- 1848] Solid Gold: James W. Marshall discovers a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in Northern California (1/24). This discovery leads to the gold rush of '49...
- 1915] Can you hear me now?: In New York, Alexander Graham Bell speaks to an assistant in San Francisco inaugurating the first transcontinental phone service. Long distance is born (1/25)...
- 1929] Pick a number, any number: Jacob Rupert, co-owner of the Yankees announces that in the upcoming season the team will have uniform numbers to help identify the players (1/23). The team will use numbers corresponding to the batting order. Strangely enough, to this day, the Yankees are the only team that has never put the players' names on their uniforms...
- 1947] "Happy Trails": Public enemy number one, Al Capone, dies at 48 of cardiac arrest possibly associated with third-stage syphilis (1/25)...1989] Salvador Dali dies from a heart attack in his native Spain at 84 (1/23)...1997] Astrologer Jeane Dixon passes away from cardiopulmonary arrest at 93 (1/25)...2004] Bob Keeshan aka "Captain Kangaroo" dies at 76 after a long illness (1/23)...2005] Former "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson passes away from respiratory arrest at 79 (1/23)...2007] Watergate spy figure, E. Howard Hunt, dies from pneumonia at 88 (1/23)...
- 1968] Suffering a seizure: North Korea seizes the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, holding the crew for 11 months on suspicion of spying (1/23)...
- 1970] Gunned down: James "Shep" Sheppard (Heartbeats, Shep and the Limelites) is found murdered in his car of the Long Island Expressway (1/24)...
- 1971] Boogity, boogity: In basketball, UCLA loses to Notre Dame (1/23) and then wins 88 games in a row. The streak ends with a loss to ??? Correct - Notre Dame...
- 1977] Rootin' tootin': "Roots" debuts as a mini-series and almost half of the country watches the final 2-hour episode when 100 million viewers are on hand. 85% of all TV homes saw all or part of the previous 7-episodes (1/23)...
- 1989] Electric avenue: Confessed serial killer Ted Bundy is put to death in Florida's electric chair for the 1978 kidnapping and killing of Kimberly Leach (1/24)...
- 1994] Krafty buy: New England businessman Robert Kraft buys the Patriots for $172 million. During his tenure as owner the Pats have won 3 Super Bowls. When he bought the Patriots they had a losing record (1/24)...For more on January 23 - 25: C L I C K:
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