MONDAY, Jan.15, 2024

On this day...

1346-Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand

1863-First U.S. newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal

1907-Three-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee de Forest

1907-Gold dental inlays first described by William Taggart, who invented them

1934-Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)

1943-Japanese driven off Guadalcanal

1943-First transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught

1944-Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die

1945-Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp

1949-Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin

1969-Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean

1971-Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt

1974-"Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC

1975-Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence

1978-Theodore Bundy kills Florida State University co-eds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman

1988-Arab uprising in Israel begins

1988-Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes

1989-Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic

1991-U.N.'s deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait passes - (they don't)

1993-7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die

1993-Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV

1993-Top mafia leader Salvatore "Totò" Riina arrested in Palermo

1994-Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist

1997-Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin