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Today, January 25, 2026
January 26: National Spouses Day: -- An
annual celebration of the bond between two people and sets aside
time for couples to show each other gratitude. Dedicated to
recognizing spouses everywhere, the observance reminds us to take
time for our mate. From being thankful for the fulfillment and
security of a long-term relationship to the boost of morale and
well-being provided by spouses, there are many reasons to
celebrate. This day is a time to show your spouse that you care
and appreciate all of the things that he or she does for you and
the home. Life gets busy, and we can often take for granted how
our spouse improves our life. Pay a heartfelt thank you or
compliment to the love of your life. Since the day is a non-gift
giving day, spend time together and reconnect. Don't forget to
say, "I love you." If it has been a while since you have
expressed appreciation to the one with whom you are married, now
is your chance. Again, this day is not about giving gifts but
spending time together, enjoying each other, and appreciating each
other. Use #NationalSpousesDay to post on social media. It is not
a day to give a gift to your spouse; rather, it is a day about
expressing your appreciation for your spouse without giving gifts.
Some ways you can do that include Compliment your spouse on
something. It could be their appearance, cooking, patience, or
artistic talent; sharing a memory of your spouse that you think of
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Today, January 25, 2026
January 26, 1891: #BOTD: Frank Costello,
Italian-American Mafia gangster and crime boss of the Genovese
crime family (d. February 18, 1973) is #born Francesco Castiglia
in Lauropoli, a frazione (municipality) of the town of Cassano
allo Ionio in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of
Italy. In 1895, he boarded a ship to the United States with his
mother and his brother Edward to join their father, who had moved
to New York City's East Harlem several years earlier and opened a
small neighborhood Italian grocery store. Frank Costello rose to
the top of the United States underworld, controlled a vast
gambling empire across the United States, and enjoyed political
influence. Nicknamed "The Prime Minister Of The Underworld,"
he became one of the most powerful and influential mafia bosses in
American history, eventually leading the Luciano crime family
(later called the Genovese crime family), one of the Five Families
that operates in New York City. In 1957, Costello survived an
assassination attempt ordered by Vito Genovese and carried out by
Vincent Gigante, however, the altercation persuaded Costello to
relinquish power to Genovese and retire. Frank Costello died when
he suffered a heart attack at his Manhattan home and was rushed to
Doctors Hospital in Manhattan, where he died, aged 82. Costello's
sedate memorial service at a Manhattan funeral home was attended
by 50 relatives, friends, and law enforcement agents. Costello is
interred in a private mausoleum in St. Michael's Cemetery in East
Elmhurst, Queens. In 1974, after his enemy Carmine Galante was
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Today, January 25, 2026
January 26, 1908: #BOTD: #HBD! Stephane
Grappelli, nicknamed "The Grandfather Of Jazz Violinists"
(distinguished from Joe Venuti, who is known as "The Father
Of Jazz Violin"), French-Italian jazz violinist who founded
the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django
Reinhardt in 1934, one of the first all-string jazz bands (d.
December 1, 1997) is #born Stefano Grappelli at Hopital
Lariboisiere in Paris, France. For the first three decades of his
career, he was billed using a gallicised spelling of his last
name, Grappelly, reverting to Grappelli in 1969. The latter,
Italian spelling, is now used almost universally when referring to
the violinist, including reissues of his early work. He continued
playing concerts around the world well into his 80s. Stephane
Grappelli died in Paris, France of heart failure after a series of
minor cerebral attacks. His funeral on December 5 took place at
the Eglise Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris, within sight of the
entrance to the Lariboisiere Hospital where he had been born 89
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Today, January 25, 2026
January 26 1922: #BOTD: #HBD! Michael
Bentine, English/Peruvian Briton comedian, comic actor and
founding member of the Goons (d. November 26, 1996) is #born
Michael James Bentin in Watford, Hertfordshire, to a Peruvian
father, Adam Bentin, and a British mother, Florence Dawkins.
Michael James Bentin CBE (Commander Of The Most Excellent Order Of
The British Empire) was a graduate of Eton, Britain's prestigious
prep school, and served with Bomber Command in World War II. He
co-starred with Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe in
''Crazy People,'' which premiered in May 1951 on the BBC Home
Service. It became ''The Goon Show'' in June 1952, and Bentine
dropped out at the end of the year. Bentine developed his own
shows for BBC Television, including ''It's a Square World'' in
1960. ''Square World'' was regarded as Britain's first television
comedy program, as distinct from situation comedy, and was the
first to have an episode banned from the air. A sequence showing a
Chinese junk attacking and sinking the House of Commons was not
allowed to air until after the general election. Off-stage,
Bentine lectured on the paranormal, sailed yachts, flew planes,
was a crack pistol shot and archer, and published 14 books. The
British radio comedy program The Goon Show was originally produced
and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with
occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme. The first series
broadcast from 28 May to 20 September 1951, was titled Crazy
People; subsequent series had the title The Goon Show, a title
inspired, according to Spike Milligan, by the Popeye character
Alice the Goon (when The Goon Show was brought to television in
the form of a puppet show in 1963, the puppet of The Goon Show
character Eccles was modeled on Alice the Goon). The show's chief
creator and main writer was Terence Alan Milligan, who named
himself Spike Milligan after hearing on Radio Luxembourg the great
American novelty song band Spike Jones and his City Slickers. It
starred Spike Milligan (British-Irish comedian, writer, poet,
playwright and actor.), Harry Secombe (Welsh comedian, actor and
singer), Peter Sellers (English film actor, comedian and singer)
and from 1951-1953 Michael Mentine (Peruvian-English comedian,
comic actor and founding member of the Goons). The scripts mixed
ludicrous plots with surreal humour, puns, catchphrases and an
array of bizarre sound effects. Some of the later episodes feature
electronic effects devised by the fledgling BBC Radiophonic
Workshop, many of which were reused by other shows for decades.
Many elements of the show satirised contemporary life in Britain,
parodying aspects of show business, commerce, industry, art,
politics, diplomacy, the police, the military, education, class
structure, literature and film. The show was released
internationally through the BBC Transcription Services (TS). It
was heard regularly from the 1950s in Australia, South Africa, New
Zealand, India and Canada, although these TS versions were
frequently edited to avoid controversial subjects. NBC began
broadcasting the programme on its radio network from the
mid-1950s. The programme exercised a considerable influence on the
development of British and American comedy and popular culture. It
was cited as a major influence by The Beatles and the American
comedy team The Firesign Theatre as well as Monty Python and many
others. Michael Bentine died of prostate cancer in London,
England, aged 74. Shortly before his death, he was visited in
hospital by then Prince Charles (now Charles III). His remains
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Today, January 25, 2026
January 26, 1934: #BOTD: #HBD! Huey
"Piano" Smith, African American rhythm and blues pianist
whose sound was influential in the development of rock and roll,
best known for his classic signature tunes "Don't You Just
Know It" and "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie
Flu" (d. February 13, 2023) is #born Huey Pierce Smith in the
Central City neighborhood of New Orleans. He was influenced by the
innovative work of Professor Longhair. He became known for his
shuffling right-handed break on the piano that influenced other
Southern players. His piano playing incorporated the boogie-woogie
styles of Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, and Albert Ammons, the
jazz style of Jelly Roll Morton and the rhythm-and-blues style of
Fats Domino. Huey "Piano" Smith died at his home in
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January 26, 1937: #BOTD: #HBD! Alison Steele, American radio personality who was also known by her air name, The Nightbird (d. September 27, 1995) is #born Ceil Loman in Brooklyn, New York. Steele was long recognized as a primary force in making overnight radio a notable medium, as well as developing the progressive rock radio format. She also was a female pioneer in a field traditionally dominated by men. She amassed a large and loyal following on her night shifts on WNEW-FM in New York City during the late 1960s and 1970s. Her show featured progressive rock and artists associated with the counterculture of the time, combined with listeners' calls and Steele's own unique brand of mellow DJ patter, peppered with poetry and mysticism. Her original Nightbird show ran from 1968 to 1979. Steele also worked in television for many years in a variety of roles including performer, writer, and producer. She returned to WNEW in 1982 for another three years, and then joined New York's WXRK in 1989 for another six. Steele was honored with the Billboard award for FM Personality of the Year (1976), and she was the first woman to receive it. Years later, the same magazine established a new award in her honor, The Alison Steele Award for Lifetime Achievement. Steele was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Alison Steele died of stomach cancer at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, aged 58. She is interred at Mount Hope Cemetery in Hastings-On-Hudson in Greenburgh, New York. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/fm-19781978.html
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Today, January 25, 2026
January 26, 1939: The Interwar Period
(The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Spanish Civil War: The
Catalonia Offensive: -- Troops loyal to nationalist General
Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona, hastening the
end of the Spanish Civil War some nine weeks later. The Catalonia
Offensive started when the Nationalist Army took the offensive on
December 23, 1938, and rapidly conquered Republican-held Catalonia
with Barcelona (the Republic's capital city from October 1937).
Barcelona was captured on January 26, 1939. The Republican
government headed for the French border. Thousands of people
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Today, January 25, 2026
January 26, 1945: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Eastern Front Of World War II (The Great
Patriotic War, The German-Soviet War): The East Prussian
Offensive: The Braunsberg Offensive: The Heiligenbeil Pocket (The
Heiligenbeil Cauldron): -- The Red Army begins the Battle Of The
Heiligenbeil Pocket encircling the German Fourth Army near
Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the
4th Army two months later. The Heiligenbeil Pocket (German: Kessel
von Heiligenbeil) was the site of a major encirclement battle on
the Eastern Front during the closing weeks of World War II, in
which the Wehrmacht's 4th Army was almost entirely destroyed
during the Soviet Braunsberg Offensive Operation (March 13-22,
1945). The pocket was located near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia in
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Today, January 25, 2026
January 26, 1955: #BOTD: #HBD! Eddie Van
Halen, Dutch-American guitarist, keyboardist, backing vocalist,
and primary songwriter of the rock band Van Halen, which he
co-founded in 1972, regarded as one of the greatest guitar players
in rock history (d. October 6, 2020) is #born Edward Lodewijk Van
Halen in Amsterdam into an interracial family, the son of Jan van
Halen, a Dutch jazz pianist, clarinettist, and saxophonist, and
Eugenia (nee van Beers), an Indo (Eurasian) woman from
Rangkasbitung on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies.
After settling in Nijmegen, Netherlands in the 1950s, the family
experienced prejudice and mistreatment because of their mixed-race
relationship, so they moved to the United States in 1962. Van
Halen was well known for popularizing the tapping guitar solo
technique, allowing rapid arpeggios to be played with two hands on
the fretboard. Eddie Van Halen died at the age of 65 at his home
in Santa Monica, California, surrounded by his wife Janie
Liszewski; son and current (at the time) bassist of Van Halen,
Wolfgang; ex-wife Valerie Bertinelli; and brother and
co-founder/drummer of Van Halen, Alex. His son, Wolfgang,
confirmed his death on social media later that same day. Some of
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Today, January 25, 2026
January 26, 1962: #DOTD: Lucky Luciano,
Italian-born American gangster, crime boss and mob boss who
operated mainly in the United States (b. November 24, 1897) #dies
of a heart attack at Naples International Airport as he walked up
the steps of the ramp leading to the plane he was about to board.
He had gone to the airport to meet with American producer Martin
Gosch about a film based on his life. To avoid antagonizing other
Mafia members, Luciano had previously refused to authorize a film,
but reportedly relented after the death of his longtime lover,
Igea Lissoni. After the meeting with Gosch, Luciano had a heart
attack and died. He was unaware that Italian drug agents had
followed him to the airport in anticipation of arresting him on
drug smuggling charges. He was also unaware that there was a mob
plot to assassinate him, using a toxin obtained from American
intelligence operatives that would induce a heart attack, in
response to Luciano's support for the film biography. Three days
later, 300 people attended a funeral service for Luciano in
Naples. His body was conveyed along the streets of Naples in a
horse-drawn black hearse. With the permission of the US
government, Luciano's relatives took his body back to New York for
burial. He was buried in St. John's Cemetery in Middle Village,
Queens. More than 2,000 mourners attended his funeral. Gambino,
Luciano's longtime friend, gave his eulogy. Born Salvatore Lucania
in Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy, Charles "Lucky"
Luciano started his criminal career in the Five Points gang and
was instrumental in the development of the National Crime
Syndicate. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized
crime in the United States for the establishment of The Commission
in 1931, after he abolished the boss of bosses title held by
Salvatore Maranzano following the Castellammarese War. He was also
the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family. In
1936, Luciano was tried and convicted for compulsory prostitution
and running a prostitution racket after years of investigation by
District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. He was sentenced to 30 to 50
years in prison, but during World War II an agreement was struck
with the Department of the Navy through his associate Meyer Lansky
to provide naval intelligence. In 1946, for his alleged wartime
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Today, January 25, 2026
January 26: National Peanut Brittle Day:
-- If you love the crunch that comes from salty roasted nuts
embedded in a buttery hard sugar bark and broken into multiple
pieces, you'll be excited to celebrate that love as a holiday
today! Filled with peanuts, almonds, or pecans, this classic candy
is a timeless treat perfect for any occasion. Turns out, our
favorite classic candy comes with a bit of mystery. Though there's
no traceable evidence about the origins of peanut brittle, there
are multiple theories pointing to all the possible people who may
have made the sweet and salty confectionary first. There are even
narratives describing the creation resulting from a serendipitous
mistake. One such mistake is credited to a New England woman in
1890 who was in the middle of making taffy but accidentally added
baking soda instead of cream of tartar. Not wanting to waste any
ingredients, she continued cooking and ended up with an accidental
peanut bark. When she tasted it, she realized it was delicious and
gave pieces to her friends along with her accidental recipe.
Another theory, bringing the origin back even further, is that it
was originally a traditional Celtic dessert. Celts are thought to
have served the brittle during holidays, supporting the theory
that peanut brittle began in Europe. It's said that they made the
bark by baking a mix of sugar and peanut butter. The candy then
made its way from Europe to America in the 1830s by way of Irish
settlers coming to the New World. They became known for their
cooking and various traditional delicacies, one of which was their
peanut butter bark. Though there are multiple origin stories
regarding the confectionery, it's absolutely possible that all of
them hold some grasp of truth. This would explain the reason why
peanut brittle from one side of the country might look and taste
differently than peanut brittle on the opposite side. And as
people move around, try different recipes, and create new ones of
their own, all of the possible origin theories begin to turn into
one bark of delicious brittle.
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Today, January 25, 2026January 26: Indian Republic Day: -- A day
the nation of India welcomes the day with a parade and a tribute
to the Indian armed forces. Special celebrations on this occasion
are vital as it is on this date that the Indian Constitution was
finalized and India would not be the great country it is today
without its constitution. To become a prosperous nation, India
went through various trials and hardships before it reached a
point where freedom was provided to the citizens. From being ruled
by Muslim Mughal emperors to being controlled by the British,
India has experienced it all. Since the country faced many
struggles, it was a matter of great pride when the Constitution
was formed in 1950. This is the day that is celebrated today as
Republic Day. It all started in 1947 when India gained freedom
from the British Empire. In November 1947, a draft of the
Constitution was developed and submitted to the Constituent
Assembly. However, it took the Assembly over two years of
discussions and modifications before the Constitution was
finalized - the sessions held were open to the public.
Furthermore, the Assembly adopted the Constitution on November 26,
1949, but it did not come into effect immediately. The documents
that established the charter were signed on January 24, 1950, and
the Constitution officially came into effect for the nation on
January 26, 1950. This was also the day when India's first-ever
president, Dr. Rajendra Prasad began his term. When the
Constitution came into effect, it also replaced the Government of
India Act and established India as a democratic republic. Republic
Day is celebrated today to mark the day when democracy and justice
were chosen to run the nation. It is this rule of law that is
missing in many countries that are run by dictators.
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Today, January 25, 2026January 26: International Environmental
Education Day: -- Observed all over the world in the hopes of
improving the relationship between our fellow humans and nature
itself. It seeks to identify and find solutions to certain
environmental issues, both globally and locally. With this, a
collective and effective process is made available to reach more
like-minded people who want to make a difference for our world
itself. Aside from just assessing these issues, the main goal for
this day is to bring about awareness for the motivation to
continue on this endeavor. Once this has been achieved, motivation
to act with the right forward-thinking and knowledge can bring
about a sustainable change for today and future generations as
well. You can find a list of science scholarships to enhance the
effect of this journey through education from the leading schools
and institutes in the country, for the betterment of the
environment and our future. On January 26 of every year,
International Environmental Education Day is celebrated and
utilized to be the day of support and service to our mother
nature. This day is an opportunity to assert and analyze the
issues and questions that pertain to helping the environment,
specifically the world that we currently live in. It reminds us to
understand and acknowledge the interdependence of man and the
environment itself, which is the very reason why we can't be
complacent. As human beings, we need to take the initiative to
take care of our homes. This day dates back to June 1972, when the
United Nations held a conference in Stockholm, Sweden, on Human
Environment. At this conference, it was discussed that certain
common principles and standards should be followed so that we can
preserve and improve the environment today. Following that, many
countries gathered in the International Workshop on Environment,
held in Belgrade, wherein the "Belgrade Charter" was
published to illustrate the essential demands of environmental
education. It's wonderful to know that people have congregated and
taken the time to bring forth awareness to themselves and others
as well, but some people are unaware or skeptical. For this
reason, this day is so significant and favorable to all mankind.
Sustainable development as they say is the "way to meet
people's current needs without compromising the capacity of future
generations." It's beneficial to us human beings to protect
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Today, January 25, 2026January 26: Australia Day (Anniversary
Day, Foundation Day, Australian Natives' Association (ANA) Day):
-- January 26, 1788: The eleven ships of The British First Fleet,
led by Arthur Phillip and carrying over 750 criminals, who had
been tried and convicted in Great Britain for mostly petty crimes,
to be transported to penal colonies of the British Empire in North
America and the Pacific, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour)
with an additional 300 citizens from military and medical
backgrounds specifically for the trip to Australia, to establish
Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.
The official national day of Australia to celebrate this event is
Australia Day, which now also celebrates all things about "The
Land Down Under". Today we join the 26,000,000 Aussies in
their festivities observing the anniversary of the country's
settlement. Australia is widely deemed as a great place to live
and a top travel destination. There is much to learn and
appreciate about the oldest, driest and flattest inhabited
continent in the world. So, read on for a fun history lesson and
cool ideas for having a fantastic Australia Day! The first
celebration of British sovereignty over the eastern coast of
Australia occurred in 1818. By 1935, all Australian states and
territories adopted "Australia Day" as the name of the
day, and in 1994, it was official marked as a public holiday.
Serving as a day of national unity and the largest annual civic
event in the country, Australia Day is filled with a variety of
community and family traditions, the presentation of national
awards and the welcoming of new Australian citizens. However, not
all Australians feel the same about the day. Indigenous
Australians have long referred to this date as "Invasion Day"
or "National Day Of Mourning" in protest of the arrival
of the British peoples. Some still observe counter-celebrations
and the holiday has sparked a controversial debate. In 1938,
William Cooper, a member of the Aboriginal Progressive
Association, declared it as a "Day Of Mourning,"
alluding to the annual re-enactment of Phillip's landing. On
Australia Day, many Aboriginal people mourn their forebears who
suffered and and perished during colonisation. Now, the day is
also infused with deep respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander culture. Protests to change the date of Australia Day to
respect the Indigenous Australians also take place. The Austral
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Today, January 25, 2026January 26: Lotus 1-2-3 Day: -- This day
commemorates the release of the best spreadsheet program to grace
the market. Lotus software took the personal PC world by storm and
changed the way people calculated, well, everything. This was a
must-have office software that paved the way for other
spreadsheets. You may have even heard of some - Microsoft Excel,
anyone? Today's the day we celebrate Lotus 1-2-3's birthday and
the ease it brought to most individual's work life. In the 1970s,
when people wanted to calculate anything big (like office
expenses, etc.), they had to rely on big pieces of paper -
literally, 'spreadsheets.' Then, in the 1980s, a program called
VisiCalc came along. It made number-crunching very easy and took
its host computer, the Apple II series, to the top of the personal
computer charts. Back then, all computer systems had a 'killer
app' that made the whole system worth buying. In this same period,
two guys Mitchell Kapor and Jonathan Sachs, launched the Lotus
Development Corporation. They developed an IBM P.C., and then our
hero - the Lotus 1-2-3. Taking computing one step further, the
Lotus 1-2-3 was a three-in-one tool that combined spreadsheet,
charting, and basic database functionality - hence the name. While
the Lotus 1-2-3 was similar to the VisiCalc, it was much faster,
boasted better features, and let people multitask. This allowed
Lotus 1-2-3 to become the undominated market leader, which, of
course, took IBM to the top too. The company made a killing thanks
to their 'killer app', bringing in a net worth of 150M USD in
their first year itself, which increased to 156.9M USD by the next
year. A year later, Lotus 1-2-3 was bumped out of the top position
by a program that became a household name - Microsoft Excel. By
the 1990s, Lotus 1-2-3 was third on the list of topmost
spreadsheet programs, and it was relegated into oblivion over the
years. Almost 30 years later, in 2012, IBM - which had taken over
Lotus - announced they were retiring the Lotus brand. Lotus 1-2-3,
the Lotus brand's core product, was retired in 2013.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Butch
Cassidy The Wild Bunch & The Sundance Kid DVD Video Download
Today, January 25, 2026( #JCKaelin here: One of EarthStation1
MediaOutlet's earliest, kindest and most influential customers :)
) ========= January 26, 1925: #BOTD: #HBD! Paul Newman, American
actor, voice actor, director, producer, race car driver,
philanthropost and businessman, co-founder of Newman's Own, and a
patron of our EarthStation1.com website since its earliest days
(d. September 26, 2008) is #born Paul Leonard Newman in Shaker
Heights, Ohio to a Jewish father and a Catholic, but practicing
Christian Scientist, mother (Newman practiced no religion as an
adult, but described himself as a Jew, saying "it's more of a
challenge"). He won and was nominated for numerous awards,
winning an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 film The
Color of Money, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a
Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many others.
Newman's other roles include the title characters in The Hustler
(1961), Hud (1963), Harper (1966) and Cool Hand Luke (1967), as
well as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Life and
Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), The Sting (1973), and The Verdict
(1982). He voiced Doc Hudson in the first installment of
Disney-Pixar's Cars as his final acting performance, with voice
recordings being used in Cars 3 (2017). Newman won several
national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America
road racing, and his race teams won several championships in
open-wheel IndyCar racing. He was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a
food company from which he donated all post-tax profits and
royalties to charity. As of January 2017, these donations have
totaled over 485M USD. He was a co-founder of Safe Water Network,
a nonprofit that develops sustainable drinking water solutions for
those in need. In 1988, Newman founded the SeriousFun Children's
Network, a global family of summer camps and programs for children
with serious illness which has served 290,076 children since its
inception.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Lincoln
And The War Within: Election To Ft. Sumter DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, January 25, 2026January 26, 1861: The American Civil War
(The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Secession Of The
Southern States Of America: The Secession Of Louisiana From The
United States Of America: -- In reaction to the election of
Abraham Lincoln as President, Louisiana secedes from the United
States. By 1856, the South had lost control of Congress, and was
no longer able to silence calls for an end to slavery, which came
mostly from the more populated, free states of the North. The
Republican Party, founded in 1854, pledged to stop the spread of
slavery beyond those states where it already existed. After
Abraham Lincoln was elected the first Republican president in
1860, seven cotton states - South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida,
Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas respectively - declared
their secession and formed the Confederate States of America
before Lincoln was inaugurated. The United States government, both
outgoing and incoming, refused to recognize the Confederacy, and
when the new Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered his
troops to open fire on Fort Sumter in April 1861, there was an
overwhelming demand, North and South, for war. Only the state of
Kentucky attempted to remain neutral, and it could only do so
briefly, and chose to remain in the Union. When Lincoln called for
troops to suppress what he referred to as "combinations too
powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary" judicial or
martial means, four more states - Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee
and North Carolina - decided to secede and join the Confederacy,
which then moved its capital to Richmond, Virginia. Residents of
the western counties of Virginia did not wish to secede along with
the rest of the state. This section of Virginia was admitted into
the Union as the state of West Virginia on June 20, 1863. Four
slave states decided to stay in the Union: Delaware, Kentucky,
Maryland, and Missouri. Although divided in their loyalties, a
combination of political maneuvering and Union military pressure
kept these states from seceding.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Douglas
MacArthur Documentaries Set DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, January 25, 2026January 26, 1880: #BOTD: #HBD! Douglas
MacArthur, American General of the Army for the United States, as
well as a Field Marshal to the Philippine Army, Medal of Honor
recipient (d. April 5, 1964) is #born a military brat at Little
Rock Barracks, on a military base in Little Rock, Arkansas into a
distinguished military family. His father, Arthur MacArthur Jr.,
then a U.S. Army captain, became a lieutenant general of the
United States Armyand the military Governor-General of the
American-occupied Philippines in 1900; his father's father was
Scottish-born jurist and politician Arthur MacArthur Sr. Arthur
Jr., who received the Medal of Honor for his actions with the
Union Army in the Battle Of Missionary Ridge during the American
Civil War, and was likewise promoted to the rank of lieutenant
general. His mother, Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur (nicknamed
"Pinky") came from a prominent Norfolk, Virginia,
family. Two of her brothers had fought for the South in the Civil
War, and refused to attend her wedding. Of the extended family,
MacArthur is also distantly related to Matthew Perry, a Commodore
of the U.S. Navy who played a leading role in the opening of Japan
to the West with the Convention Of Kanagawa in 1854. Douglas
MacArthur was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the
1930s, and he played a prominent role in the Pacific theater
during World War II. Macarthur received the Medal of Honor for his
service in the Philippines campaign; this made him and his father
Arthur MacArthur Jr. the first father and son to be awarded the
medal. He was one of only five to rise to the rank of General of
the Army in the U.S. Army, and the only one conferred the rank of
field marshal in the Philippine Army. Raised in a military family
in the American Old West, MacArthur was valedictorian at the West
Texas Military Academy where he finished high school, and First
Captain at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where
he graduated top of the class of 1903. During the 1914 United
States occupation of Veracruz, he conducted a reconnaissance
mission, for which he was nominated for the Medal of Honor. In
1917, he was promoted from major to colonel and became chief of
staff of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division. In the fighting on the
Western Front during World War I, he rose to the rank of brigadier
general, was again nominated for a Medal of Honor, and was awarded
the Distinguished Service Cross twice and the Silver Star seven
times. From 1919 to 1922, MacArthur served as Superintendent of
the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he attempted a
series of reforms. His next assignment was in the Philippines,
where in 1924 he was instrumental in quelling the Philippine Scout
Mutiny. In 1925, he became the Army's youngest major general. He
served on the court-martial of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell
and was president of the American Olympic Committee during the
1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. In 1930, he became Chief of
Staff of the United States Army. As such, he was involved in the
expulsion of the Bonus Army protesters from Washington, D.C., in
1932, and the establishment and organization of the Civilian
Conservation Corps. He retired from the U.S. Army in 1937 and
became Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Government of the
Philippines. MacArthur was recalled to active duty in 1941 as
commander of United States Army Forces in the Far East. A series
of disasters followed, starting with the destruction of his air
forces on 8 December 1941 and the Japanese invasion of the
Philippines. MacArthur's forces were soon compelled to withdraw to
Bataan, where they held out until May 1942. In March 1942,
MacArthur, his family and his staff left nearby Corregidor Island
in PT boats and escaped to Australia, where MacArthur became
Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area. Upon his arrival,
MacArthur gave a speech in which he famously promised "I
shall return" to the Philippines. After more than two years
of fighting, he fulfilled that promise. For his defense of the
Philippines, MacArthur was awarded the Medal of Honor. He
officially accepted the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945
aboard the USS Missouri, which was anchored in Tokyo Bay, and he
oversaw the occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951. As the
effective ruler of Japan, he oversaw sweeping economic, political
and social changes. In 1950, after war broke out in Korea, he
became commander of the United Nations forces. He led the United
Nations Command in the Korean War with initial success; however,
the invasion of North Korea provoked the Chinese, causing a series
of major defeats. Disagreements with President Harry Truman over
war policy resulted in his contentious dismissal from command by
President Harry S. Truman on April 11, 1951. He then appeared
before a joint session of Congress and announced his retirement,
stating, "Old soldiers never die: they just fade away."
He later became chairman of the board of Remington Rand. Douglas
MacArthur died of natural causes in Washington D.C. at the age of
84. He is buried at athe MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Alien
Secrets Area 51 2 Part Documentary Series MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, January 25, 2026January 26, 1959: #BOTD: #HBD! Bob Lazar,
American businessman and conspiracy researcher who was hired in
the late 1980s to reverse-engineer extraterrestrial technology at
a secret site called "S-4", a subsidiary installation
located several kilometers south of the United States Air Force
facility popularly known as Area 51, is #born Robert Scott Lazar
in Coral Gables, Florida. Lazar examined an alien craft and read
US government briefing documents that described alien involvement
in human affairs over the past 10,000 years. His claims brought
additional public attention to Area 51 and fueled interest in its
classified activities. His assertions have been the cause of
intense controversy.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Henchmen Of The Third Reich: Goering Goebbels Hess DVD, MP4, USB
Drive
Today, January 25, 2026January 26, 2003: #DOTD: #RIP: 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 (b. January 15, 1917) #dies 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. Hugh Trevor-Roper was
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.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: 1960
Democratic & Republican National Conventions DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, January 25, 2026January 26, 1979: #DOTD: #RIP: Nelson
Rockefeller, American businessman and politician, 41st Vice
President of the United States (b. July 8, 1908) #dies of a heart
attack at the age of 70 while alone with his 25 year old aide
Megan Marshack, in undeniably intimate circumstances. The
circumstances of Rockefeller's death led to widespread speculation
regarding a possible adulterous relationship between Rockefeller
and Marshack. Marshack had worked for Rockefeller when he served
as vice president, had relocated to New York and continued to work
for him after his term as vice president ended, and had received
financial assistance from Rockefeller in purchasing and furnishing
a condominium several doors down from his Manhattan townhouse.
Marshack was a named beneficiary in his will, though the bulk of
his estate was left to his wife with other large gifts going to
museums. Neither Marshack nor the family has ever commented
publicly on the circumstances surrounding Rockefeller's death. The
family would not consent to an autopsy. In 2017, the New York
Daily News stated that following Rockefeller's death, "it
wasn't long before Johnny Carson could start drawing laughs merely
by uttering the words 'Megan Marshack.'" Rockefeller's
remains were cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in nearby Hartsdale,
New York. On January 29, 1979, family and close friends gathered
to inter his ashes in the private Rockefeller family cemetery in
Sleepy Hollow, New York. A memorial service was held at Riverside
Church in Upper Manhattan on February 2; the service was attended
by 2,200 people. Attendees included President Jimmy Carter and
former Secretary Of State Henry Kissinger. Born Nelson Aldrich
Rockefeller in Bar Harbor, Maine, he was an American businessman
and politician who served as the 41st Vice President of the United
States from 1974 to 1977, and previously as the 49th Governor of
New York (1959-1973). He also served as Assistant Secretary Of
State for American Republic Affairs for Presidents Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (1944-1945) as well as
Under-Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Dwight D.
Eisenhower (1953-1954). A member of the wealthy Rockefeller
family, he was a noted art collector and served starting in 1931
in various capacities on the board of directors and administrator
of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York, an art deco complex
of buildings that houses at Radio City the NBC network radio and
television studios and Radio City Music Hall, an international
complex for foreign tenants, and the orginal complex which
originally hosted printed media as well as Eastern Air Lines; the
complex is noted for the large quantities of art present on almost
all of its Art Deco buildings, as well as its Radio City section
and its ice-skating rink. The complex is also famous for its
annual lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
Rockefeller was a Republican who was often considered to be
liberal, progressive, or moderate. He persuaded then-Vice
President Richard Nixon to alter the Republican Party platform
just before the 1960 Republican Convention in what was termed the
Treaty of Fifth Avenue. In his time, liberals in the Republican
Party were called "Rockefeller Republicans". As Governor
of New York from 1959 to 1973, Rockefeller's achievements included
the expansion of the State University of New York, efforts to
protect the environment, the construction of the Governor Nelson
A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza in Albany, increased facilities
and personnel for medical care, and the creation of the New York
State Council on the Arts. After unsuccessfully seeking the
Republican presidential nomination in 1960, 1964, and 1968,
Rockefeller served as Vice President of the United States under
President Gerald R. Ford, who ascended to the presidency following
the August 1974 resignation of Richard Nixon over the Watergate
scandal. Rockefeller was the second vice president appointed to
the position under the 25th Amendment, following Ford himself.
Rockefeller decided not to join the 1976 Republican ticket with
Ford, and he retired from politics in 1977. As of 2018,
Rockefeller remains the last vice president to decline seeking
election. As a businessman, Rockefeller was president and later
chair of Rockefeller Center, Inc., and he formed the International
Basic Economy Corporation in 1947. Rockefeller assembled a
significant art collection and promoted public access to the arts.
He served as trustee, treasurer, and president of the Museum of
Modern Art, and founded the Museum of Primitive Art in 1954. In
the area of philanthropy, he founded the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
in 1940 with his four brothers and established the American
International Association for Economic and Social Development in
1946.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Evita
Peron 1981 TV Miniseries Faye Dunaway MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, January 25, 2026January 26, 1992: #DOTD: #RIP: Jose
Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor and director (b. (January 8,
January 8, 1912) #dies of colorectal cancer in Coral Gables,
Florida 18 days after his 80th birthday, and is interred in Santa
Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery in Old San Juan in his native
Puerto Rico. He was born Jose Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintron in
San Juan, Puerto Rico. He first achieved prominence for his
portrayal of Cyrano de Bergerac in the play of the same name,
which earned him the inaugural Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
in 1947. He reprised the role in a 1950 film version and won an
Academy Award, making him the first Puerto Rican-born actor and
the first Hispanic actor to win an Oscar. His best-known film
roles include Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge (1952),
defense attorney Barney Greenwald in The Caine Mutiny (1954), the
Turkish Bey in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Siegfried Rieber in Ship
of Fools (1965), and Emperor Shaddam in Dune (1984). Ferrer also
maintained a prolific acting and directing career on Broadway,
winning a second Best Actor Tony for The Shrike, and Best Director
for The Shrike, The Fourposter, and Stalag 17. Ferrer was the
father of actor Miguel Ferrer by former wife Rosemary Clooney, the
grandfather of actress Tessa Ferrer, and the uncle of actor George
Clooney. His contributions to American theatre were recognized in
1981, when he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
In 1985, he received the National Medal of Arts from President
Reagan, becoming the first actor so honored.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Hell On
Earth: The Kuwaiti Oil Fires Documentary Set MP4 Download DVD
Today, January 25, 2026January 23-26, 1991: The Aftermath Of
World War II: The Cold War: The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War,
Gulf War I): Operation Desert Storm: The Kuwaiti Oil Fires: --
Iraq continues to burn Kuwaiti oil fields in retaliation against
Kuwait and the forces of The Coalition Of The Gulf War. The
Kuwaiti Oil Fires were caused by Iraqi military forces setting
fire to a reported 605 to 732 oil wells along with an unspecified
number of oil filled low-lying areas, such as oil lakes and fire
trenches, as part of a scorched earth policy while retreating from
Kuwait in 1991 due to the advances of US-led coalition forces in
the Persian Gulf War. The fires were started in January and
February 1991, and the first well fires were extinguished in early
April 1991, with the last well capped on November 6, 1991. 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.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Saddam's War On Wildlife: Gulf War DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, January 25, 2026January 23-26, 1991: The Aftermath Of
World War II: The Cold War: The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War,
Gulf War I): Operation Desert Storm: The Gulf War Oil Spill: -- As
Iraq continues to burn Kuwaiti oil fields, it also continues to
dump 400 million US gallons of crude oil into the Persian Gulf,
causing the largest offshore oil spill in history at that time. It
was reported as a deliberate natural resources attack to keep U.S.
Marines from coming ashore (Missouri and Wisconsin had shelled
Failaka Island during the war to reinforce the idea that there
would be an amphibious assault attempt). About 30-40% of this came
from allied raids on Iraqi coastal targets. The Gulf War Oil Spill
was one of the largest oil spills in history. The apparent
strategic goal was to foil a potential landing by US Marines. It
also made commandeering oil reserves dangerous for US and
Coalition forces as visibility and movement were inhibited. The
immediate reports from Baghdad said that American airstrikes had
caused a discharge of oil from two tankers. Coalition forces
determined the main source of oil to be the Sea Island terminal in
Kuwait. On January 26, three US F-117 fighter-bombers destroyed
pipelines to prevent further spillage into the Persian Gulf.
Several other sources of oil were found to be active: tankers and
a damaged Kuwaiti oil refinery near Mina Al Ahmadi, tankers near
Bubiyan Island, and Iraq's Mina Al Bakr terminal. 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.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Perspective On Greatness Cops And Robbers + Bonus Sam Sheppard MP4
DVD
Today, January 25, 2026January 26, 1973: #DOTD: #RIP: Edward G.
Robinson, Romanian-American actor of stage, radio and screen
during Hollywood's Golden Age (b. December 12, 1893) #dies at
Mount Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles of bladder cancer aged 79.
Services were held at Temple Israel in Los Angeles where Charlton
Heston delivered the eulogy. Over 1,500 friends of Robinson
attended with another 500 crowded outside. His body was then flown
to New York where it was entombed in a crypt in the family
mausoleum at Beth-El Cemetery in Brooklyn. Among his pallbearers
were Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis, Mervyn LeRoy, George Burns,
Sam Jaffe, and Frank Sinatra. In October 2000, Robinson's image
was imprinted on a U.S. postage stamp, its sixth in its Legends of
Hollywood series. He was born Emanuel Goldenberg to a
Yiddish-speaking Romanian Jewish family in Bucharest, the son of
Sarah (nee Guttman) and Morris Goldenberg, a builder. After one of
his brothers was attacked by an anti-semitic mob, the family
decided to emigrate to the United States. Robinson arrived in New
York City on February 21, 1904. "At Ellis Island I was born
again," he wrote. "Life for me began when I was 10 years
old." He grew up on the Lower East Side, and had his Bar
Mitzvah at First Roumanian-American Congregation. He attended
Townsend Harris High School and then the City College of New York,
planning to become a criminal attorney. An interest in acting and
performing in front of people led to him winning an American
Academy of Dramatic Arts scholarship, after which he changed his
name to Edward G. Robinson (the G. standing for his original
surname). He served in the United States Navy during World War I,
but was never sent overseas. Edward G. Robinson appeared in 30
Broadway plays and more than 100 films during a 50-year career and
is best remembered for his tough-guy roles as gangsters in such
films as Little Caesar and Key Largo. During the 1930s and 1940s,
he was an outspoken public critic of fascism and Nazism, which
were growing in strength in Europe leading up to World War II. His
activism included contributing over 250K USD to more than 850
organizations involved in war relief, along with cultural,
educational and religious groups. During the 1950s, he was called
to testify at the House Un-American Activities Committee during
the Red Scare, but was cleared of any deliberate Communist
involvement when he claimed he was "duped" by several
people whom he named (including screenwriter Dalton Trumbo,
according to the official Congressional record, "Communist
infiltration of Hollywood motion-picture industry").
Robinson's roles included an insurance investigator in the film
noir Double Indemnity, Dathan (adversary of Moses) in The Ten
Commandments, and his final performance in the science-fiction
story Soylent Green. Robinson received an Academy Honorary Award
for his work in the film industry, which was awarded two months
after he died in 1973. He is ranked number 24 in the American Film
Institute's list of the 25 greatest male stars of Classic American
cinema.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Situation Hopeless But Not Serious (1966) DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, January 25, 2026January 26, 2017: #DOTD: #RIP: Mike
Connors, American actor and producer (b. August 15, 1925) #dies in
Tarzana, California, at the age of 91, a week after being
diagnosed with leukemia. His remains were cremated, and the ashes
were given to his widow Mary Lou Willey. Born Krekor Ohanian in
Fresno, California, to Armenian parents, Mike Connors was best
known for playing private detective Joe Mannix in the CBS
television series Mannix from 1967-1975, a role which earned him a
Golden Globe Award in 1970, the first of six straight nominations,
as well as four consecutive Emmy nominations from 1970-1973. He
starred in the short-lived series Tightrope! (1959-1960) and
Today's FBI (1981-1982). Connors' acting career spanned six
decades. In addition to his work on television, he appeared in
numerous films, including Sudden Fear (1952), Situation
Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965), Stagecoach (1966), Kiss the
Girls and Make Them Die (1966), and Too Scared to Scream (1985),
which he also produced.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Miles
Ahead: The Music Of Miles Davis DVD, Video Download, Flash Drive
Today, January 25, 2026January 26, 1985: #DOTD: #RIP: Kenny
Clarke, nicknamed Klook, African American Jazz and Bebop drummer,
composer and bandleader (b. January 9, 1914) #dies of a heart
attack at his home in Montreuil, France, aged 71. His burial
details are not publicly disclosed. He was born Kenneth Clarke
Spearman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A major innovator of the
bebop style of drumming, he pioneered the use of the ride cymbal
to keep time rather than the hi-hat, along with the use of the
bass drum for irregular accents ("dropping bombs"). He
was orphaned at the age of about five and began playing the drums
when he was eight or nine on the urging of a teacher at his
orphanage. Turning professional in 1931 at the age of seventeen,
he moved to New York City in 1935 when he began to establish his
drumming style and reputation. As the house drummer at Minton's
Playhouse in the early 1940s, he participated in the after-hours
jams that led to the birth of bebop. After military service in the
US and Europe between 1943 and 1946, he returned to New York, but
from 1948 to 1951 he was mostly based in Paris. He stayed in New
York between 1951 and 1956, performing with the Modern Jazz
Quartet and playing on early Miles Davis recordings. He then moved
permanently to Paris, where he performed and recorded with
European and visiting American musicians and co-led the Kenny
Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band between 1961 and 1972. Kenny
Clarkecontinued to perform and record until the month before he
died.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Olsen
and Johnson's Fireball Fun-For-All TV Series DVD, MP4 USB Drive
Today, January 25, 2026January 26, 1963: #DOTD: #RIP: Ole Olsen,
American vaudevillian and comedian, best known as half of the
Olsen and Johnson comedy duo of vaudeville, radio, the Broadway
stage, motion pictures and television (b. November 6, 1892) #dies
in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the age of 70 of a kidney ailment,
and is interred in Palm Desert Memorial in Las Vegas, Nevada, in a
grave adjoining that of Chic Johnson. Ole's ambition was to make
people is remembered for the quote, "May you live as long as
you laugh, and laugh as long as you live", which are cited on
his headstone. He was born John Sigvard Olsen in Peru, Indiana,
the son of a Norwegian immigrant, Gustav Olsen, a boiler-maker for
the railroad, and his wife, Catherine, who was of Swiss-German
descent. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1912 with a
degree in music and hit the Vaudeville circuit. In 1914 he met
Chic Johnson, who was advertising himself as the "Greatest
Ragtime Pianist in the Midwest". The two performers met when
they were hired as musicians in the same band. When the band broke
up "Ole" Olsen and "Chic" Johnson formed the
Olsen and Johnson comedy team. They really did not have a set act
but found themselves booked into a small Chicago nightclub as part
of Mike Fritzol's Frolics. When it came time for their turn in the
show, unannounced and not particularly welcome, the duo pushed a
piano onstage. Johnson seated himself at the keyboard and began to
plunk out a ragtime tune. Olsen joined in with his violin and
started singing, making up comical lyrics as he went along. The
pair began to exchange "patter", mostly insults, and the
soon-to-be-famous "Olsen and Johnson" team emerged. They
performed in Vaudeville, as well as making some film appearances,
for 24 years before hitting Broadway in 1938 with the show
Hellzapoppin', later made into a successful cult film. They were
early pioneers of television with their 1949 tv comedy series
Fireball Fun-For-All, which is largely representive of their
highly-original, fourth wall-breaking vaudeville act. Ole Olsen
was married twice. He had three children with his first wife,
Lillian: J. C., Joy, and Moya. They were later divorced. His son,
J. C., died by suicide. Moya married William P. Lear of Learjet
fame in 1942. Ole was involved in a serious automobile accident in
1950 and recuperated at the Lear home. In June 1961 Ole married
Eileen Maria Osthoff, a dancer and choreographer he had known for
eight years.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, January 25, 2026January 26, 1863: The American Civil War
(The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater
Of The American Civil War: The Battle Of Fredericksburg: --
General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the
Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign of December
11-15, 1862 resulted in one of the most one-sided battles of the
war, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those
suffered by the Confederates. He is replaced by General Joseph
Hooker, chiefly remembered for his decisive defeat by Confederate
General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville fought
from April 30 to May 6, 1863. The Army of the Potomac was the
principal Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil
War. It was created in July 1861 shortly after the First Battle Of
Bull Run and was disbanded in May 1865 following the surrender of
the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in April.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Outer
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Today, January 25, 2026January 26, 1962: Rocket Launches: The
History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold
War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Missions To The Moon: Space
Probes: Lunar Space Probes: The United States Space Program: The
Ranger Program: Ranger 3: -- The Ranger 3 lunar probe robotic
spacecraft is launched to study the Moon as part of the Ranger
program, a series of unmanned space missions by the United States
in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up
images of the surface of the Moon.. The space probe later missed
the moon by 22,000 miles and entered a heliocentric orbit. The
Ranger 3 space probe was designed to transmit pictures of the
lunar surface during a period of 10 minutes of flight prior to
impacting on the Moon, to rough-land a seismometer capsule on the
Moon, to collect gamma-ray data in flight, to study radar
reflectivity of the lunar surface, and to continue testing of the
Ranger program for development of lunar and interplanetary
spacecraft.
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Today's
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Justice Brown v Board Of Education Docudrama DVD, Download, USB
Today, January 25, 2026January 26, 1966: Civil Rights Movements:
The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): African American
District Court Justices: -- President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates
Constance Baker Motley to a seat on the United States District
Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by Judge
Archie Owen Dawson. Senator James Eastland of Mississippi delayed
her confirmation process for seven months. Eastland was in
opposition to her past desegregation work including Brown v. Board
of Education and Meredith v. Fair. He used his influence as chair
of the Senate Judiciary Committee to disrupt Motley's nomination,
and went as far as accusing her of being a member of the Communist
Party. Despite opposition, she was confirmed by the United States
Senate on August 30, 1966, and received her commission the same
day, becoming the first African American female federal judge. She
served as Chief Judge from 1982 to 1986. She assumed senior status
on September 30, 1986. Her service terminated on September 28,
2005, due to her death in New York City. Constance Baker Motley
(nee Baker; September 14, 1921 - September 28, 2005) was an
American jurist and politician, who served as a Judge of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New
York. A key strategist of the civil rights movement, she was state
senator, and Borough President of Manhattan in New York City
before becoming a United States federal judge. She obtained a role
with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund as a staff
attorney in 1946 after receiving her law degree, and continued her
work with the organization for more than twenty years. She was the
first Black woman to argue at the Supreme Court and argued 10
landmark civil rights cases, winning nine. She was a law clerk to
Thurgood Marshall, aiding him in the case Brown v. Board of
Education. Motley was also the first African-American woman
appointed to the federal judiciary, serving as a United States
district judge of the United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York. In 1965, Motley was elected
President of the Borough of Manhattan to fill a one-year vacancy.
She was the first woman to hold the office. As president, she
authored a revitalization plan for Harlem and East Harlem,
successfully fighting for 700K USD to improve these and other
underserved areas of the city.
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Today's
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Today, January 25, 2026January 26, 1923: #BOTD: #HBD! Anne
Jeffreys, American actress and singer, noted as the female lead in
the 1950s TV series Topper (d. September 27, 2017) is #born Annie
Jeffreys Carmichael in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Jeffreys entered
the entertainment field at a young age, having her initial
training in voice (she was an accomplished soprano). She became a
member of the New York Municipal Opera Company on a scholarship
and sang the lead at Carnegie Hall in such presentations as La
boheme, Traviata, and Pagliacci. However, she decided as a
teenager to sign with the John Robert Powers agency as a junior
model. Her plans for an operatic career were sidelined when she
was cast in a staged musical review, Fun for the Money. Her
appearance in that revue led to her being cast in her first movie
role, in I Married an Angel (1942), starring Nelson Eddy and
Jeanette MacDonald. She was under contract to both RKO and
Republic Studios during the 1940s, including several appearances
as Tess Trueheart in the Dick Tracy series, and the 1944 Frank
Sinatra musical Step Lively. She also appeared in the horror
comedy Zombies on Broadway with Wally Brown and Alan Carney in
1945 and starred in Riffraff with Pat O'Brien two years later.
Jeffreys also appeared in a number of western films and as bank
robber John Dillinger's moll in 1945's Dillinger. When her
Hollywood career faltered, she instead focused on the stage,
playing lead roles on Broadway in productions such as the 1947
opera Street Scene, the 1948 Cole Porter musical Kiss Me, Kate
(having replaced Patricia Morison) and the 1952 musical Three
Wishes for Jamie. With long-term husband Robert Sterling, she
appeared in the CBS sitcom Topper (1953-1955), in which she was
billed in a voiceover as "the ghostess with the mostest".
On December 18, 1957, Jeffreys and her husband played a couple
with an unusual courtship arrangement brought about by an attack
of the fever in the episode "The Julie Gage Story",
broadcast in the first season of NBC's Wagon Train. After a
semi-retirement in the 1960s, she appeared on television,
appearing in episodes of such series as Love, American Style (with
her husband), L.A. Law and Murder, She Wrote. She was nominated
for a Golden Globe for her work in The Delphi Bureau (1972). From
1984 to 1985, she starred in the short-lived Aaron Spelling series
Finder of Lost Loves. She also appeared in Baywatch as David
Hasselhoff's mother, and also had a recurring role in the
night-time soap Falcon Crest as Amanda Croft. In 1979, she guest
starred as Siress Blassie in the Battlestar Galactica episode "The
Man with Nine Lives" as a love interest of Chameleon, a part
played by Fred Astaire. She was the last person to dance with him
onscreen. She also guest starred as Prime Minister Dyne in the
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "Planet of the Amazon
Women" as the leader of the titular planet. Her most recent
career was in daytime television; From 1984 to 2004, she appeared
on the soap opera General Hospital (as well as its short-lived
spinoff, Port Charles) in the recurring role of wealthy socialite
Amanda Barrington, a long-time board member of both the hospital
and ELQ. In her initial storyline, she was part of a blackmail
scheme which led to the murder of Jimmy Lee Holt's mother,
Beatrice, of whose death she was a suspect in. In the last year of
Port Charles, Amanda last appeared on screen in 2004 when Amanda
attended Lila Quartermain's funeral. In 2012, she appeared in an
episode of California's Gold being interviewed, along with Ann
Rutherford, by Huell Howser. Jeffreys' star in the Television
category on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is at 1501 Vine Street. It
was dedicated February 8, 1960. In 1997, she was a recipient of a
Golden Boot Award as one who "furthered the tradition of the
western on film and in television." In 1998, she received the
Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center.
Jeffreys was married twice. Her first marriage, to Joseph Serena
in 1945, was annulled in 1949. They had no children. She married
actor Robert Sterling in 1951. Anne Jeffreys died at the age of 94
in Los Angeles, California. She was survived by her stepdaughter
Tisha Sterling, her three sons, five grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
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