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1432 Afonso of Africa, king of Portugal 1622 Molire, France, dramatist (Tartuffe, Les Misanthrope) (baptized) 1709 Nicolas van de Veken, Flemish sculptor 1715 Georg C Wagenzeil, Austria (court)composer/pianist 1716 Philip Livingston, merchant (signed Declaration of Independence) 1779 Jean Coralli, Paris, ballet producer/choreographer 1791 Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece) 1793 Ferdinand G Waldmller, Austrian painter 1798 Thomas Croker, Irish antiquary, collector of songs & legends 1809 Cornelia Connelly, Phila, founder (Society of the Holy Child Jesus) 1809 Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician (libertarian socialist) 1812 Peter C Asbjírnsen, Norwegian fairy tale collector 1813 James Marion Sims, SC, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation) 1815 Henry Morris Naglee, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 1817 Lewis Golding Arnold, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1871 1821 Lafayette McLaws, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 1826 Mikhail Saltykov, Spas-Ugol Russia, satirist (Family of Noblemen) 1841 Lord Frederick Stanley, presenter of hockey's Stanley Cup 1845 Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman pres (National Educational Association) 1850 Sofya Kovalevskaya, Russia, mathematician (or 1919) 1858 Giovanni Segantini, Italy, painter 1863 Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian 1863 Wilhelm Marx, premier (Prussia) 1866 Nathan Sderblom, Lutheran archbishop, internationalist (Nobel '30) 1877 Lewis M Terman, Ind, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test) 1891 Osip Mandelstam, Warsaw, Russian poet (Noise of Time) 1893 D Ivor D Novello, British composer/writer (Truth Game) 1894 Edmond Rubbens, Belgian attorney/minister of colonization 1899 Goodman Ace, radio/TV actor/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman) 19-- Andrea Martin, Portland Me, comediene (SCTV) 19-- Charles Brown, Talladega Ala, actor (Dwayne Thompson-Today's FBI) 19-- Count Stovall, Calif, actor (Cal-All My Children, As the World Turns) 19-- Victor Campos, NYC, actor (Cade's County, Doctor's Hospital) 1900 Csar [Caesar] Domela, painter (Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis) 1900 William Heinesen, Fros Island, writer (Noatun) 1902 Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saoed, king (Saudi Arabia) 1906 Aristotle Onassis, Greece, rich shipping magnate 1908 Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project) 1909 Elie Siegmeister, NYC, composer (Plough & the Stars) 1909 Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, drummer (Sing Sing Sing) 1911 Cy Feuer, NYC, Bdwy producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line) 1911 Wim Kan, cabaretier 1912 Michel J-P Debr, premier of France (1959-62) 1913 Lloyd Bridges, San Leandro Calif, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane) 1918 Andreas M Donner, reich leader 1918 Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (1954-1971) 1920 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, Phila, Roman Catholic Archbishop of NY 1923 Lee Teng-hui, president of ROC (Taiwan), head of KMT (1988- ) 1925 Ruth Slenczynska, Sacramento, California, pianist 1926 Maria Schell, Vienna Austria, actress (Space 1999) 1929 "Queen Ida" Guillory, Ziadaco music 1929 Martin Luther King Jr, Atlanta, dreamer (Nobel 1964) 1931 Thomas Hoving, NYC, news correspondent (20/20) 1932 Dean Smith, US actor/relay runner (Olympic-gold-1952) 1932 Louis Woodard Jones, New Rochelle NY, 4X400m relayer (Oly-gold-56) 1935 Malcolm Frager, St Louis, Missouri, pianist 1935 Robert Silverberg, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan's Planet) 1937 Margaret O'Brien, San Diego, actress (Jane Eyre, Meet Me in St Louis) 1941 Captain Beefheart, [Don Van Vilet], rocker (Bongo Fury, Shiny Beast) 1945 Michael, [Marie-Christine von Reibnitz], Bohemia, Princess of Kent 1947 Pete Waterman, rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block) 1948 Dini Petty, Canadian talk show host (CITY-TV) 1948 Tommy Nolan, Montreal Canada, actor (Jody-Buckskin) 1951 Charo, Murcia Spain, actress/singer (Chico & the Man, Love Boat) 1953 Randy White, NFLer (Dallas Cowboys) 1956 Vera Sosulya, USSR, toboggan (Olympic-gold-1980) 1957 Mario Van Peebles, Mexico, actor (South Bronx Heroes) 1959 Pete Trewavas, rock bassist (Marillion-Real to Reel) 1963 Erling Kagge, Norway, explorer (South Pole) 1964 Jack Teagarden, US, trombonist/actor 1965 Derek B, rocker (Bullet from a Gun) 1967 Lisa Lisa, [Velez], rock vocalist (& Cult Jam) 1968 Chad Lowe, Dayton Ohio, actor (Spencer, Apprentice to Murder) 1971 Regina King, LA Calif, actress (Brenda-227) 1972 Ernie Reyes Jr, San Jose Calif, actor (Ernie-Sidekicks) Back to GREGSITE Passings for January 1569 Galba, Roman emperor (68-69), killed by Praetorian guard in Rome 1705 Walraad, the Young, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nijmegen, dies 1896 Matthew Brady, photographer, dies 1919 Karl Liebknecht, Marxist revolutionary, murdered 1919 Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist revolutionary, murdered 1934 Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Tie Konzert), dies 1942 Melvin Winfield Sheppard, runner (Olympic-gold-08, 12), dies at 58 1949 Black Dahlia, murder victim found in LA (basis of the movie) 1955 Yves Tanguy, French/Americans sailor/surrealistic painter, dies 1978 Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ten Bundy 1981 Emanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73), dies at 92 1982 Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76 1983 Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach, Fla, at 81 1983 Shepperd Strudwick, actor, dies of cancer at 75 1986 James H "Jim" Crowley, US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83 1987 Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58 1987 Ray Bolger, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), dies at 82 1988 Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83 1993 Huub H Jacobse, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD), dies 1993 Sammy Cahn, [Cohen], US songwriter (Bei mir bist du schn), dies at 79 Back to GREGSITE Holidays for January 15[Guatemala] Esquipulas [Japan] Adults Day/Seijin-No-Hi [Jordan] Arbor Day [Venezuala] Teachers' Day/Dia Del Maestro [US] Martin Luther King Jr Day (1929) [Virginia] Lee-Jackson Day [Florida] Arbor Day Back to GREGSITE Interest events for January 15[Christian] Church & Economic Life Week begins 341 [RC] Commemoration of St Paul of Thebes, the 1st hermit 580 [RC] Commemoration of St Maurus, abbot 1999 [Moslem] Night of Power; (Ramadn 27, 1419 AH) Back to GREGSITE Special events for January 15Islamic dates depend on sighting the new moon & may vary ñ 2 days [Chicago] Humanitarian Day [ancient Rome] Carmentalia (a d xvij Kal Feb) Hat Day (3rd Friday) 708 Sisinnius begins his reign as Pope (dies 20 days later) 1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church 1582 Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to the Baltic 1680 French explorer Sieur de la Salle builds Ft Crvecoeur 1752 Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism 1759 British Museum opens 1762 Fraunces Tavern opens in NYC 1777 People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England 1847 1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in NYC 1851 Gen Arista replaces Mexican Pres Herrera 1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis 1863 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal 1865 Ft Fisher, NC falls to Union troops 1870 Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly 1877 US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens 1882 1st US ski club formed, Berlin, NH 1886 Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue 1892 Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass 1895 Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premiers, St Petersburg (1/27 NS) 1905 Coen de King becomes world champion all-round skater 1906 A Kopff discovers asteroid #584 Semiramis 1907 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee de Forest 1907 Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them 1915 Japan claims economic control of China 1919 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21 1919 Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland 1919 Semana tragedy: bloodbath in Buenos Aires 1922 Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier 1923 Lithuania seize & annex the country of Memel 1925 Hans Luther forms German cabinet, with DNVP 1936 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio 1936 Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates 1939 1st NFL pro bowl, NY Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field 1939 Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal 1940 German U-Boot torpedoes the Eagle church 1942 FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II 1943 1,000 workers complete the air conditioning system for the Pentagon 1943 Japanese driven off Guadalcanal 1943 Vught Concentration Camp opens 1943 World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed 1944 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany 1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell 1945 Red army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp 1949 Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin 1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Wash DC 1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000 1953 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Wash DC station 1953 DDR Min of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage" 1955 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum 1955 USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic 1956 KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting 1962 Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea 1964 Teamsters negotiated the 1st national labor contract 1965 Rock group Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain" 1967 Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs 35-10 in Super Bowl I (NBC & CBS) 1968 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) begins broadcasting 1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union 1971 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" 1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels 1973 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court 1973 Gene Shalit joins the Today Show panel 1973 Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican 1973 Pres Nixon suspensends all US offensive action in N Vietnam 1974 "Happy Days" premiers on ABC 1974 Expert panel reports 18«-m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures 1975 Space Mountain opens (Disneyland) 1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot Pres Ford 1976 US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit 1978 Super Bowl XII-Dallas Cowboys-27, Denver Broncos-10 1978 Theodore Bundy kills Fla State U coeds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman 1981 "Hill Street Blues" premiers on NBC-TV 1983 Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard 1984 Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak 1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery 1985 K Suzuki & T Urata discovers asteroid #3733 1985 Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years 1986 Living Seas opens (Disneyland) 1990 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds 1990 AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch 1990 NY Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106 1991 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't) 1992 Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Josephy Doherty isn't entitled to asylum 1993 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die 1993 Mafia leader Salvatore "Gambling pool" Riina arrested 1993 Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV 1993 Top mafia leader Salvatore "Tot" Riina arrested in Palermo Back to GREGSITE Facts for January 1515th day of the year with 350 remaining (Numerology = 7) 1932 67øF highest temperature for this date in NYC 1957 0øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC Back to GREGSITE Songs released on January 1501/15/55 --- Melody Of Love --- Four Aces 01/15/66 --- Barbara Ann --- Beach Boys 01/15/66 --- Crying Time --- Charles, Ray 01/15/66 --- My Love --- Clark, Petula 01/15/72 --- Without You --- Nilsson 01/15/77 --- Night Moves --- Seger, Bob 01/15/83 --- Do You Really Want To Hurt Me --- Culture Club 01/15/83 --- Pass The Dutchie --- Musical Youth |
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