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This Day in History for 7th January


Famous Divorces

1985 - Actress-singer Janet Jackson (18) divorces fellow R&B singer James DeBarge (21) only 4
           months after getting married

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This Day in History for 7th January


Famous Birthdays

                                               
13th US President                                   Writer & Filmmaker William                      Actor Nicolas Cage (1964)
 Millard Fillmore (1800)                             Peter Blatty (1928)

1355 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)
1502 - Gregory XIII [Ugo Boncompagni], Bologna, Papal States, Italian pope (1572-85), introduced Gregorian calendar in 1582
1528 - Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra/mother of French King Henry IV
1539 - Sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish lexicographer
1611 - James Harrington, England, political author (Commonwealth of Oceans)
1612 - Paul de La Pierre, composer
1634 - Adam Krieger, German composer
1647 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
1652 - Pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer/historian
1653 - Bernhard Albinus, Germany, court-physician (Frederick of Prussia)
1685 - Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company
1685 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
1706 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
1710 - Josef Antonin Sehling, composer
1718 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
1768 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844)
1786 - John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1865)
1796 - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817)
1799 - Daniel Tyler, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1800 - Millard Fillmore, Locke NY, (Whig) 13th president (1850-53)
1808 - Jacob Ammen, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1816 - Stephen Miller, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
1821 - Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brigadier General (Confed Army), died in 1891
1822 - Lucius C M Bakker, Frisian physician/author (Goethe)
1822 - Theodor Aufrecht, German indologist (Rigveda's Hymns)
1824 - James Morrison Hawes, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1827 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
1830 - (Samuel) Emerson Opdycke, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1830 - Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter (US landscapes)
1832 - James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
1834 - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
1842 - Johan Lindegren, composer
1844 - Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, [St Bernadette of Lourdes], saint/visionary
1845 - Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18)
1845 - Paul Deusen, German philosopher (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft)
1853 - Nikolai Arkas, composer
1858 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
1860 - Emanuil Mandlov, composer
1868 - Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist
1870 - Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943)
1871 - Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
1873 - Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive (Paramount)
1875 - Thomas Hicks, English/US marathon runner: (Olympic-gold-1904)
1875 - Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
1876 - William Yeates Hurlstone, composer
1877 - Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer (1 great dog)
1879 - St Bernadette (Marie-Bernarde Soubirous), 1844(?), religious visionary
1883 - Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (WW II)
1890 - Henny Porten, Magdeburg Germany, silent screen star (Deception)
1890 - Maurice E McLoughlin, tennis champ (US Open-1912)
1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960)
1892 - Rudolf Moser, composer
1894 - Jose Rozo Contreras, composer
1895 - Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist
1895 - Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
1895 - Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of QANTAS (d. 1974)
1896 - Arnold Ridley, Bath England, actor/dramatist (The Ghost Train)
1898 - Art Baker, NYC, TV host (You Asked For It)
1898 - Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer
1898 - Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)
1899 - Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches)
1899 - Kenneth Thomson, Pitts, actor (Broadway Melody, Little Giant)
1900 - John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969)
1903 - Alan Napier, Birmingham England, actor (Alfred-Batman)
1903 - Albrecht Haushofer, writer
1903 - Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer
1903 - Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, composer
1905 - Francis Taylor, builder
1907 - Nicanor Zabaleta, San Sebastian, Spain, harpist
1908 - Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967)
1910 - Alain JG de Rothschild, France, banker/baron
1910 - Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
1910 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. 1984)
1910 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
1911 - Merv Waite, cricketer (S Australian all-rounder)
1912 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (New Yorker, Addams Family)
1912 - Günter Wand, German conductor, composer (d. 2002)
1913 - Francis De Wolff, England, actor (From Russia With Love)
1913 - Shirley Ross, Omaha NE, actress (Cafe Society, Prison Farm)
1913 - Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1915 - Herman Musaph, Dutch psychiatrist/sexologist/founder (NVSH)
1916 - Gerrit Schulte, [Le Fou Pedalant], Dutch 6 day bicyclist
1916 - Paul Keres, USSR, chess grandmaster (1950)
1917 - Ulysses Sipmson Kay, composer
1918 - Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader (Communist Party)
1918 - Colin Snedden, cricketer (Test NZ v England 1947, 0-46, did not bat)
1920 - Albert Meltzer, anarchist
1920 - Aubrey Brabazon, jockey/trainer
1920 - Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer/Industrialist
1921 - John Lanigan, tenor
1922 - Jean-Pierre [Louis] Rampal, Marseilles France, flautist
1922 - Vincent Gardenia, Naples Italy, actor (All in the Family, LA Law)
1923 - Charles Russell Woolen, composer
1923 - Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
1924 - Roloff Beny, Alberta, painter/photographer (A Time of Gods)
1924 - Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (d. 1966)
1925 - Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Britain, zoologist/writer (Mockery Bird)
1928 - Rajindranath, cricketer (4 stumpings in his only Test for India)
1928 - William Peter Blatty, NYC, author/director (The Exorcist)
1929 - Douglas Kiker, NBC newsman (1970 Peabody Award)
1929 - Kenneth Henry, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1952)
1929 - Terry Moore, [Helen Luella Koford], LA Cal, actress (Little Sheba)
1931 - Mack Mattingly, (Sen-R-GA, 1981-86)
1932 - Joe Berinson, Australian politician
1933 - Elliot Kastner, NYC, producer (Bobo, Big Sleep, Ffolkes)
1934 - Charles Lamont Jenkins, NYC, 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1956)
1934 - Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
1935 - Noam Sheriff, composer
1935 - Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 19, 36/35)
1935 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)
1935 - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006)
1936 - Eldee Young, US bassist (Young Holt Unlimited-Hang on Sloopy)
1936 - Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer
1938 - Jasperina de Jong, Dutch cabaret performer (Jan Rao en z'n Maat)
1938 - Paul Revere, Harvard Nebraska, pianist (Paul Revere & Raiders)
1938 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
1939 - David Buchan, ethno-musicologist
1939 - Tom Kierman, British(?) rugby player
1939 - Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
1940 - William Elgin Swinton, child psychiatrist
1941 - Ann Susan Hills, freelance journalist
1941 - Frederick Drew Gregory, Wash DC, Col USAF/astro (STS 51-B, 33, 44)
1941 - Robert Hicks, rocker (Paul Butterfield Blues Band)
1941 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
1941 - John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Vasiliy Ivanovich Alekseyev, USSR, weightlifter (Olympic-gold-72, 76)
1943 - Jim Lefebvre, Hawthorne California, baseball manager (Seattle Mariners)
1943 - Leona Williams, singer/songwriter (Ladies Get the Blues)
1943 - Nicholas Warner, test Pilot
1943 - Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955)
1943 - Sir Richard Armstrong, British conductor
1944 - Ad [GB] Nijhuis, Dutch MP (VVD)
1944 - Mike McGear, Liverpool, singer (Paul McCartney's brother)
1944 - Arne Scheie, Norwegian sports commentator
1944 - Tony Whitlam, Australian judge
1945 - Tony Conigliaro, Mass, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1945 - Dick Marty, Swiss politician
1945 - Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya
1946 - Andy Brown, rock drummer (Fortunes Birmingham)
1946 - Jann S Wenner, publisher (Rolling Stone)
1947 - David Porcelijn, Dutch composer/conductor
1947 - Shobha De, Indian writer
1948 - Kaz Lux, Poland/Netherland, singer
1948 - Kenny Loggins, Everett WA, singer (& Messina-This is it, Footloose)
1949 - John Christopher Parry, rocker (Cure)
1949 - Marshall Chapman, Spartanburg SC, country singer
1949 - Anne Schedeen, American actress
1950 - Erin Gray, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Silver Spoons, Buck Rogers)
1950 - Ross Grimsley, American baseball player
1950 - Johnny Lever, Indian actor
1951 - Talgat Amangeldyyevich Musabayev, Russian mjr/cosmonaut (TM-19, TM-27)
1951 - Mike Ward, Democratic Congressman for Kentucky & radio talk show host
1952 - Giuliano Ferrara
1953 - Agha Zahid, cricketer (open batting for Pak v WI 1975, scored 14 & 1)
1953 - Earl Wilber Force "Wire" Lindo, rocker (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
1954 - Alan Butcher, cricketer (one Test England v India, scored 14 & 20)
1955 - Sandra Bernhard, Arizona (Follow That Bird, King of Comedy)
1956 - Robin Walton, Boise ID, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Heartland Classic-15th)
1956 - Rosalyn Bryant, Chic Ill, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1976)
1957 - Katie Couric, [Katherine], Arlington VA, TV news host (Today)
1957 - Kristen Meadows, actress (Santa Barbara)
1957 - Nicholson Baker, American novelist
1957 - Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
1957 - Reena Roy, Indian actress
1958 - Donna Rice, New Orleans La, model/Gary Hart's lover
1958 - Peter R Mokaba, president (South African Youth Congress)
1959 - Kathy Valentine, rocker (Go-Go's-We Got the Beat)
1960 - David Marciano, Newark NJ, actor (Det Ray Vecchio-Due South)
1960 - Tierre Turner, Detroit Mich, actor (Waverly Wonders, Cop & the Kid)
1960 - Loretta Sanchez, American politician
1961 - Andrew Thomson, Australian politician
1961 - Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
1961 - John Thune, American politician
1962 - Hallie Todd, actress (Check is in the Mail)
1962 - Jeff Montgomery, Wellston OH, pitcher (KC Royals)
1962 - Aleksandr Dugin, Russian politician
1963 - Craig Shipley, Australian/US baseball infielder (San Diego Padres)
1963 - Clint Mansell, English musician and composer
1964 - Francisco Maciel, Mexico, tennis star
1964 - Nicolas Cage, [Coppola], actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon)
1965 - Mark Rushmere, cricketer (S Afr opening bat in comeback Test 1992)
1966 - Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, model/wife of John Kennedy Jr
1966 - Jennifer Luff, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1966 - Randy Burridge, Fort Erie, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1966 - Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer
1966 - Corrie Sanders, Pretoria, South Africa, boxer, ( WBO heavyweight champion, 2003), (d. 2012)
1967 - Guy Hebert, Troy, NHL goalie (Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Team USA 98)
1967 - Scott Galbraith, NFL tight end (Washington Redskins, Dallas Cowboys)
1967 - Mark Lamarr, British comedian and broadcaster
1968 - Michael Rosati, hockey goaltender (Team Italy 1998)
1968 - Nathaniel Bolton, WLAF running back (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Chris Hatcher, US baseball outfielder (Houston Astros)
1969 - Doug E Doug, actor (Cosby)
1969 - Erric Pegram, NFL running back (Pit Steelers, NY Giants, San Diego Chargers)
1969 - Todd Kinchen, NFL wide receiver (St Louis Rams, Atlanta Falcons)
1969 - David Yost, American actor
1970 - Darryl Williams, NFL safety (Seattle Seahawks, Cin Bengals)
1970 - Frank "Cliff" Mannon, Amarillo TX, team handball (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Paul McCallum, CFL/WLAF kicker/punter (Claymores, Sask Roughriders)
1970 - Todd Day, NBA guard/forward (Boston Celtics)
1970 - Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer
1971 - Bobby Hamilton, NFL/WLAF defensive end (Amsterdam Admirals, NY Jets)
1971 - Masato Itai, WLAF wide receiver (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Todd Yeaman, NFL defensive tackle (NY Giants)
1971 - C.W. Anderson, American professional wrestler
1971 - Tina Anderson, American comic book writer
1972 - Aaron John Mcintosh, Auckland NZ, sailboard yachter (Olympics-96)
1972 - Chuck Levy, kick returner/running back (SF 49ers)
1972 - Donald Brashear, Bedford, NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1973 - Bobby Engram, wide receiver (Chicago Bears)
1973 - Brian Milne, fullback (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 - Ricky Wood, Van Nuys California, diver (Olympics-96)
1973 - Robert Dunn, Glenn Cove NY, team handball left wing (Olympics-1996)
1973 - Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer
1974 - Jennifer LeRoy, Craig CO, playmate (Feb, 1993)
1975 - Robert Norman Waddell, Cambridge NZ, Single scull rower (Olympics-96)
1976 - Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
1976 - Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
1977 - Dustin Diamond, San Jose California, actor (Screech-Saved By Bell)
1977 - Michelle Behennah, British model
1977 - John Gidding, American architect and TV host (Designed to Sell)
1978 - Kevin Mench, American baseball player
1979 - Bipasha Basu, Indian model
1979 - Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model
1979 - Ryan Tedder, American singer
1981 - Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
1982 - Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player
1982 - Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
1982 - Ianina Zanazzi, Argentine racing driver
1983 - Liesbeth Mouha, Belgian beach volleyball player
1983 - Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
1984 - Jon Lester, American baseball player
1985 - Lewis Hamilton, English F1 racing driver
1986 - Grant Leadbitter, English footballer
1988 - Scott Pendlebury, Australian rules footballer
1988 - Haley Bennett, American Singer and Actress
1988 - Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
1989 - Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
1990 - Liam Aiken, American actor
1990 - Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
1990 - Camryn Grimes, American actress
1990 - Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian skijumper
1991 - Max Morrow, Canadian actor
1996 - Abbey Speakman, England, born 19 days after her twin sister

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This Day in History for 7th January


Famous Deaths

                             
Spanish Princess/Wife of Henry VIII
    Catherine of Aragon (1536)


312 - Lucianus of Antioch, theologist/saint, dies
1130 - Baldricus Burgoliensis, French historian/archbishop, dies at about 83
1285 - Charles I of Anjou, king of Naples/bro of King Louis IX, dies at 58
1325 - Dionysius, the justified, King of Portugal (1279-1325), dies
1400 - Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
1451 - Amadeus VIII, last anti-pope Felix V (1439-49), dies at 67
1529 - Peter Vischer, the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies
1536 - Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies at 50
1537 - Alessandro de' Medici, Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated
1566 - Ludovicus Blosius, [Louis de Blois "Dacrianus"], wrtier, dies
1590 - Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61
1591 - Jacobus de Kerle, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 59
1598 - Feodor I/Theodorus I, czar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40
1619 - Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (bc. 1547)
1625 - Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (bc. 1560)
1655 - Pope Innocent X (Giambattista Pamfili), Reigned 1644-55, dies at 80
1658 - Theophilus Eaton, American colonist (b. 1590)
1678 - Johannes Flittner, composer, dies at 59
1694 - Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (bc. 1618)
1695 - Mary II Stuart, queen of England, dies at 32 [OS=Dec 28 1694]
1700 - Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
1715 - François Fénelon, French-Catholic theologian and writer (b. 1651)
1721 - Rochus Aerts, Flemish sculptor, dies [or 1739]
1722 - Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet, dies at 60
1736 - Ceslav Vanura, composer, dies at 41
1755 - Gallus Zeiler, composer, dies at 49
1758 - Allan Ramsay Sr, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71
1767 - Thomas Clap, 1st president of Yale University (b. 1703)
1770 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
1783 - William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
1786 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
1790 - Antonio Corbisiero, composer, dies at 69
1810 - Joseph Lipavsky, composer, dies at 37
1830 - Infanta Carlota Joaquina, daughter of Charles IV of Spain and wife of John VI of Portugal, dies at 53
1830 - Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
1833 - Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer, dies at 55
1843 - Franz Schoberlechner, composer, dies at 45
1858 - Willem Broes, vicar/theologist (Textenrol), dies at 91
1864 - Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
1868 - William Batchelder Bradbury, composer, dies at 51
1870 - Karl Schwencke, composer, dies at 72
1872 - James Fisk, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)
1876 - Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
1878 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
1887 - Abraham I van Lier, Dutch actor/director (Gran Theatre), dies at 74
1890 - Augusta Maria L Katharina, wife of Germ emperor Wilhelm I, dies at 78
1890 - Hans Matthison-Hansen, composer, dies at 82
1891 - Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer, dies at 79
1892 - Tewfik Pasja, viceroy of Egypt, dies at 39
1893 - Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
1907 - Anton Urspruch, composer, dies at 56
1913 - Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866)
1920 - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
1921 - Benno Erdmann, German philosopher (Logik I), dies at 69
1922 - Antonio Scontrino, composer, dies at 71
1929 - Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77
1932 - Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (Bright Paradise), dies at 60
1936 - Howard Francis, cricketer (2 Tests S Af v Eng 1898-99, 39 runs), dies
1936 - Guy d'Hardelot, French composer, best known for Because (b. 1858)
1942 - Henry, Count of Baillet-Latour, pres of IOC (1925-42), dies at 63
1943 - Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86
1944 - J Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1944 - Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady (b. 1874)
1944 - Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888)
1946 - Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (b. 1874)
1948 - Raoul Auernheimer, writer, dies
1951 - Johanna C H "Nelly" Bodenheim, painter (Luilekkerland), dies at 76
1951 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
1953 - Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
1955 - Gerald Hartigan, cricketer (S Afr batsman in 5 Tests 1911-14), dies
1957 - Al White, choreographer (NBC Comedy Hour), dies
1958 - Petru Groza, premier/president (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74
1960 - Luis da Costa, composer, dies at 80
1960 - Dorothea Douglass Chambers (aka Katharine Lambert Chambers), UK tennis player (b. 1878)
1961 - Clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Association, dies at 74
1963 - Arthur Moore, Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
1964 - Colin C McPhee, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles), dies at 62
1964 - Cyril Davies, American musician (b. 1932)
1967 - Carl Schuricht, composer, dies at 86
1967 - Sid Emery, cricket leg-spinner (NSW & Aus, 5 wkt in 1912 series), dies
1967 - David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
1968 - Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)
1970 - Robert [Harriot] Barrat, actor (Bad Lands, Go West), dies at 81
1971 - Dick Kollmar, actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What), dies at 60
1971 - Madame Spivy [LeVoe], actress (All Fall Down), dies at 64
1972 - Clarence Passailaigue, cricketer (487 for 6th wkt for Jamaica), dies
1972 - John Berryman, US poet (Imaginary Jew), dies
1972 - Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek lyricist
1979 - Zbigniew Turski, composer, dies at 70
1980 - Carl White, rocker, dies
1980 - Sarah Selby, actress (Tower of London), dies at 74
1981 - Jose Ardevol, composer, dies at 69
1981 - Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (b. 1908)
1981 - Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
1982 - Bert Oosterhuis, Dutch motor racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in race crash
1983 - August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79
1984 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1985 - Johnny Guarnieri, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show), dies at 67
1985 - Mary Hardy, Australian radio and television presenter (b. 1931)
1986 - Juan Rulfo, writer, dies
1986 - M Rooi, editor-in-chief (New Rotterdam Daily), dies at 79
1986 - Philip D. Eastman, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1909)
1987 - Larry Carr, pianist (Flight to Rhythm), dies at 72
1988 - Trevor Howard, actor (Ryan's Daughter), dies of bronchitis at 71
1988 - Michel Auclair, French actor (b. 1922)
1990 - Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at 81
1990 - Gail Lucas, entertainer, dies
1990 - Horace Stoneham, baseball owner (Giants), dies at 86
1990 - Joseph Robbie, lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73
1991 - Joe Hicks, baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64
1992 - Jhean Burton, entertainer, dies
1992 - Richard Hunt, puppeteer/actor (Muppet Movie), dies of AIDS at 40
1993 - Richard Branda, actor (2 Minute Warning), dies of colon cancer at 57
1994 - Bobby Pratt, jazz Trombone/Piano Player, dies at 67
1994 - Jay Blackton, broadway Conductor (Oklahoma!), dies at 84
1994 - Lewis Boddington, aerospace Engineer, dies at 85
1994 - Lynn Blessing, vibes Player, dies at 65
1994 - Phoumi Vongvichit, pres of Laos (1986-91), dies
1994 - Vittorio Mezzogiorno, actor (Cafe Express), dies of heart failure 52
1995 - Arthur Leavins, violinist, dies at 77
1995 - Harry Golombek, chess Grandmaster, dies at 83
1995 - Larry Grayson, British entertainer (Generation Game), dies at 65 or 71
1995 - Viktor Vorobyov, Russian general-major, dies in battle
1995 - William Larry White Grayson, comedian, dies at 71
1995 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
1996 - James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser, dies at 90
1996 - Karoly Grosz, PM of Hungry (1987-88), dies at 65
1996 - Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist, dies at 88
1996 - Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, archaeologist, dies at 93
1996 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (b. 1911)
1997 - Desmond Flower, publisher, dies at 89
1997 - Sandor Vegh, violinist teacher/conductor, dies at 84
1998 - Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
2000 - Gary Albright, American professional wrestler (b. 1963)
2002 - Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
2002 - Jon Lee, Welsh musician (Feeder) (b. 1968)
2004 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
2005 - Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913)
2005 - Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
2006 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
2007 - Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic-born television presenter (b. 1929)
2007 - Bobby Hamilton, NASCAR team owner (b. 1957)
2008 - Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917)
2010 - Willie Mitchell, American soul singer (b. 1928)
2011 - Derek Gardner, British Formula 1 car designer (b. 1931)
2012 - Ibrahim Aslan, Egyptian author, dies from heart failure at 77

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 8th January


Historical Events

                                               
13th US President                                   Military Leader George Marshall              Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley
 George Washington 

                                               
36th US President                                   French President Georges Pompidou             
 Lyndon B Johnson                           

                                               
US President                                           Comedienne/Actor Roseanne             
 George H. W. Bush


624 - Battle of Badr, Muslim forces defeats Meccan Caravan
794 - Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island
871 - Battle at Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
1198 - Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III
1214 - Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France
1297 - Monaco gains its independence.
1558 - French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais
1598 - Jews are expelled from Genoa, Italy
1656 - Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)
1675 - 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)
1705 - George F Handel's 1st opera "Almira," premieres in Hamburg
1716 - Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested
1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1745 - England, Austria, Neth & Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling [NS=Jan 19]
1760 - Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth
1790 - 1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address
1798 - 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed
1800 - Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi
1800 - Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France
1806 - Cape colony becomes English colony
1806 - Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon
1811 - Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes at German Coast
1815 - Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew
1833 - Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established
1835 - The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time.
1838 - 1st telegraph message sent using dots & dashes (NJ)
1838 - Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out
1842 - Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft
1848 - Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia
1853 - 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Wash
1856 - Dr John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, Calif
1857 - Dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in NYC
1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
1867 - Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto
1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
1870 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins
1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf
           Mountain (Montana Territory).
1878 - Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent & Henry Morton Stanley
1884 - Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz
1889 - Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a mechanical tabulating machine
1894 - Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire
1897 - Michael Eagan wins 1st US national amateur handball championship
1901 - NSW score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes
1902 - 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)
1904 - Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen
1906 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River,
           kills 20 people.
1912 - The African National Congress is founded.
1913 - Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager
1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.
1917 - Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy
1918 - Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition)
1918 - Pres Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I
1923 - Typography strike in Amsterdam
1925 - 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas
1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia
1929 - 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies
1929 - CBS radio network buys WABC in NYC
1931 - Phila Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses
1932 - Ratification of present SF City Charter
1934 - Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam
1935 - Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
1937 - -50°F (-45.6°C), San Jacinto, Nevada (state record)
1938 - Bradman scores 107 for South Australia v Qld (1st innings)
1940 - Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar)
1940 - World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
1941 - British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns
1945 - "Youth for Christ" organizes
1947 - Gen George Marshall becomes Sect of State
1947 - Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game
1948 - Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason
1949 - "Make Mine Manhattan" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 429 perfs
1949 - "My Romance" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 95 performances
1949 - "Small Wonder" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 134 performances
1951 - Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda
1952 - Jordan adopts constitution
1953 - Indians bar night games with Browns (who refuse to share TV receipts)
1953 - René Mayer forms French government
1954 - Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll
           Never Stand in Your Way"
1955 - Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt
1955 - Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak
1955 - Louise Sugg wins LPGA LA Golf Open
1955 - WUNC TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken
1956 - Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 & stays #1 for a record 11
           weeks (for a single)
1956 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after
           making contact with them.
1958 - Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
1959 - Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as pres of France's 5th Republic
1961 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters
1962 - Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Neth)
1962 - Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th
1963 - "Mona Lisa," on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art
1963 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' Katharina Ismailova, premieres in Riga
1964 - European Parliament accept Mansholt Plan
1964 - President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"
1965 - Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the American natonal flower
           (doesn't pass)
1965 - Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History
1966 - Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1966 - Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
1966 - Georges Pompidou appointed French premier
1966 - Who & the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC
1968 - Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on US network TV
1971 - 29 pilot whales beach themselves & die at San Clemente Island, Calif
1971 - Voyageurs National Park, Minn established
1972 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1972 - NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall
1973 - "Tricks" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 8 performances
1973 - Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 v Pakistan at SCG
1973 - Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris
1973 - USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing
1974 - E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in NYC
1974 - Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London
1974 - Loch Ness Monster photographed
1974 - Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York
1975 - Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart
           Magruder from prison
1976 - Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles
1978 - Israeli government votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai
1979 - 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up
1979 - Argentina & Chile sign Beagle Canal accord
1979 - Today Show gets a new theme song
1979 - Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh
1980 - Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0
1980 - NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports
1981 - "Pirates of Penzance" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 772 performances
1981 - India all out 63 in one-day international v Australia
1981 - Reds become last team to sign a free agent (Larry Biitner)
1982 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies
1982 - Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville Tennessee
1982 - Justice Dept withdraws antitrust suit against IBM, pending since
1984 - NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams
1984 - Wash Caps Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Phila 7-1
1985 - Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet
1986 - Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year
1987 - Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)
1987 - Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1988 - 9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit
1988 - Dow Jones down 140.58 points
1988 - Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator
1988 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
1989 - "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 perfs
1989 - "Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 761 perfs
1989 - Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die
1989 - Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
1991 - "Davis Rules," with Jonathan Winters & Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV
1991 - Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins & Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame
1991 - Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try
1991 - Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36)
1992 - George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap
1993 - Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point
1993 - Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale
1993 - Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point
1993 - NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman
1994 - Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1:51.60)
1994 - Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit
1994 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
1995 - "Guys & Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1143 perfs
1995 - 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000
1995 - Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1996 - Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths
1996 - For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1998 - NY Giant GM George Young resigns to accept NFL position
1998 - Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas
1998 - Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer
1998 - World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life
2002 - President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
2004 - The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her
            namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
2006 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake with its epicenter just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much
           of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.
2008 - New Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so.
2009 - A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit Costa Rica´s region of Volcan Poás, with an epicenter near
           Cinchona. It was caused by Varablanca-Angel fault.
2011 - Attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent
           shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 and wounds 13,
            including Giffords

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This Day in History for 8th January


Famous Weddings

1930 - Belgium Princess Marie-Jose marries Italian's crown prince Umberto
2005 - Rapper and actor Nas (32) weds R&B singer Kelis (25) at Morningside Baptist Church in Atlanta,
           Georgia

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This Day in History for 8th January


Famous Divorces

1499 - Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the
            crown
1998 - Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas

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This Day in History for 8th January


Famous Birthdays

                                               
Confederate General                                R&B Singer R Kelly (1969)              Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley (1935)
James Longstreet (1821)                           


1081 - Henry V, Roman German king/emperor (1098/1111-25)
1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch bishop/theologist
1587 - Johannes Fabricius, Denmark, astronomer (discovered sunspots)
1589 - Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic, Dalmatisch writer (Dubravka)
1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
1628 - Francois de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxemburg, French soldier
1632 - Samuel, Freiherr von Pufendorf, German jurist
1635 - Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop (d. 1709)
1658 - Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor (Descente de Croix)
1668 - Jean Gilles, composer
1735 - John Carroll, American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)
1763 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat (d. 1834)
1767 - Abraham de Veer, Dutch governor-general of Suriname (1822-28)
1777 - Filippo Traetta, Italy, composer/musicologist
1779 - John White, composer
1786 - Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd bank of US 1st effective central bank
1787 - Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer
1788 - Erik Drake, composer
1788 - Archduke Rudolph of Austria (d. 1831)
1788 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
1791 - Jacob Collamer, (Sen-Vt)
1792 - Lowell Mason, Medfield Mass, organist/composer (Zebulo)
1805 - John Bigler, American politician (d. 1871)
1805 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
1812 - Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer
1812 - William Henry Holmes, composer
1814 - Johannes Kneppelhout, [Klikspaan], Dutch humorist
1814 - Thomas Green, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1815 - George Webb Morell, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1815 - Lawrence Pike Graham, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1817 - John Selden Roane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
1817 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893)
1821 - James Longstreet, Confederate general (1st Corps, ANV)
1822 - Alfredo Carlo Piatti, composer
1823 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British zoologist/co-discoverer (evolution)
1824 - Per August Olander, composer
1824 - William Wilkie Collins, English novelist (Woman in White)
1824 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)
1830 - Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Major Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1830 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894)
1836 - Fannie M Jackson, pioneer & educator, 1st US Black woman college grad
1836 - Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter/husband of Laura Epps
1843 - Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929)
1843 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926)
1846 - Albert Cahen, composer
1846 - William Wallace Gilchrist, composer
1852 - James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)
1860 - Nancy Jones, US black missionary in Africa
1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co)
1864 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)
1866 - William G. Conley, American politician (d. 1940)
1867 - Emily Green Balch, US, sociologist/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1946)
1868 - Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera Orbaneja, dictator of Spain (1923-30)
1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)
1873 - Lucien Capet, composer
1873 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953)
1873 - Elena of Montenegro, queen of Italy (d. 1956)
1881 - Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
1883 - Josue Teofilo Wilkes, composer
1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)
1885 - John Curtin, Victoria, Australian PM (Labor, 1941-45)
1885 - A. J. Muste, Dutch pacifist and activist (d. 1967)
1886 - Noble Drew Ali, [Timothy Drew], NC, prophet (Moorish Science Temple)
1888 - Matt Moore, County Meath Ireland, actor (Coquette, Deluge)
1888 - Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972)
1888 - Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960)
1889 - Paul Hartmann, Furth Germany, actor (Haunted Castle)
1890 - Sandor Rado, Hungarian/US psycho analyst
1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, ballet choreographer
1891 - Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954)
1891 - Storm Jameson, English writer (d. 1986)
1892 - Werner Wehrli, composer
1894 - St Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (d. 1941)
1896 - Jaromir Weinberger, Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Bird's Opera)
1896 - Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chile, writer (Men of the South)
1896 - Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971)
1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)
1899 - Solomon WRD Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon (1956-59)
1900 - Queen Marie, of Yugoslavia
1901 - Edmond Vandercammen, French/Belgian writer (L'amour responsable)
1902 - Alexander Gray, Wrightsville Pa, actor (This is Music)
1902 - Carl R[ansom] Rogers, US, psychologist (Client-Centered Therapy)
1902 - Georgy M Malenkov, Stalin's successor as head of CPSU, PM (1953-55)
1902 - Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreography (Silent Song)
1903 - Gene Roth, [Eugene Stutenroth], SD, actor (She Demons, Spider)
1904 - Peter Arno, NYC, cartoonist (New Yorker)
1904 - Karl Brandt, Alsacian Nazi war criminal (d. 1948)
1905 - Carl Gustav Hempel, German Logical Positivist philosopher
1905 - Giacinto Scelsi, composer
1906 - Jan A H J S Bruins Slot, Dutch founder illegal Trouw/MP (ARP)
1906 - Serge Poliakoff, Russian/French painter/guitarist
1908 - (Fearless) Mary Nadia Wadia, actress
1908 - William Hartnell, London England, actor (Agitator, Jackpot)
1909 - Bruce Mitchell, cricketer (South African bat, their top run-scorer (3471))
1909 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
1909 - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)
1910 - Richard Cromwell, [LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh], LA California, actor (Jezebel)
1910 - Galina Ulanova, St Petersburg Russia, ballerina (Bolshoi)
1911 - Andrej Ocenas, composer
1911 - Butterfly McQueen, [Thelma], Tampa Fla, actress (Gone With the Wind)
1912 - José Ferrer, San Juan Puerto Rico, actor/director (Blood Tide, Dune)
1912 - Rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer (True Face of Peace)
1913 - Horace Smith, cricketer (NZ, only Test wkt off his 1st ball (Paynter))
1914 - Charles Borromeo Mills, composer
1915 - Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991)
1917 - Peter Taylor, US writer
1917 - Stanley Prager, NYC, comedian (College Bowl)
1920 - Hendrikus J Wittebold, civil servant/resistance fighter
1921 - Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard
1922 - Abbey Simon, NYC, pianist
1923 - Giorgio Tozzi, Chicago Illinois, basso
1923 - Iva Michiels, [Rik Ceuppens], Flemish writer (Ksiega Alfa)
1923 - Johnny Wardle, cricketer (Yorkshire & England left-arm bowler of 50's)
1923 - Joseph Wiezenbaum, artificial intelligence pioneer
1923 - Larry Storch, NYC, comedian (F Troop, Larry Storch Show)
1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (d. 2008)
1924 - Antai Ribari, composer
1924 - Benjamin Lees, [Lysniansky], Harbin Manchuria, composer
1924 - Robert Starer, Vienna Austria, composer
1924 - Ron Moody, London England, actor (12 Chairs, Wrong is Right)
1925 - James Saunders, English chemist/playwright (Ark)
1925 - Helmuth Hubener, German activist (d. 1942)
1926 - Evelyn Lear, [Shulman], Brooklyn, NY, soprano, (d. 2012)
1926 - Jani Christou, composer
1926 - Soupy Sales, [Milton Hines], NC, comedian (Soupy Sales Show)
1926 - Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer (d. 2004)
1927 - Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator
1928 - Sander Vanocur, Cleve Ohio, news anchor (NBC Weekend News)
1928 - Gaston Miron, Quebec poet and editor (d. 1996)
1929 - Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor
1930 - Doreen Wilber, US, archer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1931 - Bill Graham, Germany, rock promoter (Fillmore)
1931 - May Wynn, [Donna Lee Hickey], NYC, actress (Caine Mutiny, Noah's Ark)
1933 - Charles Osgood, NYC, news anchor (CBS Weekend News)
1933 - Jean-Marie Straub, France, director (Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach)
1933 - Ko Un, Korean poet
1934 - Jacques Anquetil, France, Tour de France bicycle racer (5-time winner)
1934 - Michael Grierson Jarrett, archaeologist
1934 - Piet Dankert, Dutch politician (PvdA)
1934 - Roy Kinnear, Lancashire England, actor (TW3, Help!, The 3 Musketeers)
1934 - Gene Freese, American baseball player
1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
1935 - Elvis Aaron Presley, Tupelo Miss, singer (Blue Suede Shoes, Hounddog)
1935 - Jesse Garon Presley, stillborn twin brother of Elvis
1935 - Nolan Miller, Burkburnett Tx, fashion designer (Dynasty, Love Boat)
1935 - Ian Bargh, Prestwick, Scotland, Canadian jazz pianist and composer (d.2012)
1936 - Ferdinand Hartzenberg, South African minister of Education (1979-82)
1936 - Zdeněk Mácal, Czech conductor
1936 - Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-born British scientist
1937 - Robert Moran, composer
1937 - Shirley Bassey, Cardiff Wales, singer (Goldfinger, Moonraker)
1938 - Bob Eubanks, Flint Mich, TV host (Newlywed Game)
1940 - Anthony Gaurdine, (Little Anthony & Imperials-Goin Out of My Head)
1940 - Cristy Lane, US, country/gospel singer
1940 - Little Anthony [Gourdine], rocker (& Imperials)
1941 - Graham Chapman, England, comedian (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
1941 - Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator
1942 - John Peterson, rocker
1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes)
1942 - Vyacheslav Dmitriyevich Zudov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician
1942 - Yvette Mimieux, Los Angeles California, American actress (Time Machine, Where the Boys Are)
1943 - Lee Jackson, rocker (Nice)
1943 - Marcus Hutson, rock vocalist (Whispers)
1944 - Terry Brooks, US, sci-fi author (Sword of Shannara)
1945 - John Peters, rock drummer (Harpers Bizarre)
1945 - Terry Sylvester, rocker (Hollies)
1946 - Elaine Cheris, Dotham Al, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1946 - Kathleen Noone, actress (All My Children, Party of 5, Knots Landing)
1946 - Robby Krieger, Los Angeles, California, American guitarist (Doors-Light My Fire)
1946 - Tod Brannan, VP (Logos Network Corp)
1947 - David Bowie, [Jones], London, singer/actor (Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust)
1947 - Igor Ivanov, Leningrad, Canadian chess champion (1981-84, 1985- )
1947 - Terry Sylvester, rocker (Hollies-You are the Air that I Breathe)
1947 - Don Bendell, American author & karate master
1947 - Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician
1948 - Gillies Mackinnon, director (Playboys)
1948 - Mel Pritchard, rocker
1949 - Lawrence Rowe, cricketer (prolific WI batsman, 302 v Eng 1974)
1951 - John McTiernan, Albany NY, actor (Predator, Die Hard, Medicine Man)
1951 - Paul Dresher, composer
1951 - Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician
1952 - Lauri Walters, SF California, actress (8 is Enough, Harrad Experiment)
1952 - Norm Jarvis, Prince Albert Sask, golfer (1984 Chilliwack)
1952 - Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist
1953 - Bruce Sutter, pitcher (Cubs, Cards, Braves)
1955 - Mike Reno, Vancouver BC Canada, rock vocalist (Loverboy)
1955 - Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer
1957 - Nacho Duato, Spanish classical dancer and choreographer
1958 - Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican wrestler
1959 - Michael Harwood, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (d. 2005)
1960 - Jolanda Egger, Luzean Switz, playmate (June, 1983)
1961 - Shoaib Mohammad, cricketer (son of Hanif Patient & prolific batsman)
1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese creator of Yu-Gi-Oh
1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete
1962 - Chris Marion, American musician
1963 - Hiromi Kobayashi, Fukushima Japan, LPGA golfer (1993 JAL Big Apple)
1964 - Peter [Ped] Gill, rocker (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax) [or 3/5]
1964 - Virgil Hill, Missouri, middleweight boxer (Olympic-silver-1984)
1965 - Champaka Ramanayake, cricketer (Sri Lankan opening bowler)
1965 - Eric Wohlberg, Sudbury Ontario, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1965 - Maria Pitillo, Matwah NJ, actress (Ryan's Hope)
1965 - Michelle Forbes, actress (Julianna Cox-Homicide)
1966 - Darryl Hall, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1966 - Loretta Lee, [Lee Lai Chan], China, actress (Happy Ghost)
1966 - Andrew Wood, American musician (d. 1990)
1967 - Hollis Conway, Chicago Ill, high jumper (Olympics-silv/bronze-88, 92)
1967 - Kent Jones, Portales NM, golfer (NM State Amateur-1990-91)
1967 - Roger Rowland, Jacksonville FL, Nike golfer (1990 Macon Open-2nd)
1967 - Willie Anderson, US, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Olympic-bronze-1988)
1968 - Alexander Alexeev, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Oly-98)
1968 - Ami Dolenz, LA California, actress (General Hospital, Can't Buy Me Love)
1968 - Brian Johnson, Oakland California, catcher (San Diego Padres)
1968 - Mark Duane Croghan, Akron Ohio, 3k steeplechase (Olympics-5th-96)
1968 - Paul Carey, US baseball infielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1968 - Keith Mullings, American boxer
1969 - Brian Boehringer, St Louis MO, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1969 - R Kelly [Robert Sylvester Kelly], Chicago, Illinois, American R&B singer (I Wish I Could Fly)
1969 - Jeff Abercrombie, American musician
1970 - Jon Klemm, Calgary, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche)
1971 - Billy Joe Hobert, NFL quarterback (Oakland Raiders)
1971 - Branislav Janos, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1971 - Brenda Lee Armstrong, Albert Lea Minn, Miss Minn-America (1991)
1971 - Brook Mahealani Lee, Miss Universe/Miss USA (1997-Hawaii)
1971 - Darren Langdon, Deere Lake, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
1971 - Jason Giambi, West Covina CA, infielder (Oakland A's)
1971 - Roosevelt Potts, NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Stephane Barin, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1971 - Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer
1972 - Brandie Burton, San Bernardino CA, LPGA golfer (1993 du Maurier Ltd)
1972 - Devlin Murphy, Honolulu Hawaii, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1973 - Mark Knight, English sound designer
1973 - Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
1974 - Arjan Blaauw, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen)
1974 - Brian Roberson, wide receiver (NY Giants)
1975 - Vitali Yachmenev, Chelyabinsk Russia, NHL right wing (LA Kings)
1975 - DJ Clue, American DJ and producer
1975 - Harris Jayaraj, Indian music composer
1976 - Jenny Lewis, Las Vegas Nevada, actress (Becky-Life With Lucy)
1976 - Brad Snyder, Ontario, shot putter (Olympics-96)
1976 - Carl Pavano, American baseball player
1977 - Pearl Amoah, Miss Universe-Ghana (1996)
1977 - Ryan Frances, actor (Trevor-Sisters)
1977 - Amber Benson, American actress
1977 - Ron Pederson, Canadian actor
1977 - Lee Yoo-jin, Korean actress
1978 - Petra Minarova, Miss Czech Republic Universe (1997)
1978 - Boris Avrukh, Israeli chess grandmaster
1979 - Sarah Polley, actress (Sweet Hereafter)
1979 - Sequoyah, chimpanzee (son of Washoe)
1979 - Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer
1979 - Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer
1979 - Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer
1980 - Rachel Nichols, American actress
1981 - Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player
1981 - Xie Xingfang, Chinese badminton player
1982 - Gaby Hoffman, actress (Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck, Now & Then)
1982 - Emanuele Calaiò, Italian footballer
1982 - John Utaka, Nigerian footballer
1982 - wiL Francis, American singer
1983 - Chris Mordetzky, American wrestler
1983 - Felipe Colombo, Argentine-Mexican actor and singer
1984 - Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
1985 - Rachael Lampa, American singer
1986 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
1986 - David Silva, Spanish footballer
1988 - Adam T. Siska, American musician
1990 - Maci Wainwright, American singer
1991 - Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer

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This Day in History for 8th January


Famous Deaths

                                               
Astronomer & Physicist             Poet/Novelist Kenneth Patchen (1972)      Premier of the People's Republic of China
 Galileo Galilei (1642)                                                                                                        Zhou Enlai (1976)


482 - Severinus, German monastery founder/saint, dies
624 - Abu Sufjan becomes Quraish chief and leader of Mecca after loss at Battle of Badr against Muslim forces
1100 - Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029)
1107 - Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
1198 - Pope Celestine III [Giacinto Bobo], Reigned 1191-98, dies. (bc. 1106)
1324 - Marco Polo, Venetian explorer, dies at 69
1336 - Giotto di Bondone, Italian Renaissance painter, dies at about 71
1455 - Laurentius Justitianus, [Lorenzo Giustiniani], saint, dies at 73
1456 - St Lawrence Justinian, Italian bishop and first Patriarch of Venice (b. 1381)
1464 - Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385)
1557 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)
1567 - Jacob Vaet, Flemish composer/royal chaplain master, dies at about 37
1570 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (bc. 1510)
1598 - Johan Georg, elector of Brandenburg (1571-91), dies at 72
1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 77 in Italy
1651 - Giovanni Battista Gagliano, composer, dies at 56
1696 - Michael de Ronghe, composer, dies at 75
1707 - John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
1711 - Philips van Almonde, Zealand lt admiral, dies at 66
1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, composer/violinist (Concerti Grossi), dies at 59
1775 - John Baskerville, English printer/type designer, dies at 68
1789 - Jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703)
1790 - John Stinstra, Dutch baptist vicar, dies at 81
1794 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)
1796 - Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Fren Nat Convention chairman, dies at 46
1808 - Messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies
1811 - Friedrich Nicolai, writer, dies
1811 - Samuel Story, Dutch rear admiral (Battle of Kamperduin), dies at 58
1815 - Edward Pakenham, Engl general (Battle of New Orleans), dies in battle
1819 - Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer, dies at 55
1825 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
1831 - Franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer, dies at 71
1842 - Viscount Pierre Cambronne, French General during the wars of the Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, dies at 71
1854 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)
1858 - Friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt, composer, dies at 48
1859 - Antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist, dies at 50
1864 - Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen, composer, dies at 83
1865 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)
1874 - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)
1880 - [Joshua] Norton I, Emperor of US/Protector of Mexico, dies at 60
1891 - Fredrik Pacius, composer, dies at 81
1892 - John Heykamp, old-catholic archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 67
1894 - Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, paleont (life of tapeworms), dies at 84
1896 - William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
1900 - Billy Bates, cricketer (656 runs & 50 wkts in 15 Tests for Eng), dies
1901 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
1907 - Theodoor Verstraete, Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 57
1916 - Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
1916 - Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
1918 - Michael Hertz, composer, dies at 73
1918 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
1919 - Peter Altenberg, writer, dies at 59
1921 - Luis Villalba Munoz, composer, dies at 48
1922 - Charles R Young, colonel, dies at 58, in Lagos Nigeria
1926 - Emile Paladilhe, composer, dies at 81
1928 - Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, composer, dies at 61
1932 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
1934 - Alexandre Stavisky, French swindler, dies
1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
1937 - John Felix August Korling, composer, dies at 72
1938 - Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (b. 1880)
1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scout movement), dies at 83
1942 - Arvo Hannikainen, composer, dies at 44
1942 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
1943 - Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919)
1944 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)
1945 - Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist (Omgang met planten), dies at 79
1945 - Karl Krafft, Swiss astrologer who was manipulated by the Nazi regime (b. 1900)
1948 - Kurt Schwitters, writer, dies at 60
1948 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)
1950 - George Rowe, cricketer (15 wckts in 4 Tests for S Af 1895-1902), dies
1950 - Joseph A Schumpeter, Aus/US economist/Minister of Finance, dies at 66
1950 - Joseph Issac Shneerson, Jewish Lubavitch Chabal leader, dies
1952 - Antonia Maury, discoverer (supergiant, giant & dwarf stars), dies
1952 - Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 66
1953 - Heinrich Kaspar Schmid, composer, dies at 78
1953 - Admiral Sir Hugh Binney, British naval commander and Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)
1956 - Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)
1958 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
1963 - Stark Young, US writer (So Red the Rose), dies at 81
1963 - Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)
1964 - Arnoldus JC Krafft, theologist (Atlas of Neth Antilles), dies at 71
1964 - Julius Raab, Austrian Chancellor (1953-61), dies at 72
1965 - Aloys-Henri-Gerard Fornerod, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (See You Tommorrow), dies at 39
1969 - Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
1970 - Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891)
1971 - Adriano Lualdi, composer, dies at 85
1972 - Kenneth Patchen, US writer (See You in the Morning), dies at 60
1975 - Anthony Warde, actor (Big Punch, Buck Rogers), dies at 66
1975 - Gertrude Olmsted, actress (Cobra, Torrent), dies at 70
1975 - John Dierkes, actor (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 69
1975 - John Gregson, actor (Rooney, Assassin), dies at 55
1975 - Louis J H C A de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet (Gypsy Blood), dies at 66
1975 - Richard Tucker, [Reuben Ticker], US tenor (La Gioconda), dies at 61
1976 - Chou En-lai, China's PM (1949-76), dies of cancer in Beijing at 78
1976 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
1976 - Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891)
1978 - Walter Keirnan, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret), dies at 75
1980 - Oscar Ewing, US government official (Everybody's Business), dies at 90
1980 - John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907)
1981 - Matthew Beard, entertainer, dies
1981 - Woody Chamblis, actor (Mr Lathrop-Gunsmoke), dies at 66
1982 - Gregoire Aslan, actor (Concrete Jungle), dies of 73 of a heart attack
1982 - Reta Shaw, actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir), dies of emphysema at 69
1983 - Gale Page, actress (4 Daughters, Knute Rockney), dies of cancer at 72
1983 - Lois Wilson, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 88
1983 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
1983 - Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)
1983 - Ron Frazer, Australian actor (b. 1924)
1986 - Yaroslav Seifert, Czech poet (Nobel 1984), dies at 84
1986 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
1987 - P G Joshi, cricketer (12 Tests for India 1951-60, ct 18 stp 9), dies
1987 - Peter Adams, actor (Alternative, Blowing Hot & Cold), dies at 69
1988 - Frank Pace Jr, US Secretary of Army (1950-53), dies at 76
1989 - Johnny Jordaan, [Jan van Musscher], Dutch folk singer, dies at 64
1989 - Kenneth McMillan, actor (Malone, Concrete Beat), dies of heart attack at 56
1990 - Terry Thomas, Engl comic (Heroes), dies of Parkinson's disease at 78
1991 - Steve Clark, guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria), dies at 30
1992 - Abderrahim Bouabid, Morroco prime secretary (1972), dies
1992 - Johnny [Jan] Meijer, Dutch king of accordians (Body & Soul), dies
1992 - Menachim Begin, Israeli PM, dies at 78 of a heart attack
1993 - Asif Nawaz, Pakistani general, dies
1993 - Hakija Turajlic, Bosnian vice-premier, murdered
1993 - Theo Bruins, Dutch pianist/composer (Syncope), dies at 63
1994 - Edward Duke, actor (Decadence, Silver Bears), dies of cancer at 40
1994 - Harvey Haddix, pitcher (12 perfect inning game), dies at 68
1994 - Jay Blackton, US conductor/arranger (Oklahoma!), dies at 84
1994 - Lady Caithness, wife of Brit undersecretary, commits suicide
1994 - Pat Buttram, actor (Haney-Green Acres), dies of kidney failure at 78
1994 - Sri Chandrashekhara Saraswathi, guru of Kanchi, dies at 99
1994 - Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Italian actor (Octopus), dies at 52
1995 - Carlos Monzon, [El Macho], Argentine medium weight boxing champ (1970-77), dies at 52
1995 - Joyce McCartan, peace campaigner, dies at 68
1996 - Francois Mitterrand, Pres of France (1981-95), dies of cancer at 79
1996 - Kurt Schmucker, member (Union of Christian Democrats), dies
1996 - William Mac Lance "Tiny" McCloud, musician/songwriter, dies at 52
1996 - Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (b. 1907)
1997 - Carole Carr, singer/actress (Down Among the Z Men), dies at 68
1997 - Jesse White, actor (Maytag repairman), dies at 77
1997 - Joseph George Handy Hendleman, musician, dies at 76
1997 - Melvin Calvin, scientist, dies at 85
1997 - Phyllis Hartnoll, writer/editor, dies at 90
1997 - Ronald William Eastman, cinematogrpaher, dies at 60
1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer/conductor (Child of our Time) dies at 93
1998 - Walter Diemer, inventor (bubble gum 1928), dies of heart failure at 93
2000 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)
2003 - Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)
2004 - John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930)
2005 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (b. 1952)
2005 - Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer
2005 - Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914)
2006 - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
2007 - Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908)
2007 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 1922)
2007 - Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)
2007 - David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)
2007 - Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
2008 - George Moore, Australian champion jockey (b. 1923)
2008 - Clyde Otis, American song writer and music producer (b. c. 1924)
2009 - Richard John Neuhaus, Canadian-American Christian writer and editor (b. 1936)
2010 - Monica Maughan, Australian actor (b. 1933)
2010 - Tony Halme, Finnish boxer and politician (b. 1963)
2011 - Thorbjørn Svenssen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1924)
2011 - John Roll, United States Federal Judge (b.1947)
2011 - Vang Pao, charismatic Laotian general who commanded a secret army of his mountain people
            in a long, losing campaign against Communist insurgents, dies at 81

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 9th January


Historical Events

                                               
Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible                  Naturalist Charles Darwin                   WW2 General Douglas MacArthur

                                               
NBA Player Oscar Robertson                  Chinese Prime Minister Mao Tse-Tung

                                               
British Prime Minister                              Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra
Margaret Thatcher


475 - Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople.
1296 - Earl Floris V signs accord with French king
1317 - Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France
1349 - 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
1431 - Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the
           English occupation government.
1464 - 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands
1493 - 1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)
1522 - Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
1558 - Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland
1570 - Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod
1718 - France declares war on Spain
1760 - Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat
1768 - Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in London.
1788 - Connecticut becomes 5th state
1792 - Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
1793 - 1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Philadelphia, piloted by Jean Pierre Blanchard
1793 - Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery
1799 - British Prime Minister William Pitt introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against
           Napoleon.
1806 - Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
1811 - 1st Women's Golf Tournament held
1812 - Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon
1834 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia
1839 - Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
1839 - Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
1847 - 1st SF newspaper published (California Star)
1848 - 1st commercial bank in SF established
1848 - People's uprising in Palermo Sicily
1854 - Astor Library opens in NYC
1855 - Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dead
1857 - 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon Calif
1858 - Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
1861 - 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC
1861 - Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede
1863 - -Jan 11th] Battle of Arkansas Post, AR (Ft Hindman)
1866 - Fisk University establishes
1878 - Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
1879 - Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Ft Robinson
1879 - Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas
1880 - 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days
1880 - The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and
            heavy snow.
1894 - "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters
1894 - Georges Feydeau's "Un à la Patte," premieres in Paris
1894 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone
           switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
1901 - NSW (918) defeat S Australia (157 & 156) by innings & 605
1903 - 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 & moved it to NY
1903 - Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace
1903 - Wind Cave National Park, SD established
1903 - Frank Farrell & Bill Devery purchase AL Balt franchise for $18,000 & move it to NYC (Yankees)
1905 - Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops (1/22 NS)
1908 - Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
1908 - Muir Woods National Monument, California established
1909 - Ernest Shackleton reaches 88°23' south
1912 - US marines invade Honduras
1915 - Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF
1916 - The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops are
           evacuated.
1917 - World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
1922 - KQV-AM in Pittsburgh PA begins radio transmissions
1922 - Rotterdam metal strike ends
1923 - Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain
1925 - German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption
1927 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow
1927 - Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died
1928 - Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions," premieres in NYC
1929 - Buddy DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru" premieres in NYC
1929 - KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
1930 - Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
1933 - Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
1936 - Noel Coward's "Astonished Heart," premieres in London
1936 - Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
1937 - Italian regime bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians
1937 - Maxwell Anderson's "High Tor" premieres in NYC
1940 - 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
1940 - J Thurber & E Nugent's "Male Animal," premieres in NYC
1941 - 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
1941 - Maiden flight by Canada's British-built Avro Lancaster military plane
1942 - Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 - US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
1943 - Japanese government in Java limits sale & use of motorcars
1945 - US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines
1946 - "Would-Be Gentleman" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 77 performances
1947 - "Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 148 performances
1947 - Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in SF
1947 - Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
1948 - Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston
1951 - Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres
1951 - Washington Capitals NBA club folds
1952 - Belgian Pholien government resigns
1952 - Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title
1952 - Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty
1953 - Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game
1953 - Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249
1954 - -87°F (-66°C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)
1954 - Bert Olmstead, Mont Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game
1954 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan & Leonie Adams
1956 - Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers
1956 - Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan
1957 - British premier Anthony Eden resigns
1957 - Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR
1957 - Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
1957 - Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR
1957 - Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR
1958 - In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54
1959 - "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
1959 - Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die
1959 - Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St Louis, to become NWA champ
1960 - Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
1961 - Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minn/St Paul territory
1962 - Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn, to become NWA champ
1962 - NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"
1964 - Anti-US rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone
1965 - Beatles' 65 album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1966 - Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
1967 - Georgia legislature seats Rep Julian Bond
1967 - NFL New Orleans' franchise takes name "Saints"
1968 - 1st ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana
1968 - Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon
1969 - 1st trial flight of Concorde
1969 - Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight (Bristol England)
1970 - Constitution of Singapore enacted
1971 - "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic NYC after 19 perf
1972 - Billionaire Howard Hughes says Clifford Irving's bio is a fake
1972 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1972 - Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
1973 - Luna 21 launched, to Moon
1975 - 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
1975 - Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes
1976 - Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
1976 - CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts
1976 - Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK
1977 - "Porgy & Bess" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 122 performances
1977 - Superbowl XI: Oakland Raiders beat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP:
           Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, WR
1978 - Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
1979 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
1979 - High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws
1979 - K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"
1979 - Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to
           preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
1980 - 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
1981 - Francisco Balsamao elected pres of Portugal
1982 - 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855
1982 - Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game
1983 - British PM Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands
1984 - "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)
1984 - Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession
1984 - EAA moves operations to Oshkosh
1984 - John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me"
1985 - Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out
1986 - NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
1986 - After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak must give up its instant camera business.
1987 - Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
1987 - New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
1988 - August Wilson's "Piano Lesson," premieres in Boston
1988 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1989 - "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS
1989 - Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 - 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
1990 - Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) & lose 87-78
1990 - Jim Palmer & Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 - Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented
           businesses
1991 - Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis
1991 - Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
1991 - Dean Smith of NC is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games
1993 - Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m free style (53.33)
1994 - 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
1994 - Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 pts)
1994 - Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points)
1995 - Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight
1995 - Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport
1996 - First episode of "Third Rock from the Sun" screened on NBC
1997 - Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital
1998 - Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
1998 - Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hrs 8 mins
1998 - Boston Red Sox Mo Vaughn pleads not guilty to drunken driving
1998 - Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
1998 - Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever
2001 - ABC-TV deputs "The Mole" for the first time
2001 - Shenzhou 2, an unmanned Chinese spacecraft, is launched.
2001 - Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing
           digital music and videos. Now widely used by Windows and Mac users.
2002 - Michael Jackson receives the Artist of the Century award at the American music awards
2005 - The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, commonly known as the Naivasha
           Agreement between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement
           rebel group in Naivasha, Kenya.
2005 - Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He
           is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
2007 - Apple Inc CEO, Steve Jobs announces the iPhone.

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 9th January


Famous Weddings

1428 - Pope Martinus V declares Jacqueline, Countess of Haintaut's marriage to Humphrey Duke of
           Gloucester invalid
1987 - Sir Rudolph Bing (of NY Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass
1988 - English earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli
2005 - "Motley Crue" lead singer Vince Neil (43) weds Lia Gerardini at the Four Seasons hotel in Las
            Vegas
2007 - "Ugly Betty" actress Ashley Jensen (37) weds actor and writer Terence Beesley in a ceremony
           in the woods of Big Sur, California
2009 - High School Musical actress KayCee Stroh (24) weds Ben Higginson (24) at Salt Lake Temple
           in Salt Lake City, Utah
2010 - Food writer and former fashion model Sophie Dahl (32) weds British jazz singer Jamie Cullum
          (30) in Hampshire, England

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 9th January


Famous Birthdays

                                               
37th US President                                   Musician Dave Matthews (1967)              Duchess of Cambridge & Wife
Richard Nixon (1913)                                                                                      of Prince William Kate Middleton (1982)     


1554 - Gregory XV, [Alessandro Ludovisi], pope (1621-23)
1571 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (d. 1621)
1574 - Christoph Buel, composer
1620 - Johann Weichmann, composer
1624 - Empress Meishō (d. 1696)
1695 - John E Loovens, lawyer
1699 - Robert J Pothier, French lawyer
1728 - Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy)
1745 - Caleb Strong, 6th and 10th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1819)
1748 - Stefan Paluselli, composer
1773 - Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845)
1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (Lycksalighetens)
1803 - Christopher Gustavus Memminger, Secy Treas (Confederacy) died in 1888
1811 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)
1815 - William Jackson, composer
1816 - John Palmer Usher, Secy Int (Union) died in 1889
1819 - James Francis, Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)
1820 - Pavel Krizkovsky, composer
1822 - John Porter Hatch, volunteers Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1901
1829 - Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (Tarimbekken)
1829 - Thomas William Robertson, England, playwright (Caste)
1832 - Esquire Maurits A de Savornin Lohman, Dutch governor of Suriname
1832 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author and politician, Premier of Quebec (d. 1900)
1839 - John Knowles Paine, Portland Maine, composer
1843 - Christiaan A Ulder, Curacao, composer (waltzes/tumbas)
1848 - Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)
1849 - John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (d. 1935)
1851 - Giuseppi Gallignani, composer
1854 - Jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)
1856 - Anton Askerc, Slavic priest/poet (Primoz Trubar)
1856 - Lizette Woodworth Reese, US poet (Branch of May, Tears)
1856 - Stevan Mokranjac, composer
1857 - Henry B Fuller, American writer (Under the Skylights)
1859 - Carrie Chapman Catt, women's rights leader
1859 - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder (League of Women Voters)
1859 - Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar/church historian (The Monasteries)
1864 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
1866 - Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher
1867 - Jacques Urlus, Dutch tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth)
1868 - S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
1870 - Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge)
1871 - Charles Kortright, British(?) cricket player
1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet (d. 1934)
1875 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)
1876 - Hans Bethge, writer
1879 - John Broadus Watson, behaviorist psychologist
1881 - Giovanni Papini, Italy, writer (Il Diavolo)
1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic (Revaluations)
1881 - Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)
1890 - Karel Capek, Czech, writer (R U R); coined the word "robot"
1890 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist/writer (Panther Tiger & Co)
1891 - August Gailit, Estonia, writer (Ekke Moor)
1892 - Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985)
1894 - Henryk Stazewski, Polish abstract painter/graphic artist
1896 - Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
1897 - Luis Gianneo, composer
1897 - Karl Löwith, German philosopher (d. 1973)
1898 - Gracie Fields, [Stansfield], England, music hall/vaudeville performer
1898 - Vilma Banky, Budapest Hungary, silent screen actress (Eagle, Rebel)
1898 - Wally Baker, American supercentenarian
1900 - Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer
1900 - Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939)
1901 - Chic Young, cartoonist (Blondie)
1902 - Rudolph Bing, opera manager (NY Metropolitan Opera)
1903 - Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969)
1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex)
1909 - Herva Nelli, soprano
1910 - Dick Henry Jurgen, bandleader
1911 - Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health
1911 - Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, British newspaper editor
1912 - Ralph Tubbs, architect
1913 - Lavad "Dr Hepcat" Durst, vocal/piano
1913 - Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist
1913 - Richard Nixon, Yorba Linda, California, 37th President (R) of the United States (1969-74)
1914 - Derek Allhusen, England, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1968)
1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, [Rose Hovick], Seattle, burlesque actress (Gypsy)
1914 - Kenny [Klook] Clarke, Pittsburgh, jazz/drummer, composer (Epistrop)
1915 - Anita Louise, NYC, actress (My Friend Flicka)
1915 - Fernando Lamas, Buenos Aires Argentina, actor ("You look marvelous")
1916 - Alain Bernardin, impressario (Crazy Horse Saloon)
1916 - Vic Mizzy, Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Don Rickles Show)
1916 - Peter Twinn, English World War II code-breaker (d. 2004)
1917 - Herbert Lom, Czech, actor (Pink Panther Strikes Again, Dorian Gray)
1920 - Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician (d. 1999)
1920 - Clive Dunn, British actor, (d. 2012)
1920 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar
1921 - Seymour Barab, composer
1921 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
1922 - Har G Khorana, India/Canada bio-chemist (Nobel 1968)
1922 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
1924 - Sergei Parajanov, Armenian film director (d. 1990)
1925 - Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist
1925 - Lee Van Cleef, NJ, actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from NY)
1926 - Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 2002)
1928 - Domenico Modugno, Italy, rocker (Polignano A Mare)
1928 - Fernand J St Germain, (Rep-D-RI, 1961- )
1928 - Judith Krantz, NYC, author (Scruples, Princess Daisy, Dazzle)
1929 - Heiner Muller, dramatist
1929 - Brian Friel, Irish dramatist
1929 - Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
1931 - Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys, Prussia, sci-fi author (Man of Earth)
1931 - Geoffrey Wragg, British(?) reorganizer
1933 - Robert Garcia, (Rep-D-NY, 1978- )
1933 - Sonia Garmers, [Justina], Curacao, author (Dear Queen)
1933 - Wilbur Smith, Zambian-British novelist
1934 - Bart Starr, NFL quarterback/coach (Green Bay)
1934 - Julian B Coco, Antilles, guitarist/tutor (Princess Christina)
1935 - Bob Denver, New Rochelle NY, actor (Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island)
1935 - Dick Enberg, Mt Clemens Mich, sportscaster (Where's Huddles)
1935 - Kenneth "Buddy" Scott, blues guitarist/Singer
1935 - Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
1935 - Earl G. Graves, Sr., African-American Publisher
1935 - Brian Harradine, Australian independent Senator
1936 - Peter Fletcher, music teacher
1936 - Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer
1937 - K Schlesinger, writer
1938 - Aad Kosto, Dutch theologist/actor/asst secretary of Justice
1940 - Barbara Buczek, composer
1940 - Jimmy Boyd, McComb Mo, singer/actor (Howard-Bachelor Father)
1940 - Al Downing, American singer (d. 2005)
1940 - Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
1941 - Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate
1941 - Susannah York, London, actress (A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones)
1941 - Gilles Vaillancourt, Quebec politician
1942 - K Callan, Dallas Tx, actress (Joe's World, Martha-Lois & Clark)
1942 - Lee Kun-hee, Korean industrialist, chairman of Samsung
1943 - Dick Yount, rocker (Harpers Bizarre)
1943 - Kenneth Kelley, US singer (Manhattans, One Life to Live)
1943 - Rob Hoeke, Dutch pianist/singer (Drinking on My Bed)
1943 - Robert Drewe, Australian author
1943 - Elmer MacFadyen, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1943 - Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer
1944 - Jimmy Page, London, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1944 - Scott Engel, vocalist (Walker Brothers-Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore)
1944 - Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (d. 2002)
1945 - Frank J Biondi Jr, president (HBO)
1945 - Harun Farocki, actor/director (Nicht loeschbares Feur)
1945 - John Doman, American actor
1946 - Leo Gullotta, actor (Sinbad of the 7 Seas)
1947 - Ronnie Landfield, American artist
1948 - Bill Cowsill, Newport RI, rock guitarist/vocals (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1948 - Paul King, Dagenham Essex, English rocker (Blue Oyster Cult)
1950 - David Johansen, [Buster Poindexter], NY, singer (Hot! Hot! Hot!)
1950 - Rio Reiser, rock singer
1951 - Crystal Gayle, Ky, country singer (Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue)
1952 - Eveline L Herfkens, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1952 - Hugh Bayley, British politician
1953 - Morris Gleitzman, British-Australian children's author
1954 - Lance Hoppens, rocker (Orleans-Still the One, Dance With Me)
1955 - Michiko Kakutani, American literary critic
1955 - J. K. Simmons, American actor
1956 - David Smith, cricketer (England lefty batsman in 2 Tests v WI 1986)
1956 - Kimberly Beck Hilton, Glendale California, actress (Kim-Peyton Place)
1956 - Imelda Staunton, British actress
1956 - Mike Walczewski, American Public Address Announcer at Madison Square Garden
1957 - Phil Lewis, lead singer of L.A. Guns
1958 - Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
1958 - Stephen Neale, British philosopher
1959 - Otis Nixon, US baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers)
1959 - Mark Martin, American race car driver
1959 - Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1959 - Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician
1960 - David Peoples, Augusta ME, Nike golfer (1991 Buick Southern Open)
1960 - Lisa Walters, Prince Rupert BC, LPGA golfer (Itoki Hawaiian-1992, 93)
1961 - Oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter
1962 - Phil Lewis, London England, rock vocalist (LA Guns-It's Over Now)
1963 - Michael Everson, expert in writing systems and Unicode
1964 - Stan Javier, S P de Macoris Dom Rep, outfielder (Oak A's, SF Giants)
1965 - Atsuo Kudo, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1965 - Carin Garbarra, East Orange NJ, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1965 - Cindy Brooks, East Hampton CT, rower (Olympics-96)
1965 - Darren Bennett, NFL punter (San Diego Chargers)
1965 - Georg Franz, Straubing GER, hockey forward (Team Germany, Landshut)
1965 - Muggsy Bogues, NBA guard (SF Warriors)
1965 - Vincent Brown, NFL inside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1965 - [Tyrone] Muggsy Bogues, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets, Wash Bullets)
1965 - Eric Erlandson, American musician
1966 - Jimmie Jones, defensive end/defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1966 - Candi Milo, American voice actress
1967 - Dave Matthews, singer/musician (Dave Matthews Band)
1967 - Dave Mcllwain, Seaforth, NHL center (Pitts Penguins)
1967 - Jamie Huscroft, Creston, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1967 - Claudio Caniggia, Argentinian footballer
1967 - Steven Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
1968 - Jimmy Adams, cricketer (prolific West Indian lefty bat since 1992)
1968 - Katie Anderson, Kingston Jamaica, Canada 100m hurdler (Oly-7th-92, 96)
1968 - Mardi Lunn, Liverpool Sydney Australia, golfer (1991 Thailand Open)
1968 - Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
1968 - Al Schnier, American rock guitarist (moe.)
1969 - Domingo Jean, Dominican/US baseball pitcher (Houston Astros)
1969 - Johanna Ikonen, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1970 - Graciela Schutt, El Paso Tex, WPVA volleyballer (Deerfield-25th-1995)
1970 - Lara Fabian, Belgian singer
1970 - Alex Staropoli, Italian keyboardist (Rhapsody Of Fire)
1971 - Bill Schroeder, NFL wide reciever (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 - Elizabeth Punsalan, Syracuse NY, American ice skater (Oly-15-94)
1971 - Scott Thornton, London, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1971 - Daniel Dumile, American hip hop artist
1971 - Hal Niedzviecki, Canadian author
1971 - Yusuke Naora, Japanese game art director
1972 - Eddie Mason, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1972 - Jay Powell, Meridian MS, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1972 - Kristie Hicks, Bardstown Kentucky, Miss America-Kentucky (1996)
1972 - Sarah Beeny, British TV personality
1972 - Angie Martinez, American radio and television personality
1972 - Jay Powell, baseball player
1973 - Aaron Holbert, US baseball infielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1973 - Ronald Hamming, soccer player (FC Groningen, Fortuna Sittard)
1974 - Craig Wishart, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman vs South Africa 1995)
1974 - Jamain Stephens, NFL offensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 - Farhan Akhtar, Indian Bollywood Director, Actor, Producer, Singer.
1975 - Justin Huish, Fountain Valley CA, archer (Olympics-gold-1996)
1975 - Mariano Friedick, Tarzana California, pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
1975 - Kiko Calero, Puerto Rican baseball player
1975 - Kimberley Ann Scott Mathers, former wife of Eminem
1976 - Amy Safe, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 - Radek Bonk, Koprivnice Cze, NHL center (Ottawa Senators, Team Czech)
1976 - Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer
1977 - Beth Troutman, American production assistant
1978 - Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer
1978 - Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Chad Johnson, American football player
1978 - AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1978 - Maggie Rizer, American model and AIDS activist
1979 - Lavinia Magruder, Miss Vermont Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Tomiko Van, Japanese singer
1980 - Sergio García, Spanish golfer
1981 - Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer
1982 - Kate Middleton, Reading, England, Duchess of Cambridge and wife of Prince William
1987 - Lucas Pezzini Leiva, Brazilian and Liverpool Footballer
1987 - Sam Bird, English racing driver
1987 - Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer/songwriter
1987 - Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d. 2006)
1989 - Michaella Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
1997 - Lauryn McClain, American actress and singer

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 9th January


Famous Deaths

1150 - Emperor Xizong of Jin was murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état.
1282 - Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204)
1283 - Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236)
1499 - Johan Cicero, elector of (Brandenburg, 1486-99), dies at 43
1514 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477)
1543 - Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
1562 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)
1571 - Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
1598 - Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553)
1677 - Aernout "Aert" van der Neer, cartoonist/landscape painter, dies at 73
1679 - Werner Fabricius, composer, dies at 45
1757 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657)
1757 - Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688)
1766 - Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
1798 - Pedro Pablo Abarca d Bolea earl of Aranda, Spanish officer, dies at 79
1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
1800 - Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
1805 - Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1828 - Pieter 't Hoen, Dutch journalist/patriot (Neder-Rhijn), dies at 83
1843 - Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy", dies at 98 in Germany
1843 - William Hedley, British industrial engineer (b. 1773)
1848 - Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
1849 - Jan Kops, Dutch agriculturist/vicar, dies at 83
1853 - Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos de Mayo), dies at 75
1854 - Filippo Traetta, [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, dies at 77
1858 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
1863 - Ferdinand Huber, composer, dies at 71
1873 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
1876 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
1877 - Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)
1878 - Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61) and Italy (1861-78), dies at 57
1879 - Don Joaquin BF Espartero, fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, dies at 86
1886 - Jakob Eduard Schmolzer, composer, dies at 73
1893 - Mohara, Arab ivory/slave trader, dies in battle & is eaten
1895 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)
1901 - Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
1902 - Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian lawyer/Interior minister, dies at 66
1904 - Alfred Richard, cricketer (6 & 0 in only Test for S Af 1895-96), dies
1908 - Abraham Goldfaden, US Yiddish stage performer (Shulamis), dies at 67
1908 - Wilhelm Busch, writer, dies
1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones, composer, dies at 57
1911 - Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
1918 - Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
1923 - Katherine Mansfield, NZ/British writer (Dove's Nest), dies at 34
1927 - Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist, dies at 71
1929 - Heiner Muller, writer, dies
1930 - Edward W Buck, Dutch/US editor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 66
1931 - Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer], French writer (La fille perdue), dies
1931 - Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896)
1936 - John Gilbert, actor (Love, Downstairs), dies at 40
1939 - Johann Strauss, Austrian conductor/Royal ball director, dies at 72
1941 - Ko Boezeman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
1943 - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain), dies at 53
1945 - Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890)
1946 - Countee Cullen, US poet (Black Christ, One Way to Heaven), dies at 42
1946 - Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
1947 - Karl Mannheim, sociologist (Diagnosis of Our Time), dies at 53
1947 - Lambertus Zijl, sculptor (Merchant Exchange-Amsterdam), dies at 80
1949 - Amilcare Zanella, composer, dies at 75
1953 - Hans Aanrud, Norwegian author (Storken), dies at 89
1957 - Mary Carr Moore, composer, dies at 83
1958 - Paul Fechter, German writer/historian (God's Magician), dies
1959 - Paul Malengreau, composer, dies at 71
1960 - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880)
1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867)
1962 - LeRoy B Shield, US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68
1964 - Halide Edib Adevar/Salih, Turkish feminist (Handan), dies at about 80
1966 - Haro Levoni Step'anyan, composer, dies at 68
1968 - Kokichi Tsuburaya, Jap marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide
1968 - Louis-Francois-Marie Aubert, French composer (Habanera), dies at 90
1969 - Ladislav Vycpalek, composer, dies at 86
1971 - Giannis Christou, Greek composer (b. 1926)
1971 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
1972 - Ted Shawn, US dancer, dies at 80
1975 - John Slater, actor (Deadlock, 3 on a Spree), dies at 58
1975 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor (Monsieur Vincent), dies at 77
1975 - Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1977 - Alexey Kozlovsky, composer, dies at 71
1977 - Hal Sawyer, TV host (Sawyer Views Hollywood), dies at 62
1978 - Eddie Gilbert, cricket (Aboriginal Qld quick got Don for a duck), dies
1979 - Avery Claflin, composer, dies at 80
1979 - Sara Carter, vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family), dies at 80
1979 - Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect (b. 1891)
1981 - Kazimierz Serocki, composer, dies at 58
1982 - Paul Lynde, actor (Bye Bye Birdie, Bewitched), dies at 55
1984 - Wolfgang Staudte, German director (Ciske de Rat), dies at 77
1985 - Don Brennan, cricket wicketkeeper (England in 2 Tests 1951), dies
1985 - Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)
1987 - Arthur Lake, actor (Dagwood-Blondie), dies at 81
1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919)
1989 - Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)
1990 - Sir Edward McTiernan, Australian jurist, lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
1990 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
1992 - Steve Brodie, actor (Desperate, Bodyguard), dies of cancer at 72
1992 - William JF "Bill" Naughton, Irish/Brit playwright (Alfie), dies at 81
1993 - Alois Brunner, German/Syrian commandant of KZ-Lower Drancy, dies
1993 - Felix Grucci, fireworks expert, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 87
1993 - Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
1994 - Silas Hogan, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 82
1995 - Peter Cook, English comic/actor (Peter n' Dud, Bedazzled), dies at 57
1995 - Souphanouvong, [Red Prince], president of Laos (1975-87), dies at 85
1996 - Fearless Mary Nadia Wadia, actress, dies at 88
1996 - Kurt Schmucker, German RFA minister of Economy (1963-66), dies
1996 - Michael Lynn Synar, politician, dies at 45
1997 - Edward Osobka-Morawski, prime minister of Poland (1945-47), dies
1997 - Junaidu ibn Buhari, scholar, dies at 90
1998 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79
1998 - Charito Solis, Filipino actress (b. 1935)
2000 - Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
2001 - Maurice Prather, American photographer (b. 1926)
2003 - Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935)
2004 - Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
2005 - Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925)
2006 - Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
2006 - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937)
2007 - Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977)
2008 - Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (b. 1923)
2008 - William Quinn, Irish Republican Army soldier (b. 1950)
2008 - Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (b. 1977)
2008 - Sir John Harvey-Jones, chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (b.1924).
2009 - T. Llew Jones, Welsh author (b. 1915)
2010 - Vimcy, Sports writer (b. 1925)
2012 - Malam Bacai Sanhá, President of Guinea-Bissau, dies of diabetes at 64
2012 - Brian Curvis, British boxer and 1960 welterweight champion, dies from leukemia at 74
2012 - Ruth Fernandez, Puerto Rican singer and politician, dies from septic shock and pneumonia at
           92
2012 - Bridie Gallagher, Irish singer, dies at 87
2012 - William Roll, parapsychologist, dies at 85

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 10th January


Historical Events

                                               
King of England King Charles I           Oil Industrialist John D Rockefeller
   
                                               
Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky       Country Singer Jerry Lee Lewis


49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
69 - Roman emperor Galba adopts Marcus Piso Licinianus as Caesar
236 - St Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1072 - Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo
1356 - German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree
1429 - Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain
1430 - Order of the Guilder forms
1475 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
1514 - Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished
1550 - 1st sitting of "Vurige Chamber" in Paris
1642 - King Charles I & family flee London for Oxford
1663 - King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company
1731 - Charles Farnese becomes duke of Parma/Piacenza
1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published
1799 - Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini," premieres in Weimar
1806 - Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
1808 - Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as gov-gen of Neth Indies
1811 - Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes
1833 - Felix Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," premieres in Berlin
1839 - Tea from India 1st arrives in UK
1840 - Penny Post mail system starts
1845 - Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding
1853 - Charles Reade's "Gold," premieres in London
1861 - Ft Jackson & Ft Philip are taken over by LA state troops
1861 - US forts & property seized by Mississippi
1861 - American Civil War: Florida becomes 3rd state to secedes from the Union.
1862 - Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek)
1862 - Battle of Romney, WV
1863 - 1st underground railway opens in London
1863 - General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark
1863 - January-uprising begins in Poland
1870 - Georgia legislature reconvenes
1870 - John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
1878 - US Senate proposes female suffrage
1883 - Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T
           Barnum fame, escapes unhurt
1889 - Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
1890 - Edward Macdowell's "Lancelot & Elaine," premieres
1890 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae
1893 - Richard Drigo's ballet "Magic Flute" premieres, St Petersburg
1897 - Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman," premieres in Helsingfors
1897 - Vincent d'Indy's "Istar" premieres in Amsterdam & Brussels
1900 - Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown
1901 - Oil discovered in Texas
1902 - Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres (Amsterdam)
1910 - 1st international air meet in US held, in LA
1910 - Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St NYC
1911 - 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
1911 - Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1911 - Trumper scored double cricket ton v South Africa, goes on to get 214
1912 - Caillaux government in France resigns
1912 - World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
1914 - 1st edition of Hague's Post under SF van Oss, published
1914 - Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 m in 43.7 sec in Oslo
1916 - Russian offensive in Kaukasus
1920 - League of Nations established
1920 - Mont Canadiens (14) & Tor St Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals
1920 - Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
1923 - Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
1923 - Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel
1925 - France-Saarland forms
1925 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as TX gov, nation's 2nd woman governor
1927 - Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres
1928 - G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie," premieres in NYC
1928 - Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
1929 - Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in NYC
1930 - Commencement of NZ's 1st Test, v England Christchurch
1930 - Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England v NZ Christchurch
1930 - Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
1931 - Phila Quakers defeat Montreal, ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak
1932 - "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
1932 - "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts
1938 - Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall
1938 - Jean Anouilh's "La Sauvage," premieres in Paris
1938 - Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed," premieres in NYC
1939 - Bradman hits 186 SA v Qld before Christ catches him at short-leg
1941 - Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace," premieres in NYC
1941 - Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews
1941 - World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
1942 - Japan invades North-Celebes, Neth Indies
1943 - Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad
1943 - 1st US pres to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
1944 - 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Phila
1944 - British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma
1945 - Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer
1945 - LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
1945 - No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
1946 - 1st radar contact with Moon
1946 - UN General Assembly meets for 1st time (London)
1946 - US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ
1947 - "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 725 performances
1947 - British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel
1947 - Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of
           392 of 637 aboard
1948 - "Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater NYC after 734 performances
1949 - 1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS
1949 - RCA introduces 45 RPM record
1951 - 1st jet passenger trip made
1951 - UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY
1952 - Jean Anouilh's "La valse des toréadors," premieres in Paris
1953 - "My Darlin' Aida" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 89 perfs
1953 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish
1953 - NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 27-7
1954 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden
1956 - Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel"
1957 - Anthony Eden resigns & Harold Macmillan becomes PM Britain
1957 - Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Det Tigers,
           even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates
1958 - Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the UK pop charts
1960 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz
1962 - 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Peru
1962 - Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500
1964 - Battles between moslems & hindus in Calcutta
1964 - Panama severs diplomatic relations with US
1964 - US version of "That Was The Week That Was," premieres
1965 - Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory
1965 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 34-14
1965 - WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
1966 - India & Pakistan sign peace accord
1966 - Julian Bond denied seat in Ga legislature for opposing Vietnam War
1967 - Edward Brooke, takes (Sen-R-Mass) seat as 1st popular elected black
1967 - Lester Maddox inaugurated as governor of Georgia
1967 - PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
1968 - US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho
1969 - Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland
1969 - Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam
1969 - USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
1970 - Preview Center Opens
1971 - "Light, Lively & Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 87 perfs
1971 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur
1972 - Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan
1972 - Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK
1973 - Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
1977 - 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
1978 - Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1979 - 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks
1979 - Entertainer of the Year Awards
1980 - Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC
1980 - Jim Stewart, Bruin's rookie goalie allows 3 goals in his 1st 4 mins & a total of 5 in 1st period;
            he never again plays in NHL
1981 - El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"
1981 - John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed record, 9 h 21 m
1982 - -17°F (27.2°C) in Braemar Grampian (equals UK record)
1982 - Bengals beat Chargers in -59°F (-51°C) to win AFC championship
1982 - Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 m freestyle (15:43.31)
1983 - NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring NY Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver
1984 - Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested
1984 - Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashs at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die
1984 - Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?"
1984 - Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, & D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame
1984 - US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years
1985 - Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as president of Nicaragua
1986 - Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US
1986 - STS 61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy
1988 - "Don't Get God Started" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 86 perfs
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore
1990 - China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
1990 - NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
1991 - Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
1991 - US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
1992 - 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1993 - "My Favorite Year" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 37 perfs
1993 - "Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 48 performances
1993 - Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA)
1994 - Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins
1994 - Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
1994 - Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs
1995 - "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM
1996 - Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
1996 - Jimmy Johnson announced as new coach of Miami Dolphins
1997 - "Rehersal," closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 - 1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1
1997 - 4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight"
1997 - Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits
1997 - Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
1997 - Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as president of Nicaragua
1998 - 18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th)
1999 - Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) achieves his third UK No.1 single with 'Praise You'
2001 - A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea.
2005 - A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing
          the Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 10th January


Famous Weddings

1430 - Duke Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal
1942 - Actress Ava Gardner (19) weds actor Mickey Rooney (21) in Ballard, California
1967 - Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven
1998 - Major League Baseball outfielder Barry Bonds (33) weds Elizabeth Watson (28) at Ritz-
           Carlton Hotel in San Francisco
2009 - "The Black Eyed Peas" singer Fergie (33) weds actor Josh Duhamel (36) at Church Estate
            Vineyards in Malibu, California

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 10th January


Famous Divorces

1810 - French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Josephine