Selected Articles from The New York Times
January 2007 (* denotes news of special interest)

Wednesday, January 31, 2007:
On This Day: January 31 (Robert Morris 1/31/1734-5/8/1806, Sam Loyd 1/31/1841-4/10/1911, Zane Grey 1/31/1872-10/23/1939, Anna Pavlova 1/31/1881-1/23/1931, Eddie Cantor 1/31/1892-10/10/1964, John O'Hara 1/31/1905-4/11/1970, Thomas Merton 1/31/1915-12/10/1968, Norman Mailer 1923, Jean Simmons 1929, Ernie Banks 1931, Philip Glass 1937, Suzanne Pleshette 1937, Jessica Walter 1944, Nolan Ryan 1947, Phil Collins 1951, Minnie Driver 1971)
From Washington Abolition Of Slavery (NY TIMES, February 1, 1865)
* Jackie Robinson, First Black in Major Leagues, Dies at 53 [1/31/1919-10/24/1972] (By DAVE ANDERSON, October 25, 1972)

Tuesday, January 30, 2007:
On This Day: January 30 (George Villiers Buckingham 1/30/1628-4/16/1687, Bernardo Bellotto 1/30/1720-10/17/1780, Philip Henry Stanhope 1/30/1805-12/24/1875, Samuel Armstrong 1/30/1839-5/11/1893, Roy Eldridge 1/30/1911-2/26/1989, Barbara Tuchman 1/30/1912-2/6/1989, Dorothy Malone 1925, Harold Prince 1928, Gene Hackman 1930, Tammy Grimes 1934, Jeanne Pruett 1937, Vanessa Redgrave 1937, Dick Cheney 1941)
* Gandhi Is Killed By A Hindu; India Shaken, World Mourns (By Robert Trumbull, January 30, 1948)
Obituary: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Part I of VIII [1/30/1882-4/12/1945] (NY TIMES, April 13, 1945)

Monday, January 29, 2007:
On This Day: January 29 (Emanuel Swedenborg 1/29/1843-9/14/1901, Thomas Paine 1/29/1737-6/8/1809, Henry Lee 1/29/1756-3/25/1818, Anton Chekhov 1/29/1860-7/15/1904, Frederick Delius 1/29/1862-6/10/1934, Romain Rolland 1/29/1866-12/30/1944, John D. Rockefeller Jr. 1/29/1874-5/11/1960, W. C. Fields 1/29/1889-12/25/1946, John Forsythe 1918, Germaine Greer 1939, Tom Selleck 1945, Ann Jillian 1951, Oprah Winfrey 1954, Greg Louganis 1960)
* Robert Frost Dies At 88; Poet Won Four Pulitzer Prizes (Associated Press, January 29, 1963)
President McKinley Dies at 58 [1/29/1843-9/14/1901] (NY TIMES, September 7, 1901)

Sunday, January 28, 2007:
On This Day: January 28 (Henry VII 1/28/1457-4/21/1509, Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1/28/1841-5/10/1904, Wm. Seward Burroughs 1/28/1855-9/15/1898, Franklin Hooper 1/28/1862-8/14/1940, Colette 1/28/1873-8/3/1954, Auguste Piccard 1/28/1884-3/24/1962, Arnst Lubitsch 1/28/1892-11/30/1947, Jackson Pollack 1/28/1912-8/11/1956, Virgílio Ferreira 1/28/1916-3/1/1996, Susan Sontag 1933, Alan Alda 1936, Marthe Keller 1945, Barbi Benton 1950)
The Challenger Shuttle Explodes: 7 Killed 74 Seconds After Liftoff (By William J. Broad, January 28, 1986)
* Arthur Rubinstein Dies in Geneva at 95; Virtuoso Pianist [1/28/1887-12/20/1982] (NY TIMES, December 21, 1982)

WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 28, 2007)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 28, 2007)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 28, 2007)

Saturday, January 27, 2007:
On This Day: January 27 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1/27/1756-12/5/1791, Édouard Lalo 1/27/1823-4/22/1982, Lewis Carroll 1/27/1832-1/14/1898, Learned Hand 1/27/1872-8/18/1961, Ch'ing-ling Soong 1/27/1892-5/29/1981, Hyman G. Rickover 1/27/1900-7/8/1986, Troy Donahue 1936, Mikhail Baryshnikov 1948, Mimi Rogers 1956, Bridget Fonda 1964)
3 Apollo Astronauts Die in Fire; Grissom, White, Chaffee Caught in Capsule During Test (Associated Press, January 27, 1967)
* Jerome Kern Dies at 60; Composer of Music for Theatre and Screen [1/27/1885-11/11/1945] (NY TIMES, April 6, 1964)

Friday, January 26, 2007:
On This Day: January 26 (Jean-Baptiste Pigalle 1/26/1714-8/21/1785, Claude-Adrien Helvétius 1/26/1715-12/26/1771, Samuel Hopkins Adams 1/26/1871-11/15/1958, Julia Morgan 1/26/1872-2/2/1957, Seán MacBride 1/26/1904-1/15/1988, Paul Newman 1925, Jules Feiffer 1929, Bob Uecker 1935, Angela Davis 1944, Eddie Van Halen 1957, Ellen DeGeneres 1958)
India a Republic, Rajendra Prasad President (By Robert Trumbull, January 26, 1950)
* MacArthur Dies at 84; Commander of Armies That Turned Back Japan [1/26/1880-4/5/1964] (NY TIMES, April 6, 1964)

Thursday, January 25, 2007:
On This Day: January 25 (Robert Boyle 1/25/1627-12/30/1691, Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1/25/1736-4/10/1813, Robert Burns 1/25/1759-7/21/1796, Benjamin Haydon 1/25/1786-6/22/1846, Kokichi Mikimoto 1/25/1858-9/21/1954, Rufus Matthew Jones 1/25/1863-6/16/1948, W. Somerset Maugham 1/25/1874-12/16/1965, Edwin Newman 1919, Corazon Aquino 1933)
* Phone to Pacific From the Atlantic [Bell talks to Watson over a 3,400-mile wire] (NY TIMES, January 25, 1915)
* Virginia Woolf Believed Dead at 59 [1/25/1882-3/28/1941] (NY TIMES, April 3, 1941)

Wednesday, January 24, 2007:
On This Day: January 24 (William Congreve 1/24/1670-1/19/1729, Christian Wolff 1/24/1679-4/9/1754, Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais 1/24/1732-5/18/1799, Henry Barnard 1/24/1811-7/5/1900, Cassandre 1/24/1901-6/19/1968, Mark Goodson 1/24/1915-12/18/1992, Robert Motherwell 1/24/1915-7/16/1991, Ernest Borgnine 1917, Oral Roberts 1918, Neil Diamond 1941, Yakov Smirnoff 1951, Nastassja Kinski 1961, Mary Lou Retton 1968)
* Churchill is Dead at 90; The World Mourns Him; State Funeral Saturday (By Anthony Lewis, January 24, 1965)
* Edith Wharton, 75, Is Dead in France [1/24/1862-8/11/1937] (NY TIMES, August 13, 1937)

Tuesday, January 23, 2007:
On This Day: January 23 (John Hancock 1/23/1737-10/8/1793, Stendhal 1/23/1783-3/23/1842, Edouard Manet 1/23/1832-4/30/1883, David Hilbert 1/23/1862-2/14/1943, Herbert D. Croly 1/23/1869-5/17/1930, Potter Stewart 1/23/1915-12/7/1985, Joseph Nathan Kane 1899, Jeanne Moreau 1928, Princess Caroline 1957, Anita Pointer 1948)
Vietnam Accord is Reached; Cease-Fire Begins Saturday (By Bernard Gwertzman, January 23, 1973)
* Sergei Eisenstein Is Dead In Moscow at 50 [1/23/1898-2/11/1948] (By REUTERS, February 12, 1948)

Monday, January 22, 2007:
On This Day: January 22 (Lord Byron 1/22/1788-4/19/1824, August Strindberg 1/22/1849-5/14/1912, David Griffith 1/22/1875-7/23/1948, Rosa Ponselle 1/22/1897-5/25/1981, George Balanchine 1/22/1904-4/20/1983, U Thant 1/22/1909-11/25/1974, Howard Moss 1/22/1922-9/16/1987, Ann Sothern 1909, Piper Laurie 1932, Joseph Wambaugh 1937, John Hurt 1940, Mike Bossy 1957, Linda Blair 1959, Diane Lane 1965)
Roe vs. Wade: High Court Rules Abortions Legal the First 3 Months [also LBJ Dead at 64]
(By Warren Weaver, Jr., January 22, 1973)
Vinson Excelled In Federal Posts, Dies at 63 [1/22/1890-9/8/1953] (NY TIMES, September 9, 1953)

Sunday, January 21, 2007:
On This Day: January 21 (Ethan Allen 1/21/1738-2/12/1789, John Fremont 1/21/1813-7/13/1890, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson 1/21/1824-5/10/1863, Paul Scofield 1922, Jack Nicklaus 1940, Placido Domingo 1941, Mac Davis 1942, Jill Eikenberry 1947, Geena Davis 1957)
* Lenin Dies Of Cerebral Hemorrhage at 54; Moscow Throngs Overcome With Grief (By Walter Duranty, January 21, 1924)
* Christian Dior, 52, Creator Of 'New Look,' Dies [1/21/1905-10/24/1957] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, October 24, 1957)

WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 21, 2007)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 21, 2007)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 21, 2007)

Saturday, January 20, 2007:
On This Day: January 20 (Henry Cromwell 1/20/1628-3/23/1674, Richard Henry Lee 1/20/1732-6/19/1794, Ruth St. Denis 1/20/1877-7/21/1968, Walter Piston 1/20/1894-11/12/1976, Harold Gray 1/20/1894-5/9/1968, Joy Adamson 1/20/1910-1/3/1980, Slim Whitman 1925, Edwin Buzz Aldrin 1931, David Lynch 1947, Bill Maher 1957, Melissa Rivers 1969)
Reagan Takes Oath as 40th President; Promises an 'Era of National Renewal' (By Steven R. Weisman, January 20, 1981)
* Federico Fellini, Film Visionary, Is Dead at 73 [1/20/1920-10/31/1993] (By PETER B. FLINT, November 1, 1993)

* BUSINESS |YOUR MONEY: Don't Call. Don't Write. Let Me Be. (By DAMON DARLIN, Jan. 20, 2007)

Friday, January 19, 2007:
On This Day: January 19 (Tai Chen 1/19/1724-7/1/1777, James Watt 1/19/1736-8/25/1819, Auguste Comte 1/19/1790-9/5/1857, Edgar Allen Poe 1/19/1809-10/7/1849, Paul Cezanne 1/19/1839-10/22/1906, Alexander Woollcott 1/19/1887-1/23/1943, John Raitt 1917, Jean Stapleton 1923, Fritz Weaver 1925, Robert MacNeil 1931, Richard Lester 1932, Phil Everly 1939, Dolly Parton 1946, Ann Compton 1947, Desi Arnaz Jr. 1953)
Hughes, Riding Gale, Sets Record Of 7 1/2 Hours in Flight From Coast (NY TIMES, January 19, 1937)
* General Robert E. Lee Dead at 63 [1/19/1807-10/12/1870] (NY TIMES, October 13, 1870)

Thursday, January 18, 2007:
On This Day: January 18 (Daniel Webster 1/18/1782-10/24/1852, Seth Low 1/18/1850-9/17/1916, Hans Goldschmidt 1/18/1861-5/25/1923, A.A. Milne 1/18/1882-1/31/1956, Sir Thomas Sopwith 1/18/1888-1/27/1989, Cary Grant 1/18/1904-11/29/1986, Danny Kaye 1/18/1913-3/3/1987, John Boorman 1933, Kevin Costner 1955)
Scott 150 Miles From South Pole Jan. 3; Will Stay In Antarctic Another Year (NY TIMES, January 18, 1912)
* T. A. Watson Dead at 80; Made First Phone [1/18/1854-12/13/1934] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, December 15, 1934)

Wednesday, January 17, 2007:
On This Day: January 17 (Guarino Guarini 1/17/1624-3/6/1683, Jacques-Francois Blondel 1/17/1705-1/9/1774, Anne Bronte 1/17/1820-5/28/1849, David Lloyd George 1/17/1863-3/26/1945, Mack Sennett 1/17/1880-11/5/1960, Robert M. Hutchins 1/17/1899-5/17/1977, Nora Kaye 1/17/1920-2/28/1987, Thomas Dooley 1/17/1927-1/18/1961, Betty White 1922, Moira Shearer 1926, Eartha Kitt 1927, Sheree North 1933, Maury Povich 1939, Muhammad Ali 1942)
Revolution In Hawaii Overthrows Queen Liliuokalani (NY TIMES, January 17, 1893)
Capone Dead At 48; Dry Era Gang Chief [1/17/1899-1/25/1947] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, January 26, 1947)

Tuesday, January 16, 2007:
On This Day: January 16 (Niccolo Piccinni 1/16/1728-5/7/1800, Vittorio Alfieri 1/16/1749-10/8/1803, Robert Service 1/16/1874-9/11/1958, George Kelly 1/16/1887-6/18/1974, Dizzy Dean 1/16/1911-7/17/1974, Norman Podhoretz 1930, Marilyn Horne 1934, Jim Stafford 1944, John Carpenter 1948, Debbie Allen 1950, Kate Moss 1974)
U.S. and Allies Open Air War on Iraq; Bomb Baghdad and Kuwaiti Targets (By ANDREW ROSENTHAL, January 16, 1991)
* Ethel Merman, Queen of Musicals, Dies at 76 [1/16/1908-2/15/1984] (By MURRAY SCHUMACH, February 16, 1984)

Monday, January 15, 2007:
On This Day: January 15 (Jean Moliere 1/15/1622-2/17/1673, Jean Coralli 1/15/1779-5/1/1854, Josef Breuer 1/15/1842-6/20/1925, Pierre Samuel du Pont 1/15/1870-4/5/1954, Arturi Virtanen 1/15/1895-11/11/1973, Gene Krupa 1/15/1909-10/16/1973, Gamal Nasser 1/15/1918-9/28/1970, Edward Teller 1908, Charo 1951)
Green Bay Wins First Superbowl Football Title (By WILLIAM N. WALLACE, January 15, 1967)
* Martin Luther King Jr. Killed at 39: Leader of Millions in Nonviolent Drive for Racial Justice
[1/15/1929-4/4/1968] (By MURRAY SCHUMACH, April 5, 1968)

Sunday, January 14, 2007:
On This Day: January 14 (Benedict Arnold 1/14/1741-6/14/1801, Berthe Morisot 1/14/1841-3/2/1895, Art Young 1/14/1866-12/29/1943, Hugh Lofting 1/14/1886-9/26/1947, Hal Roach 1/14/1892-11/2/1992, John Dos Passos 1/14/1896-9/28/1970, Carlos Romulo 1/14/1899-12/15/1985, Sir Cecil Beaton 1/14/1904-1/18/1980, Andy Rooney 1919, Julian Bond 1940, Faye Dunaway 1941, Steven Soderbergh 1963)
Roosevelt and Churchill Map 1943 War Strategy in Casablanca (By DREW MIDDLETON, Jr., January 14, 1943)
* Albert Schweitzer, 90, Dies at His Hospital [1/14/1875-9/4/1965] (By Reuters, September 6, 1965)

WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 14, 2007)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 14, 2007)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 14, 2007)

Saturday, January 13, 2007:
On This Day: January 13 (Jan van Goyen 1/13/1596-4/27/1656, Salmon Chase 1/13/1808-5/7/1873, Horatio Alger 1/13/1832-7/18/1899, Sophie Tucker 1/13/1884-2/9/1966, Elmer Davis 1/13/1890-5/18/1958, A. B. Jr. Guthrie 1/13/1901-4/26/1991, Rober Stack 1919, Charles Nelson Reilly 1931, Penelope Ann Miller 1964)
Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation's first elected black governor (By DRUMMOND AYRES, Jr., January 13, 1990)
Ross G. Harrison, Yale Zoologist, Dies at 89 [1/13/1870-9/30/1959] (NY TIMES, November 23, 1916)

Friday, January 12, 2007:
On This Day: January 12 (John Winthrop 1/12/1588-3/26/1649, Charles Perrault 1/12/1628-5/15/1703, John Hancock 1/12/1737-10/8/1793, Jakob Michael Lenz 1/12/1751-5/24/1792, John Singer Sargent 1/12/1856-4/15/1925, Max Eastman 1/12/1883-3/25/1969, Louis Horst 1/12/1884-1/23/1964, Luise Rainer 1910, Ray Price 1926, Glenn Yarborough 1930, The "Amazing Kreskin" 1935, Rush Limbaugh 1951, Howard Stern 1954, Kirstie Alley 1955, Oliver Platt 1960)
Suffragists Lose Fight In The House (NY TIMES, January 12, 1915)
* Jack London Dies Suddenly On Ranch at Age 40 [1/12/1876-11/22/1916] (NY TIMES, November 23, 1916)

Thursday, January 11, 2007:
On This Day: January 11 (Alexander Hamilton 1/11/1755-7/12/1804, Ezra Cornell 1/11/1807-12/9/1874, Sir James Paget 1//11/1814-12/30/1899, Alice H. Rice 1/11/1870-2/10/1942, Laurens Hammond 1/11/1895-7/1/1973, Eva LeGallienne 1/11/1899-6/3/1991, Alan Paton 1/11/1903-4/12/1988, Grant Tinker 1926, David L. Wolper 1928, Rod Taylor 1930, Jean Chretien 1934, Naomi Judd 1946, Ben Crenshaw 1952, Amanda Peet 1972)
Amelia Earhart Becomes First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Pacific Ocean (NY TIMES, January 11, 1935)
* William James Dies at 68; Great Psychologist [1/11/1842-8/26/1910] (NY TIMES, August 27, 1910)

Wednesday, January 10, 2007:
On This Day: January 10 (John Emerich, Lord Acton 1/10/1834-6/19/1902, John Wellborn Root 1/10/1850-1/15/1891, Frederick Gardner Cottrell 1/10/1877-11/16/1948, Dumas Malone 1/10/1892-12/27/1986, Uri Zvi Greenberg 1/10/1894-5/8/1981, Dame Barbara Hepworth 1/10/1903-5/20/1975, Ray Bolger 1/10/1904-1/15/1987, Paul Henreid 1/10/1908-3/29/1992, Gisele MacKenzie 1927, Willie McCovey 1938, Frank Sinatra Jr. 1944, Rod Stewart 1945, George Foreman 1949, Pat Benatar 1953, Shawn Colvin 1958)
* First General Assembly of the United Nations Convened in London (By James B. Reston, January 10, 1946)
* Galina Ulanova Is Dead at 88; A Revered Bolshoi Ballerina [1/10/1910-3/21/1998] (By MICHAEL SPECTOR, March 22, 1998)

Tuesday, January 9, 2007:
On This Day: January 9 (Carrie Chapman Catt 1/9/1870-5/16/1938, Joseph B. Strauss 1/9/1870-5/16/1938, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 1/9/1875-4/18/1942, Giovanni Papini 1/9/1881-7/8/1956, Simone de Beauvoir 1/9/1908-4/14/1986, Gypsy Rose Lee 1/9/1914-4/26/1970, Judith Krantz 1928, Bart Starr 1934, Dick Enberg 1935, Joan Baez 1941, Susannah York 1941, Crystal Gayle 1951, Dave Matthews 1967)
Surveyor 7 Spacecraft Lands Gently On Moon (By Gladwin Hill, January 9, 1968)
The 37th President Dead at 81; Nixon Tasted Crisis and Defeat, Victory, Ruin and Revival
[1/9/1913-4/22/1994] (By JOHN HERBERS, April 24, 1994)

Monday, January 8, 2007:
On This Day: January 8 (Nicholas Biddle 1/8/1786-2/27/1844, Hans von Bülow 1/8/1830-2/12/1894, Frank Nelson Doubleday 1/8/1862-1/30/1934, William T. Piper 1/8/1881-1/15/1934, Walther Bothe 1/8/1891-2/8/1957, Carl R. Rogers 1/8/1902-2/4/1987, Peter Arno 1/8/1904-2/22/1968, Evelyn Wood 1/8/1909-8/26/1995, José Ferrer 1/8/1912-1/26/1992, Elvis Presley 1/8/1935-8/16/1977, Soupy Sales 1926, Sander Vanocur 1928, Charles Osgood 1933, Shirley Bassey 1937, Stephen Hawking 1942)
President Wilson Specifies Terms Basis For World Peace; Asks Justice For Alsace-Lorraine (By NY TIMES, January 8, 1918)
* Emily Balch Dies at 94; Won Nobel Peace Prize [1/8/1867-1/9/1961] (NY TIMES, January 11, 1961)

Sunday, January 7, 2007:
On This Day: January 7 (Johann Christian Fabricius 1/7/1745-3/3/1808, Millard Fillmore 1/7/1800-3/8/1874, Saint Bernadette of Lourdes 1/7/1844-4/16/1879, Émile Borel 1/7/1871-2/3/1956, Francis Poulenc 1/7/1899-1/30/1963, Aristotle Onassis 1/7/1906-3/15/1975, Henry Allen 1/7/1908-4/17/1967, Charles Addams 1/7/1912-9/29/1988, William Peter Blatty 1928, Erin Gray 1950, Katie Couric 1957)
Hanoi Reports Cambodian Capital Conquered By 'Insurgent' Forces (By Henry Kamm, January 7, 1979)
* Adolph Zukor Is Dead at 103; Built Paramount Movie Empire [1/7/1873-6/10/1976] (By ALBIN KREBS, June 11, 1976)

WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 7, 2007)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 7, 2007)
* Happiness 101 [Science of Well-Being] (By D.T. MAX, Jan. 7, 2007)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 7, 2007)

Saturday, January 6, 2007:
On This Day: January 6 (Martin Agricola 1/6/1486-6/10/1556, Jakob Bernoulli 1/6/1655-8/16/1705, Charles Sumner 1/6/1811-3/11/1874, Heinrich Schliemann 1/6/1822-12/26/1890, Carl Sandburg 1/6/1878-7/22/1967, Tom Mix 1/6/1880-10/12/1940, Kahlil Gibran 1/6/1883-4/10/1931, Morris Wright 1/6/1910-4/25/1998, Lou Harris 1921, John Z. DeLorean 1925, E. L. Doctorow 1931, Bonnie Franklin 1944, Nancy Lopez 1957)
* Former President Theodore Roosevelt Dies Suddenly at Oyster Bay Home; Nation Shocked (By NY TIMES, January 6, 1919)
Rayburn Is Dead at 79; Served 17 Years as House Speaker [1/6/1882-11/16/1961] (UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, Nov. 17, 1961)

Friday, January 5, 2007:
On This Day: January 5 (Jahan Shah 1/5/1592-1/22/1666, Zebulon Pike 1/5/1779-4/27/1813, Stephen Decatur 1/5/1779-3/22/1820, King Camp Gillette 1/5/1855-7/9/1932, Konrad Adenauer 1/5/1876-4/19/1967, Yves Tanguy 1/5/1900-1/15/1955, Stella Gibbons 1/5/1902-12/19/1989, Hubert Beuve-Méry 1/5/1902-8/6/1989, Dame Kathleen Kenyon 1/5/1906-8/24/1978, Alvin Ailey Jr. 1/5/1931-12/1/1989, Sam Phillips 1923, Walter F. Mondale 1928, Chuck Noll 1932, King Juan Carlos 1938, Charlie Rose 1942, Diane Keaton 1946, Pamela Sue Martin 1952, Marilyn Manson 1968)
Henry Ford Gives $10,000,000 To 26,000 Employees (NY TIMES, January 5, 1914)
* Stanislavsky Dies in Moscow At 75; One of the Greatest Masters of Russian Drama
[1/5/1863-8/7/1938] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, August 8, 1938)

Thursday, January 4, 2007:
On This Day: January 4 (James Ussher 1/4/1581-3/21/1656, Benjamin Rush 1/4/1746-4/19/1813, Jacob Grimm 1/4/1785-9/20/1863, Wilhelm Beer 1/4/1797-3/27/1850, Louis Braille 1/4/1809-1/6/1852, Sir Isaac Pitman 1/4/1813-1/12/1897, Wilhelm Lehmbruck 1/4/1881-3/25/1919, Leroy Randle Grumman 1/4/1895-10/4/1982, Jane Wyman 1914, Barbara Rush 1927, Don Shula 1930, Floyd Patterson 1935, Dyan Cannon 1937, Maureen Reagan 1941, Julia Ormond 1965)
President Johnson Bids Soviet Leaders Visit U.S., Outlines 'Great Society' Plan (By Tom Wicker, January 4, 1965)
Dirksen Dead in Capital at 73; A Political Phenomenon [1/4/1896-9/7/1969] (By E. W. KENWORTHY, September 8, 1969)

Wednesday, January 3, 2007:
On This Day: January 3 (Heinrich Wilheim von Gerstenberg 1/3/1737-11/1/1823, Father Damien 1/3/1840-4/15/1889, Sir Henry Alfred Lytton 1/3/1865-8/15/1936, Clement Attlee 1/3/1883-10/8/1967, J.R.R. Tolkien 1/3/1892-9/2/1973, T. Claude Ryan 1/3/1898-9/11/1982, Dinh Diem Ngo 1/3/1901-11/2/1963, Morten Nielsen 1/3/1922-8/29/1944, Vernon Walters 1917, Hank Stram 1923, Dabney Coleman 1932, Betty Rollin 1936, Bobby Hull 1939, Victoria Principal 1950, Mel Gibson 1956)
Alaska Becomes the 49th State (By Richard E. Mooney, January 3, 1959)
Lucretia Mott Dies at 88; Early Initiator of the Women's Rights [1/3/1793-11/11/1880] (NY Times, November 12, 1880)

Tuesday, January 2, 2007:
On This Day: January 2 (James Wolfe 1/2/1727-9/13/1759, Johann Daniel Titius 1/2/1729-12/11/1796, Rudolf Clausius 1/2/1822-8/24/1888, Justin Winsor 1/2/1831-10/22/1897, Albert C. Barnes 1/2/1872-7/24/1951, Saint Therea of Lisieux 1/2/1873-9/30/1897, Sally Rand 1/2/1904-8/31/1979, Christy Turlington 1969)
Russian General Stoessel Surrenders, Ending the Russo-Japanese War (By R. HART PHILLIPS, January 2, 1905)
* Isaac Asimov, Whose Thoughts and Books Traveled the Universe, Is Dead at 72
[1/2/1920-4/6/1992] (By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN, April 7, 1992)

Monday, January 1, 2007:
On This Day: January 1 (Lorenzo de Medici 1/1/1449-3/9/1492, Betsy Ross 1/1/1752-1/30/1836, Sir James George Frazer 1/1/1854-5/7/1941, Alfred Stieglitz 1/1/1864-7/13/1946, Ernest Jones 1/1/1879-2/11/1958, William Fox 1/1/1879-5/8/1952, Catherine Bowen 1/1/1897-11/1/1973, Xavier Cugat 1/1/1900-10/27/1990, Dana Andrews 1/1/1909-12/17/1992, Barry M. Goldwater 1/1/1909-5/29/1998, J.D. Salinger 1919, Frank Langella 1940)
Batista and Regime Flee Cuba; Castro Moving to Take Power; Mobs Riot and Loot in Havana (By BERTRAM D. HULEN, January 1, 1959)
J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the F.B.I. from 1924-1972, Dies at 77 [1/1/1895-5/2/1972] (By CHRISTOPHER LYDON, May 3, 1972)