Hopefully you didn't hang yourself yesterday and are reading this today.

In case you don't want something so treacly this early in the morning
January 18, 1975 -
The Jeffersons, a spin-off of All In The Family premiered on CBS-TV on this date.
CBS never gave The Jeffersons a proper series finale. Sherman Helmsley found out about the show's cancellation by reading it in the newspaper. Isabel Sanford found out from a relative that called her, who had read it in a trade publication.
Today in History: January 18, 1836 -
Knife aficionado Jim Bowie arrived at the Alamo to assist its Texas defenders on this date.
On January 18, 1871, while Prussian guns blasted all hell out of Paris, William I was proclaimed Emperor of a united Germany in nearby Versailles.

January 18, 1892 -
Oliver Hardy, American comedian, actor and the other half the the world's greatest comedy duo, was born.
January 18, 1903 -
President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.

January 18, 1904 -
Cary Grant, noted actor and over the top orgy participant, was born on this date.
January 18, 1990 -
Rusty Hamer, the actor who played Danny Thomas's son on Make Room For Daddy, shot himself in the head with a .357 Magnum in DeRidder, Louisiana. Rusty was 42 years old.
Uncle Tonoose made him do it.
January 18, 1990 -
Washington DC mayor Marion Barry is arrested on cocaine possession charges at the Vista International Hotel, as he tokes on a glass crack pipe while being videotaped with his mistress Rasheeda.
Kids remember, say no to drugs, especially while being videotaped.
And so it goes
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