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1611 James Harrington, England, political author (Commonwealth of Oceans) 1652 Pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer/historian 1653 Bernhard Albinus, [Weiss] Germany, bodyguard (Frederik of Prussia) 1799 Daniel Tyler, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1882 1800 Millard Fillmore, Locke NY, (Whig) 13th president (1850-53) 1808 Jacob Ammen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1894 1816 Stephen Miller, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881 1821 Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brig General (Confed Army), died in 1891 1824 James Morrison Hawes, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 1830 (Samuel) Emerson Opdycke, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 1830 Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter (US landscapes) 1844 Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, [St Bernadette of Lourdes], saint/visionary 1845 Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18) 1845 Paul Deusen, German philospher (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft) 1855 Eli‰zer Ben-Jehuda, [Perelmann], Latvia, writer (1st hebrew newspaper) 1873 Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive (Paramount) 1873 Charles Pierre P‚guy, Orl‚ans Fr, Catholic writer (God Speaks) 1877 Johannes F Buziau, cabaret performer (1 great dog) 1895 Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist 1896 Arnold Ridley, English actor/dramatist (The Ghost Train) 1898 Art Baker, NYC, TV host (You Asked For It) 1899 Francis Poulenc, Paris France, composer/pianist (Lesson Biches) 19-- Juan Gabriel, spanish singer (Amon Eterno, De Serenata) 19-- Valeria Linch, spanish entertainer (or 1/17) 1903 Alan Napier, Birmingham England, actor (Alfred-Batman) 1907 Nicanor Zabaleta, San Sebastian, Spain, harpist 1910 Alain JG de Rothschild, France, banker/baron 1912 Charles Addams, cartoonist (New Yorker, Addams Family) 1913 Francis De Wolff, England, actor (From Russia With Love) 1915 Herman Musaph, psychiatrist/sexologist/founder (NVSH) 1916 Gerrit Schulte, [Le fou pedalant], 6 day bicyclist 1916 Paul Keres, USSR, chess grandmaster (1950) 1918 Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader (Communist Party) 1922 Jean-Pierre Prampal, Marseilles France, flautist 1922 Vincent Gardenia, Naples Italy, actor (All in the Family, LA Law) 1924 Roloff Beny, Alberta, painter/photographer (A Time of Gods) 1925 Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Britain, zoologist/writer (Mockery Bird) 1928 William Peter Blatty, NYC, author (The Exorcist) 1929 Douglas Kiker, NBC newsman (1970 Peabody Award) 1929 Kenneth Henry, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1952) 1929 Terry Moore, [Helen Luella Koford], LA Cal, actress (Little Sheba) 1931 Mack Mattingly, (Sen-R-GA, 1981-86) 1934 Charles Lamont Jenkins, NYC, 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1956) 1935 Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 36, Apollo-Soyuz) 1938 Jasperina de Jong, cabaret performer 1939 Maury Povich, TV host (Current Affair, Maury)/Mr Connie Chung 1941 Frederick D Gregory, Wash DC, Col USAF/astro (STS 51-B, 33, 44) 1942 Paul Revere, Boise Id, keyboard (Paul Revere & Raiders-Fallin in Love) 1942 Vasili Alexeyev, USSR, weightlifer (Olympic-gold- ) 1943 Jim Lefebvre, Hawthorne Calif, baseball manager (Seattle Mariners) 1943 Leona Williams, singer/songwriter (Ladies Get the Blues) 1944 Ad [GB] N˜huis, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD) 1944 Mike McGear, Liverpool, singer (Paul McCartney's brother) 1945 Tony Conigliaro, Mass, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox) 1947 David Porcel˜n, composer/conductor 1948 Kaz Lux, Poland/Netherland, singer 1948 Kenny Loggins, singer (Loggins & Messina-This is it, Footloose) 1951 Talgat Amangeldyyevich Musabayev, Russia, major/cosmonaut 1952 Erin Gray, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Silver Spoons, Buck Rogers) 1955 Sandra Bernhard, Arizona (Follow That Bird, King of Comedy) 1956 Rosalyn Bryant, Chic Ill, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1976) 1957 Katherine Kouric, US, (political?) 1957 Kristen Meadows, actress (Santa Barbara) 1958 Donna Rice, model, Gary Hart's alledged lover 1960 Tierre Turner, Detroit Mich, actor (Waverly Wonders, Cop & the Kid) 1964 Nicolas Cage, actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon) 1977 Dustin Diamond, actor (Screech-Saved by the Bell) Back to GREGSITE Passings for January 07312 Lucianus, saint, dies 1285 Charles I van Anjou, brother of King Louis IX of France, dies 1325 Dionysius, the justified, King of Portugal (1279-1325), dies 1451 Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy/last anti-pope Felix V (1439-49), dies 1529 Peter de Oude Vischer, German count of Sebaldus, dies 1536 Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies 1537 Alessandro de' Medici, of Florence, assassinated 1566 Ludovicus Blosius, [Louis de Blois"Dacrianus"], wrtier, dies 1655 Innocentius X, [Giambattista Pamfili], pope (1644-55), dies 1830 Charlotte J T, infant of Portugal, dies 1892 Tewfik Pasja, viceroy of Egypt, dies 1932 Henri Stroethoff, actor (Slight Paradise), dies at 60 1943 Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavian physicist (tesla), dies 1944 J Verleun, resistance fighter, executed 1957 Al White, choreographer (NBC Comedy Hour), dies 1958 Petru Groza, premier/president (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74 1961 Clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Assn dies at 74 1964 Colin McPhee, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles), dies at 62 1971 Dick Kollmar, actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What), dies at 60 1972 John Berryman, US poet (Imaginary Jew), dies 1982 Bert Oosterhuis, auto racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in race crash 1983 August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies 1985 Johnny Guarnieri, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show), dies at 67 1987 Larry Carr, pianist (Flight to Rhythm), dies at 72 1988 Trevor Howard, actor (Ryan's Daughter), dies at 71 of bronchitis 1990 Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at 81 1990 Horace Stoneham, baseball owner (Giants), dies at 86 1990 Joseph Robbie, lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73 Back to GREGSITE Holidays for January 07[Cambodia] PRK-Liberation Day (1979) [Liberia] Pioneers' Day [Scotland] Handsel Monday Back to GREGSITE Interest events for January 07[Andorra] St Lucia's Day [Christian-Andorra] St Lucia's Day [Christian-Ethiopia] Ganna Christmas [RC] Feast of St Vitalis [Russian Orthodox] Julian Calendar Christmas in 20th, 21st century [Ang, RC] Feast of the Baptism of Jesus Christ [Christian] Plough Monday 1275 [RC] Memorial of Raymond of Pe¤afort, priest (opt) Back to GREGSITE Special events for January 071558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French 1558 French under Fran‡ois, Duke of Guise, capture Calais from England 1566 Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V 1579 England signs an offensive & defensive alliance with the Netherland 1584 Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia 1598 Boris Godunov seizes the Russian throne on death of Feodore I 1601 Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth 1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia 1610 Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede 1714 Typewriter patented (built years later) 1782 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia 1784 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia 1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries) 1789 1st national (presidential) election in US 1817 2nd Bank of the United States opens 1822 1st printing in Hawaii 1822 Liberia colonized by Americans 1830 Baltimore & Ohio RR Co begins carrying revenue traffic 1842 Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premiers in Paris 1861 Florida troops takeover Ft Marion at St Augustine 1862 Battle of Manassas Junction, VA 1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, WV 1868 Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock 1868 Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson 1879 King Willem II marries Emma von Waldeck-Pyrmont 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Valley of Fear" (BG) 1890 W B Purvis patents fountain pen 1896 A Charlois discovers asteroids #410 Chloris & #411 Xanthe 1896 Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook 1896 M Wolf discovers asteroids #412 Elisabetha & #413 Edburga 1899 Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier" (BG) 1904 Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st int'l radio distress signal 1910 Ottawa Senators sweep Galt in 2 games for the Stanley Cup 1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF 1913 F Kaiser discovers asteroid #738 Alagasta 1913 William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum 1914 1st steamboat passes through the Panama Canal 1923 Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan 1927 Coml transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between NY & London 1927 Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Ill) 1929 "Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premiers 1929 "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears 1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & East Indies 1932 1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Mich 1933 1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands 1934 "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts 1934 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1297 Quadea & #1298 Nocturna & #3264 1934 Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld 1936 Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m) 1939 US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916) 1940 G Kulin discovers asteroid #3019 1942 WWII siege of Bataan starts 1948 US president Truman raises taxes for the Marshall-plan 1950 Hank Snow's 1st appearance on the "Grand Ole Opry" 1950 Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia) 1952 French Plevin govt falls 1953 Pres Truman announces development of the hydrogen bomb 1955 Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at the Met (NYC) 1955 WCIQ TV channel 7 in Mt Cheaha, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting 1958 USSR shrinks army to 300,000 1959 US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban govt 1961 1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16 1961 Trucial States (now UAE) issue their 1st postage stamps 1962 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails 1962 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock 1963 1st class postage raised from 4› to 5› 1964 Bahamas achieves internal self-government & cabinet responsibility 1964 Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in the air (Boeing 707) 1965 France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold 1967 "Newlywed Game" premiers 1968 "The GE College Bowl" quiz show premiers on NBC TV 1968 1st class postage raised from 5› to 6› 1968 Surveyor 7 lands on the Moon 1969 US Congress doubles president salary 1971 -40ø F (-40ø C), Hawley Lake, Ariz (state record) 1972 Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die 1972 LA Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record) 1972 Lewis F Powell Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice 1973 British Darts Organisation founded in North London 1973 US poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize 1973 WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting 1975 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere) 1975 P Wild discovers asteroid #3468 1976 E F Helin discovers asteroid #2062 Aten 1978 Angola revises its constitution 1979 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge 1980 Minn ends Phila Flyers' NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak ends 1982 "Fame" premiers on NBC TV 1982 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick 1983 Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala 1985 KHQ-AM in Spokane WA changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ) 1986 Chicago Bears defeat New England Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX 1986 STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems 1986 US president Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya 1989 Akhito becomes emperor of Japan 1989 Intl Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris 1990 Lynn Jennings cycles world record 5K indoor at 15:22.64 1991 "Nia Peeples Party Machine" premiers on TV 1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1499) Back to GREGSITE Facts for January 077th day of the year with 358 remaining (Numerology = 8) 1896 6øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC 1907 64øF highest temperature for this date in NYC Back to GREGSITE Songs released on January 0701/07/43 --- Moonlight Becomes You --- Crosby, Bing 01/07/43 --- Why Don't You Fall In Love With Me --- Shore, Dinah 01/07/49 --- Far Away Places --- Como, Perry 01/07/56 --- Rock And Roll Waltz --- Starr, Kay 01/07/67 --- Nothin' Yet, (We Ain't Got) --- Blues Magoos 01/07/67 --- 98.6 --- Keith 01/07/78 --- Emotion --- Sang, Samantha 01/07/84 --- Innocent Man, An --- Joel, Billy 01/07/84 --- Let The Music Play --- Shannon 01/07/89 --- She Wants To Dance With Me --- Astley, Rick 01/07/89 --- Walking Away --- Information Society |
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