Video: 'Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man ( Chess 1954)'
(Thursday, January 7, 1954) — Muddy Waters recorded “Hoochie Coochie Man”, a blues standard written by Willie Dixon, today in Chicago. The song was ranked #225 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Video: 'Excerpt from President Eisenhower's 1954 State of the Union Address'
(Thursday, January 7, 1954) — U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower called for voting rights for 18-year-olds and held out hope of future tax cuts in his State of the Union address before Congress today.
Video: 'Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, Jan. 7, 1894'
(Sunday, January 7, 1894) — One of the earliest motion picture experiments took place today at the Thomas Edison studio in West Orange, New Jersey, as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (a.k.a. Fred Ott’s Sneeze) was filmed taking a pinch of snuff and sneezing.
