Friday, January 13, 2012

Today in History: Friday, January 13, 2012

Today in History: Friday, January 13, 2012

Dallas Morning News

AP Highlight in History:
On Jan. 13, 1978, former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey died in Waverly, Minn., at age 66.

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On this date in:

1794

President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union.

1808

Salmon P. Chase, U.S. senator, secretary of the treasury and chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Cornish, N.H.

1893

Britain's Independent Labor Party, a precursor to the Labor Party, first met.

1898

Novelist Emile Zola's "J'accuse" - a defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew falsely convicted of treason - was published in a Paris newspaper.

1964

Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland, by Pope Paul VI.

1966

Robert C. Weaver became the first black Cabinet member as he was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

1968

Country musician Johnny Cash recorded a live concert at Folsom Prison in California.

1982

An Air Florida 737 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., after takeoff and fell into the Potomac River, killing 78 people.

1989

New York City subway gunman Bernhard H. Goetz was sentenced to one year in prison for possessing an unlicensed gun that he used to shoot four youths he said were about to rob him.

1990

L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia, the nation's first elected black governor, took the oath of office in Richmond.

2000

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates stepped aside as chief executive.

2002

The off-Broadway musical "The Fantasticks" ended a run of nearly 42 years and 17,162 performances.

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Highlights of This Day in History

Today's Birthdays:

Actor Patrick Dempsey ("Grey's Anatomy") turns 46 years old today.

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Name

Profession

Age

Frances Sternhagen

Actress

82

Rip Taylor

Comedian

78

Billy Gray

Actor ("Father Knows Best")

74

Richard Moll

Actor ("Night Court")

69

Trevor Rabin

Rock musician (Yes)

58

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Actress ("Seinfeld," "The New Adventures of Old Christine")

51

Penelope Ann Miller

Actress

48

Nicole Eggert

Actress

40

Orlando Bloom

Actor ("Pirates of the Caribbean" and "The Lord of the Rings" movies)

35

Country singer Trace Adkins turns 50 years old today.

AP Photo/Peter Kramer

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