This Day in History

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2002 – The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially comes into force.

2011 - Chuck Berry cut short a concert at Congress Theater, Chicago, Illinois after collapsing on stage an hour into the show. Berry slumped over a keyboard and did not move for a couple of minutes before being helped off stage, he returned 15 minutes later only to be forced off again almost immediately. The 84 year-old later re-emerged on stage but told fans he had no strength to continue performing.

2014 – Asteroid 2014 AA impacts the Earth over the Atlantic Ocean.

2016 – The Address Downtown Dubai burns over midnight as the New Year is rung in. The blaze started on the night of New Year's Eve 2015, by currently unknown causes. There was one fatality, a heart attack.

2017 – A nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey was attacked by gunmen. At least 39 people died from the shooting while attackers' motives are still unknown.

Births

1735 – Paul Revere; 1745 – Mad Anthony Wayne; 1752 – Betsy Ross; 1864 – Alfred Stieglitz; 1888 – John Garand(designed the M1 Garand rifle); 1889 – Charles Bickford; 1895 – J. Edgar Hoover; 1900 – Xavier Cugat; 1919 – Rocky Graziano; 1919 – J. D. Salinger; 1924 – Charlie Munger; 1925 – Matthew Beard ('Stymie' on Our Gang); 1936 – James Sinegal (co-founded Costco); 1937 – Matt Robinson ('Gordon' on Sesame Street); 1938 – Frank Langella; 1942 – Country Joe McDonald♪ ♫(Country Joe and the Fish); 1943 – Don Novello (Father Guido Sarducci from SNL); 1944 – Jimmy Hart 'The Mouth of the South'; 1956 - Diane Warren♪ ♫(writer of over 80 Top 20 hits); 1958 – Grandmaster Flash♪ ♫; 1967 – Spencer Tunick; 1969 – Morris Chestnut; 1969 – Verne Troyer (mini-Me); 1973 – Danny Lloyd (the boy from The Shining)

Deaths

404 – Telemachus; 1748 – Johann Bernoulli; 1953 – Hank Williams, Sr.♪ ♫; 1972 – Maurice Chevalier; 1982 – Victor Buono ('King Tut' on Batman TOS); 1992 – Grace Hopper (co-developed COBOL); 1994 – Cesar Romero ('The Joker' on Batman TOS); 1996 – Arleigh Burke; 1997 – Townes Van Zandt♪ ♫; 2001 – Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian); 2003 – Royce D. Applegate; 2005 – Shirley Chisholm; 2013 – Patti Page♪ ♫; 2014 – Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life, Momdigr's favorite movie); 2015 – Mario Cuomo; 2015 – Donna Douglas