Welcome to the Mine of Useless Information on Saturday 28 January 2012
"New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center."
Nigel Goslin ...more quotes
4 out of 5 of us have suffered from hemorrhoids. ...more trivia
- Jermaine Dye, Oakland California, outfielder, Atlanta Braves (1974)
- Julian Aguirre, composer (1868)
- Glyn Ford, British MEP (1950)
- Richard Clement Charles Thomas, rugby international/journalist (1929)
- Sam Phillips, singer and actress, Die Hard with a Vengeance (1962)
- James P Grant, U.S. director of UNICEF (1980-95), dies at 72 (1995)
- Philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies (1528)
- Francis Drake, English Soldier (1596)
- Or San Yu, president of Burma in (1981-88), dies (1996)
- Pablo Luna y Carne, composer, dies at 61 (1942)
- 63rd Australian Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (64 64) (1989)
- Arthur Kopit's "Wings," premieres in New York City (1979)
- Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia and survives (1962)
- Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua (1860)
- George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator (1878)
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US: Charts not yet in existence
Australia: Charts not yet in existence
UK: -
US: Charts not yet in existence
Australia: Charts not yet in existence
UK: Enrique Iglesias - Hero
US: Usher - U Got It Bad
Australia: Kylie Minogue - In Your Eyes
UK: Steve "Silk" Hurley - Jack Your Body
US: Billy Vera & the Beaters - At This Moment
Australia: Pseudo Echo - Funky Town
UK: Cliff Richard & The Shadows - The Young Ones
US: Joey Dee & The Starlighters - The Peppermint Twist
Australia: Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love ...more number one singles
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