HAPPY NEW YEAR

JANUARY 1, 1864 – Alfred Stieglitz is born in Hoboken, New Jersey .

JANUARY 1, 1890 – Charley Jordan is born in Mabelvale, Arkansas .

JANUARY 1, 1954 – Richard Kern is born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina .

JANUARY 1, 1993 - Czechoslovakia is divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in The Velvet Divorce .

JANUARY 2, 1976 – Phil Radford is born in New Brunswick, New Jersey .

JANUARY 2, 1900 – John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.

JANUARY 3, 1793 – Lucretia Mott is born in Nantucket, Massachusetts .

JANUARY 3, 1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated.

JANUARY 4, 1877 – Marsden Hartley is born Edmund Hartley in Lewiston, Maine .

JANUARY 4, 1883 – Max Eastman is born in Canandaigua, New York .

JANUARY 4, 1999 – Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota .

JANUARY 5, 1931 – Alvin Ailey is born in Rogers, Texas .

JANUARY 5, 1940 – FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.

JANUARY 5, 1941 – Hayao Miyazaki is born in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan .

JANUARY 5, 1942 – Stanley Booth is born in Waycross, Georgia .

JANUARY 5, 1946 – Diane Keaton is born in Los Angeles, California .

JANUARY 6, 1915 – Alan Watts is born in Kent, England .

JANUARY 6, 1878 – Carl Sandburg is born in Galesburg, Illinois .

JANUARY 6, 1883 – Kahlil Gibran is born in Bsharri, Lebanon .

JANUARY 6, 1912 – Charles Addams is born in Westfield, New Jersey .

JANUARY 6, 1946 – Syd Barrett is born in Cambridge, England .

JANUARY 6, 1958 – Club 47 opens its doors in Cambridge, Massachusetts .

JANUARY 6, 1975 – Led Zeppelin fans break down doors and destroy sections of the Boston Garden.

JANUARY 7, 1911 – Butterfly McQueen is born in Tampa, Florida .

JANUARY 7, 1948 – National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a UFO.

JANUARY 7, 1955 – Chuck Connelly is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .

JANUARY 8, 1872 – Charles Hawthorne is born in Lodi, Illinois .

JANUARY 8, 1911 – Gypsy Rose Lee is born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada .

JANUARY 8, 1918 – Woodrow Wilson announces his Fourteen Points .

JANUARY 8, 1935 – Elvis Presley is born in Tupelo, Mississippi .

JANUARY 8, 1941 – Nena von Schlebrügge is born Birgitte Caroline von Schlebrügge in Mexico City, Mexico .

JANUARY 8, 1947 – David Bowie is born in London, England .

JANUARY 8, 1964 – Ron Sexsmith is born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada .

JANUARY 8, 1976 – Jenny Lewis is born in Las Vegas, Nevada .

JANUARY 9, 1950 – David Johansen is born in Staten Island, New York .

JANUARY 9, 2007 – Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone.

JANUARY 10, 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.

JANUARY 10, 1887 – Robinson Jeffers is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .

JANUARY 10, 1924 – Max Roach is born in Newland, North Carolina .

JANUARY 10, 1982 – Valerie June is born in Jackson, Tennessee .

JANUARY 11, 1905 – Dorothy Hale is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .

JANUARY 11, 1912 – Textile works in Lawrence, Massachusetts go on strike.

JANUARY 11, 1924 – Slim Harpo is born James Isaac Moore in Lobdell, Louisiana .

JANUARY 11, 1926 – Susan Reed is born in Columbia, South Carolina .

JANUARY 12, 1926 – Morton Feldman is born in Queens, New York .

JANUARY 12, 1971 – All in the Family premieres on CBS .

JANUARY 13, 1893 – Clark Ashton Smith is born in Long Valley Caldera, California .

JANUARY 13, 1925 – Billie Allen is born in Richmond, Virginia .

JANUARY 13, 1943 – Willie Loco Alexander is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .

JANUARY 13, 1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison

JANUARY 14, 1887 – Samuel Loveman is born in Cleveland, Ohio .

JANUARY 14, 1896 – John Dos Passos is born in Chicago, Illinois .

JANUARY 14, 1905 – Emily Hahn is born in St. Louis, Missouri .

JANUARY 14, 1938 – Allen Toussaint is born in New Orleans, Louisiana .

JANUARY 14, 1963 – Bob Dylan records with Richard Farina and Eric von Schmidt in Dobell's basement at Charing Cross London .

JANUARY 14, 1967 – The Human Be-In kicks off the Summer of Love in San Francisco, California 's Golden Gate Park.

JANUARY 15, 1864 – Fannie Johnston is born Frances Benjamin Johnston in Grafton, West Virginia .

JANUARY 15, 1919 – The Great Molasses Flood in Boston, Massachusetts , kills 21 people and injures 150 more.

JANUARY 15, 1929 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is born in Atlanta, Georgia .

JANUARY 15, 1941 – Captain Beefheart is born Don Glen Vliet in Glendale, California .

JANUARY 15, 1948 – Ronnie Van Zant is born in Jacksonville, Florida .

JANUARY 15, 1956 – Yellowman is born in Kingston, Jamaica .

JANUARY 16, 1933 – Susan Sontag is born Susan Rosenblatt in New York City, New York .

JANUARY 16, 1939 – The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England .

JANUARY 16, 1973 – Timothy Leary is placed under house arrest in Afghanistan.

JANUARY 17, 1861 – Louise Imogen Guiney is born in Roxbury, Massachusetts .

JANUARY 17, 1928 – Vidal Sassoon is born in London, England .

JANUARY 17, 1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man by Elzie Segar debuts.

JANUARY 17, 1934 – Donald Cammell is born in Edinburgh, Scotland .

JANUARY 17, 1944 – Francoise Hardy is born in Paris, France .

JANUARY 17, 1947 – Ulysses Dove is born in Columbia , South Carolina.

JANUARY 17, 1949 – Andy Kaufman is born in New York City, New York .

JANUARY 17, 1955 – Steve Earle is born in Hampton, Virginia .

JANUARY 18, 1904 – Cary Grant is born Archibald Alexander Leach in Bristol, England .

JANUARY 18, 1919 – The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France .

JANUARY 18, 1973 – Benjamin Todd Jealous is born in Pacific Grove, California .

JANUARY 19, 1809 – Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts .

JANUARY 19, 1887 – Alexander Woollcott is born in Phalanx, New Jersey .

JANUARY 19, 1943 – Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas .

JANUARY 19, 1953 – America tunes in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth to Ricky Jr.

JANUARY 19, 1954 – Cindy Sherman is born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey .

JANUARY 20, 1888 – Lead Belly is born Huddie William Ledbetter in Mooringsport, Louisiana .

JANUARY 20, 1920 – Frederico Fellini is born in Rimini, Italy .

JANUARY 20, 1926 – Patricia Neal is born in Packard, Kentucky .

JANUARY 20, 1946 – David Lynch is born in Missoulla, Montana .

JANUARY 20, 1971 – ?uestlove is born Ahmir Khalib Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .

JANUARY 20, 1986 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day becomes a federal holiday.

JANUARY 21, 1789 – America's first novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth , is printed in Boston, Massachusetts .

JANUARY 21, 1868 – Max Bohm is born in Cleveland, Ohio .

JANUARY 21, 1887 – Jaime de Angulo is born in Paris, France .

JANUARY 21, 1972 – Cat Power is born Charlyn Marie Marshall in Atlanta, Georgia .

JANUARY 22, 1849 – August Strindberg is born in Stockholm, Sweden .

JANUARY 22, 1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.

JANUARY 22, 1897 – Blind Willie Johnson is born in Brenham, Texas .

JANUARY 22, 1898 – Sergei Eisenstein is born in Riga, Latvia.

JANUARY 22, 1906 – Julien Levy is born in New York City, New York .

JANUARY 22, 1935 – Teiji Ito is born in Tokyo, Japan .

JANUARY 22, 1953 – Jim Jarmusch is born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio .

JANUARY 22, 1954 – Marcia Mello is born Marcia Preston in Hyannis, Massachusetts .

JANUARY 23, 1943 – Duke Ellington makes his Carnegie Hall debut in New York City, New York .

JANUARY 23, 1832 – Edouard Manet is born in Paris, France .

JANUARY 23, 1881 – Luisa Casati is born in Milan, Italy .

JANUARY 23, 1881 – Oliver Chaffee is born in Detroit, Michigan .

JANUARY 24, 1915 – Robert Motherwell is born in Aberdeen, Washington .

JANUARY 24, 1961 – Nastassja Kinski is born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynskiin in Berlin, Germany .

JANUARY 24, 1972 – Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle not knowing that World War II had ended.

JANUARY 25, 1882 – Virginia Woolf is born in London, England .

JANUARY 25, 1938 – Etta James is born in Los Angeles, California .

JANUARY 25, 1947 – Thomas Goldsmith files a patent for the Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device .

JANUARY 26,1934 – The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York .

JANUARY 26, 1944 – Angela Davis is born in Birmingham, Alabama .

JANUARY 26, 1953 – Lucinda Williams is born in Lake Charles, Louisiana .

JANUARY 27, 1606 – The Trial of Guy Fawkes begins.

JANUARY 27, 1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria .

JANUARY 27, 1897 – William Mortensen is born in Park City, Utah .

JANUARY 27, 1919 – Lester Johnson is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota .

JANUARY 28, 1754 – Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann .

JANUARY 28, 1853 – Jose Marti is born in Havana, Cuba .

JANUARY 28, 1941 – King Tubby is born Osbourne Ruddock in Kingston, Jamaica .

JANUARY 29, 1845 – Edgar Allan Poe 's The Raven is published.

JANUARY 29, 1860 – Anton Chekhov is born in Taganrog, Russia .

JANUARY 29, 1874 – Owen Davis is born in Portland, Maine .

JANUARY 29, 1927 – Edward Abbey is born in Indiana, Pennsylvania .

JANUARY 30, 1873 – Maud Squire is born in Cincinatti, Ohio .

JANUARY 30, 1908 – Mahatma Gandhi is released from prison in Transvaal, South Africa.

JANUARY 30, 1947 – Steve Marriott is born in London, England .

JANUARY 31, 1857 – James Huneker is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .

JANUARY 31, 1902 – Tallulah Bankhead is born in Huntsville, Alabama .

JANUARY 31, 1915 – Alan Lomax is born in Austin, Texas .

JANUARY 31, 1923 – Norman Mailer is born in Long Branch, New Jersey .

JANUARY 31, 1937 – Philip Glass is born in Baltimore, Maryland .

JANUARY 31, 1956 – John Lydon is born in London, England .

JANUARY 31, 1990 – McDonald's opens in Moscow, Russia .