Today in History - History - January 5th

1953Samuel Beckett's "En Attendant Godot," premieres in Paris

1962Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce "My Bonnie" & "The Saints"

1996Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula announces his retirement

2010Mike Shanahan is formally introduced as head coach of the Washington Redskins

1949President Harry Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal"

1959Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter"

1930Mao Zedong writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"

1937Fingleton & Bradman make record stand of 346 for 6th wkt

1968Dr Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law

1957Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to NY Giants

1874Joseph Erlanger, San Francisco, California, American physiologist (shock therapy-Nobel 1944)

1946Diane Keaton, [Hall], LA, actress (Annie Hall, Little Drummer Girl)

1876Konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany (BRD, 1949)

1914George Reeves, [George Lescher Bessolo], Ashland Ky, actor (Superman, Gone With the Wind)

1941Chuck McKinley, St. Louis Missouri, American tennis player

1932Chuck Noll, Cleveland Ohio, NFL coach (Pittsburgh Steelers)

1985Baseball player Darryl Strawberry (22) weds Lisa Andrews

1985NFL football player Reggie White (23) weds Sara Copeland

1531Pope Clemens VII forbids English King Henry VIII to re-marry

1911British PM Neville Chamberlain (41) weds Anne de Vere Cole

1939Amelia Earhart, American aviator declared dead after disappearance in 1937. (b. 1897)

1988Pete Maravich, American basketball player, dies of heart failure at 40

1933Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-29), dies in Mass at 60

1762Elizabeth of Russia [Elizaveta Petrovna], tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at 52