers of the property. In accordance with his wishes, he was cremated and buried next to some pioneer children, under a rock that belonged to the Wolf House. After Charmian's death in 1955, she was also cremated and then buried with her husband in the same spot that her husband chose. The grave is marked by a mossy boulder. The buildings and property were later preserved as Jack London State Historic Park, in Glen Ellen, California. Because he was using morphine, many older sources describe London's death as a suicide, and some still do. This conjecture appears to be a rumor, or speculation based on incidents in his fiction writings. His death certificate gives the cause as uremia, following acute renal colic. The biographer Stasz writes, "Following London's death, for a number of reasons, a biographical myth developed in which he has been portrayed as an alcoholic womanizer who committed suicide. Recent scholarship based upon firsthand documents challenges this caricature." Most biographers, including Russ Kingman, now agree he died of uremia aggravated by an accidental morphine overdose. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/lost-soupy-sales-tv-shows-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Frontiers Of Flight Aviation History TV Series DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, January 12, 2026

January 12, 1879: #BOTD: #HBD! Calbraith Perry Rodgers, American aviation pioneer who made the first transcontinental airplane flight across the U.S. from September 17, 1911 to November 5, 1911, with dozens of stops both intentional and accidental (d. April 3, 1912) is #born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Calbraith Perry Rodgers and Maria Chambers Rodgers. Among his ancestors, Rodgers had Commodores John Rodgers, who was his paternal grandfather, Oliver Hazard Perry, his maternal great-grandfather, and Matthew Calbraith Perry, his great-grand uncle. He was also a cousin to John Rodgers, a naval aviation pioneer known for setting the record of longest non-stop flight by seaplane of 1992 miles (3206 km) on an attempt to fly from San Francisco to Honolulu in 1925. Calbraith Perry Rodgers's transcontinental feat made him a national celebrity, but he was killed in a crash a few months later at an exhibition in California. He began his transcontental fight by taking off from Sheepshead Bay, New York, on September 17. 1911 and flew a distance of 3,417 miles. The feat made him a national celebrity, but he was killed in a crash a few months later at an exhibition in California, close to where he had landed during his transatlantic flight. In 1885, Rodgers contracted scarlet fever, which left him deaf in one ear and hearing impaired in the other, which effectively barred him from following the family tradition of naval service. He received his education first at home and then at the Mercersburg Academy. In 1902, Rodgers joined his mother and sister in New York City. He became a member of the New York Yacht Club, and besides boating he rode motorcycles and drove cars. In 1906 he married Mabel Avis Graves; they had no children. The Rodgers resided in Havre de Grace, Maryland. In June 1911, Rodgers visited his cousin John, a naval aviator, who since March was studying at the Wright Company factory and attending flying school in Dayton, Ohio. Rodgers became interested in aviation. He received 90 minutes of flying lessons from Orville Wright, and purchased a Wright Flyer with John. On August 7, 1911, he took his official flying examination at Huffman Prairie and became the 49th aviator licensed to fly by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. He was one of the first civilians to purchase an airplane. Instead of flying home, Rodgers entered the 1911 Chicago International Aviation Meet, where he competed with the leading aviators of the time. He set several records, including the duration record, and won 11,285 USD in prize money. On October 10, 1910, publisher William Randolph Hearst offered the Hearst prize, 50K USD to the first aviator to fly coast to coast, in either direction, in less than 30 days from start to finish. Rodgers persuaded J. Ogden Armour, of Armour and Company, to sponsor the flight, and in return he named the plane, a Wright Model EX, after Armour's grape soft drink Vin Fiz. A special train of three cars, including sleeper, diner, and shop-on-wheels full of spare parts, was assembled to follow Rodgers, who planned to fly above the railroad tracks. Rodgers left from Sheepshead Bay, New York, on September 17, 1911, at 4:30 pm. He reached Chicago, the only required stop, on October 8, 1911. His arrival to Chicago attracted national attention. To avoid the Rocky Mountains, he took a southerly route, flying through the Midwest until reaching Texas. He turned west after passing San Antonio. On November 5, 1911, he landed at Tournament Park in Pasadena, California, at 4:04 pm in front of 20,000 people, missing the prize deadline by 19 days. He left Pasadena on November 12, but crashed at Compton. After the Vin Fiz was repaired, on December 10, 1911, he reached Long Beach, California, flew over the Pacific, landed on a beach and taxied the plane into the Pacific Ocean. About 50,000 people came to witness the completion of the first transcontinental east-west flight. Rodgers had carried the first transcontinental U.S. Mail pouch. The trip required 70 stops and endured countless crashes and aircraft malfunctions. Rodgers paid 70 USD a week to the Wright brothers' technician, Charlie Taylor, who followed the Vin Fiz by train and performed necessary maintenance or repairs. On April 3, 1912, while making an exhibition flight over Long Beach, California, he flew into a flock of birds, causing the plane to crash into the ocean. His neck was broken and his thorax damaged by the engine of the airplane. He died a few moments later, a few hundred feet from where the Vin Fiz ended its transcontinental flight. The aircraft in this last flight was the spare Model B he had carried in the special train during the transcontinental flight, rather than the Vin Fiz. The Vin Fiz itself was later given to the Smithsonian Institution by Calbraith's widow, Mabel Rodgers, and is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum. According to contemporary records, his was the 127th airplane fatality since aviation began, and he was the 22nd American aviator to die in an accident. He was also the first pilot who fatally crashed as a result of a bird strike. Rodgers is interred at Allegheny Cemetery in his hometown of Pittsburgh. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/frontiers-of-flight-aviation-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-download-us4.html

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Today, January 12, 2026

January 12, 1893: #BOTD: Hermann Goering (German: Hermann Goring), German commander, pilot, and politician, Minister President of Prussia, war criminal (d. October 15, 1946) is #born Hermann Wilhelm Goering at the Marienbad Sanatorium in Rosenheim, Bavaria. Hermann Goering was a German political and military leader as well as one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party (NSDAP) that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. A veteran World War I fighter pilot ace, he was a recipient of the Pour le Merite. He was the last commander of Jagdgeschwader 1, the fighter wing once led by Manfred von Richthofen. An early member of the Nazi Party, Goering was among those wounded in Adolf Hitler' failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. While receiving treatment for his injuries, he developed an addiction to morphine which persisted until the end of his life. After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Goering was named as Minister Without Portfolio in the new government. One of his first acts as a cabinet minister was to oversee the creation of the Gestapo, which he ceded to Heinrich Himmler in 1934. Following the establishment of the Nazi state, Goering amassed power and political capital to become the second most powerful man in Germany. In 1935, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe (air force), a position he held until the final days of the regime. Upon being named Plenipotentiary of the Four Year Plan in 1936, Goering was entrusted with the task of mobilizing all sectors of the economy for war, an assignment which brought numerous government agencies under his control and helped him become one of the wealthiest men in the country. After the Fall of France in 1940, he was bestowed the specially created rank of Reichsmarschall, which gave him seniority over all officers in Germany' armed forces. By 1941, Goering was at the peak of his power and influence, and Hitler designated him as his successor and deputy in all his offices. As the Second World War progressed, Goering' standing with Hitler and with the German public declined after the Luftwaffe proved incapable of preventing the Allied bombing of German cities and resupplying surrounded German forces in Stalingrad. Around that time, Goering increasingly withdrew from the military and political scene to devote his attention to collecting property and artwork, much of which was taken from Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Informed on 22 April 1945 that Hitler intended to commit suicide, Goering sent a telegram to Hitler requesting permission to assume control of the Reich. Considering it an act of treason, Hitler removed Goering from all his positions, expelled him from the party, and ordered his arrest. After the war, Goering was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to death by hanging, but he committed suicide by ingesting cyanide in his Nuremberg prison cell on October 15, 1946, the night before the sentence was to be carried out. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/henchmen-of-the-third-reich-dvd-goering-goebbels-hess.html

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Today, January 12, 2026

January 12, 1907: #BOTD: #HBD! Sergei Korolev, Russian colonel and engineer, lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s, considered by many as the father of practical astronautics (d. January 14, 1966) is #born Sergei Pavlovich Korolev in Zhytomyr, the capital of Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire. Sergei Korolev was involved in the development of the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1, and launching Laika and the first human being into space. Although Korolev trained as an aircraft designer, his greatest strengths proved to be in design integration, organization and strategic planning. Arrested on a false official charge as a "member of an anti-Soviet counter-revolutionary organization" (which would later be reduced to "saboteur of military technology"), he was imprisoned in 1938 for almost six years, including some months in a Kolyma labour camp. Following his release he became a recognized rocket designer and a key figure in the development of the Soviet Intercontinental ballistic missile program. He later directed the Soviet space program and was made a Member of Soviet Academy of Sciences, overseeing the early successes of the Sputnik and Vostok projects including the first human Earth orbit mission by Yuri Alexeyvich Gagarin on April 12, 1961. Sergei Korolev died in circumstances that remain uncertain. In December 1965, he was supposedly diagnosed with a bleeding polyp in his large intestine. He entered the hospital on January 5, 1966 for somewhat routine surgery, but died nine days later. It was stated by the government that he had what turned out to be a large, cancerous tumor in his abdomen, but Soviet rocket engineer Valentin Glushko later reported that he actually died due to a poorly performed operation for hemorrhoids. Another version states that the operation was going well and no one was predicting any complications. Suddenly, during the operation, Korolev started to bleed. Doctors tried to provide intubation to allow him to breathe freely, but his jaws, injured during his time in a Gulag, had not healed properly and impeded the installation of the breathing tube. Korolev died without regaining consciousness. According to Harford, Korolev's family confirmed the cancer story. His weak heart contributed to his death during surgery. Under a policy initiated by Stalin and continued by his successors, the identity of Korolev was not revealed until after his death. The purported reason was to protect him from foreign agents from the United States. As a result, the Soviet people didn't become aware of his accomplishments until after his death. His obituary was published in the Pravda newspaper on January 16, 1966, showing a photograph of Korolev with all his medals. Korolev's ashes were interred with state honors in the Kremlin Wall. Korolev' unexpected death implementation of his plans for a Soviet manned Moon landing before the United States 1969 mission. Before his death he was officially identified only as Glavny Konstruktor, or the Chief Designer, to protect him from possible cold war assassination attempts by the United States. Even some of the cosmonauts who worked with him were unaware of his last name; he only went by Chief Designer. Only following his death in 1966 was his identity revealed and he received the appropriate public recognition as the driving force behind Soviet accomplishments in space exploration during and following the International Geophysical Year. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/russian-right-stuff-dvd-set-space-program-secret-history-2-disc2.html

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Today, January 12, 2026

January 12, 1916: The European Civil War: World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World War I): The Western Front Of World War I: Aviation: Military Aviation: Air Warfare Of World War I: Awards And Decorations: Military Awards And Decorations: Awards And Decorations For Gallantry Of The German Armed Forces: Awards And Decorations Of The German Empire: The Pour Le Merite (French: "For Merit) (The Blue Max (German: Der Blauer Max): -- Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, in recognition of their achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, each receive the German Empires' highest military ward, the Pour le Merite as the first German aviators to earn it. The two of them are responsible for forming the primary tactics and maneuvers of aerial combat theory and practice still in use today, most especially the Dicta Boelcke which formalized the general principles of fighter tactics, and the Immelmann Turn used to disengage from a dogfight and reposition for another attack. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/top-gun-and-beyond-dvd-1988-fighter-aircraft-combat-capabi1988.html

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Today, January 12, 2026

January 12, 1916: The European Civil War: World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World War I): The Western Front Of World War I: Aviation: Military Aviation: Air Warfare Of World War I: Awards And Decorations: Military Awards And Decorations: Awards And Decorations For Gallantry Of The German Armed Forces: Awards And Decorations Of The German Empire: The Pour Le Merite (French: "For Merit) (The Blue Max (German: Der Blauer Max): -- Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, in recognition of their achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, each receive the German Empires' highest military ward, the Pour le Merite as the first German aviators to earn it. The two of them are responsible for forming the primary tactics and maneuvers of aerial combat theory and practice still in use today, most especially the Dicta Boelcke which formalized the general principles of fighter tactics, and the Immelmann Turn used to disengage from a dogfight and reposition for another attack. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/world-war-1-robert-ryan-4-dual-layer-dvds-26-episode-tv-se1426.html

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Today, January 12, 2026

January 12, 1920: #BOTD: #HBD! James Farmer, African American activist and politician, co-founder of The Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE) (d. July 9, 1999) is #born James Leonard Farmer Jr. in Marshall, Texas. James Farmer was a civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement "who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King Jr." He was the initiator and organizer of the 1961 Freedom Ride, which eventually led to the desegregation of interstate transportation in the United States. In 1942, Farmer co-founded the Committee of Racial Equality in Chicago with George Houser and Bernice Fisher. It was later called the Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE), and was dedicated to ending racial segregation in the United States through nonviolence. Farmer served as the national chairman from 1942 to 1944. He was an honorary vice chairman in the Democratic Socialists of America. By the 1960s, Farmer was known as "one of the Big Four civil rights leaders in the 1960s, together with King, NAACP chief Roy Wilkins and Urban League head Whitney Young.". He was one of the "Big Six", which refer to the chairmen, presidents, and leaders of six prominent civil rights organizations active during the height of the Civil Rights Movement who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 (Big Six members: Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hoover-vs-the-kennedys-the-second-civil-war-tv-series-mp4-download-dv4.html

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Today, January 12, 2026

January 12, 1923: #BOTD: #HBD! Ira Hayes, Pima Native American and United States Marine who was one of the six flag raisers immortalized in the iconic photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima during World War II (d. January 24, 1955) is #born Ira Hamilton Hayes in Sacaton, Arizona, a town in the Gila River Indian Community in Pinal County. Ira Hayes was an enrolled member of the Gila River Pima Indian Reservation (1859) located in the Pinal and Maricopa counties in Arizona. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve on August 26, 1942 and, after recruit training, volunteered to become a Paramarine. He fought in the Bougainville and Iwo Jima campaigns in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. On February 23, 1945, he helped to raise an American flag over Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, an event photographed by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press. Hayes and the other five flag-raisers became national heroes as a result. In 1946, he was instrumental in revealing the true identity of one of the other pictured Marines, who was killed in action on Iwo Jima. However, Hayes was never comfortable with his fame, and after his service in the Marine Corps, he descended into alcoholism. He died of exposure to cold and alcohol poisoning after a night of drinking on January 23-24, 1955. He was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery on February 2, 1955. Hayes was often commemorated in art and film, before and after his death. In 1949, he portrayed himself raising the flag in the motion picture movie, Sands of Iwo Jima. A giant Marine figure of Hayes raising the flag on Iwo Jima with the other five participants is included on the 1954 Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. He was the subject of an article by journalist William Bradford Huie, which was adapted for the feature film The Outsider (1961), starring Tony Curtis as Hayes. The movie inspired songwriter Peter La Farge to write "The Ballad of Ira Hayes," which became popular nationwide in 1964 after being recorded by Johnny Cash. In 2006, Hayes was portrayed by Adam Beach in the World War II movie Flags Of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-outsider-1961-dvd-tony-curtis-as-ira-hayes-iwo-jima-1961.html

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Today, January 12, 2026

January 12, 1926: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Premieres: Theatre Premieres: Radio Premieres: American Radio Premieres: -- Sam 'n' Henry, recreated as Amos 'n' Andy two years later, premieres on radio station WGN in Chicago. Amos 'n' Andy was an American radio and television sitcom set in Harlem, Manhattan's historic urban community. Running until 1960, was created, written and voiced by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who played Amos Jones (Gosden) and Andrew Hogg Brown (Correll), as well as incidental characters. Gosden and Correll proposed a series about "a couple of colored characters", which, borrowed certain elements from a prior radio show, The Gumps, based on the famous cartoon strip. That show, Sam 'n' Henry, fascinated radio listeners throughout the Midwest. It became so popular that in 1927 Gosden and Correll requested that it be distributed to other stations on phonograph records in a "chainless chain" concept that would have been the first radio syndication. WGN rejected the proposal, and Gosden and Correll quit the show and the station. WMAQ, the Chicago Daily News station, hired Gosden and Correll and their former WGN announcer, Bill Hay, to create a new series similar to Sam 'n' Henry, offering higher salaries and the right to syndicate the show. The name of the characters Amos and Andy after whom the new show was named was the result of Gosden and Correl hearing two elderly African Americans greet each other by those names in a Chicago elevator. Amos 'n' Andy began on March 19, 1928 on WMAQ, aired from pre-recorded 78-rpm discs manufactured by Marsh Laboratories, operated by electrical recording pioneer Orlando R. Marsh. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/amos-39n39-andy-radio-mp3-dvd-complete-broad39393.html

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Today, January 12, 2026

January 12, 1928: #BOTD: #HBD! Ruth Brown, nicknamed "The Queen Of R & B", African American rock & roll pioneer, singer, songwriter and actress (d. November 17, 2006) is #born Ruth Alston Weston in Portsmouth, Virginia. Ruth Brown is the singer responsible for bringing pop music style to Rhythm and Blues music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes" and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean". For these contributions, Atlantic became known as "The House That Ruth Built", alluding to the popular nickname for the old Yankee Stadium. Following a resurgence that began in the mid-1970s and peaked in the 1980s, Brown used her influence to press for musicians' rights regarding royalties and contracts; these efforts led to the founding of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. Her performances in the Broadway musical Black and Blue earned Brown a Tony Award, and the original cast recording won a Grammy Award. Ruth Brown died in a Las Vegas area hospital aged 78 from complications following a heart attack and stroke she suffered after surgery in the previous month. A memorial concert for her was held on January 22, 2007, at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York. She is buried at Roosevelt Memorial Park, Chesapeake City, Virginia. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/that-rhythm-those-blues-dvd-american-black-rampb-music-history.html

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Today, January 12, 2026

January 12, 1932: First Women: -- Hattie Wyatt Caraway, Democrat from Arkansas, is appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill the term of her deceased husband. Later in the year, she became the first woman elected to serve a full term as a United States Senator. Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway (February 1, 1878 - December 21, 1950) was also the first woman to preside over the Senate. She won reelection to a full term in 1932 with the active support of fellow Senator Huey Long of the neighboring state of Louisiana. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/women39s-suffrage-amp-the-women39s-movement-dvd-mp4-usb-39394.html

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Today, January 12, 2026

January 12, 1944: #BOTD: #HBD! Joe Frazier, nicknamed "Smokin' Joe", African American professional boxer who competed from 1965 to 1981, widely regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time, he was known for his strength, durability, formidable left hand, and relentless pressure fighting style, and for being the first boxer to defeat Muhammad Ali (d. November 7, 2011) is #born Joseph William Frazier in Beaufort, South Carolina, the twelfth child of Dolly Alston-Frazier and Rubin. Frazier held the NYSAC heavyweight title from 1968 to 1973 and the undisputed heavyweight champion from 1970 to 1973 and as an amateur won a gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Frazier emerged as the top contender in the late 1960s, becoming undisputed heavyweight champion in 1970. In 1971, he defeated Ali by unanimous decision in the highly anticipated Fight of the Century. Two years later, Frazier lost his title to George Foreman. Frazier's last world title challenge came in 1975, but he was beaten by Ali in the brutal rubber match, the Thrilla in Manila. Frazier retired in 1976 after a second loss to Foreman but made a comeback in 1981, before retiring for good with a record of 32 wins, 4 losses, and 1 draw. The International Boxing Research Organization rates Frazier among the ten greatest heavyweights of all time. The Ring magazine named him Fighter of the Year in 1967, 1970, and 1971, and the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) named him Fighter of the Year in 1969, 1971, and 1975. In 1999, The Ring ranked him the eighth greatest heavyweight. He is an inductee of both the International Boxing Hall of Fame and the World Boxing Hall of Fame, having been a part of the inaugural induction class of 1990 for the IBHF. His style was often compared with that of Henry Armstrong and occasionally Rocky Marciano and was dependent on bobbing, weaving, and relentless pressure to wear down his opponents. His best-known punch was a powerful left hook, which accounted for most of his knockouts. In his career, he lost to only two fighters, both former Olympic and world heavyweight champions: twice to Muhammad Ali and twice to George Foreman. Frazier continued to train fighters in his gym in Philadelphia. His attitude towards Ali in later life was largely characterized by bitterness and contempt but was interspersed with brief reconciliations. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/muhammad-ali--dvd-2-discs-documentaries-and-entire-fight2.html

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January 12, 1954: #BOTD: #HBD! Howard Stern, American broadcaster and media personality, best known for his radio show, The Howard Stern Show, which gained popularity when it was nationally syndicated on terrestrial radio from 1986 to 2005, then on Sirius XM Radio since 2006, is #born Howard Allan Stern, the second child of Ben (1923-2022) and Ray (nee Schiffman) Stern (b. 1927), in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens in New York City. Stern's parents are Jewish, and their families are from Poland and Austria-Hungary. Stern landed his first radio jobs while at Boston University. From 1976 to 1982, he developed his on-air personality through morning positions at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, New York; WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut; WWWW in Detroit, Michigan; and WWDC in Washington, D.C. He worked afternoons at WNBC in New York City from 1982 until his firing in 1985. In 1985, he began a 20-year run at WXRK in New York City; his morning show entered syndication in 1986 and aired in 60 markets and attracted 20 million listeners at its peak. In recent years, Stern's photography has been featured in Hamptons and WHIRL magazines. From 2012 to 2015, he served as a judge on America's Got Talent. Stern has won numerous industry awards, including Billboard's Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year eight consecutive times, and he is the first to have the number one morning show in New York City and Los Angeles simultaneously. He became the most fined radio host when the Federal Communications Commission issued fines totaling 2.5M USD to station owners for content it deemed indecent. Stern became one of the highest-paid radio figures after signing a five-year deal with Sirius in 2004 worth 500M USD. Stern has described himself as the "King of All Media" since 1992 for his successes outside radio. He hosted and produced numerous late-night television shows, pay-per-view events, and home videos. Two of his books, Private Parts (1993) and Miss America (1995), entered The New York Times Best Seller list at number one and sold over one million copies. The former was made into a biographical comedy film in 1997 that had Stern and his radio show staff star as themselves. It topped the US box office in its opening week and grossed 41.2M USD domestically. Stern performs on its soundtrack, which charted the Billboard 200 at number one and was certified platinum for one million copies sold. Stern's third book, Howard Stern Comes Again, was released in 2019. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hioftarawila.html

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January 12, 1971: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Premieres: Television Premieres: United States Television Premieres: -- All In The Family, a groundbreaking American sitcom television series, premieres on the CBS television network. It went on to run for nine seasons, from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979. The following September, it was continued with the spin-off series Archie Bunker's Place, which picked up where All in the Family had ended and ran for four more seasons through 1983. Based on the British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part, All in the Family was produced by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin. It starred Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers, and Rob Reiner. The show revolves around the life of a working-class father and his family. The show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for a U.S. network television comedy, such as racism, antisemitism, infidelity, homosexuality, women's liberation, rape, religion, miscarriages, abortion, breast cancer, the Vietnam War, menopause, and impotence. Through depicting these controversial issues, the series became arguably one of television's most influential comedic programs, as it injected the sitcom format with more dramatic moments and realistic, topical conflicts. All in the Family is often regarded in the United States as one of the greatest television series in history. Following a lackluster first season, the show soon became the most watched show in the United States during summer reruns and afterwards ranked number one in the yearly Nielsen ratings from 1971 to 1976. It became the first television series to reach the milestone of having topped the Nielsen ratings for five consecutive years. The episode "Sammy's Visit" was ranked number 13 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time ranked All in the Family as number four. Bravo also named the show's protagonist, Archie Bunker, TV's greatest character of all time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked All in the Family the fourth-best written TV series ever. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/television-1988-tv-documentary-series-8-shows-4-dual-laye198884.html

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January 12, 1991: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1985-1991) (The End Of The Cold War): The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union: The Revolutions Of 1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations, The Fall Of Communism): The Eastern Bloc (The Communist Bloc, The Socialist Bloc, The Soviet Bloc): Baltic States Under Soviet Rule: The Singing Revolution: Act Of The Re-Establishment Of The State Of Lithuania: The January Events: -- The January Events in Lithuania (Lithuanian: Sausio Ivykiai) (January 11-13, 1991), the aftermath of the Act Of The Re-Establishment Of The State Of Lithuania, enters its second day on a Saturday; during an overnight session of the Supreme Council, Speaker Landsbergis announced that he had tried to call Gorbachev three times, but was unsuccessful. Deputy Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union, General Vladislav Achalov, arrived in Lithuania and took control of all military operations. People from all over Lithuania started to encircle the main strategic buildings: the Supreme Council, the Radio and Television Committee, the Vilnius TV Tower and the main telephone exchange. At 00:30, Soviet military units seized the base of the Lithuanian SSR Special Purpose Detachment of Police (OMON) in a suburb of Vilnius; 04:30: Soviet military units unsuccessfully tried to seize the Police Academy building in Vilnius; 11:20: Armed Soviet soldiers attacked a border-line post near Varena; 14:00 - A Soviet military truck collided with a civilian vehicle in Kaunas. One person died and three were hospitalized with serious injuries. Vilnius residents carried food to passengers in stalled trucks on strike; 22:00: A column of Soviet military vehicles was spotted leaving a military base in Vilnius and moving towards the city centre. Employees of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania instructed special worker groups (druzhinas) to be ready "for special events"; 23:00 - An unknown group of individuals, who claimed to be part of the National Salvation Committee, declared at the Supreme Council that it is their duty to take over Lithuania to avoid an economic meltdown and a fratricidal war. ========= The January Events began the day prior on a Friday morning, January 11, 1991, centered in its capital, Vilnius, along with related actions in its suburbs and in the cities of Alytus, Siauliai, Varena, and Kaunas, when Chairman of the Parliament Vytautas Landsbergis and Prime Minister Albertas Simenas were presented with an ultimatum from the so-called "Democratic Congress Of Lithuania" (Soviet loyalists) demanding that they comply with Gorbachev's request that the constitution of the USSR in Lithuania be restored by 15:00 that day. At 11:50, Soviet military units seized the National Defence Department building in Vilnius; at 12:00, Soviet military units surrounded and seized the Press House building in Vilnius. Soldiers used live ammunition against civilians and several people were hospitalized, some with bullet wounds; 12:15: Soviet paratroopers seized the regional building of the National Defence Department in Alytus; 12:30: Soviet military units seized the regional building of the National Defence Department in Siauliai. 15:00: In a press conference held in the building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania, the head of the Ideological Division Juozas Jermalavicius announces the creation of the "National Salvation Committee of Lithuanian SSR" and that from now on it will be the only legitimate government in Lithuania; 16:40: Minister of Foreign Affairs Algirdas Saudargas sens a diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union in which he expresses his concerns about Soviet army violence in Lithuania; 21:00: Soviet military units seize a TV re-transmission center in Nemencine; and 23:00: Soviet military units seize the dispatcher's office of the Vilnius railway station. Railway traffic is disrupted but restored several hours later. ========= On the final day, January 13, 1991, Another column of military vehicles (including tanks and BMPs) was spotted leaving the military base and heading toward the TV tower at 00:00; at 01:25, upon arrival in the vicinity of the TV tower, tanks start to fire blank rounds; 01:50: Tanks and soldiers encircle the TV tower. Soldiers fire live ammunition overhead and into civilian crowds gathered around the building. Tanks drive straight through lines of people. Fourteen people are killed in the attack, most of them shot and two crushed by tanks. One Soviet Alfa Group member (Viktor Shatskikh) is killed by friendly fire. Loudspeakers on several BMPs transmit the voice of Juozas Jermalavicius: "Broliai lietuviai, nacionalistu ir separatistu vyriausybe, kuri priespastate save liaudziai, nuversta. Eikite pas savo tevus, vaikus!" ("Brother Lithuanians! The nationalist and separatist government, which confronted the people has been overthrown! Go [home] to your parents and children!"); 02:00: BMPs and tanks surround the Radio and Television Committee building. Soldiers fire live ammunition into the building, over the heads of the civilian crowds. The live television broadcast was hosted by Egle Bucelyte and later terminated. The last pictures transmitted are of a Soviet soldier running toward the camera and switching it off; 02:30: A small TV studio from Kaunas came on air unexpectedly. A technician of the family program that usually broadcast from Kaunas once a week was on the air, calling for anyone who could help to broadcast to the world in as many different languages as possible about the Soviet army and tanks killing unarmed people in Lithuania. Within an hour, the studio was filled with several university professors broadcasting in several languages. 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Despite columns of military trucks, BMPs and tanks moving into the vicinity of the Supreme Council, Soviet military forces retreated instead of attacking. Among the members of the barricade were two basketball players who would later play for the Lithuanian national team, Gintaras Einikis and Alvydas Pazdrazdis. Immediately after the attacks, the Lithuanian Supreme Council issued a letter to the people of the Soviet Union and to the rest of the world denouncing the attacks and calling for foreign governments to recognise that the Soviet Union had committed an act of aggression against a sovereign nation. Following the first news reports from Lithuania, the government of Norway appealed to the United Nations. The government of Poland expressed their solidarity with the people of Lithuania and denounced the actions of the Soviet army. 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January 12, 1991: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1985-1991) (The End Of The Cold War): The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War, Gulf War I): The Invasion Of Kuwait: Operation Desert Shield: -- U.S. Congress passes a joint resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq and Kuwait. The votes were 52-47 in the U.S. Senate and 250-183 in the House of Representatives. These were the closest margins in authorizing force by the U.S. Congress since the War Of 1812. The Gulf War (August 2, 1990 - February 28, 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (August 2, 1990 - January 17, 1991) for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia, and Operation Desert Storm (January 17, 1991 - February 28, 1991) in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. The war is also known under other names, such as the Persian Gulf War, First Gulf War, Gulf War I, Kuwait War, First Iraq War or Iraq War, before the term "Iraq War" became identified instead with the 2003 Iraq War. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/to-the-brink-of-war-the-looming-gulf-war-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

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January 12: The Feast Of Fabulous Wild Men Day: -- We've all got that amazingly wild guy in our company who deserves a treat, and today is the day to give it to him! From mythological wild men to European forest men to the hottest males we know, we celebrate the wildest of them all, with all kinds of feasts. The history of Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day is blurry. This doesn't stop us from celebrating amazing men who fascinate us in every way possible. 'Wildmen' initially referred to ancient mythological figures; men of strange shapes, sizes, and behaviors. The legends originated from medieval Europe, often depicted as hairy men. They were also called 'woodwose,' a medieval term for wild men. Wild men are also recognized in other languages like German, French and Italian; each having a specific term for the word 'wild man.' There are also wild women. They are called 'Lamia' or 'Holzmoia.' An example is Maia, a Greco Roman earth goddess, also known as the goddess of fertility. The first historian to describe mythical wild men is Herodotus, who placed them in Western Libya, with headless men, and creatures with dog faces. There are many European wild men now, each with his place of origin and function. They are present at festivals or celebratory periods and are believed to have some power. These wild men are dressed in costumes, mostly hairy hideous ones. Nowadays, with the reduced belief in myths, we describe wild men as daring and adventurous men who would stop at nothing to get what they want, no matter what it costs. These amazing men inspire us to take life by its horns and ride it the way we want. Their strength of character and untamed determination, as well as their good looks, earn them a holiday, which we are glad to celebrate. https://store.earthstation1.com/primal-man-4-part-tv-series-on-human-evolution-amp-modern-behavio4.html

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January 12: National Youth Day (India): January 12, 1863: #BOTD: #HBD! Swami Vivekananda, Indian Hindu monk, philosopher and nationalist (d. July 4, 1902) is #born Narendranath Datta (shortened to Narendra or Naren) into an aristocratic Bengali Kayastha family at his ancestral home at 3 Gourmohan Mukherjee Street in Calcutta during the Makar Sankranti festival, a festival day in the Hindu calendar dedicated to the Sun deity Surya; Vivekananda is regarded as a patriotic Indian saint, and in 1984 the Government of India designated his birthday as National Youth Day to be observed annually beginning in 1985. The historical caste occupation of Kayasthas throughout India has been that of scribes and administrators; the Kayasthas in Bengal also became the region's surrogate Kshatriya or warrior class and, along with Brahmins are regarded as the highest of Hindu castes that comprise the upper layer of Hindu society. He was a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world, and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. He was a major force in the revival of Hinduism in India, and contributed to the concept of Indian nationalism as a tool to fight against the British empire in colonial India. Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission. He is perhaps best known for his speech which began with the words "Sisters and brothers of America ...," in which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893. In his youth, Vivekananda was inclined towards spirituality. He was influenced by his guru, Ramakrishna, to believe that all living beings were an embodiment of the divine self, and that therefore, service to God could be rendered by service to humankind. After Ramakrishna's death, Vivekananda toured the Indian subcontinent extensively and acquired first-hand knowledge of the prevailing conditions in British India. He later travelled to the United States, representing India at the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions. Vivekananda conducted hundreds of public and private lectures and classes, disseminating tenets of Hindu philosophy in the United States, England and Europe. Swami died aged 39 after he awoke early, went to the monastery at Belur Math and meditated for three hours. He taught Shukla-Yajur-Veda, Sanskrit grammar and the philosophy of yoga to pupils, later discussing with colleagues a planned Vedic college in the Ramakrishna Math. At 7:00 pm Vivekananda went to his room, asking not to be disturbed; he died at 9:20 p.m. while meditating. According to his disciples, Vivekananda attained mahasamadhi; the rupture of a blood vessel in his brain was reported as a possible cause of death. His disciples believed that the rupture was due to his brahmarandhra (an opening in the crown of his head) being pierced when he attained mahasamadhi. Vivekananda fulfilled his prophecy that he would not live forty years. He was cremated on a sandalwood funeral pyre on the on the banks of river Ganges (Ganga) in Belur Math, Kolkatta (Calcutta), opposite where Ramakrishna was cremated sixteen years earlier. A fine temple has been erected there. The location of the internment of his ashes are a mystery. They may be located at the temple of Belur Math, or they may be located at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, a popular tourist attraction built in 1970 in Kanyakumari, India's southernmost tip, which stands on one of the two rocks located about 500 meters off mainland of Vavathurai, Tamil Nadu, where it he is said to have attained enlightenment; his ashes may be at either or both locations, or at other sites as well;, or not interred at all. #NationalYouthDay #SwamiVivekananda #HinduSaints #Hindus #Monks #Philosophers #Nationalists #IndianNationalsits #Kayasthas #Ramakrishna #India #IndianHistory #HistoryOfIndia #ModernIndia #ModernIndianHistory #HistoryOfIndia #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD (Sell Legacy With Michael Wood World History TV Series ) https://store.earthstation1.com/legacy-with-michael-wood-world-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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January 12: Work Harder Day: -- A day for people to do what its name suggests; work harder. In everything we hope to achieve success in, we do one thing; work hard. And when we want to achieve that success faster, we put in more effort and push ourselves to the limits. Staying longer than usual at work offers a chance to work harder. But do you know that working longer and harder aren't synonymous? While working longer makes you look diligent, working harder actually makes you successful. The earliest indication of the celebration of Work Harder Day dates back to 2016. However, while the holiday hasn't been long in the making, the idea behind it has centuries of history. From businesspersons, sportspersons, inventors, and even politicians, hard work has always played a significant role in their success. It is symbolic of the history of all those great individuals. And not just any type of hard work, but the one that pushes them to the limits. History will never forget Thomas Edison and his thousands of inventions. In the 1800s, Edison's teachers described him as a dullard. However, he didn't allow that to weigh him down, and with hard work and perseverance, he became one of the greatest inventors of all time. The later 1900s witnessed Michael Jordan's brilliance in basketball. His longtime coach, Phil Jackson, once wrote that it was hard work that made Jordan a legend. He also wrote that Jordan's unique characteristic wasn't his talent, but knowing he had to constantly work hard to be the best. The Williams' daughters - Serena and Venus, worked extraordinarily hard to write both their names in gold. A report showed the duo's lives were almost all about tennis. Together, they dominated tennis for over a decade, combinedly winning the title of Best Female Tennis Player a whopping 13 times between 2001 and 2021! Howard Schultz is another typical example of an entrepreneur who worked harder than usual. He was so determined to be successful that while being the C.E.O. of Starbucks in the 1980s, he stayed longer at work and even went to the office on Sundays to read emails from his employees. Mark Cuban once wrote on his blog that it took him an incredible amount of work to benefit from his luck. https://store.earthstation1.com/american-business-films-1910s1960s-3-dual-laye191019603.html

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January 12, 1991: #DOTD: #RIP: Keye Luke (Cantonese: Luk Shek Kee), Chinese-born American film and television actor, technical advisor and artist, founding member of the Screen Actors Guild (b. June 18, 1904) #dies of a stroke in Whittier, California at the age of 86. He is buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California. Keye Luke was born Luk Shek Kee in Guangzhou, Qing Empire (China). He was known for playing Lee Chan, the "Number One Son" in the Charlie Chan films, the original Kato in the 1939-1941 Green Hornet film serials, Brak in the 1960s Space Ghost cartoons, Master Po in the television series Kung Fu, and Mr. Wing in the Gremlins films. He was the first Chinese-American contract player signed by RKO, Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was one of the most prominent Asian actors of American cinema in the mid-20th century. https://store.earthstation1.com/7-disc-green-hornet-dvd-and-mp3-movie-and-radio-discount-s73.html

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January 12, 1991: #DOTD: #RIP: Keye Luke (Cantonese: Luk Shek Kee), Chinese-born American film and television actor, technical advisor and artist, founding member of the Screen Actors Guild (b. June 18, 1904) #dies of a stroke in Whittier, California at the age of 86. He is buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California. Keye Luke was born Luk Shek Kee in Guangzhou, Qing Empire (China). He was known for playing Lee Chan, the "Number One Son" in the Charlie Chan films, the original Kato in the 1939-1941 Green Hornet film serials, Brak in the 1960s Space Ghost cartoons, Master Po in the television series Kung Fu, and Mr. Wing in the Gremlins films. He was the first Chinese-American contract player signed by RKO, Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was one of the most prominent Asian actors of American cinema in the mid-20th century. https://store.earthstation1.com/7-disc-green-hornet-dvd-and-mp3-movie-and-radio-discount-s73.html

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January 12, 1991: #DOTD: #RIP: Keye Luke (Cantonese: Luk Shek Kee), Chinese-born American film and television actor, technical advisor and artist, founding member of the Screen Actors Guild (b. June 18, 1904) #dies of a stroke in Whittier, California at the age of 86. He is buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California. Keye Luke was born Luk Shek Kee in Guangzhou, Qing Empire (China). He was known for playing Lee Chan, the "Number One Son" in the Charlie Chan films, the original Kato in the 1939-1941 Green Hornet film serials, Brak in the 1960s Space Ghost cartoons, Master Po in the television series Kung Fu, and Mr. Wing in the Gremlins films. He was the first Chinese-American contract player signed by RKO, Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was one of the most prominent Asian actors of American cinema in the mid-20th century. https://store.earthstation1.com/black-stars-in-orbit-the-black-astronauts-of-nasa-mp4-download-or-dvd.html

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January 12, 1917: First Publications: -- The first issue of the Yidishe Folkshtime ("Yiddish People's Voice") is published in Stockholm, January 12, 1917. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-shlemiel-the-shlemazl-amp-the-doppess-yiddish-dvd-mp4-usbht4.html

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January 12, 1986: Rocket Launches: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: Space Programs Of The United States: Human Spaceflight Programs: The Space Shuttle Program (The Space Transportation System (STS)): Space Shuttle Mission STS-61-C -- Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) is launched at 11:55:00 UTC from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), the last shuttle mission before the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster which occurred just ten days after STS-61-C's landing. STS-61-C was the 24th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the seventh mission of Space Shuttle Columbia. It was the first time that Columbia, the first space-rated Space Shuttle orbiter to be constructed, had flown since STS-9 three years prior. The mission landed six days later on January 18. STS-61-C's distinguished seven-person crew included the second African American shuttle pilot, future NASA Administrator Charles Bolden; congressman (and future NASA Administrator) Bill Nelson, the second sitting politician to fly in space, as payload specialist; and the first Costa Rican-born astronaut, Franklin Chang-Diaz. https://store.earthstation1.com/we-remember-the-space-shuttle-pioneers-198119811986.html

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January 12, 2001: #DOTD: Vladimir Semichastny, Soviet politician, Chairman of the KGB from November 1961 to May 1967 (b. January 15, 1924) #dies in Moscow of a stroke at the age of 77. He is buried at Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow. He was born Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny in the village of Hryhorivka, near Grishino (today Pokrovsk), in the Donetsk Oblast (later renamed Stalino Oblast) of what was then Soviet Ukraine to a working-class Russian family originally from Tula Province in European Russia. He was a protege of Chairman of the KGB Alexander Shelepin, and he rose through the ranks of the Communist Youth League (Komsomol). Semichastny was surprised when Khrushchev informed him of his appointment as KGB Chairman, commenting that he did not have any experience in intelligence and counterintelligence; Khrushchev, however, told him that the KGB needed, above all, a deft political hand. Semichastny's first decision as KGB Chairman, on November 22, 1961, (after nine days in office) was to approve the creation of a "sabotage and terrorism" group (as the KGB itself called it) within the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua; the Sandinistas would eventually manage to seize power in that country in 1979. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Semichastny was responsible for coordinating all information received from abroad. His chosen crisis team oversaw intelligence from the Foreign Ministry, the GRU (Military Intelligence) and, of course, the KGB. The team met every day in his office at KGB Headquarters in Lubyanka Square. During his tenure Semichasnty attempted to create a new, more positive public image for the KGB, permitting an article to appear in the newspaper Izvestia that included an interview with an unnamed "senior KGB officer" (himself); he stated "many young Communist Party and Communist Youth League workers have joined the KGB, and none of the people who, during the time of Joseph Stalin's cult of personality, took part in the repressions against innocent Soviet people, is now in the Service." More articles, books and films on the security organs appeared, and Soviet spies became heroes in print and cinema - Rudolf Abel, Gordon Lonsdale, Harold (Kim) Philby, and Richard Sorge. Semichastny and his mentor Shelepin participated in the successful coup against Khrushchev in October 1964, an act that undoubtedly led to his being initially retained as KGB chief by the new, more hard-line Soviet leadership. There are some indications that Leonid Brezhnev, who led the coup against Khrushchev, wanted to assassinate him, but Semichastny, while participating in the ouster of Khrushchev, categorically refused to allow any bloodshed. Semichastny was in fact the one who informed Khrushchev of his removal from power, "by order of the Politburo"; as Khrushchev was returning to Moscow from a holiday at the Black Sea, Semichastny waited for him at the airport flanked by KGB security guards, informed him of his ouster and told him not to resist. Khrushchev did not resist, and the hardliners' coup went off smoothly; Khrushchev felt betrayed by Semichastny, as he considered him a friend and ally until that very moment, not suspecting that he had joined his enemies within the Party. In March 1967, Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defected to the USA - an embarrassment for the Soviet Union, but not a security threat of any kind, yet Semichastny ordered the KGB to kidnap her and bring her back. The attempt failed, and led to the exposure of several KGB agents, who were arrested. The blunder gave Shelepin's enemies a pretext to sack Semichastny. Shelepin was able to protect him for a few weeks. but in May, he was hospitalised for eight days after an operation, and in his absence, on May 18 1967, the Politburo held a ten-minute discussion in which they decided to appoint Yuri Andropov, who was ten years older than Semichastny, as his replacement. Shelepin was removed from positions of influence soon afterwards. From 1967 until 1981 Semichastny was a Deputy Prime Minister of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, although he did not have any significant influence in the political affairs of the Republic, which was tightly controlled by Brezhnevites. In 1981 he was removed from that position as well, and retired to private life. After U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Semichastny investigated the background of Lee Harvey Oswald, who was arrested for the murder and was himself shot dead. Oswald had spent some time in the Soviet Union but, according to Semichastny's investigations, had never worked for any Soviet intelligence agency; Semichastny's verdict, that there was definitely "something fishy" in the whole affair, is shared by many. Markus Wolf, the intelligence chief of East Germany (the STASI), who worked closely with Semichastny, said of him "He was as kind and friendly as might be expected from a former leader of the Komsomol, the party's youth wing. Though affable, Semichastny was a sharp-minded, ideologically severe man. Semichastny's personal obsession was the pollution of the system from within by Soviet artists and writers; it was he who masterminded the vilification of Boris Pasternak and his novel Dr. Zhivago. He had little interest in foreign intelligence, which he left to Aleksandr Sakharovsky, who was highly respected by many members of his staff, as well as by me". https://store.earthstation1.com/who-was-lee-harvey-oswald-3-part-documentary-series-mp4-download-d34.html

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Today, January 12, 2026
January 12, 1991: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War, Gulf War I): The Invasion Of Kuwait: Operation Desert Shield: -- United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets Saddam Hussein in Baghdad but does not reach an agreement with the Government of Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. The Gulf War (August 2, 1990 - February 28, 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (August 2, 1990 - January 17, 1991) for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia, and Operation Desert Storm (January 17, 1991 - February 28, 1991) in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. The war is also known under other names, such as the Persian Gulf War, First Gulf War, Gulf War I, Kuwait War, First Iraq War or Iraq War, before the term "Iraq War" became identified instead with the 2003 Iraq War. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-weapons-of-desert-shield-persian-gulf-war-i-dvd-mp4-download-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: A Line In The Sand: War Or Peace? DVD MP4 Download USB Flash Drive
Today, January 12, 2026
January 12, 1991: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War, Gulf War I): The Invasion Of Kuwait: Operation Desert Shield: -- Soviet President Gorbachev's special envoy to Iraq Yevgeny Primakov meets with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad to discuss the increasing probability of a Coalition Invasion Of Kuwait. The Gulf War (August 2, 1990 - February 28, 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (August 2, 1990 - January 17, 1991) for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia, and Operation Desert Storm (January 17, 1991 - February 28, 1991) in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. The war is also known under other names, such as the Persian Gulf War, First Gulf War, Gulf War I, Kuwait War, First Iraq War or Iraq War, before the term "Iraq War" became identified instead with the 2003 Iraq War. https://store.earthstation1.com/a-line-in-the-sand-war-or-peace-dvd-mp4-download-usb-flash-driv4.html

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Today, January 12, 2026
January 12, 1960: #DOTD: #RIP: Nevil Shute, English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia, famously lampooned as Neville Shunt in the popular Monty Python sketch "It all Happened on the 11.20 from Hainault to Redhill via Horsham and Reigate, calling at Carshalton Beeches, Malmesbury, Tooting Bec and Croydon West" (b. January 17, 1899) #dies of a stroke in Melbourne, Australia, aged 60. His remains were cremated; the details of the final disposition of his ashes are undiclosed other than that they were scattered. He was born Nevil Chute Norway in Somerset Road, Ealing (which was then in Middlesex), England. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from inferences by his employers (Vickers) or fellow engineers that he was not a serious person or from potential negative publicity in connection with his novels: 1) On the Beach, a nuclear war novel which was adapted into the 1959 Academy Award nominated film starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins, and 2) A Town Like Alice, a romance novel adapted into the 1956 film starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch, and also into the popular 1981 television miniseries shown as part of the PBS series Masterpiece Theatre. https://store.earthstation1.com/parrot-sketch-not-included-very-best-of-monty-python-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, January 12, 2026
January 12, 1905: #BOTD: #HBD! Tex Ritter, pioneer of American country music, a popular singer and actor from the mid-1930s into the 1960s (d. January 2, 1974) is #born Woodward Maurice Ritter in Murvaul, Texas. Tex Ritter was the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John, grandsons Jason and Tyler, and granddaughter Carly). He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Tex Ritter died in Nashville, Tennessee aged 68 of what was diagnosed as a heart attack; Tex Ritter's son John died at the age of 54 of an aortic dissection, and because John was initially diagnosed as having a heart attack, and because aortic dissection is known to run in families, the family now believes that Tex died of an aortic dissection rather than a heart attack. He is buried at Oak Bluff Memorial Park in Port Neches, Texas. https://store.earthstation1.com/complete-lux-radio-theatre-2-dual-layer-mp3-dvds-cecil-b-demil23.html

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Today, January 12, 2026
January 12, 2003: #DOTD: #RIP: Maurice Gibb, Manx-English singer, songwriter and record producer who achieved fame as a member of the Bee Gees (b. December 22, 1949) #dies suddenly at age 53 at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Florida, following surgery for a twisted intestine, which caused him to go into cardiac arrest. His wife and children were with him when he died. His remains were cremated, and his ashes were made into 4 purple diamonds and were given to his widow Yvonne, his mother Barbara Gibb, his brother Barry and his twin brother Robin. When Robin passed, his diamond was placed inside his coffin. In 2002, the Bee Gees were appointed as CBEs for their "contribution to music"; following Gibb's death in 2003, his son collected his award at Buckingham Palace in 2004. Maurice Gibb was born Maurice Ernest Gibb in Jane Crookall Maternity Home in Douglas, Isle of Man, to Hugh and Barbara Gibb. Maurice Gibb's earliest musical influences included the Everly Brothers, Cliff Richard, and Paul Anka; the Mills Brothers and the Beatles were significant later influences. Gibb started his music career in 1955 in Manchester, England, joining the skiffle-rock and roll group The Rattlesnakes, which later evolved into the Bee Gees in 1958 when they moved to Australia. They returned to England, where they achieved worldwide fame. Although his elder brother Barry Gibb and fraternal twin brother Robin Gibb were the group's main lead singers, most of their albums included at least one or two songs featuring Maurice's lead vocals, including "Lay It on Me", "Country Woman" and "On Time". The Bee Gees were one of the most successful rock-pop groups of all time. During the Bee Gees' temporary break-up in 1969-1970, Maurice released his first solo single, "Railroad", but his first solo album, The Loner, has never been released. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-golden-age-of-rock-39n39-roll-dvd-complete-tv-series-5-39395.html

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Today, January 12, 2026
January 12, 1979: #DOTD: #RIP: Donny Hathaway, African American soul singer, keyboardist, songwriter, backing vocalist and arranger (b. October 1, 1945) #dies, having jumped from his 15th-floor room in New York City's Essex House hotel. Hathaway's funeral was conducted by the Reverend Jesse Jackson. He is buried at Lake Charles Park Cemetery in Bel-Nor, Missouri. Donny Hathaway was born Donny Edward Hathaway in Chicago, Illinois. His most popular songs include "The Ghetto", "This Christmas", "Someday We'll All Be Free", and "Little Ghetto Boy". Hathaway is also renowned for his renditions of "A Song for You", "For All We Know", and "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know", along with "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of many collaborations with Roberta Flack. He has been inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame and won one Grammy Award from four nominations. Hathaway was also posthumously honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. During the peak of his career, Hathaway was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Duriing sessions for another album of duets with Roberta Flack, he began behaving irrationally, and his producers ended the session. Hours later, Hathaway was found dead. https://store.earthstation1.com/dj-radio-airchecks-mp3-dvd-1950s60s70s-dis319506070.html

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Today, January 12, 2026
January 12, 2023: #DOTD: #RIP: Robbie Bachman, Canadian drummer and the youngest brother of guitarist, singer and songwriter Randy Bachman. founding member and original drummer for both the Brave Belt and is successor Bachman-Turner Overdrive bands, most often credited as "Robbie" or "Rob" on the liner notes of Brave Belt and BTO albums (b. February 18, 1953) #dies aged 69 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His remains were cremated, and the ashes were given to his widow Chrissy. His brother Tim died 106 days later. Robbie Bachman was #born Robin Peter Kendall Bachman in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. While growing up, Bachman practised the drums at home, often playing along with his older brother Randy. In 1971, Randy offered the Brave Belt drumming job to his then-18-year-old brother, and Robbie accepted. Other members of Brave Belt were Chad Allan and Fred Turner. Robbie co-wrote the song "Summer Soldier" for the 1972 Brave Belt II album. Later in 1972, another Bachman brother, Tim, joined Brave Belt after the departure of Allan. When Brave Belt changed their name to Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) in 1973, Robbie was credited with designing the BTO "gear" logo. BTO enjoyed a period of peak popularity between 1973 and 1976, releasing five Top 40 albums, six U.S. Top 40 singles, and eleven Top 40 singles in Canada. Robbie co-wrote (with Fred Turner) one of Bachman-Turner Overdrive's biggest hits, "Roll On down the Highway" (Billboard No. 14 and RPM No. 4 in 1975). He remained with BTO until late 1979, after their tour supporting the 1979 album Rock n' Roll Nights had ended. In 1984, Robbie declined to join a reformation of BTO due to licensing issues with brother Randy. He also opposed Randy's decision to include Tim Bachman as the second guitarist, instead of Blair Thornton. He was replaced on that 1984 album and supporting tours by former Guess Who drummer Garry Peterson. Robbie later rejoined the Not Fragile line up of BTO for reunion tours lasting from 1988 until 1991, after which Randy Bachman left the band. Robbie and the rest of the group, with replacement guitarist/vocalist Randy Murray, toured as BTO until the end of 2004. The only new material to come from this line-up is found on the 1996 album Trial By Fire: Greatest & Latest. In 2009, Fred Turner and Randy Bachman reunited and began recording a new album, which was released in September 2010 under the name "Bachman & Turner" to coincide with a world tour. Robin Bachman and Blair Thornton had brought a lawsuit against Randy Bachman in an effort to prevent him and Turner from touring under the Bachman-Turner Overdrive or BTO name.On March 29, 2014, Robbie and the Not Fragile line-up of Bachman-Turner Overdrive were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Bachman was the youngest brother of musician Randy Bachman, and was the uncle to Tal Bachman. https://store.earthstation1.com/dj-radio-airchecks-mp3-dvd-1950s60s70s-dis319506070.html

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Today, January 12, 2026
January 12, 1976: #DOTD: #RIP: Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple (b. September 15, 1890) #dies peacefully at age 85 from natural causes at her home at Winterbrook House in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England. Upon her death, two West End theatres - the St. Martin's, where The Mousetrap was playing, and the Savoy, which was home to a revival of Murder At The Vicarage - dimmed their outside lights in her honour. She is buried in the nearby churchyard of St Mary's, Cholsey, Oxfordshire in a plot she had chosen with her husband 10 years previously. The simple funeral service was attended by about 20 newspaper and TV reporters, some having travelled from as far away as South America. Thirty wreaths adorned Christie's grave, including one from the cast of her long-running play The Mousetrap and one sent "on behalf of the multitude of grateful readers" by the Ulverscroft Large Print Book Publishers. Her husband Max Mallowan, prominent British archaeologist and academic who specialized in the Ancient Near East and who remarried in 1977, died in 1978 and was buried next to Christie. Agatha Christie was born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller into a wealthy upper middle class family in Torquay, Devon. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE also wrote the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End since 1952, as well as six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies. Christie was largely home-schooled. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed in 1920 when The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring detective Hercule Poirot, was published. Her first husband was Archibald Christie; they married in 1914 and had one child before divorcing in 1928. During both World Wars, she served in hospital dispensaries, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the poisons that featured in many of her novels, short stories, and plays. Following her marriage to archaeologist Max Mallowan in 1930, she spent several months each year on digs in the Middle East and used her first-hand knowledge of this profession in her fiction. According to UNESCO's Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author. Her novel And Then There Were None is one of the top-selling books of all time, with approximately 100 million copies sold. Christie's stage play The Mousetrap holds the world record for the longest initial run. It opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End on 25 November 1952, and by September 2018 there had been more than 27,500 performances. The play was temporarily closed in March 2020 because of COVID-19 lockdowns in London before it reopened in May 2021. In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. Later that year, Witness for the Prosecution received an Edgar Award for best play. In 2013, she was voted the best crime writer and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd the best crime novel ever by 600 professional novelists of the Crime Writers' Association. In September 2015, And Then There Were None was named the "World's Favourite Christie" in a vote sponsored by the author's estate. Many of Christie's books and short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video games, and graphic novels. More than 30 feature films are based on her work. https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-ii-dvd.html

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Today, January 12, 2026
January 12, 1999: #DOTD: #RIP: Betty Lou Gerson, American actress, predominantly active in radio but also in film and television and as a voice actress (b. April 20, 1914) #dies from a stroke in Los Angeles, California at the age of 84. She was born into a Jewish family in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but raised in Birmingham, Alabama, where her father was an executive with a steel company. She was educated in private schools in Birmingham and Miami, Florida. At age 16, she moved with her family to Chicago, where she performed in the radio serial The First Nighter Program. She later moved to New York City. She is best known as the original voice of Cruella de Vil from the Disney animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) for which she was named a Disney Legend in 1996. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-red-menace-1949-communist-red-scare-propaganda-film1949.html

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Today, January 12, 2026
January 12, 2022: #DOTD: #RIP: Ronnie Spector, African American singer, songwriter, cultural icon and beauty who fronted the girl group the Ronettes with her older sister Estelle Bennett and their cousin Nedra Talley (b. August 10, 1943) #dies at her home in Danbury, Connecticuit after a short battle with cancer, aged 78. She was born Veronica Yvette Bennett in East Harlem, New York City, and grew up in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. Together with her sister and cousin, they had a string of hits during the early to mid-1960s, such as "Be My Baby", "Baby, I Love You", and "The Best Part of Breakin' Up". Subsequently, Spector launched a solo career and has since released five studio albums (Siren in 1980, Unfinished Business in 1987, Something's Gonna Happen in 2003, Last of the Rock Stars in 2006, and English Heart in 2016) and one extended play (She Talks to Rainbows in 1999). In 1986, Spector experienced a career resurgence when she was featured on Eddie Money's Grammy nominated pop rock song "Take Me Home Tonight" which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100. She has sung and collaborated with multiple other acts. Spector is called the original "bad girl of rock and roll". In 2007, Spector was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Ronettes. https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-amp-roll-an-unruly-history-10-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-104.html

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Today, January 12, 2026
January 12, 1929: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Grand Finales: Theatre Grand Finales: Musical Grand Finales: United States Musical Grand Finales: Broadway Grand Finales: -- Diamond Lil, Mae West's first successful Broadway play, starring herself as Diamond Lil, completes its Broadway run on a Saturday night at the Royale Theatre (named as of 2023 The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre), New York City after 323 performances since it premiered there on April 9, 1928. Diamond Lil is a 1928 play by American actress and playwright Mae West. Prior to Diamond Lil, she had written a number of plays that were closed down due to either poor ticket sales or censorship issues with the establishments of the time, despite the fact that many high-ranking officials attended these plays. Diamond Lil, about a racy woman in the 1890s, was her first major Broadway success, and was the basis for her character Lady Lou in her 1933 film She Done Him Wrong. Both West and the play were the final performers at the Nixon Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before the theater was closed for a skyscraper development on April 29, 1950. https://store.earthstation1.com/clive-james39-fame-in-the-20th-century-tv-series-dvd-set-mp4-usb-39204.html