January 13 The Past Ten Essay Research

January 13 The Past Ten Essay, Research Paper

January 13: The past Ten

Here it is, a complete document of the precise history of what was happening on my birthday the past ten years. Keep in mind that ten years ago was actually 1989, not 1988. It may not be what you would call interesting, but I will try. I have taken each January 13th of the past ten years and put some of the events that happened in different categories that will help correlate my paper and make it easier to read. Rather than start with just the past ten years, it would be a shame not to share with you some of the more important outside the past ten years that occurred on January 13th. I would like to enlighten you on some of the other great events that occurred on this important date throughout history with a brief overview of some trivial facts I have found. The earliest, and most unique event that I found other than troop movements in the Mexican war, was the patenting of the accordion on Jan 13, 1854, in 1906 the first radio receivers were advertised for $7.50 in the “Scientific America Magazine”, in 1942 Henry Ford patented the plastic automobile which made for a 30% weight decrease in cars, and Elvis recorded the song, “All Shook Up” on January 13, 19571. (These were interesting to me so I thought should tell about them). Famous songs toping the charts on this day include: I got you (I feel good) by James Brown, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by the Beatles, and You look so good in love by George Straight2. Let’s not forget to add list of important people, (other than me), that bask in the glory of this day:

1885 – Alfred Fuller (company founder: The Fuller Brush man!)

1908 – Earl Wheeler (WWII U.S. Army General, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chief of Staff [1964-70]; namesake for Hawaii’s Wheeler Army Air Force Base)

1909 – Danny Berker (guitarist)

1909 – Butter (Quentin) Jackson (musician: trombone: played with Duke Ellington)

1913 – Wayne Miliner (football)

1913 – Jeff Morrow (actor: The Robe; The Creature Walks Among Us, The Giant Claw)

1919 – Robert Stack (Modini) (Emmy Award-winning actor: The Untouchables [1959-60]; Written on the Wind, Strike Force, Airplane, Unsolved Mysteries)

1926 – Gwen Verdon (dancer; Tony Award-winning

Actress: Damn Yankees [1956], Can-Can [1954], High

Button Shoes; film: Damn Yankees, Cocoon)

1930 – Liz Anderson (country singer, songwriter: Pick of

the Week, [My Friends are Gonna Be] Strangers, Ride, Ride, Ride; mother of country-pop singer, Lynn Anderson)

1931 – Charles Nelson Reitly (comedian, actor: The Ghost

and Mrs. Muir, Cannonball Run; game show panelist: Match Game P.M.)

1933 – Tom Gola (basketball: NCAA Division I Men’s

Record: Career Rebounds: 2,201 for La Salle (1952-55)

1938 – Billy Gray (actor: On Moonlight Bay, Two for the Seesaw)

1950 – Sharon Gabet (actress)

1950 – Mike Tyson (baseball)3

Now that you have a basis of how important January 13 is, let me fill you in on the past ten. I will do this through the best documentation ever created the Newspaper. I have chosen to divide my findings into World and Regional events, Economic news, and miscellaneous events like sports etc., that caught my eye and will certainty catch yours.

January 1989 Friday the 13th, 8 years Old:

I turned eight today, and was fortunate enough to be in Mrs. Wells’s second grade class this year.

World Events:

Today was what seemed to be a day for the return and finding of people. In Moscow, after being buried for more than a month six Armenians were found alive4. The men were rescued at the bottom of rubble left by apartment building that collapsed on them during an earthquake on December seventh. The men claimed they survived on cooked ham and pickled vegetables. The massive earthquake claimed more than 25,000 lives.

Libya announced today that they would yield the body of a U.S pilot killed in a 1986 raid5.

The body they found is believed to be airforce Captain Paul Lowerence. America regards the return of the body as a humanitarian act on Libya’s part.

In an article by the Boston globe presidential candidate Michael Dukakis was ridiculed for his lack of media skills, which later would lose the election for him6.

Economic News:

While I was busy playing with GI Joe’s, wholesale prices nearly doubled to four percent, the largest increase in ten years7. Robert Brusca said “I don’t like the sound of a double inflation, but we must look at it in a four percent perspective.

China’s economy is looking grime with an unemployment rate that is expected to increase by half this year.8

Miscellaneous:

Erasable disks head for the market read the headline9. A research letter from dataquest indicates that they will be shipping the first 5.25-inch erasable disks, which will be in common use in most computers. Kodak however will go straight to making erasable 3.5 erasable disks, which is becoming the most common form data storage on PC’s. They would flip if they knew that now you can sore 650 times more on erasable CD’s which are now becoming more popular.

January 13, 1990; 9yrs old:

Wow 1990 I was in Mrs. Weavers third grade class and I couldn’t believe that I had to put

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