On this day in 1933, U.S. President Franklin D, Roosevelt gave his inauguration speech in which he said "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself."
The American Automobile Association ( the “AAA” or “Triple-A”) was founded on this day in 1902, in Chicago, Illinois, when in response to a lack of roads and highways suitable for vehicles, nine motor clubs with a total of 1,500 members banded together to form the organization.
President George W. Bush’s first State of The Union Speech on this day in 2002.
A bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, AL, killing an off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse on this day in 1998.Eric Rudolph (below) was charged with this bombing and three other attacks in Atlanta.
Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Raven" was published for the first time in the "New York Evening Mirror on this day in 1845.
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)
On this day in 1936, Ty Cobb received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, receiving 222 out of a possible 226 votes (98.2%); no other player received a higher percentage of votes until Tom Seaver in 1992. In 1999, editors at the Sporting News ranked Ty Cobb third on their list of "Baseball’s 100 Greatest Players".
TY COBB, BABE RUTH, HONUS WAGNER, CHRISTY MATHEWSON, WALTER JOHNSON.
Oprah Winfrey(Orpah Gail Winfrey) is 64 today.
Television host and producer Oprah Winfrey was named the most influential woman in the world by TIME magazine and hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated syndicated program on air, from 1986 to 2011. She was crowned Miss Black Tennessee while in college and began co-anchoring the evening news when she was nineteen. Oprah became the world’s first female black billionaire and the richest self-made American woman. She had a net worth over $2 billion in 2013.
Benjamin Franklin(January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790)
On this day in 1945, Soviet and Polish forces liberated Warsaw during World War II.
In his farewell address on this day in 1961, President Eisenhower warned against the rise of "the military-industrial complex."
More than 6,000 people were killed when an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 devastated the city of Kobe, Japan on this day in 1995.
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947)
Al Capone was the best known gangster in the 1920’s.
Muhammad Ali(Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.) (January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016)
Ali became a boxing icon as well as a peace activist. He was known as "The Greatest," recording 56 career wins, 37 of them by knockout, in his 61 professional bouts. In 1960, he won the gold medal in the light heavyweight class at the Summer Olympic Games in Rome. His boxing style was described as fast, strong, and graceful, and he developed the famous slogan "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to boxer Muhammad Ali in 2005.
