Welcome to the Mine of Useless Information on Tuesday 18 January 2022
"Most people in big companies are administered, not led. They are treated as personnel, not people."
Robert Townsend ...more quotes
Olympic badminton rules say that the shuttlecock has to have exactly 16 feathers. The best shuttles are made from the feathers from the left wing of a goose. ...more trivia
- John Hume, Irish Politician (1937)
- Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff, Dutch parapsychologist (1894)
- Donald Baverstock, TV producer (1924)
- Mable Fergerson, Los Angeles, California, 4x400m runner 1972 Olympics silver (1955)
- Arthur Ransome, English author, Swallows and Amazons (1884)
- Carl Betz, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show), dies at 67 (1978)
- N T Rama Rao, PM of Andhra Pradesh India (1983-84, 84-89, 94-95), dies (1996)
- Albert Conti, actor (Eagle, Jazz Heaven, Topaz), dies at 79 (1967)
- Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer, dies at 55 (1875)
- John A van Riebeeck, Dutch founder Cape Colony, dies at 57 (1677)
- Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries) (1978)
- West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0 (1993)
- Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB (1978)
- IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball (1983)
- ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando (1998)
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UK: Tori Amos - Professional Widow (It's Got To Be Big)
US: Toni Braxton - Unbreak My Heart
Australia: Savage Garden - To The Moon & Back
UK: The New Seekers - I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing
US: Don McLean - American Pie
Australia: John Lennon - Imagine ...more number one singles
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