The Daily News | January 5

Arkansas creationism law struck down in US Federal court, 1982
Pete Maravich died, 1988
George Washington Carver, US agricultural scientist, died, 1943
Auguste Jaccard died, 1895
The Globetrotters lost to the Washington Generals (100-99), 1971
“The Wiz” opened on Broadway, 1975
Samuel Huntington, President of Continental Congress, died, 1796
Bozo the Clown (TV show) debuted, 1959
Saint Edward the Confessor, son of Ethelred the Unready, died, 1066
Calvin Coolidge, 30th US president, died, 1933
Yankees announced the acquisition of Babe Ruth from the Red Sox, 1920
FCC heard first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
Second Fenway Park fire destroyed nearly all the new construction, 1934
“Yorkshire Ripper” arrested in England, 1981
First woman governor sworn in (Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming), 1925
Dr. Spock indicted on draft law violations, 1968
First US budget proposal greater than $1 trillion sent to Congress, 1987
NASA announced the start of the space shuttle program, 1972
Ford Motor Co adjusted wages from $2.34 for 9 hours to $5 for 8 hours, 1914
Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, first male US saint, died, 1860
Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, second wife of Benjamin Harrison, died, 1948
First piggyback railroad operation (Long Island Railway), 1885
Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr., former Speaker of the US House, died, 1994
Discovery of X-rays published in an Australian newspaper, 1896