Oh so late!

Nonetheless, here's last week's obscure American history:

Jan 12, 1967: Bedford Day. Dr. James Bedford, a University of California becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved, in hopes of someday being resuscitated.

Jan 13, 1968: Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom Prison.

Jan 14, 1954: The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation. They’d go onto to produce cars that even 16 year olds with licenses hot off the laminating machine wouldn’t want to drive - such as the Metropolitan, Rambler, Gremlin, and Pacer

Jan 15, 1919: Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.

Jan 16, 1847: John C. Fremont is made Governor of the newly established California Territory. And all he has to show for it now is a really boring town named after him.

Jan 17, 1929: Castor Oyl, star of EC Segar’s comic, Thimble Theater (which had been running for 10 years at the time) and brother of Olive Oyl, while looking for a boat for hire, asks a sailor down at the docks: “Are you a sailor?” The sailor’s response: “J’a think I’m a cowboy?” The gruff, pipe-smoking mariner would soon have a name: Popeye. He was meant as a walk one-shot character, but readers flooded newspapers’ mailboxes with demands to see more of the ornery, wild-fisted sailor.

Jan 18, 1952: Jerome Lester Horwitz, better known as Stooge Curly Howard died at the age of 48. Best known for his “nyuk-nyuk-nyuks,” “woo-woo-woos,” getting beaten with domestic and industrial items, and his exaggerated signature walk. The walk, incidentally, was invented by Curly to cover up a limp that he got from accidently shooting himself in the foot while cleaning a rifle at the age of 12.