0049 -BC- Julius Cesar crosses the Rubicon, invades Italy 0069 Roman emperor Galba adopts Marcus Piso Licinianus as Cæsar 0236 St Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope 0681 St Agatho ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1072 Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo 1356 German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree 1429 Order of the Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain 1430 Duke Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal 1430 Order of the Guilder forms 1514 Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished 1550 1st sitting of "Vurige Chamber" in Paris 1642 King Charles I & family flee London for Oxford 1663 King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company 1731 Charles Farnese becomes duke of Parma/Piacenza 1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published 1799 Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini" premieres in Weimar 1806 Dutch in Cape Town, South African surrender to the British 1808 Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies 1810 French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Joséphine 1811 Louisiana slaves rebel in 2 parishes 1833 Felix Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" premieres in Berlin 1839 Tea from India 1st arrives in UK 1840 Penny Post mail system started 1845 Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding 1853 Charles Reade's "Gold" premieres in London 1861 US forts & property seized by Mississippi 1861 Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US 1861 Fort Jackson & Fort Philip are taken over by Los Angeles state troops 1862 Battle of Big Sandy River KY (Middle Creek) 1862 Battle of Romney WV 1863 1st underground railway opens in London 1863 General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman AR 1863 January-uprising begins in Poland 1870 Georgia legislature reconvenes 1870 John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil 1878 US Senate proposes female suffrage 1883 Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee WI kills 71; General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt 1889 Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France 1890 Edward Macdowell's "Lancelot & Elaine" premieres 1890 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae 1893 Richard Drigo's ballet "The Magic Flute" premieres, St Petersburg 1897 Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman" premieres in Helsingfors 1897 Vincent d'Indy's "Istar" premieres in Amsterdam & Brussels 1900 Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown 1901 Oil discovered at Spindletop claim near Beaumont, Texas 1902 Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres (Amsterdam) 1910 1st international air meet in US held, in Los Angeles 1910 Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St New York City NY 1911 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego 1911 Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified) 1911 Trumper scored double cricket ton vs South Africa, goes on to get 214 1912 Caillaux government in France resigns 1912 World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY) 1914 1st edition of Hague's Post under SF van Oss, published 1914 Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 minutes in 43.7 seconds in Oslo 1916 Russian offensive in Kaukasus 1920 League of Nations' 1st meeting, Treaty of Versailles in effect 1920 Montréal Canadiens (14) & Toronto St Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals 1920 Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce 1923 Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany) 1923 Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel 1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Texas Governor, nation's 2nd woman governor 1925 France-Saarland forms 1927 Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres 1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky 1928 G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie" premieres in New York City NY 1929 Elmer Rice's "Street Scene" premieres in New York City NY 1930 Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted 1930 Commencement of New Zealand's 1st Test, vs England Christchurch 1930 Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England vs New Zealand Christchurch 1931 Philadelphia Quakers defeat Montréal, ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak 1932 "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated 1932 "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts 1935 Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks 1938 Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall 1938 Jean Anouilh's "La Sauvage" premieres in Paris 1938 Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed" premieres in New York City NY 1939 Bradman hits 186 South Africa vs Queensland before Christ catches him at short-leg 1941 Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace" premieres in New York City NY 1941 Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews 1942 Japan invades North-Celebes, Dutch East Indies 1943 1st US President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco 1943 Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad 1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia 1944 British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma 1945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close 1945 Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer 1946 UN General Assembly convenes for 1st time (London) 1946 US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar NJ 1947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard 1947 "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater New York City NY for 725 performances 1947 British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel 1948 "Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater New York City NY after 734 performances 1949 1st Jewish family show "The Goldbergs" premieres on CBS 1949 RCA introduces 45 RPM record 1951 1st jet passenger trip made 1951 UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY 1952 Jean Anouilh's "La valse des toréadors" premieres in Paris 1953 "My Darlin' Aida" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 89 performances 1953 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish 1953 NFL Pro Bowl National Conference beats American Conference 27-7 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden 1956 Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel" 1957 Anthony Eden resigns & Harold Macmillan becomes PM Britain 1957 Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Detroit Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates 1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the country and r&b charts, #2 on the pop chart 1960 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz 1962 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Perú 1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500 1964 US version of "That Was The Week That Was" premieres 1964 Battles between moslems & hindus in Calcutta 1964 Panamá severs diplomatic relations with US 1965 Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory 1965 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 34-14 1965 WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit MI (IND) begins broadcasting 1966 Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War 1966 India & Pakistan sign peace accord 1967 Edward Brooke, takes (Senator-R-MA) seat as 1st popular elected black 1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network 1967 Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven 1967 Lester Maddox inaugurated as Governor of Georgia 1968 US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho 1969 Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland 1969 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus 1969 Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam 1970 Preview Center Opens 1971 "Light, Lively & Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater New York City NY after 87 performances 1971 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur 1972 Los Angeles Lakers 33 straight win streak snapped, losing to Bucks 120-104 1972 Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK 1972 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan 1973 Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die 1977 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom 1978 Soyuz 27 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station 1979 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks 1979 Entertainer of the Year Awards 1980 Jim Stewart, Bruin's rookie goalie allows 3 goals in his 1st 4 minutes & a total of 5 in 1st period; he never again plays in the NHL 1980 Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC 1981 John Severin sets 100-mile unicycle speed record, 9 h 21 m 1981 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive" 1982 -17ºF (27.2ºC) in Braemar Grampian (equals UK record) 1982 Bengals beat Chargers in -59ºF (-51ºC) to win AFC championship 1982 Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 meter freestyle (15 43.31) 1983 New York Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring New York Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver 1984 Argentine ex-president/General Bignone arrested 1984 Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die 1984 Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?" 1984 Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, & D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame 1984 US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years 1985 Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua 1986 STS 61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy 1986 Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US 1988 "Don't Get God Started" closes at Longacre Theater New York City NY after 86 performances 1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players 1990 "Les Miserables" opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore MD 1990 China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre) 1991 US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis 1991 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans 1992 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards 1993 "My Favorite Year" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City NY after 37 performances 1993 "Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City NY after 48 performances 1993 Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to Los Angeles) 1994 Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins 1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal 1994 Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs 1995 "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12 30 AM 1996 Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners 1996 Jimmy Johnson announced as new coach of Miami Dolphins 1997 "Rehearsal" closes at Criterion Theater New York City NY 1997 1st Comet of 1997 Discovered Comet 1997 A1 1997 4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight" 1997 Dow Corning provides $2.95 billion to settle breast implant suits 1997 Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map 1997 Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as President of Nicaragua 1998 18th United Negro College Fund raises (re-broadcasted Jan 17th) ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
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1967 GAULEY JAMES P. RINGWOOD OK 1967 STOVES MERRITT III BIRMINGHAM AL 1968 HOPPER EARL P. JR. GLENDALE AZ EJECTION PROBLEMS CRASH 1968 HALL KEITH N. GRAND FORKS ND 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98 1969 SPROTT ARTHUR R. JR. DELRAY BEACH FL 1970 ALLEN WAYNE C. TEWKSBURY MA REMAINS RETURNED 09/90 ID'D 04/91 1970 CROSBY HERBERT C. GA 1970 HOWES GEORGE A. KNOX IN 1973 CLARK ROBERT A. NORTH HOLLYWOOD CA 1973 MC CORMICK MICHAEL T. HONOLULU HI
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Births which occurred on January 10:
1502 Hendrik Niclaes German/Dutch merchant/cult leader (Children of God) 1628 Jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff [Jan Maet], seascape painter) 1635 Willem à Brakel Frisian theologist (Reasonable religion) 1638 Niels Stensen Danish astronomer 1644 Louis Boufflers marshall of France 1683 Gasparo Visconti composer 1701 Johann Caspar Simon composer 1738 Ethan Allen Revolutionary War fighter (led the Green Mountain Boys) 1747 Abraham L Breguet French clock maker 1760 Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg composer 1766 Louis Massonneau composer 1768 James Varicick 1st AME Zion Bishop 1769 Michel Ney French marshal (Waterloo) 1780 M Heinrich C Lichtenstein German zoologist 1797 A V Droste-Hülshoff writer 1814 Aubrey de Vere Irish writer (Victorian Observer) 1815 Alexander Brydie Dyer Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1874 1815 Thomas Williams Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 1825 Alexander Travis Hawthorn Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 1834 John Acton English historian/MP 1854 Peter Gast composer 1855 Peter J Blok Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People) 1858 Heinrich Zille German cartoonist (Cheerful Blätter, Simplicissimus) 1864 George Washington Carver agricultural scientist (estimate date - actual birthdate unknown) 1867 Gerhard Anschütz German MP 1871 Enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti Austrian author (Jesse & Maria) 1876 Johannes W "Jan" Eisenloeffel Dutch goldsmith 1877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell inventor (electrostatic precipitator) 1880 Eduard M Meijers Dutch lawyer (Short Cause) 1880 French van Cauwelaert Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp 1880 Grock [Adrien Wettach], Swiss clown/circus director 1880 Manuel Azaña y Díaz PM/President of 2nd Spanish republic (1936-39) 1882 Charles Trowbridge Vera Cruz Mexico, actor (Fatal Hour) 1883 Aleksei Tolstoi Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj) 1883 Florence Reed Philadelphia PA, silent film actress (Dancing Girl) 1883 Francis X Bushman Norfolk VA, silent film actor (Ben Hur, Spy's Defeat) 1884 James Philip Dunn composer 1886 Jose Antonio de Donostia composer 1887 Robinson Jeffers US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea) 1888 Emile van Bosch Dutch revue/operetta-artist (Fair Folks) 1890 Douglas MacLean Philadelphia PA, silent film comedian/producer (Going Up) 1890 Ernest Milton San Francisco CA, actor (Cat Girl, Fiddler's Three) 1891 Jos Speybrouck Flemish painter 1892 Dumas Malone Mississippi, historian (Jefferson & His Time) 1894 Reginald Denham London England, Broadway director (Obsession, The Bad Seed) 1897 Albert Moeschinger composer 1898 Sergei M Eisenstein Russian director (Alexandr Nevski) 19-- Bonnie Hellman San Francisco CA, actress (Penny Brooks-Nurse) 1901 Pauline Starke Joplin MO, actress (Dante's Inferno, Dance Magic) 1903 Jean Morel Abbeville France, conductor 1903 Barbara Hepworth English abstract sculptor/actress (Rescued by Rover) 1903 Jens A Schade Danish writer (Schadebogen, Losses Højsang) 1904 Ray Bolger Dorchester MA, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz) 1904 Jesus Garcia Leoz composer 1908 Paul Henreid Trieste, actor (Casablanca, 4 Horsemen of Apocalypse) 1908 Bernard Lee London England, actor (M in James Bond movies) 1909 Grace Mitchell educator 1909 Rudolf Kubin composer 1910 Dorothy Stroud garden historian 1910 Galina Ulanova St Petersburg Russia, ballerina (Bolshoi) 1910 Jean Martinon Lyons France, conductor/composer 1911 Jan Boon [Tjalie Robinson], Dutch East Indies publicist (Tong Tong) 1913 Gustav Husak President of Czechoslovakia (1975-89) 1913 Haywood Frank Henry sax player 1914 Polly Rowles Philadelphia PA, actress (Aunt Laurie-Jamie) 1914 Claude Gallimard France, publisher 1915 Dean Dixon Zug Switzerland, conductor 1917 Jerry Wexler music producer (Aretha Franklin/Bob Dylan) 1920 Georges Marchal Nancy France, actor (Evil Eden, Gina, Milky Way) 1923 Ingeborg Drewitz writer 1924 Ludmilla Chiraeff ballet dancer 1925 Maxwell Roach composer 1926 June Haver Mrs Fred MacMurray/actress (Dolly Sisters) 1927 Gisele MacKenzie Winnipeg Manitoba, singer/actress (Your Hit Parade) 1927 Lee Philips Brooklyn NY, actor (Ellery Queen) 1927 Johnnie Ray Dallas OR, pop singer (Cry) 1928 Donald Brooks fashion designer (Emmy 1983) 1928 Wallace Berry composer 1930 Byron "Wild Child" Gipson blues singer 1930 Roy E Disney CEO (Disney) 1931 Alexander L "Alex" Boraine South Africa vicar/MP 1931 Ron Galella celebrity photographer (sued by Jackie O) 1933 Akira Miyoshi composer 1933 Leonard John Coldwell cricket bowler (England medium-fast in 7 Tests 1962-64) 1935 Ronnie Hawkins Ark, rocker (The Band-Who Do You Love?) 1935 Sherrill Milnes Hinsdale IL, baritone 1935 Georg Katzer composer 1938 Francis W "Frank" Mahovlich NHL Hall of Famer (Montréal Canadiens) 1938 Ivan Twigden English contractor/multi-millionaire (Twigden PLC) 1938 Willie "Stretch" McCovey 1st baseman (San Francisco Giant #44) 1939 Bill Toomey Philadelphia PA, decathlon champ (Olympics-gold-1968) 1939 Sal Mineo New York City NY, actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause) 1940 Harry Gant NASCAR driver 1942 Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko Russia, cosmonaut 1942 Jack Regan broadcaster 1942 Walter Hill director (48 Hours, Extreme Prejudice) 1943 Jim Croce Philadelphia PA, singer/songwriter (Time in a Bottle, Bad Bad Leroy Brown) 1945 Frank Sinatra Jr Jersey City NJ, singer/bandleader (Golddiggers) 1945 Rod Stewart London England, singer (Maggie Mae, Da Ya Think I'm Sexy) 1946 Alexis Nihon Jr Bahamas, wrestler (Olympics-1968) 1946 Aynsley Dunbar rocker (Journey, Jefferson Starship) 1946 Bob Lang rock bassist (Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders) 1947 George Alec Effinger US, sci-fi author (Nick of Time) 1948 Cyril Neville US singer/percussionist (Neville Bros-Yellow Moon) 1948 Donald Fagen Passaic NJ, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Steely Dan-Peg) 1948 William Sanderson Memphis TN, actor (Larry-Newhart, Deuce-Babylon 5, Blade Runner) 1949 Teresa Graves Houston TX, actress (Laugh-in, Get Christie Love) 1949 Walter S Browne US chess champion (1974-78, 1980-84) 1949 George Foreman Marshall TX, world heavyweight boxing champ (1973-74, 95) 1951 Kathleen Bradley Youngstown Oh, model (Price is Right) 1952 Scott Thurston keyboardist/guitarist (Motels-Only the Lonely) 1953 Bobby Rahal Indy-car racer (over 15 wins) 1953 Pat Benatar [Andrezejewski], Brooklyn NY, singer (Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Hell Is for Children) 1955 Luci Martin rocker vocalist (Chic) 1955 Michael Schenker heavy metal rocker (McAuley Schenker Groups-Coming on Strong, Scorpions) 1957 Robert Thompson Houston TX, Nike golfer (1990 Boise Open-2nd) 1958 Shawn Colvin singer/guitarist 1959 Chandra Cheesborough Jacksonville FL, 4X100 runner (Olympics-gold-84) 1959 Don Letts rocker (Big Audio Dynamite) 1959 Kirk & Curtwood musician (Meat Puppets) 1961 Nadja Salerni-Sonnenberg Rome Italy, concert violinist 1961 Evan Handler New York City NY, actor (Dear Mr Wonderful) 1961 Janet Jones Bridgeton MO, actress (American Anthem, Flamingo Kid) 1962 Jim Lindeman US baseball outfielder (New York Mets) 1963 Frank Wijnhoven Dutch soccer player (NEC, Treffers) 1964 Krista Tesreau St Louis MO, actress (Mindy-Guiding Light, Tina-OLTL, Silk Stalkings) 1965 Nathan rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret) 1965 James Washington NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins) 1967 Mick Hankers Dutch dancer (Josephine, Sound of Motown) 1967 Micky Michelle [Ingrid Hankers], Dutch dancer (Josephine) 1967 Trini Alvarado actor (Frighteners) 1968 Lyle Menendez NY, accused of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers) 1968 Malcolm Showell WLAF defensive end (Amsterdam Admirals) 1969 Doug E Doug rapper/comedian (Operation Dumbo Drop, Jungle Fever) 1969 Juanita Clayton Manitou Manitoba, softball catcher (Olympics-96) 1970 Cameron MacKenzie Australian 100m/200m/400m (Olympics-96) 1970 Deon Figures NFL cornerback/PR (Pittsburgh Steelers) 1970 James Wilson WLAF defensive end (Rhein Fire) 1971 Guylaine Cloutier Levis Québec Canada, 100m breast stroke swimmer (Olympics-4-92, 96) 1971 Sergi Bruguera Italy, tennis star 1972 Thomas Lewis NFL wide receiver (New York Giants) 1973 Berry Radstraat Dutch soccer player (NEC, SCH) 1973 Glenn Robinson Gary IN, NBA forward (Milwaukee, Olympics-gold-96) 1973 Travis Davis NFL strong safety (New Orleans Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars) 1974 Andre Kirwan CFL receiver (Toronto Argonauts) 1974 Hollis Thomas defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles) 1975 Shannon Kavanaugh Boston MA, rocker (Ivory Soul) 1979 Chris H E Smith [Daddy Mack], Atlanta, rapper (Kris Kross-Warm it Up) 2418 Henry King US, director (Jesse James, 12 O'Clock High) )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))0
Deaths which occurred on January 10: 0681 Agatho Sicilian pope (678-81), dies 0866 Lin-chi I-hsuan [J Rinzai Gigen], Zen teacher, dies 0976 John I Tzimisces co-emperor of Byzantium (969-76), dies at 51 1271 Otto II the Lame, Earl of Gelre, dies 1276 Gregorius X [Tedaldo Visconti], pope, dies 1542 Gerardus Noviomagus [Gerrit Geldenhauer], Dutch theologist, die at 59 1645 William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71 1674 Jacob de Witt Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/MP, dies at 84 1754 Daniel Raap Dutch porcelain salesman/politician, dies at about 51 1768 Charles Cressent French court furniture maker, dies at 82 1775 Jemeljan Pugatshov Russian kosak leader/"czar Peter III", dies 1778 Carolus Linnæus "Carl von Linné" Swedish botanist/explorer/"Father of Taxonomy", dies at 70 1780 Francesco Antonio Vallotti Italian organist/composer, dies at 82 1789 Pierre Lyonet Dutch zoologist/cryptologist, dies at 82 1792 Jean-Louis Laruette composer, dies at 60 1800 Johan Wikmanson composer, dies at 46 1811 Marie-Joseph de Chénier French poet (Chant du Départ), dies at 46 1824 Victor Emanuel I king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at 64 1833 Adrien Marie Legendre dies 1833 Antoinio da Silva Leite composer, dies at 73 1846 Etienne P de Senancour French writer (De l'Amour), dies at 75 1855 Mary Russell Mitford English playwright/poet (Julian), dies at 67 1862 Samuel Colt inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47 1871 Pierre A du Terrail French writer, dies at 41 1876 Charles EH de Coussemaker Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at 70 1889 Martin Andreas Udbye composer, dies at 68 1892 Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn composer, dies at 91 1895 Benjamin Louis Paul Godard composer, dies at 45 1899 Gerard Keller Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69 1908 Anna S Barbiers Dutch actress (Klaasje Zevenster), dies at 65 1917 Buffalo Bill Cody army scout & Indian fighter, dies 1927 August(us) Allebé Dutch painter/lithograph, dies at 88 1934 Marinus van der Lubbe Dutch communist, beheaded in Berlin at 24 1935 Charlie McGahey cricket (MCC tour of Australia 1901-02 cured his tuberculosis), dies 1935 Edwin H Flack English 800/1500m runner (Olympics-gold-1896), dies at 60 1936 Charles Wright cricketer (3 Tests England vs South Africa 1895-96), dies 1938 Willem de Vreese Flemish linguist, dies at 68 1939 Jameson Thomas actor (Piccadilly, Farmer's Wife), dies at 50 1939 Julius Bittner Austria composer (Missa Austriaca, Little Violet), dies at 64 1941 Frank Bridge English violinist/composer (Sea), dies at 61 1941 Joseph Schmidlin German church historian, murdered at 67 1943 Agustin P Justo y Rolon President of Argentina (1931-38), dies at 66 1943 J Arthur S Berson Austrian meteorologist, dies at 83 1945 Rudolf Borchardt writer, dies at 67 1951 Athos Palma composer, dies at 59 1951 Harry Sinclair Lewis US writer (Nobel 1930), dies at 65 1953 Theo Mackeben German pianist/composer (Golden Cage), dies at 56 1954 Fred Raymond composer, dies at 53 1956 Henricus P Bremmer Dutch art historian (Beeldende Kunst), dies at 84 1956 Karl L Schmidt German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum), dies at 64 1957 Gabriela Mistral Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67 1958 Charles de Trooz Belgian writer, dies at 52 1961 Dashiell Hammett author (Maltese Falcon, Thin Man), dies from throat cancer at 66 1963 Tadeusz Szeligowski composer, dies at 66 1964 A Marja Dutch author (Man of Day & Night), dies at 46 1966 George Cresswell cricketer (Took 13 wickets in 3 Tests for New Zealand), suicide 1966 Hermann Kasack writer, dies at 69 1967 Emerson Treacy actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66 1967 Vilem Petrzelka composer, dies at 77 1968 Howard Smith actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel), dies at 74 1968 Basil Sydney actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 1968 Josue Teofilo Wilkes composer, dies at 85 1968 Louis-François-Marie Aubert French composer (La Momie), dies at 90 1968 Theophilus E Dönges South African Internal minister, dies at 69 1970 Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44 1971 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel French fashion designer, dies at 87 1972 Al Goodman Russian/US orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81 1972 Georg Rendl Austrian miner/bee-keeper (Satan on Earth), dies at 68 1972 Sverre Jordan composer, dies at 82 1976 Chester Arthur Burnett US blues pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65 1976 Howlin' Wolf singer/guitarist, dies following brain surgery at 65 1978 Don Gillis US composer (Symphony #5½), dies at 65 1978 John D Rockefeller III US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71 1978 Pedro Joaquín Chamorro of La Prensa, assassinated in Managua 1978 Zeb Turner country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag), dies at 62 1980 George Meany labor leader, dies at 85 1981 Richard Boone actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel), dies at 63 1982 Paul Lynde comedian/actor (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched, Bye Bye Birdie, Bewitched), dies at 55 1982 Lazar Weiner composer, dies at 84 1984 Suvanna Phuma premier of Laos, dies at 82 1986 Joseph Kraft US columnist, dies at 61 1990 Juliet Berto screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at 42 1990 Yvonne Peattie Marquard actress (Donovan's Reef), dies 1991 Dimitris Myrat dies of cancer at 62 1992 Barbara Couper British actress (Last Days of Dolwyn), dies at 89 1993 Diana Adams ballerina, dies 1993 Noorjahan Begum "adulterous" wife in Bangladesh, stoned to death 1994 Catharina I "Ien" Dales minister of Internal affairs (1989-94), dies at 62 1994 Charles "Chub" Feeney baseball president (National League), dies at 72 1994 Michael Aldridge actor (Murder in the Cathedral), dies at 73 1995 Elaine Greene literary Agent, dies at 74 1995 Halton Kathleen Tynan writer, dies at 57 1996 Alexander Robertus organic chemist, dies at 88 1996 Arthur Sydney Martin spycatcher, dies at 81 1997 Alvinio Misciano Italian tenor, killed in a fall from a window 1997 Elspeth Josceline Huxley writer, dies at 96 1997 George Young footballer, dies at 74 1997 Hilary Grover Barratt Brown conservationist, dies at 71
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1861 William Seward named Secretary of State
William Seward accepts President-elect Abraham Lincoln's invitation to become Secretary of State. Seward became one of the most important members of the cabinet and engineered the purchase of Alaska after the Civil War.
A native of New York, Seward taught school in the South before returning to New York and entering politics. He became governor in 1838 and began to articulate strong anti-slavery views. Seward entered the U.S. Senate in 1849 and burst onto the national scene during the debates surrounding the Compromise of 1850. He boldly proclaimed that slavery was doomed by a "higher law than the Constitution, the law of God." This became a catch phrase for abolitionists and Seward became known as a radical, belying his pragmatic tendencies.
Seward joined the Republican Party in the 1850s and he appeared to be the leading candidate for president in 1860. The party went with Lincoln, feeling that he would draw more votes in the Midwest and border regions. Seward was initially reluctant to accept the position of Secretary of State--he still saw himself as the natural leader of the party and was reluctant to take a back seat to Lincoln. In fact, Seward underestimated Lincoln's political acumen. His relationship with Lincoln was not particularly close, but they worked well together during the war.
Seward became one of the moderate voices in the Lincoln cabinet. His careful politicking helped to counter the public perception that the administration was dominated by radicals. Although he supported the end of slavery, Seward downplayed the effects of emancipation to gain support from Democrats and conservative Republicans during the presidential campaign of 1864.
The assassination that killed Lincoln nearly resulted in Seward's death as well. Lewis Powell, an accomplice to John Wilkes Booth, stabbed Seward as he lay in bed recovering from a carriage accident. Seward survived, and after a summer convalescing, returned to the State Department. His final achievement came with the purchase of Alaska from the Russians in 1867. Although he considered it one of his greatest accomplishments, critics dubbed the territory "Mr. Seward's Ice Box." History would show that Seward's belief in the value of Alaska was astute. ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
1861 Florida secedes
Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union when a state convention votes 62 to 7 in favor of the measure. ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
1923 Harding orders U.S. troops home from Germany
Four years after the end of World War I, President Warren G. Harding orders U.S. occupation troops stationed in Germany to return home.
In 1917, after several years of bloody stalemate along the Western Front, the entrance of America's fresh, well-supplied forces into the Great War—a decision announced by President Woodrow Wilson in April and provoked largely by Germany’s blatant attacks on American ships at sea—proved to be a major turning point in the conflict. American naval forces arrived in Britain on April 9, only three days after the formal declaration of war. On June 13, the American Expeditionary Force (AEF), commanded by the celebrated General John J. Pershing, reached the shores of France.
By the time the war ended in November 1918, more than 2 million American soldiers had served on the battlefields of Western Europe and more than 50,000 of them had lost their lives. The last combat divisions left France in September 1919, though a small number of men stayed behind to supervise the identification and burial of their compatriots in military cemeteries. An American occupation force of 16,000 men was sent to Germany, to be based in the town of Coblenz, as part of the post-war Allied presence on the Rhine that had been determined by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
In 1923, after four years in Germany, the occupation troops were ordered home after President Harding succeeded Wilson in 1921 and announced a desire to return to “normalcy” after the disruptions of wartime. Meanwhile, the bitterness of the German population, demoralized by defeat and what they saw as the unfairly harsh terms of peace—of which the American occupation was a part—grew ever stronger. ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
1941 Lend-Lease introduced into Congress
On this day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Lend-Lease program is brought before the U.S. Congress for consideration.
Roosevelt devised the Lend-Lease program as a means of aiding Great Britain in its war effort against the Germans. The program gave the chief executive the power to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of" any military resources he deemed in the ultimate interest of the defense of the United States. The idea was that if Britain were better able to defend itself, the security of the U.S. would be enhanced. The program also served to bolster British morale, as they would no longer feel alone in their struggle against Hitler.
Congress authorized the program on March 11. By November, after much heated debate, Congress extended the terms of Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union, even though Stalin's USSR had already been the recipient of American military weapons and had been promised $1 billion in financial aid.
By the end of the war, more than $50 billion in funds, weapons, aircraft, and ships were distributed to 44 countries through the program. After the war, the Lend-Lease program morphed into the Marshall Plan, which allocated funds for the revitalization of "friendly" democratic nations. ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
1967 Johnson asks for surcharge to pay for the war
President Johnson, in his annual State of the Union message to Congress, asks for enactment of a 6 percent surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes to help support the Vietnam War for two years, or "for as long as the unusual expenditures associated with our efforts continue." Congress delayed for almost a year, but eventually passed the surcharge. The U.S. expenditure in Vietnam for fiscal year 1967 would be $21 billion. )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
1972 Hubert Humphrey criticizes President Nixon
Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey criticizes President Richard Nixon, saying that it was taking longer for President Nixon to withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam than it did to defeat Hitler.
Humphrey called for an immediate end to the war, declaring: "Had I been elected, we would now be out of that war." Humphrey ran against Nixon in the 1968 election, winning the Democratic nomination for president over Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Minnesota) after President Lyndon Johnson declined to run for re-election. In the race, Humphrey had tried to distance himself from Johnson and his war policy, but Republican nominee Nixon, promising to "to end the war and win the peace," won the election by less than 1 percent of the popular vote.
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