On this day in History – Jan. 31 Janeiro 31, 2009

• 36 BC – Antonia Minor was born (d. 0038 AD). Daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor.
• 0314 – Pope Silvester I began his Papacy.
• 0743 – Muhammad al-Baqir dies (b. 0676). Shia Imam.
• 0877 – Taejo of Goryeo was born (d. 0943). Ruler of Korea.
• 1338 – King Charles V of France (d. 1380).
• 1398 – Emperor Suko of Japan dies (b. 1334).
• 1435 – Xuande dies (b. 1398). Emperor of China.
• 1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
• 1512 – King Henry of Portugal was born (d. 1580)/ Nascimento do Cardeal-rei Henrique I de Portugal.
• 1542 – Descoberta das Cataratas do Iguaçu, por Dom Alvar Nuñes Cabeza de Vaca.
• 1543 – Tokugawa Ieyasu was born (d. 1616). Shogun of Japan.
• 1550 – Henry I, Duke of Guise was born (d. 1588). French Catholic leader.
• 1558 – Descubrimiento de la Isla Grande de Chiloé en Chile, por una expedición española integrada por Alonso de Ercilla .
• 1561 – Bairam Khan dies. Great Mughal General, regent for Akbar.
• 1561 – Menno Simons dies (b. 1496). Dutch Mennonite leader.
• 1580 – King Henry of Portugal dies on the day of his 68th birthday (b. 1512)/ Cardeal-rei Henrique I de Portugal faleceu no dia do 68º. aniversário.
• 1597 – John Regis was born (d. 1640). French saint.
• 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes (b. 1570), Ambrose Rokewood and Thomas Wintour (b. 1571) are executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
• 1615 – Claudio Aquaviva dies (b. 1543). Italian Jesuit.
• 1624 – Arnold Geulincx was born (d. 1669). Flemish philosopher.
• 1632 – Joost Bürgi dies (b. 1552). Swiss clockmaker and mathematician.
• 1665 – Johannes Clauberg dies (b. 1622). German theologian and philsopher.
• 1673 – Louis de Montfort was born (d. 1716). French catholic priest and saint.
• 1676 – Se funda en Guatemala de la Real Universidad de San Carlos.
• 1686 – Hans Egede was born (d. 1758). Norwegian Lutheran missionary.
• 1686 – Jean Mairet dies (b. 1604). French dramatist.
• 1720 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford dies (b. 1654). English privy councilor.
• 1729 – Jakob Roggeveen dies (b. 1659). Dutch explorer.
• 1736 – Bruno Mauricio de Zabala dies. Founder of Montevideo (Uruguay).
• 1736 – Filippo Juvara dies (b. 1678). Italian architect.
• 1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Dock Hospital.
• 1752 – Gouverneur Morris was born (d. 1816). American lawmaker and diplomat.
• 1759 – François Devienne was born (d. 1803). French composer.
• 1788 – Charles Edward Stuart dies (b. 1720). Pretender to the British throne.
• 1790 – Thomas Lewis dies (b. 1718). Irish-born Virginia settler.
• 1794 – Marriott Arbuthnot dies (b. 1711). British admiral.
• 1797 – Franz Schubert was born (d. 1828). Austrian composer who was one of the most gifted musicians of the 19th century.
• 1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
• 1815 – José Félix Ribas dies (b. 1775). Venezuelan independentist leader.
• 1820 – William B. Washburn was born (d. 1887). 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)
• 1828 – Alexander Ypsilantis dies (b. 1792). Phanariot Greek military commander and national hero of the Greek War of Independence.
• 1835 – William Charles Lunalilo was born (d. 1874). Monarch of Hawaii.
• 1836 – John Cheyne dies (b. 1777). British physician, surgeon and author.
• 1841 – Se constituye la República de El Salvador, al disolverse la Federación de las Provincias Unidas de Centroamérica.
• 1841 – Sam Loyd was born (d. 10 Apr 1911). Samuel Loyd was an American puzzlemaker who was best known for composing chess problems and games, including Parcheesi, in addition to other mathematically based games and puzzles.
• 1844 – Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand dies (b. 1773). French general.
• 1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• 1848 – John C. Fremont court-martialed on grounds of mutiny and disobeying orders.
• 1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
• 1851 – David Spangler Kaufman dies (b. 1813). American politician.
• 1857 – George Jackson Churchward was born (d. 1933). GWR Chief mechanical engineer.
• 1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an eighteen inch telescope at Northwestern University.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
• 1865 – The House of Representatives approved the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery in the United States.
• 1865 – Henri Desgrange was born (d. 1940). Founder of the Tour-de-France.
• 1865 – Shastriji Maharaj was born (d. 1951). Indian spiritual leader.
• 1866 – Lev Shestov was born (d. 1938). Russian philosopher.
• 1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria
• 1868 – Theodore William Richards was born (d. 1928). American chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemics laureate in 1914.
• 1872 – Zane Grey was born born in Zanesville, Ohio. American writer and pioneer of Western as a new literary genre .
• 1876 – The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
• 1881 – Anna Pavlova was born (d. 1931). Russian ballerina.
• 1881 – Irving Langmuir was born (d. 1957). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1881 – Joseph Augustine Cushman was born (d. 16 April 1949). U.S. paleontologist and geologist known for his work on paleoecology as shown by Foraminifera (marine protozoans). He was the most well-known foraminiferologist of his time.
• 1884 – Theodor Heuss was born (d. 1963). German politician and publicist.
• 1888 – John Bosco dies (b. 1815). Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society / Dom João Bosco, faleceu em Turim (n. 16 Ago 1815). Religioso, educador e escritor italiano. Criou a ordem dos Salesianos em Turim no ano de 1859, com 22 outros religiosos. Foi canonizado em 1 de Abril de 1934.
• 1889 – Frank Foster was born (d. 1958). English cricketer.
• 1891 – The first attempt of a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
• 1891 – Luís de Montalvor (Luís Felipe de Saldanha da Gama da Silva Ramos) was born in S. Vincent, Cape Vert (d. 2 Mar 1947, in Lisbon). Portuguese poet and editor.
• 1892 – Eddie Cantor was born (d. 1964). American actor and singer.
• 1892 – Charles Spurgeon dies (b. 1834). English preacher and evangelist.
• 1894 – Isham Jones was born (d. 1956). American jazz musician.
• 1896 – Sofya Yanovskaya was born (d. 1966). Russian mathematician.
• 1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is shot dead in Kampung Teboh, Tambuan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
• 1901 – Marie Luise Kaschnitz was born in Karlsruhe (d. 10 Oct 1974 in Rome). German writer.
• 1902 – Alva Myrdal was born (d. 1986). Swedish politician , diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1902 – Julian H. Steward was born (d. 6 Feb 1972). American anthropologist best known as one of the leading neoevolutionists of the mid-20th century and as the founder of the theory of cultural ecology
• 1902 – Tallulah Bankhead was born (d. 1968). American actress.
• 1905 – John O’Hara was born (d. 1970). American novelist and short-story writer.
• 1907 – Timothy Eaton dies (b. 1834). Canadian department store founder.
• 1908 – Roberto Chavero (“Atahualpa Yupanqui”) was born. Argentine singer and guitarist.
• 1910 – The Portuguese republican revolution broke out in the northern city of Porto.
• 1910 – F. Castro Soromenho was born in Vila de Chinde. Mozambican journalist and writer.
• 1911 – Eddie Byrne was born (d. 1981). British actor.
• 1913 – Don Hutson was born (d. 1997). American football player.
• 1914 – Carey Loftin was born (d. 1977). American actor and stuntman.
• 1914 – Jersey Joe Walcott was born (d. 1994). American boxer.
• 1914 – Sri Daya Mata was born. Hindu religious figure.
• 1915 – World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russians.
• 1915 – Alan Lomax was born (d. 2002). American singer and musicologist.
• 1915 – Garry Moore was born (d. 1993). American comedian.
• 1915 – Thomas Merton was born (d. 1968). American monk and author.
• 1917 – World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 1917 – Los científicos alemanes Otto Hahn y Lise Meitner descubren el protactinio, elemento radiactivo
• 1918 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
• 1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
• 1919 – Jackie Robinson was born (d. 1972). American baseball player.
• 1921 – Carol Channing was born. American actress.
• 1921 – E. Fay Jones was born. American architect.
• 1921 – John Agar was born (d. 2002). American actor.
• 1921 – Mario Lanza (Alfredo Cocozza Lanza) was born (d. 1959). Operatic singer, actor .
• 1922 – Joanne Dru was born (d. 1996). American actress.
• 1923 – Norman Mailer was born. American writer and journalist
• 1923 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski dies (b. 1869). Assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz.
• 1925 – Ajmed Zogu is elected President of Albania.
• 1925 – Benjamin Hooks was born. American head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
• 1926 – Tom Alston was born (d. 1993). American baseball player.
• 1928 – Chuck Willis was born (d. 1958). American singer and songwriter.
• 1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
• 1929 – Jean Simmons was born. British actress.
• 1929 – Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer was born. German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1961, with Robert Hofstadter of the United States, for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma-rays and his discovery in this connection of the Mössbauer effect.
• 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
• 1930 – Joakim Bonnier was born (d. 1972). Swedish racecar driver.
• 1930 – Lynn Carlin was born. American actress
• 1931 – Christopher Chataway was born. English athlete, newscaster and politician.
• 1931 – Ernie Banks was born. American baseball player.
• 1933 – Bernardo Provenzano was born. Mafia boss
• 1933 – Camille Henry was born (d. 1997). National Hockey League player.
• 1933 – John Galsworthy dies (b. 1867). English writer Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.
• 1934 – Bob Turner was born (d. 2005). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1934 – James Franciscus was born (d. 1991). American actor.
• 1935 – Kenzaburo Oe was born. Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1936 – The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
• 1937 – Andrée Boucher was born (d. 2007). Canadian politician.
• 1937 – Philip Glass was born. American composer
• 1937 – Regimantas Adomaitis was born. Lithuanian actor.
• 1937 – Suzanne Pleshette was born (d. 2008). American actress.
• 1938 – Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was born.
• 1938 – James G. Watt was born. American politician.
• 1938 – Constitui-se oficialmente em Burgos o primeiro governo espanhol presidido pelo general Franco, que substitui a Junta Técnica do Estado.
• 1939 – Claude Gauthier was born. Canadian singer and songwriter.
• 1940 – Kitch Christie was born (d. 1998). South African rugby union coach.
• 1941 – Layforce set sail.
• 1941 – Jessica Walter was born. American actress.
• 1941 – Richard A. “Dick” Gephardt was born. American politician.
• 1941 – Charles V. Chapin dies (b. 17 Jan 1856). American physician and epidemiologist who, with Gardner T. Swarts, established the first municipal bacteriological laboratory in the U.S. (1888) in Providence, Rhode Island.
• 1942 – Daniela Bianchi was born. Italian actress.
• 1942 – Derek Jarman was born (d. 1994). American director and writer.
• 1942 – Henry Larkin dies (b. 1860). Baseball player.
• 1943 – As forças militares alemãs cercadas em Stalinegrado rendem-se ao exército soviético. Durante a Batalha de Stalingrado 160.000 alemães morreram e 90.000 foram feitos prisioneiros, incluindo o marechal de campo von Paulus, o primeiro marechal alemão a render-se.
• 1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
• 1944 – World War II: Anzio campaign. (Darby’s Rangers) 1st Ranger Battalion The entire 6615th Ranger Force (Provisional) was destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Cisterna, Italy.
• 1944 – Charlie Musselwhite was born. American musician
• 1944 – Jean Giraudoux dies (b. 1882). French writer.
• 1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed, the first American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion.
• 1945 – Joseph Kosuth was born. American conceptual artist.
• 1945 – Eddie Slovik dies (b. 1920). American soldier.
• 1946 – Yugoslavia‘s new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
• 1946 – Terry Kath was born (d. 1978). American musician.
• 1947 – Jonathan Banks was born. American actor.
• 1947 – Nolan Ryan was born. American baseball player.
• 1948 – Muneo Suzuki was born. Japanese politician.
• 1949 – Johan Derksen was born. Dutch footballer and sports journalist.
• 1949 – Ken Wilber was born. American philosopher.
• 1950 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
• 1950 – Alexander Korzhakov was born. Boris Yeltsin’s bodyguard.
• 1951 – Dave Benton was born. Aruban-born singer.
• 1951 – Harry Wayne Casey was born. American singer and musician (KC and the Sunshine Band).
• 1951 – Phil Manzanera was born. English guitarist (Roxy Music, Quiet Sun, 801).
• 1952 – Nadya Rusheva was born (d. 1969). Russian painter.
• 1952 – Pedro Prado, faleceu, escritor chileno, Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile em 1949.
• 1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
• 1954 – Adrian Vandenberg was born. Dutch musician (Whitesnake).
• 1954 – Edwin Howard Armstrong dies (b. 1890). American electrical engineer and inventor of the FM radio.
• 1955 – John Mott dies (b. 1865). American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1956 – Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1956 – Juscelino Kubitschek becomes President of Brazil.
• 1956 – John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten was born. English singer (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd.).
• 1956 – A. A. Milne dies (b. 1882). English author.
• 1957 – Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
• 1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American American satellite into orbit.
• 1958 – James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
• 1958 – Dave Finlay was born. Professional wrestler
• 1959 – Anthony LaPaglia was born. Australian actor.
• 1959 – Kelly Lynch was born. American actress.
• 1959 – Kelly Moore was born. American stock car driver
• 1960 – Grant Morrison was born. British comic book author and chaos magician
• 1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
• 1961 – Lloyd Cole was born. British singer and songwriter
• 1961 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space. The U.S. launched a 4-year-old male chimpanzee named Ham on a Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket into suborbital flight to test the capabilities of the Mercury capsule.
• 1961 – Jânio Quadros, tendo como vice João Goulart, foi empossado presidente do Brasil ao ser eleito com 48% dos votos da população.
• 1961 – Nuno Morais Sarmento was born. Portuguese politician.
• 1962 – Cuba es expulsada de la Organización de Estados Americanos.
• 1962 – Sophie Muller was born. Music video director.
• 1964 – Billey Shamrock was born. Swedish singer.
• 1964 – Jeff Hanneman was born. American guitarist (Slayer).
• 1964 – Sylvie Bernier was born. Quebec olympic diver.
• 1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
• 1966 – Dr Umar Alisha was born. A Sufi Master was Born at Pithapuram.
• 1966 – General Arthur Ernest Percival dies (b. 1887). British Army Officer.
• 1966 – Dirk Brouwer dies (b. 1 Sep 1902). Dutch-born U.S. astronomer and geophysicist known for his achievements in celestial mechanics, especially for his pioneering application of high-speed digital computers for astronomical computations.
• 1967 – Fat Mike was born. American musician.
• 1967 – Irene Wan was born. Hong Kong actress.
• 1967 – Joey Wong was born. Taiwanese actress.
• 1967 – Eddie Tolan dies (b. 1908). American athlete.
• 1968 – Mauritius breaks from Britain after days of rioting (Independence is officially achieved on 12 March 1968.)
• 1968 – Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon.
• 1968 – Nauru declares independence from Australia.
• 1968 – Matt King was born. British actor and comedian.
• 1968 – Patrick Stevens was born. Belgian athlete.
• 1969 – Meher Baba dies (b. 1894). Indian guru.
• 1970 – A Saskatchewan Court convicts 17 year old hippie, David Milgaard of murder; he is sentenced to life in prison. He spent 23 years in jail until April 14, 1992 when DNA evidence proves him innocent of all charges.
• 1970 – Minnie Driver was born. British actress.
• 1970 – Slim Harpo dies (b. 1924). American singer.
• 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 Mission – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
• 1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1971 – Dimitris Markos was born. Greek footballer.
• 1971 – Lee Young Ae was born. South Korean actress.
• 1971 – Patrick Kielty was born. Northern Irish comedian and television presenter.
• 1971 – Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky dies (b. 1891). Russian literary historian, linguist.
• 1973 – Portia de Rossi was born. Australian actress.
• 1973 – Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch dies (b. 1895). Norwegian economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner.
• 1974 – Ariel Pestano was born. Cuban baseball player.
• 1974 – Wil Anderson was born. Australian comedian.
• 1974 – Samuel Goldwyn dies (b. 1882). American film studio executive.
• 1975 – Fred Coleman was born. Former National Football League wide receiver.
• 1975 – Jackie O was born. Australian radio host.
• 1975 – Preity Zinta was born. Indian actress.
• 1976 – Buddy Rice was born. American race car driver.
• 1976 – Traianos Dellas was born. Greek footballer
• 1976 – Ernesto Miranda dies (b. 1941). American litigant.
• 1977 – Jim Kleinsasser was born. American football player.
• 1977 – Kate Shindle was born. American actress
• 1977 – Kerry Washington was born. American actress.
• 1977 – Mark Dutiaume was born. National Hockey League player.
• 1977 – Shingo Katori was born. Japanese actor and singer (SMAP).
• 1978 – Brad Rutter was born. Jeopardy! champion.
• 1978 – Fabián Caballero was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1978 – Ray Shah was born. Irish DJ, TV, radio presenter.
• 1979 – Daniel Tammet was born. British autistic savant
• 1980 – Thirty-nine people burned to death in the occupation of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala.
• 1980 – James Adomian was born. American actor.
• 1980 – Ryan Kienle was born. American musician.
• 1980 – Tiffany Limos was born. American actress.
• 1981 – Amrita Arora was born. Indian actress.
• 1981 – Julio Arca was born. Argentinian soccer player.
• 1981 – Justin Timberlake was born. American singer.
• 1981 – Sergio D. Acosta was born. Chicano filmmaker.
• 1981 – Cozy Cole dies (b. 1909). American jazz drummer.
• 1982 – Andreas Görlitz was born. German footballer.
• 1982 – Brad Thompson was born. American baseball player.
• 1982 – Bruno Nogueira was born. Portuguese actor, comedian and TV host.
• 1982 – Elena Paparizou was born. Greek singer.
• 1982 – Jānis Sprukts was born. Latvian ice hockey player.
• 1982 – Yuniesky Betancourt was born. Major League Baseball shortstop.
• 1982 – Inocêncio Romeiro Enes dies (b. 1892). Portuguese (Azorian) religious.
• 1983 – James Sutton was born. British television actor.
• 1983 – Tom Vangeneugden was born. Belgian swimmer.
• 1984 – Jeremy Wariner was born. American 400m runner.
• 1983 – Tom Vangeneugden, Belgian swimmer.
• 1984 – Vernon Davis was born. NFL player.
• 1985 – Adam Federici was born. Australian footballer.
• 1985 – Mario Williams was born. NFL player.
• 1986 – Yves Makabu-Makalambay was born. Belgian football goalkeeper.
• 1987 – Yves Allégret dies (b. 1907). French film director.
• 1988 – Super Bowl XXII: The Washington Redskins win their second championship of the 1980s, 42-10.
• 1988 – In Aveiro (Portugal), Diogo Freitas do Amaral is elected President of CDS (Center Democratic and Social) during the VIII Congress of the party.
• 1989 – Fernando Namora dies (b. 15 Apr 1919). Portuguese writer /Fernando Namora morre em Lisboa (n. 15 Abr 1919 em Condeixa-a-Nova). Médico e escritor português era até então o autor português mais traduzido em todo o mundo. Em Condeixa foi criada a Casa Museu Fernando Namora. Casa da Malta (1945), Minas de S. Francisco (1946), Retalhos da Vida de um Médico (1949-1963, em dois volumes), Domingo à Tarde (1961), Rio Triste (1982) e Sentados na Relva (1986).
• 1990 – The first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
• 1990 – Kota Yabu was born. Japanese actor and singer.
• 1990 – Rashad Khalifa dies stabbed (b. 1935). Egyptian-born imam.
• 1990 – Salvador Barata Feyo dies (b. 5 Dec 1899 in Moçamedes, Mozambique). Portuguese sculptor, essayst and pedagogue.
• 1991 – Márcio Mello dies (b. 1906). Brazilian politician.
• 1992 – Willie Dixon dies (b. 1915). American musician.
• 1993 – Super Bowl XXVII: The Dallas Cowboys defeat the Buffalo Bills, 52-17.
• 1994 – Um incêndio destrói o Grande Teatro de Liceo, de Barcelona, construído em 1847.
• 1995 – President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
• 1995 – Dragon Ball Z ends its run in Japan.
• 1995 – George Abbott dies (b. 1887). American stage director and producer.
• 1995 – George Robert Stibitz dies (b. 30 April 1904). U.S. mathematician who was regarded by many as the “father of the modern digital computer.”
• 1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1.400.
• 1997 – John Joseph Scanlan dies (b. 1930). Irish Catholic prelate.
• 1999 – Super Bowl XXXIII: The Denver Broncos defeat the Atlanta Falcons, 34-19.
• 1999 – Norm Zauchin dies (b. 1929). American baseball player.
• 2000 – Gil Kane dies (b. 1926). Latvian-born comic book writer.
• 2000 – An Alaska Airlines MD-83 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Malibu, California killing 131.
• 2001 – In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crash into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
• 2001 – Gordon R. Dickson dies (b. 1923). Canadian writer.
• 2002 – A large section of the Antarctic Larsen Ice Shelf begins disintegrating, eventually consuming about 3,250 km² (1,254 miles²) over a 35-day period.
• 2002 – Francis Gabreski dies (b. 1919). American fighter pilot.
• 2003 – The Waterfall train disaster occurs near Waterfall, New Sout Wales, Australia.
• 2004 – Mystery Science Theater 3000 ends its run on the Sci-Fi Channel.
• 2004 – Eleanor Holm dies (b. 1913). American swimmer.
• 2005 – The child molestation trial of superstar Michael Jackson begins in California.
• 2006 – Samuel A. Alito Jr. assumes office as the 110th Supreme Court justice of the United States.
• 2006 – António Monteiro dies (b. 1944). Portuguese diplomat and politician.
• 2006 – Moira Shearer dies (b. 1926). Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina.
• 2007 – Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
• 2007 – Kirka Babitzin dies (b. 1950). Finnish singer.
• 2007 – Molly Ivins dies (b. 1944). American political columnist and author.
• 2007 – Lee Bergere dies (b. 1924). American actor.
• 2007 – Adelaide Tambo dies (b. 1929). South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo.
• 2008 – Zeltim Odie Peterson dies (b. 1997). Famous pug.
• 2009 – Nagesh dies. Indian comedian actor in Kollywood.
• Catholicism – Feast day of St. John Bosco, Saint Pedro Nolasco, Saint Marcella, Saint Geminianus, Blessed Ludovica.

Jan. 30 – School Day of Non-violence and Peace Janeiro 30, 2009

The “School Day of Non-violence and Peace” (DENIP), founded in 1964 and also known as World or International Day of Non-violence and Peace, is a pioneering, non-state, non-governmental, non-official, independent, free and voluntary initiative of Non-violent and Pacifying Education, which is now practised in schools all over the world and in which centres of education, teachers and students of all levels and from all countries are invited to take part.

The “School Day of Non-violence and Peace” is held on January 30 every year, on the anniversary of the martyrdom in 1948 of Mahatma Gandhi, the great apostle of non-violence.

On this day in History – Jan. 30

• 58 BC Livia Drusilla (d. AD 29). Political wife of Emperor Augustus.
• 0133 – Marcus Severus Didius Julianus was born (d. 0193). Roman Emperor.
• 1030 – William V, Duke of Aquitaine dies (b. 0969).
• 1077 – Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV.
• 1181 – Emperor Takakura of Japan dies (b. 1161).
• 1384 – Louis II of Flanders dies (b. 1330).
• 1505 – Thomas Tallis was born (d. 1585). English composer.
• 1563 – Franciscus Gomarus was born (d. 1641). Dutch theologian.
• 1566 – Alessandro Piccinini was born. Composer.
• 1574 – Damião de Góis dies (b. 1502). Portuguese philosopher.
• 1580 – Maria de Aragão dies (b. 1482). Second wife of King of Portugal D. Manuel I.
• 1592 – Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII.
• 1606 – Everard Digby dies (b. 1578). English conspirator.
• 1615 – Thomas Rolfe was born (d. 1675). American colonial settler.
• 1648 – The Treaty of Münster is signed, ending the Eighty Years’ War between the Netherlands and Spain.
• 1649 – King Charles I of England dies beheaded (b. 1600).
• 1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is formally executed – after having been dead for two years.
• 1661 – Charles Rollin was born (d. 1741). French historian.
• 1667 – Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia and Poland sign peace treaty.
• 1687 – Johann Balthasar Neumann was born (d. 1753). German architect.
• 1697 – Johann Joachim Quantz was born (d. 1773). German flutist and composer.
• 1720 – Charles De Geer was born (d. 1778). Swedish industrialist and entomologist.
• 1726 – Se funda la ciudad de Montevideo por el general español Bruno Mauricio de Zabala.
• 1730 – Tsar Peter II of Russia dies at 14. Emperor of Russia (1727-30).
• 1754 – John Lansing, Jr. was born (d. 1829). American statesman.
• 1774 – Jean-Pierre Guignon dies at 71. Composer.
• 1781 – Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland.
• 1781 – Adelbert von Chamisso was born (d. 1838). German poet.
• 1790 – The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
• 1806 – The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, was open.
• 1814 – Jean-Baptist Capronnier was born. French/Belgian glass painter.
• 1816 – Nathaniel Prentice Banks was born (d. 1894). 24th Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1820 – Edward Bransfield lands on the Antarctic mainland.
• 1822 – Franz Ritter von Hauer was born (d. 1899). Austrian geologist.
• 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales was opened. The bridge was not the first suspension bridge, but was so much larger than anything previously built that it is considered the world’s first modern suspension bridge.
• 1832 – Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier was born (d. 1897).
• 1835 – In the first assassination attempt against an USA President, a mentally ill man named Richard Lawrence attempts to assassinate President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol. Both of Lawrence’s pistols misfire, and Jackson proceeds to beat his would-be assassin with his cane.
• 1836 – Betsy Ross dies (b. 1752). American seamstress.
• 1839 – Samuel Armstrong was born (11 May 1893). American founder of Hampton Institute.
• 1841 – A fire destroys two-thirds of the then villa (now city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• 1841 – Félix Faure was born (d. 1899). 6th President of France.
• 1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
• 1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
• 1858 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck dies (b. 1778). Dutch zoologist.
• 1859 – Edward Martyn was born (d. 5 Dec 1923). Irish dramatist.
• 1859 – Tony Mullane was born (d. 1944). Irish-born American baseball player.
• 1860 – Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto dies at 44. Composer.
• 1861 – Charles Martin Loeffler was born (d. 1935). American composer.
• 1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
• 1867 – Emperor Komei of Japan dies (b. 1831).
• 1869 – William Carleton dies (b. 1794). Irish novelist.
• 1873 – Georges Ricard-Cordingley was born in Lyon (d. 1939). French painter.
• 1878 – Anton Hansen Tammsaare was born (d. 1940). Estonian author.
• 1879 – French President MacMahon resigns.
• 1882 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, N. Y. (d. 1945). President of the United States.
• 1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (b. 1858), heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead with his mistress Baroness Marie Vetsera in Mayerling. How they died remains a mystery.
• 1889 – Jaishankar Prasad was born (d. 1937). Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist.
• 1894 – Charles B. King of Detroit, earned himself a patent for the pneumatic hammer.
• 1894 – Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria was born (d. 1943).
• 1899 – Max Theiler was born (d. 11 Aug 1972). South-African microbiologist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research on yellow fever.
• 1900 – United Kingdom forces fighting Boers in South Africa ask for reinforcements.
• 1901 – Rudolf Caracciola was born (d. 1959). German driver of racing cars.
• 1902 – Nikolaus Pevsner was born (d. 1983). German-born art historian.
• 1908 – José Manuel Soares Louro (Pepe) was born in Lisbon (d. 24 Oct. 1931). Portuguese football player. One of the best football players of his time, Pepe represented the colours of Belenenses.
• 1910 – C Subramaniam was born (d. 2000). Indian politician.
• 1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
• 1911 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
• 1911 – Roy Eldridge was born (d. 1989). American jazz musician.
• 1912 – Barbara W. Tuchman was born (b. 1989). American historian.
• 1912 – Francis Schaeffer was born (d. 1984). American Evangelical theologian and pastor.
• 1912 – Werner Hartmann was born (d. 1988). German physicist.
• 1913 – The United Kingdom‘s House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
• 1913 – Percy Thrower was born (d. 1988). British television gardener.
• 1914 – David Wayne was born (d. 1995). American actor.
• 1914 – John Ireland was born (d. 1992). Canadian actor (Gunfight at the OK Corral [1957], Little Big Horn, Spartacus, All the King’s Men, Marilyn: The Untold Story, Messenger of Death).
• 1915 – Joachim Peiper was born (d. 1976). German military leader.
• 1915 – John Profumo was born. British cabinet minister.
• 1917 – The Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded a classic for Columbia Records titled, The Darktown Strutters’ Ball. It was one of the first jazz compositions recorded.
• 1917 – Paul Frère was born. Belgian racing driver.
• 1918 – David Opatoshu was born (d. 1996). American television actor.
• 1919 – Nikolay Glazkov was born (d. 1979). Russian poet.
• 1920 – Carwood Lipton was born (d. 2001). American WWII veteran.
• 1920 – Delbert Mann was born. American film director.
• 1922 – Nuno Teotónio Pereira was born. Portuguese architect.
• 1922 – Dick Martin was born. American Emmy Award-winning comedian.
• 1924 – Jayme Caetano Braun was born (d. 1999). Brazilian poet.
• 1924 – Lloyd Alexander was born. American writer.
• 1925 – The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
• 1925 – Dorothy Malone was born. American actress (Written on the Wind, Beach Party, Basic Instinct, Battle Cry, Man of a Thousand Faces).
• 1925 – Douglas Engelbart was born. American computer scientist.
• 1926 – Barbara La Marr dies (b. 1896). American actress.
• 1927 – Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana was born (d. 2005). Indian dermatologist.
• 1927 – Olof Palme was born (d. 1986). Prime Minister of Sweden (1969-76 and 1982-86).
• 1928 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger dies (b. 1867). Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1928 – Hal Prince was born. American stage producer, director (West Side Story, Evita).
• 1928 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger dies (b. 1867). Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1929 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti was born (d. 1996). Canadian surgeon and international aid worker.
• 1929 – Roger Newland Shepard was born. American psychologist who was awarded the National Medal of Science (1995) for his research work that provided major new insights into the nature of mental processes, previously considered impossible to study.
• 1929 – La Goulue dies (b. 1866). French Cancan dancer.
• 1930 – The world’s first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR.
• 1930 – Gene Hackman was born. American Academy Award-winning actor (The French Connection [1971], Bonnie and Clyde, Hawaii, Mississippi Burning, The Poseidon Adventure, Postcards from the Edge, Superman, The Firm, Crimson Tide).
• 1930 – Magnus Malan was born. South African politician.
• 1930 – Samuel J. Byck was born (d. 1974). American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon.
• 1930 – Sandy Amorós was born (d. 1992). Cuban baseball player.
• 1931 – Charlie Chaplin’s “City Lights” premieres at Los Angeles Theater.
• 1931 – Allan W. Eckert was born. American historian, naturalist and author.
• 1931 – John Crosbie was born. Canadian politician.
• 1931 – Shirley Hazzard was born. Australian-American author.
• 1932 – Knock Yokoyama was born. Japanese comedian and politician .
• 1933 – Adolf Hitler sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1933 – The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger airs on the radio for the first time.
• 1933 – Louis Rukeyser was born (d. 2006). American journalist.
• 1934 – Frank Nelson Doubleday dies (b. 1862). American publisher.
• 1935 – Richard Brautigan was born (d. 1984). American writer and poet.
• 1936 – F. Vernon Boozer was born. American politician.
• 1936 – Horst Jankowski was born (d. 1998). German popular pianist.
• 1936 – Patrick Caulfield was born (d. 2005). British painter and printmaker.
• 1937 – Boris Spassky was born. Russian chess player.
• 1937 – Ed Hansen was born (d. 2005). American film director and editor.
• 1937 – Vanessa Redgrave was born. English actress.
• 1938 – Islom Karimov was born. President of Uzbekistan.
• 1938 – Norma Jean was born. American country singer.
• 1939 – Alejandro Toledo was born. President of Peru.
• 1941 – Dick Cheney was born. Politician, 46th Vice President of the United States.
• 1941 – Gregory Benford was born. American author and scientist.
• 1941 – Tineke Lagerberg was born. Dutch swimmer.
• 1941 – World War II: North AfricaThe 6th Australian Division, of Lieutenant-General Dick O’Connor’s XIII Corps, takes Derna, Libya, after three days of fierce fighting.
• 1942 – Marty Balin was born. American musician.
• 1943 – Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. U.S. cruiser Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedo bombers.
• 1943 – Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: German Gestapo organises mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp were ordered to undress and were shot with machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7.000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv.
• 1943 – Davey Johnson was born. American baseball player and manager.
• 1944 – World War II: United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands.
• 1945 – The Wilhelm Gustloff sinks in the Baltic Sea in the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000.
• 1945 – World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
• 1945 – World War II: Hitler gives his last ever public address, a radio address on the 12th anniversary of his coming to power. (A subsequent address on February 24 was not read by Hitler).
• 1945 – Michael Dorris was born (d. 1997). American writer.
• 1947 – Les Barker was born. English poet.
• 1947 – Steve Marriott was born (d. 1991). English musician (The Small Faces).
• 1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869) is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
• 1948 – Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz.
• 1948 – Nick Broomfield was born. English film- and documentary-maker.
• 1948 – Paul Magee was born. Provisional Irish Republican Army member.
• 1948 – Júlio Mário Salusse dies in Rio de aneiro (b. in Bom Jardim on 30 Mar. 1872). Brazilian poet.
• 1948 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi dies (b. 1869). Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter.
• 1948 – Orville Wright dies (b. 1871). American aviation pioneer.
• 1949 – Peter Agre was born. American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• 1950 – Trinidad Silva was born (d. 1988). American actor.
• 1951 – Bobby Stokes was born (d. 1995). English former footballer.
• 1951 – Charles S. Dutton was born. American actor.
• 1951 – Phil Collins was born in London. English musician (Genesis).
• 1951 – Ferdinand Porsche dies (b. 1875). Austrian automotive engineer.
• 1952 – Martial law is imposed in Egypt as King Farouk dismisses the premier Nahas Pasha and his Wafdist government.
• 1952 – Doug Falconer was born. Canadian football player.
• 1955 – Curtis Strange was born. American golfer.
• 1955 – John Baldacci was born. American politician, governor of Maine.
• 1955 – Judith Tarr was born. American author.
• 1956 – American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• 1956 – Jeremy Gittins was born. British actor.
• 1956 – Keiichi Tsuchiya was born. Japanese racing driver.
• 1956 – Jane Seymour dies at 56. Actress (Young Mr Bobbin).
• 1957 – Payne Stewart was born (d. 1999). American golfer.
• 1958 – Brett Butler was born. American actress and comedian.
• 1958 – Ernst Heinkel dies (b. 24 Jan 1888). German aircraft engineer who built the first rocket-powered aircraft .
• 1958 – Jean Crotti dies (b. 1878). Swiss artist.
• 1959 – Jody Watley was born. American singer.
• 1959 – Mark Eitzel was born. American singer and musician (American Music Club).
• 1960 – The women’s singles U.S. figure skating championship was won by Carol Heiss.
• 1960 – The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
• 1960 – Clara Pinto Correia was born in Lisbon. Portuguese investigator and writer.
• 1961 – Dexter Scott King was born. American actor and son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
• 1962 – Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1962 – UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola).
• 1962 – King Abdullah II of Jordan was born.
• 1962 – Mary Kay Letourneau was born. American convicted statutory rapist.
• 1962 – Manuel de Abreu dies (b. 1894). Brazilian physician.
• 1963 – Tina Malone was born. English actress.
• 1963 – Francis Poulenc dies (b. 1899). French composer.
• 1964 – Ranger 6 is launched by NASA. Its mission is it to carry television cameras and to crash-land on the moon.
• 1965 – Julie McCullough was born. American model and actress.
• 1965 – Marcelo Bonfá was born. Brazilian musician (Legião Urbana).
• 1966 – Danielle Goyette was born. Quebec female ice hockey player.
• 1967 – Jay Gordon was born. American musician.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch series of a surprise attacks in South Vietnam.
• 1968 – Prince Felipe of Spain was born.
• 1968 – Trevor Dunn was born. American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs3).
• 1969 – The Beatles‘ last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police.
• 1969 – Carolyn Kepcher was born. American businesswoman and reality TV show star.
• 1969 – Georges Pire dies (b. 1910). Belgian monk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1970 – Hans Spark was born. Football (soccer) player (RKC).
• 1970 – Maria Luísa Mendonça was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1971 – Darren Boyd was born. British actor.
• 1971 – Kimo von Oelhoffen was born. American football player.
• 1972 – Bloody Sunday: United Kingdom forces kill thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland.
• 1972 – Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth. The Iranian civilian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return.
• 1972 – Chris Simon was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1972 – Lupillo Rivera was born. Mexican singer.
• 1973 – Jalen Rose was born. American basketball player.
• 1973 – Holly Noelle Roehl was born. Miss Indiana USA (1996).
• 1973 – Jalen Rose was born. American basketball player.
• 1974 – Christian Bale was born. Welsh actor.
• 1974 – Jemima Khan was born. British socialite.
• 1974 – Olivia Colman was born. British actress.
• 1975 – First faroese stamp issued.
• 1975 – Juninho Pernambucano was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1975 – Yumi Yoshimura was born. Japanese singer Puffy Amiyumi.
• 1976 – George H. W. Bush becomes 11th director of the CIA.
• 1976 – Andy Milonakis was born. American comedian.
• 1977 – Dan Hinote was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1977 – Deltha O’Neal was born. American football player.
• 1978 – John Patterson was born. American baseball player.
• 1979 – Varig 707-323C freighter, flewn by the same commander of Varig Flight 820 disappears over the ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
• 1979 – The civilian government of Iran announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to return from exile in France.
• 1980 – Joãozinho was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1980 – Leilani Dowding was born. British glamour model.
• 1980 – Pavel Ponomaryov was born. Russian-Estonian actor.
• 1980 – Wilmer Valderrama was born. American actor.
• 1980 – Professor Longhair dies (b. 1918). American musician, King of New Orleans music.
• 1981 – 8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins.
• 1981 – Garth Barrett’s raiders, part of the South African Recce Operations, attack supposed MK cadres at Matola, Mozambique. A Portuguese engineer, Jose Ramos, is “mistakenly identified” as Joe Slovo, one of the raids main targets, by the South African forces and is shot at a roadblock.
• 1981 – Dimitar Berbatov was born. Bulgarian footballer.
• 1981 – Josh Kelley was born. American musician.
• 1981 – Mathias Lauda was born. Austrian racing driver.
• 1981 – Peter Crouch was born. English footballer.
• 1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called “Elk Cloner”.
• 1982 – Jorge Cantu was born. Mexican baseball player.
• 1982 – Lightning Hopkins dies (b. 1912). American musician.
• 1983 – Super Bowl XVII: The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins, 27-17, thus winning their first NFL championship since 1942.
• 1984 – Jeremy Hermida was born. American baseball player.
• 1984 – Josh Harris was born. American videographer/musician.
• 1984 – Patrick Lee McCall dies. South African bank robber, member of Stander gang.
• 1985 – Aaadietya Pandey was born. Indian astrologer.
• 1985 – Trae Williams was born. American football player.
• 1986 – Nick Evans was born. American baseball player.
• 1986 – Sam Duckworth was born. British singer-songwriter.
• 1987 – Arda Turan was born. Turkish footballer.
• 1987 – Rebecca Knox was born. Irish professional wrestler.
• 1988 – Heather Baker was born. American socialite.
• 1988 – Laura Banks was born. Scottish Author, musician.
• 1988 – Rob Pinkston was born. American actor.
• 1989 – The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
• 1989 – American Olympic medalist Bruce Kimball is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing two teenagers in a drunk driving accident.
• 1989 – 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis and George Michael wins.
• 1989 – Khleo Thomas was born. American actor.
• 1990 – Eiza Gonzalez was born. Mexican actress/singer.
• 1990 – Jake Thomas was born. Actor (Lizzie McGuire).
• 1990 – Luca Sbisa was born. Swiss ice hockey player.
• 1991 – Clifton C. Edom dies (b. 1907). American photojournalism educator.
• 1991 – John Bardeen dies (b. 1908). American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
• 1991 – John McIntire dies (b. 1907). American actor.
• 1992 – Matthew Werkmeister was born. Australian actor.
• 1993 – Portuguese TV station TVI starts working. / Entra em funcionamento inaugural a TVI.
• 1993 – 67th Australian Women’s Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (4-6, 6-3, 6-2).
• 1994 – Péter Lékó becomes the youngest grand master in chess.
• 1994 – The Dallas Cowboys win their fourth Super Bowl title, 30-13 over the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVIII.
• 1994 – Nirvana‘s final recording session takes place at Robert Lang Studios, with the song “You Know You’re Right” being completed. It would become a #1 hit eight years later.
• 1994 – 68th Australian Women’s Tennis Open: S Graf beats A S Vicario (6-0, 6-2).
• 1994 – 82nd Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (7-6, 6-4, 6-4).
• 1994 – Bahjat Talhouni dies. PM of Jordan (1960-62, 64-65, 67-69, 69-70).
• 1994 – Pierre Boulle dies (b. 1912). French author.
• 1995 – Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
• 1995 – 22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men and Ace of Base win.
• 1995 – Gerald Durrell dies (b. 7 Jan 1925) British naturalist and prolific author, known internationally for his pioneering, even controversial, role in preserving and breeding endangered species in zoos with the intention of eventually returning them to the wild.
• 1996 – Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
• 1996 – NBA superstar Magic Johnson plays the first game of his return to the Los Angeles Lakers. Magic retired in 1991 after contracting HIV.
• 1996 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
• 1997 – Las cenizas de Mahatma Gandhi, padre de la India, son arrojadas al río Ganges después de cumplirse 49 años desde que fue asesinado en Nueva Delhi por un extremista.
• 1998 – Richard Cassilly dies (b. 1927). American tenor.
• 1999 – A 7-year old boy dies of choking on a Pokémon Power Bouncer ball toy.
• 1999 – Ed Herlihy dies (b. 1909). American broadcaster.
• 1999 – Huntz Hall dies (b. 1919). American actor.
• 2000 – In a dramatic finish to Super Bowl XXXIV, the St. Louis Rams defeat the Tennessee Titans 23-16.
• 2000 – Off the coast of Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
• 2001 – Jean-Pierre Aumont dies (b. 1911). French actor.
• 2001 – Johnnie Johnson dies (b. 1915). British fighter pilot.
• 2001 – Joseph Ransohoff dies (b. 1916). The father of modern neurosurgery.
• 2002 – Slobodan Milosevic accuses the United Nations war crimes tribunal of an “evil and hostile attack” against him.
• 2003 – Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.
• 2005 – Amid violence and threats to boycott the results, Iraq holds an election for its National Assembly, the country’s first free election since 1953.
• 2005 – A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules is shot down over Iraq.
• 2005 – Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II was born. Prince of Jordan.
• 2005 – Martyn Bennet dies (b. 1971). Multi-instrumentalist and composer.
• 2005 – Wes Wehmiller dies (b. 1971). American musician.
• 2006 – Coretta Scott King dies (b. 1927). American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 2007 – Microsoft releases its next Operating system, Windows Vista, a major milestone for the company.
• 2007 – Nikos Kourkoulos dies (b. 1934). Greek actor, artistic director of the Greek National Theater.
• 2007 – Sidney Sheldon dies (b. 1917). American author, playwright, and screenwriter.
• 2008 – Jeremy Beadle dies (b. 1948). British television host.
• 2008 – Marcial Maciel dies (b. 1920). Mexican religious leader.
• 2008 – Roland Selmeczi dies (b. 1969). Hungarian actor.
• Brasil: Dia da saudade.
• Brasil: Dia Nacional dos Quadrinhos (Banda Desenhada).
• Dia Escolar da Não-Violência e da Educação pela Paz.
• Martyr Day, India – India. Also called Sarvodaya Day.
• Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church: Feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs – This Feast honors the three great Fathers of the Eastern Church —St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian, and St. John Chrysostom.

On this day in History – Jan. 29 Janeiro 29, 2009

• 0904 – Sergius III came out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Pope Christopher.
• 1119 – Pope Gelasius II dies.
• 1342 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon dies (b. 1279).
• 1523 – Ulrico Zuinglio da a conocer sus 67 tesis para la reforma de la Iglesia.
• 1584 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange was born (d. 1647).
• 1595 – Romeo and Juliet, a famous play by William Shakespeare concerning the fate of two young star-crossed lovers, was probably first performed.
• 1597 – Elias Ammerbach dies (b. 1530). German organist.
• 1608 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg dies (b. 1557).
• 1613 – Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees.
• 1632 – Johann Georg Graevius was born (d. 1703). German classical scholar and critic.
• 1635 – É fundada a Academia Francesa (Academie Française), uma das mais renomadas sociedades literárias da Europa.
• 1647 – Francis Meres dies (b. 1565). English writer.
• 1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1676 – Tsar Alexis I of Russia dies (b. 1629).
• 1678 – Jeronimo Lobo dies (b. 1593). Portuguese Jesuit missionary.
• 1688 – Emanuel Swedenborg was born (d. 29 Mar 1772). Swedish naturalist, philosopher and theologian.
• 1696 – Ivan V dies (b. 1666). Russian tsar.
• 1706 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset dies (b. 1638). English poet and courtier.
• 1711 – Giuseppe Bonno was born (d. 1788). Austrian composer.
• 1712 – Le congrès d’Utrecht. Les diplomates français et anglais se réunissent en congrès à Utrecht. Ils veulent en finir avec la guerre de la succession d’Espagne, qui épuise l’Europe .
• 1715 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil was born (d. 1777). Austrian composer.
• 1717 – Jeffrey Amherst was born (d. 1797). British Military leader.
• 1718 – Paul Rabaut was born (d. 1794). French Huguenot pastor.
• 1730 – Tsar Peter II of Russia died of smallpox on the day set for his wedding (b. 1715).
• 1737 – Thomas Paine was born (d. 1809). Patriot, radical, pamphleteer.
• 1737 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney dies (b. 1666). British soldier.
• 1743 – Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus dies (b. 1653). Chief minister of France under Louis XV.
• 1749 – King Christian VII of Denmark was born (d. 1808).
• 1754 – Moses Cleaveland was born (d. 1806). Founder of the city of Cleveland.
• 1756 – Henry Lee III was born. American General.
• 1761 – Albert Gallatin was born. Swiss-American United States Secretary of the Treasury.
• 1763 – Louis Racine dies (b. 1692). French poet.
• 1782 – Daniel Auber was born (d. 1871). French composer.
• 1801 – Horatia Nelson was born (d. 1881). Illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson.
• 1810 – Ernst Kummer was born (d. 1893). German mathematician.
• 1814 – France defeated Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
• 1814 – Johann Gottheb Fichte dies. Philosopher.
• 1820 – King George III of the United Kingdom dies (b. 1738).
• 1829 – Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras dies (b. 1755). French politician.
• 1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
• 1838 – João de Oliveira Penha Fortuna was born in Braga (d. 3 Feb 1919). Portuguese poet.
• 1839 – Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood.
• 1841 – Durante la Guerra del Opio, Gran Bretaña ocupa Hong Kong.
• 1843 – William McKinley was born in Niles, Ohio (d. 1901). 25th President of the United States [1897-1901]. Was assassinated six months after the start of his second term, on 14 September, in Buffalo, New York.
• 1845 – The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York Evening Mirror).
• 1846 – Karol Olszewski was born (d. 1915). Polish scientist.
• 1848 – Chile: se adopta el sistema métrico decimal.
• 1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
• 1856 – Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
• 1859 – William Cranch Bond dies (b. 9 Sep 1789). American astronomer who, with his son, George Phillips Bond (1825-65), discovered Hyperion, the eighth satellite of Saturn, and an inner ring called Ring C, or the Crepe Ring.
• 1860 – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born (d. 1904). Russian playwright and short story writer.
• 1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
• 1862 – Frederick Delius was born (d. 1934). English composer.
• 1863 – Bear River Massacre.
• 1866 – Romain Rolland was born (d. 1944). French writer, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915.
• 1867 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born in Valencia (d. 1928). Spanish writer.
• 1870 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany dies (b. 1797).
• 1871 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé dies (b. 1786). French-Canadian writer and Seigneur.
• 1874 – John D. Rockefeller Jr. was born (d. 1960). American entrepreneur.
• 1876 – Havergal Brian was born (d. 1972). British composer.
• 1877 – Georges Catroux was born (d. 1969). French general.
• 1880 – W.C. Fields was born (d. 1946). American actor.
• 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• 1888 – Sydney Chapman, was born (d. 16 Jun 1970). English mathematician and physicist noted for his research in geophysics.
• 1889 – O rápido reconhecimento internacional do novo regime foi o primeiro objetivo do ministro Quintino Bocaiúva, responsável pela pasta das Relações Exteriores do Governo Provisório, sob a liderança do marechal Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca.
• 1890 – Os Estados Unidos reconhecem a República brasileira, proclamada em novembro de 1889.
• 1891 – Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.
• 1891 – Elizaveta Gerdt was born (d. 1975). Russian ballerina.
• 1891 – R. Norris Williams was born (d. 1968). American tennis player, also a survivor of the RMS Titanic Disaster.
• 1893 – Sensacional robo en un hotel de París de cuadros de pintores famosos.
• 1895 – José Martí ordena el inicio del levantamiento por la independencia de Cuba de España.
• 1895 – Barão de Itararé was born (d. 1971). Brazilian journalist.
• 1895 – Muna Lee was born (d. 1965). American poet.
• 1898 – Angel Ortíz de Villajos Cano was born. Spanish musician and composer.
• 1899 – Alfred Sisley dies in Moret-sur-Loing (b. 1839). French painter.
• 1900 – The Baseball’s American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
• 1901 – Allen Du Mont was born (d. 1965). American scientist and inventor.
• 1901 – Milan I dies (b. 1855). King of Serbia.
• 1905 – Barnett Newman was born (d. 1970). American painter.
• 1906 – King Christian IX of Denmark dies (b. 1818) .
• 1908 – Piero Leonardi was born. Italian geologist and prehistorian, known for his research on the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Triassic invertebrates (from 190-225 million years ago) and the Permian vertebrates (from 225-280 million years ago).
• 1910 – Colin Middleton was born (d. 1983). Northern Irish artist.
• 1911 – Peter von Siemens was born (d. 1986). German industrialist.
• 1913 – Daniel Taradash was born (d. 2003). American screenwriter.
• 1913 – Peter von Zahn was born (d. 2001). German journalist and writer.
• 1913 – Victor Mature was born (d. 1999). American actor.
• 1915 – John Serry, Sr. was born (d. 2003). American musician, composer, arranger.
• 1915 – Victor Mature was born (d. 1999). American actor.
• 1916 – World War I: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
• 1918 – John Forsythe was born. American actor.
• 1918 – Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin dies (b. 1861). Russian counter revolutionary.
• 1920 – José Luis de Villalonga was born (d. 2007). Spanish aristocrat, author, and actor.
• 1921 – Anthony George was born (d. 2005). American actor.
• 1921 – António Duarte Gomes Leal dies (b. 1848). Portuguese poet.
• 1922 – Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved.
• 1922 – Gerda Steinhoff was born (d. 1946). Nazi concetraation camp supervisor.
• 1923 – Ivo Robic was born (d. 2000). Croatian singer and songwriter.
• 1923 – Paddy Chayefsky was born (d. 01 Aug 1981). Academy Award-winning playwright, (Marty [1955]; Paint Your Wagon, Altered States, Network).
• 1923 – Ivo Robic was born (d. 2000). Croatian singer and songwriter.
• 1924 – Luigi Nono was born (d. 1990). Italian composer.
• 1924 – Marcelle Ferron was born (d. 2001). Quebec painter and stained glass artist.
• 1924 – Peter Voulkos was born (d. 2002). American artist.
• 1926 – Abdus Salam was born (d. 21 Nov 1996). Pakistani nuclear physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Lee Glashow.
• 1926 – Franco Cerri was born. Italian jazzman.
• 1927 – Edward Abbey was born (d. 1989). American environmentalist.
• 1927 – António Alçada Baptista was born in Covilhã. Portuguese writer.
• 1928 – João Abel Manta was born in Lisbon. Portuguese architect, painter, graphic artist and caricaturist.
• 1928 – Douglas Haig dies (b. 1861). British soldier.
• 1928 – Lee Shau Kee was born. Hong Kong SAR property developer.
• 1929 – Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.
• 1929 – Gordon Solie was born (d. 2000). American wrestling announcer.
• 1930 – Derek Bailey was born (d. 2005). English guitar virtuoso.
• 1930 – John Junkin was born (d. 2006). English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter.
• 1932 – Tommy Taylor was born (d. 1958). English footballer.
• 1932 – George Allen was born. English footballer.
• 1932 – Tommy Taylor was born (d. 1958). English footballer.
• 1933 – President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1933 – Paul Sally was born. American mathematician.
• 1933 – Ron Townson was born (d. 2001). American singer (The 5th Dimension).
• 1933 – Sacha Distel was born (d. 2004). French singer and guitarist.
• 1933 – Sara Teasdale dies (b. 1884). American poet.
• 1934 – Un temblor de tierra en Acapulco (México) daña el 90 por cien de los edificios.
• 1934 – Fritz Haber dies (b. 9 Dec 1868). German physical chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1918) for his development of a method of synthesizing ammonia (1909) directly from nitrogen and hydrogen.
• 1936 – First inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1936 – James Jamerson was born (d. 1983). American bass guitarist guitarist for Motown Records.
• 1938 – Armando Palacio Valdés dies. Spanish writer.
• 1939 – Germaine Greer was born. Australian feminist writer.
• 1940 – Three gasoline multiple units carrying factory workers crash and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi station, Yumesaki Line (Nishinari Line), Osaka, Japan, killing at least 181 people and injuring at least 92.
• 1940 – Katharine Ross was born. American actress.
• 1940 – Kunimitsu Takahashi was born. Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver.
• 1941 – Robin Morgan was born. American feminist and activist.
• 1941 – Ioannis Metaxas dies (b. 1871). Greek general and dictator.
• 1942 – Claudine Longet was born. French singer and dancer.
• 1942 – World War II: North AfricaBenghazi, Libya, is taken by German and Italian forces.
• 1942 – Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determination); Ecuador y Perú firman el Tratado de Río de Janeiro, para el arreglo definitivo del pleito de límites en la zona amazónica fronteriza de ambos países, con Argentina, Brasil, Chile y EE.UU como garantes.
• 1942 – Arnaldo Tamayo- Mendez was born. Cosmonaut, 1st Cuban in space (Soyuz 38)
• 1943 – The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
• 1944 – World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
• 1944 – USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched.
• 1944 – The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
• 1944 – In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid bombing.
• 1944 – Patrick Lipton Robinson was born. Jamaican judge.
• 1944 – Yoweri Museveni was born. President of Uganda.
• 1945 – A Bola, a Portuguese sportiv newspaper, publishes its first number.
• 1945 – Jim Nicholson was born. Irish politician.
• 1945 – Tom Selleck was born in Detroit. American actor.
• 1946 – Harry Hopkins dies (b. 1890). American politician.
• 1947 – David Byron was born (d. 1985). English singer (Uriah Heep).
• 1947 – Linda B. Buck was born. American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1947 – Marián Varga was born. Slovak musician.
• 1948 – Cristina Saralegui was born. American talk-show host.
• 1948 – Marc Singer was born. Canadian actor.
• 1948 – Pat Kenny was born. Irish TV presenter & radio host.
• 1948 – Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta dies (b. 1900). Italian aristocrat.
• 1949 – Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand & Switzerland recognize Israel.
• 1949 – Djavan was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1950 – Ann Jillian was born. American actress.
• 1950 – Jody Scheckter was born. South African racing driver and one-time F1 world champion .
• 1950 – Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dies (b. 1885). Emir of Kuwait.
• 1951 – Andy Roberts was born. West Indian cricketer.
• 1951 – Frank Tarrant dies (b. 1880). Australian cricketer.
• 1952 – Rupert Hanley was born. Former South African cricketer.
• 1952 – Tommy Ramone was born. Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
• 1953 – Hwang Woo-Suk was born. South Korean fiomedical scientist.
• 1953 – Louie Perez was born. Mexican-American drummer (Los Lobos).
• 1953 – Lynne McGranger was born. Australian actress.
• 1953 – Paulin Bordeleau was born. Quebec ice hockey player.
• 1953 – Teresa Teng was born (d. 1995). Taiwanese singer.
• 1954 – Doug Risebrough was born. Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive
• 1954 – Oprah Winfrey was born. American talk show host and actress.
• 1954 – Richard Manitoba was born. American singer (The Dictators and MC5).
• 1954 – Terry Kinney was born. American actor.
• 1954 – Yukinobu Hoshino was born. Japanese mangaka.
• 1955 – Eddie Jordan was born. American basketball player and head coach.
• 1956 – H. L. Mencken dies (b. 1880). American journalist.
• 1957 – Grazyna Miller was born. Italian poet, translator and journalist.
• 1958 – Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wedding.
• 1958 – Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming.
• 1958 – The Boston Herald printed a letter from Olga Owens Huckins attacking DDT pesticide as dangerous.
• 1959 – Sleeping Beauty, the last animated feature produced by Walt Disney to be based upon a fairy tale, was first released.
• 1960 – Gia Carangi was born (d. 1986). American model.
• 1960 – Greg Louganis was born. American diver, Olympics gold medalist.
• 1960 – J. G. Thirlwell was born. Australian-born musician.
• 1960 – Matthew Ashford was born. American actor.
• 1960 – Sean Kerly was born. English field hockey player.
• 1960 – Steve Sax was born. American baseball player.
• 1962 – Nicholas Turturro was born. American actor.
• 1962 – Fritz Kreisler dies (b. 1975). Austrian violinist.
• 1963 – First inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1963 – Bob Holly was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1963 – Robert Lee Frost dies (b. 1874). US poet, 4 Pulitzers (b. 1874).
• 1963 – Isaías de Noronha dies (b. 06 Jul 1874). President of Brazil.
• 1964 – The IX Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria.
• 1964 – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released in the United States.
• 1964 – Andre Reed was born. American football player.
• 1964 – Anna Ryder Richardson was born. British interior designer and television presenter.
• 1964 – Dimas de Carvalho was born in Acaraú, Ceará. Brazilian poet and ficcionist.
• 1964 – John Habyan was born. American baseball player.
• 1964 – Roddy Frame was born. Lead singer of Scottish New Wave band Aztec Camera.
• 1964 – Alan Ladd dies at 50 in Palm Springs, California. American actor (Shane).
• 1965 – Dominik Hasek was born. Czech hockey player.
• 1965 – Peter Lundgren was born. Swedish tennis coach.
• 1966 – The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre in New York City.
• 1966 – Britain imposes a complete trade ban on Rhodesia.
• 1966 – Romário was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1966 – Pierre Mercure dies (b. 1927). French Canadian composer.
• 1967 – Cyril Suk was born. Czech tennis player.
• 1967 – Stacey King was born. American basketball player.
• 1968 – Edward Burns was born. American actor.
• 1968 – Sora Jung was born. Korean actress.
• 1968 – Susi Erdmann was vborn. German bobsledder and luger.
• 1969 – Britain refused entry into the European Economic Community.
• 1969 – Hyde was born. Japanese singer.
• 1969 – Allen Dulles dies (b. 1893). American CIA director.
• 1970 – Heather Graham was born. American actress, model.
• 1970 – Jörg Hoffmann was born. German swimmer.
• 1970 – Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was born. Indian shooter.
• 1970 – Basil Liddell Hart dies (b. 1895). British historian.
• 1973 – Jason Schmidt was born. American baseball player.
• 1974 – Kōji Wada was born. Japanese singer and songwriter.
• 1975 – Sara Gilbert was born. American actress.
• 1975 – Manuel Guimarães dies (b. 1915). Portuguese painter and film director.
• 1976 – Charles Divins was born. American model and actor.
• 1976 – Chris Castle was born. American singer-songwriter.
• 1976 – Grigorios Paliouras was born. Canadian scientist.
• 1977 – Justin Hartley was born. American actor.
• 1977 – Buster Nupen dies (b. 1902). South African cricketer.
• 1977 – Freddie Prinze dies (b. 1954). American actor, comedian.
• 1978 – Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.
• 1978 – Martin Schmitt was born. German ski jumper.
• 1978 – Rob Bironas was born. American football player.
• 1979 – Brenda Ann Spencer kills 9 people and wounds 2 in a shooting spree at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California.
• 1979 – Andrew Keegan was born. American actor.
• 1979 – April Scott was born. American actress and model.
• 1979 – Joseph Todd was born. Arena Football League player.
• 1979 – Sui Feifei was born. Chinese basketball player.
• 1980 – Ivan Klasnić was born. Croatian football player.
• 1980 – Yael Bar Zohar was born. Israeli actress and model.
• 1980 – Antonio Molina composer dies at 85 .
• 1980 – Jimmy Durante dies (b. 1893). Americsn actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillian.
• 1981 – España: Adolfo Suárez dimite de sus cargos de presidente del Gobierno y del partido de Unión de Centro Democrático.
• 1981 – Álex Ubago was born. Spanish musician.
• 1981 – Darío Lopilato was born. Argentine actor.
• 1981 – Jonny Lang was born. American musician.
• 1982 – Heidi Mueller was born. American actress.
• 1983 – Nedžad Sinanović was born. Bosnian basketball player.
• 1983 – 40th Golden Globes Gandhi, ET & Tootsie win.
• 1983 – Portugal: In Lisboa at Coliseu dos Recreios, Zeca Afonso performs his last concert.
• 1984 – Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman.
• 1985 – Athina Onassis was born. French heiress.
• 1985 – Isabel Lucas was born. Australian actress.
• 1985 – Marc Gasol was born. Spanish basketball player.
• 1985 – Todd Herzog was born. American reality-show contestant.
• 1986 – The Height 611 UFO Incident.
• 1986 – Yoweri Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni’s National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup removed Apollo Milton Obote from office. (The army’s military rule had been particularly ineffectual, and lasted for just under a month.)
• 1986 – Chris Bourque was born. American pro hockey player.
• 1986 – Drew Tyler Bell was born. American actor.
• 1986 – Mark Howard was born. English football player.
• 1986 – Simon Vukčević was born. Montenegrin football player.
• 1986 – Leif Erickson dies (b. 1911). American actor.
• 1987 – Physician’s Weekly announces that the smile on the face of Leonardo DaVinci‘s Mona Lisa is caused by a “…facial paralysis resulting from a swollen nerve behind the ear.”
• 1987 – Matthew Wilson was born. English world rally driver
• 1987 – Spencer Clark was born (d. 2006). American race car driver.
• 1987 – Josep V. Foix dies (b. 28 Jan 1893). Spanish poet.
• 1988 – Stephanie Gilmore was born. Australian professional surfer.
• 1989 – Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making them the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.
• 1989 – The Orlando Arena, now titled the TD Waterhouse Centre, opens in Downtown Orlando. The TD Waterhouse Centre is currently the home to the Orlando Magic of the NBA and the Orlando Predators of the AFL.
• 1989 – 77th Australian Open Men Tennis Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (6-2, 6-2, 6-2).
• 1989 – Halina Konopacka dies (b. 1900). Polish athlete.
• 1990 – The trial of the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, Joseph Hazelwood, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America’s worst oil spill.
• 1990 – Jessica D. Stone was born. Actress.
• 1990 – O Congresso da Somália Unificada nomeia Alí Mahdi Mohamed como novo presidente do país.
• 1991 – Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor was born. Son of the British Duke of Westminster and heir-apparent to his father’s estate
• 1991 – Yasushi Inoue dies (b. 1907). Japanese historian.
• 1992 – Willie Dixon dies (b. 1915). American composer and musician.
• 1992 – Manuel González Valcárcel dies. Spanish architect.
• 1993 – French marines land in Kinshasa, Zaire, to free French nationals confined to the embassy.
• 1993 – Michelle Larcher De Brito was born. Portuguese tennis player.
• 1993 – Ron Kostelnik dies (b. 1940). American football player.
• 1994 – Ulrike Maier dies in a downhill skiing accident (b. 1967). Austrian alpine skiing world champion.
• 1995 – Super Bowl XXIX: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 and become the first NFL team to win five Super Bowl titles.
• 1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a “definitive end” to French nuclear testing.
• 1996 – La Fenice, the opera house of Venice, Italy, is destroyed by fire.
• 1996 – First release of Duke Nukem 3D.
• 1996 – Megan Jossa was born. English actress.
• 1998 – In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
• 1998 – Sierra Marcoux was born. American actress.
• 1998 – Joseph Alioto dies (b. 1916). Mayor of San Francisco.
• 1999 – Estados Unidos: el cuadro Santa Rufina, del pintor sevillano Diego Velázquez es adquirido por un coleccionista anónimo por 1166 millones de pesetas en Nueva York.
• 1999 – Lili St. Cyr dies (b. 1918). American dancer.
• 2000 – A BOLA passa a ter divulgação através da Internet.
• 2001 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
• 2001 – El juez Juan Guzmán dicta una orden de procesamiento y arresto domiciliario contra el dictador chileno Augusto Pinochet.
• 2002 – In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush described “regimes that sponsor terror” as an Axis of Evil.
• 2002 – Daniel Pearl dies (b. 1963). Journalist.
• 2002 – Dick “Night Train” Lane dies (b. 1928). American football player.
• 2002 – Harold Russell dies (b. 1914). Canadian-born actor.
• 2003 – Solicitor Sally Clark, aged 38, jailed for life for murdering her two baby sons, was freed by the Court of Appeal.
• 2003 – Frank Moss dies (b. 1911). American politician.
• 2004 – Cannabis and cannabis resin downgraded from Class B in United Kingdom.
• 2004 – Janet Frame dies (b. 1924). New Zealand writer.
• 2004 – M. M. Kaye dies (b. 1908). British writer.
• 2004 – Janet Frame dies (b. 1924). New Zealand writer.
• 2005 – The first direct commercial flights from the mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines carrier landed in Beijing.
• 2005 – Ephraim Kishon dies (b. 1924). Israeli satirist.
• 2005 – Eric Griffiths dies (b. 1940). Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen).
• 2006 – Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is sworn in as the Emir of Kuwait.
• 2006 – ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt are severely injured in Iraq following a car blast.
• 2007 – Barbaro dies (b. 2003). American thoroughbred racehorse.
• 2007 – Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim dies (b. 1970). Leader of the Iraqi cult Soldiers of Heaven.
• 2008 – Raymond Jacobs dies (b. 1925). American soldier.
• 2008 – Philippe Khorsand dies (b. 1948). French actor.
• Roman Catholic saints – Valerius of Trèves.
• Brazil: Journalist Day /Brasil: Dia do Jornalista.
• National Corn Chip Day.
• Gibraltar – Constitution Day.

On this day in History – Jan. 29

• 0904 – Sergius III came out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Pope Christopher.
• 1119 – Pope Gelasius II dies.
• 1342 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon dies (b. 1279).
• 1523 – Ulrico Zuinglio da a conocer sus 67 tesis para la reforma de la Iglesia.
• 1584 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange was born (d. 1647).
• 1595 – Romeo and Juliet, a famous play by William Shakespeare concerning the fate of two young star-crossed lovers, was probably first performed.
• 1597 – Elias Ammerbach dies (b. 1530). German organist.
• 1608 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg dies (b. 1557).
• 1613 – Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees.
• 1632 – Johann Georg Graevius was born (d. 1703). German classical scholar and critic.
• 1635 – É fundada a Academia Francesa (Academie Française), uma das mais renomadas sociedades literárias da Europa.
• 1647 – Francis Meres dies (b. 1565). English writer.
• 1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1676 – Tsar Alexis I of Russia dies (b. 1629).
• 1678 – Jeronimo Lobo dies (b. 1593). Portuguese Jesuit missionary.
• 1688 – Emanuel Swedenborg was born (d. 29 Mar 1772). Swedish naturalist, philosopher and theologian.
• 1696 – Ivan V dies (b. 1666). Russian tsar.
• 1706 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset dies (b. 1638). English poet and courtier.
• 1711 – Giuseppe Bonno was born (d. 1788). Austrian composer.
• 1712 – Le congrès d’Utrecht. Les diplomates français et anglais se réunissent en congrès à Utrecht. Ils veulent en finir avec la guerre de la succession d’Espagne, qui épuise l’Europe .
• 1715 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil was born (d. 1777). Austrian composer.
• 1717 – Jeffrey Amherst was born (d. 1797). British Military leader.
• 1718 – Paul Rabaut was born (d. 1794). French Huguenot pastor.
• 1730 – Tsar Peter II of Russia died of smallpox on the day set for his wedding (b. 1715).
• 1737 – Thomas Paine was born (d. 1809). Patriot, radical, pamphleteer.
• 1737 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney dies (b. 1666). British soldier.
• 1743 – Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus dies (b. 1653). Chief minister of France under Louis XV.
• 1749 – King Christian VII of Denmark was born (d. 1808).
• 1754 – Moses Cleaveland was born (d. 1806). Founder of the city of Cleveland.
• 1756 – Henry Lee III was born. American General.
• 1761 – Albert Gallatin was born. Swiss-American United States Secretary of the Treasury.
• 1763 – Louis Racine dies (b. 1692). French poet.
• 1782 – Daniel Auber was born (d. 1871). French composer.
• 1801 – Horatia Nelson was born (d. 1881). Illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson.
• 1810 – Ernst Kummer was born (d. 1893). German mathematician.
• 1814 – France defeated Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
• 1814 – Johann Gottheb Fichte dies. Philosopher.
• 1820 – King George III of the United Kingdom dies (b. 1738).
• 1829 – Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras dies (b. 1755). French politician.
• 1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
• 1838 – João de Oliveira Penha Fortuna was born in Braga (d. 3 Feb 1919). Portuguese poet.
• 1839 – Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood.
• 1841 – Durante la Guerra del Opio, Gran Bretaña ocupa Hong Kong.
• 1843 – William McKinley was born in Niles, Ohio (d. 1901). 25th President of the United States [1897-1901]. Was assassinated six months after the start of his second term, on 14 September, in Buffalo, New York.
• 1845 – The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York Evening Mirror).
• 1846 – Karol Olszewski was born (d. 1915). Polish scientist.
• 1848 – Chile: se adopta el sistema métrico decimal.
• 1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
• 1856 – Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
• 1859 – William Cranch Bond dies (b. 9 Sep 1789). American astronomer who, with his son, George Phillips Bond (1825-65), discovered Hyperion, the eighth satellite of Saturn, and an inner ring called Ring C, or the Crepe Ring.
• 1860 – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born (d. 1904). Russian playwright and short story writer.
• 1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
• 1862 – Frederick Delius was born (d. 1934). English composer.
• 1863 – Bear River Massacre.
• 1866 – Romain Rolland was born (d. 1944). French writer, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915.
• 1867 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born in Valencia (d. 1928). Spanish writer.
• 1870 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany dies (b. 1797).
• 1871 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé dies (b. 1786). French-Canadian writer and Seigneur.
• 1874 – John D. Rockefeller Jr. was born (d. 1960). American entrepreneur.
• 1876 – Havergal Brian was born (d. 1972). British composer.
• 1877 – Georges Catroux was born (d. 1969). French general.
• 1880 – W.C. Fields was born (d. 1946). American actor.
• 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• 1888 – Sydney Chapman, was born (d. 16 Jun 1970). English mathematician and physicist noted for his research in geophysics.
• 1889 – O rápido reconhecimento internacional do novo regime foi o primeiro objetivo do ministro Quintino Bocaiúva, responsável pela pasta das Relações Exteriores do Governo Provisório, sob a liderança do marechal Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca.
• 1890 – Os Estados Unidos reconhecem a República brasileira, proclamada em novembro de 1889.
• 1891 – Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.
• 1891 – Elizaveta Gerdt was born (d. 1975). Russian ballerina.
• 1891 – R. Norris Williams was born (d. 1968). American tennis player, also a survivor of the RMS Titanic Disaster.
• 1893 – Sensacional robo en un hotel de París de cuadros de pintores famosos.
• 1895 – José Martí ordena el inicio del levantamiento por la independencia de Cuba de España.
• 1895 – Barão de Itararé was born (d. 1971). Brazilian journalist.
• 1895 – Muna Lee was born (d. 1965). American poet.
• 1898 – Angel Ortíz de Villajos Cano was born. Spanish musician and composer.
• 1899 – Alfred Sisley dies in Moret-sur-Loing (b. 1839). French painter.
• 1900 – The Baseball’s American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
• 1901 – Allen Du Mont was born (d. 1965). American scientist and inventor.
• 1901 – Milan I dies (b. 1855). King of Serbia.
• 1905 – Barnett Newman was born (d. 1970). American painter.
• 1906 – King Christian IX of Denmark dies (b. 1818) .
• 1908 – Piero Leonardi was born. Italian geologist and prehistorian, known for his research on the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Triassic invertebrates (from 190-225 million years ago) and the Permian vertebrates (from 225-280 million years ago).
• 1910 – Colin Middleton was born (d. 1983). Northern Irish artist.
• 1911 – Peter von Siemens was born (d. 1986). German industrialist.
• 1913 – Daniel Taradash was born (d. 2003). American screenwriter.
• 1913 – Peter von Zahn was born (d. 2001). German journalist and writer.
• 1913 – Victor Mature was born (d. 1999). American actor.
• 1915 – John Serry, Sr. was born (d. 2003). American musician, composer, arranger.
• 1915 – Victor Mature was born (d. 1999). American actor.
• 1916 – World War I: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
• 1918 – John Forsythe was born. American actor.
• 1918 – Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin dies (b. 1861). Russian counter revolutionary.
• 1920 – José Luis de Villalonga was born (d. 2007). Spanish aristocrat, author, and actor.
• 1921 – Anthony George was born (d. 2005). American actor.
• 1921 – António Duarte Gomes Leal dies (b. 1848). Portuguese poet.
• 1922 – Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved.
• 1922 – Gerda Steinhoff was born (d. 1946). Nazi concetraation camp supervisor.
• 1923 – Ivo Robic was born (d. 2000). Croatian singer and songwriter.
• 1923 – Paddy Chayefsky was born (d. 01 Aug 1981). Academy Award-winning playwright, (Marty [1955]; Paint Your Wagon, Altered States, Network).
• 1923 – Ivo Robic was born (d. 2000). Croatian singer and songwriter.
• 1924 – Luigi Nono was born (d. 1990). Italian composer.
• 1924 – Marcelle Ferron was born (d. 2001). Quebec painter and stained glass artist.
• 1924 – Peter Voulkos was born (d. 2002). American artist.
• 1926 – Abdus Salam was born (d. 21 Nov 1996). Pakistani nuclear physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Lee Glashow.
• 1926 – Franco Cerri was born. Italian jazzman.
• 1927 – Edward Abbey was born (d. 1989). American environmentalist.
• 1927 – António Alçada Baptista was born in Covilhã. Portuguese writer.
• 1928 – João Abel Manta was born in Lisbon. Portuguese architect, painter, graphic artist and caricaturist.
• 1928 – Douglas Haig dies (b. 1861). British soldier.
• 1928 – Lee Shau Kee was born. Hong Kong SAR property developer.
• 1929 – Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.
• 1929 – Gordon Solie was born (d. 2000). American wrestling announcer.
• 1930 – Derek Bailey was born (d. 2005). English guitar virtuoso.
• 1930 – John Junkin was born (d. 2006). English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter.
• 1932 – Tommy Taylor was born (d. 1958). English footballer.
• 1932 – George Allen was born. English footballer.
• 1932 – Tommy Taylor was born (d. 1958). English footballer.
• 1933 – President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1933 – Paul Sally was born. American mathematician.
• 1933 – Ron Townson was born (d. 2001). American singer (The 5th Dimension).
• 1933 – Sacha Distel was born (d. 2004). French singer and guitarist.
• 1933 – Sara Teasdale dies (b. 1884). American poet.
• 1934 – Un temblor de tierra en Acapulco (México) daña el 90 por cien de los edificios.
• 1934 – Fritz Haber dies (b. 9 Dec 1868). German physical chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1918) for his development of a method of synthesizing ammonia (1909) directly from nitrogen and hydrogen.
• 1936 – First inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1936 – James Jamerson was born (d. 1983). American bass guitarist guitarist for Motown Records.
• 1938 – Armando Palacio Valdés dies. Spanish writer.
• 1939 – Germaine Greer was born. Australian feminist writer.
• 1940 – Three gasoline multiple units carrying factory workers crash and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi station, Yumesaki Line (Nishinari Line), Osaka, Japan, killing at least 181 people and injuring at least 92.
• 1940 – Katharine Ross was born. American actress.
• 1940 – Kunimitsu Takahashi was born. Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver.
• 1941 – Robin Morgan was born. American feminist and activist.
• 1941 – Ioannis Metaxas dies (b. 1871). Greek general and dictator.
• 1942 – Claudine Longet was born. French singer and dancer.
• 1942 – World War II: North AfricaBenghazi, Libya, is taken by German and Italian forces.
• 1942 – Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determination); Ecuador y Perú firman el Tratado de Río de Janeiro, para el arreglo definitivo del pleito de límites en la zona amazónica fronteriza de ambos países, con Argentina, Brasil, Chile y EE.UU como garantes.
• 1942 – Arnaldo Tamayo- Mendez was born. Cosmonaut, 1st Cuban in space (Soyuz 38)
• 1943 – The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
• 1944 – World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
• 1944 – USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched.
• 1944 – The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
• 1944 – In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid bombing.
• 1944 – Patrick Lipton Robinson was born. Jamaican judge.
• 1944 – Yoweri Museveni was born. President of Uganda.
• 1945 – A Bola, a Portuguese sportiv newspaper, publishes its first number.
• 1945 – Jim Nicholson was born. Irish politician.
• 1945 – Tom Selleck was born in Detroit. American actor.
• 1946 – Harry Hopkins dies (b. 1890). American politician.
• 1947 – David Byron was born (d. 1985). English singer (Uriah Heep).
• 1947 – Linda B. Buck was born. American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1947 – Marián Varga was born. Slovak musician.
• 1948 – Cristina Saralegui was born. American talk-show host.
• 1948 – Marc Singer was born. Canadian actor.
• 1948 – Pat Kenny was born. Irish TV presenter & radio host.
• 1948 – Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta dies (b. 1900). Italian aristocrat.
• 1949 – Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand & Switzerland recognize Israel.
• 1949 – Djavan was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1950 – Ann Jillian was born. American actress.
• 1950 – Jody Scheckter was born. South African racing driver and one-time F1 world champion .
• 1950 – Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dies (b. 1885). Emir of Kuwait.
• 1951 – Andy Roberts was born. West Indian cricketer.
• 1951 – Frank Tarrant dies (b. 1880). Australian cricketer.
• 1952 – Rupert Hanley was born. Former South African cricketer.
• 1952 – Tommy Ramone was born. Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
• 1953 – Hwang Woo-Suk was born. South Korean fiomedical scientist.
• 1953 – Louie Perez was born. Mexican-American drummer (Los Lobos).
• 1953 – Lynne McGranger was born. Australian actress.
• 1953 – Paulin Bordeleau was born. Quebec ice hockey player.
• 1953 – Teresa Teng was born (d. 1995). Taiwanese singer.
• 1954 – Doug Risebrough was born. Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive
• 1954 – Oprah Winfrey was born. American talk show host and actress.
• 1954 – Richard Manitoba was born. American singer (The Dictators and MC5).
• 1954 – Terry Kinney was born. American actor.
• 1954 – Yukinobu Hoshino was born. Japanese mangaka.
• 1955 – Eddie Jordan was born. American basketball player and head coach.
• 1956 – H. L. Mencken dies (b. 1880). American journalist.
• 1957 – Grazyna Miller was born. Italian poet, translator and journalist.
• 1958 – Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wedding.
• 1958 – Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming.
• 1958 – The Boston Herald printed a letter from Olga Owens Huckins attacking DDT pesticide as dangerous.
• 1959 – Sleeping Beauty, the last animated feature produced by Walt Disney to be based upon a fairy tale, was first released.
• 1960 – Gia Carangi was born (d. 1986). American model.
• 1960 – Greg Louganis was born. American diver, Olympics gold medalist.
• 1960 – J. G. Thirlwell was born. Australian-born musician.
• 1960 – Matthew Ashford was born. American actor.
• 1960 – Sean Kerly was born. English field hockey player.
• 1960 – Steve Sax was born. American baseball player.
• 1962 – Nicholas Turturro was born. American actor.
• 1962 – Fritz Kreisler dies (b. 1975). Austrian violinist.
• 1963 – First inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1963 – Bob Holly was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1963 – Robert Lee Frost dies (b. 1874). US poet, 4 Pulitzers (b. 1874).
• 1963 – Isaías de Noronha dies (b. 06 Jul 1874). President of Brazil.
• 1964 – The IX Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria.
• 1964 – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released in the United States.
• 1964 – Andre Reed was born. American football player.
• 1964 – Anna Ryder Richardson was born. British interior designer and television presenter.
• 1964 – Dimas de Carvalho was born in Acaraú, Ceará. Brazilian poet and ficcionist.
• 1964 – John Habyan was born. American baseball player.
• 1964 – Roddy Frame was born. Lead singer of Scottish New Wave band Aztec Camera.
• 1964 – Alan Ladd dies at 50 in Palm Springs, California. American actor (Shane).
• 1965 – Dominik Hasek was born. Czech hockey player.
• 1965 – Peter Lundgren was born. Swedish tennis coach.
• 1966 – The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre in New York City.
• 1966 – Britain imposes a complete trade ban on Rhodesia.
• 1966 – Romário was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1966 – Pierre Mercure dies (b. 1927). French Canadian composer.
• 1967 – Cyril Suk was born. Czech tennis player.
• 1967 – Stacey King was born. American basketball player.
• 1968 – Edward Burns was born. American actor.
• 1968 – Sora Jung was born. Korean actress.
• 1968 – Susi Erdmann was vborn. German bobsledder and luger.
• 1969 – Britain refused entry into the European Economic Community.
• 1969 – Hyde was born. Japanese singer.
• 1969 – Allen Dulles dies (b. 1893). American CIA director.
• 1970 – Heather Graham was born. American actress, model.
• 1970 – Jörg Hoffmann was born. German swimmer.
• 1970 – Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was born. Indian shooter.
• 1970 – Basil Liddell Hart dies (b. 1895). British historian.
• 1973 – Jason Schmidt was born. American baseball player.
• 1974 – Kōji Wada was born. Japanese singer and songwriter.
• 1975 – Sara Gilbert was born. American actress.
• 1975 – Manuel Guimarães dies (b. 1915). Portuguese painter and film director.
• 1976 – Charles Divins was born. American model and actor.
• 1976 – Chris Castle was born. American singer-songwriter.
• 1976 – Grigorios Paliouras was born. Canadian scientist.
• 1977 – Justin Hartley was born. American actor.
• 1977 – Buster Nupen dies (b. 1902). South African cricketer.
• 1977 – Freddie Prinze dies (b. 1954). American actor, comedian.
• 1978 – Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.
• 1978 – Martin Schmitt was born. German ski jumper.
• 1978 – Rob Bironas was born. American football player.
• 1979 – Brenda Ann Spencer kills 9 people and wounds 2 in a shooting spree at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California.
• 1979 – Andrew Keegan was born. American actor.
• 1979 – April Scott was born. American actress and model.
• 1979 – Joseph Todd was born. Arena Football League player.
• 1979 – Sui Feifei was born. Chinese basketball player.
• 1980 – Ivan Klasnić was born. Croatian football player.
• 1980 – Yael Bar Zohar was born. Israeli actress and model.
• 1980 – Antonio Molina composer dies at 85 .
• 1980 – Jimmy Durante dies (b. 1893). Americsn actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillian.
• 1981 – España: Adolfo Suárez dimite de sus cargos de presidente del Gobierno y del partido de Unión de Centro Democrático.
• 1981 – Álex Ubago was born. Spanish musician.
• 1981 – Darío Lopilato was born. Argentine actor.
• 1981 – Jonny Lang was born. American musician.
• 1982 – Heidi Mueller was born. American actress.
• 1983 – Nedžad Sinanović was born. Bosnian basketball player.
• 1983 – 40th Golden Globes Gandhi, ET & Tootsie win.
• 1983 – Portugal: In Lisboa at Coliseu dos Recreios, Zeca Afonso performs his last concert.
• 1984 – Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman.
• 1985 – Athina Onassis was born. French heiress.
• 1985 – Isabel Lucas was born. Australian actress.
• 1985 – Marc Gasol was born. Spanish basketball player.
• 1985 – Todd Herzog was born. American reality-show contestant.
• 1986 – The Height 611 UFO Incident.
• 1986 – Yoweri Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni’s National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup removed Apollo Milton Obote from office. (The army’s military rule had been particularly ineffectual, and lasted for just under a month.)
• 1986 – Chris Bourque was born. American pro hockey player.
• 1986 – Drew Tyler Bell was born. American actor.
• 1986 – Mark Howard was born. English football player.
• 1986 – Simon Vukčević was born. Montenegrin football player.
• 1986 – Leif Erickson dies (b. 1911). American actor.
• 1987 – Physician’s Weekly announces that the smile on the face of Leonardo DaVinci‘s Mona Lisa is caused by a “…facial paralysis resulting from a swollen nerve behind the ear.”
• 1987 – Matthew Wilson was born. English world rally driver
• 1987 – Spencer Clark was born (d. 2006). American race car driver.
• 1987 – Josep V. Foix dies (b. 28 Jan 1893). Spanish poet.
• 1988 – Stephanie Gilmore was born. Australian professional surfer.
• 1989 – Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making them the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.
• 1989 – The Orlando Arena, now titled the TD Waterhouse Centre, opens in Downtown Orlando. The TD Waterhouse Centre is currently the home to the Orlando Magic of the NBA and the Orlando Predators of the AFL.
• 1989 – 77th Australian Open Men Tennis Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (6-2, 6-2, 6-2).
• 1989 – Halina Konopacka dies (b. 1900). Polish athlete.
• 1990 – The trial of the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, Joseph Hazelwood, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America’s worst oil spill.
• 1990 – Jessica D. Stone was born. Actress.
• 1990 – O Congresso da Somália Unificada nomeia Alí Mahdi Mohamed como novo presidente do país.
• 1991 – Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor was born. Son of the British Duke of Westminster and heir-apparent to his father’s estate
• 1991 – Yasushi Inoue dies (b. 1907). Japanese historian.
• 1992 – Willie Dixon dies (b. 1915). American composer and musician.
• 1992 – Manuel González Valcárcel dies. Spanish architect.
• 1993 – French marines land in Kinshasa, Zaire, to free French nationals confined to the embassy.
• 1993 – Michelle Larcher De Brito was born. Portuguese tennis player.
• 1993 – Ron Kostelnik dies (b. 1940). American football player.
• 1994 – Ulrike Maier dies in a downhill skiing accident (b. 1967). Austrian alpine skiing world champion.
• 1995 – Super Bowl XXIX: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 and become the first NFL team to win five Super Bowl titles.
• 1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a “definitive end” to French nuclear testing.
• 1996 – La Fenice, the opera house of Venice, Italy, is destroyed by fire.
• 1996 – First release of Duke Nukem 3D.
• 1996 – Megan Jossa was born. English actress.
• 1998 – In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
• 1998 – Sierra Marcoux was born. American actress.
• 1998 – Joseph Alioto dies (b. 1916). Mayor of San Francisco.
• 1999 – Estados Unidos: el cuadro Santa Rufina, del pintor sevillano Diego Velázquez es adquirido por un coleccionista anónimo por 1166 millones de pesetas en Nueva York.
• 1999 – Lili St. Cyr dies (b. 1918). American dancer.
• 2000 – A BOLA passa a ter divulgação através da Internet.
• 2001 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
• 2001 – El juez Juan Guzmán dicta una orden de procesamiento y arresto domiciliario contra el dictador chileno Augusto Pinochet.
• 2002 – In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush described “regimes that sponsor terror” as an Axis of Evil.
• 2002 – Daniel Pearl dies (b. 1963). Journalist.
• 2002 – Dick “Night Train” Lane dies (b. 1928). American football player.
• 2002 – Harold Russell dies (b. 1914). Canadian-born actor.
• 2003 – Solicitor Sally Clark, aged 38, jailed for life for murdering her two baby sons, was freed by the Court of Appeal.
• 2003 – Frank Moss dies (b. 1911). American politician.
• 2004 – Cannabis and cannabis resin downgraded from Class B in United Kingdom.
• 2004 – Janet Frame dies (b. 1924). New Zealand writer.
• 2004 – M. M. Kaye dies (b. 1908). British writer.
• 2004 – Janet Frame dies (b. 1924). New Zealand writer.
• 2005 – The first direct commercial flights from the mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines carrier landed in Beijing.
• 2005 – Ephraim Kishon dies (b. 1924). Israeli satirist.
• 2005 – Eric Griffiths dies (b. 1940). Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen).
• 2006 – Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is sworn in as the Emir of Kuwait.
• 2006 – ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt are severely injured in Iraq following a car blast.
• 2007 – Barbaro dies (b. 2003). American thoroughbred racehorse.
• 2007 – Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim dies (b. 1970). Leader of the Iraqi cult Soldiers of Heaven.
• 2008 – Raymond Jacobs dies (b. 1925). American soldier.
• 2008 – Philippe Khorsand dies (b. 1948). French actor.
• Roman Catholic saints – Valerius of Trèves.
• Brazil: Journalist Day /Brasil: Dia do Jornalista.
• National Corn Chip Day.
• Gibraltar – Constitution Day.

On this day in History – Jan. 28 Janeiro 28, 2009

• 0028 – The Roman Emperor Nerva names Trajan, an army general, as his successor.
• 0814 – Charlemagne dies (b. 742).
• 1061 – Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia dies (b. 1031).
• 1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
• 1225 – Saint Thomas Aquinas was born (d. 1274).
• 1271 – Isabella of Aragon dies (b. 1247). Queen of Philip III of France.
• 1312 – Queen Joan II of Navarre was born (d. 1349).
• 1443 – Robert le Maçon dies. Chancellor of France.
• 1457 – King Henry VII of England was born (d. 1509).
• 1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
• 1540 – Ludolph van Ceulen was born (d. 1610). German mathematician.
• 1547 – King Henry VIII of England dies (b. 1491). His nine year old son Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
• 1573 – Articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland.
• 1754 – Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
• 1582 – John Barclay was born (d. 1621). Scottish writer.
• 1596 – Sir Francis Drake dies, explorer, soldier (b. ca. 1540).
• 1599 – Cristofano Malvezzi dies (b. 1547). Italian composer.
• 1600 – Pope Clement IX was born (d. 1669).
• 1608 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli was born (d. 1679). Italian physiologist and physicist.
• 1611 – Johannes Hevelius was born (d. 1687). Astronomer.
• 1613 – Thomas Bodley dies (b. 1545). English diplomat and library founder.
• 1621 – Pope Paul V dies (b. 1550).
• 1622 – Adrien Auzout was born (d. 1691). French astronomer.
• 1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts.
• 1672 – Pierre Séguier dies (b. 1588). Chancellor of France.
• 1681 – Richard Allestree dies (b. 1619). English royalist churchman.
• 1687 – Johannes Hevelius dies (b. 1611). Polish astronomer.
• 1693 – Anna Ivanovna was born. Tsarina of Russia.
• 1693 – Sóror Violante do Céu dies in Lisbon (b. 30 May 1607). Portuguese nun and poet.
• 1697 – John Fenwick dies. English conspirator.
• 1701 – Charles Marie de La Condamine was born (d. 1774). French mathematician and geographer.
• 1706 – John Baskerville was born. English printer, inventor of the “hot-pressing” method.
• 1712 – Tokugawa Ieshige was born (d. 1761). Japanese shogun.
• 1717 – Mustafa III was born (d. 1774). Ottoman Sultan.
• 1719 – Johann Elias Schlegel was born (d. 1749). German critic and poet.
• 1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree. It was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
• 1725 (O.S.) – Tsar Peter I of Russia dies (b. 1672).
• 1754 – Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
• 1754 – Ludvig Holberg dies (b. 1684). Norwegian historian and writer.
• 1755 – Samuel Thomas von Sömmering was born (d. 1830). German physician.
• 1757 – Ahmed Shah, the first King of Afghanistan, occupies Delhi and annexes the Punjab.
• 1760 – Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
• 1784 – George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen was born (d. 1860). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1788 – The first penal colony is founded at Botany Bay, Australia.
• 1792 – Rebellious slaves in Santo Domingo launch an attack on the city of Cap.
• 1800 – António Feliciano de Castilho was born (d. 1875). Portuguese writer.
• 1808 – D. João VI, assina na Bahia, o Decreto de Abertura dos Portos à Nações Amigas, que colocava fim ao pacto colonial entre Portugal e Brasil. A “Abertura dos Portos” suspendeu os séculos de monopólio comercial português, uma das bases do chamado Pacto Colonial.
• 1813 – Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
• 1818 – George S. Boutwell was born (d. 1905). 20th Governor of Massachusetts.
  1820 – Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
• 1822 – Alexander Mackenzie was born (d. 1892). Second Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1823 – Abdicación de Bernardo O’Higgins al cargo de Director Supremo de Chile.
• 1832 – Augustin Daniel Belliard dies (b. 1769). French general.
• 1833 – Charles George ‘Chinese’ Gordon was born (d. 1885). British soldier and administrator.
• 1840 – Real orden por la que se crea en La Habana el Archivo General de la Real Hacienda, fundamento del Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba.
• 1841 – Henry Morton Stanley was born (d. 1904). Welsh-born explorer and journalist.
• 1846 – Battle of Aliwal, India won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
• 1853 – José Martí was born (d. 1895). Cuban revolutionary.
• 1855 – The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Railway.
• 1855 – William Seward Burroughs was born (d. 1898). Inventor of the calculator.
• 1856 – Bank of Spain is founded.
• 1859 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich dies (b. 1782). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1863 – Ernst William Christmas was born (d. 1918). Australian painter.
• 1864 – Charles W. Nash was born (d. 1948). Co-founder of Nash Motors, which would become American Motors as well as co-founder of Buick.
• 1864 – Herbert Akroyd Stuart was born (d. 1927). English engineer – inventor of the first compression ignition engine.
• 1864 – Émile Clapeyron dies (b. 1799). French engineer and physicist.
• 1865 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg was born (d. 1952). First president of Finland.
• 1865 – Lala Lajpat Rai was born (d. 1928). Indian freedom fighter.
• 1867 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born. Spanish novelist.
• 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
• 1873 – Colette was born (d. 1954). French writer.
• 1874 – Vsevolod Meyerhold was born (d. 1940). Russian theatre director.
• 1878 – The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States.
• 1879 – Francis Picabia was born (d. 1953). French-born painter and poet.
• 1880 – Herbert Strudwick was born (d. 1970). English cricketer.
• 1884 – Auguste Piccard was born (d. 1962). Swiss physicist.
• 1886 – Hidetsugu Yagi was born (d. 1976). Japanese electrical engineer.
• 1886 – José Linhares was born. 23th President of Brazil (29 Oct 1945 – 31 Jan 1946).
• 1886 – Marthe Bibesco was born (d. 1973). Romanian writer.
• 1887 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, USA, the world’s largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38cm) wide and 8 inches (20cm) thick.
• 1887 – Se pone la primera piedra de la Torre Eiffel.
• 1887 – Artur Rubinstein was born (d. 1982). Polish pianist and conductor.
• 1890 – Robert Stroud was born (d. 1963). American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz.
• 1891 – Bill Doak was born (d. 1954). American baseball player.
• 1892 – Ernst Lubitsch was born (d. 1947). German-borm film director.
• 1894 – Fidela Campiña Ontiveros was born in Tijola (Almeria). Spanish opera singer.
• 1897 – Valentin Kataev was born (d. 1986). Russian writer.
• 1898 – Roberto Ivens dies (b. 12 Jun1850). Portuguese soldier and explorer.
• 1899 – Elias Simojoki was born (d. 1940). Finnish clergyman and politician.
• 1900 – Alice Neel was born (d. 1984). American artist.
• 1900 – Heinrich Kesten was born (d. 1996). Author.
• 1902 – The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
• 1903 – Aleksander Kamiński was born. Polish writer.
• 1903 – Augusta Holmès dies (b. 1847). French composer.
• 1904 – Canuplin was born (d. 1979). Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer.
• 1908 – Se inicia en Portugal un movimiento revolucionario controlado tres días después.
• 1908 – Paul Misraki was born (d. 1998). French composer and songwriter.
• 1909 – United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War.
• 1910 – Arnold Moss was born (d. 1989). American actor.
• 1910 – John Banner was born (d. 1973). Austrian actor.
• 1912 – Jackson Pollock was born (d. 1956). American painter, initiator of Dripping painting
• 1912 – Gustave de Molinari dies (b. 1819). Belgian economist.
• 1913 – Segismundo Moret dies. Spanish politician.
• 1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.
• 1915 – The German navy attacks the U.S. freighter William P. Frye, loaded with wheat for Britain.
• 1915 – Nikolay Umov dies (b. 1846). Russian physicist.
• 1916 – Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
• 1916 – Vergílio Ferreira was born. Portuguese writer / Vergílio Ferreira nasceu neste dia, em Melo, concelho de Gouveia (Serra da Estrela), (O Caminho Fica Longe, Onde Tudo Foi Morrendo, Vagão «J», Mudança, Nitido Nulo, Em nome da Terra, Manhã Submersa, etc). «Há os livros que antes de lidos já estão lidos. «Há os que se lêem todos e ficam logo lidos todos. E há os que nos regateiam a leitura e a que pedimos humildemente que se deixem ler todos e não deixam e vão largando uma parte de si pelas gerações e jamais se deixam ler de uma vez para sempre.» (Vergílio Ferreira) .
• 1917 – United States ends search for Pancho Villa.
• 1917 – Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco.
• 1918 – Finnish Civil War: Social democrats and communists seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland went underground.
• 1918 – Castro Gonzaga was born (d. 2007). Brazilian actor.
• 1918 – Harry Corbett was born (d. 1989). English puppeteer (Sooty).
• 1918 – Trevor Skeet was born (d. 2004). Zealand-born British politician.
• 1918 – John McCrae dies (b. 1872). Canadian poet.
• 1919 – Francis Gabreski was born (d. 2002). American fighter pilot.
• 1920 – Se funda en España la Legión.
• 1921 – A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honour the unknown dead of World War I.
• 1921 – Albert Einstein startles Berlin by suggesting the possibility of measuring the universe.
• 1922 – Knickerbocker Storm, Washington DC’s biggest snowfall, causes Washington DC’s greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses.
• 1922 – Robert W. Holley was born (d. 11 Feb 1993). American biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Marshall Warren Nirenberg and Har Gobind Khorana.
• 1923 – Ivo Robić was born (d. 2001). Croatian singer, Mister Morgen
• 1924 – Teófilo Braga dies in Lisbon (b. in Ponta Delgada, 24 Feb 1843). President of Portugal (29 Mai 1915 – 05 Aug 1915), writer and essayst.
• 1927 – Hiroshi Teshigahara was born (d. 2001). Japanese film director.
• 1927 – Ronnie Scott was born (d. 1996). British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner.
• 1928 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez dies. Spanish writer.
• 1929 – Acker Bilk was born. English jazz clarinetist.
• 1929 – Claes Oldenbourg was born. Swedish-born artist.
• 1931 – Lucía Bosé was born. Italian actress.
• 1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
• 1933 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and by a group of Cambridge University Students and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement of the formal Indian Independence Act 1947 during World War II
• 1933 – Jack Hill was born. American film director.
• 1934 – The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont.
• 1934 – Juan Manuel Bordeu was born (d. 1990). Argentine racing driver.
• 1934 – Mitr Chaibancha was born (d. 1970). Thai actor.
• 1935 – Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion.
• 1935 – David Lodge was born. English author.
• 1935 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov dies (b. 1859). Russian composer.
• 1936 – A fellow prison inmate slashes infamous kidnapper, Richard Loeb, to death.
• 1936 – Alan Alda was born. American actor, writer, and director.
• 1936 – Ismail Kadare was born. Albanian writer.
• 1937 – Anastasios Metaxas dies (b. 1862). Greek architect and shooter.
• 1938 – The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195.
• 1938 – Leonid Zhabotinsky was born. Russian weightlifter
• 1938 – Bernd Rosemeyer dies (b. 1909). German race car driver.
• 1939 – John M. Fabian was born. NASA astronaut.
• 1939 – William Butler Yeats dies (b. 1865). Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate in 1923.
• 1940 – Carlos Slim Helú was born. Mexican businessman.
• 1941 – French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
• 1941 – French General Charles DeGaulle’s Free French forces sack south Libya oasis.
• 1941 – Joel Crothers was born (d. 1985). American actor.
• 1942 – Five power stations are blown up by pro-Axis saboteurs in an attempt to destabilise the Rand gold mines.
• 1943 – Dick Taylor was born. English musician (The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things).
• 1943 – Paul Henderson was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1944 – John Tavener was born. English composer.
• 1944 – Susan Howard was born. American actress.
• 1945 – Chiang Kai-shek renames the Ledo-Burma Road the Stilwell Road, in honor of General Joseph Stilwell.
• 1945 – World War II: Supplies begin to reach China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
• 1945 – John Perkins was born. American author and activist.
• 1945 – Marthe Keller was born in Basel. Swiss actress.
• 1945 – Robert Wyatt was born. English musician.
• 1945 – Filinto de Almeida dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 4 Dec 1957 in Porto). Portuguese poet.
• 1946 – Bluenose, Canada‘s greatest sailing ship, founders on a Haitian reef.
• 1947 – Fernando Carvalho Rodrigues was born in Casal de Cinza, Guarda. Portuguese physicist (PoSAT-1).
• 1947 – Hans Aumeier dies executed (b. 1906). German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant.
• 1947 – Jeanne Shaheen was born. American politician.
• 1947 – Reynaldo Hahn dies (b. 1875). French composer.
• 1947 – Therese Brandl dies executed (b. 1902). Nazi concentration camp guard.
• 1948 – Charles Taylor was born. President of Liberia.
• 1948 – Mikhail Baryshnikov was born. Russian dancer .
• 1948 – Charles Taylor was born. Former leader of Liberia.
• 1948 – Arthur Liebehenschel dies (b. 1901). Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1949 – Los miembros de la Comunidad Europea crean el Consejo de Europa.
• 1949 – Gregg Popovich was born. NBA Basketball Coach.
• 1949 – Jean-Pierre Wimille dies (b. 1908). French race car driver.
• 1950 – A Assembléia Francesa ratifica um acordo no qual o Vietnã, Cambodjia, e Laos tornam-se estados independentes dentro da União Francesa.
• 1950 – Barbi Benton was born. American actress.
• 1950 – Bob Hay was born. American songwriter and musician.
• 1950 – David C. Hilmers was born. NASA astronaut.
• 1950 – Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah was born. King of Bahrain.
• 1950 – Nikolai Luzin dies (b. 1883). Russian mathematician.
• 1951 – Brian Bilbray was born. American politician.
• 1951 – Leonid Kadeniuk was born. Ukrainian cosmonaut.
• 1951 – Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim dies (b. 1867). President of Finland.
• 1952 – Cándido Méndez was born. UGT General- Secretary.
• 1953 – Derek Bentley (b. 1933) is hanged for a murder carried out by Christopher Craig.
• 1953 – Chris Carter was born. English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey).
• 1953 – Colin Campbell was born. Canadian ice hockey player and executive.
• 1953 – James Scullin dies (b. 1876). 9th Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1954 – Rick Warren was born. American pastor and author.
• 1955 -The U.S. Congress passes a bill allowing mobilization of troops if China should attack Taiwan.
• 1955 – Fundación de la Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española.
• 1955 – Nicolas Sarkozy was born. President of France.
• 1957 – Frank Skinner was born. English comedian.
• 1957 – Mark Napier was born. National Hockey League player.
• 1958 – Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister.
• 1958 – The Lego company patented their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
• 1959 – Burkhard Dallwitz was born. German-born composer.
• 1959 – Dave Sharp was born. Welsh guitarist (The Alarm).
• 1959 – Randi Rhodes was born. American personality.
• 1959 – Frank Darabont was born. American filmmaker.
• 1959 – Walter Beall dies (b. 1899). American baseball player.
• 1960 – Robert von Dassanowsky was born. American cultural historian, writer, producer.
• 1960 – Maitê Proença was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1960 – Zora Neale Hurston dies (b. 1891). American author.
• 1961 – Normand Rochefort was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1962 – Creflo Dollar was born. American televangelist.
• 1962 – Keith Hamilton Cobb was born. American actor.
• 1962 – Sam Phillips was born. American singer.
• 1963 – António Filipe was born. Portuguese politician.
• 1963 – Dan Spitz was born. American musician, guitarist for Anthrax.
• 1963 – Gustave Garrigou dies (b. 1884). French cyclist.
• 1964 – The Soviets down a U.S. jet over East Germany killing three.
• 1965 – Lynda Boyd was born. American actress.
• 1965 – Tich Freeman dies (b. 1888). English cricketer.
• 1965 – Maxime Weygand dies (b. 1867). French soldier.
• 1967 – Jan Lamb was born. Hong Kong disc jockey & stand-up comedian.
• 1968 – DJ Muggs was born. American musician (Cypress Hill).
• 1968 – Rakim, born William Michael Griffin Jr., American rapper
• 1968 – Sarah McLachlan was born. Canadian singer and songwriter.
• 1968 – DJ Muggs was born. American musician (Cypress Hill).
• 1968 – Rakim was born. American rapper.
• 1969 – Kathryn Morris was born. American actress.
• 1969 – Linda Sanchez was born. American politician.
• 1969 – Mo Rocca was born. American writer and comedian.
• 1970 – Israeli fighter jets attack the suburbs of Cairo.
• 1971 – Anthony Hamilton was born. American soul singer.
• 1971 – Donald Winnicott dies (b. 1896). British psychoanalyst.
• 1972 – Nicky Southall was born. English footballer.
• 1973 – Barnaby Jones premieres on CBS.
• 1973 – John Banner dies (b. 1910). Austrian actor.
• 1974 – Tony Delk was born. American basketball player.
• 1974 – Jason Dancisin was born. Graphic designer.
• 1974 – Jermaine Dye was born. Baseball player.
• 1974 – Magglio Ordóñez was born. Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1974 – Tony Delk was born. American basketball player.
• 1975 – Anne Montminy was born. Quebec olympic diver.
• 1975 – David Zingler was born. American writer.
• 1975 – Junior Spivey was born. American baseball player.
• 1975 – Lee Latchford-Evans was born. English singer.
• 1975 – Susana Feitor was born. Portuguese race walker.
• 1975 – Terri Colombino was born. American actress.
• 1975 – Ola Raknes dies (b. 1887). Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist.
• 1976 – Emiko Kado was born (d. 1999). Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1976 – Jarrod Montague was born. American drummer (Taproot).
• 1976 – Lee Ingleby was born. British actor.
• 1976 – Mark Madsen was born. American basketball player.
• 1976 – Miltiadis Sapanis was born. Greek footballer.
• 1977 – Daunte Culpepper was born. American football player.
• 1977 – Joey Fatone was born. American singer (*NSYNC).
• 1977 – Lyle Overbay was born. American baseball player.
• 1977 – Matt DeVries was born. American guitarist (Chimaira).
• 1977 – Takuma Sato was born. Japanese Formula One driver.
• 1977 – Freddie Prinze dies (b. 1954). Actor.
• 1978 – Gianluigi Buffon was born. Italian football player (goalkeeper).
• 1978 – Jamie Carragher was born. English footballer.
• 1978 – Papa Bouba Diop was born. Senegalese footballer.
• 1979 – Pixie was born. English model.
• 1979 – Ali Boulala was born. Swedish skateboarder.
• 1979 – Eileen Shanahan dies (b. 1901). Irish poet.
• 1980 – USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Bay Florida and capsizes; killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
• 1980 – Jesse James Hollywood was born. American drug dealer and fugitive.
• 1980 – Nick Carter was born. American singer (Backstreet Boys).
• 1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
• 1981 – Elijah Wood was born. American actor.
• 1981 – Rick Razzano was born. American football player.
• 1982 – US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades.
• 1983 – Billy Fury dies (b. 1940). British singer.
• 1983 – Frank Forde dies (b. 1890). Fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1984 – Andre Iguodala was born. American basketball player.
• 1984 – Stephen Gostkowski was born. American football player.
• 1985 – Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief. /45 dos melhores músicos e compositores do mundo são convidados para produzir o álbum “USA for África”. O objetivo foi arrecadar fundos para aliviar a fome na Etiópia. A principal música gravada “We Are the World” chegou ao topo das paradas nos Estados Unidos e incluiu a participação de Michael Jackson, Kenny Rogers, Sting, Diana Ross, Paul Simon e Cyndi Lauper, dentre outros.
• 1985 – Arnold Mvuemba was born. French footballer.
• 1986 – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes just after takeoff killing all seven astronauts onboard: Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939), Michael J. Smith (b. 1945), Judith Resnik (b. 1949), Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946), Ronald McNair (b. 1950), Greg Jarvis (b. 1944), Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948) .
• 1986 – Alexis Texas was born. Porn star.
• 1986 – Jessica Ennis was born. English heptathlete.
• 1986 – Shruti Haasan was born. Indian actress.
• 1986 – Christa McAuliffe dies (b. 1948). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.
• 1986 – Ellison Onizuka dies (b. 1946). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.
• 1986 – Francis R. Scobee dies (b. 1939). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.
• 1986 – Greg Jarvis dies (b. 1944). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.
• 1986 – Judith Resnik dies (b. 1949). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.
• 1986 – Michael J. Smith dies (b. 1945). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.
• 1986 – Ronald McNair dies (b. 1950). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.
• 1988 – Henry Mortensen was born. American actor.
• 1988 – Klaus Fuchs dies (b. 1911). German physicist.
• 1990 – Super Bowl XXIV: The San Francisco 49ers are crowned “Team of the 1980s” by defeating the Denver Broncos, 55-10.
• 1991 – Red Grange dies (b. 1903). American football player.
• 1993 – Troops in Zaire run riot, killing the French Ambassador.
• 1994 – The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ends in a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
• 1994 – O cristão democrata Giovanni Goria é o segundo primeiro-ministro da Itália a ser acusado de corrupção e julgado por um tribunal nacional.
• 1994 – Mechislav Grib is elected President of Belarus.
• 1994 – Hal Smith dies (b. 1916). American actor.
• 1996 – Super Bowl XXX: The Dallas Cowboys win their fifth Super Bowl title by defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17.
• 1996 – Burne Hogarth dies (b. 1911). American cartoonist.
• 1996 – Jerry Siegel dies (b. 1914). American cartoonist.
• 1996 – Joseph Brodsky dies (b. 1940). Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize Laureate.
• 1997 – Antonio Calado dies. Brazilian journalist and writer. / Falece o jornalista e escritor Antônio Callado. Um dos principais romancistas brasileiros do século 20, ele escreveu “Bar Don Juan”(1971), “Quarup”(1967), e “Reflexos do Baile”(1976).
• 1998 – Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of Volvo for $6.45 billion.
• 1998 – Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines.
• 1999 – The creation of Element 114 is announced by scientists.
• 1999 – Markey Robinson dies (b. 1918). Irish painter.
• 1999 – Torgny T:son Segerstedt dies (b. 1908). Swedish sociologist and philosopher.
• 2001 – Super Bowl XXXV: The Baltimore Ravens defeat the New York Giants, 34-7.
• 2001 – Curt Blefary dies (b. 1943). American baseball player.
• 2002 – TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
• 2002 – Astrid Lindgren dies (b. 1907). Swedish author.
• 2003 – Ariel Sharon is reelected Prime-Minister of Israel.
• 2003 – Cícero Dias dies (b. 1907). Brazilian painter.
• 2004 – September Dossier: Lord Hutton publishes his report into the death of UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly.
• 2004 – Don Cholito dies (b. 1923). Puerto Rican radio host who hosted the longest running uninterrupted radio show.
• 2004 – Don Stansauk dies (b. 1936). American professional wrestler.
• 2004 – Elroy Hirsch dies (b. 1923). American football player.
• 2004 – Lloyd M. Bucher dies (b. 1927). U.S. Navy officer.
• 2004 – Joe Viterelli dies (b. 1937). American actor.
• 2005 – Jacques Villeret dies (b. 1951). French actor.
• 2005 – Jim Capaldi dies (b. 1944). English singer and songwriter.
• 2005 – Karen Lancaume dies (suicide) (b. 1973). French actress.
• 2006 – Henry McGee dies (b. 1929). English comedian.
• 2006 – Yitzchak Kadouri dies (b. c. 1900). Rabbi.
• 2007 – WWE‘s 20th annual Royal Rumble 2007 was held in San Antonio, Texas.
• 2007 – Carlo Clerici dies (b. 1929). Swiss professional road racing cyclist.
• 2007 – Father Robert Drinan dies (b. 1920). Roman Catholic Priest and American politician
• 2007 – Karel Svoboda dies (b. 1938). Czech composer of popular music.
• 2007 – Hsu Wei Lun dies (b. 1978). Taiwanese actress.
• 2007 – Emma Tillman dies. The world’s oldest living person from January 24-28, 2007.
• 2007 – Father Robert Drinan, Roman Catholic Priest and American politician (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Yelena Romanova dies (b. 1963).Russian athlete.
• 2008 – Bengt Lindström dies (b. 1925). Swedish artist.
• 2008 – Christodoulos dies (b. 1939). Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
• Catholicism – Feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas.
• World Leprosy Day.
• Ashura.

On this day in History – Jan. 27 Janeiro 27, 2009

• 0098 – Nerva dies (b. 0035). Roman Emperor.
• 0098 –Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
• 0661 – Rashidun Caliphate ended with death of Ali.
• 0661 – Ali dies. The final Sunni Rashidun and first Shia Iman.
• 0672 – St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
• 0847 – Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
• 0724 – Yezid II dies. Caliph Omeya.
• 1142 – Wrongful execution of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
• 1186 – Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, married Constance of Sicily and was crowned King of Burgundy, Germany and Italy.
• 1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
• 1443 – Albert, Duke of Saxony was born (d. 1500).
• 1490 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa dies (b. 1435). Ashikaga shogun.
• 1540 – Saint Angela Merici dies (b. 1474). Italian religious leader and saint.
• 1546 – Joachim Friedrich born (d. 1608). Elector of Brandenburg.
• 1554 – Pedro de Heredia dies. Spanish navigator, founder of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia).
• 1573 – Portugal: Lagos is elevated to a city / 1573 – Lagos é elevada à categoria de cidade. da à categoria de cidade.
• 1585 – Hendrick Avercamp was born (d. 1634). Dutch painter.
• 1593 – Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno.
• 1595 – Sir Francis Drake dies (b. c. 1540). European explorer.
• 1603 – Harbottle Grimston was born (d. 1685). English politician.
• 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins and later ends in their execution on January 31.
• 1621 – Thomas Willis was born (d. 11 Nov 1675). British physician, leader of the English iatrochemists, who attempted to explain the workings of the body from current knowledge of chemical interactions.
• 1629 – Hieronymus Praetorius dies (b. 1560). German composer.
• 1638 – Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses dies. Spanish novelist.
• 1662 – Richard Bentley was born (d. 1742). English classical scholar.
• 1687 – Balthasar Neumann was born (d. 1753). German architect.
• 1688 – Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang dies. Grandmother of the Kangxi Emperor in Qing Dynasty China.
• 1695 – Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Amhed II. Mustafa rules until 1703.
• 1701 – Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim was born (d. 1790). German historian and theologian.
• 1708 – Anna Petrovna of Russia was born (d. 1728).
• 1720 – Samuel Foote was born (d. 1777). English dramatist and actor.
• 1731 – Bartolomeo Cristofori dies (b. 1655). Italian maker of musical instruments.
• 1740 – Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon dies (b. 1692). Prime Minister of France.
• 1741 – Hester Thrale was born (d. 1821). Welsh diarist.
• 1753 – Diego Francisco de Asís, “Diego Franco”, dies. Mexican actor.
• 1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg (d. 1795). Austrian composer.
• 1757 – Gomes Freire de Andrade was born (d. 1817). Portuguese militar.
• 1763 – Com o desenvolvimento econômico do Brasil, Portugal cria um novo sistema administrativo para sua colônia, elevando a nação a Vice-Reinado.
• 1763 – A Capital do Brasil é transferida de Salvador para Rio de Janeiro.
• 1785 – Botanic Garden of Madrid is founded /Fundación del Jardín Botánico de Madrid.
• 1785 – The University of Georgia is founded.
• 1785 – F.W. Joseph Schillingwas born. German philosopher.
• 1794 – A frota espanhola do general Aristizábal toma a praça do Forte Delfim dos franceses, na ilha de Santo Domingo.
• 1801 – La revolución de los esclavos haitianos provoca en Santo Domingo el pavor entre los colonos blancos, y un antiguo esclavo, Toussaint Louverture, se convierte en dictador de la isla.
• 1805 – Maria Anna of Bavaria was born (d. 1877). Queen consort of Saxony.
• 1805 – Samuel Palmer was born (d. 1881). English artist.
• 1805 – Sophie of Bavaria was born (d. 1872). Archduchess of Austria.
• 1806 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga was born (d. 1826). Spanish composer.
• 1808 – João Caetano was born in Itaboraí. Brazilian actor and director of theatre.
• 1811 – João Crisóstomo was born. Portuguese politician and militar.
• 1814 – Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was born (d. 1879). French architect.
• 1814 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte dies (b. 1761). German philosopher.
• 1816 – Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood dies (b. 1724). British admiral.
• 1821 – John Chivington was born (d. 1892). American officer.
• 1822 – Greece proclaimed its independence from Turkey.
• 1823 – Edouard Lalo was born (d. 1892). French composer.
• 1825 – US Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears.”
• 1826 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin was born (d. 1889). Russian writer.
• 1826 – Richard Taylor was born (d. 1879). American Confederate general.
• 1826 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin was born (d. 1889). Russian writer.
• 1827 – Ramón de Cala y Barea, político federalista y autonomista español nace en Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz).
• 1829 – Isaac Roberts was born (d. 17 Jul 1904). British astronomer who was a pioneer in photography of nebulae. In 1885 he had built an observatory with a 20 inch reflector. Using this instrument Roberts was to make considerable progress in the newly developing science of Astro-photography.
• 1832 – Lewis Carroll was born (d. 14 Jan 1898). English author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
• 1836 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born (d. 1895). Austrian writer.
• 1837 – Alexandr Pushkin dies (b. 1799). Russian poet.
• 1839 – Adolphe Marie Carnot was born (d. 1920). French chemist.
• 1841 – Arkhip Kuindzhi was born (d. 1910). Russian painter.
• 1842 – Golpe de Estado orientado por Costa Cabral.
• 1843 – James Ward was born ( d. 4 Mar 1925). Philosopher and psychologist who exerted a major influence on the development of psychology in Great Britain.
• 1848 – Togo Heihachiro was born (d. 1934). Japanese admiral.
• 1850 – Samuel Gompers was born (d. 1924). American labor leader.
• 1850 – Edward J. Smith was born (d. 1912). English captain of the Titanic.
• 1850 – Samuel Gompers was born (d. 1924). American labor leader.
• 1851 – John James Audubon dies (b. 26 Apr 1785). French-American naturalist, ornithologist, painter; known for his drawings and paintings of North American birds.
• 1857 – Dorothea Lieven dies (b. 1785). Russian noblewoman.
• 1859 – Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany was born (d. 1941). Last German Emperor and Prussian king.
• 1860 – Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane dies (b. 23 Jul 1773) (Baronet) British soldier and astronomical observer for whom the city of Brisbane, Australia, is named. Mainly remembered as a patron of science, he built an astronomical observatory at Parramatta, Australia, and a combined observatory and magnetic station at Makerstoun, Roxburghshire, Scotland.
• 1860 – János Bolyai dies (b. 15 Dec 1802). The greatest Hungarian matematician and one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry – geometry that does not include Euclid’s axiom that only one line can be drawn parallel to a given line through a point not on the given line.
• 1861 – Ralph Modjeski was born (d. 26 Jun 1940). Polish-born American bridge designer and builder, outstanding for the number, variety, and innovative character of his projects.
• 1865 – Início da Guerra do Paraguai.
• 1870 – The first women’s fraternity, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.
• 1873 – Adam Sedgwick , dies (b. 22 Mar 1785) English geologist who first applied the name Cambrian to the geologic period of time, now dated at 570 to 505 million years ago.
• 1880 – Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
• 1880 – Edward Middleton Barry dies (b. 1830). English architect.
• 1885 – Eduard Künnecke was born (d. 1853). German composer.
• 1885 – Jerome Kern was born (d. 1945). American composer.
• 1885 – Maeda Seison was born (d. 1977). Japanese painter.
• 1887 – Carl (William) Blegen, was born (d. 24 Aug 1971) . Archaeologist who found striking
• 1888 – In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded.
• 1888 – Victor Moritz Goldschmidt was born (d. 20 Mar 1947). Swiss-born Norwegian mineralogist and petrologist who laid the foundation of inorganic crystal chemistry and founded modern geochemistry.
• 1891 – Ilya Ehrenburg was born (d. 1967). Russian writer.
• 1892 – Clube Naval de Lisboa is founded.
• 1893 – Soong Ching-ling was born (d. 1981). One of the Soong sisters, wife of Sun Yat-sen.
• 1895 – Harry Ruby was born (d. 23 Feb 1974). American musician, composer (Duck Soup).
• 1895 – Cláudio Carneyro was born (d. 1963). Portuguese composer.
• 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.
• 1900 – Hyman Rickover was born in Makow, Russia (now Poland) (d. 8 Jul 1986). American admiral; immigrated to the US 1906 he is known as the Father of the Nuclear Navy for his leadership to build the atomic-powered submarine, USS Nautilus (1954).
• 1901 – Art Rooney was born (d. 1988). American football team owner.
• 1901 – Willy Fritsch was born (d. 1973). Gernman actor.
• 1901 – Giuseppe Verdi dies (b. 1813). Italian composer.
• 1903 – John Carew Eccles was born (d. 1997). Australian research neuropsychologist, winner (with with Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley) of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963.
• 1903 – Otto P. Weyland was born (d. 1979). American military figure.
• 1905 – Howard McNear was born (d. 1969). American actor.
• 1906 – Tratado entre Inglaterra e França estabelece a divisão do arquipélago das Novas Hébridas.
• 1906 – Radamés Gnatalli was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul (d. 13 Feb 1988). Brazilian composer and conductor.
• 1908 – Oran “Hot Lips” Page was born (d. 1954). American jazz trumpet.
• 1908 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr. was born (d. 1993). American newspaper magnate.
• 1909 – The Young Left is founded in Norway.
• 1910 – Thomas Crapper dies (b. 1836). English inventor.
• 1912 – Arne Næss was born (d. 12 Jan. 2009). Norwegian philosopher.
• 1915 – Primeira Guerra Mundial: Primeiro bombardeio aéreo massivo registrado pela história, realizado por aviões franceses contra as fábricas alemãs de explosivos.
• 1915 – United States Marines occupy Haiti.
• 1918 – The first hostilities occurred in the Finnish Civil War, beginning the war.
• 1918 – Elmore James was born (d. 1963). American blues musician.
• 1918 – Skitch Henderson was born (d. 2005). English bandleadeer.
• 1918 – William Seawell was born (d. 2005). United States Army Brigadier General.
• 1919 – Ross Bagdasarian was born (d. 1972). American musician, actor.
• 1919 – Endre Ady dies (b. 1877). Hungarian poet.
• 1920 – Frankie Albert was born (d. 2002). American football star.
• 1920 – Helmut Zacharias was born (d. 2002). German violinist.
• 1920 – John Box was born (d. 2005). British film production designer and art director.
• 1921 – Donna Reed was born in Denison, Iowa (d.1986). America actress (From Here to Eternity, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Benny Goodman Story, The Donna Reed Show).
• 1921 – Maurice Vincent Buckley dies (b. 1891). Australian winner of the Victoria Cross.
• 1922 – Giovanni Verga dies in Catania (b. 2 Sep 1840). Italian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, most important of the Italian verismo (Realist) school of novelists.
• 1922 – Nellie Bly dies (b. 1864). American journalist and writer.
• 1923 – Primeiro Congresso do Partido nacional-socialista da Alemanha, em Munique.
• 1924 – Rauf Denktaş was born. Turkish political figure.
• 1924 – Sabu Destagir was born (d. 2 Dec. 1963). Indian actor (A Tiger Walks, The Treasure of Bengal, The Jungle Book, Arabian Nights, The Thief of Bagdad, The Elephant Boy).
• 1925 – Waldir Azevedo was born. Brazilian musician and composer.
• 1926 – Fritz Spiegl was born (d. 2003). Journalist.
• 1926 – Ingrid Thulin was born (d. 2004). Swedish actress.
• 1926 – John Logie Baird of Scotland, demonstrates the first television broadcast.
• 1927 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez dies. Writer.
• 1927 – Georgios Grivas dies. Cyprus-born general of the Greek Army.
• 1927 – Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (Matulewicz) dies. Lithuanian bishop.
• 1928 – Hans Modrow was born. German politician, premier of East Germany.
• 1928 – Michael Craig was born. British actor.
• 1929 – Gastón Suárez was born in Tupiza (d. 1984). Bolivian novelist and dramatist.
• 1930 – Bobby Blue Bland was born. American blues singer.
• 1931 – Mordecai Richler was born (d. 2001). Canadian author.
• 1932 – Boris Shakhlin was born. Soviet gymnast.
• 1933 – Ary Fontoura was born in Curitiba, Paraná. Brazilian actor.
• 1933 – Mohamed Al-Fayed was born. Egyptian billionaire businessman.
• 1934 – Firmado pacto em que Alemanha e Polônia se obrigam mutuamente a renunciar a todo acto de agressão durante 10 anos.
• 1934 – Federico Mayor Zaragoza was born in Barcelona. Director-General of UNESCO.
• 1934 – George Follmer was born. American race car driver.
• 1936 – Troy Donahue was born (d. 2001). American actor.
• 1936 – Samuel C. C. Ting was born. American physicist who shared, with Burton Richter, the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976 for his discovery of a new subatomic particle, the J/psi particle.
• 1937 – John Ogdon was born (d. 1989). English pianist.
• 1939 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France.
• 1939 – First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
• 1940 – James Cromwell was born. American actor.
• 1940 – Terry Harper was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1940 – Isaac Babel dies (b. 1894). Ukrainian writer.
• 1941 – World War II: Fighting at Derna, Libya, begins Following the capture of Tobruk 2 brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursues the Italians westwards and encounters an Italian rear guard at Derna.
• 1942 – John Witherspoon was born. American actor.
• 1942 – Kate Wolf was born (d. 1986). American folk singer and songwriter.
• 1942 – Stewart Raffill was born. American film director.
• 1942 – Kaarel Eenpalu dies (b. 1888). Estonian Prime Minister.
• 1943 – World War II: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven was the target).
• 1944 – World War II: The two year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
• 1944 – Mairéad Corrigan was born. Northern Irish activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1944 – Nick Mason was born. English drummer (Pink Floyd).
• 1944 – Peter Akinola was born. Nigerian religious leader.
• 1945 – World War II: The Red Army arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and liberated the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1-1.5 million people were murdered.
• 1945 – Harold Cardinal was born (d. 2005). Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer.
• 1946 – Nedra Talley was born. American singer, member of the Ronettes.
• 1947 – Björn Afzelius was born (d. 1999). Swedish singer.
• 1947 – Vyron Polydoras was born. Greek politician.
• 1947 – Paul Percy Harris dies. American founder of Rotary International.
• 1948 – Wire Recording Corporation of America announced the first magnetic wire recorder.
• 1948 – Jean-Philippe Collard was born. French pianist.
• 1948 – Mikhail Baryshnikov was born. Russian dancer and choreographer.
• 1949 – Djavan was born in Maceió, Alagoas. Brazilian violinist and popular singer.
• 1949 – Ethan Mordden was born. American author.
• 1950 – Science magazine announced the new antibiotic terramyacin. Made by Charles Pfizer & Co., it was isolated from Indiana soil, and found effective against pneumonia, dysentery, and other infections .
• 1950 – Amos Grunebaum was born. Israeli-born obstetrician and gynecologist.
• 1950 – Derek Acorah was born. English spirit medium.
• 1950 – Augusto D’Halmar dies. Chilean poet and writer.
• 1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.
• 1951 – Brian Downey was born. Irish musician (Thin Lizzy).
• 1952 – Prime Minister Mustafa Nahhas is removed by King Farouk for failing to keep the peace. He is replaced by Ali Mahir.
• 1952 – Billy “White Shoes” Johnson was born. American football player.
• 1954 – Ed Schultz was born. Radio talk show host.
• 1954 – Joko Ninomiya was born. Japanese martial artist.
• 1954 – Peter Laird was born. American comic-book artist.
• 1955 – Alexander Stuart was born. British author.
• 1955 – Brian Engblom was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1955 – John Roberts was born. 17th Chief Justice of the United States.
• 1955 – Koji Ushikubo was born. Japanese racing driver.
• 1956 – Mimi Rogers was born. American actress.
• 1956 – Erich Kleiber dies (b. 1890). German conductor.
• 1957 – Frank Miller was born. American comic book author and film director.
• 1957 – Frank Skinner was born. English writer and Comedian.
• 1957 – Janick Gers was born. English musician (Iron Maiden).
• 1958 – James Grippando was born. American novelist.
• 1958 – Kadri Mälk was born. Estonian artist and jewelry designer.
• 1958 – Susanna Thompson was born. American actress.
• 1959 – Cris Collinsworth was born. American football player.
• 1959 – Göran Hägglund was born. Swedish politician.
• 1959 – Keith Olbermann was born. American news correspondent, sportscaster.
• 1960 – Juan Domingo Perón abandona la República Dominicana y se traslada a España.
• 1960 – Queda abolida la pena de muerte en Bolivia.
• 1960 – Osvaldo Aranha dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 15 Nov 1894 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul). Brazilian politician.
• 1961 – Dina Bonnevie was born. Filipino actress.
• 1961 – Gillian Gilbert was born. British musician (New Order).
• 1961 – Margo Timmins was born. Canadian singer (Cowboy Junkies).
• 1961 – Narciso Rodriguez was born. American fashion designer.
• 1962 – Roberto Paci Dalò was born. Italian director and composer.
• 1963 – Sérgio Cabral Filho was born. Brazilian politician and journalist.
• 1964 – France established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China.
• 1964 – E.I. duPont de Nemours Co. introduced Corfam. This hydrocarbon-based, synthetic substitute for leather was flexible, with tiny pores, for uses such as shoes, handbags, belts and suitcases. Shoes put on sale with Corfam uppers were supposed to give consumers the look, feel and durability of leather.
• 1964 – Bridget Fonda was born. American actress (Point of No Return, The Godfather, Part 3, Aria, 21 Jump Street); daughter of actor Peter Fonda and actress, Susan Brewer, granddaughter of actor, Henry Fonda, niece of actress, Jane Fonda.
• 1965 – Alan Cumming was born. Scotish actor.
• 1965 – Mike Newell was born. English football manager.
• 1966 – Caterina Albert i Paradís (Víctor Català) dies. Writer.
• 1967 – More than 60 nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
• 1967 – The Doors self titled debut album is released.
• 1967 – Astronauts Edward White (b. 1930), Virgil “Gus” Grissom (b. 1926), and Roger Chaffee (b. 1935), die in a fire during a test of the capsule AS-204, which was later designated Apollo 1.
• 1967 – Bobby Deol was born. Indian actor.
• 1967 – Byron Mann was born. Hong Kong actor.
• 1967 – Dave Manson was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1967 – Alphonse Juin dies (b. 1888). Marshal of France.
• 1967 – Edward White (b. 1930), Roger Chaffee (b. 1935) and Virgil “Gus” Grissom (b. 1926) die. Crew of Apollo 1.
• 1968 – Mike Patton was born. American lead singer of several bands in USA.
• 1968 – Patrick Blondeau was born. French footballer.
• 1968 – Tricky was born. English rapper.
• 1969 – The present-day Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse, rated at 100,000KVA was completed and placed in operation.
• 1969 – 14 men, nine of them Jews, were executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel.
• 1969 – Cornelius was born. Musician (Flipper’s Guitar)
• 1969 – Michael Kulas was born. Canadian singer/songwriter (James (band)).
• 1969 – Patton Oswalt was born. American actor and writer.
• 1970 – Emmanuel Pahud was born. French-Swiss flautist.
• 1970 – Jon Douglas Rainey was born. American TV persnality.
• 1970 – Mark Trojanowski was born. American musician (Sister Hazel).
• 1970 – Rita Angus dies (b. 1908). New Zealand painter.
• 1971 – Fann Wong was born. Singapore entertainer (Shanghai Knights).
• 1971 – Lil Jon was born. American rapper and producer
• 1971 – Patrice Brisebois was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1971 – Jacobo Arbenz dies (b. 1913). President of Guatemala (b. 1913) .
• 1972 – Guillermo was born. Mexican-born American TV personality.
• 1972 – Janine Ilitch was born. Australian netballer.
• 1972 – Keith Wood was born. Irish rugby player.
• 1972 – Mark Owen was born. English pop singer.
• 1972 – Mahalia Jackson dies (b. 1911). American singer.
• 1972 – Richard Courant dies (b. 8 Jan 1888). German-born American mathematician and educator who made significant advances in the calculus of variations.
• 1973 – Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde falls, becoming the conflict’s last recorded American combat casualty.
• 1973 – William Nolde dies (b. 1929). Last American combat casualty of Vietnam War
• 1974 – Brisbane river floods causing the largest flood to affect Brisbane City in the 20th Century.
• 1974 – Andrei Pavel was born. Romanian tennis player.
• 1974 – Chaminda Vaas was born. Sri Lankan cricketer.
• 1974 – ZP Theart was born. South African-born English singer (Dragonforce).
• 1975 – Bill Walsh dies (b. 1913). American producer, writer.
• 1976 – Ahn Jung-Hwan was born. Korean football player.
• 1976 – Clint Ford was born. American voice actor.
• 1976 – Ruby Lin was born. Taiwanese actress and singer.
• 1976 – Todd MacCulloch was born. American basketball player.
• 1976 – Zoriah Miller was born. American photojournalist and war photographer.
• 1977 – Record company EMI sacks the controversial United Kingdom punk rock group the Sex Pistols.
• 1978 – Proclamada a Declaração Universal dos Direitos dos Animais na assembléia da UNESCO, em Bruxelas.
• 1978 – Leopold Sedar Senghor is reelected President of Senegal.
• 1978 – Lt Marilyn R. Koon, 161st Aerial Refueling Squadron, Arizona Air National Guard, becomes first female Air National Guard Pilot.
• 1978 – Pete Laforest was born. Canadian baseball player.
• 1979 – Daniel Vettori was born. New Zealand cricketer.
• 1979 – Liesbet Van Breedam was born. Belgian beach volleyball player.
• 1979 – Mario Fatafehi was born. American-born Canadian Football League player.
• 1979 – Rosamund Pike was born. British actress.
• 1979 – Qalander Ba Ba Auliya dies (b. 1898). Founder of Azeemia sufi order.
• 1979 – Victoria_Ocampo dies (b. 1890). Argentine intelectual, writer and publisher.
• 1980 – Robert Gabriel Mugabe returns to Rhodesia, after a five year exile, in preparation for the first elections in a soon to be independent Zimbabwe.
• 1980 – Chanda Gunn was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1980 – Marat Safin was born. Russian tennis player.
• 1981 – In Indonesia, 500 people died when the motor ferry Tampomas II sank in the Java Sea, following a fire.
• 1981 – Alicia Molik was born. Australian tennis player.
• 1983 – Pilot shaft of World’s longest subaqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō breaks through.
• 1983 – World’s longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens in Japan connecting the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido.
• 1983 – Carlo Colaiacovo was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1983 – Gavin Floyd was born. American baseball player.
• 1983 – Mike Zagurski was born. American baseball player.
• 1983 – Meyer Fortes dies (b. 25 Apr 1906). British social anthropologist known for his investigations of West African societies.
• 1983 – Louis de Funès dies (b. 1914). French actor.
• 1984 – Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world jumping record by 9-1/4 inches with a 28 feet, 10-1/4 inches jump.
• 1984 – Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp while filming a commercial for Pepsi.
• 1984 – Davetta Sherwood was born. American actress.
• 1986 – Lilli Palmer dies (b. 1914). German-born actress.
• 1987 – Ashley Perez Moza was born. Mexican singer (Ha*Ash).
• 1987 – Lily Donaldson was born. British model.
• 1987 – Katy Rose was born. American pop singer.
• 1987 – Zuleidy was born. Spanish porn star.
• 1988 – Spanish banks Bilbao and Vizcaya merged.
• 1988 – Kerlon Moura Souza was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1988 – Massa Makan Diabaté dies (b. 1938). Malian author.
• 1989 – Bayani Casimiro dies (b. 1918). Filipino dancer and actor.
• 1989 – Sir Thomas Sopwith dies (b. 18 Jan 1888). British aircraft designer whose firm was famous for such British World War I military aircraft as the Sopwith Camel and Triplane.
• 1989 – El cohete europeo “Ariane”, lanzado desde la base francesa de Kuru (Guayana), pone en órbita con éxito el satélite de comunicaciones Intelsat V F-15 (servicios de tv y
• telefonía).
• 1990 – Adriana de Oliveira dies (b. 1969). Brazilian top model, top model brasileira de grande sucesso do fim dos anos de 1980.
• 1991 – Muhammad Siyad Barre flees his compound in Mogadishu (Madagascar).
• 1991 – Super Bowl XXV: The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills, 20-19.
• 1992 – Mike Tyson goes on trial charged with raping a 1991 Miss Black America contestant.
• 1993 – André the Giant dies (b. 1946). Professional wrestler and actor.
• 1994 – Claude Akins dies (b. 1918). American actor.
• 1994 – Former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi became the highest-ranking politician committed for trial in Italy’s graft scandal.
• 1996 – Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
• 1996 – Germany observes its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day.
• 1996 – Ralph Yarborough dies (b. 1903). American Senator and Texas politician.
• 1996 – Olga Havlová dies (b. Šplíchalová 1933). Czech First Lady.
• 1997 – It is revealed that French museums had nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.
• 1997 – Gerald Marks dies (b. 1900). American songwriter (All of Me).
• 1998 – American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today Show calling the attacks against her husband part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
• 1999 – Gonzalo Torrente Ballester dies. Writer.
• 2000 – Friedrich Gulda dies (b. 1930). Austrian pianist.
• 2001 – Ten members of the Oklahoma State University men’s basketball team and support staff die in a plane crash in Colorado.
• 2001 – Stavros Damianides dies (b. 1941). Greek musician.
• 2002 – Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000.
• 2003 – Henryk Jabłoński dies (b. 1909). President of communist People’s Republic of Poland.
• 2003 – Louis Archambault dies (b. 1915). Quebec actor.
• 2004 – William Hung auditioned for the American Idol.
• 2004 – Jack Paar dies (b. 1918). American television show host.
• 2004 – Salvador Laurel dies (b. 1928). 9th Vice President of the Philippines.
• 2006 – Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
• 2006 – Disappearance of Jean-Christophe Lafaille (b. 1965). French mountaineer.
• 2006 – Gene McFadden dies (b. 1948). American singer and songwriter.
• 2006 – Jean-Christophe Lafaille dies (disappeared) (b. 1965). French mountaineer.
• 2006 – Johannes Rau dies (b. 1931). 8th Bundespräsident (President of Germany).
• 2006 – Gene McFadden dies (b. 1949). American singer and songwriter.
• 2006 – Nivaldo Machado dies (b. 1921). Brazilian politician.
• 2006 – Orlando da Costa dies (b. 1929). Portuguese writer.
• 2007 – Marcheline Bertrand dies (b. 1950). Actress and mother of Angelina Jolie.
• 2007 – Tige Andrews dies (b. 1920). American actor.
• 2007 – Yang Chuan-kwang dies (b. 1933). Taiwanese athlete.
• 2008 – Gordon B. Hinckley dies (b. 1910). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 2008 – Louie Welch dies (b. 1918). Mayor of Houston.
• 2008 – Suharto dies (b. 1921). Former president of Indonesia.
• UN — International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
• Denmark — Auschwitzdag (Auschwitz Day; commemoration day for the victims of the Holocaust and other genocide).
• United Kingdom — Holocaust Memorial Day.
• Germany — Gedenktag für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Commemoration Day for the Victims of National Socialism).
• Poland — Dzień Pamięci Ofiar Nazizmu (Memorial Day for the Victims of Nazism).
• Italy — Giorno della Memoria (Memorial Day).
• Serbia — St. Sava Day.
• Denmark — Auschwitzdag (Auschwitz Day; commemoration day for the victims of the Holocaust and other genocide).
• Monaco, day of Saint Devota, patron saint.

On this day in History – Jan. 26 Janeiro 26, 2009

• 0066 -5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet.
• 0946 – Eadgyth dies. German Queen.
• 1340 – King Edward III of England is declared King of France.
• 1497 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan was born (d. 1557).
• 1500 – Some sources tell that the Spanish explorer Vicente Yáñez Pinzón become the first European to discover Brazil when he reaches the northeastern coast of Brazil during a voyage under his command. I always learned that had been the Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral the first one to discover Brazil in 22 April 1500. May be I was wrong.
• 1531 – Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake – about 30.000 die.
• 1541 – Florent Chrestien was born (d. 1596). French writer.
• 1564 – The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
• 1565 – Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
• 1567 – Nicholas Wotton dies. English diplomat.
• 1589 – Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
• 1630 – Henry Briggs dies (b. 1556). English mathematician who, having invented the common (Briggsian) logarithms, actively popularized them and is largely responsible for scientists’ acceptance of logarithms throughout Europe.
• 1636 – Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul dies (b. 1552). French diplomat.
• 1654 – Portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife (Brazil).
• 1697 – Isaac Newton received and solved Jean Bernoulli’s brachistochrone problem. The swiss mathematician Bernouilli had challenged his colleagues to solve it within six months. Newton not only solved the problem before going to bed that same night, but in doing so, invented a new branch of mathematics called the calculus of variations.
• 1697 – Georg Mohr dies (b. 1640). Danish mathematician.
• 1699 – Treaty of Carlowitz signed.
• 1700 – The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the coast of the American Northwest, as evidenced by Japanese records.
• 1714 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle was born (d. 1785). French sculptor.
• 1715 – Claude-Adrien Helvetius was born. French philosopher.
• 1716 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville was born (d. 1785). British soldier and politician.
• 1721 – Pierre-Daniel Huet dies (b. 8 Feb 1630). French scholar, antiquary, scientist, and bishop whose incisive skepticism, particularly as embodied in his cogent attacks on René Descartes, greatly influenced contemporary philosophers.
• 1722 – Alexander Carlyle was born (d. 1805). Scottish church leader.
• 1736 – Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
• 1744 – Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller dies (b. 1683). Austrian field marshal.
• 1748 – England, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty .
• 1750 – Albert Schultens dies (b. 1686). Dutch philologist.
• 1763 – Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte was born (d. 1841). Napoleonic general and king Charles XIV of Sweden-Norway.
• 1781 – Achim von Arnim was born (d. 1831). German poet.
• 1785 – Benjamin Franklin writes a letter to his daughter expressing disappointment over the selection of the eagle as the symbol of the United States; he wanted the turkey.
• 1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sail into Sydney Harbour to establish the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Celebrated as Australia Day.
• 1795 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach dies (b. 1732). German composer.
• 1799 – Gabriel Christie dies (b. 1722). British general.
• 1802 – The U.S. Congress passes an act calling for a library to be established within the U.S. Capitol; eventually this becomes the Library of Congress.
• 1808 – Rum Rebellion, the only successful (but temporary) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
• 1810 – Joseph Rogers Brown was born (d. 23 Jul 1876). American inventor and manufacturer who made numerous advances in the field of fine measurement and machine-tool production.
• 1812 – Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho, 1st Count of Linhares, Portugal, dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 4 Aug 1745 ). Portuguese diplomat and politician.
• 1813 – Juan Pablo Duarte was born (d. 1876). Founding father of the Dominican Republic
• 1823 – Edward Jenner dies (b. 17 May 1749). English surgeon and discoverer of vaccination for smallpox.
• 1824 – Théodore Géricault dies (b. 1791). French painter.
• 1825 – Se constituye la provincia de Costa Rica, dentro de la República Federal de las Provincias Unidas de Centroamérica.
• 1826 – Julia Dent Grant was born (d. 1902). First Lady of the United States.
• 1826 – Louis Favre was born (d. 1879). Engineer Gotthard tunnel.
• 1827 – O Perú anuncia o fim de sua união com a Colômbia e declara a sua independência.
• 1831 – Heinrich Anton de Bary was born (d. 19 Jan. 1888). German botanist, a founder of modern mycology and plant pathology for his research into the roles of fungi and other agents in causing plant diseases.
• 1831 – Mary Mapes Dodged was born (d. 1907). Writer.
• 1832 – George Shiras Jr. was born (d. 1924). U. S. Supreme Court justice.
• 1832 – Rufus Henry Gilbert was born (d. 10 Jul. 1885). U.S. surgeon and inventor who played a major role in the development of rapid transit in New York City.
• 1837 – Michigan became the 26th state in the United States.
• 1838 – Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
• 1838 – É fundado, no Rio de Janeiro, o Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro.
• 1841 – The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China had ceded.
• 1842 – François Coppée was born (d. 1908). French poet and novelist.
• 1848 – Justo Sierra Méndez was born. Mexican writer, diplomat and politician.
• 1852 – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà) was born (d. 1905). Explorer.
• 1855 – Point No Point Treaty signed in Washington Territory.
• 1855 – Gérard de Nerval dies (b. 1808). French writer.
• 1856 – First Battle of Seattle (1856). Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
• 1857 – the 12th Dalai Lama was born (d. 1875).
• 1861 – Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
• 1863 – American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Massachusetts Governor receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
• 1868 – Juventino Rosas was born (d. 1894). Mexican composer.
• 1869 – Duncan Gordon Boyes dies (b. 1846). English recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• 1870 – American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
• 1870 – Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie dies (b. 1785). French statesman and diplomat.
• 1871 – The Rugby Football Union was founded in London, by 20 clubs.
• 1875 – George F. Green of Kalamazoo, Michigan patented the electric dental drill for sawing, filing, dressing and polishing teeth.
• 1878 – António Maria de Fontes Pereira de Melo assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal, pela 2ª. vez (ver Lista de Primeiros-Ministros de Portugal).
• 1878 – Nascimento em Cortes, Leiria, do poeta português Afonso Lopes Vieira. Interessou-se também pelo cinema tendo realizado um pequeno filme com crianças (O Afilhado de Santo António) e encarregou-se dos diálogos de Camões e Inês de Castro, de Leitão de Barros, e do Amor de Perdição, de António Lopes Ribeiro.
• 1878 – Dave Nourse was born (d. 1948). South African cricketer.
• 1878 – Ernst Heinrich Weber dies (b. 24 Jun 1795). German anatomist and physiologist.
• 1880 – Douglas MacArthur was born (d. 1964). American general, who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World War II, administered postwar Japan during the Allied occupation that followed, and led United Nations forces during the first nine months of the Korean War.
• 1884 – Edward Sapir was born (d. 4 Feb. 1939). American linguist and anthroplogist, one of the foremost of his time, who is most widely known for his contributions to the study of North American Indian languages.
• 1884 – Roy Chapman Andrews was born (d. 11 Mar. 1960). American naturalist, explorer, and author, who spent his entire career at the American Museum of Natural History.
• 1885 – Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquer Khartoum.
• 1885 – Edward Davy dies (b. 16 Jun. 1806). English inventor, who devised the electromagnetic repeater for relaying telegraphic signals and invented an electrochemical telegraph (1838).
• 1885 – Charles George Gordon dies (b. 1833). British general.
• 1886 – Karl Benz patents 1st auto powered by an internal combustion engine.
• 1886 – David Rice Atchison dies (b. 1807). American politician.
• 1887 – Tem início a construção da Torre Eiffel, em Paris, no local onde se realizará a Exposição Universal de Paris.
• 1887 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians.
• 1887 – François Faber was born (d. 1915). Luxembourgish cyclist.
• 1887 – Marc Mitscher was born (d. 1947). American Navy Admiral.
• 1891 – Frank Costello was born (d. 1973). Italian-born gangster.
• 1891 – Wilder Penfield was born (d. 1976). American-born Canadian neurosurgeon.
• 1891 – Nikolaus August Otto dies (b. 14 Jun. 1832). German inventor who developed the four-stroke internal-combustion engine, which offered the first practical alternative to the steam engine as a power source.
• 1892 – Bessie Coleman was born (d. 1926). American pioneer aviator.
• 1892 – Zara Cully was born (d. 1978). American actress.
• 1893 – Giuseppe Genco Russo was born (d. 1976). Sicilian mafioso.
• 1893 – Abner Doubleday dies (b. 1819). Credited inventor of baseball.
• 1895 – Arthur Cayley dies (b. 16 Aug 1821). English mathematician who played a leading role in founding the modern British school of pure mathematics.
• 1900 – Karl Ristenpart was born (d. 1967). German conductor.
• 1901 – Stuart Symington was born (d. 1988). American politician.
• 1902 – Menno ter Braak was born (d. 1940). Dutch author and polemicist.
• 1904 – Ancel Keys was born (d. 20 Nov 2004). American nutritionist and epidemiololgist who was the first to identify the role of saturated fats in causing heart disease.
• 1904 – Seán MacBride was born (d. 1988). Irish statesman, Nobel Prize Laureate.
• 1904 – Whitaker Wright dies (b. 1846). English mining tycoon.
• 1905 – Charles Lane was born (d. 2007). American actor.
• 1905 – Bernhard Minetti was born. Actor.
• 1905 – Maria von Trapp was born (d. 1987). Austrian-born singer.
• 1905 – The Cullinan Diamond (Worl’s largest diamond) is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.
• 1907 – The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the oldest military rifle still in official use.
• 1907 – Hans Selye was born (d. 16 Oct 1982). Austrian-born Canadian endocrinologist known for his studies of the effects of stress on the human body.
• 1908 – Jill Esmond was born (d. 1990). English actress.
• 1908 – Stéphane Grappelli was born (d. 1997). French jazz violinist.
• 1909 – Alexander King was born (d. 28 Feb. 2007). Scottish chemist who pioneered in environmental awareness, warning of the dangers to the environment from extensive industrial development.
• 1910 – Jean Image was born (d. 1989). Hungarian-born French animator.
• 1911 – Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane at North Island, San Diego, California.
• 1911 – Richard Strauss‘ opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
• 1911 – Herman Max Gluckman was born (d. 13 Apr 1975). South African social anthropologist who pioneered the study of traditional African legal systems. Author of Custom and Conflict in Africa (1955).
• 1911 – Polykarp Kusch was born (d. 20 Mar 1993). German-born American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1955 for his accurate determination thet the magnetic moment of the electron is greater than its theoretical value.
• 1911 – Norbert Schultze was born (d. 2002). German composer and songwriter.
• 1913 – Jimmy Van Heusen was born (d. 1990). American songwriter.
• 1914 – Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck’s works in their index.
• 1914 – Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar was born (d. 2006).
• 1915 – William Hopper was born (d. 1970). American actor.
• 1917 – Antônio Callado was born (d. 1997). Brazilian journalist and writer.
• 1918 – Nicolae Ceauşescu was born (d. 1989). Romanian President (1967-90) .
• 1918 – Philip José Farmer was born. American science fiction writer.
• 1918 – Ewald Hering dies (b. 4 Aug. 1834). German physiologist and psychologist whose chief work concerned the physiology of colour perception.
• 1919 – Bill Nicholson was born (d. 2004). English footballer and manager for Tottenham Hotspur.
• 1919 – Valentino Mazzola was born (d. 1949). Italian footballer.
• 1920 – Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches The Lincoln Motor Co., which he’d later sell to his former employer.
• 1921 – Akio Morita was born (d. 1999). Japanese businessman, co-founder of Sony.
• 1921 – Eddie Barclay was born (d. 2005). French producer (Barclay Records)
• 1922 – Michael Bentine was born (d. 1996). British comedian.
• 1923 – Anne Jeffreys was born. American actress (I Married an Angel, Dick Tracy [1945], Boys’ Night Out, General Hospital [soap], Clifford).
• 1924 – Alice Babs was born. Swedish singer.
• 1924 – Annette Strauss was born (d. 1998). American philanthropist, former mayor of Dallas, Texas
• 1924 – Rauf Denktash was born. Cypriot politician.
• 1925 – Claude Ryan was born (d. 2004). Quebec newspaper editor.
• 1925 – Joan Leslie was born in Detroit, American actress (High Sierra, Yankee Doodle Dandy).
• 1925 – Paul Newman was born. American actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler).
• 1925 – Sir James Mackenzie dies (b. 12 Apr 1853) Scottish cardiologist, pioneer in the study of cardiac arrhythmias. In 1892, he built a machine for detecting and recording physiological activity, such as pulse rate and blood pressure, since known as a polygraph, and later used as a lie detector.
• 1926 – Francis R. “Joe” Boyd was born (d. 12 Jan 2004). American geologist whose studies on the origins of volcanic rocks contributed to the understanding of the formation of the Earth
• 1926 – Farman Fatehpuri was born. Pakistani scholar, writer and linguist.
• 1926 – John Flannagan was born. 2nd president of St. Ambrose University.
• 1927 – Bob Nieman was born (d. 1985). American baseball player (d. 1985)
• 1927 – José Azcona del Hoyo was born (d. 2005). President of Honduras.
• 1927 – Bob Nieman was born (d. 1985). American baseball player.
• 1928 – Roger Vadim (Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov) was born (d. 11. Feb. 2000). French film director (And God Created Women, Barbarella).
• 1928 – George H. Ross was born. American attorney and TV reality show star (The Apprentice)
• 1929 – Gordon Solie was born. American wrestling commentator
• 1929 – Jules Feiffer was born. American cartoonist and writer.
• 1930 – The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence).
• 1931 – Mary Murphy was born. American film actress.
• 1932 – the US Patent Office recieved a patent application for the cyclotron by Ernest Orlando Lawrence. By 1939, this atom-smashing instrument won the Nobel Prize for its inventor.
• 1932 – British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead) .
• 1932 – Coxsone Dodd was born. Jamaican record producer.
• 1932 – William Wrigley Jr. dies (b. 30 Sep. 1861). American manufacturer whose Wrigley’s chewing gum company became the largest producer and distributor of chewing gum in the world.
• 1933 – Ercole Baldini was born. Italian cyclist.
• 1933 – Alva Belmont dies (b. 1853). American socialite.
• 1934 – The Apollo Theatre opens in Harlem, New York City.
• 1934 – German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
• 1934 – Roger Landry was born. Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher (La Presse).
• 1935 – Bob Uecker was born. American baseball player, broadcaster, and actor.
• 1936 – Sal Buscema was born. American comic book artist.
• 1937 – Joseph Saidu Momoh was born (d. 2003). Sierra Leone political leader.
• 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
• 1939 – Albert Sauver dies (b. 21 Jun 1863). Belgian-born American metallurgist whose microscopic and photomicroscopic studies of metal structures make him one of the founders of physical metallurgy.
• 1940 – Nazis forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains .
• 1941 – Henry Jaglom was born. English director.
• 1941 – Scott Glenn was born. American actor (Apocalypse Now, The Right Stuff, Silverado, The Hunt for Red October, The Silence of the Lambs) .
• 1942 – World War II: The first American forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
• 1942 – Souad Hosni was born (d. 2001). Egyptian actress.
• 1942 – Felix Hausdorff dies (b. 1868). German mathematician.
• 1943 – Jean Knight was born. American singer.
• 1943 – César Gutiérrez was born (d. 2005). Venezuelan basketball player.
• 1943 – Austin “Jack” Warner was born. Trinidadian FIFA Vice-President and CONCACAF President
• 1943 – Harry H. Laughlin dies (b. 1880). American eugenicist.
• 1943 – Nikolai Vavilov dies (b. 25 Nov 1887). Russian botanist.
• 1944 – Angela Davis was born. American feminist and civil rights activist, teacher.
• 1945 – Jacqueline du Pré was born (†19 Oct 1987). British cellist.
• 1946 – Gene Siskel was born (d. 1999). Film critic.
• 1946 – Félix Gouin becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1946 – Adriaan van Maanen dies (b. 1884). Dutch-American astronomer.
• 1947 – Michel Sardou was born. French singer.
• 1947 – Patrick Dewaere was born (d. 1982). French actor.
• 1947 – Grace Moore dies (b. 1898). American soprano.
• 1947 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Westrobothnia dies in air crash (b. 1906)
• 1947 – KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die.
• 1949 – A Suíça reconhece o estabelecimento do Estado de Israel.
• 1949 – David Strathairn was born in San Francisco, California. American actor.
• 1949 – Jonathan Carroll was born. American author.
• 1949 – Victor Fleming dies at 65. Film director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind).
• 1950 – India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president. The Indian constitution takes effect, making the Republic of India the most populous democracy in the world.
• 1950 – Janet Lupo was born. The biggest breasted Playmate (Miss November 1975)
• 1950 – Jörg Haider was born (d. 2008). Austrian far-right politician.
• 1951 – Elizabeth Taylor divorced her first husband, Nicky Hilton, on the grounds of mental cruelty. It was less than a year after their highly publicized wedding.
• 1952 – Egypt is placed under martial law in response to wide-spread riots against the British.
• 1952 – Black Saturday in Egypt: riots burn Cairo‘s central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
• 1952 – Khorloogiyn Choybalsan dies (b.1895). Leader of Mongolia.
• 1953 – Film actress, dancer, and sex symbol Rita Hayworth divorced Prince Aly Khan in Reno, Nevada on this date.
• 1953 – Anders Fogh Rasmussen was born. Prime Minister of Denmark.
• 1953 – Lucinda Williams was born. American singer.
• 1953 – Athanase David dies (b. 1882). French Canadian lawyer, politician and businessman
• 1954 – Kim Hughes was born. Australian cricketer.
• 1955 – Eddie Van Halen was born. Dutch musician.
• 1956 – Winter Olympic Games open in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
• 1957 – Eddie Van Halen was born. Grammy Award-winning musician, guitar, singer, [Van Halen] .
• 1957 – José Linhares dies. President of Brazil (1945-1946).
• 1958 – Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
• 1958 – Anita Baker was born. American singer (Sweet Love, Rhytm of Love. Giving You the Best That I Got).
• 1958 – Ellen DeGeneres was born. Actress, comedienne.
• 1958 – Salvador Sánchez was born. Mexican boxer.
• 1960 – Charlie Gillingham was born. American musician (Counting Crows).
• 1960 – Road Warrior Hawk was born (d. 2003). American profissional wrestler.
• 1961 – John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.
• 1961 – Wayne Gretzky was born. Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and team owner Wayne Gretzky. He holds the NHL record for points (2,857), goals (894), and assists (1,963) and is considered by many the game’s greatest player of all time.
• 1961 – Stan Nichols dies (b. 1900). English cricketer.
• 1962 – Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles.
• 1962 – Oscar Ruggeri was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1962 – Lucky Luciano dies (b. 1897). American mobster.
• 1963 – Andrew Ridgeley was born. English musician.
• 1963 – José Mourinho was born in Setúbal. Portuguese football manager. Considered the best manager of the World in 2005. Winner of Uefa Cup in 1992 and Uefa Champions League in 1993 for FCPorto
• 1963 – James May was born. British writer.
• 1963 – Riddell Akua was born. Nauruan politician
• 1964 – Paul Johansson was born. American actor.
• 1964 – Chico César was born. Brazilian singer and composer.
• 1965 – Colombia win the World Championship of Baseball.
• 1965 – Hindi becomes the official language of India.
• 1965 – Natalia Yurchenko was born. Soviet gymnast.
• 1965 – Thomas Östros was born. Swedish politician.
• 1966 – The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach in Adelaide, South Australia.
• 1967 – Pradip Somasundaran was born. Indian playback singer.
• 1968 – Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die.
• 1968 – Ravi Teja was born. Tollywood film actor.
• 1968 – Merrill C. Meigs dies (b. 1883). American newspaper publisher, aviation promoter.
• 1968 – Yvor Winters dies (b. 1900). American poet.
• 1969 – Michael O’Hearn was born. American bodybuilder.
• 1970 – Folk rock duo Simon and Garfunkel release classic album Bridge Over Troubled Water.
• 1970 – Kirk Franklin was born. American singer.
• 1970 – Tracy Middendorf was born. American actress.
• 1971 – Bryan Callen was born. American actor.
• 1971 – Dorian Gregory was born. American actor.
• 1972 – Mahalia Jackson dies (b. 1911). American American gospel music singer.
• 1973 – Mayu Shinjo was born. Japanese mangaka.
• 1973 – Edward G. Robinson dies (b. 1893). American actor.
• 1974 – Shannon Hale was born. American author.
• 1976 – The Concorde supersonic passenger jet airplane (SST) began commercial flights on the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
• 1976 – Frankie Rayder was born. American model.
• 1976 – Maggie Lawson was born. Australian musician.
• 1976 – Willie Adler was born. American guitar player.
• 1976 – João Branco Núncio dies in Golegã (b. 15 Fev 1901). Portuguese bullfighter horseman /Morre na Golegã, João Branco Núncio, cavaleiro tauromáquico português nascido em 15 de Fev 1901 em São Romão, Alcácer do Sal.
• 1977 – Vince Carter was born. American basketball player.
• 1977 – Justin Gimelstob was born. American tennis player.
• 1978 – The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US, strikes the Ohio – Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).
• 1978 – Mário Soares forms Portuguese government .
• 1978 – Corina Morariu was born. American tennis player.
• 1978 – Estéban Germán was born. Dominican baseball player.
• 1978 – Kelly Stables was born. American actress
• 1979 – Nelson Rockefeller dies (b. 1908). Governor of New York, Vice President of the United States.
• 1979 – Sara Rue was born. American actress.
• 1980 – 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro.
• 1980 – Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
• 1980 – Maximiliano Pellegrino was born in Córdoba. Argentinean footballer.
• 1981 – Juan Jose Haedo was born. Argentinian cyclist.
• 1982 – Mauno Koivisto elected President of Finland.
• 1983 – Lotus 1-2-3 is released.
• 1983 – Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant dies (b. 1913). American football coach.
• 1984 – Layla Kayleigh was born. British television personality.
• 1984 – Iain Turner was born. Scottish footballer.
• 1984 – Luo Xuejuan was born. Chinese swimmer.
• 1985 – 42th Golden Globes: Amadeus wins.
• 1986 -The National Resistance Army takes over the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
• 1986 – Super Bowl XX: The Chicago Bears defeat the New England Patriots, 46-10.
• 1986 – Halley’s Comet is visible in the night sky as it passes in its 76-year orbit around the sun.
• 1986 – José Azcona toma posesión como presidente de la República de Honduras.
• 1986 – Shantelle Taylor was born. Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1986 – Gerald Green was born. American basketball player.
• 1986 – Matt Heafy was born. American musician (Trivium).
• 1986 – Shantelle Taylor was born. Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1987 – 14th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie & Alabama.
• 1987 – Los reyes de España, Juan Carlos I y Sofía colocan la primera piedra de la Exposición Universal de Sevilla de 1992, en el recinto de la Isla de la Cartuja.
• 1987 – Vladimir Garin was born (d. 2003). Russian actor.
• 1988 – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera opened on Broadway. It would go on to become the longest-running Broadway show.
• 1988 – Mia Rose was born. British-Portuguese singer.
• 1989 – Emily Hughes was born. American figure skater.
• 1989 – Jin Yu Zhou was born. Chinese flutist.
• 1990 – Christopher Massey was born. American actor.
• 1990 – Bob Gerard dies (b. 1914). British racing driver.
• 1990 – Lewis Mumford dies (b. 19 Oct. 1895). American architectural critic, urban planner, and historian who analyzed the effects of technology and urbanization on human societies throughout history.
• 1991 – Rebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu.
• 1991 – Mohamed Siad Barre is removed in Somalia, ending centralized government
• 1992 – The Washington Redskins defeat the Buffalo Bills 37-24 in Super Bowl XXVI.
• 1992 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
• 1992 – José Ferrer dies (b. 1912). Puerto Rican actor and director (Cyrano de Bergerac).
• 1992 – Super Bowl XXVI: The Washington Redskins defeat the Buffalo Bills, 37-24.
• 1993 – Václav Havel elected President of the Czech Republic.
• 1993 – Cameron Bright was born. Canadian actor.
• 1993 – Jan Gies dies (b. 1905). Dutch resistance leader.
• 1993 – Jeanne Sauvé dies (b. 1922). Governor-General of Canada.
• 1994 – A man fires two blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, Australia.
• 1994 – Frederico George dies. Portuguese painter and architect.
• 1995 – Mário Feliciano dies. Portuguese theater director.
• 1995 – Kyle Chavarria was born. American actress
• 1996 – Whitewater scandal: Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before a grand jury.
• 1996 – A Roménia foi o primeiro país do antigo Pacto de Varsóvia a aderir à OTAN (Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte).
• 1996 – Harold Brodkey dies (b, 1930). American author.
• 1996 – Dave Schultz dies killed by John Du Pont (b. 1959). American wrestler.
• 1997 – The Green Bay Packers defeat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXI, with a score of 35-21.
• 1997 – Jeane Dixon dies (b. 1904). American astrologer.
• 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, Pres Clinton says “I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky”.
• 1998 – Compaq buys Digital Equipment Corporation. The purchase made Compaq the world’s biggest seller of personal computers and allowed Compaq to enter the world of high-end computing, offering workstations and Internet services manufactured by Digital .
• 1998 – Shinichi Suzuki dies (b. 1898). Japanese music teacher.
• 2000 – Rap-metal band Rage Against the Machine plays in front of Wall Street, prompting an early closing of trading due to the crowds.
• 2000 – O Benfica perde com o Sporting por 1-3 para a Taça de Portugal, no Estádio da Luz, com golos de Acosta 2 e André Cruz para o Sporting e Uribe pelo Benfica.
• 2000 – Robert F. Vasa ordained Bishop of the Diocese of Baker
• 2000 – Don Budge dies (b. 1915). American tennis player.
• 2000 – Kathleen Hale dies (b. 1898). British author.
• 2000 – A. E. van Vogt dies (b. 1912). Canadian-born author.
• 2001 – A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
• 2001 – An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
• 2001 – Al McGuire dies (b. 1928). American basketball coach.
• 2001 – Jessica Michalik dies (b. 1985). Australian victim of Big Day Out.
• 2002 – A post-mortem examination was due to take place on a former top executive of bankrupt US energy giant Enron who apparently committed suicide.
• 2003 – The Tampa Bay Buccaneers win their first Super Bowl title by defeating the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII .
• 2003 – World chess champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov [13 April 1963-], with White, defeats computer program Deep Junior (who has a human to physically move the pieces) in the first game of a match which will end in a draw with its 6th game on 07 February 2003 (28 Jan Game 2 — 30 Jan Game 3 — 02 Feb Game 4 — 05 Feb Game 5).:
• 2003 – Valeriy Brumel dies (b. 1942). Soviet athlete.
• 2003 – Lord Dacre (Hugh Trevor-Roper) dies (b. 1917). British historian .
• 2003 – George Younger dies (b. 1931). 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician
• 2004 – President Hamid Karzai signed the new constitution of Afghanistan.
• 2004 – A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing Sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
• 2004 – Fred Haas dies (b. 1916). American golfer.
• 2005 – O Benfica derrota o Sporting para a Taça de Portugal nos penalties (7-6) depois de 3-3 após prolongamento, num dos melhores jogos do ano. Tudo sobre o jogo aqui.
• 2005 – Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
• 2005 – Having been confirmed earlier in the day by a vote of 85-13 in the United States Senate, Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post.
• 2005 – A helicopter crash in eastern Iraq kills 31 United States soldiers.
• 2006 – A large fire breaks out on Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa.
• 2006 – Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service.
• 2006 – Khan Abdul Wali Khan dies (b. 1917). Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist.
• 2006 – Len Carlson dies (b. 1937). Canadian actor.
• 2006 – Carol Lambrino dies (b. 1920). Son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino.
• 2007 – Hans J. Wegner dies (b. 1914). Danish furniture designer.
• 2007 – Gump Worsley dies (b. 1929). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 2008 – Christian Brando dies (b. 1958). Actor and son of Marlon Brando.
• Australia – Australia Day.
• Chinese New Year.
• Roman Empire – third day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra.
• Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: Timothy and Titus, Saint Paula, Polycarp, Saint Alberic, Saint Margaret of Hungary.
• India – Republic Day – One of only three state holidays in India, celebrated with pomp and a military parade in New Delhi.
• Uganda – Liberation Day.

On this day in History – Jan. 26

• 0066 -5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet.
• 0946 – Eadgyth dies. German Queen.
• 1340 – King Edward III of England is declared King of France.
• 1497 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan was born (d. 1557).
• 1500 – Some sources tell that the Spanish explorer Vicente Yáñez Pinzón become the first European to discover Brazil when he reaches the northeastern coast of Brazil during a voyage under his command. I always learned that had been the Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral the first one to discover Brazil in 22 April 1500. May be I was wrong.
• 1531 – Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake – about 30.000 die.
• 1541 – Florent Chrestien was born (d. 1596). French writer.
• 1564 – The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
• 1565 – Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
• 1567 – Nicholas Wotton dies. English diplomat.
• 1589 – Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
• 1630 – Henry Briggs dies (b. 1556). English mathematician who, having invented the common (Briggsian) logarithms, actively popularized them and is largely responsible for scientists’ acceptance of logarithms throughout Europe.
• 1636 – Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul dies (b. 1552). French diplomat.
• 1654 – Portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife (Brazil).
• 1697 – Isaac Newton received and solved Jean Bernoulli’s brachistochrone problem. The swiss mathematician Bernouilli had challenged his colleagues to solve it within six months. Newton not only solved the problem before going to bed that same night, but in doing so, invented a new branch of mathematics called the calculus of variations.
• 1697 – Georg Mohr dies (b. 1640). Danish mathematician.
• 1699 – Treaty of Carlowitz signed.
• 1700 – The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the coast of the American Northwest, as evidenced by Japanese records.
• 1714 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle was born (d. 1785). French sculptor.
• 1715 – Claude-Adrien Helvetius was born. French philosopher.
• 1716 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville was born (d. 1785). British soldier and politician.
• 1721 – Pierre-Daniel Huet dies (b. 8 Feb 1630). French scholar, antiquary, scientist, and bishop whose incisive skepticism, particularly as embodied in his cogent attacks on René Descartes, greatly influenced contemporary philosophers.
• 1722 – Alexander Carlyle was born (d. 1805). Scottish church leader.
• 1736 – Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
• 1744 – Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller dies (b. 1683). Austrian field marshal.
• 1748 – England, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty .
• 1750 – Albert Schultens dies (b. 1686). Dutch philologist.
• 1763 – Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte was born (d. 1841). Napoleonic general and king Charles XIV of Sweden-Norway.
• 1781 – Achim von Arnim was born (d. 1831). German poet.
• 1785 – Benjamin Franklin writes a letter to his daughter expressing disappointment over the selection of the eagle as the symbol of the United States; he wanted the turkey.
• 1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sail into Sydney Harbour to establish the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Celebrated as Australia Day.
• 1795 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach dies (b. 1732). German composer.
• 1799 – Gabriel Christie dies (b. 1722). British general.
• 1802 – The U.S. Congress passes an act calling for a library to be established within the U.S. Capitol; eventually this becomes the Library of Congress.
• 1808 – Rum Rebellion, the only successful (but temporary) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
• 1810 – Joseph Rogers Brown was born (d. 23 Jul 1876). American inventor and manufacturer who made numerous advances in the field of fine measurement and machine-tool production.
• 1812 – Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho, 1st Count of Linhares, Portugal, dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 4 Aug 1745 ). Portuguese diplomat and politician.
• 1813 – Juan Pablo Duarte was born (d. 1876). Founding father of the Dominican Republic
• 1823 – Edward Jenner dies (b. 17 May 1749). English surgeon and discoverer of vaccination for smallpox.
• 1824 – Théodore Géricault dies (b. 1791). French painter.
• 1825 – Se constituye la provincia de Costa Rica, dentro de la República Federal de las Provincias Unidas de Centroamérica.
• 1826 – Julia Dent Grant was born (d. 1902). First Lady of the United States.
• 1826 – Louis Favre was born (d. 1879). Engineer Gotthard tunnel.
• 1827 – O Perú anuncia o fim de sua união com a Colômbia e declara a sua independência.
• 1831 – Heinrich Anton de Bary was born (d. 19 Jan. 1888). German botanist, a founder of modern mycology and plant pathology for his research into the roles of fungi and other agents in causing plant diseases.
• 1831 – Mary Mapes Dodged was born (d. 1907). Writer.
• 1832 – George Shiras Jr. was born (d. 1924). U. S. Supreme Court justice.
• 1832 – Rufus Henry Gilbert was born (d. 10 Jul. 1885). U.S. surgeon and inventor who played a major role in the development of rapid transit in New York City.
• 1837 – Michigan became the 26th state in the United States.
• 1838 – Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
• 1838 – É fundado, no Rio de Janeiro, o Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro.
• 1841 – The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China had ceded.
• 1842 – François Coppée was born (d. 1908). French poet and novelist.
• 1848 – Justo Sierra Méndez was born. Mexican writer, diplomat and politician.
• 1852 – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà) was born (d. 1905). Explorer.
• 1855 – Point No Point Treaty signed in Washington Territory.
• 1855 – Gérard de Nerval dies (b. 1808). French writer.
• 1856 – First Battle of Seattle (1856). Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
• 1857 – the 12th Dalai Lama was born (d. 1875).
• 1861 – Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
• 1863 – American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Massachusetts Governor receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
• 1868 – Juventino Rosas was born (d. 1894). Mexican composer.
• 1869 – Duncan Gordon Boyes dies (b. 1846). English recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• 1870 – American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
• 1870 – Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie dies (b. 1785). French statesman and diplomat.
• 1871 – The Rugby Football Union was founded in London, by 20 clubs.
• 1875 – George F. Green of Kalamazoo, Michigan patented the electric dental drill for sawing, filing, dressing and polishing teeth.
• 1878 – António Maria de Fontes Pereira de Melo assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal, pela 2ª. vez (ver Lista de Primeiros-Ministros de Portugal).
• 1878 – Nascimento em Cortes, Leiria, do poeta português Afonso Lopes Vieira. Interessou-se também pelo cinema tendo realizado um pequeno filme com crianças (O Afilhado de Santo António) e encarregou-se dos diálogos de Camões e Inês de Castro, de Leitão de Barros, e do Amor de Perdição, de António Lopes Ribeiro.
• 1878 – Dave Nourse was born (d. 1948). South African cricketer.
• 1878 – Ernst Heinrich Weber dies (b. 24 Jun 1795). German anatomist and physiologist.
• 1880 – Douglas MacArthur was born (d. 1964). American general, who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World War II, administered postwar Japan during the Allied occupation that followed, and led United Nations forces during the first nine months of the Korean War.
• 1884 – Edward Sapir was born (d. 4 Feb. 1939). American linguist and anthroplogist, one of the foremost of his time, who is most widely known for his contributions to the study of North American Indian languages.
• 1884 – Roy Chapman Andrews was born (d. 11 Mar. 1960). American naturalist, explorer, and author, who spent his entire career at the American Museum of Natural History.
• 1885 – Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquer Khartoum.
• 1885 – Edward Davy dies (b. 16 Jun. 1806). English inventor, who devised the electromagnetic repeater for relaying telegraphic signals and invented an electrochemical telegraph (1838).
• 1885 – Charles George Gordon dies (b. 1833). British general.
• 1886 – Karl Benz patents 1st auto powered by an internal combustion engine.
• 1886 – David Rice Atchison dies (b. 1807). American politician.
• 1887 – Tem início a construção da Torre Eiffel, em Paris, no local onde se realizará a Exposição Universal de Paris.
• 1887 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians.
• 1887 – François Faber was born (d. 1915). Luxembourgish cyclist.
• 1887 – Marc Mitscher was born (d. 1947). American Navy Admiral.
• 1891 – Frank Costello was born (d. 1973). Italian-born gangster.
• 1891 – Wilder Penfield was born (d. 1976). American-born Canadian neurosurgeon.
• 1891 – Nikolaus August Otto dies (b. 14 Jun. 1832). German inventor who developed the four-stroke internal-combustion engine, which offered the first practical alternative to the steam engine as a power source.
• 1892 – Bessie Coleman was born (d. 1926). American pioneer aviator.
• 1892 – Zara Cully was born (d. 1978). American actress.
• 1893 – Giuseppe Genco Russo was born (d. 1976). Sicilian mafioso.
• 1893 – Abner Doubleday dies (b. 1819). Credited inventor of baseball.
• 1895 – Arthur Cayley dies (b. 16 Aug 1821). English mathematician who played a leading role in founding the modern British school of pure mathematics.
• 1900 – Karl Ristenpart was born (d. 1967). German conductor.
• 1901 – Stuart Symington was born (d. 1988). American politician.
• 1902 – Menno ter Braak was born (d. 1940). Dutch author and polemicist.
• 1904 – Ancel Keys was born (d. 20 Nov 2004). American nutritionist and epidemiololgist who was the first to identify the role of saturated fats in causing heart disease.
• 1904 – Seán MacBride was born (d. 1988). Irish statesman, Nobel Prize Laureate.
• 1904 – Whitaker Wright dies (b. 1846). English mining tycoon.
• 1905 – Charles Lane was born (d. 2007). American actor.
• 1905 – Bernhard Minetti was born. Actor.
• 1905 – Maria von Trapp was born (d. 1987). Austrian-born singer.
• 1905 – The Cullinan Diamond (Worl’s largest diamond) is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.
• 1907 – The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the oldest military rifle still in official use.
• 1907 – Hans Selye was born (d. 16 Oct 1982). Austrian-born Canadian endocrinologist known for his studies of the effects of stress on the human body.
• 1908 – Jill Esmond was born (d. 1990). English actress.
• 1908 – Stéphane Grappelli was born (d. 1997). French jazz violinist.
• 1909 – Alexander King was born (d. 28 Feb. 2007). Scottish chemist who pioneered in environmental awareness, warning of the dangers to the environment from extensive industrial development.
• 1910 – Jean Image was born (d. 1989). Hungarian-born French animator.
• 1911 – Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane at North Island, San Diego, California.
• 1911 – Richard Strauss‘ opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
• 1911 – Herman Max Gluckman was born (d. 13 Apr 1975). South African social anthropologist who pioneered the study of traditional African legal systems. Author of Custom and Conflict in Africa (1955).
• 1911 – Polykarp Kusch was born (d. 20 Mar 1993). German-born American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1955 for his accurate determination thet the magnetic moment of the electron is greater than its theoretical value.
• 1911 – Norbert Schultze was born (d. 2002). German composer and songwriter.
• 1913 – Jimmy Van Heusen was born (d. 1990). American songwriter.
• 1914 – Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck’s works in their index.
• 1914 – Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar was born (d. 2006).
• 1915 – William Hopper was born (d. 1970). American actor.
• 1917 – Antônio Callado was born (d. 1997). Brazilian journalist and writer.
• 1918 – Nicolae Ceauşescu was born (d. 1989). Romanian President (1967-90) .
• 1918 – Philip José Farmer was born. American science fiction writer.
• 1918 – Ewald Hering dies (b. 4 Aug. 1834). German physiologist and psychologist whose chief work concerned the physiology of colour perception.
• 1919 – Bill Nicholson was born (d. 2004). English footballer and manager for Tottenham Hotspur.
• 1919 – Valentino Mazzola was born (d. 1949). Italian footballer.
• 1920 – Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches The Lincoln Motor Co., which he’d later sell to his former employer.
• 1921 – Akio Morita was born (d. 1999). Japanese businessman, co-founder of Sony.
• 1921 – Eddie Barclay was born (d. 2005). French producer (Barclay Records)
• 1922 – Michael Bentine was born (d. 1996). British comedian.
• 1923 – Anne Jeffreys was born. American actress (I Married an Angel, Dick Tracy [1945], Boys’ Night Out, General Hospital [soap], Clifford).
• 1924 – Alice Babs was born. Swedish singer.
• 1924 – Annette Strauss was born (d. 1998). American philanthropist, former mayor of Dallas, Texas
• 1924 – Rauf Denktash was born. Cypriot politician.
• 1925 – Claude Ryan was born (d. 2004). Quebec newspaper editor.
• 1925 – Joan Leslie was born in Detroit, American actress (High Sierra, Yankee Doodle Dandy).
• 1925 – Paul Newman was born. American actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler).
• 1925 – Sir James Mackenzie dies (b. 12 Apr 1853) Scottish cardiologist, pioneer in the study of cardiac arrhythmias. In 1892, he built a machine for detecting and recording physiological activity, such as pulse rate and blood pressure, since known as a polygraph, and later used as a lie detector.
• 1926 – Francis R. “Joe” Boyd was born (d. 12 Jan 2004). American geologist whose studies on the origins of volcanic rocks contributed to the understanding of the formation of the Earth
• 1926 – Farman Fatehpuri was born. Pakistani scholar, writer and linguist.
• 1926 – John Flannagan was born. 2nd president of St. Ambrose University.
• 1927 – Bob Nieman was born (d. 1985). American baseball player (d. 1985)
• 1927 – José Azcona del Hoyo was born (d. 2005). President of Honduras.
• 1927 – Bob Nieman was born (d. 1985). American baseball player.
• 1928 – Roger Vadim (Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov) was born (d. 11. Feb. 2000). French film director (And God Created Women, Barbarella).
• 1928 – George H. Ross was born. American attorney and TV reality show star (The Apprentice)
• 1929 – Gordon Solie was born. American wrestling commentator
• 1929 – Jules Feiffer was born. American cartoonist and writer.
• 1930 – The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence).
• 1931 – Mary Murphy was born. American film actress.
• 1932 – the US Patent Office recieved a patent application for the cyclotron by Ernest Orlando Lawrence. By 1939, this atom-smashing instrument won the Nobel Prize for its inventor.
• 1932 – British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead) .
• 1932 – Coxsone Dodd was born. Jamaican record producer.
• 1932 – William Wrigley Jr. dies (b. 30 Sep. 1861). American manufacturer whose Wrigley’s chewing gum company became the largest producer and distributor of chewing gum in the world.
• 1933 – Ercole Baldini was born. Italian cyclist.
• 1933 – Alva Belmont dies (b. 1853). American socialite.
• 1934 – The Apollo Theatre opens in Harlem, New York City.
• 1934 – German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
• 1934 – Roger Landry was born. Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher (La Presse).
• 1935 – Bob Uecker was born. American baseball player, broadcaster, and actor.
• 1936 – Sal Buscema was born. American comic book artist.
• 1937 – Joseph Saidu Momoh was born (d. 2003). Sierra Leone political leader.
• 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
• 1939 – Albert Sauver dies (b. 21 Jun 1863). Belgian-born American metallurgist whose microscopic and photomicroscopic studies of metal structures make him one of the founders of physical metallurgy.
• 1940 – Nazis forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains .
• 1941 – Henry Jaglom was born. English director.
• 1941 – Scott Glenn was born. American actor (Apocalypse Now, The Right Stuff, Silverado, The Hunt for Red October, The Silence of the Lambs) .
• 1942 – World War II: The first American forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
• 1942 – Souad Hosni was born (d. 2001). Egyptian actress.
• 1942 – Felix Hausdorff dies (b. 1868). German mathematician.
• 1943 – Jean Knight was born. American singer.
• 1943 – César Gutiérrez was born (d. 2005). Venezuelan basketball player.
• 1943 – Austin “Jack” Warner was born. Trinidadian FIFA Vice-President and CONCACAF President
• 1943 – Harry H. Laughlin dies (b. 1880). American eugenicist.
• 1943 – Nikolai Vavilov dies (b. 25 Nov 1887). Russian botanist.
• 1944 – Angela Davis was born. American feminist and civil rights activist, teacher.
• 1945 – Jacqueline du Pré was born (†19 Oct 1987). British cellist.
• 1946 – Gene Siskel was born (d. 1999). Film critic.
• 1946 – Félix Gouin becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1946 – Adriaan van Maanen dies (b. 1884). Dutch-American astronomer.
• 1947 – Michel Sardou was born. French singer.
• 1947 – Patrick Dewaere was born (d. 1982). French actor.
• 1947 – Grace Moore dies (b. 1898). American soprano.
• 1947 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Westrobothnia dies in air crash (b. 1906)
• 1947 – KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die.
• 1949 – A Suíça reconhece o estabelecimento do Estado de Israel.
• 1949 – David Strathairn was born in San Francisco, California. American actor.
• 1949 – Jonathan Carroll was born. American author.
• 1949 – Victor Fleming dies at 65. Film director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind).
• 1950 – India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president. The Indian constitution takes effect, making the Republic of India the most populous democracy in the world.
• 1950 – Janet Lupo was born. The biggest breasted Playmate (Miss November 1975)
• 1950 – Jörg Haider was born (d. 2008). Austrian far-right politician.
• 1951 – Elizabeth Taylor divorced her first husband, Nicky Hilton, on the grounds of mental cruelty. It was less than a year after their highly publicized wedding.
• 1952 – Egypt is placed under martial law in response to wide-spread riots against the British.
• 1952 – Black Saturday in Egypt: riots burn Cairo‘s central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
• 1952 – Khorloogiyn Choybalsan dies (b.1895). Leader of Mongolia.
• 1953 – Film actress, dancer, and sex symbol Rita Hayworth divorced Prince Aly Khan in Reno, Nevada on this date.
• 1953 – Anders Fogh Rasmussen was born. Prime Minister of Denmark.
• 1953 – Lucinda Williams was born. American singer.
• 1953 – Athanase David dies (b. 1882). French Canadian lawyer, politician and businessman
• 1954 – Kim Hughes was born. Australian cricketer.
• 1955 – Eddie Van Halen was born. Dutch musician.
• 1956 – Winter Olympic Games open in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
• 1957 – Eddie Van Halen was born. Grammy Award-winning musician, guitar, singer, [Van Halen] .
• 1957 – José Linhares dies. President of Brazil (1945-1946).
• 1958 – Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
• 1958 – Anita Baker was born. American singer (Sweet Love, Rhytm of Love. Giving You the Best That I Got).
• 1958 – Ellen DeGeneres was born. Actress, comedienne.
• 1958 – Salvador Sánchez was born. Mexican boxer.
• 1960 – Charlie Gillingham was born. American musician (Counting Crows).
• 1960 – Road Warrior Hawk was born (d. 2003). American profissional wrestler.
• 1961 – John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.
• 1961 – Wayne Gretzky was born. Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and team owner Wayne Gretzky. He holds the NHL record for points (2,857), goals (894), and assists (1,963) and is considered by many the game’s greatest player of all time.
• 1961 – Stan Nichols dies (b. 1900). English cricketer.
• 1962 – Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles.
• 1962 – Oscar Ruggeri was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1962 – Lucky Luciano dies (b. 1897). American mobster.
• 1963 – Andrew Ridgeley was born. English musician.
• 1963 – José Mourinho was born in Setúbal. Portuguese football manager. Considered the best manager of the World in 2005. Winner of Uefa Cup in 1992 and Uefa Champions League in 1993 for FCPorto
• 1963 – James May was born. British writer.
• 1963 – Riddell Akua was born. Nauruan politician
• 1964 – Paul Johansson was born. American actor.
• 1964 – Chico César was born. Brazilian singer and composer.
• 1965 – Colombia win the World Championship of Baseball.
• 1965 – Hindi becomes the official language of India.
• 1965 – Natalia Yurchenko was born. Soviet gymnast.
• 1965 – Thomas Östros was born. Swedish politician.
• 1966 – The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach in Adelaide, South Australia.
• 1967 – Pradip Somasundaran was born. Indian playback singer.
• 1968 – Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die.
• 1968 – Ravi Teja was born. Tollywood film actor.
• 1968 – Merrill C. Meigs dies (b. 1883). American newspaper publisher, aviation promoter.
• 1968 – Yvor Winters dies (b. 1900). American poet.
• 1969 – Michael O’Hearn was born. American bodybuilder.
• 1970 – Folk rock duo Simon and Garfunkel release classic album Bridge Over Troubled Water.
• 1970 – Kirk Franklin was born. American singer.
• 1970 – Tracy Middendorf was born. American actress.
• 1971 – Bryan Callen was born. American actor.
• 1971 – Dorian Gregory was born. American actor.
• 1972 – Mahalia Jackson dies (b. 1911). American American gospel music singer.
• 1973 – Mayu Shinjo was born. Japanese mangaka.
• 1973 – Edward G. Robinson dies (b. 1893). American actor.
• 1974 – Shannon Hale was born. American author.
• 1976 – The Concorde supersonic passenger jet airplane (SST) began commercial flights on the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
• 1976 – Frankie Rayder was born. American model.
• 1976 – Maggie Lawson was born. Australian musician.
• 1976 – Willie Adler was born. American guitar player.
• 1976 – João Branco Núncio dies in Golegã (b. 15 Fev 1901). Portuguese bullfighter horseman /Morre na Golegã, João Branco Núncio, cavaleiro tauromáquico português nascido em 15 de Fev 1901 em São Romão, Alcácer do Sal.
• 1977 – Vince Carter was born. American basketball player.
• 1977 – Justin Gimelstob was born. American tennis player.
• 1978 – The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US, strikes the Ohio – Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).
• 1978 – Mário Soares forms Portuguese government .
• 1978 – Corina Morariu was born. American tennis player.
• 1978 – Estéban Germán was born. Dominican baseball player.
• 1978 – Kelly Stables was born. American actress
• 1979 – Nelson Rockefeller dies (b. 1908). Governor of New York, Vice President of the United States.
• 1979 – Sara Rue was born. American actress.
• 1980 – 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro.
• 1980 – Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
• 1980 – Maximiliano Pellegrino was born in Córdoba. Argentinean footballer.
• 1981 – Juan Jose Haedo was born. Argentinian cyclist.
• 1982 – Mauno Koivisto elected President of Finland.
• 1983 – Lotus 1-2-3 is released.
• 1983 – Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant dies (b. 1913). American football coach.
• 1984 – Layla Kayleigh was born. British television personality.
• 1984 – Iain Turner was born. Scottish footballer.
• 1984 – Luo Xuejuan was born. Chinese swimmer.
• 1985 – 42th Golden Globes: Amadeus wins.
• 1986 -The National Resistance Army takes over the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
• 1986 – Super Bowl XX: The Chicago Bears defeat the New England Patriots, 46-10.
• 1986 – Halley’s Comet is visible in the night sky as it passes in its 76-year orbit around the sun.
• 1986 – José Azcona toma posesión como presidente de la República de Honduras.
• 1986 – Shantelle Taylor was born. Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1986 – Gerald Green was born. American basketball player.
• 1986 – Matt Heafy was born. American musician (Trivium).
• 1986 – Shantelle Taylor was born. Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1987 – 14th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie & Alabama.
• 1987 – Los reyes de España, Juan Carlos I y Sofía colocan la primera piedra de la Exposición Universal de Sevilla de 1992, en el recinto de la Isla de la Cartuja.
• 1987 – Vladimir Garin was born (d. 2003). Russian actor.
• 1988 – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera opened on Broadway. It would go on to become the longest-running Broadway show.
• 1988 – Mia Rose was born. British-Portuguese singer.
• 1989 – Emily Hughes was born. American figure skater.
• 1989 – Jin Yu Zhou was born. Chinese flutist.
• 1990 – Christopher Massey was born. American actor.
• 1990 – Bob Gerard dies (b. 1914). British racing driver.
• 1990 – Lewis Mumford dies (b. 19 Oct. 1895). American architectural critic, urban planner, and historian who analyzed the effects of technology and urbanization on human societies throughout history.
• 1991 – Rebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu.
• 1991 – Mohamed Siad Barre is removed in Somalia, ending centralized government
• 1992 – The Washington Redskins defeat the Buffalo Bills 37-24 in Super Bowl XXVI.
• 1992 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
• 1992 – José Ferrer dies (b. 1912). Puerto Rican actor and director (Cyrano de Bergerac).
• 1992 – Super Bowl XXVI: The Washington Redskins defeat the Buffalo Bills, 37-24.
• 1993 – Václav Havel elected President of the Czech Republic.
• 1993 – Cameron Bright was born. Canadian actor.
• 1993 – Jan Gies dies (b. 1905). Dutch resistance leader.
• 1993 – Jeanne Sauvé dies (b. 1922). Governor-General of Canada.
• 1994 – A man fires two blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, Australia.
• 1994 – Frederico George dies. Portuguese painter and architect.
• 1995 – Mário Feliciano dies. Portuguese theater director.
• 1995 – Kyle Chavarria was born. American actress
• 1996 – Whitewater scandal: Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before a grand jury.
• 1996 – A Roménia foi o primeiro país do antigo Pacto de Varsóvia a aderir à OTAN (Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte).
• 1996 – Harold Brodkey dies (b, 1930). American author.
• 1996 – Dave Schultz dies killed by John Du Pont (b. 1959). American wrestler.
• 1997 – The Green Bay Packers defeat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXI, with a score of 35-21.
• 1997 – Jeane Dixon dies (b. 1904). American astrologer.
• 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, Pres Clinton says “I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky”.
• 1998 – Compaq buys Digital Equipment Corporation. The purchase made Compaq the world’s biggest seller of personal computers and allowed Compaq to enter the world of high-end computing, offering workstations and Internet services manufactured by Digital .
• 1998 – Shinichi Suzuki dies (b. 1898). Japanese music teacher.
• 2000 – Rap-metal band Rage Against the Machine plays in front of Wall Street, prompting an early closing of trading due to the crowds.
• 2000 – O Benfica perde com o Sporting por 1-3 para a Taça de Portugal, no Estádio da Luz, com golos de Acosta 2 e André Cruz para o Sporting e Uribe pelo Benfica.
• 2000 – Robert F. Vasa ordained Bishop of the Diocese of Baker
• 2000 – Don Budge dies (b. 1915). American tennis player.
• 2000 – Kathleen Hale dies (b. 1898). British author.
• 2000 – A. E. van Vogt dies (b. 1912). Canadian-born author.
• 2001 – A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
• 2001 – An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
• 2001 – Al McGuire dies (b. 1928). American basketball coach.
• 2001 – Jessica Michalik dies (b. 1985). Australian victim of Big Day Out.
• 2002 – A post-mortem examination was due to take place on a former top executive of bankrupt US energy giant Enron who apparently committed suicide.
• 2003 – The Tampa Bay Buccaneers win their first Super Bowl title by defeating the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII .
• 2003 – World chess champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov [13 April 1963-], with White, defeats computer program Deep Junior (who has a human to physically move the pieces) in the first game of a match which will end in a draw with its 6th game on 07 February 2003 (28 Jan Game 2 — 30 Jan Game 3 — 02 Feb Game 4 — 05 Feb Game 5).:
• 2003 – Valeriy Brumel dies (b. 1942). Soviet athlete.
• 2003 – Lord Dacre (Hugh Trevor-Roper) dies (b. 1917). British historian .
• 2003 – George Younger dies (b. 1931). 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician
• 2004 – President Hamid Karzai signed the new constitution of Afghanistan.
• 2004 – A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing Sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
• 2004 – Fred Haas dies (b. 1916). American golfer.
• 2005 – O Benfica derrota o Sporting para a Taça de Portugal nos penalties (7-6) depois de 3-3 após prolongamento, num dos melhores jogos do ano. Tudo sobre o jogo aqui.
• 2005 – Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
• 2005 – Having been confirmed earlier in the day by a vote of 85-13 in the United States Senate, Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post.
• 2005 – A helicopter crash in eastern Iraq kills 31 United States soldiers.
• 2006 – A large fire breaks out on Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa.
• 2006 – Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service.
• 2006 – Khan Abdul Wali Khan dies (b. 1917). Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist.
• 2006 – Len Carlson dies (b. 1937). Canadian actor.
• 2006 – Carol Lambrino dies (b. 1920). Son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino.
• 2007 – Hans J. Wegner dies (b. 1914). Danish furniture designer.
• 2007 – Gump Worsley dies (b. 1929). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 2008 – Christian Brando dies (b. 1958). Actor and son of Marlon Brando.
• Australia – Australia Day.
• Chinese New Year.
• Roman Empire – third day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra.
• Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: Timothy and Titus, Saint Paula, Polycarp, Saint Alberic, Saint Margaret of Hungary.
• India – Republic Day – One of only three state holidays in India, celebrated with pomp and a military parade in New Delhi.
• Uganda – Liberation Day.

On this day in History – Jan. 25 Janeiro 25, 2009

• 0041 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
• 0098 – Marcus Nerva dies (b. 0030). Roman Emperor.
• 0389 – Gregory Nazianzus dies (b. 0329). Theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople
• 0477 – Geiseric dies (b. ca. 0389). King of the Vandals and Alans.
• 0750 – Leo IV the Khazar was born. Byzantine Emperor
• 0817 – Pope_Paschal I begins his Papacy (until 11 Feb 1824 date of his death).
• 0844 – Pope Gregory IV dies.
• 1067 – Emperor Yingzong of China dies (b. 1032)
• 1327 – Edward III becomes King of England.
• 1366 – Henry Suso dies. German mystic.
• 1431 – Charles I, Duke of Lorraine dies (b. 1364).
• 1477 – Anna, Duchess of Brittany was born (d. 1514). Consort Queen of France (wife of Charles VIII).
• 1494 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples replacing his father, Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423) who died on this day.
• 1509 – Giovanni Morone was born (d. 1580). Italian cardinal.
• 1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
• 1538 – se descubrió en el Cerro Rico de Potosí (Bolivia) la primera mina de plata.
• 1553 – Fundación de la Real y Pontificia Universidad de México.
• 1554 – Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil. / Fundação da cidade de São Paulo por José de Anchieta e Manoel da Nóbrega.
• 1559 – King Christian II of Denmark dies (b. 1481). Sweden and Norway.
• 1565 – Battle at Talikota India Moslems destroy Vijayanagar’s army.
• 1569 – Se establece en la América española el Tribunal de la Inquisición, en virtud de una cédula de esta fecha, firmada por Felipe II.
• 1573 – Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
• 1573 – Hirate Hirohide dies (b. 1553). Japanese samurai.
• 1576 – The city of Luanda in Angola is founded. On this day it commemorates 430 years.
• 1579 – Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic.
• 1586 – Lucas Cranach the Younger dies (b. 1515). German painter.
• 1615 – Govert Flinck was born (d. 1660). Dutch painter.
• 1627 – Robert Boyle was born (d. 30 Dec 1691). Anglo-Irish chemist and natural philosopher noted for his pioneering experiments on the properties of gases and his espousal of a corpuscular view of matter that was a forerunner of the modern theory of chemical elements. He was a founding member of the Royal Society of London.
• 1634 – Gaspar Fagel was born (d. 1688). Dutch statesman.
• 1640 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire was born (d. 1707). English soldier and statesman.
• 1640 – Robert Burton dies (b. 1577). English scholar and author (Anatomy of Melancholy).
• 1662 – Luís da Cunha was born (d. 1740). Portuguese diplomat.
• 1670 – Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine dies (b. 1612).
• 1688 – Juraj Jánošík was born (d. 1713). Famous Slovak outlaw.
• 1726 – Guillaume Delisle dies (b. 1726). French cartographer.
• 1733 – Gilbert Heathcote dies (b. 1652). Mayor of London.
• 1736 – Count (comte) De L’empire, Joseph Louis Lagrange was born (d. 10 Apr 1813). Italian born, French mathematician who made great contributions to the theory of numbers and to analytic and celestial mechanics. ( “Analytic Mechanics”- 1788).
• 1739 – Charles François Dumouriez was born. French general.
• 1741 – Benedict Arnold was born (d. 1801). American general notorious for treason.
• 1743 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was born (d. 1819). German philosopher.
• 1751 – Paul Dudley dies (b. 1675). Attorney-General of Massachusetts.
• 1755 – Moscow University established on Tatiana Day.
• 1759 – Robert Burns was born (d. 1796). Scotland’s national poet.
• 1770 – Captain James Cook (b. 1728 – d. 1779), navigator, discovered Australia – today is Australia day.
• 1774 – George Dollond was born (d. 13 May 1852). British optician who invented a number of precision instruments used in astronomy, geodesy, and navigation.
• 1787 – American Daniel Shays leads rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor prisons.
• 1791 – The British Parliament splits the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
• 1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
• 1794 – François-Vincent Raspail was born (d. 1878). French chemist.
• 1796 – William MacGillivray was born (d. 1852). Scotish naturalist and ornithologist.
• 1798 – Benjamin Thompson presented a paper to the Royal Society, Enquiry concerning the Source of Heat which is excited by Friction, in which he presented the idea that heat represents a form of motion, as opposed to the prevailing idea of being a fluid.
• 1799 – a seed-planting device was patented by Eliakim Spooner of Vermont. The seeds were fed by gravity. The machine was not practical, however.
• 1812 -William Shanks was born (d. 1882). English mathematician who spent numerous years manually calculating the value of pi. Shanks kept a boarding school at Houghton-le-Spring in a coal mining area near Durham.
• 1825 – El general peruano José Miguel Lanza conquista la ciudad de La Paz y proclama la independencia del Alto Perú.
• 1825 – George Pickett was born (d. 1875). American Confederate General.
• 1839 – Michael Faraday publicly announced for the first time the existence of photography as the subject of his Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution.
• 1841 – Jackie Fisher was born (d. 1920). Brirish first Sea Lord.
• 1852 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen dies (b. 1778). Russian explorer.
• 1858 – Kokichi Mikimoto was born (d. 1954). Japanese pearl farm pioneer.
• 1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria‘s daughter and the Crown Prince of Prussia.
• 1860 – Charles Curtis was born (d. 1936). Vice President of the United States.
• 1860 – Firma del Tratado de Maposingue, que pone fin a la invasión peruana de Ecuador dirigida por el general Ramón Castilla.
• 1864 – Julije Kempf was born (d. 1934). Croatian historian and writer.
• 1870 – Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows .
• 1874 – William Somerset Maugham was born (d. 1965). English writer.
• 1878 – Ernst Alexanderson was born (d. 1975); Swedish-American electrical engineer and television pioneer who developed a high-frequency alternator.
• 1879 – The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
• 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
• 1881 – O famoso autor russo Fiodor Dostoievski falece poucos dias após sofrer uma hemorragia. Suas últimas palavras foram, “Não me segurem. Minha hora chegou. Eu preciso morrer”. Dostoievski havia escrito o clássico “Crime e Castigo”.
• 1881 – Konstantin Thon dies (b. 1794). Russian architect.
• 1882 – Virginia Woolf was born (d.1941). English writer (Jacob’s Room, To the Lighthouse).
• 1882 – Jonathan Carter was born. Author of “O to be Me. The JC Story”.
• 1885 – Kitahara Hakushū was born (d. 1942). Japanese poets and children’s writers.
• 1886 – Wilhelm Furtwängler was born (d. 1954). German conductor.
• 1890 – The United Mine Workers of America is founded.
• 1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
• 1899 – Paul-Henri Spaak was born (d. 1972). Belgian politician.
• 1900 – Yojiro Ishizaka was born (d. 1986). Japanese writer.
• 1900 – Theodosius Dobzhansky was born (d. 18 Dec 1975). Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionist whose work had a major influence on 20th-century thought and research on genetics and evolutionary theory.
• 1901 – Martin De Alzaga was born (d. 1982). Argentine racing driver.
• 1905 – Maurice Roy was born (d. 1985). French Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Quebec.
• 1907 – René Pottier dies (b. 1879). French cyclist.
• 1908 – Mikhail Chigorin dies (b. 1850). Russian chess player.
• 1908 – Ouida dies (b. 1839). English writer.
• 1909 – Richard Strauss‘ opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
• 1912 – Dmitry Milyutin dies (b. 1816). Russian Field Marshal.
• 1913 – Witold Lutosławski was born (d. 1994). Polish composer.
• 1913 – Luis Marden was born (d. 2003). American photojournalist.
• 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service calling from New York to his friend Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
• 1916 – Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary.
• 1916 – Frank “Pop” Ivy was born(d. 2003). American and Canadian Football coach.
• 1917 – Ilya Prigogine was born (d. 28 May 2003). Russian-born Belgian physical chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977 for contributions to nonequilibrium thermodynamics.
• 1917 – The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million.
• 1917 – Jânio Quadros was born (d. 1992). Brazilian politician, 30th President of Brazil (31 Jan 1961 a 25 Aug 1961).
• 1918 – Decreto fundacional de la Escuela de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas de la Facultad Nacional de Derecho de Panamá, base de la Universidad Nacional.
• 1918 – The Ukrainian people declare independence from Bolshevik Russia.
• 1918 – Russia declared a Soviets republic.
• 1918 – Ernie Harwell was born. American baseball sportscaster.
• 1919 – Edwin Newman was born. American journalist, writer.
• 1919 – The League of Nations is founded.
• 1923 – Arvid Carlsson was born. Swedish scientist, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine).
• 1923 – Rusty Draper was born (d. 2003). American country and pop singer.
• 1923 – Shirley Mason was born (d. 1998). American psychiatric patient (Commonly known as “Sybil”).
• 1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• 1924 – Lou Groza was born (d. 2000). American football player.
• 1925 – Giorgos Zampetas was born (d. 1992). Greek musician and songwriter.
• 1925 – Ivan Vucetic dies (b. 1858). Croatian anthropologist.
• 1927 – Antonio Carlos Jobim was born. Brazilian musician, bossa nova legend.
• 1928 – Eduard Shevardnadze was born. President of Georgia.
• 1928 – Jérôme Choquette was born. Quebec lawyer and politician.
• 1929 – Benny Golson was born. American jazz musician.
• 1930 – Tanya Savicheva was born (d. 1944). Russian diarist.
• 1931 – Gandhi é posto em liberdade na India.
• 1931 – Dean Jones was born. American actor
• 1932 – Maximilian von Frey dies (b. 16 Nov 1852). Austrian physiologist who studied the sense of touch, providing the first comprehensive information about the cutaneous senses.
• 1933 – Corazon Aquino was born. President of the Philippines.
• 1935 – Ramalho Eanes was born in Alcains. Portuguese General and politician, President of Republic (14 Jul 1976 – 9 Mar 1986).
• 1936 – Diana Hyland was born (d. 1977). American actress.
• 1937 – The Guiding Light airs on radio for the first time. Also went to television making this show the longest running broadcast program in United States radio and television history.
• 1937 – Ange-Félix Patassé was born. President of the Central African Republic
• 1937 – Judith Ann Mayotte was born. American humanitarian, author.
• 1938 – Leiji Matsumoto was born. Japanese creator of anime.
• 1938 – Etta James was born. American singer.
• 1938 – Shotaro Ishinomori was born (d. 1998). Japanese manga author.
• 1938 – Vladimir Vysotsky was born (d. 1980). Russian poet.
• 1938 – Etta James (Jamesette Hawkins) was born. American singer (Roll With Me Henry).
• 1939 – Earthquake hits Chillán Chile, 10,000 killed.
• 1939 – Gabriel Romanus was born. Swedish politician.
• 1940 – Elias Simojoki dies (b. 1899). Finnish clergyman and politician.
• 1941 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
• 1941 – Buddy Baker was born. American race car driver.
• 1941 – Gregory Sierra was born. American actor.
• 1942 – Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
• 1942 – Carl Eller was born. American football player .
• 1942 – Eusébio da Silva Ferreira (“The Black Panther”) , was born, in Lourenço Marques (Mozambique) the best Portuguese football player of all times. He represented Benfica. Won two European Champions Cup, several Portugal Championship and Portugal Cups. He was Golden Boot. In WorldChampionship 1966 (Portugal was 3º.) he was considered the best player and he was the top scorer.
• 1943 – Tobe Hooper was born. American film director.
• 1944 – Anita Pallenberg was born. Italian model and actress
• 1945 – Leigh Taylor-Young was born. American actress
• 1945 – Battle of the Bulge ends.
• 1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor .
• 1946 – Afonso Lopes Vieira dies in Lisbon (b. 26 Jan. 1878). Portuguese poet.
• 1946 – Edwin Bissel Holt dies (b. 1873) ; U.S. psychologist and philosopher noted for his emphasis on the purposive character of knowing.
• 1947 – Ángel Nieto was born. Spanish motorcycle racer.
• 1947 – Tostão was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1947 – Al Capone dies (b. 1899). American gangster.
• 1948 – Gueorgui Chichkine was born. Russian painter.
• 1948 – Ros Kelly was born. Australian politician.
• 1949 – At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
• 1949 – The first Israeli election – David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.
• 1949 – John Cooper Clarke was born. English punk-poet.
• 1949 – Paul Nurse was born. English biochemist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1949 – Makino Nobuaki dies (b. 1861). Japanese statesman.
• 1951 – Steve Prefontaine was born (d. 1975). American runner.
• 1952 – Sara Mandiano was born. French singer and songwriter.
• 1952 – Timothy White was born (d. 2002). American journalist.
• 1953 – Mark Weil was born (d. 2007). Uzbek theatre director.
• 1953 – The Honky Tonk Man was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1954 – Kay Cottee was born. First woman to sail solo and non stop around the world.
• 1954 – Kim Gandy was born. American feminist.
• 1954 – Ricardo Bochini was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1954 – Richard Finch was born. American bass player (KC and the Sunshine Band)
• 1954 – In Honduras is consagrated to women the right to vote. This day is “Día de la Mujer”.
• 1954 – Manabendra Nath Roy dies (b. 1887). Indian marxist.
• 1955 – Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany.
• 1955 – US and Panama sign canal treaty.
• 1955 – Terry Chimes was born. Co-founder and drummer of the British punk rock band The Clash
• 1956 – Andy Cox was born. British musician (The Beat (band), Fine Young Cannibals).
• 1957 – La India se anexiona Cachemira.
• 1957 – Andrew P. Harris was born. American politician.
• 1957 – Eskil Erlandsson was born. Swedish politician.
• 1957 – Jenifer Lewis was born. American actress.
• 1957 – Paulo Gustavo was born in Recife, Pernambuco. Brazilian poet.
• 1957 – Kiyoshi Shiga dies (b. 7 Feb. 1871). Japanese physician and bacteriologist, chiefly noted for his discovery (1897) of the dysentery bacillus Shigella, which is named after him.
• 1957 – Ichizo Kobayashi dies (b. 1873). Japanese industrialist and Minister of Commerce and Industry.
• 1958 – Dinah Manoff was born. American actress.
• 1959 – Pope John XXIII proclaims Second Vatican Council.
• 1960 – The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records.
• 1960 – Beno Gutenberg dies (b. 4 Jun 1889). American seismologist noted for his analyses of earthquake waves and the information they furnish about the physical properties of the Earth’s interior.
• 1961 – Un golpe de Estado del coronel Aníbal Portillo derroca a la Junta y establece un Directorio Cívico-Militar en El Salvador.
• 1961 – Walt Disney’s “101 Dalmations” released .
• 1961 – In Washington, DC John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
• 1961 – Beth Goulart was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1961 – Vivian Balakrishnan was born. Singaporean politician.
• 1961 – Willie Revillame was born. Filipino game show host and comedian.
• 1962 – Chris Chelios was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1963 – Sir Isaac Shoenberg dies (b. 1 Mar 1880). Russian-Born British electrical engineer and principal inventor of the first high-definition television system, as used by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for the world’s first public high-definition telecast (from London, 1936).
• 1963 – Wilson Kettle dies (b. 1860). Guinness World Record holder for most living descendants.
• 1965 – Esa Tikkanen was born. Finnish ice hockey player.
• 1966 – Chet Culver was born. American politician, governor of Iowa.
• 1967 – Randy MacKay was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1967 – David Ginola was born. French footballer.
• 1967 – Mark Bamford was born. American writer/director.
• 1967 – Randy McKay was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1968 – Carolina Ferraz was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1969 – US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris.
• 1969 – Irene Castle dies (b. 1887). English dancer.
• 1969 – Kina was born. American singer.
• 1970 – Eiji Tsuburaya dies (b. 1901). Japanese television writer and producer, founder of Tsuburaya Productions (Ultraman).
• 1970 – Jane Bathori dies (b. 1877). French mezzo-soprano.
• 1971 – Charles Manson and three female “family members” are found guilty of murder of seven people (one of them the actress Sharon Tate) and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• 1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda‘s president.
• 1971 – Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
• 1971 – Ana Ortiz was born. American actress and singer
• 1971 – China Kantner was born. American actress.
• 1971 – Luca Badoer was born. Italian race car driver.
• 1972 – World’s first kidney and pancreatic tissue transplant carried out in London.
• 1972 – Erhard Milch dies (b. 1892). German field marshal.
• 1973 – Chris Guy was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1973 – Geoff Johns was born. American comic book writer.
• 1974 – Dr Christian Barnard performs a heart transplant, leaving the original heart in place.
• 1974 – Robert Budreau was born. Canadian film director.
• 1975 – Bangladesh’s independence leader and first prime minister, sheik Mujibur Rahman, 54, assumes the presidency. He would be killed, along with most of his family, in a coup d’état seven months later 75/08/15.
• 1975 – Dat Phan was born. Stand up comedian.
• 1975 – Mia Kirshner was born. Canadian actress.
• 1975 – Tim Montgomery was born. American athlete.
• 1975 – Charlotte Whitton dies (b. 1896). Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa.
• 1976 – Mario Haberfeld was born. Brazilian racing car driver.
• 1976 – Chris Kenner dies (b. 1929). American singer and songwriter.
• 1977 – Armando Falcão, ministro da Justiça do governo militar, contesta um manifesto assinado por 1.046 intelectuais, exigindo o fim da censura no Brasil.
• 1978 – Denis Menchov was born. Russian cyclist.
• 1978 – Derrick Turnbow was born. American baseball player.
• 1978 – Jason Roberts was born. English-born footballer.
• 1979 – Bianca_Castanho was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1979 – Christine Lakin was born. American actress.
• 1979 – Gabe Jennings was born. American distance runner.
• 1979 – Rodrigo Ribeiro was born. Brazilian racing driver.
• 1979 – Pi Hongyan was born. French badminton player.
• 1980 – Christian Olsson was born. Swedish triple jumper.
• 1980 – Efstathios Tavlaridis was born. Greek footballer.
• 1980 – Michelle McCool was born. American wrestler.
• 1980 – Xavi was born. Catalan Spanish footballer.
• 1980 – Abolhassan Bani-Sadr vence as primeiras eleições presidenciais do Irã. Ele obtém 70% dos votos da população.
• 1980 – Queenie Watts dies (b. 1926). English actress.
• 1981 – Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
• 1981 – Alicia Keys was born. American singer and musician.
• 1981 – Francis Jeffers was born. English footballer.
• 1981 – Tose Proeski was born. Macedonian singer.
• 1981 – Super Bowl XV: The Oakland Raiders defeat the Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10.
• 1981 – Adele Astaire dies (b. 1897). American dancer.
• 1982 – 9th American Music Award Kenny Rogers win.
• 1982 – Shawna Waldron was born. American actress.
• 1982 – Sho Sakurai was born. Japanese singer and actor.
• 1982 – The-Dream was born. American singer.
• 1982 – Alfredo Ovando dies. Former President of Bolivia.
• 1982 – Mikhail Suslov dies (b. 1902). Soviet politician.
• 1983 – IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite) is launched.
• 1983 – Andrée Watters was born. Canadian singer.
• 1984 – Robinho was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1984 – Ines Cudna was born. Polish model.
• 1985 – El Papa Juan Pablo II inicia una visita de once días por Venezuela, Ecuador, Perú y Trinidad-Tobago.
• 1985 – Acie Law IV was born. American basketball player.
• 1985 – Patrick Willis was born. American football linebacker.
• 1985 – Tina Karol was born. Ukrainian singer.
• 1986 – The National Resistance Movement topple the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
• 1986 – La nave espacial estadounidense “Voyager 2” envía a la Tierra fotografías de 12 nuevas lunas que rodean el planeta Urano y cuya existencia se desconocía.
• 1986 – Mueren 30 personas y 12 resultan gravemente heridas por la explosión de una fábrica de armas situada en Iquique (Chile).
• 1986 – Chris O’Grady was born. English footballer.
• 1986 – Shahriar Nafees was born. Bangladeshi cricketer.
• 1987 – Super Bowl XXI: The New York Giants beat the Denver Broncos, 39-20.
• 1987 – Maria Kirilenko was born. Russian tennis player.
• 1988 – 15th American Music Award Anita Baker, Paul Simon & Whitney Houston .
• 1988 – Tatiana Golovin was born. French tennis player.
• 1989 – Sheryfa Luna was born. French singer.
• 1989 – Victoria Muniz was born. Puerto Rican figure skater.
• 1990 – The Burns’ Day storm hits Northwestern Europe.
• 1990 – Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1990 – Avianca Flight 52 crashes, killing 73 passengers.
• 1990 – Ava Gardner dies (b. 1922). American actress.
• 1990 – Dámaso Alonso was born. Spanish poet and academic.
• 1991 – Durante a Guerra do Golfo, os Estados Unidos acusam o Iraque de despejar petróleo no golfo pérsico. Os norte-americanos chamam isso de terrorismo ambiental.
• 1991 – Muere la periodista colombiana Diana Turbay en una fallida operación policial para liberarla de los narcotraficantes que la habían secuestrado seis meses antes.
• 1991 – Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government.
• 1992 – A selection of America’s popular films begins showing on Soviet television.
• 1992 – Manuel Hernández Mompó dies (b. 1927). Spanish painter.
• 1993 – Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
• 1993 – Puerto Rico adds English as its second official language.
• 1993 – Slobodan Milosevic jura como presidente de Serbia ante el nuevo Parlamento, tras su victoria en las elecciones.
• 1994 – The Clementine space probe launches.
• 1994 – Stephen Cole Kleene dies (b. 5 Jan 1909). American mathematician and logician whose work on recursion theory helped lay the foundations of theoretical computer science.
• 1995 – Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of European Committee .
• 1995 – The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, is mistaken for a US Trident missile by the Olenegorsk early-warning radar station.
• 1995 – Cal Jammer dies (b. 1960). American actor.
• 1996 – Jonathan Larson dies (b. 1960). American composer.
• 1997 – Asesinan al reportero gráfico argentino José Luis Cabezas.
• 1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
• 1998 – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka‘s Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others.
• 1998 – Super Bowl XXXII: The Denver Broncos beat the Green Bay Packers, 31-24.
• 1998 – Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Posh) & soccer player David Beckham get engaged.
• 1998 – Marlene Lawston was born. American child actress
• 1999 – A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
• 1999 – Sarah “Sadie” Delany dies (b. 1889). American author.
• 1999 – Ted Mallie dies (b. 1924). American radio and television announcer.
• 1999 – Robert Shaw dies (b. 1916). American conductor.
• 2001 – A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
• 2001 – El nuevo primer ministro serbio, Zoran Djindjic, y los miembros de su gabinete toman posesión oficial de sus cargos, tras la caída definitiva del régimen de Slobodan Milosevic.
• 2002 – Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software (“Phase II”) aka Magnus Manske Day.
• 2003 – Samuel Weems dies (b. 1936). Arkansas judge.
• 2004 – Opportunity rover (MER-B) landed on surface of Mars.
• 2004 – Fanny Blankers-Koen dies (b. 1918). Dutch athlete.
• 2004 – Miklós Fehér, Hungaryan football player, dies during the match V. Guimarães- Benfica for Portuguese League. He had entered the game a few minutes before and suddendly he fell alone on the ground (b. 1979).
• 2005 – A stampede during a pilgrimage in India kills at least 258.
• 2005 – António Lobo Antunes, Portuguese writer, receives from Jorge Sampaio, President of Portugal the Grã-Cruz da Ordem de Sant’Iago da Espada.
• 2005 – Stanisław Albinowski dies (b. 1923). Polish economist and journalist.
• 2005 – William Augustus Bootle dies (b. 1902). American judge.
• 2005 – Philip Johnson dies (b. 1906). American architect.
• 2005 – Ray Peterson dies (b. 1935). American singer.
• 2005 – Nettie Witziers-Timmer dies (b. 1923). Dutch athlete.
• 2005 – Manuel Lopes dies (b. 1907). Cape Verdian ficcionist, poet and essayst.
• 2006 – Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
• 2006 – Anna Malle dies (b. 1967). Adult film star.
• 2008 – Christopher Allport dies (b. 1947). American actor.
• 2008 – Evelyn Barbirolli dies (b. 1911). English musician.
• Postman Day (Brazil) / Brasil: Dia do Carteiro.
• Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul celebrated by the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches, which concludes the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity,
• Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church: Feast of Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople
• Christian ecumenism — Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ends.
• Burns Night – Burns suppers are held in many parts of the world around this date. (Originated in Scotland)
• Criminon Day – Commemorates the 1970 founding of Criminon, a program which seeks to rehabilitate prisoners by disseminating free copies of Scientology-related materials such as The Way to Happiness.
• Roman Empire – second day of the Sementivae in honour of Ceres and Terra
• St. Dwynwen’s Day – Welsh celebration of love Diwrnod Santes Dwynwen.
• Tatiana Day, celebrated as the Day of Russian students since 1755, when the Moscow University was founded.