Today's Trivia and What Happened on January 6

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Quote: I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping. - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

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Holidays

Epiphany

(Twelfth Night in England) Celebrating the visit of the Magi to the baby Jesus in the manger.

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What Happened On

Protestors Storm U.S. Capitol Photo Credit: Tyler Merbler

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Protestors Storm U.S. Capitol

January 6, 2021

Supporters of outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump storm the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Thousands of Trump supporters had gathered at the Capitol on January 5th and 6th amid claims of election fraud after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. During a speech on January 6th, Trump repeated claims that the election was stolen and stated "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country any more". Protestors then began assaulting Capitol Police officers, vandalizing, looting, and occupying buildings. The rioters sought to overturn Trump's election defeat by disrupting that day's count of electoral votes that would formalize then President-elect Biden's victory.
After Vice-President Mike Pence rejected claims by Trump and others that the vice president could overturn the election results, gallows were erected west of the Capitol with rioters chanting "Hang Mike Pence".

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Frampton Comes Alive!

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Frampton Comes Alive!

January 6, 1976

Peter Frampton's live double album Frampton Comes Alive! is released. It is one of the all-time best-selling live pop albums. It was released following four unsuccessful solo albums by Frampton. The songs "Show Me the Way", "Baby, I Love Your Way", and "Do You Feel Like We Do" were released as singles with all three reaching the Top 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album also popularized the use of the talk-box musical sound effect.
The album featured Peter Frampton (lead vocals, lead guitar, talk box), Bob Mayo (rhythm guitar, piano, Hammond organ, vocals), Stanley Sheldon (bass guitar, vocals), and John Siomos (drums).

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Jimmy Carter Sees a UFO

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Jimmy Carter Sees a UFO

January 6, 1969

Future U.S. President Jimmy Carter sees a UFO. He would file a report of the incident in 1973 stating, "It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the moon. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. …If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the scientists."

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Pepé Le Pew

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Pepé Le Pew

January 6, 1945

The Looney Tunes cartoon skunk Pepé Le Pew makes his first appearance when the cartoon Odor-able Kitty premieres.
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In Odor-able Kitty, a cat disguises himself as a skunk to avoid his tormentors. Pepé Le Pew, thinking that he is a female skunk, begins amorously pursuing him. Eventually, Pepé Le Pew's wife catches him in the act and beats him over the head with an umbrella at which time it is revealed that his name is Henri and he was faking his French accent.
Pepé Le Pew was voiced by Mel Blanc from 1945 to 1985. The character Pepé Le Pew was based on the Pepe le Moko character as played by Charles Boyer in the 1938 movie Algiers.

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Four Freedoms

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Four Freedoms

January 6, 1941

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his Four Freedoms speech in which he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people everywhere in the world ought to enjoy:
• Freedom of speech.
• Freedom of worship.
• Freedom from want.
• Freedom from fear.

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George and Martha Washington Tie the Knot

January 6, 1759

George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis. Martha was a widower with two children. She brought great wealth to the marriage, enabling Washington to buy land and add 266 slaves to the 30 he already owned. Martha also brought two children to the marriage, ages 4 and 6, whom Washington adopted. The children are pictured in a painting of the wedding ceremony.

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Nancy Kerrigan Attacked

January 6, 1994

Nancy Kerrigan, the 1993 U.S. figure skating champion and Olympic bronze medalist, is attacked after a practice by a man who hit her on the knee with a club. Rival skater Tonya Harding would later plead guilty, admitted to meeting with her bodyguard and her ex-husband, four days after the attack to make plans to cover up their involvement.

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First Woman to Receive an Electoral Vote

January 6, 1973

Theodora Nathan, vice-presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party.

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First Successful Synthesis of a Human Growth Hormone

January 6, 1971

First Successful Synthesis of a Human Growth Hormone is announced by the Univ. of California.

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Badges!? We ain't got no badges)

January 6, 1948

The Oscar-winning Humphrey Bogart classic movie is released. "Badges!? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"

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First Around-the-World Commercial Flight

January 6, 1942

A Pan American Airways flight that had started from San Francisco on December 12 arrives in New York City. It had covered 31,500 miles.

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New Mexico

January 6, 1912

New Mexico becomes the 47th state.

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Henry VIII Marries His Fourth Wife

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Henry VIII Marries His Fourth Wife

January 6, 1540

Henry VIII takes his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. Later, displeased with his new wife, he executed first minister Thomas Cromwell who had arranged the marriage.

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Birthdays

Danny Thomas

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Danny Thomas (Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz)

Born January 6, 1912 d. 1991

American actor. TV: Make Room for Daddy/The Danny Thomas Show (1953-64, daddy).
While a "starving actor", Thomas swore if he found success, he would open a shrine to St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes. With help from Dr. Lemuel Diggs and Anthony Abraham, in 1962 Thomas founded the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
He was the father of actress Marlo Thomas.

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Sherlock Holmes

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Sherlock Holmes (William Sherlock Scott Holmes)

Born January 6, 1854

Fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The books never give a definitive date, but this is the generally accepted date of his birthday as deduced from the stories. In the story His Last Bow (1917), Holmes' age is given as 60 years old in 1914. January 6th is generally accepted as the day, but the books give little clues. Some claim the novel The Valley of Fear (1914) indicates Holmes had been celebrating his birthday on January 6.

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Co-inventor of the Hot-Air Balloon

Jacques Étienne Montgolfier

Born January 6, 1745 d. 1799

French inventor. He and his brother Joseph Montgolfier invented the hot-air balloon (1782). They made the first sustained flight of a hot-air balloon the following year.

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Joan of Arc

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Joan of Arc (Jeanne D'Arc)

Born January 6, 1412 d. 1431

French patriot. Known as "The Maid of Orléans," she led the French armies against the English during the Hundred Years' War.
She was convicted of cross-dressing and condemned by the Church and burned at the stake. Why cross-dressing? For heresy to be a capital crime, it had to be a repeat offense. Her other charges did not qualify. Joan had worn male clothing and armor during her military campaigns. She agreed to the court to wear feminine clothing; however, when returned to prison she was forced to wear men's clothing for protection against rape and because the guards had taken her clothing. Her cross-dressing now being a repeat offense, qualified her for the death penalty. She was canonized in 1920.

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Nancy Lopez

Born January 6, 1957

American golfer, 1978 Sportswoman of the Year.

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Bonnie Franklin

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Bonnie Franklin

Born January 6, 1944 d. 2013

American actress. Bonnie Franklin is best known for her role as Ann Romano in TV's One Day at a Time (1975-84). She made her Broadway debut in 1970 in the musical Applause, earning a Tony Award nomination while her recording of the show's title track "Applause" was the most successful Broadway song of the season.
Franklin died of pancreatic cancer at age 69.

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Vic Tayback

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Vic Tayback

Born January 6, 1930 d. 1990

American actor. Vic Tayback is best known for playing diner owner Mel Sharples in TVs' Alice (1976-85) and the movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974).
He also appeared in the 1968 Star Trek episode A Piece of the Action as 1920s-style gangster-boss Jojo Krako and in 1974 as Archie Bunker's boss in All in the Family.

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John DeLorean

Born January 6, 1925 d. 2005

American auto executive. In 1982 he was arrested for possession of 59 pounds of cocaine with the intent to distribute. He plead not guilty and was acquitted. He was responsible for Pontiac's GTO and Firebird and the DeLorean (as featured in the Back to the Future movies) automobiles.

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Earl Scruggs

Born January 6, 1924 d. 2012

American bluegrass musician, with Lester Flatt. He was the first banjoist to master the three-finger picking style. Music: Foggy Mountain Breakdown (1948), and the theme for TV show The Beverly Hillbillies.

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Louis Harris

Born January 6, 1921 d. 2016

American public opinion analyst. He conducted The Harris Poll, one of the best-known polls of his time.

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Sun Myung Moon

Born January 6, 1920 d. 2012

Korean evangelist. Founder of the Unification Church, whose members are known as "moonies." He claims that on Easter morning 1935 Jesus appeared to him and asked him to complete the task of establishing God's kingdom on earth and bringing peace to humankind.

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David Bruce (Andrew McBroom)

Born January 6, 1914 d. 1976

American actor. TV: Beulah (Harry Henderson). Film: The Mad Ghoul (Ted Allison)

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Tom Brown

Born January 6, 1913 d. 1990

American actor. TV: Gunsmoke (1968-72, Ed O'Connor) and General Hospital (Al Weeks).

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Loretta Young

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Loretta Young (Gretchen Young)

Born January 6, 1913 d. 2000

American Oscar-Emmy-winning actress. She claimed she was raped by Clark Gable whose child she bore. Film: The Farmer's Daughter (1947, Oscar). TV: The Loretta Young Show.

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Tom Mix

Born January 6, 1880 d. 1940

American silent film western actor. His action-packed films set the pattern for future westerns.

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Carl Sandburg

Born January 6, 1878 d. 1967

American Pulitzer-winning poet and Abraham Lincoln biographer.

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Richard II

Born January 6, 1367 d. 1400

King of England (1377-99).

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Deaths

Dizzy Gillespie Photo Credit: Roland Godefroy

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Dizzy Gillespie (John Birks Gillespie)

Died January 6, 1993 b. 1917

American jazz trumpeter. Gillespie and Charlie Parker were major figures in the development of bebop and modern jazz.
In 1963, he ran for U.S. president and promised that if he were elected, the White House would be renamed the Blues House, and his cabinet would be composed of Duke Ellington (Secretary of State), Miles Davis (Director of the CIA), Max Roach (Secretary of Defense), Charles Mingus (Secretary of Peace), Ray Charles (Librarian of Congress), Louis Armstrong (Secretary of Agriculture), Mary Lou Williams (Ambassador to the Vatican), Thelonious Monk (Traveling Ambassador), and Malcolm X (Attorney General), while his running mate would be Phyllis Diller.

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt

Died January 6, 1919 b. 1858

American politician. 26th U.S. President (1901-09, the youngest president - age 42), 25th U.S. Vice-President (1901). He is the youngest U.S. president, assuming the presidency at the age of 42 after the assassination of William McKinley (John F. Kennedy, at 43 years old, was the youngest person elected U.S. president).
He was the first U.S. president to ride in an automobile (1902), submerge in a submarine (1905), and fly in an airplane (1910). He was also the only U.S. president not to use the word "I" is his inaugural address (1905), and the first American to win a Nobel Peace Prize (1906). Also known for his motto, "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Even though he was shot while on his way to deliver a speech, he delivered the speech before going to the hospital.
Known for his athleticism, during his presidency he participated in a boxing match that cost him his sight in his left eye (1904).

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Gregor Johann Mendel

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Founder of Genetics

Gregor Johann Mendel

Died January 6, 1884 b. 1822

Austrian monk, botanist. His experiments with the garden pea (1856-63) constitute the basis of modern genetics, now referred to as Mendelian inheritance. His work was all but ignored until 1900.

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Sidney Poitier

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Sidney Poitier

Died January 6, 2022 b. 1927

American Oscar-winning actor. Film: The Blackboard Jungle (1955) and Lilies of the Field (1963, for which he became the first black to win a Best Actor Oscar). He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009) by U.S. President Barack Obama.

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Peter Bogdanovich

Died January 6, 2022 b. 1939

American Grammy-winning director. Film: The Last Picture Show (1971), What's Up, Doc? (1972), and Paper Moon (1973).

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Pat Harrington, Jr.

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Pat Harrington, Jr.

Died January 6, 2016 b. 1929

American Emmy-winning actor. TV: One Day at a Time (1975-84, Emmy as handyman Dwayne Schneider) and The Jack Paar Show (1950s, Guido Panzini).

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John Celardo

Died January 6, 2012 b. 1918

American cartoonist. Artist for Tarzan (1958-68).

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Lou Rawls

Died January 6, 2006 b. 1933

American Grammy-winning blues singer, actor. Music: Love Is A Hurtin' Thing (1966, #1) and You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine (1976, #1). Also known for his phrase "Yeahhhh, buddy!"

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Rudolf Nureyev

Died January 6, 1993 b. 1938

Russian ballet dancer. He defected to the West in 1961, and became the Paris Opera ballet director (1983-89). He died of AIDS.

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Victor Fleming

Died January 6, 1949 b. 1889

American director. Film: The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Gone with the Wind (1939, Oscar).

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Ida M. Tarbell

Died January 6, 1944 b. 1857

American author. Writings: The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904), for which U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt called her a "muckraker."

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Georg Cantor

Died January 6, 1918 b. 1845

German mathematician. He founded the theory of infinite ensembles, was one of the first to define real numbers, and co-developed the Cantor-Dedekind axiom describing the one-to-one correspondence between real numbers and points on a line.

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Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Died January 6, 1882 b. 1815

American sailor, lawyer, author. Writings: Two Years Before the Mast (1840).

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Louis Braille

Died January 6, 1852 b. 1809

French teacher of the blind. Blind since the age of three, he created the Braille reading system for the blind.

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