Sunday, January 16, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY


JANUARY 16
1939:“Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird ... it’s a plane ... it’s Superman!” Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s Man of Steel makes his first appearance in a newspaper comic strip. Within two years, “Superman” will be syndicated in hundreds of newspapers, introducing millions of readers to super-powered Kal-El of Krypton and his mild-mannered alter ego, reporter Clark Kent.

1896: Refereed by Henry F. Kallenberg, the first unofficial intercollegiate basketball game between teams of five players takes place in Iowa City, Iowa, between the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa. Chicago wins, 15-12.

1979: Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, shah of Iran since 1941, flees with his family to Egypt. The Pahlavi dynasty will officially collapse on Feb. 11, 1979, to be replaced soon after by the Islamic Republic of Iran under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

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