January 19
January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar. There are 346 days remaining (347 in
leap years).
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1419 -
Hundred Years' War:
Rouen surrenders to
Henry V of England completing his conquest of
Normandy.
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1520 -
Sten Sture the Younger, the
Regent of Sweden, was mortally wounded at the
Battle of Bogesund.
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1764 -
John Wilkes is expelled from the
British House of Commons for
seditious libel.
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1795 -
Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the
Netherlands. End of the
Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
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1806 - The
United Kingdom occupies the
Cape of Good Hope.
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1817 - An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General
José de San Martín,
crossed the Andes from
Argentina to liberate
Chile and then
Peru.
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1829 -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's
Faust Part 1 premieres.
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1839 -
British East India Company captures
Aden.
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1840 - Captain
Charles Wilkes circumnavigates
Antarctica, claiming what became known as
Wilkes Land for the
United States.
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1853 -
Giuseppe Verdi's
opera Il Trovatore premieres in
Rome.
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1862 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Mill Springs - The
Confederate States of America suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
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1883 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by
Thomas Edison, begins service at
Roselle, New Jersey.
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1893 -
Henrik Ibsen's
play The Master Builder premieres in
Berlin.
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1899 -
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
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1903 - First transatlantic radio broadcast between United States and England.
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1915 -
George Claude patents the
neon discharge tube for use in
advertising.
* 1915 -
World War I: German
zeppelins bomb the cities of
Great Yarmouth and
King's Lynn in the
United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
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1918 -
Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles between the
Red Guards and the
White Guard.
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1920 - The
United States Senate votes against joining the
League of Nations.
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1935 -
Coopers Inc. sold the world's first
briefs.
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1937 -
Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from
Los Angeles to
New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
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1941 -
World War II:
British troops attack
Italian-held
Eritrea.
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1942 -
World War II:
Japanese forces invade
Burma.
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1945 -
World War II:
Soviet forces liberate ghetto of
Łódź. Out of 230,000 inhabitants in
1940, less than 900 had survived
Nazi occupation.
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1946 - General
Douglas MacArthur establishes the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East in
Tokyo to try
Japanese
war criminals.
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1949 -
Cuba recognises
Israel.
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1953 - 68% of all
United States television sets were tuned in to
I Love Lucy to watch
Lucy give birth.
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1966 -
Indira Gandhi is elected
Prime Minister of India.
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1969 - Student
Jan Palach died after setting himself on fire 3 days ago in
Prague's
Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of
Czechoslovakia by the
Soviet Union in
1968. His
funeral turned into another major protest.
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1971 - Revival of
No, No, Nanette premieres at
46th Street Theatre,
New York City.
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1974 - The
UCLA men's basketball team sees its 88-game winning streak end at the hands of
Notre Dame.
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1975 -
Triple J begins broadcasting in
Sydney,
Australia.
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1977 - President
Gerald Ford pardons
Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "
Tokyo Rose").
* 1977 -
Snow falls in
Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the
history of the
city that snowfall has occurred.
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1978 - The last
Volkswagen Beetle made in
Germany leaves VW's plant in
Emden. Beetle production in
Latin America will continue until
2003.
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1981 -
Iran Hostage Crisis:
United States and
Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52
American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
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1983 -
Klaus Barbie,
Nazi war criminal, is arrested in
Bolivia.
* 1983 - The
Apple Lisa, the first commercial
personal computer from
Apple Computer, Inc. to have a
graphical user interface and a
computer mouse, is announced.
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1993 -
IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for
1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in
United States history.
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1994 - Record cold temperatures across the eastern half of the
United States brings temperatures below -20°F in many locations, such as
Ohio and
Kentucky.
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1997 -
Yasser Arafat returns to
Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last
Israeli-controlled
West Bank city.
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2000 - Fire at
Seton Hall University kills three students and injures 54.
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2002 -
Michael Jordan, formerly of the
Washington Wizards, plays his first game in
Chicago since rejoining the
NBA.
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2006 - The
New Horizons probe was launched by
NASA on the first mission to
Pluto.
* 2006 - Opening of the
Canadian Undergraduate Software Engineering Conference 2006 in
Montreal,
Quebec.
* 2006 -
Jet Airways announces its purchase of
Air Sahara, creating the largest domestic airline in
India.
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2038 - The
UNIX timestamp (a format used for decades to store dates on computers)
becomes technically obsolete.
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399 -
Pulcheria,
Byzantine empress (d.
453)
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1544 - King
Francis II of France (d.
1560)
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1736 -
James Watt, Scottish inventor (d.
1819)
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1739 -
Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d.
1808)
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1807 -
Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d.
1870)
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1808 -
Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d.
1887)
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1809 -
Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d.
1849)
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1813 - Sir
Henry Bessemer, English inventor (d.
1898)
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1832 -
Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (d.
1875)
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1839 -
Paul Cézanne, French painter (d.
1906)
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1848 -
John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (d.
1904)
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1851 -
Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d.
1922)
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1863 -
Werner Sombart, German sociologist (d.
1941)
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1879 -
Boris Savinkov, Russian writer and terrorist (d.
1925)
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1887 -
Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual (d.
1943)
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1892 -
"lafur Thors, Icelandic politician and five-time prime minister (d.
1964)
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1909 -
Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d.
2003)
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1912 -
Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1986)
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1913 -
Minnesota Fats, American billiards player (d.
1996)
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1917 -
John Raitt, American singer and actor (d.
2005)
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1918 -
John H. Johnson, American publisher (d.
2005)
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1920 -
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian, 5th
United Nations Secretary General*
1921 -
Patricia Highsmith, American author (d.
1995)
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1922 -
Guy Madison, American actor (d.
1996)
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1923 -
Jean Stapleton, American actress
* 1923 -
Markus Wolf, German spy
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1924 -
Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d.
1985)
* 1924 -
Jean-Francois Revel, French author
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1926 -
Fritz Weaver, American actor
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1931 -
Tippi Hedren, American actress
* 1931 -
Robert MacNeil, Canadian journalist
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1932 -
Richard Lester, British director
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1936 -
Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (d.
1981)
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1939 -
Phil Everly, American musician
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1940 -
Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-Mafia magistrate
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1941 -
Colin Gunton, British theologian (d.
2003)
* 1941 -
Tony Anholt, British actor
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1942 -
Michael Crawford, British singer and actor
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1943 -
Janis Joplin, American singer (d.
1970)
* 1943 -
Petchara Chaowarat, Thai film actress
* 1943 -
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands*
1944 -
Shelley Fabares, American actress
* 1944 -
Peter Lynch, American investor
* 1944 -
Dan Reeves, American football coach
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1946 -
Julian Barnes, English author
* 1946 -
Dolly Parton, American singer and actress
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1947 -
Paula Deen, American chef, writer, and restaurateur
* 1947 -
Rod Evans, founding member of Deep Purple
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1948 -
Frank McKenna, Premier of New Brunswick and Canadian Ambassador
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1949 -
Robert Palmer, English singer and guitarist (d.
2003)
* 1949 -
Dennis Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player
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1952 -
David Patrick Kelly, American actor
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1953 -
Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
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1954 -
Katharina Thalbach, German actress and film director
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1955 -
Simon Rattle, English conductor
* 1955 -
Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-born actor and comedian
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1954 -
Katey Sagal, American actress, singer, and writer
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1957 -
Kenneth McClintock, Senate President of Puerto Rico
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1963 -
Caron Wheeler, British singer (
Soul II Soul)
* 1963 -
Michael Adams (basketball), American basketball player
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1966 -
Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field hockey player
* 1966 -
Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
* 1966 -
Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
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1969 -
Junior Seau, American football player
* 1969 -
Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
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1971 -
Shawn Wayans, American actor, writer, and producer
* 1971 -
John Wozniak, American singer and songwriter (
Marcy Playground)
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1972 -
Joana Benedek, Mexican actress
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1973 -
Drea de Matteo, American actress
* 1973 -
Karen Lancaume, French actress (d.
2005)
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1974 -
Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer
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1975 -
Ricky Wilson, Kaiser Chiefs Singer
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1977 -
Lauren, Cameroon footballer
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1979 -
Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
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1980 -
Jenson Button, English F1 pilot
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1981 -
Asier Del Horno, Spanish footballer
*1981 -
Lucho Gonzalez, Argentine footballer
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1982 -
Jodie Sweetin, American child actress
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1983 -
Hikaru Utada, American-born Japanese singer and songwriter
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1984 -
Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player
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1985 -
Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer (
Morning Musume)
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1991 -
Erin Sanders, American child actress
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1992 -
Logan Lerman, American child actor
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639 -
Dagobert I, King of the Franks
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1526 -
Isabella of Burgundy, wife of
Christian II of Denmark (b.
1501)
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1576 -
Hans Sachs, German
Meistersinger (b.
1494)
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1661 -
Thomas Venner, Fifth Monarchist (executed)
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1729 -
William Congreve, English playwright (b.
1670)
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1757 -
Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (b.
1674)
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1766 -
Jean-Nicolas Servan, French architect and painter (b.
1695)
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1785 -
Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b.
1713)
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1833 -
Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (b.
1791)
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1847 -
Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer (assassinated)
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1851 -
Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (b.
1805)
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1865 -
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b.
1809)
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1869 -
Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b.
1788)
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1874 -
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b.
1798)
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1878 -
Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist (b.
1810)
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1905 -
Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b.
1817)
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1929 -
Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b.
1873)
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1939 -
Cliff Heathcote, baseball player (b.
1898)
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1948 -
Tony Garnier, French architect (b.
1869)
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1964 -
Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b.
1886)
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1968 -
Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b.
1879)
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1969 -
Jan Palach, Czech student and political activist (suicide) (b.
1948)
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1971 -
Harry Shields, American musician (b.
1899)
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1972 -
Michael Rabin, American violinist (b.
1936)
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1973 -
Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (b.
1903)
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1975 -
Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (b.
1889)
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1980 -
William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b.
1898)
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1982 -
Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b.
1945)
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1983 -
Ham the Chimp, Monkey astronaut
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1990 -
Rajneesh, Indian religious leader (b.
1931)
* 1990 -
Herbert Wehner, German politician (b.
1906)
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1991 -
John Russell, American actor (b.
1921)
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1996 -
Don Simpson, American film producer (b.
1943)
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1997 -
James Dickey, American writer (b.
1923)
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1998 -
Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b.
1932)
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2000 -
Bettino Craxi,
Prime Minister of Italy (b.
1934)
* 2000 -
Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress (b.
1913)
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2003 -
Françoise Giroud, French writer and journalist (b.
1916)
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2004 -
Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (suicide) (b.
1917)
* 2004 -
David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b.
1955)
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2005 -
Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b.
1924)
* 2005 -
K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b.
1974)
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2006 -
Wilson Pickett, Soul singer (b.
1941)
* 2006 -
Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim, Sudanese writer and Islamic scholar (b.
1933)
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Eastern and
Oriental Orthodoxy —
Julian Calendar Theophany (
Epiphany).
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St. Mark of Ephesus feast day .
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Bahá'í Faith — Feast of Sultán (Sovereignty) — First day of the 17th month of the
Bahá'í Calendar.
* National Popcorn Day in
United States, however some claim this is whatever day the Superbowl lands on.
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Confederate Heroes Day in
Texas.
* The unofficial
National Popcorn Day*
On this day in Canada*
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