21 Jan 07 - Sunday
1924 Benny Hill Southampton England, comedian (Benny Hill Show)
1933 William Wrigley III chewing gum mogul (Wrigleys)
1939 Wolfman Jack [Bob Smith], Brooklyn NY, DJ (Midnight Special)
1947 Jimmy Ibbotson Penn, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1950 Billy Ocean [Leslie S Charles], Trinidad, singer (Suddenly, Caribbean Queen)
1976 Emma Lee Bunton "Baby Spice", Finchley London, vocalist (Spice Girls)
1846 1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"
1903 "Wizard of Oz" premieres in New York City NY
1903 Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam
1908 New York City NY regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
1942 Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
1950 George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies at 46
1966 Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd
1968 US B-52 bombers with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland
1977 President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1977 Italy legalizes abortion
1978 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks
1988 US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children
1994 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane for chopping off spouse's penis
1997 Colonel Tom Parker manager (Elvis Presley), dies at 87
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing; it was here first
- Mark Twain
