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"They make night into day, saying, `The light is near,' in the presence of darkness.



– Job 17:12 

 

January is:

January is:

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1571: 'Abbas I the Great, Safavid Shah of Persia (1588-1629)

1756: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Don Giovanni,The Marriage of Figaro, Symphony #41, Requiem, A Little Night Music)

1832: Mathematician and writer (Charles Dodgson) Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass,The Hunting of the Snark)

1839: John Julian, famed English authority on sacred music. His undoubted masterwork is the monumental "Dictionary of Hymnology" which he published in 1892 (later revised, updated and reissued in 1957).

1850: Labor union leader Samuel Gompers (1st president of the American Federation of Labor)

1885: The father of the American musical, composer Jerome Kern (Show Boat, Ol’ Man River, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Lovely to Look At, The Way You Look Tonight, The Last Time I Saw Paris)

1859: Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor, forced to abdicate after World War I and fled to the Netherlands, where he lived until 1941.

1886: New York Times music critic Olin Downes

1900: U.S. Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover (Father of the Nuclear Navy’ directed development of the Nautilus, the first nuclear reactor-powered submarine)

1908: Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr.

1918: Musical conductor Skitch (Lyle) Henderson

1921: Actress Donna (Mullenger) Reed (From Here to Eternity, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Benny Goodman Story, The Donna Reed Show)

1930: Singer Bobby "Blue" Bland (That’s the Way Love Is, Call on Me, Turn on Your Love Light, Ain’t Nothin’ You Can Do)

1936: Actor (Merle Johnson) Troy Donahue (A Summer Place, Assault of the Party Nerds, The Godfather: Part 2, The Chilling) Some sources list 1938:

1940: Actor James Cromwell

1945: Rock musician Nick Mason (Pink Floyd)

1946: Rhythm-and-blues singer Nedra Talley (The Ronettes)

1948: Ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov

1955: Country singer Cheryl White

1955: Country singer-musician Richard Young (The Kentucky Headhunters)

1956: Actress Mimi Rogers (Full Body Massage, Monkey Trouble, Dark Horse, The Rousters, Desperate Hours, The Mighty Quinn, Someone To Watch Over Me, Blue Skies Again)

1961: Rock singer Margo Timmons (Cowboy Junkies)

1961: Rock musician Gillian Gilbert (New Order)

1964: Actress Bridget Fonda (Point of No Return, The Godfather, Part 3, Aria, 21 Jump Street)

1968: Country singer Tracy Lawrence

1968: Rock singer Mike Patton (Faith No More)

1970: Rock musician Mark Trojanowski (Sister Hazel)

1981: Blues musician Jonny Lang 

 

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Events in History on this day