++This Tweet in History: February 1, 2010++

WRLD: 1908 - Say! They want a revolution - so they kill Portugal's king and his heir; wound younger duke/successor

SPRT: 1970 - 20 year NHL vet, Sawchuk, notches record 103rd regular season shutout

OTHR: 1884 - OED's first fascicle drops

BDAY: Lisa Marie Presley; Princess Stephanie of Monaco; Boris Yeltsin; Langston Hughes;

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WRLD: 1996 - Tamil Tigers crash bomb-laden truck in Colombo's central bank bldg

TECH: 1958 - Van Allen discovers his famous belt

OTHR: 1990 - At last! Muscovites can plop down day's wages for a Big Mak at world's largest McDonald's

BDAY: Suzanne Pleshette; Ernie Bans; Norman Mailer; Mario Lanza

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Histortweet Week in Review - W/E January 30, 2010

[SFX: CHURCHBELL] Greetings, History Lovers! Welcome to This Tweet in History, the Week In Review, podcasting to you on tape delay from our North American Studios.

Here are your top stories for the week ending January 30, 2010:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Canada, January 24, 1978 - Soviet nuke satellite falls from the sky onto NW Territories: http://bit.ly/4Bm4VV
The Back-Story: [SFX:Wheel in the Sky; How Can I Fall; Dirty Little Secret]In a case of failure on top of failure, the Russian Cosmos 954 satellite, with its onboard nuclear reactor, failed to reach its intended orbit and eventually fell to earth. In secret discussions, the Soviets apprised the US government of the situation, but claimed that the satellite was completely destroyed in re-entry. The satellite, however, left a swath of debris in a path covering three Canadian provinces. The US and Canada launched a three-phase recovery operation over the course of almost a year, eventually recovering 12 large pieces of the satellite, 10 of which were radioactive. The Soviet Union paid the Canadian government 3 million Canadian dollars for the clean-up, less than half what Canada billed them for actual and future expenses. [SFX: Find it – Quick!; Clean-up, everybody everywhere]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Melbourne, January 27, 1996 - Seles gets her Grand Slam groove back Down Under http://bit.ly/6xa811
The Back-Story: [SFX: You Hurt Me;It’s a shame; Shame] Two and a half years after a deranged fan of Steffi Graf ran onto the court during top-ranked Monica Seles’ quarterfinal match against Magdalena Maleeva in Hamburg and stabbed Seles in the back, Seles returned to the Women’s tour, culminating with a championship at the Australian open in 1996 which turned out to be her last Grand Slam title, although she consistently reached the quarter- and semi-finals, remaining a fixture in the women’s top ten, until her retirement in 2003. All of that in one sentence. [SFX: Back in the Saddle Again ]

[SFX: SOUND827]: Things that make you go Huh?: DATELINE England, January 30, 1661 - Cromwell, dead 3 years, is executed on anniversary of and in retribution for Charles I's execution: http://bit.ly/5L0u5t
The Back-Story: [SFX:I just died in your arms tonight; Killing me softly; Let’s do it again]Oliver Cromwell had a successful run in the UK, serving as a commander of the New Model Army which defeated the Roaylists, executing King Charles I, and serving as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, which included Scotland and Ireland, which he vanquished, in the five years preceding his death by malaria. Following his death, things went horribly wrong. Cromwell’s son, Richard, who had no power base, resigned within a year of Cromwell’s death, creating a power vacuum that, ultimately, allowed Charles II to return from exile to a restored monarchy. Charles II had Cromwell and two of his compatriots disinterred and hung on the anniversary of his father, the king’s, execution, three years after Cromwell’s death. Cromwell’s head was displayed on a pole, and his body tossed into a pit. [SFX: You only die twice; Mystery dance]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

January 24: Olympic Gold Medalist Mary Lou Retton
January 25: Philippine President Corazon Aquino
January 26: Five-star General Douglas MacArthur
January 27: Author Lewis Carroll
January 28: Painter Jackson Pollock
January 29: Olympic Gold Medalist Greg Louganis
And January 30: US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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WRLD: 1948 - Godse guns down Gandhi, violently ending life of non-violence's scion

SPRT: 1994 - Skating phenom breaks Olympic jinx with record-setting 500 meters

HUH?: 1661 - Cromwell, dead 3 years, is executed on anniversary of and in retribution for Charles I's execution

BDAY: Phil Collins; Vanessa Redgrave; Boris Spassky; Franklin D. Roosevelt

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WRLD: 1996 - 6th blast is the last; No Nukes, Chirac says

SPRT: 1963 - 27 years to the day after Pro Baseball announces first hall of famers, Pro Football announces its own

OTHR: 1996 - Arsonists give Vienna's Phoenix latest set of ashes from which to rise

BDAY: Greg Louganis; John Forsythe; W.C. Fields; William McKinley

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++This Tweet in History: January 28, 2010++

WRLD: 1986 - Space tragedy as failed O-Rings bring down space shuttle Challenger

SPRT: 1938 - Caracciola attains record-setting 432 mph on public road

OTHR: 1754 - Serendipity found in Walpolean letter from Horace to Horace

BDAY: Nicolas Sarkozy; Alan Alda; Jackson Pollock; Arthur Rubenstein

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++This Tweet in History: January 27, 2010++

WRLD: 1945 - Red Army liberates Auschwitz

SPRT: 1996 - Seles gets her Grand Slam groove back Down Under

OTHR: 1984 - Thriller moments on set as pyro-malfunction leaves Jackson burned, Bad; spawn Whacko Jacko

BDAY: Mikhail Barysknikov; Donna Reed; Lewis Carroll; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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++This Tweet in History: January 26, 2010++

WRLD: 1950 - Constitution passes; Independence Day becomes Republic Day in India

SPRT: 1980 - US won't play ball in Moscow 'cause of tanks in Kabul

OTHR: 1905 - Wells uncovers epic Cullinan, Star of South Africa's mines

BDAY: Kirk Franklin; Wayne Gretzky; Ellen DeGeneres; Douglas MacArthur

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++This Tweet in History: January 25, 2010++

WRLD: 1971 - Uganda's out of frying pan, into fire as Amin deposes Obote

SPRT: 1924 - Chamonix hosts world's first winter games

OTHR: 1858 - Princess Vicky starts trend with two Teutonic tunes at nuptials

BDAY: Etta James; Corazon Aquino; Virginia Woolf; Robert Burns

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Histortweet Week in Review - W/E January 23, 2010

[SFX: CHURCHBELL] Greetings, History Lovers! Welcome to This Tweet in History, the Week In Review, podcasting to you on tape delay from our North American Studios.

Here are your top stories for the week ending January 23, 2010:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Bolivia, January 19, 1983 - Butcher, Barbie, bagged in Bolivia: http://bit.ly/bgRha
The Back-Story: [SFX:Wanted Dead or Alive; Killer Without A Cause; Mark E’s A Terror ]Klaus Barbie, better known as the Butcher of Lyon, personally tortured many prisoners, and was responsible for the death of up to 4,000 people. Following the war, Barbie served briefly with US Counterintelligence, with whose help he fled to Argentina and eventually to Bolivia. There, he lived under the alias Klaus Altmann, but was identified by Nazi Hunters as early as 1971. The Bolivian government refused to hand him over for trial, and efforts to kidnap him failed. Following elections in 1983, the new Bolivian government had him arrested and extradited to France. Finally coming to trial in 1987, an unrepentant Barbie was sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity. He died of leukemian in a Lyon jail some four years later. [SFX: You’re Going to Get What’s Coming; In Jail; In the Jailhouse, Now]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Melbourne, January 21, 1990 - Mcenroe blows stack, blows shot in Australian, under new 3-strikes rule: http://bit.ly/647F1j
The Back-Story: [SFX: Bad Boys; Oh, Johnny, Oh!].John McEnroe was perhaps as well known for his passion on the tennis court as for his incredible skills. The passion often manifest itself in rage, as it did in a fourth-round match against Swede Mikael Pernfors at the Australian Open. In the course of the match, McEnroe, who yelled at a crying baby, abused his racket, and cursed the mother of Ken Farrar [SFX: Shaft], the chief of supervisors, was disqualified some 3 hours into the match, to loud boos of the crowd, who wanted to see him finish out.[SFX: Match of the Day; Bad; ]

[SFX: SOUND827]: In Other News: DATELINE Chicago, January 19, OTHR: 1935 - In brief, Cooper introduces alternative to boxers: http://bit.ly/7JSu2D

The Back-Story: [SFX:Pants on the Ground; Like Other Girls; Underoos] Boxers or Briefs? Depends! Before Coopers stepped in, men didn’t have a choice. Calling their new underwear, “Jockeys,” because they provided the support of a jockstrap, Coopers sold 30,000 pair in the first three months. Not prone to ride-up, as boxers do, briefs have become the choice of some active men, or men who just want some support down there, despite the belief in some circles that briefs may lower a man’s sperm count. [SFX: Gentlemen Prefer Hanes]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

January 17: Author Anne Bronte
January 18: Author A. A. Milne
January 19: Author Edgar Allan Poe
January 20: Blues musician Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter
January 21: Tenor Placido Domingo
January 22: Author Sir Francis Bacon
And January 23: Painter Edouard Manet

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WRLD: 1978 - Soviet nuke satellite falls from the sky onto NW Territories

SPRT: 1984 - 2 days after landmark Super Bowl ad airs, Macintosh lands on shelves

HUH?: 1972 - Soichi, having evaded capture for 28 years, learns war's over

BDAY: Mary Lou Retton; Yakov Smirnoff; Warren Zevon; Edith Wharton

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WRLD: 1922 - Diabetic receives Banting & Best's purified insulin extract with spectacular results

SPRT: 1984 - Hulk escapes Camel Clutch, defeats Iron Sheik for WWF Title. That counts as sports, right?

HUH?: 393 - Honor 9 year old Honorius, co-emperor of Rome

BDAY: Princess Caroline; Ernie Kovacs; Edouard Manet; John Hancock

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++This Tweet in History: January 22, 2010++

WRLD: 1905 - Seeds for revolution in Imperial disregard for human life in St. Pete's Bloody Sunday

SPRT: 1927 - Arsenal v. Sheffield is first soccer match with live play by play

OTHR: 1957 - Mad Bomber nabbed in CT after 16 years, 30 explosive devices in NYC

BDAY: Linda Blair; Steve Perry; George Balanchine; Sir Francis Bacon

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++This Tweet in History: January 21, 2010++

WRLD: 1793 - Louis XVI doffs his cap to the Revolution

SPRT: 1990 - Mcenroe blows stack, blows shot in Australian, under new 3-strikes rule

ENTR: 1959 - Gunshot puts tragic end to Alfalfa's brief life

BDAY: Hakeem Olajuwon; Geena Davis; Placido Domingo; Benny Hill

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++This Tweet in History: January 20, 2010++

WRLD: 1981 - Agreement signed for ending 52 US hostages' 444 days in captivity

SPRT: 1968 - UH - UCLA in Game of the Century, ancestor of March Madness

OTHR: 1885 - Thompson patents roller coaster

BDAY: Buzz Aldrin; Federico Fellini; DeForest Kelley; Leadbelly

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++This Tweet in History: January 19, 2010++

WRLD: 1983 - Butcher,Barbie, bagged in Bolivia

ENTR: 1953 - Oh, Ricky, you're so fine. 90% of US TV audience can't be wrong

OTHR: 1935 - In brief, Cooper introduces alternative to boxers

BDAY: Thomas Kinkade;Janis Joplin; Paul Cezanne; Edgar Allan Poe

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++This Tweet in History: January 18, 2010++

WRLD: 1778 - Cook finds Sandwich in Hawaiian Isles

SPRT: 1958 - NHL goes color blind with half-blind Willie O'Ree

OTHR: 1788 - First Fleet carrying Prisoners of Mother England arrives at Botany Bay

BDAY: Danny Kaye; Cary Grant; A.A. Milne; Daniel Webster

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++This Tweet in History: January 17, 2010++

WRLD: 1994 - 6.6 quake hits LA; 1yr later, 7.2 in Kobe-but Haiti's UN's greatest disaster. Pray/Give/Help! Here's how

SPRT: 1916 - Duffers meet at NYC's Taplow club, sow seeds for PGA

OTHR: 1946 - First session of UN Security Council

BDAY: Muhammad Ali; Anton Chekov; Anne Bronte; Benjamin Franklin

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Histortweet Week in Review - W/E January 16, 2010

[SFX: CHURCHBELL] Greetings, History Lovers! Welcome to This Tweet in History, the Week In Review, podcasting to you on tape delay from our North American Studios.

Here are your top stories for the week ending January 16, 2010:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Rome, January 15, 69 - In Otho news, Marcus unseats Galba for 3-month run as emperor of Rome http://bit.ly/7e8riE
The Back-Story: [SFX:Emperor Concerto; ] With the Roman Empire over-extended, divided, and reeling in the wake of Emperor Nero’s suicide, which marked the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, milatary leaders began asserting themselves. The first of these, Servius Sulpicius Galba, had been in power in Rome for just over two months when the remote armies declared their own commander, Aulus Vitellius. Galba, in a show of authority, named his own successor, angering Marcus Salvius Otho, who saw himself as Galba’s successor. Otho organized a consipiracy, through which he was declared emperor, and Galba was dragged from hiding in the temple and killed. Otho’s reign was short-lived, and, inless than 9 weeks, he committed suicide as Vitellius’ armiesclosed in on him. [SFX: Suicide is Painless; Don’t Try Suicide]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Miami, January 12, 1969 - Broadway Joe makes good on Super guarantee http://bit.ly/848JPt

The Back-Story: [SFX: Underdog; On Broadway; New York, New York] Following the merge r of the American Football League with the National Football League, the newly christened American Football Conference was definitely the weaker partner. And, in 1969, their champion Jets were 19-point underdogs to a Baltimore Colts team and its defense that had stifled opposing teams’ offense all season long. It was against this backdrop that Broadway Joe Namath, in an interview, guaranteed that his Jets would win. And he delivered. The Colts expected rattle the young quarterback with their confusing package of blitzes, but he had done his homework, and handled the Colts D, particularly their aging right side, with aplomb, jumping out to a 13-0 lead, and, by the start of the 4th quarter, essentially running out the clock. Broadway Joe was as good as his word, the only quarterback to win an MVP in a superbowl without throwing a touchdown pass.[SFX: I Guarantee It; Winning; ]

[SFX: SOUND827]: Things that make you go Huh?: DATELINE Boston, January 15, 1919 - Boston buried under Molasses tsunami http://bit.ly/4ahwLq

The Back-Story: [SFX:Please Come to Boston; Sweet Sticky Thing]On an unseasonably warm January afternoon in Boston, beer and trouble were brewing at the US Industrial Alcohol Company. Shortly after noon, a cast iron tank, 50 feet tall, that held 2 ½ million gallons of molasses, to be made into rum, ruptured, causing a sticky flash flood as its contents emptied out onto the streets ina matter of seconds. An 8-foot wall of molasses, moving at 35 miles per hour, uprooted buidings and vehicles, and drowned or buried men and animals. By the end, 21 people were dead, and more than 150 injured. After 6 years of lawsuits, the courts rejected the brewery’s claims of sabotage, finding that the tanks were overfilled and under-reinforced. The company paid out almost a million dollars to over 100 plaintiffs. [SFX: It’s Bubbling; Bubbly Brown Sugar; Here Comes the Flood]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

January 10: Mystic Grigory Rasputin
January 11: Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien
January 12: Author Jack London
January 13: Comedian Charles Nelson Reilly
January 14: Humanitarian Albert Schweitzer
January 15: Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King, Jr.
And January 16: Singer Sade

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WRLD: 1547 - Ivan the Terrible rises to tsardom

RLGN: 1581 - Brit parliament bans Catholicism

HUH?: 2001 - Roosevelt wins Medal of Honor for bavery a century earlier

BDAY: Kate Moss; Sade; Dizzy Dean; Ethel Merman

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++This Tweet in History: January 15, 2010++

WRLD: 69 - In Otho news, Marcus unseats Galba for 3-month run as emperor of Rome

TECH: 1892 - Naismith publishes rules for b-ball

HUH?: 1919 - Boston buried under Molasses tsunami

BDAY: Charo; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Lloyd Bridges; Gene Krupa

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++This Tweet in History: January 14, 2010++

WRLD: 1975 - Neilson kidnaps, ultimately kills teenage heiress Whittle

SPRT: 1969 - Man U loses a legend as manager Busby retires

OTHR: 1994 - Duchess of Kent reverses 300 year trend, converting to Catholicism

BDAY: LL Cool J; Faye Dunaway; Albert Schweitzer; Benedict Arnold

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++This Tweet in History: January 13, 2010++

WRLD: 1970 - Breakaway Biafran republic capitulates, ending Nigerian civil war

TECH: 1942 - Tin Lizzie's father decides plastic is patently better

OTHR: 1842 - 16,499 perish, but Brydon survives skirmish in Anglo-Afghan war

BDAY: Patrick Dempsey; Julia Louis-Dreyfus; Richard Moll; Charles Nelson Reilly

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++This Tweet in History: January 12, 2010++

WRLD: 1964 - Okello and his band of 300 lead violent Zanzibar Revolution

SPRT: 1969 - Broadway Joe makes good on Super guarantee

OTHR: 1969 - Bedford enters deep-freeze in bid for cryonic preservation

BDAY: Jeff Bezos; Joe Frazier; Jack London; Charles Perrault

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++This Tweet in History: January 11, 2010++

WRLD: 1946 - Stalinist Hoxha creates People's Republic of Albania. Guess whom he selects as its dictator

SPRT: 1935 - Earhart makes first female solo over Pacific

OTHR: 1964 - US Surgeon General releases novel conclusion - smoking may be dangerous

BDAY: Mary J. Blige; Naomi Judd; Jean Chretien; Alexander Hamilton

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++This Tweet in History: January 10, 2010++

WRLD: 1645 - Despite royal pardon, Laud loses his head over Puritanism

ENTR: 1971 - WGBH begins bringing high-brow brit TV to US Public. Televisison.

OTHR: 1984 - Vatican, US shake hands, make nice after 117 years

BDAY: Pat Benatar; George Foreman; Johnny Ray; Grigory Rasputin

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Histortweet Week in Review - W/E January 9, 2010

[SFX: CHURCHBELL] Greetings, History Lovers! Welcome to This Tweet in History, the Week In Review, podcasting to you on tape delay from our North American Studios.

Here are your top stories for the week ending January 9, 2010:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE England, January 9 1806 - Brits bury naval hero, national savior http://bit.ly/783dB8
The Back-Story: [SFX:Heroes; Wind Beneath My Wings; Jerusalem]With Napoleon’s army raging unchecked through Europe, the one obstacle before his empire was the sea. In October, 1805, Britain’s Vice Admiral Nelson repelled Napoleon’s naval forces, saving the island nation, but was mortally wounded in the process. Nelson was taken to the cockpit, below deck, where he held on for 3 agonizing hours, succumbing to his wounds shortly after receiving word of his fleet’s victory. Although the tradition was burial at sea for those who persished at sea, his captain and officers, wanting to give his country a chance to honor their hero, preserved his body in a barrel of brandy and carried it back to England. There, his body lay in state before being transported by one of the king’s barges, accompanied by a grand funeral procession on the water. Following a simple ceremony, his body was laid to rest in St. Paul’s Cathedra,. [SFX:God Save the Queen; ]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Detroit, January 6, 1994 - Figure-skating goes full-contactHarding seeks leg up on Kerrigan http://bit.ly/AINSD (video)

The Back-Story: [SFX: Beat it; Burn Rubber; It Hurts] As Nancy Kerrigan left the ice rink after apractice skate for an Olympic-qualifying Figure Skating Championship match, she was jolted out of her routine by a 6-foot, 220 pound assailant wielding a police baton. The assailant attacked her knees, causing swelling and internal bleeding, before bursting through a glass door on his getaway. While Kerrigan suffered no broken bones, she was unable to participate in match, where the top two skaters, Tonya Harding and Michelle Kwon, won spots on the team. However, the US Olympic Committee, in an extraordinary move, because Kerrigan’s injury was not skating-related, promoted her to the team, making Kwon an alternate. At the Olympic games, Kerrigan won a silver, losing the gold to Ukrainian Oksan Baiul by the narrowest of margins, and Harding, who, by then, had been implicated in the attacks, went home empty handed, after an embarrassing performance.[SFX: Back in Black]

[SFX: SOUND827]: ENTR: DATELINE London, January 4, 1986 - Lizzy's Lynott succumbs after collapse from Christmas-day binge http://bit.ly/6SAkPl

The Back-Story: [SFX:I Have Got to Give It Up; Opium Trail] Philip Lynott, bassist and frontman of the rock group Thin Lizzy, was deeply influenced by his Irish heritage, and sang songs of war, deprivation, and fraternity, although widely known for the smash hit, “The Boys Are Back in Town.” Another familiar theme in Lizzy’s music was, tellingly, drug and alcohol addiction. Lynott’s bandmates watched him slip deeper and deeper into his addictions, until, after a Christmas day binge in his mansion in London, Lynott collapsed and was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a kidney and liver infection. Ten days later, he was dead at age 36 of heart failure and pneumonia. [SFX: Dear Heart]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

January 3: Comedian Victor Borge
January 4: Inventor Louis Braille
January 5: Spanish King Juan Carlos I
January 6: French Saint Joan of Arc
January 7: American President Millard Fillmore
January 8: Cosmologist Stephen Hawking
And January 9: American President Richard Nixon

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++This Tweet in History: January 9, 2010++

WRLD: 1349 - Basel's Jews, scapegoated for plague, burned to death

SPRT: 1972 - Longest winning streak in US pro sports halted as Bucks topple Lakers

OTHR: 1806 - Brits bury naval hero, national savior

BDAY: Dave Matthews; Jimmy Page; Bob Denver; Richard Nixon

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++This Tweet in History: January 8, 2010++

WRLD: 1815 - Greatest US victory of War of 1812 comes after war's end

TECH: 1994 - Polyakov begins record 14 months in space

OTHR: 1912 - African National Congress founded

BDAY: David Bowie; Stephen Hawking; Elvis Presley; Soupy Sales

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++This Tweet in History: January 7, 2010++

WRLD: 1558 - France takes Calais, last English vestige on the Continent

SPRT: 1927 - Clown princes of basketball play first game in Hinckley, not Harlem

OTHR: 1990 - After 800 leaning years, Pisa's tower closed to public on fears it's falling

BDAY: Nicolas Cage; Katie Couric; Kenny Loggins; Millard Fillmore

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++This Tweet in History: January 6, 2010++

WRLD: 1929 - Alexander I sets himself as dictator Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, restyled Yugoslavia

SPRT: 1994 - Figure-skating goes full-contactas Harding seeks leg up on Kerrigan (video)

ENTR: 1973 - School gets cool with debut of Schoolhouse Rock

BDAY: Nancy Lopez; Rowan Atkinson; Carl Sandburg; Joan of Arc

++This Tweet in History: January 5, 2010++

WRLD: 1976 - Genocidal Pol Pot restyles "Cambodia" as "Kampuchea;" institutes Communism

TECH: 1914 - Windfall from moving assembly line lets Ford institute 8-hour day, record wages

OTHR: 1757 - Damien, "Le Diable," becomes France's Guy Fawkes with attempt on Louis XV

BDAY: Diane Keaton; Juan Carlos I; Alvin Ailey; Walter Mondale

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++This Tweet in History: January 4, 2010++

WRLD: 1717 - Dutch, French, Brits sign triple alliance to check superpower Spain; later quadrupled by adding Austria

SPRT: 1967 - Daredevil, Campbell, dies in attempt at breaking his own water-speed record

ENTR: 1986 - Lizzy's Lynott succumbs after collapse from Christmas-day binge

BDAY: Michael Stipe; Dyan Cannon; Floyd Patterson; Louis Braille

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++This Tweet in History: January 3, 2010++

WRLD: 1993 - Bush, Yeltsin make a second START

TECH: 1957 - Hamilton intros first electric watch

OTHR: 1938 - Polio victim, FDR, hits back at disease with March of Dimes

BDAY: Stephen Stills; Bobby Hull; Victor Borge; J.R.R. Tolkien

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HistorTweet Week in Review - W/E January 2, 2010

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Here are your top stories for the week ending January 2, 2010:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Panama, January 2, 1955 - Panamanian president assassinated in heroin deal gone bad? : http://bit.ly/5p2Vf2
The Back-Story: [SFX:Panama] General José Antonio Remón Cantera, the man behind the scenes of several coups that ousted Arnulfo Arias from power, was elected president of Panama in October, 1952, and served untilhis assassination in mysterious circumstance 1955. American Martin Lipstein, whom several witnesses placed far away from the racetrack at which Remón was killed (the Hipódromo Juan Franco), was arrested for the crime but released when lawyer Rubén O. Miró confessed, on January 12, 1955. Jose Ramón Guizado, Remón's Vice President and successor, was indicted for the crime after Miró accused him of being the mastermind. When Miró, still felt by many to be the assassin in the case that was never solved, was acquitted, Guizado was also released from jail on December 10, 1957. In a novel twist, recently declassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency reveal that Remón might have been killed on the orders of Lucky Luciano over a dispute involving a shipment of heroin, which Remón allegedly stole from Luciano's organization. [SFX: Urban Guerrillas; Point Blank; Ray Gun; Not If You Were the Last Junkie On Earth]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE The Caribbean, December 31, 1972 - Pirate star, Clemente, perishes in crash of plane carrying food, supplies, to quake victims in Nicaragua: http://bit.ly/87Ycon

The Back-Story: [SFX: Centerfield; Only the Good Die Young] Pittsburgh Pirate star, Roberto Clemente, could do it all on the field: run, throw, field, and hit both for average and for power. However, Clemente didn’t comport himself in the stereotypical, prima donna, superstar fashion, but was known for a quiet dignity and a concern for his fellow man. This concern was demonstrated in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake that hit Nicaragua in December of 1972. Clemente had oragnized donations of food and relief supplies to Nicaragua, but, concerned by reports that the donations were not reaching those who needed them the most, decided to see the situation firsthand, and chartered a plane to Nicaragua. Shortly after takeoff, the plane crashed into the ocean, killing all aboard. Clemente’s body was never recovered. The Baseball Writers Association voted to waive the five-year wait for inclusion in the Hall of Fame for Clemente, inducting him on August 8, 1973 in the first of many honors that the game bestowed on this on-the-field and off-the-field giant. [SFX: It’s Just Another Day]

[SFX: SOUND827]: In Other News: DATELINE Great Britain, December 31 1695 - Homeowners hit the bricks to avoid window tax: http://bit.ly/yx4oU

The Back-Story: [SFX: Brickhouse; Close The Door; Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick] Under the official name, “the Act of Making Good the Deficiency of the Clipped Money,” the window tax was enacted at the close of 1695. Its goal was to assess taxes in accordance with a taxpayer’s wealth, without imposing a formal income tax. Homeowners were charged 2 shillings per house, plus a tax that varied for the number of windows more than 10. The tax had different effects on rich and poor. Where some houses of the period have bricked-over window spaces, to avoid the tax, some of the richest families had houses built with the as many windows as possible, even going so far as to have windows built in front of structural-support walls. The Window Tax was amended in various ways before it was repealed, in 1851, replaced by House Duty.[SFX: Taxman, Mr. Thief]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

December 27:Chemist Louis Pasteur
December 28: US President Woodrow Wilson
December 29: US President Andrew Johnson
December 30: Monkees Davy Jones and Michael Nesmith
December 31: Artist Henri Matisse
January 1: Author J.D. Salinger
And January 2: Sci Fi Author Isaac Asimov

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WRLD: 1955 - Panamanian president assassinated in heroin deal gone bad?

SPRT: 1971 - Tragedy at Ibrox as fans flee Rangers loss, stairway collapses

HUH?: 1860 - French announce discovery of Planet Vulcan

BDAY: Christy Turlington; Tia Carrere; Roger Miller; Isaac Asimov

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++This Tweet in History: January 1, 2010++

WRLD: 1959 - Batista flees Cuba, ceding control to Castro's revolutionaries

SPRT: 1902 - At 1st Rose Bowl, Stanford gives up in 3rd quarter; organizers give up on football. Send in the chariots!

HUH?: 2000 - World doesn't end

BDAY: Verne Troyer; Frank Langella; J.D. Salinger; Betsy Ross

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