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pete_stutz:
13th January:

1980 In L.A., a benefit concert was held for the people of Kampuchea. The featured acts were The Grateful Dead, Beach Boys and Jefferson Starship.
1982 An Air Florida 737 crashed into the capital's 14th Street Bridge after takeoff and fell into the Potomac River. 78 people were killed.
1983 It was reported that a 5 man syndicate from Great Yarmouth had missed out on a £254,895 pools win because their collector had failed to send the coupon.
1985 British TV presenter Leslie Crowther withdrew his support from International Christian Relief over claims that the money did not reach its intended destination of Ethiopia
1985 The 420 yr old tradition of ringing the curfew bell in the Welsh border town of Presteigne, Powys, was saved by musician Mike Oldfield after offering to pay the ringers wages. The bell is rung from the tower of St. Andrew's Church to guide travellers who were lost on stormy nights.
1987 Seven top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each
1987 West German police arrested Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking
1989 Computers across Britain were hit by "Friday the 13th" virus
1989 Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq

Famous Birthdays:
1931 Ian Hendry (Actor)
1954 Trevor Rabin (Yes)
1956 Malcolm Foster (Pretenders)
1957 Don Snow (Squeeze)
1961 Graham 'Suggs' McPherson (Madness)
1964 Penelope Ann Miller (Actress)
1969 Stephen Hendry (Snooker player)
1972 Nicole Eggert (Actress)

pete_stutz:
14th January:

1980 "Blues Brothers" movie with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi openned in the U.S.
1983 Stephen Waldorf narrowly escaped death when police opened fire on his Mini in central London, believing him to be David Martin, an escaped convict. Waldorf was later awarded £120,000 compensation.
1983 35 yr old Sheffield Wednesday fan Robert Montgomery, claiming that the team played so badly in an FA Cup replay that they contravened the Trade Descriptions Act, took his case to the South Yorkshire Consumer Protection Department in an attempt to get his entrance fee back.
1985 British pound (£) sank to record low $US1.11
1985 Martina Navratilova won her 100th tournament. She joined Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert Lloyd as the only professional tennis players to win 100 tournaments.
1986 Constitution of Guatemala took effect. Vinicio Cerezo became only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
1986 "Rambo: First Blood, Part II" arrived at video stores in the U.S. It broke the record set by "Ghostbusters", for first day orders. 435,000 copies of the video were sold.
1988 20 year old Coldstream Guards officer Rupert Novis, who saved a 13 year old boy's life by snatching him from the jaws of a crocodile during a canoeing expedition in Zimbabwe was presented with a Royal Humane society silver medal in London.
1989 1,000 muslims burnt Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England
1989 A 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris
1989 Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped
1989 Paul McCartney released his album "Back In The U.S.S.R." exclusively in Russia.

Famous Birthdays:
1940 Sir Trevor Nunn (Director)
1941 Faye Dunaway (Actress)
1959 Carl Chas Smash Smyth (Madness)
1962 Patrica Morrison (Sisters of Mercy)

Died on this day:
1984 Ray Kroc (Founder of McDonalds)

pete_stutz:
15th January:

1980 Pam Gems' "Piaf!," premiered in London
1981 The first episode of US police drama 'Hill street Blues' was broadcast in America.
1982 Harry Wayne Casey, leader of KC and the Sunshine Band was partially paralyzed in an automobile accident in Miami, Florida. His recovery took about a year.
1983 Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar made 451 stand v India
1983 England beat New Zealand by four wickets in the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup.
1984 Hana Mandlikova ended Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak
1984 Schonbrun skated world record 5 km (7:39.44)
1985 Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scored 200's v India
1985 Civil Rights activist Tancredo Neves became 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years
1985 Bruce Forsyth married 25 yr old Wilnelia Merced, a former Miss World, at a ceremony in New York.
1987 Paramount Home Video reported that it would place a commercial at the front of one of its video releases for the first time. It was a 30-second Diet Pepsi ad at the beginning of "Top Gun."
1988 Kiran More stumped five West Indies batsman at Madras, a world Test record
1988 Narendra Hirwani took 16-136 (8-61 & 8-75) v WI on Test debut

Famous Birthdays:
1933 Frank Bough
1937 Margaret O'Brien
1943 Margaret Beckett
1945 HRH Princess Michael of Kent
1947 Pete Waterman
1952 Melvyn Gale (ELO)
1953 Boris Blank (Yello)
1958 Julian Sands
1959 Peter Trewavas (Marillion)

pete_stutz:
16th January:

1980 Paul McCartney was jailed in Tokyo for possession of a half pound of marijuana. He spent ten days behind bars before being kicked-out of the country by Japanese authorities. The remainder of his tour was canceled.
1981 Boxer Leon Spinks was mugged, his assailants even took his gold teeth
1981 3 men entered an Ulster farmhouse firing several shots into former Westminster MP Bernadette Devlin, leaving her critically ill.
1981 ‘Woman’ by John Lennon released in UK
1981 Ivan Lendl intentionally lost a match in Volvo Masters in order to avoid having to play Bjorn Borg
1982 Britain and the Vatican resumed full diplomatic relations after a break of over 400 years.
1983 Some of the worst snowstorms of the century swept the north east of the United States, leaving many states under 2ft of snow.
1984 Paul & Linda McCartney were arrested in Barbados for possession of cannabis
1985 "Playboy" magazine announced its 30-year tradition of stapling centerfold models in the bellybutton and elsewhere would come to an immediate end.
1986 Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam
1987 The Beastie Boys became the first act censored on "American Bandstand."
1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was fired as a CBS sports commentator one day after telling a TV station in Washington DC, that, during the era of slavery, blacks had been bred to produce stronger offspring.
1988 George Michael's 'Faith' topped the US album charts for its 11th week, a record for a British male artist.
1988 NFL St Louis Cardinals announced they would move to Phoenix
1989 Police arrested writer Vaclav Havel in Prague
1989 USSR announced plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars

Famous Birthdays:
1948 Cliff Thorburn (Snooker player)
1959 Sade Adu 
1961 Paul Raven (Killing Joke)
1962 Paul Webb (Talk Talk)

pete_stutz:
17th January:

1981 Philippino president Marcos ended a state of siege
1982 "Cold Sunday" in the United States saw temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.
1983 Alabama Gov George C Wallace, becomes governor for record 4th time
1983 Nigeria expelled 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Ghanaians
1984 Supreme Court ruled by 5 to 4 that private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing did not violate federal copyright laws
1985 Azharuddin scored second Test century in second Test (v England)
1985 Leonard Nimoy got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1986 Tim Withersthingy beat Tony Tubbs in 15 for the heavyweight boxing title
1987 President Reagan signed secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran
1988 "Teddy & Alice" closed at Minskoff Theater NYC after 77 performances
1988 Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti
1989 Gunman opened fire in Calif schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded
1989 Murden & Metz became the first women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)
1989 Phoenix Suns cancelled game at Miami Heat due to racial unrest in Miami
1989 The Air Accident Investigation Bureau revealed that the helicopter crash in Gloucestershire that nearly killed Mike Smith and Sarah Greene was not caused by engine failure. Smith did not receive any information about the landing site or the dangerous trees surrounding it.

Famous Birthdays:
1927 Eartha Kitt
1928 Vidal Sassoon
1931 James Earl Jones
1942 Muhammad Ali 1942
1948 Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones) 1948
1949 Andy Kaufman (Remember Latka in ‘Taxi’?)
1956 Paul Young 1956
1956 David Caruso 1956
1957 Susanna Hoffs (Bangles) 1957
1957 Keith Chegwin
1957 Paul Merton
1958 Jez Strode (Kajagoogoo)
1960 John Crawford (Berlin) 1960
1962 Jim Carrey

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