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This Day in History for 24th January


Famous Birthdays

                                             
Pulitzer prize winning novelist              Ballerina Maria Tallchief (1925)          Singer-songwriter Neil Diamond (1941)
Edith Wharton (1862)


76 - Publius A Hadrianus, 14th Roman Emperor (117-138)
1287 - Richard Aungerville, English bishop (d. 1345)
1444 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)
1638 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet (d. 1706)
1664 - John Vanbrugh, London, dramatist/architect (baptized)
1670 - William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729)
1674 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop (d. 1735)
1679 - Christian von Wolff, German philosopher
1705 - Farinelli, [Carlo Broschi], Andria Italy, castrato
1712 - Frederick II, (the Great), king of Prussia (1740-86)
1712 - Georg F Schmidt, German engraver/etcher
1724 - Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)
1732 - Pierre de Baumarchais, France, playwright (Barber of Seville)
1742 - Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn (d. 1808)
1746 - Gustav III, king during Swedish Enlightenment (1771-92)
1750 - Wybo Fijnje, Dutch politician/patriot/journalist
1754 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (d. 1820)
1758 - Johann Chrysostomus Drexel, composer
1763 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (d. 1831)
1767 - Antony CW Staring, Dutch lawyer/poet (Jaromir)
1774 - Karl Moser, composer
1776 - Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer (Undine)
1778 - Charles F, duke of Berry/son of French king Charles X
1779 - Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden), Russian tsarina (d. 1826)
1798 - Karl von Holtei, Silezian actor/playwright (Die Vagabunden)
1798 - Karl von Staudt, German math professor (projective geometrician)
1800 - Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer
1814 - Abraham Czn van Stolk, Dutch art collector
1820 - John Milton Thayer, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1828 - Adam Jacoby Slemmer, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1828 - Ferdinand J Cohn, German botanist/publicist
1828 - Karol Studzinski, composer
1829 - William Mason, composer
1832 - John Pegram, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1848 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916)
1859 - Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer
1862 - Edith Wharton [-Jones], New York NY, Pulitzer prize-winning novelist (Ethan Frome, House of Mirth), (d. 1937)
1864 - Marguerite Durand, French feminist leader (d. 1936)
1872 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
1872 - Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958)
1874 - Arthur Schomburg (Arturo Alfonso), Puerto Rico, archivist of African American history and culture
1880 - Elisabeth Achelis, creator (World Calendar)
1883 - Estelle Winwood, [Goodwin], England, actress (Miracle on 34th Street)
1886 - Henry King, American film director (d. 1982)
1888 - Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, German inventor (1st rocket-powered aircraft)
1888 - Hedwig "Vicki" Baum, Austrian/US author (Men Never Know)
1888 - Henry King, US, director (Jesse James, 12 O'Clock High)
1891 - Walter Model, German fieldmarshal
1895 - Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Der Halbe Mensch)
1895 - Eugen Roth, writer
1898 - Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (d. 1939)
1902 - Oskar Morgenstern, German/US economist
1902 - Walter Keirnan, New Havens Ct, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret)
1902 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (d. 1965)
1903 - Robert Gwathmey, artist (Arts & Letters)
1906 - Norman Cook, museum curator
1907 - Alfonse Vranckx, Belgian lawyer/politician
1907 - Maurice Couve de Murville, France premier (1968-69)
1909 - Ann Todd, Hartford England, actress (Paradine Case, 7th Veil)
1909 - Tiny Winters, musician
1911 - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, US, sci-fi author (Judgment Night)
1912 - Ken Weekes, cricketer (WI batsman v England 1939, 137 at The Oval)
1913 - Mark Goodson, TV game-show proudcer (Goodson-Toddman)
1913 - Norman Dello Joio, [Dello Ioio], NYC, composer
1915 - Robert B Motherwell, US, painter (Elegies to the Spanish Republic)
1915 - Vitezslava Kapralova, composer
1916 - John Corner, scientist
1916 - Vic Stollmeyer, cricketer (bro of Jeff Scored 96 in only Test innings)
1916 - Jack Brickhouse, American sports broadcaster (d. 1998)
1917 - Ernest Borgnine, Hamden Ct, actor (Ice Station Zebra, McHale, Marty), (d. 2012)
1918 - Gottfried von Einem, Bern Switzerland, Austrian composer (Dantons Tod)
1918 - John McLiam, Alberta, actor (Parker-Men From Shiloh)
1918 - Oral Roberts, Pontotoc County Oklahoma, American Televangelist, founder Oral Roberts College
1919 - Leon Kirchner, Brooklyn NY, opera composer (Lily)
1919 - Nora Beloff, journalist/author
1920 - Don Saddler, Van Nuys California, dancer (Holiday Hotel)
1920 - Jerry Maren, actor (munchkin-Wizard of Oz, Mayor McCheese)
1921 - Bernard J Dwyer, (Rep-D-NJ, 1981- )
1922 - Neil Franklin, soccer star
1922 - Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (d. 2005)
1923 - Simeon ten Holt, composer
1924 - 8th earl Spencer, English large landowner/father of Diane
1924 - David Craighead, composer
1924 - Klaus George Roy, composer
1924 - Marvin Kaplan, Brooklyn NY, actor (Top Cat, Henry-Alice)
1924 - Robert W Kastenmeier, (Rep-D-WI, 1959- )
1925 - Maria Tallchief, Fairfax Ok, ballerina
1925 - William Hudson, California, actor (I Led 3 Lives)
1926 - Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter
1927 - Paula Hawkins, (Sen-R-FL, 1981-86)
1927 - Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, British aristocrat (d. 2007)
1928 - Desmond Morris, English zoologist (Human Ape, Body Language)
1928 - Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007)
1930 - Bernard Matthews, English turkey farmer/multi-millionaire
1931 - Ib Norholm, composer
1932 - Werner Steger, composer
1933 - Ron Townson, rock vocalist (5th Dimension-Aquarius) [or Jan 29]
1933 - Zeke Carey, US R&B-singer (Flamingos-I Only Have Eyes For You)
1934 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet (d. 1976)
1935 - Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (d. 2008)
1936 - Daniel Goode, composer
1936 - Doug Kershaw, La, plays electric fiddle
1936 - Jack Scott, Canada, rocker (My True Love)
1938 - Julius Arthur Hemphill, saxophonist
1939 - Ray Stevens, Clarksdale Ga, singer (Ahab the Arab, Streak)
1940 - Flip Buurmeijer, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1941 - Aaron Neville, US singer/keyboardist (Neville Brothers)
1941 - Michael Chapman, Leeds England, rocker (Looking for 11)
1941 - Neil Diamond, Brooklyn NY, singer/actor (Jazz Singer)
1942 - Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (d. 2008)
1943 - Julie Bennett, Beverly Hills CA, actress (Hey There It's Yogi Bear)
1943 - Sharon Tate, Dallas Tx, actress (Valley of the Dolls)
1943 - Subhash Ghai, Indian film director
1944 - David Gerrold, [Jerrold David Friedman], author (World of Star Trek)
1944 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
1945 - D. Todd Christofferson, LDS apostle
1945 - John Garamendi, American politician
1946 - Hubert M "Jubi" Kirindongo, Curacaos sculptor/painter
1946 - John Harrison, South Africa correspondent (BBC)
1946 - Michael Ontkean, Vancouver BC, actor (Rookies, Slap Shot, Twin Peaks)
1947 - David Randall, priest
1947 - Giorgio Chinaglia, Carrara Italy, soccer star (Lazio of Italy, NY Cosmos), (d. 2012)
1947 - Warren Zevon, Chicago, rocker (Excitable Boy)
1947 - Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer
1948 - Elliott Abrams, asst secretary of state/supplied arms to the Contras
1948 - Michael Des Barres, British actor and rock singer
1949 - Bart Gordon, (Rep-D-TN, 1985- )
1949 - John Belushi, Chicago Ill, comedian/actor (SNL, Blues Brothers)
1950 - Daniel Auteuil, Algeria, actor (Elegant Criminal, Manon of Spring)
1950 - Benjamin Urrutia, Ecuadorian-born American writer
1951 - Yakov Smirnoff, Russia, comedian (It's a wonderful country)
1952 - William F Readdy, Quonset Point RI, astronaut (STS 42, 51, 79)
1953 - Brian Matthews, Phila, actor (Burning)
1954 - Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1986)
1955 - James Montgomery, US 100m swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1976)
1955 - Julian Holland, rocker (Squeeze)
1956 - Hanne Krogh, Norwegian singer (Bobbysocks)
1956 - Lounès Matoub, a famous Berber Kabyle singer (d. 1998)
1957 - Adrian Edmondson, British comedian
1958 - Frank Ullrich, East Germany, world biathlon champion
1958 - Neil Allen, American baseball player
1958 - Jools Holland, British musician
1959 - David Mills, American author
1959 - Vic Reeves, English comedian
1961 - Nastassja Kinski, Berlin Germany, actress (Tess, Cat People)
1961 - Krasimir Mikhailov Stoyanov, Bulgaria, cosmonaut
1961 - Vince Russo, American writer
1961 - William Van Dijck, Belgian athlete
1962 - Sultan Zarawani, cricketer (United Arab Emirates capt 1996 World Cup)
1963 - Martyn Grimley, English field hockey player
1963 - Arnold Vanderlyde, Dutch boxer
1964 - Rob Dibble, Bridgeport Ct, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1964 - Ronnie McCann, Evander South Africa, Nike golfer (1993 Hawkeye-37th)
1965 - Ross MacDonald, Vancouver BC, star yachter (Olympics-96)
1965 - Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian film director
1966 - Kim Saiki, Inglewood CA, golfer (1994 Standard Register PING-13th)
1966 - Mike Forgeron, Main-A-Dieu Nova Scotia, rower (Olympics-96)
1966 - Jimeoin, Northern Irish comedian
1967 - Chris Warren, NFL running back (Seattle Seahawks)
1967 - Shannon Butler, South Lake Tahoe California, 10k runner
1967 - Phil LaMarr, American voice actor
1967 - John Myung, American musician (Dream Theater)
1968 - Mark Burmester, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test all-rounder in 3 Tests 1992)
1968 - Mary Lou Retton, Fairmont WV, gymnist (Oly-gold/2 silver/2 bronze-84)
1968 - Ross Powell, US baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros)
1968 - Scott Mercier, Harbor City California, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 - Michael Kiske, German musician
1969 - Louise McPaul, Australian javelin thrower (Olympics-silver-92, 96)
1969 - Stephanie Romanov, actress (Teri Spencer-Models Inc)/model (Elite)
1969 - Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Icelandic actor
1970 - Chris Bartolone, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1970 - Matthew Lillard, actor (Scream)
1971 - Cory Bailey, US baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1971 - Joe Panos, NFL guard/center (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - John Reece, WLAF/NFL cornerback (Amsterdam Admirals, Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Saalman Raelyn, Fostoria Ohio, actress (Attack of 60' Centerfold)
1971 - Tonya Crowe, Long Beach California, actress (Olivia-Knots Landing)
1971 - Andrea Mackris, American television producer
1972 - Jay Walker, quarterback (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Joe Garten, WLAF center (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Raphael Graetz, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Salima Davidson, Pittsburgh Penn, volleyball setter (Olympics-96)
1972 - Shannon Garrett, CFL defensive back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 - Naoshi Mizuta, Japanese composer
1972 - Ulla Werbrouck, Belgian judoka and politician
1973 - Chris Ferraro, Port Jefferson, NHL right wing (Oly-94, NY Rangers)
1973 - Erik Gervais, Valleyfield Quebec, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1973 - Peter Ferraro, Port Jefferson, NHL right wing (Oly-94, NY Rangers)
1973 - Richard Aimonetto, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1974 - Kristy Sargeant, Edmonton Alberta, ice pairs (1994 Skate Canada)
1974 - Layla Linn, Miss New Mexico USA (1996)
1974 - Tim Biakabutuka, running back (Carolina Panthers)
1974 - Ed Helms, American actor
1974 - Shii Ann Huang, American game show contestant
1975 - Danielle Connors, Miss Virginia USA (1996)
1975 - Rónald Gómez, Costa Rican footballer
1976 - Laure Belleville, Miss Universe-France (1996)
1976 - Shae-Lyn Bourne, Chatham Ontario, ice dancer (1995 World Champs-4th)
1976 - Shae-Lynn Bourne, Ontario, pairs skater (Bourne & Kraatz)
1976 - Cindy Pieters, Belgian cyclist
1977 - Lenka Cenkova, Trinec Czech, tennis star (1995 Futures-Vaihingen-GER)
1979 - Tatyana M Ali, NYC, actress (Sesame St, Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
1980 - Rocky Boiman, American football player
1980 - Nicole Marie Lenz, American actress
1981 - Travis Hanson, American baseball player
1983 - Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer
1983 - Scott Speed, American race car driver
1984 - Witold Kiełtyka, Polish drummer (Decapitated) (d. 2007)
1984 - Scott Kazmir, American baseball player
1986 - Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
1986 - Raviv Ullman, Israeli-born American actor
1993 - Ashley Jade Stern, daughter of radio personality Howard Stern

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 24th January


Famous Deaths

                                             
3rd Roman Emperor Caligula (41)           British war time Prime Minister              First Black Supreme Court Justice
                                                                    Winston Churchill (1965)                         Thurgood Marshall (1993)


41 - Caligula, [G C Germanicus], Roman emperor (37-41), assassinated at 28 by Praetorian Guards.
         Known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism.
661 - Ali ibn Abu Talib, kalief of Islam (656-61), murdered
772 - Stephen III/IV, Catholic Pope (768-72), dies. (b. 720)
817 - Stefanus IV, Pope (816-17), dies
1125 - David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
1336 - Alfonso IV, the Benignant, King of Aragon (1327-36), dies at 36
1376 - Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
1473 - Conrad Paumann, German blind organist/composer, dies
1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, executed for treason
1595 - Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)
1626 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (b. 1580)
1639 - George Jenatsch, Grisons leader, assassinated
1666 - Johann Andreas Herbst, composer, dies at 77
1678 - Joan Maetsuyker, gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 72
1709 - George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650)
1769 - François de Chevert, French general (b. 1695)
1805 - Giacomo Conti, composer, dies at 50
1812 - Eligio Celestino, composer, dies at 72
1851 - Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, Italian composer, dies at 76
1856 - Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775)
1862 - James McIntosh, US confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at about 33
1864 - Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer, dies at 54
1864 - Stephen Gardner Champlin, brig-general (Union), dies at about 36
1877 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
1882 - Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808)
1883 - Friedrich von Flotow, German baron/composer, dies at 70
1884 - Johann Christian Gebauer, composer, dies at 75
1885 - Martin R Delany, politician & black nationalist, dies at 72
1895 - Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849)
1901 - Simon Hassler, composer, dies at 68
1904 - Franz Coenen, composer, dies at 77
1911 - Carl Eilhardt, composer, dies at 67
1911 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
1913 - Gustav Luders, composer, dies at 47
1918 - George Arthur Crump, Founder of the Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon NJ (b. 1871)
1924 - Thephilo Braga, Portuguese poet/politician, dies at 80
1924 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
1929 - Willem Royaards, theater directeor (Adam in Ballingschap), dies
1932 - Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (b. 1842)
1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (b. 1867)
1940 - Emile van Bosch, revue/operetta-artist, dies at 52
1943 - John Burns, English minister of Local Government (1905-14), dies
1947 - Felix Timmermans, writer/painter (Gift from St Nicholas), dies at 60
1948 - Maria Mandel, Camp Leader at Auschwitz (b. 1912)
1948 - Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1901)
1950 - Bull Montana, actor (Son of Sheik), dies at 62
1953 - [Karl R] Gerd von Rundstedt, gen-field marshal (Normandy), dies at 77
1955 - Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923)
1957 - Daniel Taylor, cricketer (bro of Herbie, 2 Tests for S Af 1914), dies
1960 - John Miljan, actor (Charlie Chan in Paris, Yankee Clipper), dies at 66
1961 - Willem J M van Eysinga, people rights scholar, dies at 82
1961 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884)
1962 - Tom Shirley, actor/TV announcer (They're Off), dies at 62
1962 - Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (b. 1877)
1965 - Winston Churchill, PM of Britain (C) (1940-45, 51-55), dies at 90
1966 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (b. 1909)
1967 - Howard Charles Shaiffer, entertainer, dies at 49
1969 - Pauline Hall, composer, dies at 78
1969 - Tom Zachary, baseball pitcher (Wash Senators), dies at 72
1970 - James "Shep" Shepherd, rocker (Shep & Limelites), beaten to death
1970 - Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891)
1971 - Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
1972 - Jerome Cowan, actor (Mr Dithers-Blondie), dies at 74
1973 - Alan Lisette, cricketer (took 3 wickets in 2 Tests for NZ 1956), dies
1973 - J Carrol Naish, actor (Charlie Chan-Adv of Charlie Chan), dies at 73
1973 - Masao Ohba, world champion Japanese boxer (b. 1949)
1975 - Larry Fine, actor (3 Stooges), dies at 72
1978 - Herta Oberheuser, German doctor (b. 1911)
1979 - Jerry Damon, comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 51
1979 - Mabel Taliaferro, actress (My Love Come Back), dies at 91
1982 - Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president and dictator (b. 1918)
1983 - George Cukor, director, dies of stroke & heart attack at 83
1986 - Gordon MacRae, singer (Oklahoma, Carousel), dies at 64
1986 - L[aFayette] Ron[ald] Hubbard, author (Death Quest), dies at 74
1986 - Flo Hyman, American volleyball player (b. 1954)
1988 - Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C), dies at 91
1988 - Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (b. 1905)
1989 - Ted Bundy, serial killer of up to 100 women, executed in Florida at 42
1989 - George Knudson, Canadian golfer (b. 1937)
1990 - Madge Bellamy, actress (White Zombie), dies at 87
1991 - George Gobel, comedian, dies of a heart attack at 71
1991 - Lawrence Lott, actor (Real Men, Phila Experiment), dies of AIDS at 40
1991 - John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)
1992 - Charles Moulin, French actor (French Tarzan), dies
1992 - John Bleifer, actor (Highway to Heaven), dies at 90
1992 - Tina Chow, model, dies of AIDs at 41
1992 - Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (b. 1950)
1993 - Thurgood Marshall, 1st black supreme court justice (1967-91), dies 84
1993 - Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist (Cumhuriyet Murder), dies
1994 - Michalis Vranopoulos, head of Greek state bank, murdered at 48
1995 - Ian Prestt, English ornithologist, dies at 65
1995 - Victor Reinganum, artist, dies at 87
1995 - Wim H Sinnige, Amsterdam PvdA alderman of Finance, dies at 60
1996 - Sandor Iharos, athlete, dies at 65
1996 - Ursula Heathcote Nicholls, campaigner, dies at 75
1997 - Callum Alexander MacDonald, historian, dies at 49
1998 - Jay Monahan, husband of Katie Couric, dies of cancer at 42
2000 - Bobby Duncum, Jr., American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
2002 - Elie Hobeika, Lebanese Forces militia commander (b. 1956)
2002 - Peter Gzowski, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter (b. 1934)
2003 - Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (b. 1921)
2004 - Leônidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)
2005 - June Bronhill, Australian singer (b. 1929)
2005 - Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1933)
2005 - Chalkie White, English rugby union coach (b. 1929)
2006 - Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers (b. 1914)
2006 - Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician
2006 - Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
2007 - Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (b. 1916)
2007 - Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1956)
2007 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's Oldest Military Veteran (b. 1891)
2008 - Randy Salerno, co-anchor of Chicago's CBS 2 News (b. 1963)
2009 - Reg Gutteridge, British Boxing Journalist (b. 1924)
2009 - Kay Yow, North Carolina State Univ. women's basketball head coach (b. 1942)
2009 - Gérard Blanc, French singer (b. 1947)
2010 - Pernell Roberts, American actor & singer, last surviving star of Bonanza (b. 1928)
2011 - Bernd Eichinger, German film producer and director (b. 1949)
2011 - Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Musician, Bharat Ratna Laureate (b. 1922)
2012 - James Farentino, American actor, dies from heart failure at 73
2012 - Patricia Neway, American opera and musical theatre singer, dies at 83

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 25th January


Historical Events

                                             
Russian Tsar Peter the Great                      Inventor Thomas Edison                 First Inventor Alexander Graham Bell

                                             
US President John F. Kennedy                  Animator Walter Elias Disney                     264th Pope John Paul II

                                             
Singer Whitney Houston                          New York Yankees Owner                      Tennis Star Martina Hingis
                                                                     George Steinbrenner


41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
1139 - Godfried II the Young becomes duke of Brabant
1327 - King Edward III accedes to British throne
1348 - Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000
1494 - Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples
1554 - Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary
1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
1565 - Battle at Talikota India: Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army
1573 - Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
1579 - Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic
1721 - Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
1755 - Moscow University established on Tatiana Day.
1775 - Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
1787 - Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to
          capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass
1792 - The London Corresponding Society is founded.
1799 - 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
1802 - Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
1817 - Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premieres in Rome
1825 - 1st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY
1835 - Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris
1844 - Recontre between Reps Weller & Shriver, US House of Representative
1854 - Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bednost ne Porok," premieres in Moscow
1856 - Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians
1858 - Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess
           Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia
1863 - Battle of Kinston, NC
1863 - General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac
1865 - CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia
1870 - Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows
1875 - Anti-slavery society forms (NY)
1877 - Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden
1879 - The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1882 - Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms
1885 - Vincent d'Indy's "Saugefleurie," premieres
1890 - National Afro-American League forms in Chicago
1890 - Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days)
1890 - United Mine Workers of America forms
1894 - James J Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1902 - Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg
1904 - 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania
1904 - J M Synge's "Ruders to the Sea," premieres in Dublin
1905 - Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa
1906 - Del Valle Inclans "El Marqués de Bradomin," premieres in Madrid
1907 - Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to Natl Inst of Arts & Letters
1908 - John Blockx' opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp
1909 - Richard Strauss' premier of "Elektra" in Dresden
1910 - 1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf v Eng)
1910 - Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem
1915 - Alexander Graham Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF
1915 - Giordano, Sardou & Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gêne" premieres in NYC
1915 - Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (NY to SF)
1916 - Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary
1918 - Russia declared a republic of Soviets
1919 - Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later
1921 - Karel Capék's "RUR," premieres in Prague
1923 - NVV donates 100,000 gulden to mine workers of Ruhrgebied
1924 - 1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France
1929 - Bradman scores 340* for NSW v Victoria, 488 mins, 38 fours
1932 - 1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem
1932 - Bradman scores 167 NSW v Victoria, 224 mins, 22 fours
1937 - 1st broadcast of "Guiding Light" on NBC radio
1937 - Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13
1937 - Soap Opera "Guiding Light" premieres on radio
1938 - Ian Hay's "Bachelor Born," premieres in NYC
1939 - Earthquake hits Chillan Chile, 10,000 killed
1939 - Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1940 - Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland
1941 - Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a
           diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
1942 - Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus
1945 - Dan Topping, Del Webb & Larry MacPhail purchase NY Yanks for $2.8 mil
1945 - Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water
1945 - Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
1945 - NY Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping, &
1945 - West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma
1946 - Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosis," premieres in Zurich
1946 - United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor
1949 - 1st Emmy Awards: Shirley Dinsdale & Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win
1949 - 1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins
1950 - 73°F (23°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January
1951 - UN begins counter offensive in Korea
1952 - Test debut of Richie Benaud, v West Indies at the SCG
1953 - WABI TV channel 5 in Bangor, ME (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - Yuri Sergejev skates world record 500m in 40.9 sec
1955 - Jill Kinmont hits a tree & breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race
1955 - Russia ends state of war with Germany
1955 - US & Panama sign canal treaty
1955 - Columbia U scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
1956 - 96.5 cm (38.0") of rainfall, Kilauea Plantation, HI (state record)
1957 - FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for USSR
1959 - 1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to NY for $301)
1959 - Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council
1961 - 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (JFK)
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1961 - Military coup in El Salvador
1961 - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released
1964 - Beatles 1st US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox)
1964 - Echo 2, US communications satellite launched
1966 - WCMC (now WMGM) TV channel 40 in Wildwood, NJ (NBC) 1st broadcast
1968 - Risse St in Bronx named
1968 - Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father," premieres in NYC
1969 - US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris
1970 - Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H," premieres
1971 - Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders
1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state
1971 - Military coup in Uganda under Gen Idi Amin Dada
1971 - Phila mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar
1971 - WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting
1972 - 25th NHL All-Star Game: East beats West 3-2 at Minnesota
1972 - 7' Ohio State center Luke Witte is stomped in face during a brawl in a game with Minnesota
1974 - Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey
1974 - Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old
1974 - Ray Kroc, CEO (McDonald's), buys SD Padres for $12 million
1975 - 10th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin's 1st
1975 - Parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
1976 - Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut Ind v NZ Auckland
1978 - Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat
1978 - Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin & $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy
           Young Award)
1979 - 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan
1979 - Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff
1980 - Bani Sadr elected president of Iran
1980 - Dutch government demands boycott of Olympics
1980 - Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft
1980 - Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail & deported
1981 - 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US
1981 - Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death
1981 - Superbowl XV: Oakland Raiders beat Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10 in New Orleans Superbowl
           MVP: Jim Plunkett, Oakland, QB
1982 - 9th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers win
1983 - China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life
1983 - Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit
1983 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia
1985 - "Black & Blue," premieres in Paris
1985 - Test debut of Wasim Akram, v New Zealand at Auckland (2-105)
1986 - General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda
1987 - 75th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Pat Cash (63 64 36 57 63)
1987 - Superbowl XXI: NY Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Phil
           Simms, NY Giants, QB
1988 - 15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon & Whitney Houston
1988 - George Harrison releases "When We Was Fab"
1988 - Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games)
1988 - Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as pres of Suriname
1988 - VP Bush & Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush
           about his role in Iran-Contra affair
1989 - Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
1989 - Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season
1989 - Yank owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II
1990 - Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel & crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die
1990 - Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
1990 - West-Europe's strongest hurricane
1990 - The Burns' Day storm hits northwestern Europe.
1990 - Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1991 - Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49)
1991 - Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government
1991 - Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, v England Adelaide
1991 - Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2½ year run
1992 - 66th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats M Fernandez (62 63)
1992 - Dan Jansen skates world record 500m in 36.41"
1992 - Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264
1993 - 20th American Music Award: Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win
1993 - Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language
1993 - Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales dept after 97 years
1993 - Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
1994 - Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
1994 - Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55
1994 - US space probe Clementine launched
1994 - Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court
1995 - Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee
1997 - 71st Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beat Mary Pierce (62 62)
1998 - "Grease," closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1,503 performance
1998 - "Patti LaBelle On Broadway," closes at St James Theater NYC
1998 - Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement
1998 - Helen Alfredsson wins Office Depot LPGA tournament
1998 - Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Posh) & soccer David Beckham get engaged
1998 - Superbowl XXXII: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24
1998 - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth,
           killing 8 people injuring 25 others.
1999 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
2001 - A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24
2002 - Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka Magnus Manske Day.
2004 - Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
2005 - A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.
2006 - Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb
            through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-
             sequence star.
2010 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from
           Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board.
2011 - Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations,
           marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo,
           Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt.

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This Day in History for 25th January


Famous Weddings

1533 - England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date), his 2nd wife

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This Day in History for 25th January


Famous Birthdays

                                             
Poet Robert Burns (1759)                        Author Virginia Woolf (1882)              Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys (1981)


749 - Leo IV, the Khazar, Byzantine emperor (775-80)
1037 - Su Tung-p'o, [J Sotoba], China, layman/poet/administrator [or Dec 19]
1477 - Anna de Bretagne, wife of Maximilian of Austria & Louis XII
1509 - Giovanni Morone, Italian theologist/diplomat/cardinal/"heretic"
1540 - Edmund Campion, London, saint/Jesuit martyr (Decem Rationes)
1615 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (Isaac blesses Jacob)
1626 - John van de Cappelle, Amsterdam, landscape painter
1627 - Robert Boyle, Ireld, physicist/chemist/author (experiments with color)
1634 - Gaspar Fagel, lawyer/pension advisor of Holland (1672-88)
1640 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)
1688 - Juraj Jánošík, famous Slovak outlaw (d. 1713)
1708 - Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian painter
1736 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Turin, Italy, mathematician and astronomer
1739 - Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)
1750 - Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer
1759 - Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, poet (Auld Lang Syne), (d. 1796)
1766 - Hans CE Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king Willem I
1770 - Francis Burdett, British politician
1777 - Elias Canneman, Dutch liberal minister of Finance (1813-14)
1794 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
1796 - William McGillivray, Old Aberdeen, naturalist
1806 - Daniel Maclise, Irish painter
1814 - Francis Harrison Pierpont, governor (Union), died in 1899
1826 - Rembt T H P L A van Boneval Faure, Dutch MP
1834 - Pablo Hernandez Salces, composer
1839 - Seldon Connor, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1917
1841 - John Arbuthnot Fisher, Ceylon, 1st Baron Fisher/admiral of the fleet
1844 - Frederick E Kitziger, composer
1851 - Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Bondestudentar)
1851 - Jan Blockx, Belgium, opera composer (Sea Bride princess of Herberg)
1858 - Giuseppi Radiciotti, composer
1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)
1860 - Charles Curtis, (R) 31st US VP (1929-33)
1864 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (d. 1934)
1866 - Emile Vandervelde, President (1900–1918) of the International Socialist Bureau and Minister
           of 3 Belgian governments (d. 1938)
1874 - Hewlett Johnson, [Red Dean of Canterbury], English bishop
1874 - [William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, British novelist/poet (Of Human Bondage)
1878 - Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (d. 1975)
1880 - Francis George Scott, composer
1881 - Emil Ludwig, German biographer (Diana, Son of Man)
1881 - Gustave Frederic Soderlund, composer
1882 - Virginia Woolf [Adeline] , London, author (Jacob's Room, To Lighthouse), (d. 1941)
1884 - Edward Kilenyi, composer
1885 - A J Else Mauhs, German/Dutch actress (Eline Vere, L'aiglon)
1885 - Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poets and children's writers (d. 1942)
1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)
1887 - Diego Valeri, Italian author/poet (Le Gaie Tristezze)
1889 - Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer
1891 - Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Britain, actress (Cleopatra)
1891 - William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador to USSR
1896 - John Moores, British gambling magnate/multi-millionaire
1898 - Joachim Wach, German/US philosopher/sociologist (Understanding)
1899 - Ace Goodman, KC Mo, comedian (Easy Aces)
1900 - Mildred Dunnock, Balt, actress (Baby Doll, Nun's Story)
1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukraine, genetist/writer (Mankind Evolving)
1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986)
1901 - Eric Brown, architect
1901 - Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (d. 1982)
1902 - Gerard P M Knuvelder, Dutch literature historian (Vocation, Kitty)
1902 - Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (d. 1975)
1903 - "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker
1904 - Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Het Parool)
1908 - Lord Iliffe, English publisher (Coventry Evening Telegraph/Autocar)
1908 - W H V "Hopper" Levett, cricket keeper (England in 1 Test in Calcutta)
1910 - Harold Watkinson, politician/businessman
1910 - Hendrik Willem Hans Osieck, composer
1911 - Julia Frances Smith, composer
1912 - Lucius E Burch Jr, US lawyer/civil rights leader
1913 - Luis Marden, American photojournalist (d. 2003)
1915 - Michael Duane, educationalist
1917 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist Nobel Laureate (d. 2003)
1917 - Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician (d. 1992)
1918 - Ken Mayers, actor (Robbie Robertson-Space Patrol)
1918 - Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster
1919 - Edwin Newman, NYC, newscaster/journalist/author (NBC-TV, Comment)
1919 - Patricia Louise Dalton, chair (Sherlock Holmes Society of London)
1921 - Alfred Reed, composer
1921 - Russell Reading Braddon, Australian author
1922 - Jules P de Palm, Antilles writer
1922 - Raymond Baxter, British TV host/author (Fast Lady)
1923 - Eva Zeller, writer
1923 - Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (d. 2003)
1923 - Shirley Mason, American psychiatric patient (Commonly known as "Sybil") (d. 1998)
1924 - Lou "The Toe" Groza, AAFC, NFL tackle, kicker (Cleveland Browns)
1925 - Eric Dempster, cricketer (NZ slow bowl of mid-50's, bowling avg 109.5)
1925 - Giorgos Zampetas, Greek musician and songwriter (d. 1992)
1927 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, composer
1927 - Gregg Palmer, SF, actor (Scream, To Hell & Back)
1927 - Seung Sahn, zen teacher (Korean line)
1927 - Fernie Flaman [Ferdinand], Dysart, SK, CAN, Hall of Fame NHL player (Boston Bruins and
           Toronto Maple Leafs), (d. 2012)
1928 - Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Georgia, foreign minister of USSR (-91)
1928 - Jérôme Choquette, Quebec lawyer and politician
1930 - Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (d. 1944)
1931 - Dean Jones, Decatur Ala, actor (Ensign O'Toole, Company, Love Bug)
1931 - Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter)
1931 - Paavo J Haavikko, finnish writer/poet/husband of Marja-Liisa Vartio
1931 - Stikkan, Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur
1933 - Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines
1934 - Elizabeth Allen, Jersey City NJ, actress (Laura-Bracken's World)
1935 - António Ramalho Eanes, 17th President of Portugal
1936 - Dan Schaefer, (Rep-R-CO, 1983- )
1936 - Diana Hyland, Cleve Hgts Ohio, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough)
1937 - Don Maynard, NFL receiver (NY Jets), #13
1937 - Kathleen Tynan Halton, writer
1937 - Ange-Félix Patassé, President of the Central African Republic
1938 - Betico Croes, Arubian politician (Status Aparte)
1938 - Etta James [Jamesette Hawkins], Los Angeles, California, singer (Roll with Me, At Last), (d.
           2012)
1938 - Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga author (d. 1998)
1938 - Leiji Matsumoto, sJapanese creator of anime.
1939 - Gabriel Romanus, Swedish politician
1941 - Elzie "Buddy" Baker, race-car driver
1941 - Gregory Sierra, American actor
1942 - Carl Eller, American football player
1942 - Eusébio, Portuguese footballer
1943 - Tobe Hooper, American film director
1944 - Anita Pallenberg, Italian model
1945 - Leigh Taylor-Young, Wash DC, actress (Peyton Place, Alice B Toklas)
1946 - Josephine M Verspaget, sociologist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1946 - Ronnie Brandon, rocker (McCoys)
1946 - Silvio Blatter, writer
1947 - Tostão, Brazilian footballer
1947 - Ángel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer
1948 - Gueorgui Chichkine, Russian painter
1948 - Ros Kelly, Australian politician
1949 - John Cooper Clarke, English punk-poet
1950 - Gloria Naylor, US author (Women of Brewster Place)
1950 - Michael Cotton, rocker (Tubes)
1951 - Steve Prefontaine, Coos Bay Oregon, 5K (Olympics-4th-1972)
1952 - Sara Mandiano, French singer and songwriter
1952 - Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002)
1953 - Malcolm Green, rocker (Split Enz-I Got You)
1953 - The Honky Tonk Man, American professional wrestler
1953 - Mark Weil, Uzbek theatre director (d. 2007)
1954 - Condredge Holloway, Alabama, CFL quarterback (Ottawa, Toronto)
1954 - Richard Finch, rock bassist (KC & Sunshine-That's the Way I Like It)
1954 - Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer
1954 - Kim Gandy, American feminist
1956 - Andy Cox, rock guitarist (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy)
1957 - Edmund Theodore Sylvers, rocker (Sylvers)
1957 - Jeff Gossett, NFL punter (Oakland Raiders)
1957 - Jenifer Lewis, actress (Girl 6, Meteor Man, Sister Act)
1957 - Martha Elizabeth Thomsen, Moses Lake Wash, playmate (May, 1980)
1957 - Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish politician
1957 - Andrew P. Harris, American politician
1958 - Dinah Manoff, NYC, actress (Elaine-Soap, Carol Weston-Empty Nest)
1958 - Gary Brian Tibbs, London, rock bassist (Adam & The Ants, Roxy Music)
1958 - Harti Weirather, Austrian alpine skier
1961 - Michele Tobin, Chicago Ill, actress (Fitzpatricks)
1961 - Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean politician
1962 - Chris Chelios, Chicago, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks, Team USA)
1963 - Carl Fysh, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1963 - Joe Lloyd, Highland Park Ill, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Space Coast)
1964 - Bob Sweeney, Concord, NHL center (NY Islanders, Calgary Flames)
1964 - Chip Foster, actor (Chip & Pepper's Surf's Up Saturday)
1964 - Pepper Foster, actress (Chip & Pepper's Surf's Up Saturday)
1964 - William Thomas Andrade, Fall River MA, PGA golfer (1991 Kemper Open)
1965 - Brian Holman, Winfield Ks, pitcher (Cin Reds, Seattle Mariners)
1965 - Esa Tikkanen, Helsinki FI, NHL left wing (Panthers, Canucks, Oly-B-98)
1966 - John [Vo] Velyvis, North Adams Mass, rower (Olympics-1996)
1966 - Mark Schlereth, NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1966 - Paul Ranheim, St Louis, NHL left wing (Hartford Whalers)
1966 - Pavel Torgajev, Nizhnij Novgorod, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames)
1966 - Richie Lewis, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1966 - Chet Culver, American politician, governor of Iowa
1967 - Mario Brunetta, hockey goaltender (Team Italy 1998)
1967 - Marty Calder, St Catharine ON, 62 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-12-92,96)
1967 - Randy Mckay, Montreal, NHL right wing (NJ Devils)
1967 - Mark Bamford, American writer/director
1968 - Lynette Brooky, NZ, golfer (NZ Open 1993/94)
1968 - Roosevelt Collins, WLAF DL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - Tim De Leede, cricketer (Holland batsman 1996 World Cup)
1969 - Heidi Wolfgramm, rocker (Jets)
1969 - Jesse Harte, Rome Ga, heavy metal vocalist (Southgang-Tainted Angel)
1969 - Nolan Harrison, NFL defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders, Pitt Steelers)
1969 - Penny Moore, WNBA guard/forward (Charlotte Sting)
1969 - Kina, American singer
1970 - Chris Mills, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers, NY Knicks)
1970 - Milt Stegall, CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 - Pau Coll, WLAF kicker/safety (Barcelona Dragons)
1970 - Scott Hendrickson, CFL guard (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1971 - Herman Smith, NFL/WLAF defensive end (Tampa Bay Bucs, London Monarchs)
1971 - Jordan Young, Thunder Bay Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Purdue)
1971 - Kerry Taylor, US baseball pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1971 - Kevin Williams, receiver/kick returner (Az Cardinals, Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Konstantin Matoussevich, Israel, Men's high jump (Oly-7th-1996)
1971 - Tommie Jones, WLAF cornerback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Vincent Brisby, NFL wide receiver (New England Patriots)
1971 - Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver
1971 - China Kantner, San Francisco, American actress and daughter of Grace Slick
1971 - Ana Ortiz, American actress and singer
1973 - Anthony Harris, linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1973 - Elvis Presley Jr, alleged son of Elvis Presley
1973 - Marco Battaglia, tight end (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 - Rodney Young, NFL safety (NY Giants)
1973 - Terrell Wade, Rembert SC, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1973 - Geoff Johns, American comic book writer
1973 - Chris Guy, American professional wrestler
1974 - Adam Meadows, offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 - Daniel Sproule, Australian field hockey halfback (Olympics-96)
1974 - Jonathan Bryan Colling, Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys)
1974 - Robert Budreau, Canadian film director
1975 - John Piersma, US, 200m/400m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-4th-96)
1975 - Dat Phan, Vietnamese stand-up comedian
1975 - Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
1975 - Tim Montgomery, American athlete
1976 - Tara Fleming, N York Ontario, LPGA golfer (1992 LPGA Corning-10th)
1976 - Mario Haberfeld, Brazilian racing car driver
1978 - Christine Lakin, actress (Alicia Lambert-Step by Step)
1978 - Mandy Carraway, Miss Kansas Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist
1978 - Jason Roberts, English-born footballer
1978 - Derrick Turnbow, Major League Baseball Player
1979 - Rodrigo Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
1979 - Pi Hongyan, French badminton player
1979 - Gabe Jennings, American distance runner
1980 - Amanda Michelle Burns, Miss West Virginia Teen USA (1997)
1980 - Xavi, Catalan Spanish footballer
1980 - Efstathios Tavlaridis, Greek footballer
1980 - Michelle McCool, American professional wrestler
1981 - Tose Proeski, Macedonian Singer (d. 2007)
1981 - Francis Jeffers, English footballer
1981 - Alicia Keys [Cook], New York NY, singer-songwriter (Fallin, Where Do We Go From Here)
1982 - Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer and actor
1982 - The-Dream, singer
1982 - Shawna Waldron, American actress
1983 - Andrée Watters, Canadian singer
1984 - Robinho, Brazilian footballer
1985 - Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer
1985 - Acie Law IV, National Basketball Association player
1986 - Chris O'Grady, English footballer
1986 - Shahriar Nafees, Bangladeshi cricketer
1987 - Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
1988 - Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
1989 - Sheryfa Luna, French singer

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This Day in History for 25th January


Famous Deaths

Gangster Al Capone (1947)


389 - Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)
477 - Geiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans
844 - Pope Gregory IV
1067 - Emperor Yingzong of China (b. 1032)
1138 - Anacletus II, [Pietro Pierleone], Jewish anti-pope (1130-38), dies
1139 - Godfried I, with the Beard, duke of Brabant/earl of Leuven, dies
1366 - Henry Suso, German mystic
1431 - Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
1494 - Ferdinand I, cruel king of Naples, dies
1547 - Lieven Algoet, Flemish humanist, dies
1573 - Hirate Hirohide, Japanese samurai, dies at the Battle of Mikatagahara (b. 1553)
1586 - Lucas Cranach "the Young", German painter, dies at 70
1640 - Robert Burton, author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies
1670 - Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
1726 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
1733 - Reinier V van Hompech, Dutch gen-maj cavalry, dies
1733 - Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London (b. 1652)
1744 - Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer, dies at 64
1751 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (b. 1675)
1820 - Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79
1821 - Johan Valckenier, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 62
1829 - William Shield, composer, dies at 80
1852 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)
1855 - Dorothy Wordsworth, writer, dies at 83
1875 - Leopold Jansa, composer, dies at 79
1881 - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)
1882 - Peter Singer, composer, dies at 71
1896 - Frans C Baeckelmans, Flemish architect (Court of Justice), dies at 68
1896 - Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy (1878-96), dies
1899 - Alfredo d'Escragnolle, French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies
1906 - Joseph Wheeler II, Confederate General, dies at 70
1906 - Pierre L Goossens, Belgian archbishop of Malines/Cardinal, dies at 78
1907 - René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
1908 - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
1908 - Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)
1910 - Leon Walras, French economist (School of Lausanne), dies at 75
1917 - Edwin Tyler, cricketer (slow-lefty played once for England 1896), dies
1920 - Amadeo Modigliani, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 35
1921 - Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych, composer, dies at 43
1925 - Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (b. 1858)
1940 - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899)
1942 - Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer, dies at 78
1947 - Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of syphilis at 48
1949 - Emil Axman, composer, dies at 61
1949 - Makino Nobuaki, Japanese statesman　(b. 1861)
1952 - Sveinn Bjornsson, Danish 1st pres of Iceland (1944-52), dies at 70
1957 - Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
1957 - Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese industrialist and Minister of Commerce and Industry (b. 1873)
1960 - Diana Barrymore, actress (Ladies Courageous), dies at 38
1960 - Rutland Boughton, composer, dies at 82
1963 - Wilson Kettle, Nfld, dies at 102, leaving 582 living descendents
1965 - Staff Nees, Flemish composer (Maria-oratorio), dies at 63
1968 - Virginia Maskell, actress (Only Two Can Play), dies at 31
1969 - Irene Castle, English dancer (b. 1887)
1970 - Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female DA in NY, dies at 70
1970 - Marie Benavente, actress (Paradise), dies at 84
1970 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese television writer and producer (Ultraman) (b. 1901)
1972 - Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1975 - Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (The Power of Women), dies at 78
1975 - Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa (b. 1896)
1977 - Donald Kerr, actor (Devil Bat, Killer Bats), dies at 85
1978 - Tango Duke, dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse
1979 - J Robertson Hare, actor (Fighting Stock), dies at 87
1980 - David Newell, actor (Dangerous Curves, White Heat), dies at 75
1980 - Queenie Watts, English actress (b. 1926)
1981 - Adele Marie Astaire, sister of Fred Astaire, dies at 82
1981 - Richard Talmadge, actor (Speed Reporter), dies
1981 - [Adele] Marie Astaire, actress (Last Man on Earth, Millie), dies at 82
1982 - Mihail A Suslov, Soviet party ideologist, dies at 79
1986 - Ernst Schnabel, writer, dies at 72
1986 - Horace Smith, cricketer (1 Test NZ v Eng 1933, one wkt at 113), dies
1987 - Emil Hlobil, composer, dies at 85
1988 - Colleen Moore, actress (These Girls Won't Talk), dies at 87
1990 - Alexander Lockwood, actor (Duel), dies
1990 - Ava Gardner, actress (Barefoot Contessa), dies of pneumonia at 67
1990 - Ian Dudley Hardy, entertainer, dies
1991 - Stanley Brock, actor (Tin Men), dies of heart attack at 59
1992 - John Touchstone, actor (Across Five Aprils), dies of cirrhosis at 59
1992 - Mahmoud Riad, sec-gen of Arab League (1972-79), dies
1992 - Nico Schuyt, Dutch composer, dies at 70
1992 - Vernon William Reed Sr, singer, dies after a long illness at 73
1994 - Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician (Regular Expressions), dies at 85
1995 - Peter Black, TV critic, dies at 82
1995 - Tom Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Brave Dodo), dies at 62
1995 - William Sylvester, actor (2001, Devil Doll, Blind Corner), dies at 72
1996 - Jonathan Larson, composer, dead Aortic aneurysm at 35
1996 - Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director, dies at 68
1997 - Herbert Eugene Caen, columnist, dies at 80
1997 - Jean Dixon, psychic (Gift of Prophecy), dies of a heart attack at 79
1998 - Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afganistan in (1963-65), dies
1999 - Sarah "Sadie" Delany, American author (b. 1889)
1999 - Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (b. 1924)
1999 - Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
2003 - Samuel Weems, Arkansas judge (b. 1936)
2004 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)
2004 - Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
2005 - Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
2005 - William Augustus Bootle, American judge (b. 1902)
2005 - Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)
2005 - Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (b. 1907)
2005 - Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)
2005 - Nettie Witziers-Timmer, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
2006 - Anna Malle, adult film star (b. 1967)
2008 - Christopher Allport, American actor (b. 1947)
2008 - Evelyn Barbirolli,English musician (b. 1911)
2009 - Kim Manners, American television producer and director (b. 1951)
2010 - Ali Hasan al-Majid aka Chemical Ali, Iraqi defense minister and military commander (b. 1941)

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This Day in History for 26th January


Historical Events

                                             
Classical music prodigy Mozart               Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde                          Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe

                                             
Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco               Singer Buddy Holly                        Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

                                             
Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra                      Singer Whitney Houston                         Radio shock jock Howard Stern


66 - 5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1340 - English king Edward III proclaimed king of France
1500 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
1531 - Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die
1564 - The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction
           between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
1589 - Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
1654 - Portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife
1666 - France declares war on England & Munster
1689 - Jean Racine's "Esther," premieres in Saint-Cyr
1697 - Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before
          going to bed that same night
1699 - Venice, Poland & Austria sign Treaty of Carlowitz with Ottoman Empire
1700 - The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as
           evidenced by Japanese records.
1736 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
1748 - England, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty
1784 - Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol
1788 - Captain Arthur Phillip and british colonists hoist the English flag on Botany Bay, New South
           Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day
1789 - John Odell signs contract for £336 to build St Peter's church (Bronx)
1790 - Mozart's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" premieres in Vienna
1797 - Russia, Prussia & Austria sign treaty
1802 - Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library
1808 - Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in
           Australia.
1833 - Gaetano Dinozetti's opera "Lucrezia Borgia," premieres in Milan
1837 - Michigan admitted as 26th US state
1838 - Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
1841 - Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
1850 - 1st German-language daily newspaper in US published, NYC
1861 - Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede
1862 - Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order
1863 - American Civil War: Massachusetts Governor receives permission from Secretary of War to
           raise a militia organization for men of African descent (54th Massachusetts Regiment)
1870 - Virginia rejoins US
1871 - British Rugby Union forms
1871 - US income tax repealed
1875 - Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green
1881 - Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl
1882 - France government of Gambetta falls
1884 - 1st Dutch Wagner version of Elizabeth aria
1885 - Muhammad Ahmed ("Mahdi") rebels conquer Khartoum
1886 - Karl Benz patents 1st auto with burning motor
1887 - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians
1891 - Oscar Wilde's "Duchess of Padua," premieres in NYC
1897 - Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army
1900 - Henrik Ibsen's "Naar vi Dode Vaaguer," premieres in Stuttgart
1905 - Arnold Schoenberg's "Pelleas und Melissande," premieres in Vienna
1905 - Han Yong-woon [Bongwan, Manhae] (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea
1905 - World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found
1907 - 1st federal corrupt election practices law passed
1907 - J M Synge's "Playboy of Western World" opens; police are called
1907 - The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and
           remains the oldest military rifle still in official use.
1910 - Heavy rains cause floods in Paris
1911 - Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane, San Diego
1911 - Richard Strauss's opera "Die Rosenkavalier" premieres, Dresden
1913 - Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for being a pro
1914 - 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike
1914 - Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index
1915 - Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo established
1918 - Pres Hoover calls for "wheatless" & "meatless" days for war effort
1920 - Amadeo Modigliani's mistress jumps out of a window
1920 - Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he
           later sold to his former employer.
1921 - Soccer team GVAV of Groningen Neth forms
1921 - Toronto St Pat Corb Denneny scores 6 goals vs Hamilton Tigers
1922 - Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Pastoral Symphony," premieres in London
1924 - Charles Jewtraw, US 500m skater, takes 1st Winter Olympics gold medal
1926 - Television 1st demonstrated (J L Baird, London)
1927 - Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children," premieres in NYC
1929 - Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence
1930 - Cleveland's Terminal Tower opens (52 stories)
1931 - Hungary-Austria sign peace treaty
1931 - Lynn Riggs' "Green Grow the Lilacs," premieres in NYC
1932 - British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead)
1932 - KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW
1934 - Bradman scores 128 NSW v Victoria, 96 mins, 17 fours 4 sixes
1934 - Nazi Germany & Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years
1934 - The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
1934 - German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
1939 - Federal Hall National Monument established
1939 - Filming begins on "Gone With the Wind"
1939 - Franco conquers Barcelona
1940 - Nazi's forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains
1942 - 1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland
1942 - Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel
1945 - Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp
1947 - KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die
1948 - Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed
1949 - WHIO TV channel 7 in Dayton, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion
1951 - Mel Ott & Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1954 - Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
1956 - 7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
1956 - Buddy Holly's 1st formal recording session
1956 - Hank Greenberg & Joe Cronin are elected to Hall of Fame
1956 - Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR
1957 - Bernanos & Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites," premieres
1957 - Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms
1957 - India annexes Kashmir
1957 - Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as Pres of Milwaukee Braves
1958 - H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli minister of Defense
1958 - Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It"
1958 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lake Worth Open Golf Invitational
1958 - Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
1959 - Italy government of Fanfani resigns
1959 - KOKH TV channel 25 in Oklahoma City, OK (IND/PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - High-school basketball sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points
1960 - Oakland enters AFL
1960 - Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on 23rd ballot
1961 - "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Elvis Presley peaks to #1
1961 - 1st woman "personal physician to president"-JG Travell
1962 - Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's
1962 - Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard
1962 - David Diamond's 7th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia
1962 - US launches Ranger 3, misses Moon by 22,000-mi (37,000-km)
1962 - "Twist" is impure & bans it from all Catholic schools
1963 - "Milk & Honey" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 543 perfs
1963 - Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone
1965 - South Vietnam milt coup under general Nguyen Khanh
1966 - Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:06.2)
1966 - The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1967 - Chicago Blizzard strikes with a record 23 inches of snow fall causing 800 buses and 50,000
           automobiles to be abandoned
1968 - Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die
1969 - "Red, White, & Maddox" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 41 performances
1970 - Pendleton, Ford & Cryer's "Last Sweet Days of Isaac," premieres in NYC
1971 - Charles Manson convicted of murder
1971 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes
1972 - Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute
1973 - Belgium government of Leburton forms
1975 - Edward Albee's "Seascape," premieres in NYC
1976 - 6th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 23-20
1976 - Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals
1976 - David Mamet's "American Buffalo," premieres in NYC
1976 - Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon
1976 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 23-20
1977 - Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai & Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple
          twist lift, Helsinki
1978 - Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination: Void"
1978 - International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit
1978 - Mario Soares forms Portuguese government
1978 - Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40
1979 - "Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS's vast wasteland
1979 - Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Neth
1980 - 175,000 pay to hear FRANK SINATRA sing in Rio de Janeiro!
1980 - Islanders & Whalers play a NHL penalty-free game
1980 - Israel & Egypt establish diplomatic relations
1980 - Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4½ minutes
1981 - Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 v Australia at Adelaide Oval
1982 - Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38, 5 within 2:37 vs Penguins
1982 - Mauno Koivisto elected president of Finland
1983 - Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from Calif
1984 - Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders
1984 - US navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters & a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst, NJ
1985 - 42th Golden Globes: Amadeus wins
1985 - Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 50th goal in 49th game of season
1986 - Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champ
1986 - Val Skinner wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1986 - Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquerors Kampala Uganda
1986 - Superbowl XX: Chicago Bears beat NE Patriots, 46-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP:
           Richard Dent, Chicago, DE
1987 - 14th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie & Alabama
1987 - Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title
1988 - "Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 4,000+ perfs
1988 - Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor
1989 - "Black & Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 829 performances
1989 - AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988
1989 - Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG
1989 - Madison Sq Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan
1989 - Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia v West Indies, Sydney
1989 - US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus
1990 - Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic
1990 - Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking black female in a
           major-league front office)
1991 - "Few Good Men" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 497 performances
1991 - 65th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats J Novotna (57 63 61)
1991 - Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church
1991 - Houston guard Vernon Maxwell is 4th NBAer to score 30 pts in a quarter
1991 - Jan Stenerud becomes 1st pure placekicker to make NFL Hall of Fame
1991 - NY Lotto pays $90 million to nine winner (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50)
1992 - "Little Hotel on the Side" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 41 perfs
1992 - 80th Australian Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats S Edberg (63 36 64 62)
1992 - Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect
1992 - Superbowl XXVI: Wash Red Skins beat Buffalo Bills, 37-24 in Minn Superbowl MVP: Mark
           Rypien, Washington, QB
1993 - West Indies defeat Australia by one run in 4th Test at Adelaide
1995 - NJ Governor Christine Whitman, dedicates a rest stop to Howard Stern
1996 - "Les Miserables," opens at Musichall Theatre, Duisburg
1997 - "Ideal Husband" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 308 performances
1997 - 85th Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Carlos Moya (62 63 63)
1997 - Brunswick World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by John Gant
1997 - Superbowl XXXI: Green Bay Packers beat NE Patriots, 35-21 in New Orleans
1998 - 25th American Music Award: Spice Girls & Babyface win
1998 - Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip
1998 - Pres Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual
          relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
2001 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
2004 - President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
2004 - A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing Sperm
           whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
2005 - Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American
           woman to hold the post.
2005 - Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near
           Los Angeles.
2006 - Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service.

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This Day in History for 26th January


Famous Weddings

1940 - Actor Ronald Raegan (28) weds Academy Award-winning actress Jane Wyman (23) at the
          Wee Kirk o' the Heather church in Glendale, California
1990 - Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking black female in a
           major-league front office)
2005 - Professional golfer champion Arnold Palmer (75) weds Kathleen Gawthrop in an intimate
          ceremony at a cottage on the beach at Turtle Bay Resort

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 26th January


Famous Birthdays

                                             
WW2 General                                            Hall of Fame rocker                              NHL all-time top scorer
Douglas MacArthur (1880)                         Eddie Van Halen (1955)                           Wayne Gretzky (1961)

1497 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)
1541 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)
1613 - Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer
1667 - Henricus Zwaardecroon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
1708 - William Hayes, composer
1714 - Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Bird Cage)
1715 - Claude Helvetius, Paris France, philosopher
1716 - George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
1722 - Prestonpans
1722 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805)
1742 - Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, composer
1748 - Emmanuel Aloys Forster, composer
1763 - Charles XIV, French marshall, king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44)
1770 - Alexander Carlyle, Moderator of General Assembly
1771 - Jacob Andries van Braam, colonial director (Suriname)
1778 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis)
1781 - Ludwig Joachim "Achim" von Arnim, German poet (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
1786 - Benjamin Robert Haydon, Plymouth, painter (Waiting for The Times)
1813 - Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876
1814 - Rufus King, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
1816 - Lloyd Tilghman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1819 - Abner Doubleday, Union general-major/inventor (baseball) [or Jun 26]
1826 - Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady (1862-76)
1828 - Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer
1831 - Mary Mapes Dodge, NYC, writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates)
1832 - George Shiras Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924)
1852 - Frederick Corder, composer
1852 - Pierre Brazza, explorer/colonial administrator (French Africa)
1855 - Arthur Hervey, composer
1857 - the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
1871 - Warner Fabian, [Samuel H Adams], US journalist/writer (Average Jones)
1877 - Kees van Dongen, Netherland, French painter
1878 - A W "Dave" Nourse, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of South African cricket)
1879 - Ludovicus H [Lode] Baekelmans, Flemish (stage)author (Tille)
1880 - Douglas MacArthur, Little Rock Ark, general (WW II), he did return!, (d. 1964)
1884 - Edward Sapir, Germany, linguist/antropologist (indians)
1884 - Roy Chapman Andrews, US, scientist/explorer
1886 - Joannes A Veraart, Dutch economist/MP (Jews of the Netherlands)
1887 - Enrique E Ecker, Curacao, bacteriologist
1887 - Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, US lt-admiral (WW II-Task Force 58)
1887 - François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915)
1891 - Ilya G Ehrenburg, Kiev Ukraine, writer (Fall of Paris, The Thaw)
1891 - Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (d. 1973)
1891 - Wilder Penfield, American-born Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976)
1892 - Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978)
1893 - Bessie Coleman, 1st black airplane pilot
1893 - Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976)
1899 - Wyllis Cooper, Pekin Ill, TV narrator (Volume One)
1900 - Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
1901 - Ervin Major, composer
1902 - Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer
1902 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer/essayist (Carnaval of the Citizens)
1902 - Romney Brent, Saltillo Mexico, actor/writer (Dinner at the Ritz)
1904 - Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail)
1904 - Sean MacBride, Dublin, statesman/Amnesty Intl co-founder (Nobel '74)
1904 - Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)
1905 - Charles Lane, SF California, actor (Homer-Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), (d. 2007)
1905 - John Carmel Heenan, Essex, cardinal archbp of Westminster (1963-75)
1905 - Maria Augusta von Trapp, Austria, singer, inspired "Sound of Music"
1905 - Marquess of Bath, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1907 - Eddie Ballantine, Chicago, orchestra leader (Don McNeill TV Club)
1907 - Henry Cotton, English golfer (British Open 1934, 1937, 1948)
1908 - Stephane Grappelli, French jazz/violinist
1908 - Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)
1910 - Elmar Klos, Czech director (Adrift)
1910 - Marijan Lipovsek, composer
1910 - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (d. 1989)
1911 - Norbert Schultze, composer
1911 - Polykarp Kusch, US, nuclear physicist: Nobel 1955
1912 - Cora Baird, NYC, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen, songwriter (Love & Marriage)
1913 - William Prince, Nichols NY, actor (City in Fear, Cyrano de Bergerac)
1914 - Kaye Webb, English writer/publisher (Puffin Club)
1914 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (d. 2006)
1915 - William Hopper, NYC, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason)
1916 - Lothar Jensch, composer
1918 - Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian president (1967-90)
1918 - Philip José Farmer, American writer
1919 - K C Ibrahim, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests India v WI 1948-49)
1920 - Derek Bond, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Nicholas Nickelby)
1920 - John Logan Gorlay, journalist
1921 - Akio Morita, Kasugaya Japan, CEO (Sony)
1921 - Frantisek Chaun, composer
1921 - Johannes Driessler, composer
1921 - Eddie Barclay, French producer (Barclay Records) (d. 2005)
1922 - Michael Bentine, England, author/comedian (Reluctant Jester)
1923 - Anne Jeffreys, NC, actress (Dick Tracy, Topper, General Hospital)
1924 - Warren Frank Benson, composer
1924 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998)
1924 - Alice Babs, Swedish singer
1925 - David Jenkins, Bishop (Durham)
1925 - Desmond Cassidi, British admiral
1925 - Joan Leslie, Detroit, actress (High Sierra, Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1925 - Paul Newman, Cleve, racer/popcorn mogul/actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler)
1925 - Claude Ryan, Quebec newspaper editor (d. 2004)
1926 - Charles Tidbury, former chairman (Whitbread & Company)
1926 - Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator
1926 - Ronnie Hilton, singer (Moonraker)
1926 - Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar
1927 - Jose Simon Azcona Hoyo, president of Honduras (1986-90)
1927 - William Redfield, NYC, actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop, Marriage)
1927 - Bob Nieman, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1928 - Eartha Kitt, SC, singer/actress (Catwoman-Batman)
1928 - Gene Snyder, (Rep-R-KY, 1963-65, 67- )
1928 - Philip Jose Farmer, Indiana, science fiction novelist (Riverworld)
1928 - Roger Vadim, France, director (And God Created Women, Barbarella)
1929 - Jules Feiffer, NYC, cartoonist (Passionella)/author (Little Murders)
1929 - M R Turner, publisher
1929 - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (d. 2000)
1930 - A N Solomons, chairman (Singer & Friedlander)
1930 - Anne Macfarlane, Master (Court of Protection)
1930 - Harry "Buddy" Melges Jr, Wisc, yachter (Oly-gold/bronze-1964, 72)
1931 - Mary Murphy, Wash DC, actress (A Man Alone, Maggie-Investigators)
1932 - Christopher Price, Director (Leeds Metropolitan U)
1932 - George H Clements, first Roman Catholic Priest to adopt a child.
1932 - Ronald Allison, British author/broadcaster
1932 - Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer
1933 - Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist
1934 - Huey "Piano" Smith, pianist (Having a Good Time)
1934 - Roger Landry, Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher
1935 - Bob Uecker, Milwaukee Wisc, catcher/actor (Mr Belvedere)
1935 - Henry Jordan, Emporia Va, NFL defensive tackle (Cleveland, Green Bay)
1935 - Peter Ronnefeld, composer
1935 - Zbigniew Penherski, composer
1936 - Noel Harrison, London, singer/actor (Mark-Girl from UNCLE)
1936 - Sal Buscema, American comic book artist
1937 - Gerrit Gerritse, Dutch MP (CDA)
1937 - Joseph Saidu Momoh, gen/president (Sierra Leone)
1937 - S J B Langdale, Headmaster (Shrewsbury School)
1938 - Margaret Daly, British MEP
1939 - Marshall Lieb, rocker (Teddy Bears)
1941 - Henry Jaglom, London England, actor (Eating, Lucky Ducks, Always)
1941 - Scott Glenn, Pittsburgh, actor (Right Stuff, Personal Best, Backdraft)
1942 - Nigel Walmsley, chairman (Carlton UK Television)
1942 - William McLennan, CEO (Central Statistical Office)
1942 - Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (d. 2001)
1943 - Jean Knight, vocalist (Mr Big Stuff)
1943 - Peter Kenton Winkler, composer
1943 - Sherian Grace Cadoria, brigadier general
1943 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
1944 - Angela Yvonne Davis, black activist/professor
1945 - Mick Hill, cricketer (NSW all-rounder 1964-75)
1945 - Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987)
1946 - Christopher Hampton, Azores, playwright (Oviri, Hotel du Lac)
1946 - Gene Siskel, movie critic (Siskel & Ebert)
1946 - Timothy Clifford, director (National Galleries of Scotland)
1947 - Patrick Dewaere, [PJMH Bordeaux], France, actor (Les Valseuses)
1947 - Michel Sardou, French singer
1948 - Corky Laing, rocker (Mountain)
1949 - Derek Holt, rocker (Climax Blues Band)
1949 - Paul Nurse, dr/director-general elect (Imperial Cancer Research Fund)
1949 - Jonathan Carroll, American author
1950 - David Strathairn, actor (LA Confidential, Eight Men Out)
1950 - Jorg Haider, Austrian polical leader (Austrian Freedom Pary)
1950 - Janet Lupo, American model
1951 - Andy Hummell, Memphis Tn, rock bassist (Big Star)
1951 - David Briggs, rock guitarist (Little River Band-Help is on it's Way)
1951 - Jarmila Kratochvilova, Czech, 400m/800m runner (Olympic-silver-1980)
1951 - Walt Willey, Ottawa Ill, actor (Jackson Montgomery-All My Children)
1952 - Mario Runco Jr, Bronx NY, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 44, 54, 77)
1952 - Thomas Edward Henderson, SC, basketballer (Olympic-silver-1972)
1953 - Andree C van Es, Dutch MP (PSP)
1953 - Bert Heerink, Amsterdam, rock vocalist
1953 - Lucinda Williams, singer
1953 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
1954 - Kim Hughes, cricketer (brilliant Australian batsman 1977-84)
1954 - Martin Dunn, British editor (Today)
1955 - Lucia Mendez, Mexico, spanish singer (Lucia es Luna Moreno)
1955 - Eddie Van Halen, Nijmegan Neth, rock guitarist (Van Halen-Jump, 1984)
1956 - Lisa Boray, [Schulte Nordholt], Dutch singer (Lovers Until the End)
1956 - Simon Howard, English large landowner (Castle Howard)
1957 - Ashok Malhotra, cricketer (Indian batsman in 7 Tests 1982-84)
1957 - Shivlal Yadav, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 102 Test wickets 1979-87)
1958 - Anita Baker, Toledo Oh, singer (Giving You the Best That I Got)
1958 - B James Lowry, rocker (Boys Band)
1958 - Dave Rummells, Cedar Rapids IA, Nike golfer (1993 Buick-2nd)
1958 - Ellen DeGeneres, New Orleans LA, comediene (Ellen Morgan-Ellen)
1958 - Norman Lamont Hassan, British reggae musician (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1958 - Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer
1960 - Gary Plummer, NFL linebacker (San Diego Chargers, SF 49ers)
1960 - Jeanette Bolden, LA California, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1960 - Road Warrior Animal, American professional wrestler
1960 - Charlie Gillingham, American musician (Counting Crows)
1961 - Wayne Gretzky, Brantford Ont, NHL great scorer (Oiler, King, Rangers)
1962 - Roshan Guneratne, cricketer (wicketless in only Test SL v Aust 1983)
1962 - Tim May, cricketer (Australian off-spinner 1987-95)
1962 - Tom Keifer, rock guitarist/vocalist (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1962 - Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer
1963 - Andrew Ridgeley, England, rock guitarist (Wham-Wake Me Up)
1963 - Jazzie B, [Beresford Romeo], English rapper (Soul II Soul-Feel Free)
1963 - Simon O'Donnell, cricketer (Deniliquin NSW ODI all-rounder 1985-90)
1963 - José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager
1964 - Paul Johansson, American actor
1965 - Allison Hossack, Manitoba, actress (Olivia-Another World)
1965 - Lou Frazier, US baseball outfielder (Montreal Expos)
1965 - Tim McDonald, safety (San Francisco 49ers)
1965 - Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast
1965 - Thomas Östros, Swedish politician
1967 - Jeff Branson, US baseball infielder (Cincinnati Reds)
1967 - Katie Peterson-Parker, Bethesda MD, LPGA golfer (1995 Oldsmobile-5th)
1967 - Tim Pugh, Lake Tahoe CA, pitcher (Cincinnati Reds, KC Royals)
1967 - Pradip Somasundaran, Indian playback singer
1968 - Eric Davis, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers, Carolina Panthers)
1968 - Reggie Jordan, NBA guard (Minn Timberwolves)
1968 - Ravi Teja, Tollywood film actor
1970 - Dan Carlson, US baseball pitcher (SF Giants)
1970 - Dean Malkoc, Vancouver, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1970 - Ronald Moore, NFL running back (NY Jets, St Louis Rams, Az Cardinals)
1970 - Kirk Franklin, American singer
1971 - Jon Heidenreich, WLAF G (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Lamar Mills, WLAF DE (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Lee Naylor, Australian 400m runner (Olympics-96)
1971 - Min Tang, Hunan China, tennis star (1995 Futures-Canberra AUS)
1971 - Bryan Callen, American actor
1971 - Dorian Gregory, American actor
1972 - Harrison Houston, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears)
1973 - Mark Brook, WLAF LB (Rhein Fire)
1973 - Tatsuki Katayama, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1973 - Tony Ramirez, tackle (Detroit Lions)
1973 - Mayu Shinjo, Japanese mangaka
1974 - Shannon Hale, American author
1976 - Paul Byrne, Australian 800m ruuner (Olympics-96)
1976 - Frankie Rayder, American model
1976 - Willie Adler, American guitar player
1977 - Cindy Cesar, Miss Mauritius Universe (1997)
1977 - Justin Gimelstob, NJ, tennis star (1994 doubles USTA Bakersfield)
1977 - Vince Carter, American basketball player
1978 - Reesa Starr Jr
1978 - Estéban Germán, Dominican baseball player
1978 - Corina Morariu, American tennis player
1978 - Kelly Stables, American actress
1979 - Sara Rue, American actress
1981 - Juan Jose Haedo, Argentinian Cyclist
1984 - Iain Turner, Scottish footballer
1984 - Luo Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer
1984 - Layla Kayleigh, British television personality
1986 - Gerald Green, American basketball player
1986 - Matt Heafy, American musician (Trivium)
1986 - Shantelle Taylor, Canadian professional wrestler
1987 - Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (d. 2003)
1988 - Mia Rose, British-Portuguese singer
1989 - Emily Hughes, American figure skater
1990 - Christopher Massey, American actor
1993 - Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
1997 - Pasaye, Palatine Ill, twin born 92 days after his brother (Oct 26)
2009 - Suleman octuplets

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 26th January


Famous Deaths

                             
Director Victor Fleming (1949)            NYC Gangster Charles Luciano (1962)


946 - Eadgyth, German Queen
1109 - Albericus of Côteaux, French saint, dies
1567 - Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
1630 - Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)
1636 - Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)
1697 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)
1706 - Guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59
1744 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)
1750 - Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)
1795 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, dies at 62
1798 - Christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49
1799 - Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)
1803 - Georg von Pasterwiz, composer, dies at 72
1823 - Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749)
1824 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791)
1849 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45
1850 - Francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies
1855 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)
1869 - Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)
1870 - Cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67
1870 - Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1785)
1885 - Charles George Gordon, Brit gov-gen (Sudan), executed at 51
1885 - Edward Davy, English inventor (b. 1806)
1886 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)
1891 - Nicholaus Otto, German auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies. (b. 1833)
1893 - Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday
1895 - Arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies
1904 - John P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64
1904 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)
1911 - Charles Wentworth Dilke, English undersecretary of State, dies at 67
1920 - Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered
1922 - Luigi Denza, composer, dies at 75
1926 - John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University
1932 - William K Wrigley, owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), dies
1933 - Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)
1939 - Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard
1942 - Gerard L F Philips, Dutch manufacturer (Philips), dies at 83
1943 - Nikolai Vavilov, geneticist, Saratovv labour camp, dies
1943 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (b. 1880)
1946 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1884)
1947 - Grace Moore, American soprano/actress (One Night of Love), dies at 48
1947 - Gustav Adolf, crown prince of Sweden, dies in air crash
1948 - Ignaz Friedman, composer, dies at 65
1949 - Victor Fleming, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at 65
1950 - Betsy van den Arend, Dutch [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs), dies at 78
1952 - Louis van Deyssel, Dutch writer (Diary of Franc Rozelaar), dies at 87
1952 - Khorloogiin Choibalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895)
1953 - Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch poet/interpreter/linguist, dies at 58
1953 - Athanase David, French Canadian politician and businessman (b. 1882)
1954 - Carl J Eldh, Swedish sculptor, dies at 80
1961 - Morris Nichols, cricketer (41 wkts in 14 Tests for Eng 1930-39), dies
1962 - Charles "Lucky" Luciano, NYC Mafia gangster, dies at 65
1962 - Fran Lhotka, composer, dies at 78
1963 - John Sigvard Olsen, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70
1965 - Ali Mansoer, premier of Persia, murdered
1967 - Albert Remy, actor (Blows), dies at 55
1967 - Kenneth Thomson, actor (White Gold), dies of emphysema at 68
1968 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883)
1968 - Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900)
1973 - Edward G Robinson, [Goldenberg], actor (Little Caesar), dies at 79
1973 - Meijer Sluyser, Dutch journalist/commentator (VARA), dies at about 71
1973 - Jay C. Higginbotham, American musician (b. 1906)
1974 - S v Vegesack, writer, dies at 85
1974 - Wiktor Labunski, composer, dies at 78
1975 - Lubov Orlova, actress (Moscow Laughs, Man of Music, Tanya), dies at 72
1976 - João Branco Núncio, Portuguese Bullfighter (b. 1901)
1977 - Margaret Hayes, actress (Robert Montgomery Presents), dies at 61
1978 - Leo Genn, actor (Lady Chatterley's Lover, Henry V), dies at 72
1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, former VP & (4X Gov-R-NY), dies at 70
1983 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach (Alabama), dies at 69
1985 - James Cameron, journalist, dies
1989 - Paul Daels, Flemish chairman (IJzerbedevaart committee), dies
1990 - FHP "Boy" Trip, Dutch minister, dies
1990 - Lewis Mumford, American historian (b. 1895)
1990 - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (b. 1914)
1991 - Johnny van Doorn, Dutch writer/poet, dies at 46
1992 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor/director (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 80
1992 - Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet, dies at 63
1993 - Axel Von Dem Bussche, German aristocrat, dies
1993 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (helped Anne Frank), dies at 87
1993 - Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (large iron sculptures), dies at 80
1993 - Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1922)
1995 - Bernardo Leighton, Chilian politician (1964-70), dies
1995 - Geoffrey Penwill Parsons, piano accompnaist, dies at 65
1995 - Louis Heren, journalist, dies at 65
1995 - Vic Buckingham, English soccer player/trainer (Ajax), dies at 79
1996 - David Schultz, wrestler (Oly-Gold-84), killed by John Du Pont
1996 - Harold Brodkey, writer, dies at 65
1996 - Henry Jay Lewis, conductor, dies at 63
1996 - Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1921)
1996 - Stevie Plunder, Australian musician (b. 1963)
1997 - Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/the Rhine, dies at 83
1997 - Sarah Lucas, theatre Administrator, dies at 53
1997 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)
1998 - S P Leary, Texan Blues drummer (Muddy Waters), dies at 67
1998 - Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher (Suzuki Method), dies at 99
1998 - Walter Edmonds, writer (Drums Along the Mohawk), dies at 93
2000 - Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915)
2000 - Kathleen Hale, British author (b. 1898)
2000 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author (b. 1912)
2001 - Al McGuire, American basketball coach (b. 1928)
2003 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet Olympic athlete (b. 1942)
2003 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (b. 1917)
2003 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (b. 1931)
2004 - Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)
2006 - Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist (b. 1917)
2006 - Len Carlson, Canadian actor (b. 1937)
2006 - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (b. 1920)
2007 - Hans J. Wegner, Danish furniture designer (b. 1914)
2007 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
2008 - Christian Brando, actor and son of Marlon Brando (b 1958)
2011 - Charlie Louvin, American musician (b. 1927)
2011 - Gladys Horton, American musician and singer, member of the group The Marvelettes (b. 1944)
2012 - Ian Abercrombie, English actor, dies from kidney failure at 77

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 27th January


Historical Events

                                             
Russian Tsar Peter the Great                     Inventor Thomas Edison                 Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin

                                           
Actress Jane Fonda                                  King of Pop Michael Jackson

                                           
Tennis Player Steffi Graf                          42nd US President Bill Clinton


98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
661 - Rashidun Caliphate ended with death of Ali.
672 - St Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
847 - Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1142 - Wrongful execution of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
1302 - Dante becomes a Florentine political exile
1343 - Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
1538 - States of Gelderland accepts Willem van Kleef as viceroy
1556 - Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies
1593 - Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno
1662 - 1st American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI)
1671 - Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City
1695 - Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules
           until his death in 1703.
1710 - Czar Peter the Great sets 1st Russian state budget
1736 - Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland
1778 - Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres, Paris
1785 - 1st US state university chartered, Athens Georgia
1823 - President Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America
1825 - U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way
           for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
1864 - Battle of Fair Gardens, TN
1864 - Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va
1870 - 1st sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw U in Greencastle, Indiana)
1870 - After accepting 15th amendment, VA is readmitted to Union
1870 - Manitoba & Northwest Territories incorporated
1880 - Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp
1886 - 1st British government of Salisbury resigns
1888 - National Geographic Society organizes (Wash DC)
1891 - Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania
1894 - 1st college basketball game, U of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11
1894 - Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park
1896 - Tasmania bowl out Victoria for 65 for their 1st ever innings victory
1897 - British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana)
1900 - Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention
1902 - 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (NYC)
1905 - Maurice Rouvier forms government in France
1906 - Rudolf Gundersen skates world record 500m at 44.8 sec
1908 - Pasiphaë, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte
1909 - The Young Left is founded in Norway.
1915 - US Marines occupy Haiti
1916 - Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin
1917 - Coen de Koning wins 2nd official 11 cities race (9:53) (record)
1918 - "Tarzan of the Apes," 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater
1918 - The first hostilities occurred in the Finnish Civil War.
1924 - Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier
1924 - Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square
1926 - 1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London
1926 - US Senate agrees to join World Court
1933 - Otto Meisnner dines with British ambassador Rumbold
1934 - 27th Australian Men's Tennis Open: Fred Perry beat Crawford (63 75 61)
1934 - French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair)
1934 - VARA refuses to hire after commemoration of Marinus Van de Lubbe
1939 - First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
1940 - -17°F (-27°C), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record)
1941 - Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor
1942 - -19°F (-27.4°C), Netherland's coldest day since 1850
1943 - 1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)
1944 - Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed
1944 - Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, &
           Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves
1945 - Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands)
1945 - Russia liberates Auschwitz & Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)
1945 - S Romberg, H&D Fields' musical premieres in NYC
1945 - Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested
1948 - 1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates
1948 - 1st tape recorder sold
1949 - Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China
1950 - 2nd Emmy Awards: Ed Wynn Show & Texaco Star Theater win
1951 - "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 320 performances
1951 - US begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site
1953 - Netherlands end Marshall aid
1955 - "Plain & Fancy" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 476 perfs
1956 - NFL's NY Giants switches games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium
1957 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
1958 - Ferenc Munnich follows Kadar as premier of Hungary
1961 - "Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV
1962 - "Family Affair" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 65 performances
1963 - Jevgeni Grishin skates world record 500m in 39.6 sec
1963 - Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, & John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1964 - "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US
1964 - Barlow & Graeme Pollock complete 341 stand at Adelaide Oval
1964 - Margaret Chase Smith (Sen-R-Maine) tries for Republican Pres bid
1965 - 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite
1965 - Ground breaking for "Dragon Gateway" at Grant Avenue
1966 - Wisc State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or NL
           must promise Wisc an expansion team for 1966
1967 - Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee
1967 - Beatles sign a 9 year worldwide contract with EMI records
1967 - New Orleans Saints sign their 1st player (Paige Cothren-kicker)
1967 - Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed
1968 - "Darling of the Day" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 31 perfs
1969 - 14 spies hung in Baghdad
1969 - 9 Jews publically executed in Damascus Syria
1969 - Actress Thelma Ritter suffers a heart attack (she dies Feb 5th)
1969 - Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years
1970 - Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG"
1971 - Montgomery St Station, last link in BART, `holed thru'
1973 - UCLA's basketball team wins 61st consecutive game (NCAA record)
1973 - US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war & milt draft
1973 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1973 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
1973 - William Rogers & Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-N Vietnam treaty
1974 - "Lorelei" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 320 performances
1976 - "Laverne & Shirley" spinoff from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV
1976 - 9th ABA All-Star Game: Denver 144 beats ABA 138 at Denver
1976 - Morocco-Algeria battles in Westerly Sahara
1976 - Viv Richards scores his 1st Test century against Australia
1977 - 1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV
1977 - Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)
1979 - 36th Golden Globes: Midnight Express, Jon Voight & Jane Fonda
1979 - Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8)
1980 - "Comin' Uptown" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 45 perfs
1980 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 37-27
1982 - "Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" opens at Royale NYC for 747 perfs
1982 - Mauno Koivisto installed as president of Finland
1982 - Phila trades Larry Bowa & Ryne Sandberg to Cubs for Ivan DeJesus
1982 - Roberto S Cordova installed as president of Honduras
1982 - West Indies beat Australia 3-1 to win World Series Cup
1983 - World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid
1984 - John & Yoko release "Milk & Honey" album
1984 - LA Kings end Wayne Gretzky's NHL-record 51-game scoring streak
1984 - Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial
1985 - "Doug Henning & His World..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NY after 60 perf
1985 - 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth
1985 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1985 - Mark Mckoy cycles world record 50m hurdles indoor (5.25)
1985 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 22-14
1986 - 13th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis & C Gayle
1987 - Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose & Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team
1988 - Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy
           to US Supreme Court
1989 - German war criminals Fischer & Aus der Funten freed
1989 - Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
1989 - Okla's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Ok grad student
1990 - 64th Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats MJ Fernandez (63 64)
1991 - 79th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats I Lendl (16 64 64 64)
1991 - Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands
1991 - Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU
1991 - Superbowl XXV: NY Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa Superbowl MVP: Ottis
           Anderson, NY Giants, RB
1992 - "Crazy He Calls Me" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 7 perfs
1992 - 19th American Music Award: C & C Music Factory, Michael Bolton win
1992 - Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee
1992 - Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty)
1992 - Pres candidate Bill Clinton (D) & Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion
           they had a 12-year affair
1993 - DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12
1994 - "No Man's Land" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 61 performances
1994 - Carlos Reina succeeds pres Callejas in Honduras
1994 - Romanian social-democrats form government with anti-Semites
1995 - 69th Australian Womens Tennis: Mary Pierce beats A S Vicario (63 62)
1996 - 15 day old siamese twins separated-Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies
1996 - 70th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Anke Huber (64 61)
1996 - Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st NY female Episcopal bishop
1996 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1996 - Germany celebrates it's 1st Holocaust Rememberance Day
1996 - Monica Seles beats Anke Huber to win Australian Open
1996 - Shiv Chanderpaul scores 303* for Guyana v Jamaica at Kingston
1996 - Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger,
           Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
1997 - "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," opens at Gershwin NYC
1997 - 24th American Music Award: Toni Braxton & Alanis Morissette win
1998 - Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (NYC) Tram, injuring 10
1998 - Roland Clarkson discovers 2^3021377-1 (37th known Mersenne prime)
1998 - WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics & Detroit Shock

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 27th January


Famous Weddings

1186 - Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds Constance of Sicily.
1996 - "ER" TV actress Yvette Freeman (39) weds musical director Lawny Hartley (49) in Dunleith,       
            Delaware
2006 - Mexican Latin Grammy Award singer Ana Barbara (35) weds Jose Maria Fernandez in Mexico

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 27th January


Famous Divorces

1997 - "Wall Street" actor Charlie Sheen (31) divorces model Donna Peele after nearly 5 months of
            getting married

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 27th January


Famous Birthdays

                                           
Classical music prodigy                          Author of Alice in Wonderland
Mozart (1756)                                               Lewis Carroll (1832)

                                           
Physicist and Nobel                                  Actor Jack Haley (1964)
Laureate Samuel Ting (1936)


1443 - Albert, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
1546 - Joachim III Frederick, elector (Brandenburg)
1556 - Abbas I, "the Great," shah of Persia (1587-1629)
1585 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)
1592 - Pierre de La Barre, composer
1603 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (d. 1685)
1621 - Thomas Willis, English physician (d. 1675)
1662 - Richard Bentley, Oulton, scholar/controversialist
1679 - Jean-Francois de Troy, French painter
1701 - Johann N von Hontheim, German church historian/suffragan (bishop)
1715 - Vaclav Kalous, composer
1720 - Samuel Foote, England, actor/dramatist (Mirror)
1723 - Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet
1741 - Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d. 1821)
1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austria, musical prodigy/composer (Figaro), (d. 1791)
1775 - Friedrich von Schelling, Germany, philosopher (Views on Christianity)
1775 - Manuel del Popolo Vicente Rodriguez Garcia, Spanish tenor/composer
1784 - Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer
1805 - Samuel Palmer, London, painter/etcher (Valley of Vision)
1805 - Sophie of Bavaria, archduchess of Austria (d. 1872)
1805 - Maria Anna of Bavaria, queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
1806 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826)
1808 - David F Strauss, Germany, theologist (Jesus' Life)
1814 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879)
1821 - John Chivington, American officer, (d. 1892)
1822 - Thomas Leiper Kane, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1823 - Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo, France, composer (Symphonie Espagnole)
1824 - Jozef Israels, Dutch painter
1826 - Richard Taylor, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1828 - Louis Schubert, composer
1828 - Samuel Allen Rice, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1830 - Georg Hellmesberger, composer
1830 - William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1832 - Lewis Carroll, [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Halton, Cheshire, author (Alice in Wonderland),   
          (d. 1898)
1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist (discovered periodic table of the elements)
1834 - Robert Sanford Foster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1836 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (masochism)
1841 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (d. 1910)
1848 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (d. 1934)
1850 - Samuel Gompers, Dutch/US 1st president (American Federation of Labor)
1850 - Edward J. Smith, English captain of the Titanic (d. 1912)
1851 - Rafael Obligado, Argentina, writer (Santos Vega)
1858 - Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Dutch/French/Belgian painter's model/writer
1859 - Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918)
1867 - Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer
1868 - Cato Engelen-Sewing, Dutch soprano prima donna (Dutch Opera)
1869 - Will Marion Cook, composer
1872 - Learned Hand, Albany NY, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals)
1882 - Giuseppe Prezzolini, Italy, writer (La Voce, La Cultura Italiano)
1885 - Jerome Kern, NYC, Broadway composer (Showboat, Roberta)
1885 - Eduard Künneke, German composer (d. 1953)
1885 - Maeda Seison, Japanese painter (d. 1977)
1887 - Carl Blegen, Minneapolis, archaeologist (excavator at Troy, Pylos)
1889 - Balthasar van der Pol, physicist (Comparison of Van der Pol)
1891 - Ilja Ehrenburg, writer
1892 - Mitya Stillman, composer
1893 - Soong Ching-ling, Chinese wife of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
1894 - Fritz Pollard, early black NFL star (1920-26)
1895 - Claudio Carneyro, composer
1895 - Joseph Rosenstock, Cracow Poland, conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1936-41)
1895 - Harry Ruby, American composer (d. 1974)
1899 - Granville English, composer
1900 - Hyman G Rickover, US Admiral (father of modern nuclear navy)
1901 - Art Rooney, NFL team owner (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1901 - Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon)
1903 - John Eccles, British physiologist/neurologist
1903 - Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (d. 1979)
1905 - Howard McNear, LA California, actor (Floyd-Andy Griffith Show, Jetsons)
1905 - Luther Diamond, radio personality
1906 - Radames Gnattali, composer
1907 - Henry Cotton, English golf champion (won 3x British Open)
1908 - William Randolph Hearst Jr, newspaper publisher (Hearst Publishing)
1908 - Oran Page, American musician (d. 1954)
1911 - Benay Venuta, SF California, actress (Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister)
1911 - George Pope, cricketer (Eng pace bowler, 1-49 & 0-36 in his only Test)
1912 - Lawrence Durrell, Darjeeling, Indian/British writer (Private Country, Alexandria Quartet)
1912 - Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher
1913 - Milton Adolphus, composer
1913 - Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky, composer
1914 - Anna Larina, revolutionary
1915 - Jack Brymer, clarinettist
1917 - Dunboyne, Lord
1917 - Merrivale, Lord
1918 - Elmore James, musician (Dust My Broom)
1918 - Skitch Henderson, Birmingham England, orchestra leader (Tonight Show)
1918 - William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (d. 2005)
1919 - David Seville, [Ross Bagdasarian], Fresno California, (Alvin & Chipmunks)
1919 - H D Halsey, Bishop of Carlisle
1919 - Nina Milkina, pianist
1920 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
1920 - John Box, British film production designer and art director (d. 2005)
1921 - Donna Reed, Denison Iowa, (From Here to Eternity, Wonderful Life)
1922 - Wilfrid Bourne, QC/Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
1924 - Alexander Georgiyevich Chugayev, composer
1924 - Kenneth Corfield, CEO (STC)
1924 - Rauf Denktasj, Turkish-Cypriot politician
1924 - Brian Rix [The Lord Rix], Cottingham, Yorkshire, English actor
1924 - Sabu, [Dastagir], India, actor (Elephant Boy, Drum)
1924 - William van Straubenzee, British MP
1925 - Geoffrey Tucker, British political consultant
1925 - John Bury, designer
1926 - Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)
1926 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
1927 - Doretta Morrow, NYC, actress (Because You're Mine)
1927 - Joe Perry, AAFC/NFL Hall of Fame fullback (SF 49ers, Balt Colts)
1927 - Michael Craig, Poona India, actor (Escape 2000, Vault of Horror)
1927 - Nancy Dickerson, journalist (NBC)
1928 - Jean-Michel Damase, composer
1928 - Hans Modrow, a German politician, premier of East Germany
1929 - Ingrid Thulin, Solleftea Sweden, actress (Cries & Whispers, Damned)
1929 - Richard Du Cann, lawyer QC
1929 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist (d. 1984)
1930 - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Rosemark TN, blues singer (Call on the Drummer)
1930 - Esteban Edward Torres, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1930 - Roger Sims, British MP
1931 - John Hopkins, writer
1931 - Mordecai Richler, Montreal author, (Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz)
1931 - Rudi Maugeri, rocker (Crew Cuts)
1931 - Vinson, Lord
1932 - Neville Trotter, British MP
1933 - Mohamed Al Fayed, CEO (Harrods)
1933 - Rita Hennessy, matron-in-chief (QARANC)
1934 - Donald Spiers, controller (Aircraft MoD)
1934 - Edithe Cresson, premier of France (1991-92)
1934 - Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Barcelona Spain, UNESCO director (1987- )
1934 - Julian Ogilvie Thompson, CEO (De Beers)
1935 - Gillian Beer, professor/president (Clare Hall-Cambridge)
1936 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian author/poet (Dimri i Madh)
1936 - Troy Donahue, NYC, actor (Surfside Six, Cockfighter, Hawaiian Eye)
1936 - Samuel Ting, Ann Arbor, Michigan, American physicist, Nobel Laureate
1937 - John Ogdon, Manchester England, pianist/composer
1938 - Kim Gardner, rocker (Byrds)
1938 - Timothy Elworthy, Captain of The Queen's Flight
1939 - Mike Hill, Jackson MI, PGA golfer (1977 Ohio Kings Island Open)
1939 - N R Bomford, head master (Harrow School)
1939 - Rawlings, Baroness
1939 - Tigran Yegiayi Mansuryan, composer
1940 - Brian T O'Leary, Boston Mass, astronaut
1942 - James Cromwell, LA California, actor (Stretch-All in the Family, Babe)
1942 - Petr Kotik, composer
1942 - John Witherspoon, American actor
1943 - A H Harper, CEO (Baltic Exchange)
1943 - Cumberlege, Baroness
1944 - Kevin Coyne, rocker
1944 - Nicholas Berkeley Mason, drummer (Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall)
1944 - Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader
1945 - Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, North Irish peace activist (Nobel 1976)
1945 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader (d. 2005)
1946 - Kim Gardner, England, rock bassist (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
1947 - Nedra Telley, NYC, vocalist (Ronettes-Be My Little Baby)
1947 - Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer (d. 1999)
1947 - Vyron Polydoras, Greek politician
1948 - Chuck Larsen, rocker (Snuff)
1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Riga Latvia, ballet dancer (That's Dancing)
1949 - Ethan Mordden, American author
1950 - Amos Grunebaum, Israeli-born physician
1950 - Derek Acorah, English spirit medium
1951 - Brian Downey, rock drummer (Thin Lizzy-Boys are Back in Town)
1951 - Scott Lane, NYC, actor (Gary-McKeever & the Colonel)
1951 - Seth Justman, Wash DC, rock keyboardist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1952 - Brian Gottfried, Baltimore Md, tennis star (Wimbledon Doubles 1976)
1952 - Peter Garland, composer
1952 - "White Shoes" Johnson, American football player
1954 - Kimberly J "Kim" Hughes, Australian cricketer
1954 - Peter Laird, American comic-book artist
1954 - Joko Ninomiya, Japanese martial artist
1955 - Richard Young, Glasgow Ky, singer (Kentucky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1955 - Brian Engblom, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - John G. Roberts, 17th Chief Justice of the United States
1955 - Alexander Stuart, British author
1955 - Koji Ushikubo, Japanese racing driver
1956 - Mimi Rogers, Coral Gables Fla, actress (Paper Dolls, The Rousters)
1956 - Fred Quillan, Portland Oregon, WLAF offensive coach (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1957 - Frank Miller, US, comicbook writer (Batman-The Dark Knight Returns)
1958 - Alan Milburn, British MP
1958 - Charles Waltz, rocker (Shooting Star)
1958 - James Grippando, American novelist
1958 - Kadri Mälk, Estonian artist and jewelry designer
1959 - Chris Collinsworth, NFL wide receiver/TV sportscaster
1959 - Patti Cohoon, Whittier California, actress (Molly-Here Come the Brides)
1959 - Göran Hägglund, Swedish politician
1959 - Keith Olbermann, American news presenter
1961 - Charlotte Kemp, Omaha Ne, playmate (Dec, 1982)
1961 - Gillian Gilbert, Manchester England, rocker (New Order-Round & Round)
1961 - Jean-Paul Banos, Lavelanet France, Canada sabre (Oly-9/10-88, 92, 96)
1961 - Karen Velez, Rockville Ctr NY, playmate (December, 1984)
1961 - Margo Timmins, singer (Cowboy Junkies)
1961 - Martin Degville, rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
1961 - Rudi Mauger, rocker (Crew Cuts)
1961 - Dina Bonnevie, Filipino actress
1961 - Narciso Rodriguez, American fashion designer
1962 - James F Doehring, Santa Barbara CA, shot putter (Olympics-silver-1992)
1962 - Michael Collins, clarinettist
1962 - Roberto Paci Dalò, Italian director and composer
1964 - Bridget Fonda, LA California, actress (Scandal, Single White Female)
1964 - Cathy Podewell, California, actress (Dallas)
1964 - Inga Thompson, Reno Nevada, US cyclist (Olympic-8th-88, 84, 92)
1964 - Jack Haley, NBA center (Chicago Bulls)
1964 - Migi, [Miguel Drummond] rock (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Your Distance)
1964 - Woody Austin, Tampa FL, PGA golfer (1995 Buick Open)
1965 - Igor Matoushkin, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Oly-98)
1965 - Alan Cumming, Scottish actor
1965 - Mike Newell, English football manager
1966 - Michael De Angelis, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1966 - Tamlyn Tomita, Okinawa, actress (Karate Kid 2, Ming Li-Santa Barbara)
1967 - Alfred Oglesby, NFL defensive tackle (Cin Bengals)
1967 - Carrington Garland, LA California, actress (Kelly Capwell-Santa Barbara)
1967 - Dave Manson, Prince Albert, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 - Laura Golarsa, Italy, tennis star
1967 - Sue Palmer, Collingwood Ontario, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1967 - Bobby Deol, Indian actor
1967 - Byron Mann, Hong Kong actor
1968 - Anthony Pleasant, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons)
1968 - Eric Wedge, US baseball catcher (Boston Red Sox)
1968 - Matt Stover, NFL kicker (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1968 - Mike Patton, Eureka Ca, rocker (Faith No More-The Real Thing)
1968 - Reggie Johnson, NFL tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1968 - Rusty Meacham, Stuart FL, pitcher (KC Royals, Seattle Mariners)
1968 - Tracy Lawrence, Atlanta Tx, country singer (Sticks & Stones)
1968 - Patrick Blondeau, French footballer
1968 - Tricky, English rapper
1969 - Kristen Danihy, Lawton Oklahoma, team handball circle/wing (Olympics-1996)
1969 - Phil Plantier, Manchester NH, outfielder (SD Padres, Red Sox, A's)
1969 - Shane Thomson, NZ cricket off-spin all rounder (since 1990)
1969 - Cornelius, Japanese musician and producer (Flipper's Guitar)
1969 - Michael Kulas, Canadian singer (James)
1969 - Patton Oswalt, American actor and writer
1970 - Carlos Javier Bernardo, Dutch prince
1970 - Dario Brose, Queens NY, US soccer halfback (Olympic-92)
1970 - Dean Headley, cricket (grandson of George, England ODI quick 1996)
1970 - Jon Douglas Rainey, American TV personality
1970 - Emmanuel Pahud, French-Swiss flautist
1971 - Mark Noordlander, soccer player (Sparta)
1971 - Patrice Brisebois, Montreal, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
1972 - Bryant Young, NFL defensive tackle (SF 49ers)
1972 - Chad Askew, NFL wide receiver (NY Jets)
1972 - Mark Lawrence, Burlington, NHL right wing (Dallas Stars)
1972 - Bryant Young, defensive tackle (San Francisco 49ers)
1972 - Guillermo, Mexican-born American TV personality
1972 - Mark Owen, English pop singer
1972 - Janine Ilitch, Australian netballer
1973 - Eddie Davis, CFL cornerback (Calgary Stampeders)
1973 - Margot Bourgeois, Miss Universe-3rd place (Trinidad & Tobago, 1997)
1974 - ZP Theart, South African-born English singer (Dragonforce)
1975 - Chaminda Vaas, brilliant Sri Lankan cricket pace bowler (1994- )
1976 - Haimish Karrasch, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 - Mike Ferrier, Suriname/Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam, Salernitana)
1976 - Rhett Warrener, Shaunavon, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1976 - Clint Ford, American voice actor
1976 - Ahn Jung-Hwan, Korean football player
1976 - Ruby Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
1978 - Pete Laforest, Canadian baseball player
1979 - Jessica Lynn Ferdinand, Miss New York Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Rosamund Pike, British actress
1979 - Liesbet Van Breedam, Belgian beach volleyball player
1979 - Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer
1980 - Marat Safin, Russian tennis player
1980 - Chanda Gunn, ice hockey player
1981 - Jonny Lang, blues musician
1981 - Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player
1983 - Carlo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 - Gavin Floyd, American baseball player
1983 - Mike Zagurski, American baseball player
1984 - Davetta Sherwood, American actress
1987 - Lily Donaldson, British model
1987 - Katy Rose, American pop singer
1988 - Kerlon Moura Souza, Brazilian footballer

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 27th January


Famous Deaths

                                                
British Admiral Samuel Hood (1816)          Composer Giuseppe Verdi (1901)

                                                
Gospel Singer Mahalia Jackson (1972)         Novelist J. D. Salinger (2010)


98 - Marius Cocceius Nerva, emperor of Rome (96-98), dies at about 67
661 - Death of Ali, the final Sunni Rashidun and first Shia Imam.(b. 599 or 600)
672 - Vitalianus, pope (657-72)/saint, dies
847 - Sergius II, pope (844-47), dies
1164 - Abraham ibn Ezra, poet/philosopher, dies
1490 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435)
1540 - Angela Merici, Italian monk/monastery, dies
1565 - Robrecht de Berghes, prince-bishop of Liege (1557-64), dies
1612 - Maarten van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 77
1625 - Adriaen Valerius, notary/Neth Gedenck-clanck, dies at about 49
1629 - Hieronymus Praetorius, composer, dies at 68
1638 - Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist
1669 - Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter, dies at 87
1699 - William Temple, statesman, dies
1731 - Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Ital piano builder, dies at 75
1740 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692)
1763 - John Theodor of Bavaria, prince-bishop of Liege/cardinal, dies
1802 - Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, composer, dies at 42
1814 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, philosopher, dies
1814 - Philip Astley, theatre manager, dies
1816 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood/admiral, dies at 92
1850 - J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/writer, dies at 85
1850 - Philipp Roth, composer, dies at 70
1851 - John James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65
1851 - Karl Moser, composer, dies at 77
1857 - Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72
1858 - Gerrit van der Linde Jz, Dutch "Principal", poet, dies at 49
1859 - Carl A Agardh, Swedish botanist/bishop of Karlstad, dies at 74
1860 - János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1802)
1864 - Franz von Klenze, German architect (palace Leuchtenberg), dies at 59
1866 - John Gibson, sculptor, dies
1880 - Edward Middleton Barry, English architect (b. 1830)
1889 - Ivan S Aksakov, Russian journalist, dies at 65
1893 - James G Blaine, US minister of foreign affairs, dies at 62
1901 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer, dies at 77
1904 - Adam Minchejmer, composer, dies at 73
1919 - Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877)
1921 - Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian soldier (b. 1891)
1922 - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I Mala Voglia), dies at 81
1927 - Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army
1927 - Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (Matulewicz), Lithuanian bishop
1928 - Marie Verstraete, actress (Frou-Frou/Nora), dies at 74
1930 - Jean Hure, composer, dies at 52
1941 - Iver Paul Fredrik Holter, composer, dies at 90
1942 - Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1888)
1949 - Boris Asafiev, composer, dies at 64
1954 - Paul-Marie Masson, composer, dies at 71
1955 - Ernst Penzoldt, writer, dies
1956 - Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor, dies
1963 - John Farrow, actor/director (Botany Bay), dies at 58
1964 - Lieb Glantz, composer, dies at 65
1965 - Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader, dies at 63
1967 - Alphonse Juin, French marshal, dies at 78
1967 - Edward Higgins White II, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4), dies at 36
1967 - Roger B Chaffee, astronaut, dies at 31 in Apollo I fire
1967 - Virgil I (Gus) Grissom, astronaut, dies at 40 in Apollo I fire
1969 - Charles Winninger, actor (Charlie Farrell Show), dies at 82
1969 - Hanns Jelinek, composer, dies at 67
1970 - Probir Sen, cricket (20 catch & 11 stumpings, 14 Tests for Ind), dies
1970 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
1971 - Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
1972 - Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer (He Got the Whole World), dies at 60
1972 - Richard Courant, German/US mathematician, dies at 84
1974 - Georgios Grivas, Greek gen/oppos leader on Cyprus (EOKA), dies at 75
1974 - Paula Ludwig, writer, dies at 74
1975 - Bill Walsh, American producer and writer (b. 1913)
1977 - Walter Baldwin, actor (Gay Amigo), dies at 88
1978 - Marguerite Canal, composer, dies at 87
1978 - Oscar Homolka, actor (7 Year Itch, Ball of Fire), dies at 79
1979 - Qalander Ba Ba Auliya, Sufi master (b. 1898)
1981 - Leo Collard, Belgian minister of Education (1946/54-58), dies at 78
1982 - Iris Korn, actress (Widder-Palmerstown USA), dies at 60
1983 - Louis De Funes, actor/writer (Mad Adv of Rabbi Jacobs), dies at 68
1983 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, US football coach (Alabama), dies at 69
1983 - Robert Christian, actor (Bustin' Loose), dies of cancer at 42
1984 - Lou Crosby, TV announcer (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 72
1986 - L Ron Hubbard, novelist/founder (Church of Scientology), dies at 74
1986 - Lilli Palmer, German actress (Boys from Brazil, Kinder), dies at 71
1988 - Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian author (b. 1938)
1989 - Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (b. 1888)
1989 - Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (b. 1918)
1990 - Helen Jerome Eddy, actress (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 92
1992 - Francesca Primus, columnist (Back Stage), dies at 45
1992 - Gene Harris, entertainer, dies after long illness
1992 - Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Brit actress (Eliza Dolittle), dies at 101
1993 - Andre "the Giant" Roussimoff, WWF wrestler, dies of heart attack at 49
1994 - Claude Akins, actor (Rio Bravo, Lobo), dies of cancer at 67
1994 - Eddie Calhoun, jazz Bassist, dies at 72
1994 - Joe Mays, actor (Mr Saturday Night), dies of AIDS at 44
1994 - Stanley Adams, songwriter, dies at 86
1995 - Geoffrey Parsons, Australian/British pianist, dies at 65
1995 - Halsey S Colchester, British SAS/MI6-spy/priest, dies at 76
1995 - Jean Tardieu, author, dies at 91
1995 - Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, gen-sec Council of Churches, dies at 64
1996 - Barbara Skelton, writer, dies at 79
1996 - John Patrick Sutton Ludlow, actor (Agatha), dies at 93
1996 - Julian Hill, research chemist, dies at 91
1996 - Olga Havlova, political activist, dies at 63
1996 - Ralph Webster Yarborough, politician, dies at 92
1996 - Tommy Mitchell, cricket (Derbyshire leg-spin, 5 Tests for Eng), dies
1997 - Cecil Lewis, airman/writer, dies at 98
1997 - Matthew Coady, journalist, dies at 73
1997 - Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (b. 1900)
2000 - Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (b. 1930)
2001 - Stavros Damianides, Greek musician (b. 1941)
2003 - Henryk Jabłoński, President of Poland (b. 1909)
2003 - Louis Archambault, Quebec sculptor (b. 1915)
2004 - Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)
2004 - Salvador Laurel, Vice President of the Philippines (b. 1928)
2006 - Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
2006 - Gene McFadden, American singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
2006 - Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (disappeared) (b. 1965)
2007 - Tige Andrews, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 - Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese athlete (b. 1933)
2008 - Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1910)
2008 - Suharto, President of Indonesia (b. 1921)
2008 - Louie Welch, mayor of Houston (b. 1918)
2008 - Gordon B. Hinckley, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
2009 - John Updike, American Novelist (b. 1932)
2009 - R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (b. 1910)
2010 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist (b. 1919)
2010 - Howard Zinn, American historian (b. 1922)
2010 - Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (b. 1933)
2012 - Kevin White, American politician, dies at 82