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January is:
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1563: Franciscus Gomarus Calvinist
theologian and professor whose disputes with his more liberal colleague Jacobus Arminius
over the doctrine of predestination led the entire Dutch Reformed Church into controversy. |
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1616: William Sancroft, Archbishop of
Canterbury |
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1862: Walter Damrosch was born. Damrosch
founded one of the orchestras that led to today's New York Philharmonic. He directed the
first American performances of Wagner's "Parsifal," of Saint-Saens's
"Samson and Delilah," of Brahms' Fourth Symphony. |
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1882: The 32nd president of the United
States, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, in Hyde Park, New York. Only president who thought himself important
enough to serve more than 2 terms. |
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1885: John Henry Towers, naval and aviation
hero. |
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1911: Trumpeter Roy Little Jazz
Eldridge |
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1914: Actor John Ireland (Gunfight at the OK
Corral, Little Big Horn, Spartacus, All the Kings Men, Marilyn: The Untold Story,
Messenger of Death) |
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1914: Actor David (McMeekan) Wayne (The
Tender Trap, The Last Angry Man, The Three Faces of Eve, The Adromeda Strain) |
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1922: Comedian Dick Martin (Emmy
Award-winning comedian: Rowan & Martins Laugh-In) |
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1925: Actress Dorothy (Maloney) Malone
(Written on the Wind, Beach Party, Basic Instinct, Battle Cry, Man of a Thousand Faces) |
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1928: Producer-director Harold Prince (A
Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) |
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1928: R&B and Jazz singer Ruth Brown (So
Long, Teardrops from My Eyes, Hours, Mambo Baby, Lucky Lips, This Little Girls Gone
Rockin) |
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1930: Actor Gene Hackman (some sources 1931)
(The French Connection, Bonnie and Clyde, Hawaii, Mississippi Burning, The Poseidon
Adventure, Postcards from the Edge, Superman, The Firm, Crimson Tide) |
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1931: Baseball player Charlie Neal |
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1933: Louis Rukeyser, host of television's
"Wall Street Week" |
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1934: Actress Tammy Grimes (The Runner
Stumbles, Backstreet Justice) |
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1936: Pianist Horst Jankowski (A Walk In The
Black Forest) |
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1937: Actress Vanessa Redgrave (Julia, Mary
Queen of Scots, A Man for All Seasons) |
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1937: Country singer Jeanne Pruett |
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1937: World Champion chess player Boris
Spassky |
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1938: Country singer Norma Jean |
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1941: Former defense secretary Dick Cheney |
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1942: Rock singer Marty Balin |
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1943: Baseball player and manager Dave
Johnson |
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1949: Rhythm-and-blues musician William King
(The Commodores) |
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1951: Actor Charles S. Dutton (A Time to
Kill, The Piano Lesson, Alien 3, Runaway, Crocodile Dundee 2, Cats Eye, Roc) |
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1958: Actress-comedian Brett Butler |
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1959: Singer Jody Watley (Shalamar) |
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1974: Actor Christian Bale |
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1980: Actor Wilmer Valderrama ("That 70's Show") |
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0435: Rome made peace with the Vandals,
ending the "Fall" (Some mark this is the beginning of the Middle
Ages) |
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0680: Death of St. Bathild, Queen to Clovis
II of France |
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1118: Election of Gelasius I as Pope |
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1167: Death of Matilda, Queen to William I
of England |
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1328: King Edward III of England re-marries
Phillippa of Hainaut |
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1349: Election of Guanther of Schwarzberg as
King of Germany |
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1380: St. Catherine of Siena suffers a
stroke |
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1592: Election of Clement VIII as Pope |
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1606: Sir Everard Digby, Thomas Winter, John
Grant and Thomas Bates, conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the
houses of Parliament, were executed. |
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1628: Charles I of England calls his third
Parliament |
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1647: Scots agree to sell King Charles I to
English Parliament for ú400,000 |
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1648: Treaties were signed ending the Eighty
Years War between Spain and the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
(Treaty of Westphalia) |
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1649: Beheading of Charles I, King of
England, at 2:00 pm, beheaded in London for treason. |
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1798: A brawl broke out in the House of
Representatives in Philadelphia, as Matthew Lyon of Vermont spat in the
face of Roger Griswold of Connecticut. |
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1835: A gunman fired twice on President
Andrew Jackson, the first attempt on the life of a U.S. president. Jackson
was NOT injured. |
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1847: Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco. |
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1862: The USS Monitor launched at Greenpoint,
Long Island. |
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1889: Crown Prince Franz Karl Josef Rudolf
of Austria and his mistress, Marie Vetsera, committed suicide at the
imperial hunting lodge of Mayerling, Austria. |
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1894: C.B. King, of Detroit, Michigan,
earned a patent for the pneumatic hammer. |
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1900: British demand a larger army in South
Africa. |
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1901: Women Prohibitionists smash 12 saloons
in Kansas. |
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1905: Johann Hoch is arrested in New York
for murdering 9 wives. |
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1910: Work began on the first board-track
automobile speedway. The track was built in lovely Playa del Ray,
California. |
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1911: The first airplane rescue at sea was
made by the destroyer, "Terry", when downed pilot, James McCurdy
was forced to land in the ocean about 10 miles from Havana, Cuba. |
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1912: British Lords oppose House of Commons
by rejecting home rule for Ireland. |
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1914: The battleship Monroe sinks in a
collision with the Nantucket off the Virginia coast. |
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1917: The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
recorded one of the first jazz compositions ever recorded. It became a
classic for Columbia Records titled, "The Darktown Strutters’
Ball." |
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1931: The U.S. awards civil government to
the Virgin Islands. |
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1933: Adolf Hitler became chancellor of
Germany. |
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1933: The first episode of the "Lone
Ranger" radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit. |
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1935: The U.S.S.R. doubles the size of its
army to 940,000. |
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1936: Governor Harold Hoffman orders a new
inquiry into the Lindbergh kidnapping. |
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1937: 13 leading Communists were sentenced
to death for allegedly participating in a plot, led by Leon Trotsky, to
overthrow the Soviet regime and assassinate its leaders. |
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1948: Indian political and spiritual leader
Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist. |
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1949: In India, 100,000 pray at the site of
Gandhi’s assassination on the first anniversary of his death. |
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1953: President Eisenhower announces that he
will pull the Seventh Fleet out of Formosa to permit the Nationalists to
attack Communist China. |
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1962: Two members of the "Flying
Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid
collapsed during a performance in Detroit. |
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1963: Francis Poulenc died of a heart attack
at the age of 64. Poulenc's "Concerto for Organ, Strings and
Timpani" had an international reputation at that time. |
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1964: The United States launched
"Ranger Six," an unmanned spacecraft carrying television cameras
that was to crash-land on the moon. |
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1968: The Tet Offensive began as Communist
forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial
capitals. |
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1969: The Beatles performed together in
public for the last time. The show took place on the roof of their Apple
Studios in London, England, but it was interrupted by police after they
received complaints from the neighbors about the noise. |
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1970: Lesotho's prime minister, Chief Leabua
Jonathan, declared a state of emergency and suspended the constitution,
claiming malpractices had been discovered in recent elections. |
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1972: 13 Roman Catholic civil rights
marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on
what became known as "Bloody Sunday." |
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1972: Pakistan left the Commonwealth in
protest against imminent recognition of Bangladesh by Britain, Australia
and New Zealand. |
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1973: Gordon Liddy and James McCord were
convicted of burglary, wire-tapping and attempted bugging of the
Democratic headquarters at the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. |
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1976: The U.S. Supreme Court bans spending
limits in campaigns, equating funds with freedom of speech. |
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1979: The civilian government of Iran
announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who'd been
living in exile in France, to return. |
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1980: The first-ever Chinese Olympic team
arrives in New York for the WinterGames. |
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1980: Professor Longhair...whose real name
was Henry Byrd...died at the age of 62. |
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1985: UN Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
told President Reagan she intended to leave her diplomatic post. |
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1987: Calling it a
"budget-buster," President Reagan vetoed a measure renewing the
Clean Water Act that was expected to cost up to 20 billion dollars through
1994. (Congress, however, overrode the veto.) |
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1988: Israeli troops fired on hundreds of
demonstrators in the West Bank while protests also rocked the Gaza Strip,
shattering three weeks of relative quiet in the occupied territories. |
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1989: Lebanon's warring Shiite groups, the
Syrian-backed Amal militia and the pro-Iranian Hizbollah, signed a peace
accord, ending a yearlong feud. |
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1989: Former criminal lawyer Joel Steinberg
was convicted in New York of first-degree manslaughter in the death of his
illegally adopted six-year-old daughter, Lisa. |
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1990: A federal judge ordered former
President Reagan to provide excerpts of his personal diaries to John M.
Poindexter for the former national security adviser's upcoming Iran-Contra
trial. (However, the judge later reversed himself, deciding the material
was not essential.) |
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1991: The first major ground battle of the Gulf War was fought at the frontier port of Khafji in Saudi Arabia; eleven US Marines were killed, seven of them by "friendly fire." |
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1992: President Bush and other world leaders
gathered for an unprecedented UN Security Council summit to coordinate
policy on peacekeeping, disarmament and quelling aggression. |
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1992: The space shuttle
"Discovery" landed in California, ending an eight-day mission. |
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1992: Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey
announced his resignation. |
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1992: Argentina opened the files on scores
of Nazis who fled to South America after World War II, a move Jewish
leaders said would help the hunt for war criminals. |
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1993: parents donated portions of their own
lungs to their daughter with cystic fibrosis in pioneering transplant
surgery in Los Angeles. |
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1993: On the 60th anniversary of Hitler's
swearing-in as chancellor of Germany, more than 300,000 Germans carried
candles to denounce the Nazi era. |
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1993: Los Angeles inaugurated its Metro Red
Line, the city's first modern subway. |
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1994: The U.S. granted Sinn Fein President
Gerry Adams a visa to attend a New York conference on Northern Ireland. |
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1994: The Dallas Cowboys won its second
straight Super Bowl -- a 30-13 victory over the Buffalo Bills, which saw
its fourth straight Super Bowl loss. |
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1995: 42 people were killed when a car bomb
exploded in Algiers, Algeria. |
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1995: The U.N. Security Council authorized
deployment of 6, 000 peacekeepers to Haiti. They would take over from U.S.
troops.1995: |
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1995: The Smithsonian Institution abandoned
plans for a major exhibit on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, yielding to
critics who charged the exhibit would have portrayed America as the
aggressor and Japan as the victim in World War II. |
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1995: Boyz II (to) Men was the big winner at
the 22nd annual American Music Awards...winning three awards. |
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1996: In an election billed as an early
barometer for the national political season, Ron Wyden won a close race to
become Oregon's first Democratic U-S senator in 30 years, replacing Bob
Packwood. |
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1996: Hasan Muratovic was formally appointed
prime minister of Bosnia Herzegovina's central government. |
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1996: Ron Wyden won a close race to become Oregon's first Democratic US senator in 30 years, replacing Bob Packwood. |
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1997: The Marine Corps opened an
investigation of two videotaped hazing incidents in 1991 and 1993 known as
"blood pinnings" in which elite paratroopers had golden jump
pins beaten into their chests. (The 1993 incident led to a recommended
discharge for a sergeant.) |
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1998: An aviation pact was reached between
Washington and Tokyo enabling American travelers to fly to Japan and other
Asian points from several more US cities. |
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1998: Microsoft Corporation Chairman Bill
Gates said in an interview he expected to match or top the $1 billion
donation offered to the UN the previous year by CNN founder Ted Turner.
Gates also said he did not take too personally" some criticism of
Microsoft's business practices. "Well, at age 42, I've given at this
point a little over $500 million to foundations that are doing some things
I really believe in." (I don't know if Bill has given any money yet
to the UN, but at this date Ted still has not yet given any of the
promised money to the UN) |
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1998: Ricky Sanderson, who stabbed 16-year
old Suzi Holliman to death in 1985 and buried her alive was executed in
the gas chamber at Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina. Sanderson,
38, who had been on death row for nearly 13 years, waived appeals that
could have kept him alive longer. His last words included a criticism of
abortion. He said, "33 million babies that have been aborted in this
country died for no reason. I'm dying for a deed I did. I deserve death
for it. I'm glad Christ forgave me." Sanderson underwent a jailhouse
conversion to Christianity, and chose to die in the gas chamber. |
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1998: Three thousand people gathered in
Belfast to protest a wave of murders in Northern Ireland which threatens
fragile multi-party peace talks on the region's future. "The message
I want the terrorists to get from the rally is that ordinary people want
an end to the killings," trade unionist Tom Gilleno told the crowd. |
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1998: A new glue meant to replace painful
stitches won the vote of a panel that advises the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration. The glue, called Dermabond, can hold a wound closed and
keep it sterile and flexible while it is healing. Makers Closure Medical
said Dermabond can seal off wounds quickly without the need for painful
shots. |
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1999: NATO authorized its secretary general
to launch military action in Yugoslavia if the warring parties failed to
negotiate an agreement for autonomy in Kosovo. |
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2000: A Kenya Airways plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, killing 169 people. |
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2000: The St. Louis Rams won Super Bowl 34, defeating the Tennessee Titans 23-to-16. |
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2000: Elian Gonzalez's grandmothers returned home to a hero's welcome in Cuba, vowing to continue the struggle to wrest the six-year-old shipwreck survivor from relatives in Miami. |
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