[lbo-talk] Liza & Doug have a kid

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January 1st in History:

404:    Last gladiator competition in Rome
1622:  Papal Chancery adopts January as beginning of the year
1660:  Englishman Samuel Pepys begins his famous diary
1700:  Russia replaces Byzantine with Julian calendar
1862:  US income tax goes into effect (3% of incomes > $600,% of incomes 
 > $10,000)
1863:  Emancipation Proclamation (ending slavery) issued by Lincoln
1901:  Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies
1923:  Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) established
1934:  Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC US bank guarantor) goes into 
effect
1934:  Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison
1946:  ENIAC, first computer, finished by Mauchly/Eckert
1948:  General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) goes into effect
1958:  European Community (later to become the European Union) is born
1973:  Britain becomes a member of the European Economic Community
1981:  Greece becomes the tenth member of the Europen Economic Community
1993:  Czechoslovakia split into two separate states


Birthdays:

January 1, 1965 Famke Janssen, Dutch model
January 1, 1958 Grandmaster Flash, [Joseph Saddler], New York City, musician
January 1, 1940 Frank Langella, Bayonne, New Jersey, actor, Dracula
January 1, 1933 Joe Orton, England, actor/dramatist, Prick Up Your Ears
January 1, 192? Idi Amin Dada, president of Uganda
January 1, 1923 Milton (Milt) Jackson, U.S., vibraphonist
January 1, 1922 Ernest F. Hollings, American senator
January 1, 1919 J. D. Salinger, American Novelist, Catcher in the Rye
January 1, 1911 Hank Greenberg, first Jewish baseball superstar
January 1, 1900 Xavier Cugat, born in Barcelona, Spain, bandleader
January 1, 1895 J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant
January 1, 1879 Edward M Forster, England, novelist, Howards End, 
Passage to India
January 1, 1752 Elizabeth Griscom (Betsy Ross), flag maker
January 1, 1864 Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer, Camera Work
January 1, 1735 Paul Revere, silversmith/US patriot
January 1, 1729 Edmund Burke, British author, Philosophy and Inquiry
January 1, 1449 Lorenzo de'Medici, [The Magnificent] of Florence


Congrats!

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