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iusXM radio, it was like the Golden Globes without the distraction of awards, but with Stern, lots of merry-making celebs, and at least as much free-flowing booze.
• Civilian Stern fans joined tribute-paying glitterati like Robert Downey, Jr., Bryan Cranston, Sarah Silverman, Lena Dunham, Ryan Phillippe, Heidi Klum, Fred Armisen, Rosie O'Donnell and Katie Couric at Manhattan's Hammerstein Ballroom.
• Even New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was on hand, taking a brief respite from the political retribution scandal that has engulfed his administration to wish Stern a happy birthday. He reminded everyone who plans to be at Sunday's Super Bowl that, to get there, they will "have to go to the right side of the (Hudson) river."
• He then introduced one of the night's many musical guests: Jon Bon Jovi.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Saturday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2014. There are 333 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Feb. 1, 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they'd been refused service.
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• On this date:
• In 1790, the U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time in New York. (However, since only three of the six justices were present, the court recessed until the next day.)
• In 1861, Texas voted to leave the Union at a Secession Convention in Austin.
• In 1893, the opera "Manon Lescaut," by Giacomo Puccini (poo-CHEE'-nee), premiered in Turin, Italy.
• In 1896, Puccini's opera "La Boheme" premiered in Turin.
• In 1922, in one of Hollywood's most enduring mysteries, movie director William Desmond Taylor was shot to death in his Los Angeles home; the killing has never been solved.
• In 1942, the Voice of America broadcast its first program to Europe, relaying it through the facilities of the British Broadcasting Corp. in London.
• In 1943, one of America's most highly decorated military units, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up almost exclusively of Japanese-Americans, was au (Continued on page 36)
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