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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16: International Hot And Spicy Food Day: -- A special culinary annual day of observance where you get to celebrate and devour some of the spiciest dishes in the world! Every country on the globe has its cooking style and recipes. And while some nations eat mild food, others enjoy hot food items that will make you gulp down a jug of water. Yes, there are some super spicy dishes available and, guess what, people aren't afraid to consume them. Here's a tip before you head out on a spice-eating spree, make sure your stomach can handle the chili. Happy munching! Spices have been consumed for over 6,000 years to add flavor to a dish and for their many health benefits. For instance, spices can combat inflammation and have healing properties. It's due to these reasons that spices grew popular in ancient times. Ancient Greeks imported Eastern spices such as pepper, cassia, cinnamon, and ginger to the Mediterranean since spices and herbs played a role in medical science. According to sources, Around 460 to 377 B.C. Hippocrates wrote of herbs and spices that included saffron, cinnamon, thyme, coriander, mint, and marjoram. The "Father of Botany," as Theophrastus was known, in his two books, wrote about 600 spices and herbs in the period between 372 B.C. and 287 B.C. Romans created another use for spices - they often utilized them in spice-flavored wines and spice-scented balms and oils. Some spices also were used in poultices and healing plasters due to their healing properties. Curcumin too was used in Ayurvedic medicine to treat conditions like arthritis, autoimmune disorders, headaches, and nausea. That is not all. Capsaicin, an active component of chili peppers, is known to destroy cancer cells. A 2015 U.S. and China study found that eating spicy food six or seven days a week lowered mortality rates by 14%. So yes, if you never liked spicy food, it is about time you change your diet -- it's a decision you will enjoy for the rest of your life! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-classics-vol-9-dv9.html

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January 16: Prohibition Remembrance Day: January 16, 1919: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum, Between The Wars): Prohibition Of Alcohol: Prohibition In The United States (The Prohibition Era): The Constitution Of The United States: The Eighteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution (Amendment XVIII): -- The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification. For nearly 14 years, until December 5, 1933, the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages was illegal in the United States. The Amendment had the unexpected result of causing enormous growth of organized crime which provided bootleg liquor to thirsty Americans. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/demon-rum-dvd-american-alcohol-prohibition.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16, 1786: National Religious Freedom Day: -- Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson. The statute was a notable precursor of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Establishment Clause together with the Free Exercise Clause form the constitutional right of freedom of religion that is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The relevant constitutional text is: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...". The statute disestablished the Church of England in Virginia and guaranteed freedom of religion to people of all religious faiths, including Christians of all denominations, Jews, Muslims, and Hindus. The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was drafted in 1777, however it was not first introduced into the Virginia General Assembly until 1779, by Thomas Jefferson in the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia. The Statute for Religious Freedom is one of only three accomplishments Jefferson instructed be put in his epitaph, which reads: "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and father of the University of Virginia." #NationalReligiousFreedomDay #VirginiaStatuteForReligiousFreedom #ThomasJefferson #FreedomOfReligion #EstablishmentClause #FreeExerciseClause #FirstAmendmentToTheUnitedStatesConstitution #FirstAmendmentToTheUSConstitution #NationalDays #UnitedStatesConstitution #USConstitution On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/american-lifestyle-famous-americans-tv-series-2-dual-layer-dvd2.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16: Book Publishers Day: -- A day set aside to celebrate book publishers worldwide. Have you ever wondered how ideas get from the authors' minds until they manifest into books that end up in the hands of readers all over the globe? These amazing people make it possible, and it is only proper that we have a special day to celebrate them! Publishing became possible with the invention of writing, and book publishers have been around for that long! Before the printing press, scribes would sit down and hand copy the works of other authors. However, the printing press introduced by Johannes Gutenberg sparked a new age of book publishing. The printing press gave a new tool to book publishers, and books started to get widely distributed. The Chinese inventor Bi Sheng made a moveable type of earthenware circa 1045, but there are no known surviving examples of his work. The Korean civil servant Choe Yun-ui who lived during the Goryeo Dynasty invented the first metal moveable type around 1234. Early printed books, single sheets, and images were before 1501 in Europe these were known as 'incunables' or 'incunabula.' Traditional book publishers are selective about what they publish. They did not accept manuscripts straight from the authors, instead got a proposal of the manuscript then decided if they wanted to take on the job or otherwise. Book publishers buy or commission copy from independent authors; newspaper publishers, by contrast, usually hire staff to produce texts or employ freelance journalists. Magazine publishers may employ in-house writers and freelancers or have a mixture of both. The publishing sector extends to governments, civil society, and private companies for administrative or compliance requirements, business, research, advocacy, or public interest objectives. These can include annual reports, research reports, market research, policy briefings, and technical reports. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/words-at-war-mp3-cd-wwii-complete-broadcast3.html

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January 16, 27 BC: Rome: Ancient Rome: The Roman Empire: Royal Accessions: Accessions To The Throne Of The Roman Empire: -- Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, best known as the Roman Emperor Augustus or Augustus Caesar, or as Octavian (the name he took after Julius Caesar adopted him as his son), is first granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire. Augustus, Latin for "majestic", "the increaser" or "venerable", became on the death of Augustus Caesar an official title of his successor, and was so used by Roman emperors thereafter. The feminine form Augusta was used for Roman empresses and other females of the Imperial family. The masculine and feminine forms originated in the time of the Roman Republic, in connection with things considered divine or sacred in traditional Roman religion. Their use as titles for major and minor Roman deities of the Empire associated the Imperial system and Imperial family with traditional Roman virtues and the divine will, and may be considered a feature of the Roman Imperial cult. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Augustus was sometimes used as a name for men of aristocratic birth, especially in the lands of the Holy Roman Empire. It remains a given name for males. The Roman Empire, Imperium Romanum in Latin, was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia. The 500-year-old republic which preceded it was severely destabilized in a series of civil wars and political conflict, during which Julius Caesar was appointed as perpetual dictator and then assassinated in 44 BC. Civil wars and executions continued, culminating in the victory of Octavian, Caesar' adopted son, over Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the annexation of Egypt. Octavian' power was then unassailable and in 27 BC the Roman Senate formally granted him overarching power and the new title Augustus, effectively marking the end of the Roman Republic. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/story-of-civilization-will-amp-ariel-durant-mp3-dvd-11-audiobo311.html

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January 16, 1547: The Monarchy Of Russia (The Russian Monarchy): Royal Accessions: Successions To The Russian Throne: Coronations: The Coronation Of Ivan IV Vasilyevich (The Coronation Of Ivan The Terrible): -- Ivan Rurik, officially Ivan IV Vasilyevich, popularly known as Ivan The Terrible (August 25, 1530 - March 28, 1584) has himself officially crowned as the first Russian Czar (Caesar) although he had already ruled Russia since 1533. His reign lasted until 1584 and brought much needed reforms including a new legal code and cultural development. However, during his reign he instituted a campaign of terror against the Russian nobility and had over 3,000 persons put to death. He also killed his own son during a fit of rage. Commonly known as Ivan The Terrible or Ivan the Fearsome, a better translation into modern English would be Ivan the Formidable. He became "Tsar of All the Russias" until his death in 1584, a title was used by all his successors. During his reign, Russia conquered the Khanates of Kazan, Astrakhan and Sibir. He exercised autocratic control over Russia' hereditary nobility and developed a bureaucracy to administer the new territories. He transformed Russia from a medieval state into an empire, though at immense cost to its people, and its broader, long-term economy. Historic sources present disparate accounts of Ivan' complex personality: he was described as intelligent and devout, yet given to rages and prone to episodic outbreaks of mental instability. In one such outburst, he killed his son and heir Ivan Ivanovich. Ivan was an able diplomat, a patron of arts and trade, and founder of the Moscow Print Yard, Russia' first publishing house. He was popular among Russia' commoners and he is noted for his paranoia and harsh treatment of the Russian nobility. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/ivan-the-terrible-part-1-and-part-2-dvd-aka-ivan-grozny-2-d122.html

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January 16, 1605: First Publications: -- The first edition of Miguel de Cervantes' novel El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Spanish: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha), commonly known as Book One of Don Quixote, is published in Madrid, Spain. Its immediate success allowed Cervantes to write full time for the first time after a life of poverty and obscurity. Part Two of Don Quixote was published in 1615. A founding work of Western literature, it is often cited as the first modern novel, and many authors consider it to be the best literary work ever written. Don Quixote also holds the distinction of being the second-most-translated book in the world after the Bible. The plot revolves around the adventures of a noble (hidalgo) from La Mancha named Alonso Quixano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant (caballero andante) to revive chivalry and serve his nation, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical monologues on knighthood, already considered old-fashioned at the time. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story. The book had a major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844), Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), as well as the word quixotic and the epithet Lothario; the latter refers to a character in "El curioso impertinente" ("The Impertinently Curious Man"), an intercalated story that appears in Part One, chapters 33-35. The 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer cited Don Quixote as one of the four greatest novels ever written. When first published, Don Quixote was usually interpreted as a comic novel. After the French Revolution, it was better known for its central ethic that individuals can be right while society is quite wrong and seen as disenchanting. In the 19th century, it was seen as a social commentary, but no one could easily tell "whose side Cervantes was on". Many critics came to view the work as a tragedy in which Don Quixote's idealism and nobility are viewed by the post-chivalric world as insane, and are defeated and rendered useless by common reality. By the 20th century, the novel had come to occupy a canonical space as one of the foundations of modern literature. Considered as the best literary work ever written, it topped the list of the best literary works in history, which was established with the votes of one hundred great authors of 54 nationalities at the request of the Norwegian Book Club in 2002; thus, it was the only exception in the strict alphabetical order that had been arranged. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), Spanish soldier, tax collector, novelist, poet and playwright, is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language, and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, also called Cerbantes, is best known for Don Quixote, a classic of Western Literature, published in two parts between 1605 and 1615, often cited as the first modern novel, and as the most influential work of fiction ever written. Much of his life was spent in poverty and obscurity, many of its details are disputed or unknown, and the bulk of his surviving work was produced in the three years preceding his death. Despite this, his influence and literary contribution are reflected by the fact Spanish is often referred to as "the language of Cervantes". In 1569, Cervantes was forced to leave Spain and moved to Rome, where he worked in the household of a cardinal. In 1570, he enlisted in a Spanish Navy infantry regiment, and was badly wounded at the Battle of Lepanto in October 1571. He served as a soldier until 1575, when he was captured by Barbary pirates; after five years in captivity, he was ransomed, and returned to Madrid. His first significant novel, titled La Galatea, was published in 1585, but he continued to work as a purchasing agent, then later a government tax collector. After the succcess of Part One of Don Quixote in 1605, Part Two of Don Quixote was published in 1615, with other publications following, including Novelas ejemplares, or Exemplary Novels, Viaje del Parnaso, or Journey to Parnassus, and Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses. Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, or The Travails of Persiles and Sigismunda, was published after his death in 1616. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/pirates-12-part-documentary-series-mp4-video-download-124.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16, 1815: #BOTD: #HBD: Henry Halleck, American lawyer, general, and scholar, noted expert in military studies, known by the nickname that became derogatory "Old Brains", Commander of operations in the Western Theater of the American Civil War from 1861 until 1862, General in Chief of the Armies of the United States from 1862 to 1864, important participant in the admission of California as a state (d. January 9, 1872) is #born Henry Wager Halleck on a farm in Westernville, Oneida County, New York. A successful lawyer and land developer, Halleck commanded operations in the Western Theater, during which time, while the Union armies in the east were defeated and held back, the troops under Halleck's command won many important victories. However, Halleck was not present at the battles, and his subordinates earned most of the recognition. The only operation in which Halleck exercised field command was the Siege Of Corinth in the spring of 1862, a Union victory which he conducted with extreme caution. Halleck also developed rivalries with many of his subordinate generals, such as Ulysses S. Grant and Don Carlos Buell. In July 1862, following Major General George B. McClellan's failed Peninsula Campaign in the Eastern Theater, Halleck was promoted to general in chief. Halleck served in this capacity for about a year and a half. Halleck was a cautious general who believed strongly in thorough preparations for battle and in the value of defensive fortifications over quick, aggressive action. He was a master of administration, logistics, and the politics necessary at the top of the military hierarchy, but exerted little effective control over field operations from his post in Washington, D.C. His subordinates frequently criticized him and at times ignored his instructions. President Abraham Lincoln once described him as "little more than a first rate clerk." In March 1864, Grant was promoted to general in chief, and Halleck was relegated to chief of staff. Without the pressure of having to control the movements of the armies, Halleck performed capably in this task, ensuring that the Union armies were well-equipped. Henry Halleck became ill in January 1872 and his condition was diagnosed as edema caused by liver disease. He died at his headquarters where he was in command of the Military Division Of The South in Louisville, Kentucky, just 7 days short of his 57th birthday. He was buried in the Halleck family plot in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, on January 25. Halleck is commemorated by a street named for him in San Francisco and a statue in Golden Gate Park. He left no memoirs for posterity and apparently destroyed his private correspondence and memoranda. His estate at his death showed a net value of 474,773.16 USD (11,597,653.25 USD in 2023). His widow, Elizabeth, married Halleck's best friend, Col. George Washington Cullum in 1875. Cullum had served as Halleck's chief of staff in the Western Theater and then on his staff in Washington. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-siege-of-vicksburg-american-civil-war-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16, 1825: #BOTD: George Pickett, American general, best remembered for leading Pickett's Charge, the futile and bloody Confederate offensive on the third day of the Battle Of Gettysburg that bears the name "Pickett's Charge" (d. July 30, 1875) is #born George Edward Pickett in his grandfather's shop in Richmond, Virginia, and raised on his family's plantation at Turkey Island in the James River, about 20 miles southeast of present-day Richmond, Virginia. Pickett graduated last out of 59 cadets in the United States Military Academy class of 1846. He served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War, and there was noted for his service in the Battle Of Chapultepec, a battle against Mexican forces holding Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City, in September 1847. After this, he served in the Washington Territory, and eventually reached the rank of captain. Pickett participated in the bloodless Pig War (a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and United Kingdom over the British-U.S. border in the San Juan Islands, between Vancouver Island and the mainland) of 1859. Near the beginning of the American Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate States Army, and he attained the rank of brigadier general in January 1862. He commanded a brigade that saw heavy action during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862. Pickett was wounded at the Battle of Gaines's Mill on June 27. He did not return to command until September, following the Battle Of Antietam, when he was given command of a division in the Right Wing of The Army Of Northern Virginia, commanded by Major General James Longstreet, which became the I Corps that December. His division was lightly engaged at The Battle Of Fredericksburg, and, along with most of Longstreet's Corps, missed the Battle of Chancellorsville while participating in the Suffolk Campaign in 1863. During the Gettysburg Campaign, his division was, much to Pickett's frustration, the last to arrive on the field. However, it was one of three divisions under the command of General Longstreet to participate in a disastrous assault on Union positions on July 3, the final day of the battle. The attack has been given the name "Pickett's Charge". In February 1864, Pickett commanded the Confederate forces at the Battle of New Bern, and ordered the execution of 22 Confederate deserters found to be fighting amongst the U.S. troops. On April 1, 1865, he was defeated while in overall command of Confederate troops at the Battle of Five Forks. Following the war, Pickett feared prosecution for his execution of deserters and temporarily fled to Canada. He returned to Virginia in 1866. Legend says that after the war he remained bitter and dwelt extensively upon the loss of his men at Gettysburg. George Pickett died at age 50 in Norfolk, Virginia of a liver abscess, although whether it was alcohol-relat ed, amoebic or bacterial is not clear. He was initially interred in Cedar Grove Cemetery in Norfolk. His remains were disinterred on October 23, and he was buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, on October 24, 1875. More than 40,000 people lined the funeral route, while another 5,000 marched in the funeral procession. A memorial to Pickett was erected over his grave site and dedicated on October 5, 1888. The memorial was not, however, placed directly above Pickett's burial site, and the exact location of his remains is not clear. His wife LaSalle Corbell Pickett died on March 22, 1931, having outlived her husband by more than 55 years. Initially, Hollywood Cemetery declined to allow her to be buried next to her husband. Pickett's grandson, Lieutenant George E. Pickett III, threatened to have his grandfather disinterred and moved to Arlington National Cemetery, where both grandparents could be buried side by side. Hollywood Cemetery quickly agreed to permit LaSalle's interment at Hollywood, but this did not immediately occur for reasons which are not clear, and LaSalle was cremated and buried at Abbey Mausoleum in Arlington County, Virginia. Originally a mausoleum for the wealthy, it went bankrupt in 1968. The structure fell into disrepair, and it was vandalized many times and several graves desecrated. In early 1998, the Military Order of the Stars and Bars and United Daughters of the Confederacy worked together to pay for LaSalle's disinterment and reburial in front of the George E. Pickett Memorial in Hollywood Cemetery. LaSalle Pickett was buried on Saturday, March 21, 1998. She was the first woman interred in the Confederate military burial section. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/picketts-charge-the-turning-point-of-the-civil-war-mp4-download-dvd.html

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January 16, 1865: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater Of The American Civil War: The Atlanta Campaign: The Fall Of Atlanta: Sherman's March To The Sea (The Savannah Campaign, Sherman's March): The Reconstruction Era (Reconstruction): Special Field Orders, No. 15 (Series 1865): -- Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi of the United States Army, issues his Field Order No. 15, provided for the confiscation of 400,000 acres (1,600 km2) of land along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida and the dividing of it into parcels of not more than 40 acres (0.16 km2), on which were to be settled approximately 18,000 formerly enslaved families and other black people then living in the area. The orders were issued following Sherman's March to the Sea. They were intended to address the immediate problem of dealing with the tens of thousands of black refugees who had joined Sherman's march in search of protection and sustenance, and "to assure the harmony of action in the area of operations." Critics allege that his intention was for the order to be a temporary measure to address an immediate problem, and not to grant permanent ownership of the land to the freedmen, although most of the recipients assumed otherwise. General Sherman issued his orders four days after meeting with twenty local black ministers and lay leaders and with U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in Savannah, Georgia. Brig. Gen. Rufus Saxton, an abolitionist from Massachusetts who had previously organized the recruitment of black soldiers for the Union Army, was put in charge of implementing the orders. Freedmen were settled in Georgia, particularly along the Savannah River, in the Ogeechee district of Chatham County, and on islands off of the coast of Savannah. In the end, the orders had little concrete effect because President Andrew Johnson issued a proclamation that returned the lands to southern owners who took a loyalty oath. Johnson granted amnesty to most former Confederates and allowed the rebel states to elect new governments. These governments, which often included ex-Confederate officials, soon enacted black codes, measures designed to control and repress the recently freed slave population. General Saxton and his staff at the Charleston SC Freedmen Bureau's office refused to carry out President Johnson's wishes and denied all applications to have lands returned. In the end, Johnson and his allies removed General Saxton and his staff, but not before Congress was able to provide legislation to assist some families in keeping their lands. Although mules are not mentioned in the orders, they were a main source for the expression "forty acres and a mule." A historical marker commemorating the order was erected by the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah, near the corner of Harris and Bull streets, in Madison Square. 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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January 16, 1894: #BOTD: Irving Mills, controversial American music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter who sometimes used the pseudonyms Goody Goodwin and Joe Primrose (d. April 21, 1985) is #born Isadore Minsky to a Jewish family in Odessa, Russian Empire, although some biographies state that he was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Irving and his brother Jack discovered a number of great songwriters, including Zez Confrey, Sammy Fain, Harry Barris, Gene Austin, Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy McHugh, and Dorothy Fields. He greatly advanced and even started a few of the careers of Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Ben Pollack, Jack Teagarden, Benny Goodman, Will Hudson, Raymond Scott and many others. Mills managed Ellington from 1926 to 1939. In his contract with Ellington, Mills owned 50% of Duke Ellington Inc. and thus gained a credit for tunes that became popular standards: "Mood Indigo", "(In My) Solitude", "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," "Sophisticated Lady", and many others now listed on the ASCAP website. He also pushed Ellington to record for Victor, Brunswick, Columbia, the "dime store labels" (Banner, Romeo, Perfect, Melotone, Cameo, Lincoln, and others) and even Hit of the Week. In spite of having a limited vocabulary, Mills was a deft lyricist. He sometimes used a ghost writer to complete his idea and sometimes built on the idea of the ghost writer. He was instrumental in Duke Ellington being hired by the Cotton Club. Mills thought he should ensure that the Ellington Orchestra always had top musicians and protected himself by forming the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, using them as a relief band at the Cotton Club. Cab Calloway and his band went into the Cotton Club with a new song Irving co-wrote with Calloway and Clarence Gaskill called "Minnie the Moocher". Irving Mills died in Palm Springs, California at the age of 91. He is buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park cemetery in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles County, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/a-duke-named-ellington-dvd-complete-2-part-tv-serie2.html

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January 16, 1907: #BOTD: Paul Nitze, American businessman, banker, politician and government official who helped shape U.S. Cold War defense policy over the course of numerous presidential administrations, best known for being the principal author of NSC 68 -- a top secret U.S. National Security Council (NSC) policy paper drafted for President Truman, one of the most important American policy statements of the Cold War -- and the co-founder of Team B -- a competitive analysis exercise commissioned by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to analyze threats the Soviet Union posed to the security of the United States -- tenth United States Secretary of the Navy, United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. and Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department (d. October 19, 2004) is #born Paul Henry Nitze in Amherst, Massachusetts, the son of Anina Sophia (Hilken), a homemaker, and William Albert Nitze, a professor of Romance linguistics who concluded his career at the University of Chicago. His parents were both of German descent. His ancestors came from the region of Magdeburg in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. In his memoir, From Hiroshima to Glasnost, Paul Nitze describes how as a young boy he witnessed the outbreak of World War I while he was traveling in Germany with his father, mother, and sister, arriving in Munich just in time to be struck by the city crowds' patriotic enthusiasm for the imminent conflict. Nitze attended The Hotchkiss School, where he was a member of the class of 1924 and the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. He graduated from Harvard University in 1928 and entered the field of investment banking. In 1928 and 1929, the Chicago brokerage firm of Bacon, Whipple and Company sent Nitze to Europe. Upon his return, he heard Clarence Dillon predict the Great Depression and the decline of the importance of finance. Having attained financial independence through the sale to Revlon of his interest in a French laboratory producing pharmaceutical products in the United States, Nitze took an intellectual sabbatical that included a year of graduate study at Harvard in sociology, philosophy, and constitutional and international law. In 1929 he joined investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. where he remained until founding his own firm, P. H. Nitze & Co, in 1938. He returned to Dillon, Read as Vice-President from 1939 through to 1941. In 1932, he married Phyllis Pratt, daughter of John Teele Pratt, a Standard Oil financier, and of Ruth Baker Pratt, Republican Congresswoman for New York. She died in 1987. They had four children: Heidi, Peter, William, and Phyllis Anina (Nina). The journalist Nicholas Thompson, who wrote a biography of Nitze and George F. Kennan, is his grandson. He was married to Elisabeth Scott Porter from 1993 until his death in 2004. Nitze's brother-in-law, Walter Paepcke, founded the Aspen Institute and Aspen Skiing Company. Nitze continued to ski in Aspen until well into his 80s. Paul Nitze had a long and distinguished career of public service. Nitze entered government service during World War II after having been hired by his Wall Street colleague James Forrestal when Forrestal became an administrative assistant to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1942, he became finance director of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, working for Nelson Rockefeller. In 1943 he became chief of the Metals and Minerals Branch of the Board of Economic Warfare, until he was named director, Foreign Procurement and Development Branch of the Foreign Economic Administration later that year. From 1944 to 1946, Nitze served as director and then as Vice Chairman of the Strategic Bombing Survey for which President Harry S. Truman awarded him the Legion of Merit. One of his early government assignments was to visit Allied-occupied Japan in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and assess the damage. This experience framed many of his later feelings about the power of nuclear weapons and the necessity of arms control. In the early postwar era and Cold War, he served in the Truman Administration as Director of Policy Planning for the State Department (1950-1953). He was also the principal author in 1950 of the highly influential but secret National Security Council policy paper, NSC 68, which provided the strategic outline for increased US expenditures to counter the perceived threat of Soviet armament. During the Korean War, he advised the Truman administration against blaming the Soviet Union for the conflict too directly in order to avoid risking an escalation to World War III. From 1953 to 1961, Nitze served as president of the Foreign Service Educational Foundation while concurrently serving as associate of the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research and the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University. In 1956 he attended the Project Nobska anti-submarine warfare conference, where discussion ranged from oceanography to nuclear weapons. Nitze co-founded the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with Christian Herter in 1943 and the world-renowned graduate school, based in Washington, D.C., is named in his honor. His publications during this period include U.S. Foreign Policy: 1945-1955. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Nitze Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. In 1963, Nitze became the Secretary of the Navy, serving until 1967. According to the US Navy "as the Navy secretary, he raised the level of attention given to quality of Service issues. His many achievements included establishing the first Personnel Policy Board and retention task force (the Alford Board), and obtaining targeted personnel bonuses. He lengthened commanding officer tours and raised command responsibility pay." Following his term as Secretary of the Navy, he served as Deputy Secretary of Defense (1967-1969), as a member of the US delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) (1969-1973). Later, fearing Soviet rearmament, he opposed the ratification of SALT II (1979). Paul Nitze was a cofounder of Team B, a 1970s intelligence think tank that challenged the National Intelligence Estimates provided by the CIA. The Team B reports became the intellectual foundation for the idea of "the window of vulnerability" and of the massive arms buildup that began toward the end of the Carter administration and accelerated under President Ronald Reagan. Team B came to the conclusion that the Soviets had developed new weapons of mass destruction and had aggressive strategies with regard to a potential nuclear war. Team B's analysis of Soviet weapon systems was later believed to be largely exaggerated. According to Anne Cahn of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1977-1980), "if you go through most of Team B's specific allegations about weapons systems, and you just examine them one by one, they were all wrong." Nonetheless, some still claim that its conclusions about Soviet strategical aims were largely proven to be true, but this hardly squares with the elevation of Gorbachev in 1985. Nitze was President Ronald Reagan's chief negotiator of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (1981-1984). In 1984, Nitze was named Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Arms Control. For more than forty years, Nitze was one of the chief architects of US policy toward the Soviet Union. In 1985 President Reagan awarded Nitze the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his contributions to the freedom and security of the United States. In 1986, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. In 1989, Nitze received the US Senator John Heinz Award for Greatest Public Service by an Elected or Appointed Official, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards. In 1991, he was awarded the prestigious United States Military Academy's Sylvanus Thayer Award for his commitment to the Academy's ideals of "Duty, Honor, Country". In 1997, Nitze was awarded the Naval Heritage Award by the US Navy Memorial Foundation for his support of the US Navy while he was Secretary of the Navy. Paul Nitze died in Washington, D.C., at age 97. He is buried on the Nitze family farm in Charles County, Maryland, which he had bought shortly after moving to Washington, D.C., to work for the Roosevelt administration. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Nitze is named in his honor. Nitze visited the ship for several ceremonial occasions prior to his death. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University is named in his honor. St. Mary's College of Maryland, where he served as a trustee, has an honors program in his name. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/after-the-war-the-marshall-plan-dvd.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16, 1908: #BOTD: #HBD! Ethel Merman, American actress and singer, known for her distinctive, powerful voice, and for leading roles in musical theatre, known as "The Undisputed First Lady Of The Musical Comedy Stage" (d. February 15, 1984) is #born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann at 359 4th Avenue (today 33rd Street just off 36th Avenue) in Astoria, Queens in New York City in 1908, but later insisted that the year was 1912. Over her distinguished career in theater, she became famous for her performances in shows such as Anything Goes, Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy, and Hello, Dolly! She is also known for her film roles, in Anything Goes (1936), Call Me Madam (1953), There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). Among many accolades, she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in Call Me Madam, a Grammy Award for Gypsy and Drama Desk Award for Hello, Dolly! Among the many standards introduced by Merman in Broadway musicals are "I Got Rhythm" (from Girl Crazy); "Everything's Coming Up Roses", "Some People", and "Rose's Turn" (from Gypsy-Merman starred as Rose in the original 1959 Broadway production); and the Cole Porter songs "It's De-Lovely" (from Red, Hot and Blue), "Friendship" (from Du Barry Was a Lady), and "I Get a Kick Out of You", "You're the Top", and "Anything Goes" (from Anything Goes). The Irving Berlin song "There's No Business Like Show Business", written for the musical Annie Get Your Gun, became Merman's signature song. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-andrews-sisters-old-time-radio-mp3-c3.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16, 1910: #BOTD: #HBD! Dizzy Dean, American baseball pitcher and sportscaster, also known as Jerome Herman Dean (both the 1910 and the 1920 Censuses show his name as "Jay") (d. July 17, 1974) is #born Jay Hanna Dean in Lucas, Arkansas. A brash and colorful personality who attended public school only through second grade, Dean is the last National League (NL) pitcher to win 30 games in one season (1934). During his Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, and St. Louis Browns. After his playing career, Dean became a popular television sports commentator. Dean was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953. When the Cardinals reopened the team Hall of Fame in 2014, he was inducted in the inaugural class. Dean was best known for winning 30 games in 1934 while leading the "Gashouse Gang" Cardinals to the National League pennant and the World Series win over the Detroit Tigers. He had a 30-7 record with a 2.66 ERA during the regular season. His brother, Paul, was also on the team, with a record of 19-11, and was nicknamed "Daffy", although this was usually only done for press consumption. Though "Diz" sometimes called his brother "Daf", he typically referred to himself and his brother as "Me an' Paul." Dean was known for antics which inspired his nickname. In time, perception became reality. In Game 4 of the 1934 World Series against Detroit, Dean was sent to first base as a pinch runner. The next batter hit a potential double play ground ball. Intent on avoiding the double play, Dean threw himself in front of the throw to first. The ball struck him on the head, and Dean was knocked unconscious and taken to a hospital. The storied (and possibly apocryphal) sports-section headline the next day said, "X-ray of Dean's head reveals nothing." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Detroit Free Press merely stated that the X-rays "revealed no lasting injury." However, Dean was reported saying his head was too hard for a baseball to hurt it. Dean was referenced in the classic TV sitcom The Honeymooners by the character Ed Norton, who justified mooching a second dinner off of Ralph Kramden by saying, "Look, let's face it, Ralph. Dizzy Dean warms up in the bullpen before the game, but he still pitches." Later in the scene, when tensions rise, Kramden quips "Shut up, Dizzy Dean, and eat your spaghetti!" Dean was parodied in the 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon Boulevardier from the Bronx with a character named Dizzy Dan. Dean was also referenced in the 1939 Laurel and Hardy film A Chump at Oxford, when Oliver Hardy unknowingly called the character of the actual dean at the famous Oxford University a "dizzy dean". Dean is also featured prominently in some versions of Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" comedy sketch. In the sketch, Abbott is explaining to Costello that many ballplayers have unusual nicknames including Dizzy Dean, his brother Daffy Dean, and their "French cousin Goofe Dean" ("goofy" pronounced with a French accent). The United States Congress designated the U.S. Post Office in Wiggins, Mississippi as the "Jay Hanna 'Dizzy' Dean Post Office" in 2000 by Public Law 106-236. On October 22, 2007, a rest area on U.S. Route 49 in Wiggins, Mississippi, 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Dean's home in Bond, was named "Dizzy Dean Rest Area" after Dean. Dizzy Dean died July 17, 1974, at age 64 in Reno, Nevada, of a heart attack, and was buried in the Bond Cemetery in Bond, Mississippi. Dean's home in Bond was named Deanash, a combination of his name and his wife's maiden name (Nash); it was willed by Dean's wife to the Mississippi Baptist Convention, which operates foster homes for children in a rural setting. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/when-baseball-went-to-war-baseball-and-its-players-during-wwii-mp4-dvd.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16, 1933: #BOTD: Susan Sontag, American novelist, essayist, critic, filmmaker, public intellectual and beauty (d. December 28, 2004) is #born Susan Lee Sontag in New York City, the daughter of Mildred (nee Jacobson) and Jack Rosenblatt, both Jews of Lithuanian and Polish descent. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'?", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others, as well as the fictional works The Way We Live Now (1986), The Volcano Lover (1992), and In America (1999). Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or traveling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote extensively about literature, photography and media, culture, AIDS and illness, war, human rights, and left-wing politics. Her essays and speeches drew controversy, and she has been called "one of the most influential critics of her generation". Susan Sontag died in New York City aged 71 from complications of myelodysplastic syndrome which had evolved into acute myelogenous leukemia. She is buried in Paris, France at Cimetiere du Montparnasse. Her final illness has been chronicled by her son, David Rieff. At 17, Sontag married writer Philip Rieff, a sociology instructor at the University of Chicago, after a 10-day courtship; their marriage lasted eight years. Many of Sontag's obituaries failed to mention her significant same-sex relationships, most notably that with photographer Annie Leibovitz, Sontag maintained a close romantic relationship stretching from the later 1980s until her final years. Sontag lived with 'H', the writer and model Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, whom she first met at U. C. Berkeley from 1958 to 1959. Later, Sontag was the partner of Maria Irene Fornes, a Cuban-American avant garde playwright and director. Upon splitting with Fornes, she was involved with an Italian aristocrat, Carlotta Del Pezzo, and the German academic Eva Kollisch. Sontag was romantically involved with the American artists Jasper Johns and Paul Thek. During the early 1970s, she lived with Nicole Stephane, a Rothschild banking heiress turned movie actress, and, later, the choreographer Lucinda Childs. Sontag also had a relationship with the writer Joseph Brodsky, who made her truly understand the anti-communism of the writers persecuted by the Soviet regime, whom she had read and in some cases even known, without really understanding them. In an interview in The Guardian in 2000, Sontag was open about bisexuality: "Shall I tell you about getting older?', she says, and she is laughing. 'When you get older, 45 plus, men stop fancying you. Or put it another way, the men I fancy don't fancy me. I want a young man. I love beauty. So what's new?' She says she has been in love seven times in her life. 'No, hang on,' she says. 'Actually, it's nine. Five women, four men.'" On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-yom-kippur-war-the-1973-arab-israeli-war-mp4-download-dvd-set.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16, 1938: Aesthetics: The Performing Arts: Music: Music History: Music Of The United States: African-American Aesthetics: Jazz: The History Of Jazz: The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert: -- Benny Goodman with Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton, along with members of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington bands with many of the leading lights of jazz of the day, including Cootie Williams, Johnny Hodges, Lester Young, Walter Page, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Buck Clayton, Freddie Green, Harry James and more, performed in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City at what became known as The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, considered to be the "coming out" party of Jazz in the world of high culture and "respectable" music. The concert was released as the first ever double album, "The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert", and was one of the first records of Benny Goodman music issued on the new long-playing format, as well as the first to sell over a million copies. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/new-york-city-history-videos-3-dvd-se3.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16, 1941: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): Air Warfare Of World War II: The Tuskegee Airmen: -- The United States War Department and the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) announces, under political pressure, the formation of the first all-black flying unit, the 99th Pursuit Squadron, three months before the transformation of the USAAC into the United States Army Air Force (USAAF). The 99th Pursuit Squadron was activated on March 22, 1941, without pilots, at Chanute Field in Rantoul, Illinois. A cadre of 14 black non-commissioned officers from the 24th and 25th Infantry Regiments were sent to Chanute Field to help in the administration and supervision of the trainees. A white officer, Army Captain Harold R. Maddux, was assigned as the first commander of the 99th Fighter Squadron. Renamed the 99th Fighter Squadron, it was the first black flying squadron and the first to deploy overseas - to North Africa in April 1943, and later to Sicily and other parts of Italy. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/wwii-films-africanamericans-at-war-dvd.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16, 1942: World War II: The Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The Philippines Campaign (1941-1942) (The Battle Of The Philippines, The Fall Of The Philippines): The Battle Of Bataan (The Fall Of Bataan): Cavalry: The History Of Cavalry: -- History's last horse-mounted cavalry charge by a U.S. Cavalry unit takes place on the Bataan Peninsula, in the Philippines in early 1942. The 26th Cavalry Regiment of the allied Philippine Scouts executed the charge against Imperial Japanese Army forces near the village of Morong. The 26th Cavalry Regiment (Philippine Scouts) (26th CAV (PS)) was part of U.S. Army Forces Far East's Philippine Department during the Second World War. When Troop G encountered Japanese forces at the village of Morong, Lieutenant Edwin P. Ramsey ordered the cavalry charge. During the retreat to Bataan, the 26th was heavily outnumbered by an infantry force supported by tanks. They drove off the surprised Japanese. Due to a shortage of food, they found it necessary to butcher their mounts and the regiment was converted to two squadrons, one a motorized rifle squadron, the other a mechanized squadron utilizing the remaining scout cars and Bren carriers. In total, the 26th The American Battle Monuments Commission list 301 dead who were members of this regiment interred at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. It would not be until October 22, 2001, when American Soldiers would enter combat on horseback again, when members of the 12-man Operational Detachment Alpha 595 (Green Berets), accompanying members of the Afghanistan Northern Alliance, rode into battle at Cobaki in Balkh Province. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/crossed-sabers-the-story-of-the-us-horse-cavalry-dvd.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16, 1942: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Holocaust (Shoah): The Holocaust In Poland: The Lodz Ghetto (German: Litzmannstadt Ghetto): -- Nazi Germany begins deporting Jews from the Lodz Ghetto to Chelmno Extermination Camp. The Lodz Ghetto or Litzmannstadt Ghetto (after the Nazi German name for Lodz) was a Nazi ghetto established by the German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma following the Invasion Of Poland. It was the second-largest ghetto in all of German-occupied Europe after the Warsaw Ghetto. Situated in the city of Lodz, and originally intended as a preliminary step upon a more extensive plan of creating the Judenfrei ("Jew-Free") province of Warthegau, the ghetto was transformed into a major industrial centre, manufacturing war supplies for Nazi Germany and especially for the Wehrmacht. The number of people incarcerated in it was increased further by the Jews deported from Nazi-controlled territories. On April 30, 1940, when the gates closed on the ghetto, it housed 163,777 residents. Because of its remarkable productivity, the ghetto managed to survive until August 1944. In the first two years, it absorbed almost 20,000 Jews from liquidated ghettos in nearby Polish towns and villages, as well as 20,000 more from the rest of German-occupied Europe. After the wave of deportations to Chelmno extermination camp beginning in early 1942, and in spite of a stark reversal of fortune, the Germans persisted in eradicating the ghetto: they transported the remaining population to Auschwitz and Chelmno extermination camps, where most were murdered upon arrival. It was the last ghetto in occupied Poland to be liquidated. A total of 210,000 Jews passed through it; but only 877 remained hidden when the Soviets arrived. About 10,000 Jewish residents of Lodz, who used to live there before the Invasion Of Poland, survived the Holocaust elsewhere. Chelmno Extermination Camp (Kulmhof Extermination Camp) was the first of Nazi Germany's extermination camps, and was situated 50 km (31 mi) north of Lodz, near the village of Chelmno nad Nerem. Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, Germany annexed the area into the new territory of Reichsgau Wartheland. The camp, which was specifically intended for no other purpose than mass murder, operated from December 8, 1941, to April 11, 1943, parallel to Operation Reinhard during the deadliest phase of the Holocaust, and again from June 23, 1944, to January 18, 1945, during the Soviet counter-offensive. In 1943, modifications were made to the camp's killing methods as the reception building had already been dismantled. At the very minimum, 152,000 people were murdered in the camp, which would make it the fifth deadliest extermination camp, after Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor. However, the West German prosecution, citing Nazi figures during the Chelmno trials of 1962-65, laid charges for at least 180,000 victims. The Polish official estimates, in the early postwar period, have suggested much higher numbers, up to a total of 340,000 men, women, and children. The Kulmhof Museum of Martyrdom gives the figure of around 200,000, the vast majority of whom were Jews of west-central Poland, along with Romani people from the region, as well as foreign Jews from Hungary, Bohemia and Moravia, Germany, Luxembourg, and Austria transported to Chelmno via the Lodz Ghetto, on top of the Soviet prisoners of war. The victims were murdered using gas vans. Chelmno was a place of early experimentation in the development of the Nazi extermination programme. Red Army troops captured the town of Chelmno on January 17, 1945. By then, the Germans had already destroyed evidence of the camp's existence, leaving no prisoners behind. One of the camp survivors, who was fifteen years old at the time, testified that only three Jewish males had escaped successfully. The Holocaust Encyclopedia counted seven Jews who escaped; among them was the author of the Grojanowski Report, written under an assumed name by Szlama Ber Winer, a prisoner in the Jewish Sonderkommando who escaped only to perish at Belzec during the liquidation of yet another Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Poland. In June 1945, two survivors testified at the trial of camp personnel in Lodz. The three best-known survivors testified about Chelmno at the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Two survivors testified also at the camp personnel trials conducted in 1962-65 by West Germany. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-lodz-ghetto-the-litzmannstadt-ghetto-holocaust-in-poland-mp4-dvd.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16, 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 Battle Of Berlin (The Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation, The Fall Of Berlin): The Fuhrerbunker (The Fuehrerbunker): -- Adolf Hitler retreats into his underground bunker, the so-called Fuhrerbunker (Fuehrerbunker), an air raid shelter located near the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, making it his final residence and the centre of the Nazi regime until the last week of World War II in Europe. Hitler married Eva Braun there on April 29 1945, less than 40 hours before their demise. Fuhrerbunker was part of a subterranean bunker complex constructed in two phases in 1936 and 1944. It was the last of the Fuhrer Headquarters (Fuhrerhauptquartiere) used by Adolf Hitler during World War II. After the war, both the old and new Chancellery buildings were levelled by the Soviets. The underground complex remained largely undisturbed until 1988-89, despite some attempts at demolition. The excavated sections of the old bunker complex were mostly destroyed during reconstruction of that area of Berlin. The site remained unmarked until 2006, when a small plaque was installed with a schematic diagram. Some corridors of the bunker still exist but are sealed off from the public. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hitler-the-final-chapter-the-fate-of-adolf-hitler39s-body-dvd-mp4-394.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16, 1969: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Soviet Space Program: Human Spaceflight Programs: The Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 4 (Russian: Union 4): -- Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4, carrying Cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov on his first flight, and Soyuz 5, carrying Cosmonaut Boris Volynov perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk, occurring two months before the United States Apollo 9 mission performed the first internal crew transfer. Soyuz 4 (Russian: Union 4) was launched on January 14, 1969, carrying cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov on his first flight. The aim of the mission was to dock with Soyuz 5, transfer two crew members from that spacecraft, and return to Earth. The previous Soyuz flight (Soyuz 3) was also a docking attempt but failed for various reasons. The radio call sign of the crew was Amur, while Soyuz 5 was Baikal. This referred to the trans-Siberian railway project called the Baikal-Amur Mainline, which was in development at the time. Soyuz 5 (Russian: Union 5) was a Soyuz mission using the Soyuz 7K-OK spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union on January 15, 1969, which docked with Soyuz 4 in orbit. The Soyuz 5 flight was also memorable for its dramatic re-entry. The craft's service module did not separate, so it entered the atmosphere nose-first, leaving cosmonaut Boris Volynov hanging by his restraining straps. As the craft aerobraked, the atmosphere burned through the module. But the craft righted itself before the escape hatch was burned through. Then, the parachute lines tangled and the landing rockets failed, resulting in a hard landing which broke Volynov's teeth. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/russian-right-stuff-dvd-set-space-program-secret-history-2-disc2.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16, 1973: Discrimination: Jewish History: Antisemitism: Holy See-Israel Relations: Christian-Jewish Reconciliation: -- Pope Paul VI receives Mrs. Golda Meir for a one hour and twenty minute audience, the first ever to be granted to an Israeli Prime Minister in the Vatican. The meeting amounted to a de facto diplomatic if not official recognition of Israel by the Vatican. Immediately afterwards, Vatican spokesman Prof. Frederico Allessandrini indicated that Mrs. Meir had asked for the audience, contradicting Israeli government statements which had said that the invitation had come from the Holy See. He further specified that the audience was granted "because the Holy Father feels his duty not to miss any occasion to act in favor of peace and in the defense of the rights of human persons and especially of those who are the weakest and the most defenseless, namely the refugees from Palestine." The Vatican spokesman said that Mrs. Meir's visit had not been the object of any previous negotiations or confrontations and had only taken advantage of her trip to Paris- Mrs. Meir attended a two-day conference of the Socialist International in Paris. The Israeli Premier, who was accompanied by the Israeli Ambassador in Rome, Amiel Najar, spent nearly 80 minutes with the Holy Father in his private library. A Vatican statement said that she outlined Israel's desire for peace and illustrated Israel's attempts at reaching a peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict through negotiations. She also discussed the upsurge of terrorism and mentioned the plight of various Jewish communities in certain parts of the world. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-longest-hatred-antisemitism-amp-jewish-persecution-dvd-mp3-us3.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16, 1979: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Iranian Revolution: -- Mohammad Reza, the last Shah (Persian: "King") of Iran, permanently flees with his family from Iran and relocates to Egypt. On December 7, 1978, it had been announced that President Carter of the U.S., President Giscard d'Estaing of France, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany and Prime Minister James Callaghan of the United Kingdom were going to meet in Guadeloupe on January 5, 1979 to discuss the deepening crisis in Iran that would ultimately become known as The Iranian Revolution. To the Shah, this announcement was the last straw that broke the back of his imperial rule in Iran, as he was convinced that this meeting of Western leaders were intended to discuss how best to abandon their supporting him and his regime. The Shah left Iran at the behest of Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar (a longtime opposition leader himself), who sought to calm the situation in the country. As Mohammad Reza boarded the plane to take him out of Iran, many of the Imperial Guardsmen wept while Prime Minister Bakhtiar did little to hide his disdain and dislike for the Shah. Spontaneous attacks by members of the public on statues of the Pahlavis followed, and within hours, almost every sign of the Pahlavi dynasty was destroyed. Bakhtiar dissolved SAVAK, freed all political prisoners, and allowed Ayatollah Khomeini to return to Iran after years in exile. He asked Khomeini to create a Vatican-like state in Qom, promised free elections, and called upon the opposition to help preserve the constitution, proposing a "national unity" government including Khomeini's followers. Khomeini rejected Bakhtiar's demands and appointed his own interim government, with Mehdi Bazargan as prime minister, stating that "I will appoint a state. I will act against this government. With the nation's support, I will appoint a state." In February, pro-Khomeini revolutionary guerrilla and rebel soldiers gained the upper hand in street fighting, and the military announced its neutrality. On the evening of February 11, the dissolution of the monarchy was complete. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/america-held-hostage-as-it-happened-the-iran-hostage-crisis-mp4-dv4.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16, 1991: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War, Gulf War I): Operation Desert Storm: -- The day after Saddam Hussein ignored the U.N. Security Council Resolution 678 deadline of midnight January 15 for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, coalition forces led by the U.S. begin the Gulf War when they start deploying to Kuwait via the Persian Gulf and the Saudi Arabian border, triggering the first official infantry combat. 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/desert-triumph-the-gulf-war-tv-documentary-series-dvd-amp-mp4-downloa4.html

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Today, January 16, 2026

January 16, 1992: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War: The Cold War (1979-1985): The Cold War (1985-1991) (The End Of The Cold War): The Aftermath Of The Cold War: The Cold War In Latin America: The Salvadoran Civil War: The Salvadoran Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil De El Salvador) (October 15, 1979 - January 16, 1992) a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador, backed by the United States, and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of left-wing guerilla groups backed by Cuba under Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet Union, ends in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union as The Chapultepec Peace Accords are signed in Mexico City. The Salvadoran Civil War began with a coup on October 15, 1979 followed by government killings of anti-coup protesters. The United Nations reports that the war killed more than 75,000 people between 1979 and 1992, along with approximately 8,000 disappeared persons. Human rights violations, particularly the kidnapping, torture, and murder of suspected FMLN sympathizers by state security forces and paramilitary death squads, were pervasive. The Salvadoran government was considered an ally of the U.S. in the context of the Cold War. During the Carter and Reagan administrations, the US provided economic aid to the Salvadoran government. The US also provided significant training and equipment to the military. By May 1983, it was reported that US military officers were working within the Salvadoran High Command and making important strategic and tactical decisions. The United States government believed its extensive assistance to El Salvador's government was justified on the grounds that the insurgents were backed by the Soviet Union. Counterinsurgency tactics implemented by the Salvadoran government often targeted civilians. Overall, the United Nations estimated that FMLN guerrillas were responsible for 5 percent of atrocities committed during the civil war, while 85 percent were committed by the Salvadoran security forces. Accountability for these civil war-era atrocities has been hindered by a 1993 amnesty law. In 2016, however, the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador ruled in case Incostitucionalidad 44-2013/145-2013 that the law was unconstitutional and that the Salvadoran government could prosecute suspected war criminals. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-salvadoran-civil-war-1990-documentary-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Jean Shepherd Radio Shows All Known To Exist DVD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, January 16, 2026
January 16: National Fig Newton Day: -- An annual recognition of the tasty pastry enjoyed across the country. A Nabisco's trademarked version of the fig roll, Newtons are a pastry filled with fig paste. Fig Newtons have an unusual and characteristic shape that has been adopted by many competitors, including generic fig bars. Up until the 19th century, many physicians believed most illnesses were related to digestion problems. As a remedy, they recommended a daily intake of biscuits and fruit. Fig rolls served as an ideal solution to their advice, which remained a locally produced handmade product. In 1891, Philadelphia baker and fig-lover Charles Roser invented and patented the machine, which inserted fig paste into a thick pastry dough. The Cambridgeport, MA-based Kennedy Biscuit Company then purchased Roser's recipe. They began mass production after purchasing the recipe. In 1891, they produced the first Fig Newtons baked at the F.A. Kennedy Steam Bakery. The company named the pastries after the town of Newton, Massachusetts. After recently becoming associated, the Kennedy Biscuit Company and the New York Biscuit company merged to form Nabisco. The new company trademarked the fig rolls as Fig Newtons. To observe National Fig Newton Day, enjoy a Fig Newton, fig roll, or make your own. People of all ages enjoy this tasty bar. It comes in various flavors, but fig seems to be the most popular. Enjoy it with coffee, tea, or juice - and use #NationalFigNewtonDay to post on social media! https://store.earthstation1.com/complete-jean-shepherd-radio-and-lp-collection-mp3-dvds-2-dis32.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Classic Juvenile Delinquency Films Collection MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, January 16, 2026
January 16: National Good Teen Day: -- Do you remember that difficult transitional phase of adolescence, as teenagers are just getting to discover their own unique identities? This day helps parents and everyone alike, recognize the efforts put in by teenagers to successfully go through a unique phase in their lives, and appreciate them. Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that is generally associated with the teenage years. During this period, there is an identity development stage in the teen life cycle. For most, the search for identity begins with more openness to trying on different behaviors and appearances to discover who they are. Growing while maintaining an identity in this period is a difficult task due to multiple factors such as family life, environment, and social status. In 1995, the U.S. Congress, by Public Law 103 - 463, designated the day in celebration of teens throughout the nation. Congress authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of the day, which he - William J. Clinton - went on to do, urging all Americans to observe with appropriate programs and activities. The holiday is known to have roots tracing back to Salem City schools of Ohio where they praised the desirable qualities of every teen in their school, and the trend has continued to date. Many teenagers from the past and present have gotten a stereotype of either being excellent or problematic. National Good Teen Day is meant to observe various qualities of teens across the board during this phase of their lives. It helps appreciate them for who they are and encourages them that they are loved and cherished. https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-juvenile-delinquency-films-collection-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Music & Dance Shows #3 Thaxton, Revere, Kinks DVD, MP4, Flash Drive
Today, January 16, 2026
January 16: National Nothing Day: -- Ever been caught "doing nothing" and shamed into feeling lazier than the average person? Rest assured, that might not happen today! National Nothing Day has been "celebrated" since 1973. Since the trappings and pomp of the holiday literally add up to nothing, like its namesake, there's not a lot to tell. A mind-teaser does occur to us, though - if you're doing nothing, aren't you doing something, with nothing being the something you're doing? In 1972, journalist Harold Pullman Coffin proposed National Nothing Day as a "non-event" to be observed - by doing nothing - every January 16. The next year, National Nothing Day made "Chase's Calendar of Events," a publication that marks annual occasions in print since the 1950s. National Nothing Day is sponsored by Coffin's own "National Nothing Foundation." Unsurprisingly, there is nothing to be found about that organization. True to its title, it doesn't even have a website. Here's a fact that may seem to denote the idea of "nothing." Martin Luther King day falls on the third Monday of January, one out of every seven years. The event is concurrent with National Nothing Day, which would seem to expropriate the idea that there is nothing going on on National Nothing Day every year. Since MLK is celebrated for his nonviolent activism during the Civil Rights Movement, many might refute the idea of nothingness during this particular day. Not only this, there are other days celebrated in contrast to this idea of nothingness. In an opposition to National Nothing Day, the Realist Society of Canada (RSC) has a religious holiday called There's Always Been Something Day, pronounced THABS, which is dedicated on July 8 to the celebration of the "realization that if there was ever nothing, there would be nothing now." History is full of debates between philosophers and writers on the study of "nothing." Because the question is, what is nothing? To answer the question of nothing, one must find the meaning of nothing. Even the true nature of "nothingness" in outer space causes disagreements between experts, because many claim even a true space devoid of anything is not nothing, because in space quantum particles exist even without gravity. On National Nothing Day, promotion of the day is kind of contradictory, because the day is meant as an "un-event," which means it should not be seen as an event and refers to a thing of no importance, consequence or interest. https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-tv-music-amp-dance-shows-3-thaxton-revere-amp-kinks-dv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Sacred Serpents: Snake Worship Documentaries DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, January 16, 2026
January 16: Appreciate A Dragon Day: -- With loud flapping wings, flaming breath, and steely scales, dragons are viewed as unstoppable masters of chaos. However, they are also presented as tamable and friendly creatures that can be great buddies with humans. This day is set to encourage people worldwide to appreciate the history and socio-cultural significance of the mythical creatures. The word 'dragon' first entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French dragon, which in turn comes from Latin's 'draconem,' meaning 'a serpent of huge size.' Dragons have always been a part of world history, with the first depiction of dragons being as far back as 4500 B.C. during the times of the Romans and Egyptians. Since then, dragons and dragon motifs have featured in many works of modern literature, particularly within the fantasy genre. Appreciate a Dragon Day was created in 2004 by Donita K. Paul. The author was promoting the release of her novel "DragonSpell," which is part one of a five-book series. The book is about a former slave that changes her fate and is the savior of dragons. It is a celebration of dragons in literature, as well as literacy in general and pop culture. Dragons are diverse in presentation with the fire-breathing variety, some like gargoyles found in medieval churches. Others are many-headed hydras that pop out of the ocean. Others are wyverns, basilisks, and other mythical creatures with loose connections to the real world. Ultimately, the idea of dragons interacting with humans fills our minds with awe and inspires us to delight our minds with fancy. https://store.earthstation1.com/sacred-serpents-snake-worship-documentaries--dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Pioneers Of Surgery Documentary TV Series DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, January 16, 2026
January 16: National Without A Scalpel Day: -- Celebrates the first time an angioplasty - a surgical operation to clear a narrowed or blocked artery - was performed without a scalpel and goes on to further serve the purpose of spreading the word about the minimally invasive procedures that make surgery much better and safer! Surgery and scalpels were inseparable partners in rescue missions for centuries. Before the arrival of scalpel-like instruments, the primitive tools that were used on the human body included shark teeth, bamboo shoots, and surprisingly fingernails! In 1964, Charles T. Dotter performed the first peripheral angioplasty without a scalpel, instead of using X-ray technology and a small pinhole imaging device to see inside the body while performing the treatment. This procedure has become known as interventional radiology. Not only did the angioplasty allow the patient to avoid leg amputation surgery, but she left the hospital days later with only a bandage. Dr. Dotter's innovation was the stepping stone to a new branch in the medical field known as MIIP (minimally invasive, image-guided procedures). Today, MIIP can be used in diagnosing and treating a broad range of ailments throughout the body, including stroke, aneurysms, fibroids, back pain, among others. It is superior to invasive surgeries in almost every aspect. The imaging techniques eliminate guesswork and guide the surgeon to the operation site. The wounds at the surgical site are also minimal and reduce the chances of infection and scarring. National Without a Scalpel Day was proposed by the Interventional Initiative in 2005 to create awareness about the revolutionary MIIP, thereby enabling people to make better-informed healthcare decisions. https://store.earthstation1.com/pioneers-of-surgery-dvd-set-4-episode-tv-series-2-dis42.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Odyssey 3 Part Series + Greco-Roman Mythology MP4 Download Or DVD
Today, January 16, 2026
January 16, 1985: #DOTD: #RIP: Robert Fitzgerald, American poet, critic, and translator, best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin whose renderings of the Greek classics generally, and the works of Homer particularly, became the standard English translations of ancient Greek works ever since, composer of several books of his own poetry (b. October 12, 1910) #dies at his home in Hamden, Connecticut after a long illness, aged 74. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. Robert Fitzgerald was born Robert Stuart Fitzgerald in Geneva, New York. Fitzgerald grew up in Springfield, Illinois, and graduated from The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut. He entered Harvard in 1929, and in 1931 a number of his poems were published in Poetry magazine. After graduating from Harvard in 1933 he became a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune for a year. Later he worked for several years for Time. In 1940, William Saroyan lists him among "associate editors" at Time in the play, Love's Old Sweet Song. Whittaker Chambers, Soviet spy turned U.S. government informant who testified against Whittaker Chambers before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1948, mentions Fitzgerald as a Times colleague in his 1952 memoir "Witness" during them time Chambers was senior editor at Time. In World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy in Guam and Pearl Harbor. Later he was an instructor at Sarah Lawrence and Princeton University, poetry editor of The New Republic. He succeeded Archibald MacLeish as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard in 1965 and served until his retirement in 1981. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Chancellor of The Academy Of American Poets. From 1984 to 1985 he was appointed Consultant In Poetry To The Library Of Congress, a position now known as Poet Laureate Consultant In Poetry, the United States' equivalent of a national poet laureate, but did not serve due to illness. In 1984 Fitzgerald received a L.H.D. from Bates College. Fitzgerald is widely known as one of the most poetic translators into the English language. He also served as literary executor to American novelist, short story writer, and essayist Flannery O'Connor, who was a boarder at his home in Redding, Connecticut, from 1949 to 1951. Fitzgerald's wife at the time, Sally Fitzgerald, compiled O'Connor's essays and letters after O'Connor's death. Benedict Fitzgerald (who co-wrote the screenplay for The Passion Of The Christ with Mel Gibson), Barnaby Fitzgerald, and Michael Fitzgerald are sons of Robert and Sally. Fitzgerald was married three times. He later moved to Hamden, Connecticut, where he died. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-odyssey-3-part-series-plus-greco-roman-mythology-mp4-download-or-dvd.html

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Today, January 16, 2026
January 16, 2025: #DOTD: #RIP: Joan Plowright, English actress whose career has spanned over seven decades, wife of Sir Laurence Olivier from 1961 until his death in 1989 (b. October 28, 1929) #dies at Denville Hall in Northwood, London, aged 95. She is buried in The Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey, where her husband Laurence Olivier is buried. Joan Plowright was born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg, Lincolnshire, East Midlands of England. Joan Ann Olivier, Dowager Baroness Olivier, DBE (Dame Commander Of The Most Excellent Order Of The British Empire), professionally known as Dame Joan Plowright, has won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy and two BAFTA Awards. She was the second of only four actresses (as of 2020) to have won two Golden Globes in the same year. She won the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a New Play in 1978 for Filumena. Plowright's vision declined steadily during the late 2000s and early 2010s due to macular degeneration. In 2014, she officially announced her retirement from acting because she had become legally blind. https://store.earthstation1.com/stalin-1992-robert-duvall-julia-ormond-maximilian-schell-mp4-dvd-set.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Twentieth Century History Documentary Series DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, January 16, 2026
January 16, 1920: The Aftermath Of World War I: International Organizations (Intergovernmental Organizations, International Institutions): The League Of Nations (LN, LON, LoN, (French: Societe Des Nations, "Society Of Nations", SDN, SdN): -- The League Of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France. The League Of Nations officially came into existence on January 10, 1920 with the goal of resolving international disputes, reducing armaments, and preventing future wars. The first Assembly gathered in Geneva ten months later with 41 nations represented. More than 20 nations later joined, however, the U.S. did not join due to a lack of support for the League in Congress. https://store.earthstation1.com/twentieth-century-history-15-episode-tv-series-2-dual-layer-d152.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: T.R.: The Life Of Theodore Roosevelt DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, January 16, 2026
January 16, 2001: Awards And Decorations: Awards And Decorations Of The United States Armed Forces: Highest Military Awards For Gallantry: Highest Military Awards For Gallantry Of The United States Armed Forces: The Medal Of Honor (MOH) (The Congressional Medal Of Honor): -- United States President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal Of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War (April 21 - August 13, 1898). Roosevelt Roosevelt had, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, helped plan the highly successful naval strategy used against Spain during that war; he then resigned that position to help form and lead the Rough Riders, the nickname given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War, the only one to see combat in Cuba for which they received great publicity. Under Roosevelt's leadership, the Rough Riders became famous during The Battle Of San Juan Hill for the charge up Kettle Hill, popularized as San Juan Hill (though the two hills were separate parts of the San Juan Heights involved in the same single battle), on July 1, 1898, while supporting the regular Army. Roosevelt had the only horse, and rode back and forth between rifle pits at the forefront of the advance up Kettle Hill, an advance that he urged despite the absence of any orders from superiors. He was forced to walk up the last part of Kettle Hill because his horse had been entangled in barbed wire. The victories came at a cost of 200 killed and 1,000 wounded. Roosevelt always recalled the Battle Of Kettle Hill as "the great day of my life" and "my crowded hour". He had been nominated to receive the Medal Of Honor during the war, but Army officials, annoyed at his grabbing the headlines, blocked it; it was not until 102 years later that President Clinton at last awarded Roosevelt the medal posthumously. After Roosevelt returning to civilian life, he preferred to be known as "Colonel Roosevelt" or "The Colonel", though "Teddy" remained much more popular with the public, even though Roosevelt openly despised that moniker. Men working closely with Roosevelt customarily called him "Colonel" or "Theodore". Henceforth, political cartoons of Roosevelt usually depicted him in his Rough Rider garb. https://store.earthstation1.com/tr-the-life-of-theodore-roosevelt-dvd-2-disc-se2.html

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Today, January 16, 2026
January 16, 2017: #DOTD: #RIP: Gene Cernan, American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot (b. March 14, 1934) #dies in a hospital in Houston, Texas of undisclosed "ongoing health issues" at the age of 82. His funeral was held at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston. He was buried with full military honors at Texas State Cemetery, the first astronaut to be buried there, in a private service on January 25, 2017. He was born Eugene Andrew Cernan in Chicago, Illinois into a family of Czech and Slovak descent. Gene Cernan became the eleventh person to walk on the Moon and, as the last man to re-enter the Lunar Module, the last person as of 2018 to have walked on the Moon. He traveled into space three times: as Pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966, as Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969, and as Commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972, the final Apollo lunar landing. Cernan was also a backup crew member for the Gemini 12, Apollo 7 and Apollo 14 space missions. https://store.earthstation1.com/for-all-mankind-nasa39s-apollo-program-human-spaceflight-moon-missio39.html

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January 16, 378: The Maya: The History Of The Maya: Tikal (Yax Mutal): The Fall Of Tikal (The Fall Of Yax Mutal): -- Mayan General Siyaj K'ak' conquers the city of Tikal (likely to have been called Yax Mutal), enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacan. Siyaj K'ak' (alternative spelling: Siyah K'ak'), also known as Fire Is Born (formerly nicknamed "Smoking Frog"), was a prominent political figure mentioned in the glyphs of Classic Period (250-800 C.E.) Maya civilization monuments, principally Tikal, as well as Uaxactun and the city of Copan. Epigraphers originally identified him by the nickname "Smoking Frog", a description of his name glyph, but later deciphered it as Siyaj K'ak', meaning "Fire is born". "Spearthrower Owl" is the name commonly given to a Mesoamerican personage from the Early Classic period, who is identified in Maya inscriptions and iconography. According to Mayanist David Stuart, Spearthrower Owl was a ruler of Teotihuacan at the start of height of its influence across Mesoamerica in the 4th and 5th century, and was responsible for an intense period of Teotihuacan presence in the Maya area, including the conquest of Tikal in 378 CE. Tikal is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest in Guatemala. It is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archaeological region of the Peten Basin in what is now northern Guatemala. Situated in the department of El Peten, the site is part of Guatemala's Tikal National Park and in 1979 it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Tikal was the capital of a conquest state that became one of the most powerful kingdoms of the ancient Maya. Though monumental architecture at the site dates back as far as the 4th century BC, Tikal reached its apogee during the Classic Period, c. 200 to 900. During this time, the city dominated much of the Maya region politically, economically, and militarily, while interacting with areas throughout Mesoamerica such as the great metropolis of Teotihuacan in the distant Valley of Mexico. There is evidence that Tikal was conquered by Teotihuacan in the 4th century BC. Following the end of the Late Classic Period, no new major monuments were built at Tikal and there is evidence that elite palaces were burned. These events were coupled with a gradual population decline, culminating with the site's abandonment by the end of the 10th century. Tikal is the best understood of any of the large lowland Maya cities, with a long dynastic ruler list, the discovery of the tombs of many of the rulers on this list and the investigation of their monuments, temples and palaces. https://store.earthstation1.com/caracol-the-lost-maya-cityapocalypse-then-fall-of-the-maya-dvd.html

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Today, January 16, 2026
January 16, 1556: The Spanish Monarchy (The Hispanic Monarchy (Spanish: Monarquia Hispanica [The Catholic Monarchy The Monarchy Of Spain]): Royal Accessions: Successions To The Throne Of The The Spanish Empire: -- Philip II ( May 21, 1527 - September 13, 1598) becomes King Of Spain and the Spanish Empire in the Americas upon the abdication of his father, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who himself remained as Holy Roman Emperor until his abdication to his brother Ferdinand the following August 27. Philip II Of Spain, called "the Prudent" (el Prudente), King Of Spain (1556-98), King Of Portugal (1581-98, as Philip I, Filipe I), King Of Naples And Sicily (both from 1554), jure uxoris King Of England And Ireland (during his marriage to Queen Mary I from 1554-58), and Duke Of Milan (May 21, 1527 - September 13, 1598) was born Philip Habsburg in Palacio De Pimentel, Valladolid, Crown of Castile (modern Central Spain) into The Royal House Of Habsburg, one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history. ========= The Habsburg Dynasty was founded by Radbot of Klettgau (c. 985 - 1045), Graf (Count) of the county of Klettgau on the High Rhine in Swabia (modern Southwestern Germany). Radbot built Habsburg Castle, a medieval fortress located in what is now Habsburg, Switzerland, in the canton of Aargau, near the Aar River. At the time of its construction, the location was part of the Duchy of Swabia. It is believed that he named the castle after a hawk (German: Habicht) seen sitting on its walls. Some historians and linguists believe the name may come from the Middle High German word hab/hap meaning ford, as it is located near a ford of the Aar River. Habsburg Castle is the original seat of the House of Habsburg, The name of "Habsburg" was not added to the noble title until Radbot's grandson, Otto II. He added "von Habsburg" to his title, thus beginning the House of Habsburg, which became the preeminent European dynasty for centuries, lasting from Radbot's reign until their extinction in the male line in 1740, and, as the Habsburg-Lorraines, from 1765 until the present day. As of 2025, members of the Habsburg family oversee the Austrian branch of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the Order of the Starry Cross and the Imperial and Royal Order of Saint George. The current head of the family is Karl von Habsburg (b. January 11, 1961), an Austrian politician and the head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. The house also produced kings of Bohemia, Hungary, Croatia, Slavonia, Dalmatia, Spain, Portugal, Sicily, Lombardy-Venetia and Galicia-Lodomeria, with their respective colonies; rulers of several principalities in the Low Countries and Italy; numerous Prince-Bishoprics in the Holy Roman Empire, and in the 19th century, emperors of Austria and of Austria-Hungary, as well as one emperor of Mexico. The family split several times into parallel branches, most consequentially in the mid-16th century between its Spanish and German-Austrian branches following the abdication of Emperor Charles V in 1556. Although they ruled distinct territories, the different branches nevertheless maintained close relations and frequently intermarried. ========= King Philip II was born Felipe Habsburg II to Emperor Charles V, who was also king of Castile and Aragon, and Isabella of Portugal, in Valladolid, the capital of The Crown Of Castile, at The Palacio De Pimentel, which was owned by Don Bernardino Pimentel. From 1555, Philip was lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands. On January 16, 1556, Philip II became becomes King Of Spain and the Spanish Empire in the Americas upon the abdication of his father, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who himself remained as Holy Roman Emperor until his abdication to his brother Ferdinand the following August 27. His empire included territories on every continent then known to Europeans, including his namesake the Philippines. During his reign, Spain reached the height of its influence and power. This is sometimes called the Spanish Golden Age. The expression, "the empire on which the sun never sets," was coined during Philip' time to reflect the extent of his dominion. During Philip' reign there were separate state bankruptcies in 1557, 1560, 1569, 1575, and 1596. This was partly the cause of the Declaration Of Independence that created the Dutch Republic in 1581. A devout Catholic, Philip is also known for organising a naval expedition against Protestant England in 1588, the Spanish Armada, which was unsuccessful, mostly due to storms and serious logistical problems. Philip was described by the Venetian ambassador Paolo Fagolo in 1563 as "slight of stature and round-faced, with pale blue eyes, somewhat prominent lip, and pink skin, but his overall appearance is very attractive." The Ambassador went on to say "He dresses very tastefully, and everything that he does is courteous and gracious." Philip II was succeeded by his 20-year-old son, Philip III, when the former died of cancer aged 71 in El Escorial, a historical residence of the king of Spain located in the town of San Lorenzo De El Escorial, 2.06 kilometres (1.28 mi) up the valley (4.1 km [2.5 mi] road distance) from the town of El Escorial and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northwest of the Spanish capital Madrid. He is buried in the Royal Monastery of El Escorial by the main entrance of the El Escorial, the burial site for most of the Spanish kings of the dynasty's last five centuries, Bourbons as well as Habsburgs. The Royal Pantheon contains the tombs of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (who ruled Spain as King Charles I), Philip II, Philip III, Philip IV, Charles II, Louis I, Charles III, Charles IV, Ferdinand VII, Isabella II, Alfonso XII, and Alfonso XIII. Two Bourbon kings, Philip V (who reigned from 1700 to 1724 and again from 1724 to 1746) and Ferdinand VI (1746-1759), as well as King Amadeus (1870-1873), are not buried in the monastery. The building's cornerstone was laid on April 23, 1563; it was completed in 1584, in slightly less than 21 years; to this day, la obra de El Escorial ("the work of El Escorial") is a proverbial expression for a thing that takes a long time to finish (comparable English proverb: "Rome wasn't built in a day"). https://store.earthstation1.com/armada-dvd-spanish-armada-tv-series-all-3-episode3.html

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Today, January 16, 2026
January 16, 2014: #DOTD: #RIP: Dave Madden, Canadian-born American actor and voice actor, cast member of "Rowan And Martin' Laugh-In", most famous for his role on the 1970s sitcom The Partridge Family as the group's manager, Reuben Kincaid, opposite Shirley Jones' character, who later had a recurring role as diner customer Earl Hicks on the mid-1970s to mid-1980s sitcom, Alice (b. December 17, 1931) #dies at the age of 82 in Jacksonville, Florida, where he was receiving hospice care, of complications of myelodysplastic syndrome, a cancer in which immature blood cells in the bone marrow do not mature. His remains were cremated, and his ashes were scattered at sea. Dave Madden was born David Joseph Madden in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. He was a star on-camera and in voice-over of numerous tv commercials spanning a half century. https://store.earthstation1.com/rowan-and-martin-discount-set-2-albums-2-blooper-reel-sets-mp3-mp4-dvd.html

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Today, January 16, 2026
January 16, 1957: #DOTD: #RIP: Arturo Toscanini, Italian-American cellist and conductor, one of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and of the 20th century (March 25, March 25, 1867) #dies on his daughter Wally's 57th birthday of a stroke suffered on New Year's Day 1957 at the age of 89 at his home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx in New York City His body was returned to Italy and was entombed in the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan. His epitaph is taken from one account of his remarks concluding the 1926 premiere of Puccini's unfinished Turandot: "Qui finisce l'opera, perche a questo punto il maestro e morto" ("Here the opera ends, because at this point the maestro died"). During his funeral service, Leyla Gencer sang an excerpt from Verdi's Requiem. In his will, he left his baton to his protegee Herva Nelli, who sang in the broadcasts of Otello, Aida, Falstaff, the Verdi Requiem, and Un ballo in maschera. Toscanini was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987. Arturo ToscaniniHe was renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his eidetic memory; sometimes called photographic memory, an ability to vividly recall images from memory after only a few instances of exposure, with high precision for a brief time after exposure. He was at various times the music director of La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and the New York Philharmonic. Later in his career he was appointed the first music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937-54), and this led to his becoming a household name (especially in the United States) through his radio and television broadcasts and many recordings of the operatic and symphonic repertoire. Many of his recordings and broadcasts were made at New York City's Carnegie Hall. Toscanini had absolute pitch, widely referred to as perfect pitch, a rare auditory phenomenon characterized by the ability of a person to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone. https://store.earthstation1.com/clive-james39-fame-in-the-20th-century-tv-series-dvd-set-mp4-usb-39204.html

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Today, January 16, 2026
January 16, 1972: #DOTD: #RIP: David Seville, American novelty song singer and songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor, creator of Alvin And The Chipmunks and The Alvin Show (b. January 27, 1919) #dies of a heart attack at his home in Beverly Hills on January 16, 1972, eleven days before his 53rd birthday. He was cremated and inurned at The Chapel Of The Pines Crematory in Los Angeles. Bagdasarian willed the Chipmunks franchise to his wife and three children. Ross Jr. said in an interview that he "worshipped" his father and felt a need to continue his work. He resumed the franchise with his wife Janice Karman in the late 1970s, after finishing law school, and became the complete owner when he bought the rights from his siblings in the mid-1990s. David Seville was born Ross S. Bagdasarian in Fresno, California to an Armenian-American Family. He had two elder brothers: Richard Sirak (1910-1966) and Harry Sisvan (1915-1989). His first cousin, to whom he was very close, was William Saroyan, regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940 for his play The Time of Your Life, and the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy. Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. graduated from Fresno High School in 1937. During World War II, he served four years as a control tower operator and rose to the rank of a staff sergeant (SSgt) in the Army Air Forces. His later stage name "David Seville" originated from the fact that he was stationed in the city of Seville in Spain. Bagdasarian's Broadway debut was in 1939 when he played the newsboy in The Time of Your Life by his cousin William Saroyan. He also appeared in minor roles in several films, such as Viva Zapata! (1952), Stalag 17 (1953), Destination Gobi (1953), Rear Window (1954), and The Proud and Profane (1956). Notably, in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, he is the piano player. Bagdasarian's major success with songwriting came with "Come On-a My House". Originally recorded by Kay Armen in 1950, it was turned into a million-selling hit in 1951 by Rosemary Clooney released by Columbia Records. It is an adaptation of an Armenian folk song Bagdasarian wrote with his cousin William Saroyan. The song was originally composed for their off-Broadway musical The Son. It launched Clooney's career, reaching number one on Billboard charts and was number four on Billboard year-end top 30 singles of 1951. The song sold some 750,000 records in a month. In 1954, he wrote "Hey, Brother, Pour the Wine", a hit for Dean Martin. In 1955 Bagdasarian signed with the then newly established Liberty Records. In early 1956 he had a transcontinental hit with the novelty record "The Trouble with Harry" (inspired by the homonymous Hitchcock film) credited to Alfi & Harry, although Alfi & Harry was just one person, Bagdasarian himself. It reached No. 44 on the Billboard chart and was a bigger hit in the United Kingdom reaching No. 15. In December 1956, he charted with his first record credited to his David Seville pseudonym, "Armen's Theme" which reached No. 42 on the Billboard chart. Bagdasarian's rise to prominence came with the song "Witch Doctor" in 1958, which was created after he experimented with the speed control on a tape recorder bought with 200 USD (around 2,000 USD as of 2022) from the family savings. Liberty Records released this novelty record under the David Seville name. It is a duet between his real voice and accelerated version. The record went on to become a Billboard number-one single by April 28, 1958, and further established him as a songwriter. It sold 1.5 million copies. Bagdasarian went on to create his trio of Chipmunks named after the executives of Liberty Records: Simon, Theodore, and Alvin, named for Simon "Si" Waronker, Theodore "Ted" Keep, and Alvin Bennett. Their debut song, "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" was released on November 17, 1958, and became a number one hit by New Years Day. The song sold 4 million records in the first few months. It topped Billboard charts the two weeks before and two weeks after New Years and won three Grammy Awards at the 1st Annual Grammy Awards on May 4, 1959: Best Recording for Children, Best Comedy Performance, and Best Non-Classical Engineered Song. Bagdasarian won the first two as David Seville. The song was the 23rd most performed Christmas song of the 20th century. Shana Alexander, writing for Life magazine in 1959, noted that Bagdasarian was the first case in the "annals of popular music that one man has served as writer, composer, publisher, conductor and multiple vocalist of a hit record, thereby directing all possible revenues from the song back into his pocket." Alexander also found it remarkable that Bagdasarian "can neither read nor write music nor play any musical instrument in the accepted sense of the word." Bagdasarian owned Chipmunk Enterprises, which sponsored Chipmunk-related sales. By 1963, some 15 companies were using or planned to use Alvin figures. By that year, Billboard magazine estimated the total income from the Chipmunks' record sales (including overseas sales) and record club sales to be around 20M USD (around 171M USD in 2021). In the following years, the Chipmunks released several hit songs: "Alvin's Harmonica" (1959), "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" (1959), "Alvin's Orchestra" (1960), "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" (1960), "The Alvin Twist" (1962), and the album The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles Hits in 1964 during the British Invasion. Bagdasarian then produced The Alvin Show, a TV cartoon broadcast on CBS from October 1961 to September 1962. Bagdasarian married Armenouhi "Armen" Kulhanjian (1927-1991) in 1946. They had three children: Carol Askine (b. 1947), an actress; Ross Jr. (b. 1949); and Adam Serak (b. 1954), a fiction writer. They lived in Los Angeles from 1950. As of 1963 he owned a grape ranch in California called the Chipmunk Ranch. In the mid-1960s, he bought Sierra Wine Corp., a winery that supplied product, among others, to E & J Gallo Winery. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-proud-and-profane-1956-dvd-william-holden-deborah-1956.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Rock & Roll An Unruly History 10 Part TV Series MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, January 16, 2026
January 16, 2021: #DOTD: Phil Spector, American record producer, musician, singer, songwriter and convicted murderer (b. December 26, 1939) #dies of COVID-19 at the age of 81 in an outside hospital at San Joaquin General Hospital in French Camp, California. His remains were cremated; his ashes scattered at sea, but which sea has not been publicly disclosed, though it is likely the Pacific Ocean, as it was proximate both to his last home, The Pyrenees Castle in Alhambra, California, and to The California State Prison System where he was incarcerated. Phil Spector was born Phillip Harvey Spector in New York City. He developed the Wall of Sound, a music production formula he described as a "Wagnerian" approach to rock and roll. Spector is considered the first auteur among musical artists for the unprecedented freedom and control he had over every phase of the recording process. Additionally, he helped engender the idea of the studio as its own distinct instrument. For these contributions, he is acknowledged as one of the most influential figures in pop music history. Later in his life, Spector was reputed for his eremitic personality, and he grew especially notorious for the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson, of which he was convicted in the second degree. He served a prison sentence of 19 years to life and would have been 88 years old before becoming eligible for parole. https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-amp-roll-an-unruly-history-10-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-104.html

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Today, January 16, 2026
January 16, 1964: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Premieres: Theatre Premieres: French Theatre Premieres: Musical Premieres: French Musical Premieres: -- The Beatles stage their first public performance of 1964 at the L'Olympia Theater in Paris. Immediately before the Beatles' historic first trip to America, the Beatles performed at the Olympia for eighteen days (January 16 - February 4 1964), playing two and sometimes three shows a day. They were staying at the Hotel George V and after returning at the end of their first day, they were told that "I Want to Hold Your Hand" had reached number one in America. The Olympia, commonly known as L'Olympia or in the English-speaking world as Olympia Hall, is a concert venue in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France, located at 28 Boulevard des Capucines. The hall was opened in 1893 by one of the two co-creators of the Moulin Rouge venue, and saw many opera, ballet, and music hall performances. Theatrical performances declined in the late 1920s and the Olympia was converted into a cinema, before re-opening as a venue in 1954 with Bruno Coquatrix as executive director. Since the 1960s, it has been a popular venue for rock bands. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-beatles-live-at-l39olympia-theater-19643919643.html

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Today, January 16, 2026
January 16, 2016: #DOTD: #RIP: Gary Loizzo (Italian: loo-ITZ-zoh), American guitarist, singer, recording engineer and record producer, best known for being the lead singer with The American Breed (b. August 16, 1945) #dies of pancreatic cancer in Orland Park, Illinois at the age of 70. Gary Loizzo was born Gary Alexander Loizzo (pronounced "Loo-EATS-Soh") into a family of part Italian ancestry in Chicago, Illinois. Formed in the mid 1960s, The American Breed had several hit records, including the million selling single "Bend Me, Shape Me" in 1967-1968 and two other top 40 Billboard singles "Green Light" and "Step out of your Mind" and other top 100 hits. Loizzo then went on to start his own recording studio called 'Pumpkin Studios' in the early 70's and become a two-time Grammy-nominated recording engineer. He worked with REO Speedwagon, Styx, Bad Company, Slash, Survivor, Liza Minnelli, Tenacious D, Nelson, and many others. Loizzo had been the lead recording engineer for albums that have sold over 25 million copies worldwide. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-golden-age-of-rock-39n39-roll-dvd-complete-tv-series-5-39395.html

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Today, January 16, 2026
January 16, 1944: #BOTD: #HBD! Jim Stafford, American singer, songwriter, musician, and comedian, is #born James Wayne Stafford in Winter Haven, Florida, where was raised and inn high school played in a band called the Legends, along with friends Bobby Braddock, Kent LaVoie (also known as Lobo) and Gram Parsons (of the Byrds, and The Flying Burrito Brothers). While prominent in the 1970s for his recordings "Spiders & Snakes", "Swamp Witch", "Under the Scotsman's Kilt", "My Girl Bill", and "Wildwood Weed", Stafford headlined at his own theater in Branson, Missouri, from 1990 to 2020. Stafford is self-taught on guitar, fiddle, piano, banjo, organ, and harmonica. https://store.earthstation1.com/dj-radio-airchecks-mp3-dvd-1950s60s70s-dis319506070.html

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January 16, 1942: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The History Of Aviation: The History Of Civil Aviation: Aviation Incidents And Accidents: TWA Flight 3: -- #DOTD: #RIP: A Douglas DC-3-382 propliner operated by Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) as a scheduled domestic passenger flight from New York, New York, to Burbank, California is destroyed at 19:20 PST, fifteen minutes after takeoff from a stopover at Las Vegas Airport (now Nellis Air Force Base), when it crashes into a sheer cliff on Potosi Mountain, 32 miles southwest of the airport, at an elevation of 7,770 feet above sea level, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard and her mother, who were returning to California from a war bond tour. The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) investigated the accident and determined that the cause was a navigation error by the captain. In the book My Lunches with Orson, Orson Welles claims that he had been told by a security agent that Flight 3 was shot down by Nazi agents who knew of the route in advance. He also claimed that news of the shooting was kept quiet to prevent vigilante action against Americans of German ancestry. This theory has been questioned by Robert Matzen in his book Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3. Carole Lombard's funeral was January 21 at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. She was interred beside her mother under the name of Carole Lombard Gable. Despite remarrying twice following her death, Gable was interred beside Lombard when he died in 1960. Lombard's final film, To Be or Not to Be, directed by Ernst Lubitsch and co-starring Jack Benny, a satire about Nazism and World War II, was in post-production at the time of her death. Allegedly, it has been said that film's producers decided to cut a line in which Lombard's character asks, "What can happen on a plane?" out of respect for the circumstances surrounding her death. However, there is no indication that this line existed and was removed posthumously, according to the film's PSA file. When The Jack Benny Program aired on January the 18th Jack Benny did not attend the live radio broadcast. At its opening, announcer Don Wilson stated Jack would not appear that night, but did not explain why. The show that night did not feature any comedy, just musical numbers. Lombard had been scheduled to appear on the following Sunday's broadcast. At the time of her death, Lombard had been scheduled to star in the film They All Kissed the Bride; when production started, she was replaced by Joan Crawford. Crawford donated all of her salary for the film to the Red Cross, which had helped extensively in the recovery of bodies from the air crash. Shortly after Lombard's death, Gable, who was inconsolable and devastated by his loss, joined the United States Army Air Forces. Lombard had asked him to do that numerous times after the United States had entered World War II. After officer training, Gable headed a six-man motion picture unit attached to a B-17 bomb group in England to film aerial gunners in combat, flying five missions himself. In December 1943, the United States Maritime Commission announced that a Liberty ship named after Carole Lombard would be launched. Gable attended the launch of the SS Carole Lombard on January 15, 1944, the two-year anniversary of Lombard's record-breaking war bond drive. The ship was involved in rescuing hundreds of survivors from sunken ships in the Pacific and returning them to safety. Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters; October 6, 1908 - January 16, 1942) was an American actress, particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles in screwball comedies. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Lombard was born into a wealthy family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but was raised in Los Angeles by her single mother. At 12, she was recruited by director Allan Dwan and made her screen debut in A Perfect Crime (1921). Eager to become an actress, she signed a contract with the Fox Film Corporation at age 16, but mainly played bit parts and was dropped after a year. Her career came close to ending shortly before her 19th birthday when a shattered windshield from a car accident left a scar on her face, but she overcame this challenge and appeared in fifteen short comedies for Mack Sennett between 1927 and 1929, and then began appearing in feature films such as High Voltage (1929) and The Racketeer (1929). After a successful appearance in The Arizona Kid (1930), she was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures. Paramount quickly began casting Lombard as a leading lady, primarily in drama films. Her profile increased when she married William Powell in 1931, but the couple divorced amicably after two years. A turning point in Lombard's career came when she starred in Howard Hawks's pioneering screwball comedy Twentieth Century (1934). The actress found her niche in this genre, and continued to appear in films such as Hands Across the Table (1935) (forming a popular partnership with Fred MacMurray), My Man Godfrey (1936), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and Nothing Sacred (1937). At this time, Lombard married "The King of Hollywood", Clark Gable, and the supercouple gained much attention from the media. Keen to win an Oscar, Lombard began to move towards more serious roles at the end of the decade. Unsuccessful in this aim, she returned to comedy in Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) and Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942), her final film role. Lombard's career was cut short when she died at the age of 33 aboard TWA Flight 3, which crashed on Mount Potosi, Nevada, while returning from a war bond tour. Today, she is remembered as one of the definitive actresses of the screwball comedy genre and American comedy, and as an icon of American cinema. https://store.earthstation1.com/jack-benny-complete-radio-broadcasts-dual-layer-mp3-dv3.html