This Week in History

JANUARY 9

Don Rossi was born.

Marty Keating was born.

Paula Ann DiGioia was born.

Patrick Connelly was born.

1861 – Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.

1952- Jackie Robinson became the highest paid player in Brooklyn Dodger history.

JANUARY 10

Marianne Venezia Henry was born.

Jennifer Burke was born.

1863 – The first underground passenger railway, the Metropolitan, opened in London.

1984 – The U.S. and the Vatican reestablished diplomatic relations after a 117-year break.

JANUARY  11

Sylvan Klein was born.

Anthony “Sneeze” Venezia was born.

1973 – Baseball’s American League adopted the “designated hitter” rule which allowed another player to bat for the pitcher.

2002 – The first al-Qaeda prisoners arrive at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

JANUARY 12

Jennie O’Hara was born.

Pete Mulholland was born.

1773 – The first public museum in the U.S. was established in Charleston, S.C.

1915 – The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.

JANUARY 13

Walker Hornung was born.

Scott Ruscillo was born.

1999 – Michael Jordan announced his second retirement from the NBA. He would “unretire” again in 2001.

JANUARY 14

Bernadette McCann was born.

1954 – Marilyn Monroe married baseball legend Joe DiMaggio.

1963 – George Wallace sworn in as Alabama’s governor, promising “segregation forever.”

JANUARY 15

Anne Marie Greene was born.

Joan Prendergast was born.

Mary Butler was born.

Richard Magoolahan was born.

Robert Magoolahan was born.

1967 – The first Super Bowl was played: Green Bay Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10.