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January 15: National Strawberry Ice Cream Day: -- An annual celebration of one of the choicest flavors of ice cream! (All flavors of ice cream are recognized on July 1st). Strawberry ice cream is made by blending either strawberries or strawberry flavoring with eggs, cream, vanilla, and sugar. Food coloring is often used to give it the pink or light red hue. During James Madison's second inauguration in 1813, strawberry ice cream was served. It's also one of the three flavors found in Neapolitan ice cream along with vanilla and chocolate. In the lore of UFOs, as recounted in such books as "Exempt from Disclosure" by Robert M. Collins, it is said that aliens such as J-Rod from the Zeta Reticuli system have a particular taste for strawberry ice cream - which proves that this delicious treat is out of this world! Other variations of strawberry ice cream include strawberry cheesecake ice cream and strawberry ripple ice cream. Holidays are best celebrated with someone else, so be sure to grab a bowl or two. Invite someone to join you while you enjoy a dish of strawberry ice cream. Strawberries tend to remind us of summer, too, so imagine the things you'll do when the days are warmer - and use #StrawberryIceCreamDay to post on social media! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/ufo-mp3s-tv-radio-and-audio-recordings-mp3-33.html

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January 15: National Hat Day: -- Get out your favorite hat (we know, sometimes it can be really hard to decide) and celebrate! Hats have been worn as uniforms, fashion accessories, and protective gear. And did you know that they date all the way back to before 3,300 BCE? That's right, that's older than both your parents combined! Though there aren't any official records of hats before 3,000 BCE, it is believed that they were commonplace long before that. The 30,000 year old Venus of Willendorf figurine may depict a woman wearing a woven hat. One of the earliest known confirmed hats was worn by a bronze-aged man nicknamed Otzi, whose body was found frozen in a mountain between Austria and Italy, where he had been since around 3250 BCE. He was discovered wearing a bearskin cap with a chinstrap made of several hides stitched together, resembling a Russian fur hat. In the Middle Ages, hats were a marker of social status and used to single out certain groups. The 1215 Fourth Council of the Lateran required that all Jewish people identify themselves by wearing the "Judenhat", marking themselves as targets for anti-Semitism. On the other hand, hats for women ranged from simple scarves to elaborate hennin, and acted as a symbol of social status. Structured hats for women similar to those of male courtiers began to be worn in the late 16th century. In the first half of the 19th century, women wore bonnets that gradually became larger, decorated with ribbons, flowers, feathers, and gauze trims. By the end of the century, many other styles were introduced, such as hats with wide brims and flat crowns, the flower pot and the toque. In the middle of the 1920s, when women began to cut their hair short, they chose hats that hugged their head like a helmet. These were the cloche hats, whose low brim made it so women had to walk with their chins up, creating an air of independence and self-reliance. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/legendary-cowboys-of-the-american-wild-west-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

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Today, January 15, 2026

January 15> Alpha Kappa Alpha Day: -- Today celebrates the first black female sorority, which has the honor of housing many great black women in the U.S. While it has its competition, its members are quite exceptional. Did you know that Kamala Harris - the first black woman to occupy the office of Vice President in the U.S., is an A.K.A. sister? Well, don't you think this sorority deserves a day to be celebrated? We absolutely do! Every year since the early 20th century, January 15 has been celebrated as Alpha Kappa Alpha Day. The history of the day's celebration follows the history of the creation of the sorority. For over a century, this day has been consecutively celebrated. Created on January 15, 1908, at Howard University, A.K.A. was a product of a black woman's dream of a support network where fellow female black college students would find the necessary support they needed to live and study successfully in a complex, unfair, and racist college system. Ethel Hedgeman's search for liberation for her fellow black college colleagues at Howard University produced the first black female Greek-letter sorority. While other female sororities existed before then, and many others sprang up after, A.K.A. has a rich history that is quite unmatched by others. On the one hand, it was the first sorority that black female college students around the U.S. related to. On the other hand, it holds a record-breaking history. It presently has an approximate membership of over 300,000 across the U.S. and other countries. Some of the many notable alumni of A.K.A. include the famous black poet - Maya Angelou, who in 1969, published "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings;" Coretta Scott-King, the wife of the 20th-century activist Martin Luther King Jr.; Katherine G. Johnson, Phylicia Rashad, Rosa Parks, and many others. In 2021, A.K.A. became the only female Greek-letter sorority to produce a Vice President. Kamala Harris holds the position of the only woman to occupy the second-highest seat possible in the White House. These and many other achievements from the sisters of A.K.A. make the sorority widely acknowledged, not only in the U.S. but also in South Africa, Canada, Japan, Germany, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Liberia, Nigeria, and others. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/eyes-on-the-prize-ii-dvd-set-4-discs-complete-2nd-seri42.html

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January 15, 1535: The History Of Christianity: The Reformation (The Protestant Reformation, The European Reformation): Acts Of Supremacy: The First Act Of Supremacy: The English Reformation: -- Henry VIII issues a decree making him Supreme Head Of The Church Of England, following on the 1534 Act Of Supremacy that had replaced the pope with King Henry VIII and his successors as the head of the Christian church in England. His decree announced to his subjects that he was "the only supreme head on earth of the Church of England" and that the English crown shall enjoy "all honours, dignities, preeminences, jurisdictions, privileges, authorities, immunities, profits, and commodities to the said dignity." This event itself marked the beginning of the English Reformation and was to be followed soon after by the Dissolution of the Monasteries, between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland. The reasons for the act - and the subsequent execution of those who opposed him - were both personal and overtly political. Foremost was Henry's desire to abandon Rome, and to reject Catholic church's opposition to his proposed divorce from Catherine Of Aragon. His then wife had failed to produce a son and heir and Henry had also fallen under the charms of Anne Boleyn, believing Catherine's inability to provide a male heir as a sign that the marriage was 'blighted in the eyes of God'. The Act Of Supremacy came into being following Pope Clement VII's refusal to grant Henry VIII an annulment. The pope was fearful of the reaction of Catherine's nephew, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who sacked Rome in 1527 and the pope wanted to avoid clashing with him. Henry therefore seized his chance to wrest power away from Rome and into his own hands, taking property of the monasteries and exploiting his right to rule the Church of England, which saw him excommunicated by the Catholic church. It was a remarkable change of attitude for someone who had been declared "Defender of the Faith" as recently as 1521 by Pope Leo X for his The Defence of the Seven Sacraments, which accused Protestant reformer Martin Luther of heresy - a title that Parliament would later again confer upon the king in 1544. To ensure the stability of The Supremacy Act, The Treasons Act was passed in 1534 which stipulated that to disavow the Act Of Supremacy and to deprive the King of his "dignity, title, or name" was treason. One of the most famous people to suffer the consequences of this was Sir Thomas More, Henry's Lord Chancellor, who paid for his refusal to outwardly support he king's marriage to Anne Boleyn with his life in 1535. He was sentenced to death in front of a jury which consisted of many of Anne's relatives. Today, this same legislation is the legal authority of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom over the Church of England. While Henry's Act Of Supremacy was repealed in 1554 by his Catholic daughter, Queen Mary I, it was reinstated by Mary's Protestant half-sister, Queen Elizabeth I, when she ascended to the throne. Elizabeth declared herself Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and introduced an Oath of Supremacy, requiring anyone taking public or church office to swear allegiance to the monarch as head of the church. This Second Act Of Supremacy in 1558 established once and for all the Anglican Church's presence in England which has endured for almost five centuries. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/triumph-of-the-west-tv-series-5-dual-layer-dvds-all-13-sh513.html

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January 15, 1759: Grand Openings: Museum Grand Openings: -- The British Museum opens. Located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, it is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture. Its permanent collection, numbering some 8 million works, is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759, in Montagu House, on the site of the current building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of expanding British colonization and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum of Natural History in South Kensington in 1881 (it is nowadays simply called the Natural History Museum, and is separate and independent). In 1973, the British Library Act 1972 detached the library department from the British Museum, but it continued to host the now separated British Library in the same Reading Room and building as the museum until 1997. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all other national museums in the United Kingdom it charges no admission fee, except for loan exhibitions. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-portland-vase-dvd-greatest-glass-artifact-of-antiquity.html

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Today, January 15, 2026

January 13-15, 1865: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Second Battle Of Fort Fisher: -- Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy. The Second Battle of Fort Fisher was a successful assault by the Union Army, Navy and Marine Corps against Fort Fisher, south of Wilmington, North Carolina, near the end of the American Civil War during January 13-15, 1865. Sometimes referred to as the "Gibraltar of the South" and the last major coastal stronghold of the Confederacy, Fort Fisher had tremendous strategic value during the war, providing a port for blockade runners supplying the Army of Northern Virginia. Major General Alfred Terry led the Union Army attack, and he sent one division of United States Colored Troops under Maj. Gen.Charles J. Paine to hold off Major General Robert Hoke's Confederate division on the Federal Point peninsula, which was located at an advantaged location upon Cape Fear's New Inlet. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-divided-union-american-civil-war-tv-series-3-dual-layer-dvd3.html

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Today, January 15, 2026

January 15, 1870: Comics: Cartoons: Political Cartoons (Editorial Cartoons): -- Thomas Nast popularizes the use of a donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party in America in his political cartoon that appeared in Harper's Weekly, criticizing former secretary of war Edwin Stanton with the caption, "A Live Jackass Kicking A Dead Lion.". He was not the first to use a donkey as a symbol of the Democratic Party; the 1837 political caricature "The Modern Balaam And His Ass", which uses the Biblical story of Balaam (from the book of Numbers) to satirize the end of the Andrew Jackson presidency, shows Jackson riding upon and striking a jack ass. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/remember-when-page-one-dvd-journalism-history-dick-cavett.html

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January 15, 1908: #BOTD: Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" (although he claimed not to care for that title), who made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics before, during and after The Manhattan Project, spectroscopy (in particular the Jahn-Teller and Renner-Teller effects), and surface physics (d. September 9, 2003) is #born Teller Ede in into a Jewish family in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. His parents were Ilona (nee Deutsch), a pianist, and Max Teller, an attorney. He attended the Minta Gymnasium in Budapest. Despite being of Jewish origins, Teller became agnostic. "Religion was not an issue in my family", he later wrote, "indeed, it was never discussed. My only religious training came because the Minta required that all students take classes in their respective religions. My family celebrated one holiday, the Day of Atonement, when we all fasted. Yet my father said prayers for his parents on Saturdays and on all the Jewish holidays. The idea of God that I absorbed was that it would be wonderful if He existed: We needed Him desperately but had not seen Him in many thousands of years." Teller was a late talker, but he became very interested in numbers and for fun calculated large numbers in his head. Teller left Hungary for Germany in 1926, partly due to the discriminatory numerus clausus rule under Miklos Horthy's regime. The political climate and revolutions in Hungary during his youth instilled a lingering animosity toward Communism and Fascism. After he began to face the same problems in Nazi Germany, Teller emigrated to the United States in the 1930s. Teller was an early member of the Manhattan Project, charged with developing the first atomic bomb. During this time he made a serious push to develop the first fusion-based weapons as well, but these were deferred until after World War II. After his controversial testimony in the security clearance hearing of his former Los Alamos Laboratory superior J. Robert Oppenheimer, Teller was ostracized by much of the scientific community. He continued to find support from the U.S. government and military research establishment, particularly for his advocacy for nuclear energy development, a strong nuclear arsenal, and a vigorous nuclear testing program. He was a co-founder of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and was both its director and associate director for many years. In his later years, Teller became especially known for his advocacy of controversial technological solutions to both military and civilian problems, including a plan to excavate an artificial harbor in Alaska using thermonuclear explosive in what was called Project Chariot. He was a vigorous advocate of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. Throughout his life, Teller was known both for his scientific ability and his difficult interpersonal relations and volatile personality, and is considered one of the inspirations for the character Dr. Strangelove in the 1964 movie of the same name. Edward Teller died in Stanford, California at the age of 95, following a stroke suffered two days prior and having long experienced a number of conditions related to his advanced age. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/duck-and-cover-and-more-atomic-war-films-2-dual-layer-dvd2.html

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Today, January 15, 2026

( #JCKaelin here: My mother's mother Helen was, according to herself and family gossip, Gene Krupa's girlfriend for a brief time during an unspecified time frame. Krupa was married to Ethel Maguire twice (1934 to 1942, 1946 till her death in 1955). There were supposed to have been family photos of my grandmother and Krupa together during their supposed relationship, but those photos are, to the best of my knowledge, no longer extant. My mother was born in May 1940, which birth would have been during the time of Gene's marriage. Despite this, there was some repressed gossip that my mother was in fact Krupa's illegitimate child, despite the fact that Jazz historian Phil Schaap, a friend of Gene Krupa, asserted both that Krupa chose to be a virgin before he was married, and that he maintained chastity outside of marriage, as was common among many Catholics of that era. It was not until 23AndMe that we had DNA proof that he was, in fact, not my ancestor, despite the fact that both his family and my mothers' were of pronounced French Canadian stock, and there was a strong physical resemblance of my mother and Krupa. For a time, though, it was cool for me to think that I was the grandson, "legitimate" or no, of the godfather of the west's modern era of drumming and "the founding father of modern drumset" :) ) ========= January 15, 1909: #BOTD: #HBD! Gene Krupa, American jazz and big band drummer, band leader, actor, and composer, considered "the founding father of modern drumset" by Modern Drummer magazine (d. October 16, 1973) is #born Eugene Bertram Krupa in in Chicago, Illinois. Known for his highly energetic, flamboyant style and for his showmanship, Krupa importance for his musical contributions to jazz music and his influence on popular drumming and dance music extends to this day. His drum solo on "Sing, Sing, Sing" (1937) elevated the role of the drummer as a frequently used solo voice in the band, making him one of the first major percussive soloists. Among his most important and endure contributions is the defining of the standard drum kit and the playing techniques to utilize them used throughout the world today (bass drum, floor toms-toms, snare drum, high-hat cymbals and the ride cymbal, crash cymbal and splash cymbal), a standardization he made in collaboration with drum brand Slingerland and cybal brand Zildjian. Gene Krupa died in Yonkers, New York at the age 64 from heart failure, though he also had leukemia and emphysema. He is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Calumet City, Illinois. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/swing-the-best-of-the-big-bands-dvd-complete-tv-series-2-disc2.html

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Today, January 15, 2026

January 15, 1918: #BOTD: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, leader of The 1952 Egyptian Revolution that overthrew of the monarchy of Egypt and introduced far-reaching land reforms the following year, 2nd President of Egypt from 1956 until his death , and holocaust denier (d. September 28, 1970) is #born Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein in Bakos, Alexandria, Egypt. Nasser was the second President of Egypt, serving from 1956 until his death. Nasser led the 1952 overthrow of the monarchy and introduced far-reaching land reforms the following year. Following a 1954 attempt on his life by a Muslim Brotherhood member, he cracked down on the organization, put President Muhammad Naguib under house arrest, and assumed executive office, officially becoming president in June 1956. Nasser's popularity in Egypt and the Arab world skyrocketed after his nationalization of the Suez Canal and his political victory in the subsequent Suez Crisis. Calls for pan-Arab unity under his leadership increased, culminating with the formation of the United Arab Republic with Syria (1958-1961). In 1962, Nasser began a series of major socialist measures and modernization reforms in Egypt. Despite setbacks to his pan-Arabist cause, by 1963 Nasser's supporters gained power in several Arab countries, but he became embroiled in the North Yemen Civil War. He began his second presidential term in March 1965 after his political opponents were banned from running. Following Egypt's defeat by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, Nasser resigned, but he returned to office after popular demonstrations called for his reinstatement. By 1968, Nasser had appointed himself prime minister, launched the War of Attrition to regain lost territory, began a process of depoliticizing the military, and issued a set of political liberalization reforms. Gamal Abdel Nasser died at 6 PM of a heart attack in Cairo, mere hours after escorting the last Arab leader to leave The Arab League Summit Of 1970. Following the announcement of Nasser's death, most Arabs were in a state of shock. Nasser's funeral procession through Cairo on October 1 was attended by at least five million mourners. The 10-kilometer (6.2 mi) procession to his burial site began at the old Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) headquarters with a flyover by MiG-21 jets. His flag-draped coffin was attached to a gun carriage pulled by six horses and led by a column of cavalrymen. All Arab heads of state attended, with the exception of Saudi King Faisal. King Hussein and Arafat cried openly, and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya fainted from emotional distress twice. A few major non-Arab dignitaries were present, including Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and French Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas. Anwar Sadat is named as Nasser' temporary successor, and will later become the permanent successor. He is buried in the mausoleum of The Gamal Abdel Nasser Mosque in Cairo, Egypt. Nasser remains an iconic figure in the Arab world, particularly for his strides towards social justice and Arab unity, modernization policies, and anti-imperialist efforts. His presidency also encouraged and coincided with an Egyptian cultural boom, and launched large industrial projects, including the Aswan Dam and Helwan City. Nasser's detractors criticize his authoritarianism, his human rights violations and his dominance of military over civil institutions, establishing a pattern of military and dictatorial rule in Egypt. #GamalAbdelNasser #EgyptianHistory #ModernEgyptianHistory #EgyptianRevolutionOf1952 #July23Revolution #MuslimBrotherhood #Assassinations #EgyptianReferendum1956 #SuezCanal #SuezCrisis #PanArabism #UnitedArabRepublic #UAR #Syria #ModernSyria #NorthYemenCivilWar #SixDayWar #JuneWar #ArabIsraeliWarOf1967 #ThirdArabIsraeliWar #WarOfAttrition #ArabLeagueSummitOf1970 #HistoryOfEgyptUnderGamalAbdelNasser #NasserEra #AntiImperialism #AswanDam #AswanHighDam #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/portraits-of-power-gamal-abdel-nasser-dvd.html

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January 15, 1924: #BOTD: Vladimir Semichastny, Soviet politician, Chairman of the KGB from November 1961 to May 1967 (d. January 12, 2001) is #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. 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January 15, 1929: #BOTD: #HBD! Martin Luther King Jr., American Baptist minister and activist, the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement (d. April 4, 1968) is #born Michael King Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using the tactics of nonviolence and civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs and inspired by the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, he led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He also helped to organize the 1963 March On Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. On October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches, and the following year he and the SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In the final years of his life, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War, alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam". In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated by James Earl Ray on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. He is buried at The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta, Georgia. King's death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Ray, who fled the country, was arrested two months later at London Heathrow Airport. Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison for King's murder, and died in 1998 from hepatitis while serving his sentence. King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971, and as a U.S. federal holiday observed on the third Monday of every January in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, and a county in Washington State was also rededicated for him. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. was dedicated in 2011. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/king-a-filmed-record--montgomery-to-memphis-dvd.html

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Today, January 15, 2026

January 15, 1941: #BOTD: #HBD! Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet), American singer-songwriter, musician, and artist (d. December 17, 2010) is #born Don Glen Vliet in Glendale, California. Captain Beefheart conducted a rotating ensemble called the Magic Band, with whom he recorded 13 studio albums between 1964 and 1982. His music blended elements of blues, free jazz, rock, and the avant-garde with idiosyncratic rhythms, absurdist wordplay, and his wide vocal range. Known for his enigmatic persona, Beefheart frequently constructed myths about his life and was known to exercise an almost dictatorial control over his supporting musicians. Although he achieved little commercial success, he sustained a cult following as a "highly significant" and "incalculable" influence on an array of new wave, punk, and experimental rock artists. An artistic prodigy in his childhood, Van Vliet developed an eclectic musical taste during his teen years in Lancaster, California, and formed "a mutually useful but volatile" friendship with musician Frank Zappa, with whom he sporadically competed and collaborated. He began performing with his Captain Beefheart persona in 1964 and joined the original Magic Band line-up, initiated by Alexis Snouffer, the same year. The group released their debut album Safe as Milk in 1967 on Buddah Records. After being dropped by two consecutive record labels they signed to Zappa's Straight Records, where they released 1969's Trout Mask Replica; the album would later rank 58th in Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 1974, frustrated by lack of commercial success, he pursued a more conventional rock sound, but the ensuing albums were critically panned; this move, combined with not having been paid for a European tour, and years of enduring Beefheart's abusive behavior, led the entire band to quit. Beefheart eventually formed a new Magic Band with a group of younger musicians and regained critical approval through three final albums: Shiny Beast (1978), Doc at the Radar Station (1980) and Ice Cream for Crow (1982). Van Vliet made few public appearances after his retirement from music in 1982. He pursued a career in art, an interest that originated in his childhood talent for sculpture, and a venture which proved to be his most financially secure. His expressionist paintings and drawings command high prices, and have been exhibited in art galleries and museums across the world. Van Vliet died on a Friday at a hospital in Arcata, California of complications from multiple sclerosis, from which he had for many years. Tom Waits and his colloborator/wife Kathleen Brennan commented on his death, praising him: "Wondrous, secret ... and profound, he was a diviner of the highest order." Dweezil Zappa dedicated the song "Willie the Pimp" to Beefheart at the "Zappa Plays Zappa" show at the Beacon Theatre in New York City on the day of his death, while Jeff Bridges exclaimed "Rest in peace, Captain Beefheart!" at the conclusion of the December 18, 2010, episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live. He is buried at Trinidad Lighthouse Lost & Buried at Sea Memorials in Trinidad, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/frank-zappa-documentaries-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: US Fleet Submarines Of The Pacific War MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, January 15, 2026

January 15, 1943: Naval History: The History Of The United States Navy: The New United States Navy (The New Navy, The United States Navy 1885-Present): Naval Keel Layings (Naval Laying Downs, Naval Layings Down): Submarines (Subs): USS Tang (SS-306): USS Tang (SS-306), a Balao-class submarine of The Second World War, considered one of the greatest submarines of all time, the first ship of the United States Navy to bear the name Tang, has her keel laid down. The contract to build USS Tang had been awarded to Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California northeast of San Francisco on December 15, 1941. She was launched on August 17, 1943 sponsored by Mrs. Alix M. Pitre, wife of Captain Antonio S. Pitre, Director of Research at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. She was commissioned on October 15, 1943 with Lieutenant Commander Richard O'Kane, former executive officer of the USS Wahoo (SS-238), in command, and would be delivered to the Navy on November 30, 1943. In her short career in the Pacific War, USS Tang sank 33 ships totalling 116,454 tons. Tang served until being sunk during her final engagement by a circular run of her final torpedo off the coast of China in the Taiwan Strait on October 24, 1944, going down in 180 ft (55 m) of water. 78 men were lost, and the 9 survivors were picked up by a Japanese frigate and taken prisoner of war. This was the only known time that a Momsen lung was used to escape a sunken submarine. Commander Richard O'Kane received the Medal of Honor for her last two engagements (October 23 and 24, 1944). The Balao Class Submarine was a design of United States Navy submarine used during World War II, and with 120 boats completed, the largest class of submarines in the United States Navy. It was an improvement on the earlier Gato Class, though the boats had slight internal differences; both classes were considered to be the best long range submarines of World War II. The most significant improvement of the Balao Class was the use of thicker, higher yield strength steel in the pressure hull skins and frames, which increased their test depth to 400 feet (120 m). USS Tang actually achieved a depth of 612 ft (187 m) during a test dive, and exceeded that test depth when taking on water in the forward torpedo room while evading a destroyer. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/us-fleet-submarines-of-the-pacific-war-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Complete TV Music & Dance MegaSet DVDs, Downloads, USB Flash Drives
Today, January 15, 2026

January 15, 1961: The History Of Rock & Roll: The History Of Motown: The History Of Girl Groups (The History Of Gurl Groups): The Supremes: -- After months of unsuccessful friendly persuasian and pressure put upon Motown's Berry Gordy by local Detroit girl group "The Primettes", Gordy at last signs them to his record label under a name suggested to the group by Gordy and selected by Primette Florence Ballard, "The Supremes", securing their destiny after a long string of failures to become the greatest girl group of all time with an even longer string of hits. Between 1961 and 1963, the Supremes released six singles, however, none of those first six singles charted in the Top 40 positions of the Billboard Hot 100. Jokingly referred to as the "no-hit Supremes" around Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. offices, the group attempted to compensate for their lack of hits by taking on any work available at the studio, including providing hand claps and singing backup for Motown artists such as Marvin Gaye and the Temptations. During these years, all three members took turns singing lead: Wilson favored soft ballads, Ballard favored soulful, hard-driving songs, and Ross favored mainstream pop songs. Most of their early material was written and produced by Berry Gordy or Smokey Robinson. It was not until late 1963, when the Supremes began recording the songs by Motown's songwriting and production team Holland-Dozier-Holland, and became permanently fronted by Diana Ross at the insistance of Gordy, that they began a long string of hits, beginning with "Where Did Our Love Go". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/14-disc-classic-tv-music-amp-dance-shows-discount-dvd-megas14.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: A Line In The Sand: War Or Peace? DVD MP4 Download USB Flash Drive
Today, January 15, 2026

January 15, 1991: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War, Gulf War I): The Invasion Of Kuwait: United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 (UNSCR678): -- Iraq ignores the U.N. Security Council Resolution 678 deadline of midnight January 15 for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, as well as all other UN resolutions regarding Iraqi's invasion and occupation 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. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/a-line-in-the-sand-war-or-peace-dvd-mp4-download-usb-flash-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Life And Times Of Lord Mountbatten TV Series DVD, Download, USB
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15: Indian Army Day: -- January 15, 1949: British General Francis Bucher hands over the reins of the Indian army to Field Marshal Kodandera M. Cariappa, who becomes thereby India's first field marshal. Thereafter, Indian Army Day is observed on January 15 annually to recognize this historic event. India has had military capabilities from the time of the Indus Valley Civilization that flourished between 3300 B.C. to 1300 B.C. Many succeeding dynasties during the time of Alexander and beyond used their military strengths to fight wars and expand their territory across the sub-continent. Some of the most famous of these dynasties were Maurya, Satavahana, Gupta, Vijayanagara, Chalukya, and Chola. These dynasties were followed by a series of wars waged between central Asian armies, which the Mughals, considered to originate from present-day Uzbekistan, eventually won. They went on to establish their empire on the sub-continent. When the East India Company was set up, the territory was divided into presidencies, and each had its own army unit. These were Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay. Independent, regional kingdoms, like Mysore, were able to defeat the British Army at war and hold on to their territory until the ruler of Mysore, Tipu Sultan, was finally defeated in 1799. During the First World War, one million Indians volunteered to fight in the British Army and around 90,000 lost their lives. Similarly, almost half of the officers in the battles fought during World War II were Indian. As the Indian Independence movement gained traction in 1946, the loyalties of Indian soldiers became conflicted. Many mutinied against or resigned from the British-led army and navy units. While the 'Indianization' of the armed forces under the British continued well into the country's independence, the final handover took place on January 15, 1949, and this is the day we celebrate. https://store.earthstation1.com/life-and-times-of-lord-mountbatten-3-dvds-tv-series-all-12-pa312.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Gulf Crisis: The Road To War TV Series + Bonus 2 DVDs MP4 Download
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 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: -- Saddam Hussein announces that Iraq will consider withdrawing its troops from Kuwait under some conditions. 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-gulf-crisis-the-road-to-war-tv-documentary-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: To The Brink Of War: The Looming Gulf War DVD MP4 Download USB Drive
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 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: -- The first U.S. government statement relating to Operation Desert Storm is made. 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/to-the-brink-of-war-the-looming-gulf-war-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Desert Storm: The Victory + Bonus Persian Gulf War I MP4 Download DVD
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 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: -- 580,000 Coalition troops are stationed in the Gulf region, opposing 540,000 Iraqi troops. 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/desert-storm-the-victory-persian-gulf-war-i-dvd-mp4-download-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Conspiracies Special Narrated By Joe Frank MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 2018: #DOTD: #RIP: Joe Frank, French-born American writer, teacher, and radio performer best known for his often philosophical, humorous, surrealist, and sometimes absurd monologues and radio dramas he recorded often in collaboration with friends, actors, and family members (b. August 19, 1938) #dies from sepsis after multiple reversals following colon cancer surgery, aged 79. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. In May 2014, Frank had surgery to treat the cancer, which was successful. In December 2015, Frank was hospitalized due to a gastrointestinal perforation following a routine medical procedure. This led to heart and kidney issues and Frank's complete recovery took a full year. His colon cancer returned in July 2017; he had surgery in October 2017 to excise a tumor in his colon; sepsis resulted, ultimately causing his death. Joe Frank was born Joseph Langermann in Strasbourg, France, near the border of Germany into the German-Polish Jewish family of Meier Langermann, aged 51, and Friederike "Fritzi" Langermann (nee Passweg), aged 26. Frank was born with club feet; of his testicles, one was unusually small, and the other, undescended. A childhood nanny would threaten him with enemas. A cast left one leg permanently withered and his mother permanently ashamed. "She did not even want to celebrate Mother's Day," Frank told Slate magazine's Mark Oppenheimer, "because it was not a happy day for her, having given birth to a child who was deformed." When Frank was 20, he got testicular cancer in his remaining, withered testicle, and was saved by a brutal regimen of cobalt radiation. Frank was born months before the family fled from Nazi Germany's persecution of Jewish people in their native Poland. Legislation to allow the family and others into the country was passed by the US Congress twice, the first having been vetoed by President Roosevelt. His father died of kidney failure in New York City when Joe was five years old. On April 28, 1945, his mother married Theodore Frank (whom Joe called Freddy in his show, and in the article 'Joe Frank is off the air' in the 'LA Weekly' in 1997), which changed Joe's last name. In his twenties, Frank studied at Hofstra University in New York and later at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 1964, he taught five grades of English at the Sands Point Academy for Gifted Children in Sands Point, New York. From 1965 to 1975, he taught English and Russian literature and philosophy at the Dalton School in Manhattan and later, while working as a music promoter (1976-77), became interested in the power of radio. In 1977, Frank started volunteering at Pacifica Network station WBAI in New York, performing experimental radio involving monologues, improvisational actors, and live music during late-night, free-form hours. In 1978, he moved to Washington, D.C., to serve as a co-anchor for the weekend edition of National Public Radio's All Things Considered, his first paying radio job, which lasted two weeks. At the end of each segment, he was given five minutes to create and narrate his creative fictional essays. In 1978-84, Joe performed in, and produced 18 dramas for NPR Playhouse, which won several awards. In 1986, at the invitation of Ruth Hirschman Seymour, the general manager of NPR's Santa Monica, California, affiliate KCRW, Frank moved to Santa Monica, California, where he wrote, produced, and performed in his own weekly hour-long radio program, Joe Frank: Work In Progress. Frank continued to work at KCRW until 2002, and his work evolved, as evidenced by the diverse series he produced. The first was "Work in Progress," then "In The Dark," followed by "Somewhere Out There", and finally "The Other Side". Beginning in 2004, Frank began creating full-length shows for subscribers to his web site. In 2012, Frank started producing periodic half-hour shows for KCRW's "UnFictional" series. He continued to produce all-new shows for the series until months before his death. Starting in 2003, Frank performed on stage with original material at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, Illinois; at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco; and in Los Angeles at the Hammer Museum and Largo at the Coronet, as well as other venues. His 230-hour body of work continues to be re-aired on WNYC New York, and many NPR stations including the radio station at the University of California at Davis (KDVS), Savannah, Georgia (WRUU), Cabool, Missouri (KZGM), Carson City, Nevada (KNVC), Cape May, New Jersey (WCFA), and others with new stations being added. In early 2005, Frank suffered complete kidney failure. He received a kidney from his first cousin in 2006, who charged him for it; it continued to function normally (with the help of multiple immunosuppressant drugs) until his death. In 2012, Frank returned to KCRW for episodes of the station's "UnFictional" program. Frank's radio programs are often dark and ironic and employ a dry sense of humor and the sincere delivery of ideas or stories that are patently absurd. Subject matter often includes religion, life's meaning, death, and Frank's relationships with women. Frank's voice is distinctive, resonant, authoritative, and, because of his occasional voice-over work, often oddly familiar. At the 2003 Third Coast Festival, he explained that he was recording in Dolby and playing back without it, which created Joe's now familiar intimate and gritty sound. A 1987 Los Angeles Times article described it as a voice "like dirty honey" and "rich as chocolate." The repetitive cadence of the music, drones and Frank's dry, announcer-like delivery are sometimes mixed with recorded phone calls with actor/friends such as Larry Block, Debi Mae West and Arthur Miller (not the playwright), broken into segments over the course of each hour-long program. Frank's series "The Other Side" included excerpts from Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's Dharma talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. In an interview on KPFA's "Morning Show", Kornfield was asked about working with Frank. Kornfield explained that, although he had never met or talked to Frank or heard his show, he didn't mind Frank using the lectures and that many of his meditation students had found Kornfield through the show. https://store.earthstation1.com/conspiracies-special-narrated-by-joe-frank-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Fatal Attraction Of Adolf Hitler TV Series DVD, Download, USB
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 1970: #DOTD: Georg Anton Poch, better known as Dr. Poch, believed to be the assumed secret identity of Adolf Hitler (Birthdate Unknown, 1895) #dies at the Karang Menjangan Hospital in Surabaya, Indonesia at the age of 81, where he is buried in the North Ngagel Public Cemetery, Jalan Bung Tomo, Surabaya. His burial site as for decades been a place of pilgrimage for Nazis and Neo-Nazis worldwide. Birthdate Unknown, 1895: #BOTD: Georg Anton Poch, better known as Dr. Poch, Austrian doctor who worked on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, believed to be the assumed secret identity of Adolf Hitler (d. January 15, 1970) is #born in Premissel, Austria-Hungary (now Przemysl, Poland), the son of Major Josef Poch. He studied medicine at the University of Graz and received his doctorate in 1921. From 1921 to 1922 he was a secondary doctor in Graz and set up the children's health service in Salzburg on behalf of the Commonwealth Fund. From 1924 to 1929 he was in charge of maternal health care in Salzburg, then in Eisenstadt until 1935. On December 26, 1924 Georg Poch married the anthropologist Hella Poch, the widow of his uncle, the anthropologist Rudolf Poch. On May 29, 1938 he applied for admission to the Nazi Party and was admitted retrospectively to May 1. From November 1938 to September 1939 he worked in the public health department of the Reich Ministry of the Interior in Berlin. From 1940 he headed Sub-Department IIIa (Healthcare and Physical Education) and Department IIa/2 for "Heritage and Racial Care" at the Reich Governor of Salzburg. He worked at the hereditary health court in Salzburg, where he was jointly responsible for measures to prepare for euthanasia. After the fall of The Third Reich, the couple was interrogated by the US-CIC in Salzburg. He evaded Austrian justice by fleeing for many years, first via Bolzano, Tyrol, Northern Italy, arriving in Indonesia where he remained from 1954 on. There Georg Poch ran a clinic in Sumbawa Besar after stations in Dompu and Bima and died of a heart attack in Surabaya in 1970. Before that, according to Peter Levenda, converted to Islam, the religion of the Sundanese woman named Sulaesih that he married while in Indonesia; he said that the though Islam was a "more manly" religion than Judeo-Christian religiions. The story of Poch was later documented by Dr. Sosrohusodo before finally being disseminated to the mass media. Dr. Sosrohusodo served on the Hope Ship, a ship used by UNICEF to travel to remote Indonesian islands to innoculate children, which came to visit Sumbawa Besar. Dr. Sosrohusodo wrote an article in the Pikiran Rakyat Daily in 1983. In 1994, an article with the same theme appeared again in. The writer was Enton Supriyatna, a journalist for Pikiran Rakyat, who as of 2010 was the Executive Editor of Galamedia. Enton told VIVAnews about his interview with Dr. Sosrohusodo 16 years ago on Jalan Setiabudi, Bandung. His article was then published on February 24, 1994. "At that time, he called Pikiran Rakyat, inviting journalists to his house. When I met Mr. Sosrohusodo, he was already old," Enton said on Thursday, February 25, 2010 evening. Sosrohusodo showed him several photos of Dr. Poch in various poses. "He was tall, at first glance he did resemble Hitler, from the shape of his anatomy and head," he said. Enton admitted to being shown a photo of Poch doing community service, with a white woman -- who looked like Eva Braun, there was also a photo of Poch with his wife, a Sundanese woman with the initials 'S' who was last known to live in Babakan Ciamis. "I gave this last photo to my friend in Ciamis to be traced. But unfortunately, the photo was not returned and my friend was difficult to contact," he said. Enton also admitted to reproducing several photos of Poch, including a photo of Poch's shorthand -- which according to Sosrohusodo's investigation was used when Hitler was in power. The photo reproduction is currently in the possession of Pikiran Rakyat. "Hopefully it is still stored. I remember when it was published in Pikiran Rakyat, there was no photo in the article, because it was published on the opinion page," he added. Sosrohusodo also told what he knew about Dr. Poch, including why he suspected the old German doctor was Hitler -- one of which was Poch's physical characteristics which were similar to what was revealed in various literature. "Moreover, from the way he walks, there is indeed a clue that he is indeed Hitler," said Enton. Sosrohusodo also poured out his feelings to Enton. Sosrohusodo admitted to being anxious. "Many people thought he [Sosrohusodo] was crazy, strange, why bother with that," Enton said. "He felt anxious, this was something he felt had to be revealed.... He felt burdened but he was unable to reveal this himself," he added. As far as Enton knew, Sosrohusodo had no intention of seeking profit or wanting to be famous. "He was a simple person, not explosive. If his intention was to seek profit, the proof is that he didn't get anything, let alone money," Enton added. According to Enton, Sosrohusodo had passed away. "He once asked me, if possible, to reveal this," Enton added. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-fatal-attraction-of-adolf-hitler-dvd-2-part-tv-documentary-serie2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Henchmen Of The Third Reich: Goering Goebbels Hess DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 1914: #BOTD: #HBD! Hugh Trevor-Roper, English soldier, intelligence officer, author, historian and academic, polemicist and essayist on a range of historical topics, but particularly England in the 16th and 17th centuries and Nazi Germany, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford (d. January 26, 2003) is #born Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper in Glanton, Northumberland, England. In the view of English historian John Philipps Kenyon, "some of [Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre Of Glanton, FBA (Fellowship Of The British Academy)'s] short essays have affected the way we think about the past more than other men's books". This is echoed by Richard Davenport-Hines and Adam Sisman in the introduction to One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper (2014): "The bulk of his publications is formidable ... Some of his essays are of Victorian length. All of them reduce large subjects to their essence. Many of them ... have lastingly transformed their fields." On the other hand, his biographer Adam Sisman also writes that "the mark of a great historian is that he writes great books, on the subject which he has made his own. By this exacting standard Hugh failed." Trevor-Roper's most commercially successful book was titled The Last Days Of Hitler (1947). It emerged from his assignment as a British intelligence officer in 1945 to discover what happened in the last days of Hitler's bunker. From interviews with a range of witnesses and study of surviving documents, he demonstrated that Hitler was dead and had not escaped from Berlin. He also showed that Hitler's dictatorship was not an efficient unified machine but a hodge-podge of overlapping rivalries. Trevor-Roper's reputation was severely damaged in 1983 when he authenticated the Hitler Diaries shortly before they were shown to be forgeries. Hugh Trevor-Roper died of cancer in a hospice in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, aged 89. His funeral was at Christ Church and was attended by seven duchesses. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. https://store.earthstation1.com/henchmen-of-the-third-reich-dvd-goering-goebbels-hess.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Air War In Vietnam: Aerial Combat Roles & Missions DVD, Download, USB
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 1973: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The Resistance War Against America): Aerial Operations And Battles Of The Vietnam War: Strategic Bombing During The Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker II (The December Raids, The Christmas Bombings): -- Seventeen days after the end of Operation Linebacker II, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations. A further twelve days later, The Paris Peace Accords peace treaty, officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, was signed to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. The treaty included the governments of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), and the United States, as well as the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) that represented indigenous South Vietnamese revolutionaries. It ended direct U.S. military combat, and temporarily stopped the fighting between North and South Vietnam. However, the agreement was not ratified by the United States Senate. https://store.earthstation1.com/air-war-in-vietnam-dvd-aircraft-roles-history1.html

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Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 1913: #BOTD: #HBD! Lloyd Bridges, American film, stage and television actor, and film and television director (d. March 10, 1998) is #born Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr. in San Leandro, California. Lloyd Bridges starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of four children, including the actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges. He started his career as a contract performer for Columbia Pictures, appearing in films such as Sahara (1943), A Walk in the Sun (1945), Little Big Horn (1951) and High Noon (1952). On television, he starred in Sea Hunt 1958 to 1961. By the end of his career, he had re-invented himself and demonstrated a comedic talent in such parody films as Airplane! (1980), Hot Shots! (1991), and Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998). Among other honors, Bridges was a two-time Emmy Award nominee. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 1, 1994. Lloyd Bridges died of natural causes in Los Angeles, California at the age of 85. His remains were cremated, and the ashes given to his widow Dorothy Bridges. https://store.earthstation1.com/gi-diary-dvd-set-wwii-in-color-film-all-26-tv-shows-7-di267.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Armed Forces Radio Presents Jubilee! WWII Radio DVD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 1964: #DOTD: #RIP: Jack Teagarden, American jazz singer, songwriter and trombonist (b. August 20, 1905) #dies in New Orleans at the age of 58, suffering from pneumonia. Jack Teagarden was born Weldon Leo Teagarden in Vernon, Texas. Teagarden was the preeminent American jazz trombone player before the bebop era of the 1940s, and one of jazz's best singers. Teagarden's early career was as a sideman with the likes of Paul Whiteman and close lifelong friend Louis Armstrong. Teagarden's trombone style was largely self-taught, and he developed many unusual alternative positions and novel special effects on the instrument. He is generally considered the most innovative jazz trombone stylist of the pre-bebop era. Jazz clarinetist Pee Wee Russell called him "the best trombone player in the world". By 1920, Teagarden was playing professionally in San Antonio, including with the band of pianist Peck Kelley. In the mid-1920s he started traveling widely around the United States in a quick succession of different bands. In 1927, he went to New York City where he worked with several bands. By 1928 he played for the Ben Pollack band. In the late 1920s, he recorded with such bandleaders and sidemen as Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Jimmy McPartland, Mezz Mezzrow, Glenn Miller, Eddie Condon, and Fats Waller. In 1931, Teagarden's early orchestra recorded the tune "Chances Are" with Fats Waller playing piano and Jack singing and playing trombone. Miller and Teagarden collaborated to provide lyrics and a verse to Spencer Williams' "Basin Street Blues", which in that amended form became one of the numbers that Teagarden played until the end of his days. Teagarden sought financial security during the Great Depression and signed an exclusive contract to play for the Paul Whiteman Orchestra from 1933 through 1938. In 1946, Teagarden joined Louis Armstrong's All Stars. In late 1951, Teagarden left to again lead his own band. https://store.earthstation1.com/armed-forces-radio-presents-jubilee-otr-jazz-music-mp3-dv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Frank Sinatra: The Voice Of Our Time DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 1993: #DOTD: #RIP: Sammy Cahn, American lyricist, songwriter and musician (b. June 18, 1913) #dies at the age of 79 in Los Angeles, California from heart failure. His remains were interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. Sammy Cahn is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area. He and his collaborators had a series of hit recordings with Frank Sinatra during the singer's tenure at Capitol Records, but also enjoyed hits with Dean Martin, Doris Day and many others. He played the piano and violin. He won an Oscar 4 times for his songs, including the popular song "Three Coins in the Fountain". Among his most enduring songs is "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", cowritten with Jule Styne in 1945, and "High Hopes", written with Jimmy Van Heusen. https://store.earthstation1.com/frank-sinatra-the-voice-of-our-time-dvd-documentary.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Charles Manson: A Documentary History DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 2015: #DOTD: #RIP: Kim Fowley, American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and manager, best known for his role behind a string of novelty and cult pop rock singles in the 1960s such as The Hollywood Argyles' "Alley Oop", B. Bumble and the Stingers' "Nut Rocker", The Murmaids' "Popsicles and Icicles", Jerry Samuels' (billed as Napoleon XIV) "They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!", and for managing the Runaways in the 1970s (b. July 21, 1939) #dies of bladder cancer in Hollywood, California at the age of 75. He is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. He was born Kim Vincent Fowley in Los Angeles, California, the son of character actor Douglas Fowley and actress Shelby Payne. His parents later divorced and Payne married William Friml, son of composer Rudolf Friml. Fowley attended University High School at the same time as singers Jan Berry and Dean Torrence (later of Jan and Dean fame), Bruce Johnston (later of the Beach Boys), and Nancy Sinatra, as well as actors Ryan O'Neal, James Brolin, and Sandra Dee. He has been described as "one of the most colorful characters in the annals of rock & roll," as well as "a shadowy cult figure well outside the margins of the mainstream." Fowley died of bladder cancer in Hollywood, California at the age of 75.[36] He is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. In a 2001 interview, Michael Steele of The Bangles claimed Fowley fired her from The Runaways for refusing his sexual advances. In July 2015, six months after Fowley's death, Jackie Fuchs (who had performed under the stage name Jackie Fox with The Runaways) claimed that Fowley had raped her in 1975 during a New Year's Eve party while he was involved with the band. Fox also alleged that Joan Jett and Cherie Currie witnessed the rape. Jett and Currie both denied seeing the incident, but songwriter Kari Krome, as well as other bystanders who did not intervene, have corroborated it. In 2023, Kari Krome filed a lawsuit against Fowley's estate alleging that he had repeatedly sexually assaulted her when she was 14 or 15 years old. Look Away, a documentary about sexual abuse in the rock music industry features Fuchs' story. https://store.earthstation1.com/charles-manson-a-documentary-history-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Golden Age Of Rock 'N' Roll DVD, MP4 Video Download, Flash Drive
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 1994: #DOTD: #RIP: Harry Nilsson, American singer-songwriter (b. June 15, 1941) #dies aged 52 in Agoura Hills, California of a heart attack while in the midst of recording what became his last album, Losst and Founnd (2019). Harry Edward Nilsson III, known mononymously as Nilsson, was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. His work is characterized by pioneering vocal overdub experiments, returns to the Great American Songbook, and fusions of Caribbean sounds. A tenor with a 3 1/2 octave range, Nilsson was one of the few major pop-rock recording artists of his era to achieve significant commercial success without ever performing major public concerts or undertaking regular tours. The craft of his songs and the defiant attitude he projected remains a touchstone for later generations of indie rock musicians. Born in Brooklyn, Nilsson moved to Los Angeles as a teenager to escape his family's poor financial situation. While working as a computer programmer at a bank, he grew interested in musical composition and close-harmony singing, and was successful in having some of his songs recorded by various artists such as the Monkees. In 1967, he debuted on RCA Victor with the LP Pandemonium Shadow Show, followed by a variety of releases that include a collaboration with Randy Newman (Nilsson Sings Newman, 1970) and the original children's story The Point! (1971). His most commercially successful album, Nilsson Schmilsson (1971), produced the international top 10 singles "Without You" and "Coconut". His other top 10 hit, "Everybody's Talkin'" (1968), was a prominent song in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy. A version of Nilsson's "One", released by Three Dog Night in 1969, also reached the U.S. top 10. During a 1968 press conference, the Beatles were asked what their favorite American group was and answered "Nilsson". He soon formed close friendships with John Lennon and Ringo Starr. In the 1970s, Nilsson and Lennon joined Starr as members of the Hollywood Vampires drinking club, embroiling themselves in a number of widely publicized, alcohol-fueled incidents. At the same time, they produced one collaborative album, Pussy Cats (1974). After 1977, Nilsson left RCA, and his record output diminished. In response to Lennon's 1980 murder, he took a hiatus from the music industry to campaign for gun control. For the rest of his life, he recorded only sporadically. Nilsson created the first remix album (Aerial Pandemonium Ballet, 1971) and recorded the first mashup song ("You Can't Do That", 1967). He was voted No. 62 in Rolling Stone's 2015 list of the "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time", where he was described as "a pioneer of the Los Angeles studio sound, a crucial bridge between the baroque psychedelic pop of the late Sixties and the more personal singer-songwriter era of the Seventies". The RIAA certified Nilsson Schmilsson and Son of Schmilsson as gold records, indicating over 500,000 units sold each. His honors include Grammy Awards for two of his recordings; Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Male in 1970 for "Everybody's Talkin'" and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male in 1973 for "Without You". https://store.earthstation1.com/the-golden-age-of-rock-39n39-roll-dvd-complete-tv-series-5-39395.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Lucky Luciano Documentary Biography MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 1983: #DOTD: Meyer Lansky, American gangster known as the "Mob's Accountant", major organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States (b. July 4, 1902) #dies of lung cancer aged 80 in Miami where he spent his last years quietly in retirement at his home in Miami Beach, Florida, leaving a widow and three children. On paper, Lansky was worth almost nothing. Before he fled Cuba in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution, Lansky was said to be worth an estimated 20M USD (equivalent to 166M USD in 2021); when he died in 1983, his family learned that his estate was only worth around 57K USD (equivalent to 167,477 USD in 2022) -- despite this, the FBI believed he left behind over 300M USD (744M USD in 2022) in hidden bank accounts, but they never found any money. This would be equivalent to 744M USD in 2022. Meyer Lansky was born Maier Suchowljansky in Grodno, Russian Empire (now Belarus), to a Polish-Jewish family who experienced antisemitism and pogroms from Imperial authorities. When asked about his native country, Lansky always responded "Poland". In 1911, Lansky emigrated at age nine to the United States through the port of Odessa (now in Ukraine) with his mother and brother Jacob, and joined his father, who had immigrated in 1909, and settled on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York. Lansky met Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel when they were children. They became lifelong friends, as well as partners in the bootlegging trade, and together managed the Bugs and Meyer Mob, with its reputation as one of the most violent Prohibition gangs. Lansky was also close friends with Charles "Lucky" Luciano; the two met as teenagers when Luciano attempted to extort Lansky for protection money on his walk home from school. Luciano respected the younger boy's defiant responses to his threats, and the two formed a lasting partnership thereafter. The two of them would go on to associate with veteran gangster Arnold Rothstein, up until his murder in 1928. A member of the Jewish mob, Lansky developed a gambling empire that stretched across the world. He was said to own points (percentages) in casinos in Las Vegas, Cuba, The Bahamas and London. Although a member of the Jewish Mob, Lansky undoubtedly had strong influence with the Italian-American Mafia and played a large role in the consolidation of the criminal underworld. The full extent of this role has been the subject of some debate, as Lansky himself denied many of the accusations against him. In the 1930s, Lansky and his gang stepped outside their usual criminal activities to break up rallies held by the pro-Nazi German-American Bund. He recalled a particular rally in Yorkville, a German neighborhood in Manhattan, that he and fourteen other associates disrupted: "The stage was decorated with a swastika and a picture of Adolf Hitler. The speakers started ranting. There were only fifteen of us, but we went into action. We threw some of them out the windows. Most of the Nazis panicked and ran out. We chased them and beat them up. We wanted to show them that Jews would not always sit back and accept insults". During World War II, Lansky was also instrumental in helping the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)'s Operation Underworld, in which the government recruited criminals to watch out for German infiltrators and submarine-borne saboteurs. Lansky helped arrange a deal with the government via a high-ranking United States Navy official. This deal secured the release of Luciano from prison; in exchange, the Mafia would provide security for the warships that were being built along the docks in New York Harbor. German submarines were sinking Allied ships in great numbers along the eastern seaboard and the Caribbean coast, and there was great fear of attack or sabotage by Nazi sympathizers. Lansky connected the ONI with Luciano, who reportedly instructed Joseph Lanza to prevent sabotage on the New York waterfront. Lansky is credited with having "controlled" compromising pictures of a sexual nature featuring former FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover with his longtime aide, Clyde Tolson. In his book, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, biographer Anthony Summers cites multiple primary sources regarding Lansky's use of blackmail to gain influence with politicians, policemen and judges. One such stage for the acquisition of blackmail materials were orgies held by late attorney and Lansky protege, Roy Cohn, and liquor magnate, Lewis Rosenstiel, who had lasting ties with the Mafia from his bootleg operations during Prohibition. The release of FBI files on Lansky revealed extensive monitoring and investigation, which makes it harder to explain why Lansky was not pursued to conviction, unless he successfully evaded it by blackmail. Cohn copied this model of blackmail to control politicians and evade conviction himself. Despite nearly 50 years as a member/participant in organized crime, Lansky was never found guilty of anything more serious than illegal gambling. He has a legacy of being one of the most financially successful gangsters in American history. https://store.earthstation1.com/lucky-luciano-documentary-biography-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: World War 1 TV Series With Robert Ryan DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 1919: #DOTD: #RIP: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered in Berlin by members of The Freikorps' Guard Cavalry Rifle Division at the end of the Spartacist Uprising after they had consulted with Gustav Noske, who was a member of the Council of the People's Deputies, Germany's interim government, and had responsibility for military affairs. Although two of the men directly involved in the murders were prosecuted, no one responsible for ordering their deaths was ever brought to trial. Luxemburg's body was thrown in the Landwehr Canal in Berlin. Both Luxemburg and Liebknecht are buried at the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Friedrichsfelde, Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany. ========= Rosa Luxemburg, Jewish Polish-Russian Marxist theorist, feminist, philosopher, economist, Marxist theorist, anti-war activist, and revolutionary socialist who became a naturalized German citizen at the age of 28, a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom Of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) (b. March 5, 1871) was born Rozalia Luksenburg in Zamosc, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. During The German Revolution Of 1918-1919, also known as the November Revolution, she co-founded the newspaper Die Rote Fahne ("The Red Flag"), the central organ of the Spartacist movement. Luxemburg considered the Spartacist uprising of January 1919 a blunder, but supported it as events unfolded. Due to her pointed criticism of both the Leninist and the more moderate social democratic schools of socialism, Luxemburg has had a somewhat ambivalent reception among scholars and theorists of the political left. ========= Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary socialist and anti-militarist who opposed in the Reichstag Germany's involvement in World War I, member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) beginning in 1900, one of its deputies in the Reichstag from 1912 to 1916, where he represented the left-revolutionary wing of the party (b. August 13, 1871) was born Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire (modern Germany). In 1916 he was expelled from the SPD's parliamentary group for his opposition to the Burgfriedenspolitik, the political truce between all parties in the Reichstag while the war lasted. He twice spent time in prison, first for writing an anti-militarism pamphlet in 1907 and then for his role in a 1916 antiwar demonstration. He was released from the second under a general amnesty three weeks before the end of the First World War. During the November Revolution that broke out across Germany in the final days of the war, Liebknecht proclaimed Germany a "Free Socialist Republic" from the Berlin Palace on November 9, 1918. In December, his call to make Germany a soviet republic was rejected by the majority of the Reich Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils (Reichsratekongress). At the end of 1918, Liebknecht was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He had a leading role in Spartacist uprising. ========= The Spartacus League (German: Spartakusbund) was a Marxist revolutionary movement founded in August 1914 as the International Group by Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Clara Zetkin, and other members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who were dissatisfied with the party's official policies in support of the war. In 1916 it renamed itself the Spartacus Group and in 1917 joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), which had split off from the SPD as its left wing faction. During the November Revolution of 1918 that broke out across Germany at the end of the war, the Spartacus Group re-established itself as a nationwide, non-party organization called the "Spartacus League" with the goal of instituting a council republic that would include all of Germany. It became part of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) when it was formed on January 1, 1919 and at that point ceased to exist as a separate entity. The League's name referred to Spartacus, the leader of a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic (73-71 BCE). For the Spartacists, his name symbolized the ongoing resistance of the oppressed against their exploiters and thus expressed the Marxist view of historical materialism, according to which history is driven by class struggles. ========= The European Civil War: World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World War I): The Aftermath Of World War I: 20th Century Revolutions: The Revolutions Of 1917-1923: The Spartacist Uprising (German: Spartakusaufstand) (The January Uprising [Januaraufstand], Bloody Week): -- The Spartacist Uprising was an armed uprising that took place in Berlin from January 5-12, 1919. It occurred in connection with the German revolution that broke out just before the end of World War I. The uprising was primarily a power struggle between the supporters of the provisional government led by Friedrich Ebert of the Majority Social Democratic Party of Germany (MSPD), which favored a social democracy, and those who backed the position of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, which wanted to set up a council republic similar to the one established by the Bolsheviks in Russia. The government's forces were victorious in the fighting. The uprising began with mass demonstrations and strikes called by the parties of the radical left to protest the dismissal of Berlin's chief of police. Taken by surprise at the size of the turnout and the protestors' spontaneous occupation of newspaper buildings and printing companies, the leaders of the left were unable to agree on how to proceed. As a result, the uprising remained largely without direction. The government responded with military force, including several paramilitary Freikorps units, retook the buildings that had been occupied and violently suppressed the uprising. The death toll was roughly 150-200, mostly among the insurgents. The most prominent deaths were those of Liebknecht and Luxemburg, who were executed extrajudicially on January 15, almost certainly with the at least tacit approval of the MSPD-led government. The party's involvement hampered its position throughout the life of the Weimar Republic, although quashing the uprising allowed elections for the National Assembly to take place as scheduled on January 19, 1919. The Assembly went on to write the Weimar Constitution that created the first national German democracy. The uprising took its popular name from the Marxist Spartacus League (Spartakusbund), which Luxemburg and Liebknecht founded in 1914. When the KPD was established on January 1, 1919, the Spartacus League became part of it. Some historians, such as Heinrich August Winkler and Sebastian Haffner, consider the name to be misleading because the Spartacists (KPD) had not wanted, planned or led the revolt. ========= In 1915, after the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) supported German involvement in World War I, Luxemburg and Liebknecht co-founded The Spartacus League, which eventually became the KPD, and the Communist Party of Germany whose sprung from it. On November 11, 1918, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht together with others founded the Spartacist League. Friedrich Ebert's majority Social Democratic government crushed the revolt and the Spartakusbund by sending in the Freikorps (government-sponsored paramilitary groups consisting mostly of World War I veterans). Freikorps troops captured and murdered Luxemburg and Liebknecht. After their deaths, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg became martyrs for Socialists. They were extensively idolized as communist martyrs by the East German communist regime. 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Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Open Mind With Bill Jenkins Radio Series DVD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 2020: #DOTD: #RIP: DaEl Walker, American new age author, Livermore High School (Livermore, CA) Class Of 1952, founder in 1975 and director of The Crystal Awareness Institute (b. January 21, 1934) #dies peacefully at home in Lincoln, California, aged 86. He is survived by his wife, Laurie Walker; daughter Kelly Walker Sandlin; daughter-in law Terry Akins Walker; granddaughter Summer Sandlin; grandsons, Derek, Christopher and Colin Walker; and great granddaughters, Atley and Emerson Walker. He was preceded in death by his former wife, Tarry Walker, and a son, Douglas Walker. He will be remembered in the spiritual community for his later workshops on crystal skulls. DaEl Walker was born in Coy, Arkansas. He is the author of The Crystal Book, The New Crystal Book (Romanian) Book of Quartz (Mexico), The Crystal Sourcebook, and Crystal Healing Book. He is the guardian of an ancient crystal skull named Rainbow, an elder of the Spirit Horse Medicine Society, founder of the Crystalotherapy energy healing system, and the grandfather of 11. His parents and his mother's large extended family moved from Arkansas to Livermore, California, when he was 8-years-old. The Cleek family was a close-knit clan and he attended school with many loving cousins. He graduated from Livermore High School in 1952. Dael and his first wife, Tarry, raised two children in Livermore. He worked as a reactor operator at General Electric in the 1960s. He later moved to Sunol, California, and lived many happy years in Kilkare Woods. he returned to building trades for a time before finding his way to his true calling. Dael had a spiritual awakening that led him to become a healer and a teacher of healing with quartz crystals. He taught seminars and traveled all over the world to spread his message of healing energy to thousands of students. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-open-mind-with-bill-jenkins-radio-mp3-dvd-alternate-scienc3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: It's A Joke, Son! (1947) Kenny Delmar As Senator Claghorn MP4 Or DVD
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 1947: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Premieres: Film Premieres: American Film Premieres: -- It's A Joke, Son!, a 1947 American comedy film directed by Benjamin Stoloff (in his final directorial role in a film) featuring distinguished radio comedian Kenny Delmar as Senator Beauregard Claghorn, a character on Fred Allen's radio program and later the inspiration for the cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn, is released. The film was the first American production of Eagle-Lion Films and was produced with 650,000 USD, a very small budget compared to other Hollywood films at the time. Based on Delmore's popularity as "Unquestionably The Most Quoted Man In The Nation", the film was expected to be a big hit; instead, it was a box-office disappointment, with one theater chain removing the film from theaters after less than a week after it only drew 1K USD in ticket sales. The film contributed to a multimillion-dollar loss for Eagle-Lion in 1947, and the chairman of Eagle-Lion Films, Arthur B. Krim. later stated that the studio had overpaid for Delmar and overestimated his bankability. Despite this, the film gained a following in later years, and is duly regarded as what it is -- a very funny film with Kenny Delmar at his funniest! https://store.earthstation1.com/it39s-a-joke-son-dvd-1947-kenny-delmar-as-senator-cl391948.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: A Vaughn Meader Anthology All 4 Comedy Albums MP3 Set CD Download USB
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 2019: #DOTD:#RIP: Bradley Bolke, American voice actor who voiced the walrus Chumley in Tennesse Tuxedo And His Tales and Nikita Khruschev in the Vaughn Meader album The First Family, elder brother of comedian and voice actor Dayton Allen (b. October 1, 1925) #dies Dobbs Ferry, New York, aged 93. He is buried at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York. Bolke was born on October 1, 1925, in New York City. He later lived in Dobbs Ferry, New York. https://store.earthstation1.com/a-vaughn-meader-anthology-all-4-comedy-albums-cd-mp3-u43.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Monarchy In The UK: British Royal History MP4 Video Download DVD Set
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 1559: Coronations: -- Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, is crowned as Elizabeth I Of England in Westminster Abbey. Queen Elizabeth I (b. September 7, 1533), Queen Of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death (d. 1603) was born in the Palace of Placentia. also known as Greenwich Palace. Elizabeth I was sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess. Though some have suggested that she was the mother of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, who was a favorite in Elizabeth' court and who those who subscribe to the Oxfordian theory of Shakespearean authorship believe was the true identity of William Shakespeare. Whether she was or was not his mother, history officially records that Elizabeth was childless, and thereby was the last monarch of the House of Tudor. She was the daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She ascended the throne in 1558 at age 25. During her reign, Britain became a world power by defeating the Spanish Armada. The Anglican Church was also fully established. https://store.earthstation1.com/monarchy-in-the-uk-british-royal-family-history-films-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Oh! What A Lovely War (1969) DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 2011: #DOTD: #RIP: Susannah York, English film, stage, and television actress, activist and beauty (b. January 9, 1939) #dies aged 72 at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London from multiple myeloma (cancer of the white plasma blood cells), having refused chemotherapy after seh was diagnosed with cancer late in 2010 . Her remains were cremated, and her ashes scattered both on Paxos Beach in Greece, and in the garden of her former home in Wandsworth, England. Susannah York was born Susannah Yolande Fletcher in Chelsea, London, England. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for the same film. She won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. In 1991, she was appointed an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Her appearances in various hit films of the 1960s formed the basis of her international reputation, and an obituary in The Telegraph characterised her as "the blue-eyed English rose with the china-white skin and cupid lips who epitomised the sensuality of the swinging Sixties". Politically, she was left-wing, and publicly supported Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli dissident who revealed Israel's nuclear weapons programme. While performing The Loves of Shakespeare's Women at the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv in June 2007, York dedicated the performance to Vanunu, evoking both cheers and jeers from the audience. https://store.earthstation1.com/oh-what-a-lovely-war-dvd-world-war-i-musical-comedy.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Best Of SCTV Network (1988) Best-Of Retrospective DVD, MP4, USB
Today, January 15, 2026
January 15, 1947: #BOTD: #HBD! Andrea Martin, American-Canadian actress, singer, screenwriter and comedian is #born Andrea Louise Martin in Portland, Maine. Andrea Martin first drew notice as a member of The Second City improvisational comedy troupe in Toronto. She is best known for her work in the television series SCTV and Great News. She has appeared in films such as Black Christmas (1974), Wag the Dog (1997), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016), and Little Italy (2018). She has also lent her voice to the animated films Anastasia (1997), The Rugrats Movie (1998), and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001). Martin has been equally prolific in the world of theater, winning Tony Awards for both My Favorite Year and the 2013 revival of Pippin. Martin also appeared on Broadway in Candide, Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, Young Frankenstein, Exit the King, and Act One. She has received five nominations for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, more than any other actress in the award's history. She received her first nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 2016 revival of Noises Off. She also starred as Carol Wendelson on the NBC sitcom Great News, and as Marilyn Kessler in the Hulu series Difficult People. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-best-of-the-sctv-network-19881988.html