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1697 Richard Savage, poet 1728 Niccol• Piccinni, Italian composer (Buona Figliuola) 1757 Samuel McIntire, woodcarver/architect (architect of Salem) 1807 Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877 1815 Henry Wager Halleck, Major General (Union Army), died in 1872 1834 Albert Lindley Lee, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1907 1837 James Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 1847 K lm n Miksz th, Hungary, writer (Wonderparaplu) 1853 Andr‚ Michelin, France, industrialist/tire manufacturer (Michelin) 1864 Frank Bacon, actor/author (Lightnin) 1870 Wilhelm Normann, German chemist (harden van oli‰n) 1872 Edward G Craig, actor/director (On the art o/t theatre) 1874 Robert Service, England, Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee) 1878 Henry Dewitt "Harry" Carey II, US actor (Informer) 1894 Guy Chamberlin, early NFL end/coach (Canton, Frankford, Cards) 1901 Fulgencio Batista, president/dictator of Cuba (1933-44, 1952-59) 1907 Alexander Knox, Canada, actor (Gorky Park, 2 of a Kind) 1908 Ethel Merman, stage & screen actress (Anything Goes, Call Me Madam) 1911 Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, HOF baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals) 1912 Franz Tumler, Austria, author/novelist (Cloak, Aufruf) 1917 Buddy Lester, Chicago Ill, actor (Nick-Phil Silvers Show) 1919 Bob Boucher, Kent Ohio, orch leader (Music on Ice) 1920 Elliot Reid, NYC, actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) 1923 Martin Stokken, Norway, nordic relay (Olympic-silver-1952) 1923 Willem Aantjes, Dutch politicial leader (CDA) 1924 Katy Jurado, M‚xico, actress (High Noon, Trapeze, Barabbas, AKA Pablo) 1928 William Kennedy, US writer 1929 Allard Lowenstein, radical (Students for Democratic Action) 1930 Norman Podhoretz, author/editor (NY Post) 1933 Oleg G Makarov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18-1, 27, T-3) 1934 Bill Alexander, (Rep-D-AR, 1969- ) 1934 Marilyn Horne, Penn, mezzo-soprano 1934 Richard Wernick, Boston Mass, composer 1935 A J Foyt, Houston, auto race driver (Indy 500 1961, 64, 67, 77) 1936 Michael White, theater/film producer 1937 Bob Bogle, rock bassist/guitarist (Ventures-Batman Theme) 1937 Conny Vandenbos, Dutch singer (1 rose is my rose) 1938 Michael Pataki, Youngstown Ohio, actor (Get Christie Love) 1941 Christine Janes, tennis player 1942 Tony P Hall, (Rep-D-OH, 1979- ) 1944 Jim Stafford, Eloise Fla, singer (Spiders & Snakes, My Girl Bill) 1944 Ronnie Milsap, country singer (Nobody Likes Sad Songs) 1946 Michael L Coats, Sacramento Ca, Capt USN/astr (STS 41-D, 29, 39) 1947 Georgette Mosbacher, CEO (La Prairie cosmetics) 1948 Anatoli Y Soloviyov, Russia, colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-5, TM-9) 1948 Cliff Thorburn, Victoria, BC, champion snooker player 1948 John Carpenter, director (Halloween, The Thing) 1950 Caroline Munro, Windsor England, actress (Spy Who Loves Me) 1950 Debbie Allen, Houston Tx, dancer/actress (3 Girls 3, Lydia-Fame) 1951 Richard Thompson, rocker (BT Express-Here Comes the Express) 1952 Lloyd Blaine Hammond Jr, Savannah Ga, Major USAF/astr (STS 39) 1955 Jerry M Linenger, Mt Clemens Mich, USN Commander/astronaut 1960 Sad‚, [Helen Ady] Nigeria, rocker (Taboo; Grammy 1986-Best new singer) 1962 John Koster, drummer (Sleeze Beez) 1969 Roy Jones, Pensacola Fla, Light-MW boxer (Olympic-silver-1988) 1973 Josie Davis, LA Calif, actress (Sarah-Charles in Charge) 1974 Kate Moss, Addiscomb Surrey England, model (Calvin Klein) Back to GREGSITE Passings for January 16308 Marcellus I, [Marcellinus?], bishop of Rome, dies 429 Honoratius van Arles, bishop/saint, dies 1343 Robert van Anjou, king (Naples), dies 1595 Murad III, sultan of Turkey (1574-95), dies 1697 Richard Savage, poet, dies 1794 Edward Gibbon, historian (Decline & Fall), dies in London 1842 Thomas Freanby, Norwegian landscape painter, dies 1886 Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies 1901 Arnold B”cklin, Swiss painter, dies 1901 Hiram Revels, dies at 73 1938 William Pickering, pioneer US stellar spectroscopist, dies 1939 Albert Fish, mass murderer, executed 1942 Carole Lombard, actress, her mother & 20 others killed in plane crash 1954 Michail M Prishvin, Russian writer, dies 1955 Jonkheer Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch min (1908-13), dies 1957 Arturo Toscanini, Italian US conductor (NBC), dies at 89 in NYC 1967 Robert J van de Graaff, nuclear physicist, dies 1968 Robert R "Bob" Jones, founder (Bob Jones University), dies at 84 1969 John Palach, Czechoslovakia student, self incinerates 1970 Arm˜n Pane, Indonesian writer (Djinak-djinak merpati), dies 1971 Kermit Maynard, cowboy actor (Saturday Roundup), dies at 68 1972 David Seville, [Ross Bagdasarian] (Alvin & Chipmunks), dies at 52 1973 Ray Barrett, sportscaster (Gillette Summer Sports Reel), dies at 65 1979 Ted Cassidy, Pittsburgh, actor (Lurch-Addams Family), dies at 46 1987 Earl Wilson, Bdwy columnist (Midnight Earl), dies in Yonkers at 79 1987 Joyce Jameson, comedienne (Spike Jones Show), dies at 54 1993 Florence Desmond, [Dawson], actress (Sally in our alley), dies at 87 1993 Glenn Corbett, US actor (Shenandoah, Chisum, Midway), dies at 63 1993 Sathasivam Krishnakumar, Sri Lanka commander, commits suicide Back to GREGSITE Holidays for January 16[US] Martin Luther King Jr Day (1929) [Virginia] Lee-Jackson Day [Florida] Arbor Day Back to GREGSITE Interest events for January 16[RC] Feast of St Henry [Christian] Church & Economic Life Week begins 309 [RC] Commemoration of St Marcellus I, 30th pope [308-09], martyr 1995 [Moslem] Night of Remembrance (Moslem feast); Sha'bƒn 14, 1415 AH 1995 [Jewish] Tu B'Shevat (Arbor Day) (Shevat 15, 5755 AM) Back to GREGSITE Special events for January 16 National Nothing Day, National Hat Day [Rome] a d xvij Kal Feb Hat Day (3rd Friday) 308 St Marcellus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1325 Laure de Noves, beloved of Petrarch, marries Hugues de Sade 1493 Columbus returns to Spain on his 1st trip 1547 Ivan IV the Terrible crowned 1st tsar of Russia 1765 Charles Messier catalogs M41 (galactic cluster in Canis Major) 1776 Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks 1777 Vermont declares independence from NY 1863 -Aug 23rd) Cruise of CSS Florida 1864 Heavy fighting takes place near Dandridge, Tennessee 1865 Aftermath of Ft Fisher, Ft Caswell is abandoned & blown up 1865 Gen Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks) 1865 SF Dramatic Chronicle started 1870 Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to US after Civil War 1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia sworn in as 2nd black congressman 1877 Color organ (for light shows) patented, by Bainbridge Bishop 1883 Pendleton Act creates basis of US Civil Service system 1887 Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes 1889 128ø F (53ø C), Cloncurry, Queensland (Australian record) 1893 M Wolf discovers asteroid #353 Ruperto-Carola 1896 A Charlois discovers asteroid #414 Liriope 1897 John Dewey's essay "My Pedagogic Creed" appears in School Journal 1903 M Wolf discovers asteroid #500 Selinur 1905 Baseball outfielder Frank Huelsman traded for 6th time in 8 months 1908 Pinnacles National Monument, Calif established 1909 British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole 1909 David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole 1909 P Melotte discovers asteroid #676 Melitta 1911 Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east 1912 H E Wood discovers asteroid #790 Pretoria 1913 British House of Commons rejects Home-Rule for Ireland 1914 Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia 1915 Congress authorizes $1 & $50 Panama-Pacific Intl Expo gold coin 1919 Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of the states; Nebraska is 36th 1920 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933 1920 1st assembly of League of Nations (Paris) 1920 Georgia declares independence 1925 Gen M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense 1936 Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form United Popular 1941 War Dept forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets 1942 William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in US army 1943 -60ø F (-51ø C), Island Park Dam, Idaho (state record) 1943 German 2nd SS-Panzer division evacuates Cracow 1944 Gen Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London 1945 US 1st & 3rd army meet at Houffalise 1947 Vincent Aurial elected president of France 1949 KNBH (now KNBC) TV channel 4 in Los Angeles, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast 1949 WTOP (now WUSA) TV channel 9 in Washington, DC (CBS) 1st broadcast 1950 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands recognize Israel 1951 Viet Minh offensive at Hanoi 1951 World's largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville Tx, to 134th St, NYC) 1953 Egyptian Premier Gen Naguib disbands all political parties 1953 KXLY TV channel 4 in Spokane, WA (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting 1956 Egyptian Pres Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine 1957 3 B-52s leave Calif for 1st non-stop round the world flights 1957 Cavern Club opens on Matthews Street in England 1961 Russian espionage work detected in Great Britain 1962 Shooting begins on "Dr No" 1962 Suit accuses NYC Board of Education uses "racial quotas" 1963 Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb 1964 "Hello, Dolly!" starring Carol Channing, opens on Broadway 1966 Harold R Perry becomes 2nd black Roman Catholic bishop in US 1967 1st black government installed in Bahamas 1967 Lucius Amerson, becomes 1st southern (Ala) black sheriff in 20th cent 1969 Jan Palach immolates himself to protest Soviet invasion of Czech 1969 Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space 1972 Super Bowl VI-Dallas Cowboys-24, Miami-3 1973 NBC presents 440th & final showing of Bonanza 1973 USSR's Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of the Moon 1974 L A Landslide kills 9, Canyonville, Oregon 1976 "Donny & Marie" [Osmond] musical variety show premiers on ABC TV 1977 Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders 1978 Soyuz 27 returns to Earth 1979 Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt 1980 Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession 1981 John Lennon releases "Woman" in UK 1983 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3464 Owensby & #3766 1984 Paul & Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados-possession of cannabis 1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder fired from CBS for racial remarks 1988 NFL St Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix 1989 Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague 1989 USSR announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars 1990 2 Bank of Credit & Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering 1991 US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (US times) Back to GREGSITE Facts for January 1616th day of the year with 349 remaining (Numerology = 8) 1893 1øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC 1953 57øF highest temperature for this date in NYC Back to GREGSITE Songs released on January 1601/16/42 --- Everything I Love --- Miller, Glenn 01/16/48 --- I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover --- Mooney, Art 01/16/54 --- Till We Two Are One --- Shaw, Georgie 01/16/61 --- Emotions --- Lee, Brenda 01/16/61 --- My Empty Arms --- Wilson, Jackie 01/16/65 --- Shake --- Cooke, Sam 01/16/65 --- All Day And All Of The Night --- Kinks 01/16/71 --- I Hear You Knocking --- Edmunds, Dave 01/16/82 --- Key Largo --- Higgins, Bertie 01/16/88 --- I Found Someone --- Cher 01/16/88 --- Can't Stay Away From You --- Miami Sound Machine 01/16/88 --- She's Like The Wind --- Swayze, Patrick |
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