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This Day in History for 21st January


Historical Events

                                               
Novelist Charles Dickens                  Magician & Escape Artist Harry Houdini           Playwright Moss Hart

                                               
Author and Nobel                                     NHL all-time top scorer                          Actress Nicole Kidman
Laureate T S Eliot                                            Wayne Gretzky


1077 - German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
1189 - Philip II, Henry II & Richard Lion hearted initiate 3rd Crusade
1276 - Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V
1287 - The treaty of San Agayz is signed. Minorca is conquered by King Alfons III of Aragon.
1324 - Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai & Shingon
1522 - Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope
1525 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1542 - Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard
1604 - Tsar Ivan IV defeats False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar
1664 - Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army
1677 - 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
1732 - Russia & Persia sign Treaty of Riascha
1749 - The Verona Philharmonic Theatre was destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt in 1754.
1789 - 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published
1793 - Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)
1799 - Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced
1813 - Pineapple introduced to Hawaii (or 01/111)
1818 - Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
1821 - Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die
1824 - Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa
1827 - Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing
1830 - Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported
1846 - 1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"
1853 - Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Mass
1861 - Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign
1863 - City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
1864 - The Tauranga Campaign starts during the Maori Wars.
1874 - Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa," premieres in Vienna
1879 - Henrik Ibsen's "Et Dukkehjem," premieres in Copenhagen
1880 - 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis
1887 - Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
1887 - Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian
           capital city.
1890 - 1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper
1893 - The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, was formally annexed to the
            Bechuanaland Protectorate which is now Botswana.
1894 - Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 sec
1899 - Opel manufactured its first automobile.
1901 - Clyde Fitch's "Climbers," premieres in NYC
1903 - "Wizard of Oz," premieres in NYC
1903 - Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam
1903 - International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle NYC
1904 - Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa," premieres in Brno
1907 - Kenora Thistles sweep Mont Wanderers in 2 for Stanley Cup
1908 - August Strindberg's "Spoksonaten," premieres in Stockholm
1908 - NYC regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
1910 - British-Russian military intervention in Persia
1913 - Aristide Briand forms French government
1915 - Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
1919 - Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland
1921 - The Italian Communist Party was founded at Livorno.
1922 - 1st slalom ski race run, Murren, Switzerland
1925 - Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe pres
1926 - Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties
1927 - 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
1929 - Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London
1932 - USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty
1935 - 12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Wash (state record)
1935 - WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ)
1935 - Wilderness Society forms
1938 - Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance
1939 - George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "American Way," premieres in NYC
1939 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1939 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1940 - Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship
1941 - 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria
1941 - 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX
1941 - Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya
1941 - British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
1942 - Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
1942 - Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
1942 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
1942 - Tito's partisans occupy Foca
1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk
1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad
1943 - Vice-admiral Cunningham appointed Brit adm of fleet
1944 - 447 German bombers attack London
1944 - 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg
1945 - British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma
1946 - "Nellie Bly" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 16 performances
1947 - "Sweethearts" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 288 performances
1947 - Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel
1948 - W Indies v England, Test debut Walcott, Weekes & Jim Laker
1949 - 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman)
1950 - "Lend an Ear" closes at National Theater NYC after 460 performances
1950 - NY jury finds former State Dept official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury
1950 - T S Eliot's "Cocktail Party," premieres in NYC
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
1952 - Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India
1953 - John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State
1954 - 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (NYC)
1956 - "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden NYC after 849 perfs
1956 - William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of New Yorker
1957 - KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 - KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 - Phillies agree to televise 78 games into NYC (doesn't happen)
1960 - Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km
1960 - Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook South Africa, 417 die of methane poisoning
1961 - "Conquering Hero" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 8 performances
1961 - KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls, ID (NBC) begins broadcasting
1961 - Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria
1962 - JFK arrives in Uruguay
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
1962 - Snow falls in SF
1964 - Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency
1965 - Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured
1967 - AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-23
1967 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1967 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti
1968 - AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 25-24
1968 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-20
1968 - US B-52 bombers with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland
1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh - One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
1969 - 22nd NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 3-3 at Montreal
1970 - Panama Boeing 747 1st flight NY-London
1971 - "Alias Smith & Jones" premieres on ABC TV
1972 - Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh terr
1972 - Belgium government of Eyskens-Cools forms
1972 - Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union
1972 - Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory
1972 - Tripura becomes a full-fledged state in India.
1973 - 3rd NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 33-28
1973 - Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger"
1974 - Gold hits record $161.31/silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London
1975 - 28th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montreal
1976 - Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France
1977 - Italy legalizes abortion
1977 - Pres Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1978 - Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks
1979 - Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
1979 - Price of gold increases to record $875 troy oz
1979 - Superbowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB
1980 - Gold hits record $850 an ounce
1980 - Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal
1981 - "Shakespeare's Cabaret" opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 54 performances
1981 - Bernhard Goetz is assault for 1st time on a NY subway train
1982 - "Little Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 36 performances
1982 - NY Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak
1983 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht
1983 - Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid
1984 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
1985 - -19°F (-28°C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record)
1985 - -34°F (-37°C), Mt Mitchell, North Carolina (state record)
1985 - Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java
1985 - Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals
1986 - 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38°F (3°C), Indiana
1986 - Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA
1986 - Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed
1987 - BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to U of Mississippi
1988 - US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children
1989 - A woman is assaulted & raped in room of an Oklahoma football player
1989 - Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer
1990 - 41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh
1990 - Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association exec director
1990 - John McEnroe becomes 1st ever player to be expelled from the Australian Open
1990 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
1991 - CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf
1993 - Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77
1993 - Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder
1994 - Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20)
1994 - Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane of chopping off spouse's penis
1995 - 52th Golden Globes: Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange
1996 - 53th Golden Globes: Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta
1996 - Karrie Webb wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
1996 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Rudy Galindo
1998 - Pope John Paul II visits Cuba
1999 - War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kg (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
2002 - The Canadian Dollar sets all-time low against the US Dollar (US$0.6179).
2004 - Canada: The residence of reporter Juliet O'Neill is searched by the Royal Canadian Mounted
           Police (RCMP) investigating leaks concerning the deportation of Maher Arar.
2004 - NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The
           problem lies with Flash Memory management and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
2005 - In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
2007 - Awashima Marine Park in Japan catches a video tape of the rare frilled shark.
2008 - Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall,
           European stocks closed with their worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks drop as much as
           15%.
2008 - The Eyak language in Alaska becomes extinct as its last native speaker dies.

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This Day in History for 21st January


Famous Weddings

1966 - Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd
1989 - "Falcon Crest" actor Lorenzo Lamas (31) weds actress Kathleen Kinmont (23) at the Graceland
            Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas

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This Day in History for 21st January


Famous Divorces

2011 - Actress Jaime Pressly (35) divorces entertainment lawyer Simran Singh (33) due to irreconcilable
          differences after more than 1 year of marriage

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This Day in History for 21st January


Famous Birthdays

                                               
Confederate General                                Golfer Jack Nicklaus (1940)                  Pop star Emma Lee Bunton (1976)
Thomas Jackson (1824)


1337 - Charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80)
1338 - King Charles V of France (d. 1380)
1571 - John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam)
1659 - Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect
1721 - James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)
1735 - Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer
1743 - John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)
1746 - Johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard & Gertrude) [NS]
1751 - Josephus Andreas Fodor, composer
1759 - Johan Valckenaer, Dutch politician/patriot
1762 - Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
1771 - Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director
1775 - Manuel Garcia, composer
1792 - Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma, Fries story teller (Rhymes & Tales)
1796 - John Gelinde van Blom, Frisian notary/author
1801 - Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer
1804 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)
1814 - Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer
1815 - Horace Wells, dentist (pioneered use of medical anethesia)
1815 - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (d. 1900)
1821 - John Cabell Breckinridge, (D) 14th US VP (1857-61)/mjr-gen (Confed)
1823 - Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer
1824 - Thomas Jackson ["Stonewall"], Clarksburg, Virginia, Lt Gen 2nd Corps (ANV, Confed), (d. 1863)
1825 - Imre Madách, Hungarian writer (d. 1864)
1827 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900)
1829 - Oscar II Frederik, King of Sweden (1872-1907)/Norway (-1905)/poet
1833 - Norman Willis, union leader (Britain's Trades Union Congress)
1840 - Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician
1848 - Henri Duparc, French composer
1855 - John M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer
1859 - Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer
1860 - Karl Staaff, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915)
1867 - James Marcus, New York, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail)
1867 - Maxime Weygard, French general/gov-gen (Algeria)
1867 - Willem C Royaards, Dutch theater director (Summer Games)
1867 - Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921)
1872 - Jonkhr Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister
1875 - John Lindworsky, German jesuit/psychologist (Der Wille)
1875 - Paul E Kahle, Germany, professor of oriental studies
1878 - Egon Friedell, Austria, journalist/actor/writer (Der Partylowe)
1882 - Pavel Florensky, Russian mathematician (d. 1937)
1883 - Olav Aukrust, Norway, poet
1883 - Amang Rodriguez, Filipino politician (d. 1964)
1884 - Katie Sandwina, Germany, legendary woman weight-lifter
1884 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (American Civil Liberties Union)
1885 - Umberto Nobile, Italian general
1886 - Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Finance/Economy
1887 - Alfred Henry Ackley, composer
1887 - Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926)
1889 - Bert Collins, cricketer (Aussie batsman in the post WW I years)
1889 - Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist (Social mobility)
1891 - Francisco Lazaro, Portuguese runner
1891 - Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov, composer
1891 - Timothy Mather Spelman, composer
1895 - Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972)
1897 - J Carrol Naish, NYC, actor (Charlie Chan-Adv of Charlie Chan)
1897 - René Iché, French sculptor (d. 1954)
1898 - Avery Claflin, composer
1898 - John George, Syria, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu)
1901 - Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
1904 - Joseph Ford McGuinn, Brooklyn NY, actor (Dick Tracy's G-Men)
1904 - Richard P Blackmur, Mass, critic/poet (Good European)
1905 - Christian Dior, Normandy France, fashion designer (long-skirted look)
1905 - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978)
1906 - Fred Fehl, Austrian/US Broadway photographer
1906 - John Putz, journalist
1906 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
1909 - Todor Skalovski, composer
1910 - Lord Cayzer, British financier/swcheeps magnate/multi-millionaire
1910 - Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1911 - Stanley William Reed, cineaste
1912 - Konrad Bloch, Germany, biochemist (studied cholesterol-Nobel 1964)
1915 - Alan Hewitt, NYC, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian)
1916 - [JW] Al James Woodie exander, songwriter/vocalist
1917 - Rohan Butler, historian
1918 - Geoffrey Dawes, physiologist
1918 - Richard D. Winters, American war hero
1918 - Chichay, Filipino actress (d. 1993)
1919 - Jinx Falkenburg, Barcelona Spain, actress (Masquerade Party)
1920 - Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian
1920 - Errol Walton Barrow, PM of Barbados (DLP) (1966-76, 1986-87)
1920 - Torsten Nilsson, composer
1921 - Barney Clark, 1st to receive a permanent artificial heart
1921 - John Doucette, Brockton Mass, actor (Lock Up, Big Town)
1921 - Todor Popov, composer
1921 - Howard Unruh, American mass murderer
1922 - Jean P Vroom, Dutch sculptor
1922 - Paul Scofield, Hurst England, actor (Man for All Seasons, Train)
1922 - Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
1923 - Judith Merril, [Josephine Juliet Grossman], sci-fi writer
1924 - Benny Hill, Southampton England, comedian (Benny Hill Show)
1924 - Telly Savalas, Garden City NJ, actor (Acapulco, Kojak)
1925 - Lola Flores, Cadiz Spain, singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona)
1925 - Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway writer
1926 - Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer
1926 - Paul Burke, New Orleans La, actor (Neal-Dynasty) [or Jul 21]
1926 - Raf Reymen, Flemish actor
1926 - Steve Reeves, Glasgow Montana, actor (Hercules, Hercules Unchained)
1926 - Brian Brockless, English organist (d. 1995)
1927 - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1985)
1930 - Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1932 - Boris Shakhlin, Russia, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1956-60-64)
1933 - Itzhak Fuks, Israeli El Al captain, crashed in Amsterdam
1933 - William Wrigley III, chewing gum mogul (Wrigleys)
1933 - Joseph W. Eschbach, American doctor (d. 2007)
1934 - Audrey Dalton, Irish actress
1935 - Ann Wedgeworth, Abilene Tx, actress (Tiger's Tale, Men's Club, Bogie)
1936 - Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (d. 2005)
1937 - Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria
1938 - Wolfman Jack, [Bob Smith], Bkln NY, DJ (Midnight Special)
1938 - John Savident, British actor
1939 - Mary Ellen McAnally, Illinois, poet (Dance of the Zygotes)
1940 - Jack Nicklaus, Columbus Ohio, golfer (Player of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76)
1940 - Marquis of Tavistock, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1941 - Edwin Starr, [Charles Hatcher], US singer (War)
1941 - Placido Domingo, Madrid Spain, opera tenor (Pinkerton-Mme Butterfly)
1941 - Richie Havens, Bkln, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun)
1941 - Stathis Giallelis, Greek actor
1941 - Ivan Putski, Polish-born American professional wrestler
1942 - Mac Davis, Lubbock Tx, singer/actor (Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40)
1942 - Mac Davis, American musician
1944 - John Kenneth Tavener, composer
1944 - Neely Bruce, composer
1945 - Andrew Stein, pres of NYC council (D)
1945 - Chris Britton, rocker (Troggs-Rock & Roll Goldmine)
1946 - Vincent Placoly, Martinique, writer (L'eau-de-mort guildive)
1947 - Jill Eikenberry, New Haven Ct, (Ann Kelsey-LA Law, Manhattan Project)
1947 - Jimmy Ibbotson, Penn, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1947 - Pye Hastings, English singer and musician (Caravan)
1947 - Michel Jonasz, French singer and composer
1950 - Billy Ocean, [Leslie S Charles], Trinidad, singer (Caribbean Queen)
1950 - Joseph R Tanner, Danville Ill, astronaut (STS 66, 82, sk: 97)
1950 - Richie Ranno, rocker
1952 - Marco Camenisch, Swiss environmental activist
1952 - Louis Menand, American writer and critic
1953 - Fausto Bara, Mexico, actor (Gaucho-Renegades)
1953 - Paul Allen, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft
1955 - Peter Fleming, NJ, tennis player (US Open Doubles 1979, 81, 83)
1955 - Robby Benson, Dallas Tx, actor (One on One, Running Brave, Chosen)
1955 - Jeff Koons, American artist
1956 - Bob Brill, NYC, drummer (Berlin-You Take My Breath Away)
1957 - Geena [Virginia] Davis, Wareham Mass, actress (Beetlejuice, Fly)
1957 - Jacob Green, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawk)
1957 - Shaukat Dukanwala, cricketer (Baroda off-spinner, UAE World Cup 1996)
1958 - Miguel Alejandro, NYC, actor (Popi)
1959 - Alex McLeish, Scottish footballer and manager
1961 - Sherry Ramsay, Stauton Va, actress (Trish Mason-As the World Turns)
1962 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
1962 - Tyler Cowen, American economist
1963 - Cindy Schreyer, Forest Park GA, LPGA golfer (1993 Sun-Times Challenge)
1963 - Detlef Schrempf, Germany, NBA forward (Mavericks, Pacers, Supersonics)
1963 - Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon, Nigeria, NBA center (Rockets, Oly-gold-96)
1963 - Jessie Hester, NFL player (St Louis Rams)
1965 - Brian Bradley, Kitchener, NHL center (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1965 - Cordell Crockett, rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad)
1965 - Eric Moore, NFL tackle (Cleveland Browns)
1965 - Tania Abitbol, Madrid Spain, LPGA golfer (1994 US Women's Open-4th)
1965 - Jam Master Jay, American disc jockey (d. 2002)
1966 - Chris Hammond, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1966 - Katrine Michaelsen, Gentokte Denmark, Miss Denmark (1984)
1967 - Ulf Stenlund, Sweden, tennis star
1968 - Charlotte Ross, Chicago, actress (Eve-Days of Our Lives)
1968 - Tom Urbani, Santa Cruz CA, pitcher (St Louis Cards, Detroit Tigers)
1968 - Ulrica Messing, Swedish politician
1969 - Ashley Sheppard, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 - Matt Willig, NFL tackle/guard (Atlanta Falcons, NY Jets)
1969 - Rusty Greer, Ft Rucker AL, outfielder (Texas Rangers)
1969 - Ted Long, CFL slot back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1969 - Karina Lombard, American actress
1969 - Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist
1970 - Brennan Little, St Thomas Ont, golfer (1994 Western States mini-tour)
1970 - Ian Salisbury, cricketer (Sussex & England leg-spinner 1992-96)
1970 - Ken Leung, American actor
1970 - Mark Trojanowski, American musician (Sister Hazel)
1971 - Doug Edwards, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1971 - Doug Weight, Warren MI, NHL center (Edmonton Oilers, Team USA 98)
1971 - Tommy Puett, Gary Ind, actor (Tyler-Life Goes On, America's Top 10)
1971 - Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
1972 - Alan Benes, Evansville IN, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1972 - Howard Nathan, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1972 - Shelley Looney, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1972 - Rick Falkvinge, Swedish politician
1972 - Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese composer
1972 - Cat Power (Chan Marshall), American musician
1973 - Bubba Miller, corner (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Grady Jackson, defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1973 - Jamal Cox, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1974 - Jerald Sowell, fullback (NY Jets)
1974 - Jerry Wunsch, tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 - Orpheus Roye, defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 - Rove McManus, Australian television host and comedian
1974 - Alex Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
1975 - Anette Oldenborg, Miss Universe-Denmark (1996)
1975 - Faghma Absalom, Miss Universe-Namibia (1996)
1975 - Willem Korsten, Dutch soccer player (Vitesse)
1975 - Ito, Spanish footballer
1975 - Nicky Butt, English footballer
1975 - Casey FitzRandolph, American speed skater
1975 - Yuji Ide, Japanese racing driver
1976 - Amanda Little, Miss USA-Texas (1997, top 6)
1976 - Emma Lee Bunton, "Baby Spice", Finchley London, vocalist (Spice Girls)
1976 - Lynn Thomas, Newport News VA, playmate (May 1997)
1977 - Al Baxter, Australian rugby union footballer
1977 - Phil Neville, English footballer
1977 - Rick Ross, American rapper
1978 - Faris al-Sultan, German-Iraqi triathlete
1978 - Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, American Singer
1978 - Phil Stacey, American Idol finalist
1978 - Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player
1979 - Kelly Gaudet, Miss Florida Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Byung-Hyun Kim, Korean baseball player
1979 - Spider Loc, American rapper, member of G-Unit
1979 - Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union footballer
1980 - Aubrie Rippner, LA California, tennis star (1995 USTA National Girls 18)
1980 - Dave Kitson, English footballer
1980 - Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
1981 - Ivan Ergić, Serbian footballer
1981 - Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1981 - Jamie Dalrymple, English cricketer
1981 - Dany Heatley, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Andy Lee, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1981 - Izabella Miko, Polish-born actress and model
1981 - Alex Ubago, Spanish-Basque singer-songwriter
1982 - Dean Whitehead, English footballer
1983 - Maryse Ouellet, French-Canadian model and professional wrestler
1983 - Moritz Volz, German footballer
1983 - Peter Philipakos, Greek-American soccer player
1985 - Alex Pérez, Spanish footballer
1985 - Sasha Pivovarova, Russian Model
1985 - Matt Unicomb, Australian basketball player
1986 - Coffin Joe, English drummer ( The Horrors)
1987 - Joe Ledley, Welsh footballer
1988 - William Johansson, Swedish composer
1990 - Jacob Smith, American actor
1994 - Laura Robson, Tennis Player
2004 - Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway

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This Day in History for 21st January


Famous Deaths

                             
Marxist Revolutionary                               Writer George Orwell (1950)
Vladimir Lenin (1924)


304 - Saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291)
879 - Boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies
917 - Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (c. 880)
1118 - Pope Paschal II, born Raniero (1099-1118) dies
1519 - Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1527 - Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (c. 1489)
1546 - Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)
1596 - John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66
1609 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68
1626 - John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62
1638 - Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570)
1665 - Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72
1670 - Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80
1683 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61
1686 - Nicolas-Francois Blondel, French architect, dies
1699 - Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
1704 - Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83
1706 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)
1710 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)
1722 - Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661)
1731 - Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)
1746 - Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60
1766 - James Quin, English actor (b. 1693)
1773 - Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)
1774 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717). Reigns 1757 to 1774. Dies at 56
1793 - Louis XVI, French King (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38
1795 - Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)
1809 - Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729)
1814 - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737)
1815 - M Claudius, writer, dies at 74
1823 - Cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761)
1831 - Achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49
1851 - Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49
1870 - Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812)
1871 - John J Rochussen, gov-general of Neth-Indies (1845-51), dies at 73
1872 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian playwright (Sappho/Libussa), dies at 81
1881 - Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)
1882 - Anton Emil Titl, composer, dies at 72
1883 - Jacopo Tomadini, composer, dies at 62
1884 - Auguste Franchomme, composer, dies at 75
1888 - Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer, dies at 83
1891 - Calixa Lavallee, composer, dies at 48
1892 - John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies
1894 - Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer, dies at 24
1901 - Elisha Gray, American inventor (b. 1835)
1903 - Hermanus J A M Schaepman, Dutch clergyman/politician, dies at 58
1914 - Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (b. 1857)
1919 - Gojong of Joseon, Emperor of Korea (b. 1852)
1924 - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 53
1926 - Camillo Golgi, Ital medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81
1927 - Floris H Verster, Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at 65
1928 - George Goethals, American army engineer (b. 1858)
1931 - Felix Blumenfeld, composer, dies at 67
1932 - [Giles] Lytton Strachey, British biographer/critic, dies at 51
1933 - George A. Moore, Irish novelist (b. 1852)
1937 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1898)
1942 - Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72
1943 - Otakar Sini, composer, dies at 61
1944 - Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer, dies at 74
1944 - Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down
1948 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer, dies at 72
1950 - George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46
1954 - Billy Jenkins, dies at 69
1955 - Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/High Council, dies at 59
1955 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
1956 - Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (b. 1883)
1957 - Arthur L Bowley, English statistician/economist, dies at 87
1959 - Cecil B[lount] de Mille, producer (10 Commandments), dies at 77
1959 - Lamar Stringfield, composer, dies at 61
1959 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (b. 1881)
1961 - John Joseph Becker, composer, dies a day before 75th birthday
1962 - Andre Lhote, French painter/art historian, dies at 76
1963 - Al St John, actor (Law & Order, Devil Riders), dies at 70
1963 - Franz Jung, writer, dies at 74
1964 - Joseph Schildkraut, actor (Cleopatra, Diary of Anne Frank), dies at 68
1965 - Harvey Zorbaugh, doctor/TV host (Play the Game), dies at 68
1967 - Ann Sheridan, actress (Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies of cancer at 51
1968 - Will Lang Jr., American magazine executive (b. 1914)
1971 - Richard B Russell, (Sen-D-Ga), dies at 73
1974 - Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author, dies at 48
1974 - Ken Viljoen, cricketer (played 27 Tests for South Africa 1930-47), dies
1974 - Lewis L Strauss, head US Atomic Energy Comm (1953-58), dies at 78
1975 - Marie Lohr, actress (Pygmalion, Small Hotel, Escapade), dies at 84
1977 - John Vincent, composer, dies at 74
1977 - Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer, dies at 76
1977 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (b. 1906)
1978 - Freda Utley, British scholar and author. (b. 1898)
1981 - Allyn Joslyn, actor (They Won't Forget, Cafe Society), dies at 79
1984 - Jackie Wilson, US singer (I Get the Sweetest Feeling), dies at 49
1984 - Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer, dramatist, and poet (b. 1893)
1985 - Barbara Cowsill, rocker (Cowsills), dies of emphysema
1985 - James Beard, American chef and author (b. 1903)
1985 - Eddie Graham, American professional wrestler and promoter (b. 1930)
1987 - Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer (7th Day), dies at 83
1987 - Charles Goodell, American politician (b. 1926)
1988 - Abraham Sofaer, actor (Naked Jungle, Elephant Walk), dies
1989 - Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
1989 - Carl Furillo, American Baseball player (b. 1922)
1991 - Frank Mitchell, actor (Music is Magic, Prairie Gunsmoke), dies
1991 - Howard "Red" Grange, football's galloping ghost, dies at 87
1991 - Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Mo)/US civil-rights leader, dies at 74
1992 - William T "Champion Jack" Dupree, US boxer/pianist, dies at 81
1994 - Basel al-Assad, Syrian pres Assad son, dies in car accident at 31
1995 - Flavio "Negao" Pires da Conceicao, drug Trafficker, dies at 25
1995 - John Halas, animator, dies at 82
1995 - Philippe Casado, Moroccan/French cyclist, dies at 30
1996 - Roman Ciesiewicz, artist/graphic designer, dies at 65
1996 - Sam Green, industrialist/inventor, dies at 88
1996 - René Marc Jalbert, sergeant-at-Arms at the National Assembly of Quebec (b. 1921)
1997 - Colonel Tom Parker, manager (Elvis Presley), dies at 87
1997 - Dennis Main Wilson, TV/radio producer, dies at 72
1997 - Michael Duane, educationalist, dies at 81
1998 - Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
1999 - Charles Brown, American blues singer and pianist (b. 1920)
1999 - Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
2001 - Byron De La Beckwith, American white supremacist (b. 1921)
2002 - Peggy Lee, American singer (b. 1920)
2003 - Paul Haines, American-born Canadian poet (b. 1933)
2004 - Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (b. 1929)
2005 - Theun de Vries, Dutch writer (b. 1907)
2005 - John L. Hess, American journalist (b. 1917)
2005 - Parveen Babi, Indian actress (b. 1955)
2006 - Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
2006 - Bedanand Jha, Nepalese politician
2007 - Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (b. 1977)
2007 - U;Nee, Korean pop artist (b. 1981)
2008 - Pam Barrett, Canadian politician (b. 1953)
2008 - Marie Smith Jones, last native speaker of the Eyak language (b. 1918)
2010 - Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and
           educator (b. 1953)
2011 - E V V Satyanarayana, Indian Film Director, Producer. (b. 1958)
2011 - Dennis Oppenheim, American conceptual artist (b.1938)
2012 - Roy John Britten, American molecular biologist, dies at 92
2012 - Jonathan Idema, American torturer, kidnapper and con-artist, dies from Aids complications at
           55

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This Day in History for 22nd January


Historical Events

                                               
English Monarch Queen Elizabeth I          Naturalist Charles Darwin                          Playwright Arthur Miller

                                               
French President Charles de Gaulle          Boxing Champ George Foreman           Heavyweight Boxing Champion
                                                                                                                                      Mike Tyson


565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
871 - Battle at Basing: Danish invasion army beats Ethelred of Wessex
1371 - King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned
1506 - The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican.
1510 - Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany
1517 - Turks conquer Cairo
1521 - Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms.
1528 - England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V
1575 - English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis & William Byrd music press monopoly
1584 - Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (& parts in 1812)
1588 - Pope Sixtus V decrees "Immense aeterni" (Reformed curia)
1673 - Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated
1689 - Lord Halifax becomes Speaker of English House of Lords
1689 - Prince Willem III calls English parliament together
1690 - Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French
1758 - Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East Prussia [OS=Jan 11]
1760 - Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French
1771 - Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain
1775 - Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland
1798 - Coup of Midderigh
1813 - Americans capture Frenchtown, Michigan Territory
1814 - 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, NYC
1816 - Lord Byron completes "Parisina" & "Siege of Corinth"
1817 - English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia
1824 - Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
1831 - Charles Darwin takes his Bachelors of Art exam
1837 - Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
1840 - British colonists reach New Zealand.
1850 - Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif
1857 - National Association of Baseball Players founded, NY
1859 - Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover
1862 - Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20
1863 - Union General Burnside's "Mud March"
1873 - Britains SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England, 300 die
1877 - Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using
          ritualist practices.
1879 - Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa
1879 - James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri after previously serving as US senator
           from Illinois & Minnesota
1879 - Battle at Rorkes Drift: British garrison of 150 holds off 3,000-4,000 Zulus
1881 - Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park
1883 - England complete 1st innings victory in Tests v Aust MCG
1889 - Columbia Phonograph was formed in Washington, D.C.
1890 - Jose Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in NYC
1895 - National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati
1899 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
1901 - After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series & begins King
           Edward VII series
1905 - Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1906 - SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than
           130.
1909 - Vassily Kandinsky forms Kunstlerverein in Munich
1910 - Opera "Germania," premieres in NYC
1914 - Paul Claudel's "L'échange," premieres in Paris
1918 - Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet)
1924 - Baldwin government resigns in England
1924 - Dutch Blast Furnace & Steel Factory opens
1924 - KGO-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
1925 - Albania Republic proclaimed under Pres Achmed Zogu
1926 - Belgian chief of staff Gen Maglinse quits
1930 - -35°F (-37°C), Mount Carroll, Illinois (state record)
1931 - French government of Steeg falls
1931 - VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam
1931 - Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
1932 - British Anglicans & Old-Catholic church merge
1934 - Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady MacBeth," premieres in Leningrad
1936 - French Laval government falls
1938 - "Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, NH,
            premieres (NJ)
1939 - Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, SF, is dedicated
1939 - Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University
1940 - 1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS
1941 - 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania
1941 - British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians
1942 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
1942 - Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8:44:06)
1943 - 66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp, California (state record)
1943 - Battle of Anzio: Italy; Allies stopped on beach[1944]-
1943 - Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion in Sicily for July 10th
1943 - Temperature rises 49°F (9°C) in 2 minutes in Spearfish, SD
1944 - During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy
1945 - Burma highway reopens
1945 - Heavy US air raid on Okinawa
1946 - US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
1947 - 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA
1947 - KTLA TV channel 5 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1948 - Jim Laker takes 7-103 in his 1st Test Cricket innings v WI Barbados
1949 - "All for Love" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 121 perfs
1949 - Chinatown telephone exchange closed
1950 - Polly Riley wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1951 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom
1951 - Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter
1953 - Arthur Miller's "Crucible," premieres in NYC
1955 - Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen forms
1956 - 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles
1956 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1956 - Canadian Football Council forms
1957 - Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula
1957 - Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested
1958 - KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City, SD (ABC) 1st broadcast
1959 - USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects
1960 - 10th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 125-115 at Philadelphia
1960 - Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die
1960 - French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu
1960 - Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title
1962 - The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership.
1963 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Naples Professional Golf Tournament
1963 - The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany was signed by Charles de
           Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
1964 - Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia)
1964 - World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin
1965 - US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite
1967 - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-10
1968 - "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC
1968 - Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made
1968 - NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee & Phoenix
1969 - "Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 110 performances
1969 - Billy Preston becomes 5th Beatle
1969 - Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit
1969 - Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1970 - 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, NY to London in 6½ hours
1970 - Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa v Australia, Cape Town
1971 - John & Yoko record "Power to the People"
1972 - "Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
1972 - 22nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 112-110 at LA
1973 - George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1973 - Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions
1973 - US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord
1975 - Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched
1976 - Bank robbery in Beirut nets $20-50 million (record)
1980 - Dissidents Andrei Sacharov & Jelena Bonner banished to Gorki
1980 - PGA begins a senior golf tour
1980 - West Indies beat England 2-0 to win 1st World Series Cup
1980 - Andrei Sakharov is arrested in Moscow.
1981 - 40th Islander shut-out opponent-3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th
1981 - O A "Bum" Phillips becomes head coach of New Orleans Saints
1982 - 75% of North America is covered by snow
1983 - 2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 22 seconds
1983 - Houston is 1st NBA team to be held scoreless in an overtime Portland Trail Blazers out score
           them 17-0 & win 113-96
1984 - Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's basketball record with 70 pts
1984 - Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round skates
1984 - Superbowl XVIII: LA Raiders beat Wash Red Skins, 38-9 in Tampa Superbowl MVP: Marcus
           Allen, LA Raiders, RB
1985 - -30°F (-34°C), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record)
1985 - Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop
1985 - Kelly Hu, 16, of Hawaii, crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA
1986 - Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North
1987 - Blizzard in NJ, as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game, NJ wins 7-5
1987 - Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live
            national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
1988 - 1st-class cricket debut of Brian Lara, Trinidad & Tobago v Leeward Is
1988 - 1st-class cricket debut of Hansie Cronje, OFS v Transvaal
1988 - Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1989 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - Superbowl XXIII: SF 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 20-16 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San
           Francisco, WR
1990 - 17th American Music Award: Milli Vanilli
1990 - Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide
1990 - Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with SF Giants
1990 - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.
1991 - Gulf War. Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people.
            Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
1992 - Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
1992 - Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space
1992 - Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the
           government's resignation.
1993 - Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77
1994 - 45th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 9-8 at NY Rangers
1994 - 5.5 earthquake strikes Sumatra
1994 - 51st Golden Globes: Schlinder's List, Steven Speilberg
1994 - East beats West 9-8 in 45th NHL All Star Game at Madison Square Garden in NYC
1995 - Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed
1995 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
1997 - Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Earth, Successful
1998 - NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild
1998 - Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland A's for 4th time
1998 - STS 89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit
1998 - World League of American Football becomes NFL East
1999 - Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus
           while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
2002 - Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11
           bankruptcy protection.
2003 - Last successful contact with the spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made
            objects.
2006 - Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous
           president.
2007 - The jury portion of the trial against Robert Pickton, accused of being Canada's worst serial
           killer, opens in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.
2010 - Conan O'Brien's last Tonight Show episode after a big controversy over the Tonight Show
           timeslot.

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This Day in History for 22nd January


Famous Weddings

1985 - Zak Starkey (Ringo's son) marries Sarah Menikides
2005 - Business magnate and "The Apprentice" host Donald Trump (56) weds former model Melania
            Knauss (34) at the Bethesda by the Sea Episcopal Church in Palm Beach, Florida
2006 - Princess of Rock and Roll Lisa Marie Presley (37) weds American guitarist and producer Michael
           Lockwood (44) at Kyoto, Japan

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 22nd January


Famous Birthdays

                                               
Statesman/Philosopher                               Ballet choreographer                                       INXS rocker
Francis Bacon (1561)                                  George Balanchine (1904)                      Michael Hutchence (1960)


1263 - Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar (d. 1328)
1440 - Ivan III, the Great, Russian czar (1462-1505)/conquered Lithuania
1553 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (d. 1625)
1561 - Francis Bacon, Strand, London, statesman/essayist (Novum Organum), (d. 1626)
1571 - Robert Bruce Cotton, English antiquary, politician
1592 - Pierre Gassendi, Champtercier Provence, scientist/philosopher
1649 - Pascal Collasse, composer
1654 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (d. 1729)
1655 - Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral (Zealand)
1690 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
1707 - Carl Hockh, composer
1709 - Joseph Reipel, composer
1727 - Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer
1729 - Giuseppe Luigi Tibaldi, composer
1729 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Germany, critic/dramatist
1733 - Philip Carteret, British Naval Officer
1748 - Lewis Edson, composer
1753 - Peter Fuchs, composer
1756 - Vincenzo Righini, composer
1779 - Stefano Pavesi, composer
1781 - Francois-Antoine Habeneck, composer
1788 - Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron, England, romantic poet (Don Juan)
1796 - Karl Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864)
1797 - Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826)
1799 - Ludger Duvernay, Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852)
1802 - Richard Upjohn, US, gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, NY)
1815 - Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger, composer
1820 - Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet
1820 - Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe)
1820 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)
1824 - Josef Leopold Zvonar, composer
1826 - [Merriwether] Jeff Thompson, Partisan (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1840 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)
1842 - Charles Henri Marechal, composer
1845 - Jacob Verdam, Dutch philologist
1845 - Paul Vidal de la Blanche, France, geographer
1848 - Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist (Middle Ages)
1849 - August Strindberg, Sweden, dramatist/novelist (Apologia)
1855 - Ernst Kullak, composer
1858 - Beatrice Potter Webb, England, economist
1858 - Frederick Lugard, British captain/baron (Congo)
1861 - Karel Stecker, composer
1865 - Friedrich Paschen, German physicist
1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk and confidant of Russian Tsar Nicholas II (d. 1916)
1870 - Charles Arnold Tournemire, composer
1871 - Leon Jessel, composer
1874 - Wincenty Witoz, Galicia, PM of Poland (1920-21, 1923, 1926)
1874 - Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
1875 - Bonifacius C de Jonge, governor (Dutch East Indies)
1875 - D[avid] W Griffith, movie producer/director (Birth of a Nation)
1875 - Thomas W Ross, actor (Without Limit, Kings Row, 17, Mortal Storm)
1877 - Hjalmar Schacht, president of German Reichsbank/minister of Economics
1878 - Constance Collier, Windsor England, actress/writer (Kitty, Whirlpool)
1878 - Francis Picabia, French painter/illustrator
1882 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1956)
1886 - John Joseph Becker, composer
1887 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
1889 - Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)
1890 - Fred M Vinson, Ky, 13th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1946-53)
1890 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)
1891 - Franz Alexander, Hungarian/US psycho analytical
1891 - Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La Souris Boiteuse)
1892 - Marcel Dassault, [Bloch], French airplane builder
1893 - Conrad Veidt, Potsdam Germany, actor (Cabinet of Dr Calgary)
1894 - Charles Morgan, England, writer (Fountain)
1894 - Matt McHugh, PA, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast, Innocent Affair)
1897 - Josef Stanislav, composer
1897 - Rosa Ponselle, opera diva (Casta Diva, La Forza del Destino)
1898 - Alexander Abramsky, composer
1898 - Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch writer (Arid Earth)
1898 - Gustaf Paulson, composer
1898 - Hans van Werveke, Flemish historian (Diocese Terwaan)
1898 - Ross R Barnett, lawyer/(Gov-D-Miss)
1899 - Guido Kisch, Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany)
1900 - Franz Salmhofer, composer
1901 - Hans-Erich Apostel, Austrian composer (Sonata Ritmica)
1902 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)
1903 - Robin Humphrey Milford, composer
1903 - Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
1904 - George Balanchine [Giorgi Balanchivadze], ballet composer/choreographer, (d. 1983), [OS=Jan 9]
1904 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)
1906 - Robert E[rvin] Howard, US, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror)
1906 - Willa B Brown (Coffey), US black air pioneer (NAAA)
1906 - Joe Gladwin, English actor (d. 1987)
1907 - Marie Dressler, actress (Anna Christie, Dinner at 8 )
1907 - Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
1907 - Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
1907 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)
1909 - Ann Sothern, [Harriette Lake], ND, actress (Lady in a Cage)
1909 - Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962)
1909 - [Sithu] U Thant, Burma, 3rd UN sec-genl (1962-72)
1909 - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (d. 1965)
1911 - Bruno Kreisky, Austria, bandleader/chancellor (1970-83)
1911 - Roberto Garcia Morillo, composer
1913 - Verdina Shlonsky, composer
1913 - William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1977)
1913 - Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
1914 - Dimitri Dragatakis, composer
1914 - Suzanne Danco, Belgian singer
1915 - Tom Burtt, cricketer (slow left-armer took 33 wickets for NZ)
1916 - Henri Dutilleux, Angers France, composer
1916 - Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati Author, Poet, Astrologist (Gujarat is a State of India) (d. 1994)
1917 - Albert "Pud" Brown, clarinetist/saxophonist
1917 - Herwig Hensen, [Flor Mielants], Flemish poet/playwright
1918 - Richard Eastham, Opelousas La, actor (Falcon Crest) [or Jun 22]
1918 - Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
1920 - George Breakston, Paris France, actor/director (Jungle Stampede)
1920 - Piet Van Lishout, Flemish writer (Eva & I)
1920 - William Warfield, singer (Show Boat)
1921 - Andre Hodeir, composer
1921 - Andy Ganteaume, cricketer (WI batsman, 112 in only Test innings 1948)
1922 - Howard Moss, poet/editor (New Yorker)
1923 - Diana Douglas, Devonshire Bermuda, actress (The Cowboys)
1923 - Friedrich Zehm, composer
1923 - Leslie Bassett, composer
1924 - J J Johnson, composer/jazz trombonist
1924 - Margaret Whiting, big band singer
1925 - Leslie Silver, English paint manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1926 - Lord Erskine of Rerrick, peer
1926 - Tom Blackburn, writer
1927 - Joe Perry, NFL Hall-of-Famer
1927 - Lou Creekmur, Baseball Hall-of-Famer
1928 - Birch Bayh, (Sen-D-Ind)
1928 - Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian (d. 2004)
1929 - Rita Gillespie, TV director
1931 - Galina Zybina, USSR, discus thrower (15 world records between 1952-58)
1931 - Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964)
1932 - Piper Laurie, [Rosetta Jacobs], Detroit Mich, actress (Twin Peaks)
1932 - Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and former sexologist
1934 - Bill Bixby, SF California, actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian)
1934 - Graham Kerr, chef (Galloping Gourmet)
1935 - Pierre S Du Pont IV, (gov-Del)
1935 - Sam Cooke, Chicago Ill, soul singer (You Send Me)
1935 - Seymour Cassel, Detroit, actor (Faces, Plain Clothes, Valentino)
1936 - Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1936 - Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
1937 - Joseph Wambaugh, East Pittsburgh Pa, police writer (Onion Fields)
1937 - Edén Pastora, Nicaraguan rebel leader
1938 - Altair, Brazilian footballer
1939 - Jeff Smith, American chef (d. 2004)
1940 - Addie "Micki" Harris, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
1940 - John Hurt, England, actor (Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express)
1940 - Tilo Medek, German composer
1940 - George Seifert, American football coach
1942 - Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer
1943 - H James "Jim" Saxton, (Rep-R-NJ, 1984- )
1943 - Marília Pêra, Brazilian actress
1945 - Michael Cristofer, actor/writer (Little Drummer Girl)
1945 - Oliver, rocker
1946 - Andrew Rubin, New Bedford Mass, actor (Hometown, Joe Bash) [or Jun 22]
1948 - Gilbert Levine, American conductor
1948 - Northern Calloway, American actor (d. 1990)
1949 - James P Pennington, rocker (Exile)
1949 - Rein P Hummel, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 - Steve Perry, Hanford California, vocalist (Journey-Open Arms, Oh Sherry)
1949 - Mike Caldwell, American baseball player
1951 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (d. 1989)
1952 - Karen Moe [Thornton], US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1972)
1952 - Teddy Gentry, Fort Payne Ala, country music star (Alabama-Mt Music)
1952 - Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (d. 2007)
1953 - Myung-Whun Chung, Seoul South Korea, pianist/conductor
1953 - Jim Jarmusch, American director
1954 - Chris Lemmon, LA California, actor (Brothers & Sisters, Duet) [or Jun 22]
1954 - Tully Blanchard, American professional wrestler
1954 - Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
1955 - Thomas David Jones, Balt Md, PhD/Astronaut (STS 59, 68, 80, sk: 98)
1955 - Timothy R. Ferguson, American politician
1956 - Becky Pearson, LPGA golfer
1956 - Steve Riley, American drummer
1956 - John Wesley Shipp, American actor
1957 - Mike Bossy, NHL forward (NY Islanders), 1st 50 goals in 50 game
1957 - Francis Wheen, English writer and journalist
1957 - Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (d. 1993)
1958 - Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek football player and manager
1959 - Linda Blair, St Louis Mo, actress (Exorcist, Chained Heat, Savage St)
1960 - Michael Hutchence, Australia, rock vocalist/actor (INXS-Dogs in Space)
1961 - Barb Thomas Whitehead, Sibley IA, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian Open)
1962 - Robert Mailhouse, New Haven Ct, actor (Brian-Days of our Life)
1962 - Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor
1962 - Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
1963 - Jeff Treadway, US baseball infielder (LA Dodgers)
1963 - Andrei Tchmil, Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist
1964 - Ann Rowe, Auburn Maine, Miss Maine-America (1991)
1964 - Maria Ellingsen, Reykjavik Iceland, actress (Katrina-Santa Barbara)
1964 - Stojko Vrankovic, NBA center (LA Clippers)
1964 - Wayne Kirby, Williamsburg VA, outfielder (Cleve Indians, LA Dodgers)
1965 - Diane Lane, NYC, American actress (The Perfect Storm, Lady Beware, Lonesome Dove)
1965 - Jazzy Jeff Townes, rapper (Parents Just Don't Understand)
1965 - Ray Mayhew, rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
1965 - Steven Adler, Cleveland Ohio, drummer (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child)
1965 - Tim Prukop, WLAF linebacker-secondary coach (Amsterdam Admirals)
1965 - Brian McCardie, Scottish actor
1965 - Chintara Sukapatana, Thai actress
1966 - Carlton Haselrig, NFL guard (NY Jets)
1966 - Nishantha Ranatunga, cricket (bro of Arjuna Sri Lankan ODI allrounder)
1967 - Manabu Nakanishi, wrestler (NJPW)
1967 - Nicholas Gillingham, British swimmer (world record 200m freestyle)
1967 - Olivia d'Abo, London England, actress (Wonder Years, Single Guy)
1967 - Ecaterina Szabo, Romanian gymnast
1968 - Andrey Sokolov, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1968 - Brian Jones, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1968 - Mauricio Serna, Colombian footballer
1968 - Heath, Japanese bass guitarist (X Japan)
1968 - Frank Lebœuf, French footballer
1969 - Christina Marie Leardini, St Petersburg Fla, playmate (Apr, 1991)
1969 - Keith Gordon, US baseball outfielder (Cincinnati Reds)
1969 - Ousmane Bary, WLAF cornerback (Barcelona Dragons)
1969 - Shelley Sandie, Australian basketball guard (Olympics-88, 96)
1969 - Vinnie Clark, NFL cornerback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 - Olivia d'Abo, English actress
1970 - Brian Gaskill, actor (David Michaels-Models Inc, Bob-All My Children)
1970 - Keith Wagner, NFL/WLAF tackle (NY Giants, Redskins, Scot Claymores)
1970 - Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist
1970 - Alex Ross, American comic book painter (Marvels, Kingdom Come)
1971 - Bucky Brooks, wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Jennifer Christine Joseph, Wendover Nev, Miss America-Nevada (1996)
1971 - Stan Collymore, English footballer
1972 - Steve Scifres, guard/tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 - Toddrick McIntosh, NFL defensive end (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1972 - Gabriel Macht, American actor
1972 - Romi Paku, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
1972 - Gonzalo Rodríguez, Uruguayan racing driver (d. 1999)
1973 - Deon Minor, Paris Texas, 400m runner
1973 - George Noga, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1973 - Reggie Barlow, wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1973 - Said Larossi, soccer player (Emmen/Vitesse)
1973 - Vincent Bradford, linebacker (San Francisco 49ers)
1973 - Rogerio Ceni, Brazilian footballer
1974 - Pavel Mikhalevitch, soccer player (NEC)
1974 - Stephanie Rottier, St Niklaas Belgium, tennis star (1995 semi Prague)
1975 - Lee Maxwell Francis Vertongen, Palmerston North NZ, cyclist (Oly-96)
1975 - Felipe Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver
1976 - Balthazar Getty, actor (Young Guns 2, Lord of the Flies)
1976 - James Dearth, American football player
1977 - Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
1977 - Jono Gibbes, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1978 - Chone Figgins, American baseball player
1979 - Melanie Winiger, Miss Switzerland Universe (1997)
1980 - Subhash Ram Prajapati, Nepalese Writer
1980 - Jake Grove, American football player
1980 - Christopher Masterson, American actor
1980 - Ben Moody, American guitarist (Evanescence)
1980 - Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
1981 - Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer
1981 - Willa Ford, American singer
1981 - Beverley Mitchell, American actress
1982 - Kevin Sheridan, actor (Soul Man)
1982 - Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer
1982 - Jason Peters, American football player
1983 - Shaun Cody, American football player
1983 - Robert Steinhäuser, German perpetrator of the Erfurt massacre (d. 2002)
1984 - Raica Oliveira, Brazilian supermodel
1984 - Maceo Rigters, Dutch footballer
1984 - Ben Eager, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Leon Powe, American basketball player
1985 - Mohamed Sissoko, Malian footballer
1986 - Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model
1986 - Daniel Wayne Smith, American actor, reality television personality (d. 2006)
1987 - Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian cross-country skier
1988 - Greg Oden, American basketball player
2179 - Hikaru Walter Sulu, SF, California (character on Star Trek)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 22nd January


Famous Deaths

                                               
36th US President                                   Kennedy Family Matriarch                          Actor Heath Ledger (2008)
Lyndon B Johnson (1973)                       Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1995)


1336 - Louis III, last Earl of Loon, dies
1531 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter, dies at 44
1536 - Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495)
1552 - Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, beheaded for treason
1581 - Joost de Damhoudere, Flemish lawyer, dies
1581 - Seerp Galama, Dutch nobleman/military/politician, dies at 52
1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, composer, dies at 51
1640 - Erasmus Quellinus I, Flemish wood carver, dies at about 55
1700 - Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer, dies at 39
1750 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
1767 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719)
1779 - Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736)
1779 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
1781 - Johann Siebenkas, composer, dies at 66
1796 - Bernhard Hupfeld, composer, dies at 78
1798 - Lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 71
1798 - Matija A Reljkovic, Croatian writer (Satire of Wild Man), dies at 66
1799 - Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist/alpinist, dies at 58
1840 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
1847 - Georges-Julien Sieber, composer, dies at 71
1850 - Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint, dies at 54
1852 - George Rodwell, composer, dies at 51
1868 - Moritz Ganz, composer, dies at 61
1879 - Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in Battle of Isandlwana
1879 - George Shepstone, British political affiliate, dies in battle
1892 - Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813)
1893 - Vincenz Lachner, composer, dies at 81
1895 - Edward Solomon, composer, dies at 39
1900 - David E. Hughes, American musician (b. 1831)
1901 - Victoria, [Alexandrine], Britain's Queen (1837-1901), dies at 81
1909 - Richard A C E Erlenmeyer, German chemist, dies at 83
1913 - Ferdinand van der Haeghen, Flemish librarian/bibliographer, dies at 82
1914 - Frederik Rung, composer, dies at 60
1916 - Iwan Knorr, composer, dies at 63
1921 - Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)
1922 - Benedictus XV, [Giacomo Markies D Chiesa], pope (1914-22), dies at 67
1922 - Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
1931 - Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
1936 - Louis Glass, composer, dies at 71
1942 - Reimond Tollenaere, leader Flemishch Natl Front, dies at 81
1942 - Walter Richard Sickert, British painter (Free House!), dies at 81
1945 - A Wolfenstein, writer, dies at 61
1945 - Carlo Felice Boghen, composer, dies a day before 76th birthday
1945 - Johan Eykman, theologist (World Church), dies at 52
1945 - Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
1949 - William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)
1950 - Alan Hale, actor (Little John-Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 57
1950 - Corinne Luchaire, French actress (b. 1921)
1951 - Eastwood Lane, composer, dies at 71
1951 - Karl Nessler, inventor of the perm (b. 1872)
1952 - Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Mysteries of Love), dies at 52
1956 - P A M Speet, Dutch broadcast CEO (KRO), dies
1959 - A J Else Mauhs, German/Dutch actress (Hamlet, Nora), dies at 73
1959 - Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1929)
1964 - Marc Blitzstein, US composer (Cradle Will Rock), dies at 58
1966 - Herbert Marshall, actor (Dark Angel, Duel in the Sun), dies at 75
1967 - Jobyna Ralston, actress (Wings, Girl Shy, Freshman), dies at 66
1967 - Robert Henriques, English writer (b. 1905)
1968 - Duke Kahanamoku, 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-12, 20, 24), dies at 77
1973 - Lyndon B Johnson, president (1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64
1974 - Leon Lontoc, actor (Henry-Burke's Law), dies at 64
1975 - Klaas Voskuil, Dutch journalist, dies at 79
1975 - Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (b. 1873)
1978 - Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer (54 Tests for England 4555 runs), dies
1978 - Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894)
1979 - Ali Hassan Salameh, [Abu Hassan], killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes
1980 - Iris Meredith, actress (Lawless Land, Gambling Terror), dies at 64
1981 - Fannie Thomas, US, dies at 113
1981 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (b. 1903)
1982 - Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile (1964-70), dies at 71
1983 - Fred Bakewell, cricketer (dashing England bat of 30s, 6 Tests), dies
1985 - Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (b. 1899)
1987 - R Budd Dwyer, Penns State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy & perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference
1988 - Georgi M Malenkov, Russian premier (1953-55), dies at 86
1988 - Parker Fennelly, actor (Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm), dies at 96
1991 - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
1992 - A J Antoon, director (That Championship Season), dies at 47
1992 - Ali Amini, PM of Iran (1961-62), dies
1993 - Alexander Bodon, Hung-Dutch architect (RAI, Dollywood), dies at 86
1993 - Charlie Gehringer, baseball player, dies at 89
1993 - Kobo Abe, Japanese writer (Wife in the Sand), dies at 68
1993 - Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author, dies at 75
1994 - Frances Gifford, dies of emphysema, at 71
1994 - Irving B Kahn, inventer (teleprompter), dies at 76
1994 - Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor (La Ronde), dies at 83
1994 - Telly Savalas, actor (Kojak), dies of prostate cancer at 70
1994 - Rhett Forrester, American singer (Riot) (b. 1956)
1995 - Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author, dies at 48
1995 - Mahmoud Sayed Selim, Egyptian moslim leader, shot to death at 29
1995 - Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar), dies at 88
1995 - Nico Adriaans, founder of Rotterdam Junkiebond, dies of AIDS at 37
1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of pres JFK, RFK, & Ted, dies at 104
1995 - Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler (b. 1949)
1996 - Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert, dies at 77
1996 - Efua Theodore Sutherland, writer, dies at 71
1996 - Mabel Leigh, potter, dies at 80
1996 - Yisrael Eldad, extremist politician, dies at 85
1997 - Ian Arthur Hoyle Munro, medical journalist, dies at 73
1997 - Irwin Levine, composer (Tie a Yellow Ribbon), dies at 58
1997 - Mollie Panter-Downes, writer , dies at 90
1997 - Wally Whyton, musician/broadcaster, dies at 66
1997 - Ron Holden, American singer (b. 1939)
1997 - Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (b. 1957)
1999 - Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
2000 - Craig Claiborne, American writer and editor (b. 1920)
2000 - Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (b. 1916)
2001 - Roy Brown, American clown (b. 1932)
2001 - Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2002 - Stanley Marcus, American business executive (b. 1905)
2003 - Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist (b. 1921)
2004 - Billy May, American composer and musician (b. 1916)
2004 - Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (b. 1918)
2004 - Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
2005 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1943)
2005 - Carlo Orelli, Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894)
2005 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (b. 1924)
2005 - Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917)
2007 - Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer
2007 - Ngô Quang Trưởng, South Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
2007 - Abbé Pierre, French priest (b. 1912)
2008 - Roberto Gari, American actor (b. 1920)
2008 - Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
2008 - Miles Lerman, Polish-American activist (b. 1920)
2009 - Billy Werber, American baseball player (b. 1908)
2010 - Jean Simmons, English-American actress (b. 1929)
2012 - Joe Paterno, American College Hall of Fame football coach, dies from lung cancer at 85
2012 - Dick Tufeld, American voice actor, dies at 85

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 23rd January


Historical Events

                                             
English Monarch Queen Elizabeth I         Physician Elizabeth Blackwell                   Heart surgeon Daniel Williams

                                             
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin         Playwright Arthur Miller                         Basketball Player Bill Russell

                                             
Actor Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud)               Michael Douglas                             Comedian Jerry Seinfeld


3102 BC - Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga.
393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor.
638 - Start of Islamic calendar
909 - John of Rila aka Saint Ivan and the fable of two pies.
971 - In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by
          crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops. The Southern Han state is forced to submit to the 
          Song Dynasty, ending not only Southern Han rule, but also the first regular war elephant
          corps employed in a Chinese army that had gained the Southern Han victories throughout the
           10th century.
1265 - 1st English Parliament formally convened (some authorities)
1368 - In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu
           Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
1490 - 1st printing of Ramban's Sha'ar ha-Gemul
1492 - "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed
1546 - Having published nothing for eleven years, Francois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his
           sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
1552 - 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes manditory in England
1556 - Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China
1570 - Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out
1571 - Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London
1579 - Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic
1631 - France & Sweden sign anti-German Treaty of Barwald
1637 - Dutch governor Johan Mauritius lands in Pernambuco Brazil
1643 - Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for Parliamentarians
1647 - Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament
1656 - Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
1663 - King Louis XIV affirms covenant with Rÿnstaten
1668 - England, Netherlands & Sweden signs Triple Alliance against French
1719 - Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire
1723 - Georg Friedrich Handel's opera "Ottone," premieres in London
1779 - Charles Messier catalogs M56 (globular cluster in Lyra)
1789 - Georgetown, 1st US Catholic college, founded
1793 - 2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia & Russia
1793 - Humane Society of Philadelphia (1st aid society) organized
1796 - Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500
1812 - 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
1833 - Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation
1845 - Uniform US election day for president & VP authorized
1849 - Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US
1849 - Patent granted for an envelope-making machine
1855 - The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a
           crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
1856 - Steamer Pacific lost
1862 - Agoston Haraszthy, 1st vintner in Sonoma Valley, California imports 10,000 grape vine
           cuttings
1865 - -Jan 25th) Battle of City Point, VA (James River, Trent's Reach)
1870 - 173 Blackfoot (140 women & children) killed in Montana by US Army
1879 - National Archery Association forms (Crawfordsville Ind)
1889 - Daniel Williams forms Provident Hospital in Chicago
1894 - G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 min
1896 - Edward Macdowell's 2nd Suite in E, premieres
1897 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Abbey Grange" (BG)
1897 - Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder
           trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged
           testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1899 - Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
1902 - Winnipeg Victorias sweep Toronto Wellingtons in 2 for Stanley Cup
1904 - Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people
           homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in
           Jugendstil style.
1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator
1908 - US & Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo
1909 - 1st radio rescue at sea
1912 - The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
1916 - Temp falls from 44°F (7°C) to -56°F (49°C) night of 23-24, Browning MT
1920 - Dutch refuse to turn over ex-kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to allies
1923 - Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th)
1924 - Ramsey MacDonald forms 1st Labour government in Britain
1926 - Eugene O'Neill's "Great God Brown," premieres in NYC
1928 - "Abenteuer of brave Soldier Schwejk" premieres in Berlin
1930 - Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
1930 - George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Va established
1930 - WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia SC begins radio transmissions
1932 - El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
1933 - 20th amendment changes date of presidential inaugurations to 1/20
1936 - Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curacao forms
1937 - Karl Radek & 16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge
1940 - Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile
1941 - Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center
1941 - WOR-AM in Newark NJ moves to NYC
1942 - Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
1942 - Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
1943 - 66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp, California (state record)
1943 - British 8th army marches into Tripoli
1943 - Detroit Red Wings scores NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1943 - Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured
1943 - Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
1944 - Arnold Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon," premieres in NYC
1944 - Det Red Wings score 15 goals against NY Rangers & NHL record 37 points, also most consecutive goals & most lopsided game 15-0
1945 - Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation
1945 - World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
1946 - Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA
1948 - Bradman scores 201 in 272 mins v India, 21 fours 1 six
1948 - Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens
1948 - Test debut of Neil Harvey, v India at Adelaide
1950 - 3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous 1st Facts published
1950 - AP picks "Miracle Braves" of 1914 as greatest sports upset
1950 - Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel
1950 - NFL rule changes open way for 2-platoon system (offense & defense)
1950 - Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung
1951 - 3rd Emmy Awards: Alan Young Show, Alan Young & Gertrude Berg
1953 - Bobby Simpson makes 1st-class debut for NSW 16 yrs 357 days
1953 - NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
1953 - NFL's National & American conference become Eastern & Western conf
1954 - Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP
1954 - Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
1955 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1955 - KORK (now KVBC) TV channel 3 in Las Vegas, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast
1958 - "Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 60 performances
1958 - Dictator Marcos Perez Jiménez flees Venezuela, Larrazabal takes power
1958 - Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes v West Indies
1960 - Bathosphere "Trieste" reach bottom of Pacific (10,900 m)
1961 - Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films
1961 - Venezuela adopts constitution
1962 - Bob Feller & Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1962 - British spy Kim Philby defects to USSR
1962 - Libya, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb
1964 - 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, barring poll tax in federal
           elections
1964 - Arthur Miller's "After the Fall," premieres in NYC
1965 - "King Family Show" (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV
1965 - BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Dick Weber
1965 - Boston Celtic center Bill Russell misses all 14 shots in loss to Philadelphia Warriors led by Wilt
           Chamberlain
1967 - Stan Musial is named GM of Cards
1968 - Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1968 - Spy ship USS Pueblo & 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea
1969 - Cream releases their last album "Goodbye"
1970 - Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California)
1970 - Dolle Mina's burns her bra in Amsterdam
1970 - US launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 - -80°F (-62°C) in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska (US record)
1971 - 4th ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 122 at Carolina
1971 - UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row
1972 - 2nd AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 26-13
1972 - Ard Schenk becomes European all-round skating champ
1972 - Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party-100 die-New Delhi
1972 - Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest
1972 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 26-13
1973 - 23rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 104-84 at Chicago
1973 - Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs
1973 - Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims
1973 - Pres Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War
1974 - 1st edition of women's magazine "Story"
1975 - "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV
1975 - Ralph Kiner elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
1976 - Ian Redpath hits his only 2 sixes in Cricket Tests, v WI Adelaide
1976 - Wash Caps end 25 game winless streak (0-22-3) beat NY Rangers 7-5
1977 - $1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris
1977 - Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC
1978 - Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris
1978 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 14-13
1978 - Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging
           to earth's ozone layer.
1979 - Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1981 - 1st Richard Nixon museum opens (San Clemente California)
1981 - Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin
1981 - Mike Bossy becomes 1st in NHL to score 50 goals in 50 games
1981 - Red Sox trade Fred Lynn to Angels for Frank Tanana & Joe Rudi
1982 - Urbe Blanca (cow) produces record 110 kg of milk, Cuba (approx date)
1982 - World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2
1983 - "A-Team" with Mr T premieres on NBC
1983 - Bjorn Borg announces his retirement from tennis
1983 - Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $14,700,000
1983 - In NBA, Portland scores all 17 pts in overtime to beat Houston 113-96
1983 - Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean
1983 - Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:40.97)
1984 - Buffalo Sabres win NHL record 10th straight road game
1984 - Greatest unpaced 1-hr bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km
1984 - Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to become WWF champ
1985 - Britains House of Lords debate 1st televised
1986 - "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 13 perfs
1986 - Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
1986 - 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino,
           Everly Bros, B Holly, J L Lewis & Elvis Presley)
1987 - Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 pt loss)
1987 - Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)
1988 - 45th Golden Globes: Last Emperor, Sally Kirkland, Michael Douglas
1988 - 62nd Australian Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Chris Evert (61 76)
1988 - Bob Benoit bowls 1st 300-pt game in a televised title match
1989 - Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court
1989 - NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak
1990 - Dean Jones scores twin Test tons v Pakistan at Adelaide Oval
1991 - "Seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV
1991 - World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
1992 - "Visit" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1993 - 50th Golden Globes: Scent of a Woman, wins
1993 - Graham Gooch scores his 100th 100, on tour at Cuttack
1993 - Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die
1993 - NY Newsday reports Ore Sen Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women
1993 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan
1994 - Bernie Kosar is 2nd QB to throw TD passes in AFC & NFC Champ games
1994 - Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Hercegovina
1996 - Chris Cairns scores 120, 96 balls, 10x4, 9x6 in Test NZ v Zim
1996 - The first version of the Java programming language was released.
1998 - Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba
2001 - The Chinese Communist Party stages a self-immolation in Tiananmen Square to frame Falun
           Gong and escalate the persecution.
2002 - Reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan. He was subsequently murdered .
2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in Federal Bureau of
            Investigation custody.
2003 - Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10
2009 - Dendermonde nursery attack occurred in Dendermonde, Belgium.
2012 - European Union agrees to embargo Iranian oil in protest against Iran's alleged nuclear
           weapons program
3268 - Beginning of 2nd Julian Period (1/1 OS)

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This Day in History for 23rd January


Famous Weddings

1999 - Princess of Monaco Caroline (42) weds dynastic head of the House of Hanover and Britain's King
           George I descendant Prince Ernst August (45) in Monaco

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This Day in History for 23rd January


Famous Birthdays

                                             
Statesman John Hancock (1737)    Impressionist painter Edouard Manet (1832)     Actress Mariska Hargitay (1964)


1350 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419)
1574 - Lucas I Franchoys, Belgian painter
1582 - John Barclay, Scottish satirist/Latin poet (Argenis)
1688 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
1719 - John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)
1730 - Joseph Hewes, US merchant (Declaration of Independence signer)
1737 - John Hancock, merchant/statesman, (1st to sign Declaration of Independence), (d. 1793), [o.s. 1936-01-12]
1745 - William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814)
1752 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer
1761 - Friedrich von Matthison, German poet (Adelaide)
1762 - Christian A Vulpius, Germany, writer (Rinaldo Rinaldini)
1783 - Stendhal, [Marie Henri Beyle], France, writer (Le Rouge et de Noir)
1785 - Carl A Agardh, Sweden, botanist/bishop of Karlstad
1786 - Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
1809 - Veer Surendra Sai, Indian Freedom Fighter
1813 - Franz Commer, composer
1816 - Carl Herrmann, near Hanover Germany, stage magician
1820 - Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer
1827 - Takamori Saigo, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877)
1828 - Calvin Edward Pratt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1830 - Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet, French general/min of War (1899-1900)
1832 - Edouard Manet, Paris, French impressionist painter (Olympia, The Luncheon on the Grass), (d. 1883)
1833 - John Randolph Chambliss Jr, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1837 - Amanda Berry Smith, American former slave, singer and evangelist
1840 - Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company)
1843 - Hans Heinrich XIV Hochberg, composer
1855 - John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926)
1857 - Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian geologist (Moho discontinuity)
1862 - David Hilbert, Königsberg East Prussia, mathematician
1865 - Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor (Black Haired Whore)
1867 - Herbert Bedford, composer
1868 - Juventino Rosas, composer
1869 - Carlo Felice Boghen, composer
1869 - Herbert David Croly, US author (Promise of American Life)
1872 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
1872 - Joze Plečnik, Slovenian architect (d. 1957)
1878 - Oton Zupancic, Slovenian poet (Zimzelen pod Snegom)
1878 - Rutland Boughton, composer
1884 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1956)
1885 - Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, composer
1888 - Gilbert Ledward, British sculptor
1889 - Franklin Pangborn, Newark, actor (My Best Gal, Hats Off, Easy Living)
1889 - Prosper Arents, Flemish bibliographer (Rubens-bibliography)
1891 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist
1893 - Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks)
1894 - Remy Angenot, Flemish actor (Patriot/Idiot)
1896 - Charlotte A E M W, grand duchess of Luxembourg (1919-64)
1897 - Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian politician
1897 - Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Canadian soldier, W.W.II codename, Intrepid. Inspiration for James Bond. (d. 1989)
1897 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000)
1898 - Randolph Scott, actor (Last of the Mohicans, Western Union)
1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russia, director (Battleship Potemkin) [NS]
1898 - Freda Utley, British scholar and author (d. 1978)
1899 - Joseph Nathan Kane, historian (Famous Firsts)
1899 - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (d. 1931)
1900 - Mary Philips, CT, actress (Farewell to Arms, Incendiary Blonde)
1900 - Ralph Graves, Cleve Ohio, actor (Dirigible, Flight, Dream Street)
1900 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (d. 1988)
1901 - Benno Stokvis, Dutch attorney/politician
1902 - Benny Waters, saxophonist
1903 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
1904 - Theodor Schaefer, composer
1905 - David Newell, Mo, actor (Runaway Bride, White Heat, Dangerous Curves)
1905 - Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges)
1906 - Bob Steele, Pendleton Oregon, actor (Duffy-F Troop, Big Sleep)
1907 - Dan Duryea, White Plains NY, actor (Pride of the Yankees)
1907 - Hediki Yukawa, Japan, physicist (Nobel 1949)
1908 - Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist
1908 - Pak Saleman Siswowitono, Javan/Surinamese writer
1909 - Norman Fulton, composer
1910 - Django Reinhardt, Belgium, Gypsy jazz guitarist
1911 - Dan Smith, harmonica/gospel singer
1912 - Ank van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy)
1914 - Napoleon L Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne
1915 - Herma Bauma, Austria, javelin thrower (Oly-gold-1948)
1915 - Potter Stewart, Mich, 94th Supreme Court justice (1958-81)
1916 - Airey Neave, British Major, politician and indictment server at the Nuremberg Trials (d. 1979)
1916 - David Douglas Duncan, American photo-journalist
1918 - Gertrude Belle Elion, NYC, biochemist/drug researcher (Nobel 1988)
1919 - Bob Paisley, English soccer player/trainer/manager of FC Liverpool
1919 - Ernie Kovacs, Trenton NJ, comedian (Ernie Kovacs' Show)
1919 - Nina Dumbadze, USSR, Discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1952)
1919 - Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist
1920 - Erbet Pawel, biographer (Kafka)
1923 - Florence Halop, Queens, actress (Florence-Night Court, St Elsewhere)
1923 - Horace Ashenfelter, US, 3000m steeplechase (Olympic-gold-1952)
1923 - Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, View from Stars)
1924 - Frank R Lautenberg, (Sen-D-NJ, 1983- )
1925 - Marty Paich, Oakland California, orchestra leader (Sonny & Cher, Glenn Campbell)
1927 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (d. 1994)
1928 - Eugene Monti, Italy, bobsledder (Olympic-2 golds-1968)
1928 - Jeanne Moreau, Paris France, actress (Going Places, Jules & Jim)
1928 - Kees [Cornelis] Broekman, Dutch speed skater (Olympic-silver-1952)
1928 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
1929 - Ian Thomson, cricketer (England seam bowler v South Africa 1964-65)
1929 - John Polanyi, Berlin, Canadian chemist (Nobel 1986)
1929 - Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate
1930 - Derek Walcott, St Lucia, poet/writer (Omeros, Nobel 1992)
1930 - Ken Errair, rocker (Four Freshmen)
1930 - William Reid Pogue, Okemah Oklahoma, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Skylab 4)
1932 - Bud Shuster, (Rep-R-PA, 1973- )
1933 - Arlene Golonka, Chicago Ill, actress (Millie-Mayberry RFD)
1933 - Chita Rivera, Wash DC, actress (West Side Story, Sweet Charity)
1933 - Joel Spiegelman, composer
1934 - Lou Antonio, Oklahoma City, actor (Barney-Snoop Sisters, Makin' It)
1934 - Pierre Bourgault, Quebec politician and essayist (d. 2003)
1936 - Jerry Kramer, Green Bay Packer, author (Instant Replay)
1938 - Anatoly Marchenko, Siberia, Soviet dissident
1938 - Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1939 - Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist
1939 - Arlene Golonka, American actress
1940 - Johnny Russell, country singer
1942 - Ivan Ivanovich Bachurin, cosmonaut
1942 - Laurie Mayne, cricketer (Australian pace bowler in 6 Tests 1965-70)
1942 - Willy Bogner Jr, Munich, director (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
1942 - Razzak, Bangladeshi actor and director
1943 - Gil Gerard, Little Rock Ark, actor (Buck Rogers in 25th Century)
1943 - William E "Bill" Gibb, Scottish fashion designer
1943 - Gary Burton, American jazz vibraphonist
1944 - Jerry Lawson, US singer (Persuasions-Under the Boardwalk)
1944 - Marty Russo, (Rep-D-IL, 1975- )
1944 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Osterman Weekend)
1944 - Sergey Belov, USSR, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1972)
1945 - Mike Harris, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario
1946 - Asif Masood, cricketer (Pakistani quick with long & erratic run-up)
1946 - Don Whittington, American businessman, car & airplane racer and convicted felon
1947 - Thomas R Carper, (Rep-D-DE, 1983- )
1947 - Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia
1947 - Gatewood Galbraith, [Louis], Carlisle, Kentucky, Lawyer, American political activist, iconic Kentucky political figure, (d. 2012)
1948 - Anita Pointer, Oakland, rock vocalist (Pointer Sisters-She's So Shy)
1949 - Robert Cabana, Minneapolis, Mjr USMC/astronaut (STS 41, 53, 68, sk:88)
1950 - Bill Cunningham, rock keyboardist/bassist (Box Tops)
1950 - Danny Federici, rocker (E Street Band)
1950 - Patrick Simmons, guitarist/vocal (Doobie Brothers-Minute by Minute)
1950 - Richard Dean Anderson, Minneapolis, actor (MacGyver, Emerald Pt NAS)
1950 - Richard Gilliland, Fort Worth Tx, actor (Jonesy-Waltons, Tom-Heartland)
1950 - William Cunningham, rock bassist/pianist (Box Tops-Letter)
1950 - John Greaves, English musician (Henry Cow, National Health)
1950 - Luis Alberto Spinetta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, rock musician (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible), (d. 2012)
1951 - Margaret Johnson Bailes, Bronx NY, 4X100 runner (Olympic-gold-1968)
1951 - Michael Matz, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-silver-96)
1952 - Omar Henry, cricketer (1st colored player for South Africa 1992)
1953 - Lamont Robin Zander, rocker (Cheap Trick)
1953 - Pat Haden, Westbury, NY, NFL quarterback (LA Rams)
1953 - Antonio Villaraigosa, Hispanic-American 52nd Mayor of Los Angeles
1954 - Edward Ka-spel, English singer/songwriter (Legendary Pink Dots)
1954 - Franco De Vita, Caracas Venezuala, spanish singer (Extranjero)
1954 - Rick Finch, rocker (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It)
1954 - Trevor Hohns, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner 1989)
1955 - Alexander O'Neal, R&B singer
1955 - Reginald Calloway, trumpet player (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1955 - Robin Zander, rocker vocalist/guitarist (Cheap Trick-Dream Police)
1957 - Caroline Louise Marguerite Grimaldi, Monte Carlo Monaco, princess
1957 - Lou Schuler, American fitness journalist
1958 - Lorraine Michaels, Canterbury England, playmate (Apr, 1981)
1959 - Earl Falconer, British reggae bassist (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1959 - Tyrone Power Jr, Los Angeles California, actor (Shag)
1960 - Greg Ritchie, cricketer (Qld & Aust batsman Fat Cat Mahatma Cote)
1960 - Misha Mck, East Orange NJ, actress (Gerri-Me & Mrs C)
1960 - Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (d. 1998)
1961 - Trey Junkin, tight end (Arizona Cardinals)
1961 - Mas Selamat bin Kastari, Singapore's most-wanted terror fugitive
1962 - Elvira Lindo, Spanish writer and journalist
1962 - Vasia Panayopoulou, Greek actress
1963 - Gail O'Grady, Detroit, actress (Hitman, Nobody's Perfect, NYPD Blue)
1963 - Hakeem Olajuwon, NBA center (Houston Rockets)
1963 - Rocco Romano, CFL guard (Calgary Stampeders)
1964 - Frank Winters, NFL center (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1964 - Mariska Hargitay, LA California, actress (Jesse Smith-Downtown, ER)
1965 - Tim Berrett, Tunbridge Wells Engl, Canadian 20k walker (Oly-14-92, 96)
1966 - Haywoode Workman, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1966 - Mike Brim, NFL cornerback (Cin Bengals)
1966 - Scott Fortune, Newport Beach California, volleyballer (Oly-G-88,B-92, 96)
1967 - Christine Parris-Washington, Truro Nova Scotia, softball (Olympics-96)
1967 - Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgaria, Turkish weight lifter (Oly-gold-1988)
1968 - Eric Metcalf, NFL receiver/running back (Atl Falcons, San Diego Chargers)
1968 - Lubomir Kolnik, Skalica CZ, hockey forward (Team Slovakia, Espoo)
1968 - Petr Korda, Prague Czech, tennis star (1993 Doubles-Cincinnati)
1968 - Todd Scott, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1969 - Brendan Shanahan, Mimico Ont, NHL left wing (Whalers, Red Wings)
1969 - Eric Carter, CFL cornerback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1969 - Ariadna Gil, Spanish actress
1969 - Andrei Kanchelskis, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
1970 - Alan Embree, Vancouver WA, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1970 - Jim Schwantz, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, SF 49ers)
1970 - Mark Wohlers, Holyoke MA, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1970 - Marquel Fleetwood, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Richard Smehlik, Ostrava Cze, NHL defenseman (Buf Sabres, Oly-Gold-98)
1970 - Sherman Obando, Changuinola Panama, outfielder (Montreal Expos)
1971 - Adam Parore, cricket wicket-keeper (NZ, 1st Maori Test centurion)
1971 - James Logan, WLAF linebacker (Scotland Claymores)
1971 - Julie Foudy, SD California, soccer midfielder (Olympics-96)
1971 - Kevin Mawae, NFL center/guard (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 - Mark Grimmette, Ann Arbor Mich, doubles luger (Olympics-1994)
1971 - Lorne Spicer, British TV presenter
1971 - Marc Nelson, American R&B singer and lyricist
1972 - Anthony Peterson, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears, SF 49ers)
1972 - Gary Harrell, NFL/WLAF receiver (NY Giants, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Kez McCorvey, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Tanya Harding, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1972 - Ewen Bremner, Scottish actor
1972 - Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer
1973 - Mark Kolesar, Minnedosa, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1973 - Lanei Chapman, American actress
1974 - Glen Chapple, cricketer (Lancashire & England A pace bowler)
1974 - Tiffani-Amber Theissen, Long Beach Ca, actress (Saved by Bell, 90210)
1974 - Rebekah Elmaloglou, Australian actress
1974 - Yosvani Pérez, Cuban baseball player
1974 - Richard T. Slone, British artist
1975 - Kevin Alexander, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1975 - Tito Ortiz, American UFC fighter
1976 - Byron Hanspard, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons)
1976 - Phil Boudreault, Copper Cliff Ontario, boxer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Brandon Duckworth, American baseball player
1976 - Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer
1976 - Nigel McGuinness, English professional wrestler
1979 - Sampsa Astala, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1979 - Larry Hughes, American basketball player
1979 - Juan Rincón, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 - Theresa Kulikowski, Tacoma Wash, gymnast (World-bronze-95, Oly-96)
1981 - Rob Friend, Canadian footballer
1981 - Greg Smith, American UFC fighter
1982 - Wily Mo Peña, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
1985 - Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer
1985 - Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel
1986 - Steven Taylor, English footballer
1987 - Felicia Brandström, Swedish singer

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This Day in History for 23rd January


Famous Deaths

                                             
Painter/Print Maker                                 Painter Salvador Dali (1989)
Edvard Munch (1944)


1002 - Otto III, German king/emperor 983/996-1002, dies at 21
1199 - Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (b. 1160)
1356 - Margaretha of Bavaria, Emperess of Germany, dies
1516 - Ferdinand II, king of Aragon/Sicily, dies at 63
1548 - Bernardo Pisano, composer, dies at 57
1549 - Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498)
1567 - Jiajing, Emperor of China (b. 1507)
1622 - William Baffin, British explorer, dies at about 38
1639 - Francisco Maldonado da Silva Solis, Peruvian poet, burned at stake
1648 - Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish poet (Del Rey Abajo), dies at 40
1708 - Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 80
1744 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668)
1785 - Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
1789 - Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724)
1789 - John Cleland, English novelist (b. 1709)
1800 - Edward Rutledge, US attorney (signed Decl of Indep), dies at 50
1803 - Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)
1805 - Vaclav Pichl, composer, dies at 63
1805 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (b. 1763)
1806 - William Pitt, the Younger, PM Great Britain (1783..1806), dies at 46
1812 - Robert Craufurd, British general (b. 1764)
1813 - George Clymer, US merchant (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 73
1814 - Georg Friedrich Theodor Wolf, composer, dies at 52
1820 - Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
1833 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (b. 1757)
1837 - John Field, composer, dies at 54
1838 - Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director, dies at 67
1845 - Francesco Ruggi, composer, dies at 77
1864 - Michele Puccini, composer, dies at 50
1866 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (b. 1785)
1875 - Charles Kingsley, English vicar/writer (Westward Ho!), dies at 55
1879 - Adolf Jensen, composer, dies at 42
1883 - Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)
1891 - Boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Flaanders, dies at 21
1893 - Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet (Granada), dies at 75
1893 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1825)
1898 - W A Remy, composer, dies at 66
1908 - Edward Alexander MacDowell, US composer (Indian Suite), dies at 47
1913 - Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated
1921 - Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer, dies at 83
1922 - Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
1923 - Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
1926 - Desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal, dies at 74
1926 - Joseph Carl Breil, composer, dies at 55
1931 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (Diaghilew, Dying Swan), dies
1936 - Dame Clara Butt, alto singer (Country of Hope & Glory), dies at 62
1937 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (b. 1876)
1939 - Matthias Sindelar, Austria soccer star, commits suicide
1941 - Dobri Khristov, composer, dies at 65
1943 - Alexander Woollcott, critic, dies of a heart attack on radio, at 56
1944 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (The Scream), dies at 80
1944 - Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1909)
1945 - Helmuth J Moltke, German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at 37
1946 - Feliks Nowowiejski, composer, dies at 68
1946 - Matteo Giulio Bartoli, linguist, dies at 72
1947 - Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator, dies at 79
1947 - Roy Park, cricketer (prolific Victorian bat & official), dies
1956 - Alexander Korda, English movie producer (Henry VIII), dies at 62
1957 - Willie Edwards, US black, murdered by KKK at 25
1958 - Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880)
1964 - Louis Horst, composer, dies at 80
1969 - Jaroslav Kricka, composer, dies at 86
1971 - Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (b. 1871)
1973 - Alexander Onassis, Greek heir of the Onassis family (b. 1948)
1973 - Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist (b. 1886)
1975 - Karel Paul van der Mandele, director (Rotterdam Bank), dies at 94
1976 - Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 44
1976 - Paul Robeson, athlete/lawyer/singer, dies in Philadelphia at 77
1976 - Paul Dupuis, French Canadian film and television actor (b. 1913)
1977 - Bernard "Toots" Shor, barkeeper, dies at 73
1978 - Jack Oakie, actor (Great Dictator, Gang Buster), dies at 74
1978 - Terry Kath, rock guitarist (Chicago), accidently shot in head at 32
1978 - Vic Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers) (b. 1925)
1981 - Bobby Sherwood, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 66
1981 - Samuel Barber, US composer (School for Scandal), dies at 70
1982 - Hope Hampton, actress (Star Dust, Lawful Larcency), dies at 83
1984 - Samuel Gardner, composer, dies at 92
1984 - Mu'in Bseiso, Palestinian poet (b. 1926)
1986 - Joseph Beuys, West German avant-garde artist/politician, dies at 64
1989 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan artist (b. 1904)
1990 - Albert Collins, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies of pneumonia at 57
1990 - Mariano Rumor, Italy's PM (1968-70, 73-1974), dies
1991 - Northrop Frye, Canadian writer and critic (b. 1912)
1992 - Freddie Bartholomew, child actor (Kidnapped), dies of emphysema at 67
1992 - Ian Wolfe, actor (Houdini, THX-1138, Homebodies), dies at 95
1992 - Simon Brand, South African banker/adviser to Pres De Klerk, dies
1993 - Dudley Stevens, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 57
1993 - Thomas A Dorsey, jazz pianist (Take My Hand, Precious Lord), dies
1994 - Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian marshal (Flight KAL 007), dies at 76
1994 - Oliver Smith, US set designer (Guys & Dolls-7 Tony Awards), dies at 75
1994 - Sherry Mathis, actress (Search for Tomorrow), dies of cancer at 44
1994 - Suzanne M Blum, French lawyer (Charlie Chaplin), dies at 95
1994 - Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
1995 - Harold Collett Dent, journalist/educationist, dies at 100
1995 - Ken Hill, playwright/director, dies at 57
1995 - Michael Whalley Wickham, artist, dies at 91
1995 - Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright, dies at 75
1996 - John Mackin, programmer, dies at 36
1996 - Norman MacCaig, poet, dies at 85
1996 - Shirley Carter Burden, patrician, dies at 54
1997 - Charles Craig, opera singer, dies at 77
1997 - David Waller, actor (Lady Jane, Perfect Friday, Hannay), dies at 76
1997 - Jeremy Stephen Maas, writer/art dealer, dies at 68
1997 - Laura "Dinky" Patterson, dies bungee jumping at Superbowl rehearsal at 43
1997 - Randy Greenawalt, convicted killer, executed by injection at 47
1997 - Richard Berry, lyricist (Louie Louie), dies at 61
1997 - Roger John Tayler, astrophysicist, dies at 67
1998 - Hilla Limann, president of Ghana in (1979-81), dies
1999 - Jay Pritzker, American businessman (b. 1922)
1999 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (b. 1949)
2002 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
2002 - Paul Aars, American racecar driver (b. 1934)
2002 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
2003 - Nell Carter, American singer and actress (b. 1948)
2004 - Bob Keeshan, American actor (b. 1927)
2004 - Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (b. 1920)
2005 - Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician (b. 1921)
2005 - Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)
2006 - Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (b. 1967)
2007 - E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (b. 1918)
2007 - Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1932)
2007 - Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian Politician (b. 1928)
2009 - Robert W. Scott, American politician, governor of North Carolina (b. 1929)
2011 - Jack LaLanne, American fitness and nutritional expert (b. 1914)
2012 - Anthony Capo, DeCavalcante crime family hitman and informant, dies from heart attack at 
           52/53

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This Day in History for 24th January


Historical Events

                                             
Russian Tsar Peter the Great                   Naturalist Charles Darwin                     Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini

                                             
Director Alfred Hitchcock                   Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco                     

                                             
Boxing Champ George Foreman                 Actress Whoopi Goldberg


41 - Claudius succeeds his nephew Caligula as Roman Emperor after his assassination by Praetorian Guards.
817 - St Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV
1076 - Synod of Worms: German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII
1118 - Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II
1458 - Matthias I Corvinus chosen king of Hungary
1534 - Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy
1556 - Heavy earthquake strikes Shaaxi China, kills 830,000
1568 - Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire
1568 - In Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw
1613 - Amsterdams merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized
1616 - Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver
1634 - Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor
1639 - Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders
1644 - Battle at Nantwich Cheshire: Parliamentary armies win
1652 - Duke of Orleans joins Fronde rebels
1656 - 1st Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland
1659 - Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe," premieres in Paris
1679 - King Charles II disbands English parliament
1722 - Czar Peter the Great begins civil system
1722 - Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st US divinity professor (Harvard)
1742 - German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor
1764 - Gov Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire
1776 - Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga.
1839 - Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society
1847 - 1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Col Price
1848 - James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, Calif
1857 - The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia.
1859 - Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler.
1861 - Arsenal at Augusta, Ga seized by Confederacy
1861 - Federal troops from Ft Monroe are sent to Ft Pikens
1862 - Romania principality arises under King Alexander Cuza
1862 - Bucharest proclaimed capital of Romania.
1874 - Gen J van Swieten conquerors Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die
1874 - Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St Petersburg
1875 - Camille Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre," premieres
1878 - The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
1892 - battle at Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack Brit missionaries
1899 - Belgium government of Vandenpeereboom forms
1899 - Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
1900 - Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900 - Newcastle Badminton Club, world's oldest, forms in England
1901 - 1st games played in baseball's American League
1901 - Emily Hobhouse view lord Kitcheners concentration camp at Bloemfontein
1902 - Denmark sells Virgin Islands to USA
1908 - Gen Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts
1913 - Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished
1914 - Opera "Madeleine," premieres in NYC
1915 - German-British sea battle at Doggersbank & Helgoland
1922 - -54°F (-48°C), Danbury, Wisconsin (state record)
1922 - Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo)
1922 - Lehman Caves National Monument established
1923 - Aztec Ruins National Monument, NM established
1924 - Benito Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union
1924 - Russian city of St Petersburg renamed Leningrad
1925 - Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Is
1925 - Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden
1927 - Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.
1930 - J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, NZ v England, Wellington
1930 - Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century
1933 - Noel Coward's "Design for Living," premieres in NYC
1935 - 1st canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co
1936 - Benny Goodman & orchestra record "Stompin' at the Savoy" on Victor Records
1936 - Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
1939 - 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile
1939 - Eddie Collins, Willie Keeler & George Sisler elected to Hall of Fame
1939 - Spanish government moves to Figueras
1941 - British troops march into Abyssinia
1942 - Musical "Star & Garter," premieres in NYC
1943 - Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death
1943 - Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau
1944 - Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy
1945 - Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg
1947 - NFL adds 5th official (back judge) & allows sudden death in playoffs
1948 - "Music in My Heart" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 124 perfs
1948 - Australia all out 674 v India (Bradman 201, Hassett 198*)
1948 - Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom & Democracy (VVD)
1950 - Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history
1951 - Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns
1952 - 1st NFL team in Texas, Dallas Texans formerly NY Yanks
1952 - Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base
1952 - Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
1954 - BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Don Carter
1954 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
1956 - 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record)
1958 - After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier
           atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion
1959 - "Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 38 perfs
1959 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's comedy "Cheryomushk," premieres in Moscow
1959 - WHCT TV channel 18 in Hartford, CT (IND) begins broadcasting
1960 - Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle
1961 - Edward Albee's "American Dream," premieres in NYC
1961 - Lazard Brothers Ltd draw a check for $334,867,807.68
1962 - 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany
1962 - Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles
1962 - Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1962 - Mickey Wright/Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1963 - Buddy Rogers & Lou Thesz wrestle in Toronto, Rogers becomes WWF wrestling champ &
           Thesz becomes NWA champ
1964 - CBS purchases 1964 & 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million
1964 - Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking
1964 - 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting rights could not be
           denied due to failure to pay taxes
1966 - WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 - Queen Juliana appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa
1969 - Spanish Gen Franco announces state of emergency
1970 - 3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana
1970 - Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec)
1971 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-6
1972 - WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
1972 - Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the
           end of World War II.
1973 - Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1975 - "Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV
1975 - Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England
1976 - Cleveland Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89)
1976 - George Foreman KOs Ron Lyle in 5th round of a real slugfest
1977 - 5 lawyers murdered by fascist in Madrid
1977 - Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy.
1978 - 31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo
1978 - Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (# 12036)
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques
1981 - Kim Hughes scores 213 v India at Adelaide
1982 - Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB
1982 - Superbowl XVI: SF 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 26-21 in Pontiac Mich
1983 - Hulk Hogan pins Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title
1984 - Apple Computer Inc unveils its revolutionary Macintosh personal computer
1985 - 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched
1986 - 43th Golden Globes: Whoopi Goldberg, Color Purple win
1986 - NY Islander Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point
1986 - South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president
1986 - Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons
1987 - 61st Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beat M Navratilova (75 76)
1988 - 1st WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan wins
1988 - 76th Australian Mens Tennis: M Wilander beats P Cash (63 67 36 61 86)
1988 - 9th ACE Cable Awards
1988 - Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win Cricket's World Series Cup
1988 - Cerebral Palsy telethon
1989 - 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex
1990 - Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
1991 - "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre St Denis, Montreal
1993 - 14th annual star-athon $24,000,000
1993 - Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed
1993 - Soyuz TM-16 launches
1993 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
1993 - Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
1994 - Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48)
2003 - The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
2009 - Pope Benedict XVI rescinds the excommunications of four bishops consecrated without papal
           consent in 1988 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
2011 - At least 35 died and 180 injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport.

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This Day in History for 24th January


Famous Weddings

1328 - King Edward III of England marries Philippa of Henegouwen
1978 - Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in
           the history of the Republic of Ireland.
2004 - "Married ... With Children" actor David Faustino (33) weds actress Andrea Elmer (31) at the
            Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada