0708 Sisinnius begins his reign as Catholic Pope (dies 20 days later) 0946 Caliph al-Mustaqfi blinded/ousted 1346 Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand 1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church 1552 France signs secret treaty with German Protestants 1562 3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens 1582 Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to the Baltic 1586 Battle at Boxum Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army 1680 French explorer Sieur de la Salle builds Fort Crèvecoeur 1752 Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism 1754 Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam 1759 British Museum opens in Montague House, London 1762 Fraunces Tavern opens in New York City NY 1777 People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England 1780 Continental Congress establishes court of appeals 1785 Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres 1797 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London) 1831 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run; Mr & Mrs Pierson of Charleston SC make 1st US railroad honeymoon trip 1833 HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego 1844 U of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana 1847 1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in New York City NY 1851 General Arista replaces Mexican President Herrera 1857 1st first-class game in Sydney, New South Wales vs Victoria at The Domain 1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis 1863 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal 1865 Fort Fisher, NC falls to Union troops 1866 Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori vs Cechach" premieres in Prague 1870 Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly 1877 US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens 1882 1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH) 1886 Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue 1892 Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Massachusetts 1895 Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg 1895 Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record 1895 French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar 1896 Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael & his Lost Angel" premieres in London 1900 SCNEC soccer team forms 1905 Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater 1907 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee de Forest 1907 Gold dental inlays 1st described by William Taggart, who invented them 1908 C Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wicket partnership 243 for Australia 1915 Japan claims economic control of China 1915 Sydney, Kern & Smith's musical "Love o' Mike" premieres in New York City NY 1919 2 million gallons of molasses "Tidal wave" Boston MA, drowning 21 1919 Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland 1919 Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit" premieres 1919 Semana Tragica (Tragic Week) Bloodbath in Buenos Aires 1919 W Collison & O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room" premieres in New York City NY 1922 Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier 1923 Lithuania seizes & annexes the country of Memel 1924 3rd Dutch government Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms 1925 Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP 1930 George Headley scores century on debut vs England (made 176) 1934 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die 1934 Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut) 1935 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition 1935 Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" premieres in New York City NY 1936 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio 1936 Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates 1936 Horace Stoneham elected president of New York Giants 1939 1st NFL pro bowl, New York Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field 1939 Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal 1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church) 1942 FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WWII 1942 Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WWII 1943 1,000 workers complete the air conditioning system for the Pentagon 1943 Japanese driven off Guadalcanal 1943 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught 1944 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany 1944 General Eisenhower arrives in England 1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die 1945 "Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City NY for 429 performances 1945 Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets 1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp 1949 Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin 1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington DC 1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000 1951 Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest 1953 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Washington DC station 1953 German Democratic Republic Minister of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage" 1955 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum 1955 Dmitri Shostakovich's "From Jewish Folk Poetry" premieres in Leningrad 1955 USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic 1956 Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open 1956 Dmitri Shostakovich appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia 1956 KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring TX (NBC) begins broadcasting 1956 NFL Pro Bowl East beats West 31-30 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field 1958 New York Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV 1961 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 35-31 1961 Suggs wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational Open 1961 Supremes signed with Motown Records 1962 50th Australian Mens Tennis Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64) 1962 Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea 1964 Baseball agrees to hold a free-agent draft in New York City NY 1964 Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract 1965 Rock group The Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain" 1965 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor MI forms 1966 AFL Pro Bowl All-Stars beats Buffalo 30-19 1966 NFL Pro Bowl East beats West 36-7 1967 Super Bowl I Green Bay Packers beat Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10 in Los Angeles; Super Bowl MVP Bart Starr, Green Bay, Quarterback 1968 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland TX (IND) begins broadcasting 1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union 1969 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean 1970 Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland A's) 1970 Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria 1971 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" 1971 "Ari" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City NY for 19 performances 1971 Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt 1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels 1973 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court 1973 Gene Shalit joins the Today Show panel 1973 Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican 1973 President Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam 1974 Expert panel reports 18½-m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures 1974 "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC 1974 24th NBA All-Star Game West beats East 134-123 at Seattle 1975 Space Mountain opens (Disneyland) 1975 Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence 1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford 1976 US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit 1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR 1977 Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live" 1977 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament 1978 Theodore Bundy kills Florida State University co-eds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman 1978 Super Bowl XII Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE & Randy White, Dallas, Defensive Tackle 1980 Pam Gems' "Piaf!" premieres in London 1981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV 1981 Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1982 "Forbidden Broadway" by/with Gerard Alessandrini premieres in New York City NY 1983 Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard 1983 Dutch political party DS'70 disbands 1983 Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand vs India 1983 Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours 1984 Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak 1984 Schönbrun skates world record 5 km (7 39.44) 1985 Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected President of Brazil in 21 years 1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery & Fred Chapell 1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president 1985 Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's vs India 1986 Living Seas opens at World Showcase in EPCOT, Walt Disney World 1988 Arab uprising in Israel begins 1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes 1988 Kiran More stumps five West Indian batsman at Madras, world Test record 1988 Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 & 8-75) vs West Indies on Test debut 1989 "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City NY after 176 performances 1989 10th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 35 awards 1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic 1989 Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble 1989 Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000 1990 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds 1990 AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch 1990 New York Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 second, beats Bulls, 109-106 1990 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins 1990 Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent 1991 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait passes - (they don't) 1991 Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup 1992 EC recognizes Slovenian and Croatian independence 1992 Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum 1992 Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia 1992 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man 1993 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die 1993 Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV 1993 Top mafia leader Salvatore "Totò" Riina arrested in Palermo 1994 15th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 34 awards, Showtime wins 10 1994 Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%) 1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist 1995 Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champion 1995 San Diego Chargers beat Pittsburgh Steelers 17-13 for AFC championship 1995 San Francisco 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship 1995 Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334 1995 Western Washington begins using new area code 360 1997 Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin 1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station 1998 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Missing in Action...
1968 SKARMAN ORVAL H. DULUTH MN NO RETURN FROM R&R 1970 TUBBS GLENN E. AMARILLO TX 1971 HARWOOD JAMES A. DALLAS TX 1971 KINSMAN GERALD F. FOXBORO MA
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Births which occurred on January 15:
1432 Afonso V "the African" king of Portugal (1438-1481) 1507 Johann Oporinus [Herbster] Swiss book publisher (Koran) 1567 Black Box [Catherine Quinol], Guadeloupe, vocalist (Love Sensation) 1622 Molière France, dramatist (Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope) (baptized) 1715 Georg C Wagenzeil Austria (court)composer/pianist 1716 Philip Livingston merchant (signed Declaration of Independence) 1730 John Malchair composer 1733 Joseph Lederer composer 1742 Eugene Godecharle composer 1779 Jean Coralli Paris, ballet producer/choreographer 1791 Franz Gillparzer Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece) 1793 Ferdinand G Waldmüller Austrian painter 1795 Willem de Clerq Dutch merchant/man of letters 1798 Thomas Crofton Croker Irish story teller (Fairy legends) 1809 Cornelia Connelly Philadelphia PA, founder (Society of the Holy Child Jesus) 1809 Pierre Joseph Proudhon France, politician (libertarian socialist) 1812 Peter C Asbjørnsen Norwegian fairy tale writer 1813 James Marion Sims South Carolina, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation) 1814 Ludwig Schläfli Swiss vicar/mathematician 1815 Henry Morris Naglee Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 1817 Lewis Golding Arnold Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1871 1821 Lafayette McLaws Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 1826 Mikhail Saltykov Spas-Ugol Russia, radical novelist/satirist (Family of Noblemen) 1841 Lord Frederick Stanley presenter of hockey's Stanley Cup 1845 Ella Flagg Young 1st woman president (National Educational Association) 1845 Heinrich Vogl composer 1850 Mihail Eminesco [Eminovici], Romanian poet (Samanul Dionis) 1850 Sonya Kurtovsky Kovalevsky Russia, mathemetician (Academy of Science) 1858 Giovanni Segantini Italy, painter 1863 Adolph Goldschmidt German historian 1863 Wilhelm Marx premier (Prussia) 1866 Nathan Soderblom Lutheran archbishop, internationalist (Nobel '30) 1868 Noach Zjordanija Georgian veterinarian/premier (1918-21) 1870 Johan Peter Koch Danish officer/explorer (Greenland) 1871 Bertram Shapleigh composer 1873 Max Adler Austria sociologist/socialist theorist 1877 Lewis M Terman Indiana, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test) 1878 Johanna Muller-Hermann composer 1879 Ernest Thesiger London England, actor (Bride of Frankenstein, Ghoul) 1882 Florian Znaniecki Polish/US sociologist (Polish Peasant in Europe) 1888 Joseph Henabery Omaha NE, director (Cobra) 1891 Osip E Mandelstam Warsaw Poland, Russian poet (Noise of Time) 1892 Frank Hutchens composer 1892 Rex Ingram [Reginald IM Hitchcock], director (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse) 1893 D Ivor D Novello Cardiff Wales, British actor/composer/writer (Lodger, Phantom Fiend, Truth Game) 1893 Dragisa Cvetkovic Serbian premiere of Yugoslavia (1939-41) 1894 Edmond Rubbens Belgian attorney/minister of colonization 1896 Jacobo Ficher composer 1899 Goodman Ace radio/TV actor/writer/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman) 19-- Charles Brown Talladega AL, actor (Dwayne Thompson-Today's FBI) 19-- Count Stovall California, actor (Cal-All My Children, Roy-As the World Turns) 19-- Victor Campos New York City NY, actor (Cade's County, Doctor's Hospital) 1900 César Domela Dutch painter (Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis son) 1900 William Heinesen Färoës Island, writer (Noatun) 1902 Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud king (Saudi Arabia) 1906 Aristotle Onassis Greece, rich shipping magnate 1906 Rezso Kokai composer 1908 Edward Teller Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project) 1908 Roberta Bitgood composer 1909 Elie Siegmeister New York City NY, composer (Plough & the Stars) 1909 Enrique Sasal y Chapi composer 1909 Gene Krupa Benny Goodman's drummer (Sing Sing Sing) 1911 Cy Feuer New York City NY, Broadway producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line) 1911 Wim Kan Dutch cabaretier 1912 Michel J-P Debré premier of France (1959-62) 1913 Lloyd Bridges San Leandro CA, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane) 1914 Lord Dacre of Glanton British historian 1916 Mikki Doyle journalist 1918 Gamal Abdel Nasser President of Egypt (1954-1970) 1918 Andreas M Donner Dutch jurist (constitutional law) 1920 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor Philadelphia PA, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York 1920 John Junor British editor in chief (Sunday Express) 1922 Franz Fühmann writer 1923 Lee Teng-hui president of ROC (Taiwan), head of KMT (1988- ) 1925 Ruth Slenczynska Sacramento CA, pianist 1925 Keith Bentley international racing cyclist 1926 Maria Schell Vienna Austria, actress (Space 1999) 1927 Francis Routh composer 1927 Norm Crosby Boston MA, comedian (Young at Heart Comedians) 1929 Reverand Dr Martin Luther King Jr Atlanta GA, dreamer (Nobel 1964) 1929 "Queen Ida" Guillory Ziadaco music 1929 Eva Badura-Skoda composer 1931 Thomas Hoving New York City NY, news correspondent (20/20) 1931 Derek Meddings special effects technician 1931 Murad Kazhlayev composer 1932 Dean Smith US actor/relay runner (Olympics-gold-1952) 1932 Enrique Raxach composer 1932 Louis Woodard Jones New Rochelle NY, 4X400m relayer (Olympics-gold-56) 1935 Malcolm Frager St Louis MO, pianist 1935 Robert Silverberg US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan's Planet) 1937 Margaret O'Brien San Diego CA, actress (Jane Eyre, Meet Me in St Louis) 1939 Charles Christopher Steel composer 1941 Captain Beefheart [Don Van Vilet], rocker (Bongo Fury, Shiny Beast) 1942 Edward "Sonny" Bivins US singer (Manhattans-Kiss & Say Goodbye) 1943 Mike Marshall Major League Baseball pitcher (1974 Cy Young Award) 1945 Marie-Christine AHI von Leibnitz German/British princess 1947 Pete Waterman rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block) 1947 Andrea Martin Portland ME, actress/comedienne (Wag The Dog, Club Paradise, SCTV) 1948 Dini Petty Canadian talk show host (CITY-TV) 1948 Tommy Nolan Montréal Québec Canada, actor (Jody-Buckskin) 1948 Ronnie Van Zant rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 1949 Howard Allen Twitty Phoenix AZ, PGA golfer (1979 BC Open) 1950 David Lynn Jones Bexar AR, country singer (Bonnie Jean) 1951 Charo Murcia Spain, actress/singer (Chico & the Man, Love Boat) 1951 Martha Davis California, vocalist/guitar (Motels-Only the Lonely, Shame) 1952 Melvyn Gale rocker (ELO) 1953 Boris Blank rocker (Yello) 1953 Randy White NFL tackle (Dallas Cowboys) 1955 Enrico Mentana Milan Italy, Italian newscaster (RAI) 1956 Vera Sosulya USSR, toboggan (Olympics-gold-1980) 1956 Paul Parker cricketer (one Test England vs Australia 1981) 1957 Mario Van Peebles Mexico, actor (Posse, South Bronx Heroes) 1958 Julian Sands actor (One Night Stand) 1959 Pete Trewavas Middlesbrough, rock bassist, (Marillion-Clutching at Straws, Real to Reel) 1960 Tim Curtis cricketer (England righty batsman in 5 Tests 1988-89) 1961 Iris DeMent Paragould AR, country singer (Our Town) 1963 Erling Kagge Norway, explorer (South Pole) 1963 Lijuan Geng Hebei China, Canadian tennis player (Olympics-96) 1963 Richard Nasheim hockey forward (Team Austria 1998) 1963 Yaro Dachniwsky Chicago IL, team handball goalie (Olympics-1996) 1964 Cees van der de Linden soccer player 1964 Paula Schnurr Kirkland Lake Ontario, 1.5k (Olympics-8-92, 96) 1965 Derek B rocker (Bullet from a Gun) 1965 Michael Clemons CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts) 1967 Lisa Lisa (Velez) rock vocalist (& Cult Jam) 1967 Richard Blakey cricketer (England wicket-keeper in India 1993) 1967 Ted N Tryba Wilkes-Barre PA, PGA golfer (1995 Anheuser-Busch Golf) 1968 Chad Lowe Dayton OH, actor (Spencer, Apprentice to Murder) 1968 Bob Dahl NFL guard (Washington Redskins) 1968 Felton Spencer NBA center (San Francisco Warriors) 1968 Laurie Fellner Appleton WI, team handball goalie (Olympics-92, 96) 1968 Steve McConaghy Australian soling yachter (Olympics-96) 1969 Adam Burt Detroit MI, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers) 1969 Delino DeShields Seaford DE, infielder (Montréal Expos, Los Angeles Dodgers) 1969 Demetra Hampton actress (Valentina) 1969 Leonard Wheeler NFL safety/cornerback (Cincinnati Bengals, Minnesota Vikings) 1969 Marsha Miller Rochester NY, WPVA volleyballer (National-17th-1995) 1969 Rob van Dijk Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord) 1969 Rod de Highden Australian 5k/10k/marathoner (Olympics-96) 1969 Siupeli Malamala NFL guard/tackle (New York Jets) 1970 Dan Landry San Diego CA, volleyball opposite hitter (Olympics-96) 1970 Elroy Kromheer soccer player (FC Volendam) 1970 Michele Granger Anaheim CA, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96) 1971 LeShon Johnson running back (Arizona Cardinals) 1971 Regina King Los Angeles CA, actress (Brenda Jenkins-227) 1972 Ernie Reyes Jr San Jose CA, actor (Ernie-Sidekicks) 1972 Kimberly Anne Massaro St Louis MO, Miss Missouri-America-5th (1996) 1973 Daniel Nijhof Dutch soccer player (FC Twente) 1973 Randy Srochenski CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders) 1974 Aubrey Jo Hiller Missoula MT, Miss Montana-America (1996) 1974 Mike Minter safety (Carolina Panthers) 1975 Greg Loveridge cricketer (New Zealand leg-spinner, did not bowl vs Zimbabwe 1996) 1975 Mary Pierce Montréal Québec Canada, tennis star (1995 Australian 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Deaths which occurred on January 15:
0069 Servius Sulpicius Galba 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), killed by Praetorian guard in the Forum Rome, at 70 1208 Peter of Castelnau French nobleman, murdered 1684 Caspar Netscher Dutch portrait painter, dies at about 48 1705 Walraad the Young, Earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/Governor of Nijmegen, dies 1744 Charles-Hubert Gervais composer, dies at 72 1755 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia composer, dies at 83 1765 Carlmann Kolb composer, dies at 61 1775 Giovanni Battista Sammartini composer, dies 1788 Gaetano Latilla composer, dies at 77 1812 Johannes Herbst composer, dies at 76 1816 Henry Harington composer, dies at 88 1844 Joseph Mazzinghi composer, dies at 78 1866 M T d'Azeglio writer, dies 1896 Matthew B Brady US photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72 1904 Eduard Lassen composer, dies at 73 1909 Ernest Reyer composer, dies at 85 1909 Ernest von Wildenbruch German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63 1911 Wilhelm Berger composer, dies at 49 1915 Guillaume Couture composer, dies at 63 1919 Karl Liebknecht Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47 1919 Rosa Luxembourg Marxist revolutionary, murdered 1922 John Kirk Barry Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89 1924 Geza Zichy composer, dies at 74 1926 Enrico Toselli composer, dies at 42 1932 Georg Kerschensteiner German educationalist, dies at 77 1934 Hermann Bahr Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70 1934 Patrick O'Malley US policeman, killed by John Dillinger 1936 Henry Forster cricket (Hants & Oxford University, Governor-General of Australia), dies 1942 Melvin Winfield Sheppard runner (Olympics-gold-08, 12), dies at 58 1949 Black Dahlia murder victim found in Los Angeles (basis of the movie) 1949 Pompeo Aloisi Italian baron/diplomat/senator, dies at 63 1953 Viktor Patrick Vretblad composer, dies at 76 1955 Yves Tanguy French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies 1961 Francesco Maria Saraceni composer, dies at 49 1962 Kenneth MacKenna actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62 1964 Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden US jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58 1965 Pierre Ngendandumwe premier of Burundi, murdered 1966 Betsy Mitchell US 100m backstroke swimmer, dies at 25 1967 Albert Szirmai composer, dies at 86 1968 Bill Masterson 1st NHLer fatally injured during game (Jan 13), dies 1968 John Davidson actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc), dies at 80 1968 Leopold Infeld Polish nuclear physicist (Motion & Relativity), dies at 69 1969 Theodor Werner German painter, dies at 82 1971 John Dall actor (Corn is Green, Rope), dies of heart attack at 50 1973 Jef Alpaerts Flemish pianist/conductor, dies at 68 1974 Karel Salmon composer, dies at 76 1978 Margaret Bowman & Lisa Levy Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy 1981 Emanuel Celler (Representative-D-NY, 1923-73), dies at 92 1982 Red Smith sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76 1983 Meyer Lansky reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach FL at 81 1983 Shepperd Strudwick actor (Psychomania), dies of cancer at 75 1986 James H "Jim" Crowley US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83 1987 Dolores Hawkins singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58 1987 Ray Bolger actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), dies at 82 1987 Gerrit Borgers Dutch literary, dies at 69 1988 Sean MacBride Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83 1989 Wilf Slack cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies 1990 Gordon Jackson actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66 1993 Henry Iba basketball coach, dies at 88 1993 Huub H Jacobse Dutch MP (VVD), dies at 68 1993 Ken Cory dies of AIDS at 51 1993 Sammy Cahn [Cohen], US songwriter (Bei Mir Bist Du Schön), dies at 79 1994 György Cziffra Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72 1994 Harry Nilsson rock vocalist (Without You, Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52 1994 Philippe Brun jazz trumpeter, dies at 85 1995 Sollie McElroy singer, dies at 61 1996 Les Baxter singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73 1996 Moshushu II King of Lesotho (1966-90), dies at 51 1996 Richard Charles Cobb historian, dies at 78 1997 Jose Ignacio Domecq wine maker, dies at 82 1997 Kenneth Thimann botanist, dies at 92 1998 Amos "Junior" Wells blues harpist, dies at 63 1998 Gulzarilal Nanda temporary PM of India (1964, 66), dies
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1865 Fort Fisher falls
Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to Union forces, and Wilmington, the Confederacy's most important blockade-running port, is closed.
When President Lincoln declared a blockade of southern ports in 1861, Rebel engineers began construction on a fortress at the mouth of New Inlet, which provided access to Wilmington. Fort Fisher was constructed of timber and sand, and it posed a formidable challenge for the Yankees. The walls were more than 20 feet high and they bristled with large cannon. Land mines and palisades made from sharpened logs created even more obstacles for potential attackers.
Union leadership did not make Fort Fisher a high priority until the last year of the war. After the Federals closed Mobile Bay in August 1864, attention turned to shutting down Wilmington. Union ships moved into place in December and began a massive bombardment on Christmas Eve. The next day, a small force failed to capture the fort but the attempt was renewed in January. On January 13, a massive three-day bombardment began. On the third day, 9,000 Yankee infantry commanded by General Alfred Terry hit the beach and attacked Fort Fisher. The Confederates could not repulse the attack.
The damage was heavy on both sides: the Union suffered more than 900 Army casualties and 380 Navy casualties, and the Confederates suffered 500 killed or wounded and over 1,000 captured. After the loss of this last major Confederate port, it was only three months before the war concluded. )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
1919 Rebel leaders are murdered in failed coup in Berlin
A coup launched in Berlin by a group of radical socialist revolutionaries is brutally suppressed by right-wing paramilitary units from January 10 to January 15, 1919; the group’s leaders, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, are murdered.
Germany’s long, ultimately losing struggle on the battlefield—culminating in the signing of the armistice in November 1918—and dismal conditions on the home front, including severe food shortages, caused many German socialists to turn away from the Social Democratic Party, which had supported the war effort in 1914 in the hopes that reform would follow a German victory. Although still the largest party in the Reichstag government, the Social Democrats saw their membership fall from over a million in 1914 to a quarter of that number in 1917.
By that time, a minority had broken off from the party and formed their own, the Independent Socialist Party. Luxemburg and Liebknecht led the Spartacists, the Marxist, revolutionary core group of the new party, which held firmly to the belief that German participation in a war was only justified in the case of a purely defensive conflict. In 1916, Luxemburg—under the nom de guerre Junius—had published a treatise in which she denied that the Great War was defensive for Germany, claiming instead that it was driven by imperialist, capitalist interests. Social democracy had failed the German working class, Luxemburg claimed, and the only solution was international class revolution, such as that envisioned by Vladimir Lenin and begun by the Bolsheviks in Russia in 1917.
On January 6, 1919, just weeks before the peace conference that would determine Germany’s future opened in Paris, the Spartacists gathered in Berlin to begin a revolution. Luxemburg urged her followers not to attempt a coup before they mustered sufficient popular support, but she was unable to restrain them. The rebels launched their attacks on January 10. In the conflict that ensued, both Luxemburg and Liebknecht were captured and killed. Her body, thrown into a canal, was not retrieved until five months later. )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
1951 The "Witch of Buchenwald" is sentenced to prison
On this day, Ilse Koch, wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany. Ilse Koch was nicknamed the "Witch of Buchenwald" for her extraordinary sadism.
Born in Dresden, Germany, Ilse, a librarian, married SS. Col. Karl Koch in 1936. Colonel Koch, a man with his own reputation for sadism, was the commandant of the Sashsenhausen concentration camp, two miles north of Berlin. He was transferred after three years to Buchenwald concentration camp, 4.5 miles northwest of Weimar; the Buchenwald concentration camp held a total of 20,000 slave laborers during the war.
Ilse, a large woman with red hair, was given free reign in the camp, whipping prisoners with her riding crop as she rode by on her horse, forcing prisoners to have sex with her, and, most horrifying, collecting lampshades, book covers, and gloves made from the skin of tattooed camp prisoners. A German inmate gave the following testimony during the Nuremberg war trials: "All prisoners with tattooing on them were to report to the dispensary.... After the prisoners had been examined, the ones with the best and most artistic specimens were killed by injections. The corpses were then turned over to the pathological department, where the desired pieces of tattooed skin were detached from the bodies and treated further."
Karl Koch was arrested, ironically enough, by his SS superiors for "having gone too far." It seems he had a penchant for stealing even the belongings of wealthy, well-placed Germans. He was tried and hanged in 1944. Ilse Koch was tried for crimes against humanity at Nuremberg and sentenced to life in prison, but the American military governor of the occupied zone subsequently reduced her sentence to four years. His reason, "lack of evidence," caused a Senate investigation back home. She was released but arrested again, tried by a West German court, and sentenced to life. She committed suicide in 1967 by hanging herself with a bedsheet. ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
1962 Kennedy says U.S. troops are not fighting
Asked at a news conference if U.S. troops are fighting in Vietnam, President Kennedy answers "No." He was technically correct, but U.S. soldiers were serving as combat advisers with the South Vietnamese army, and U.S. pilots were flying missions with the South Vietnamese Air Force. While acting in this advisory capacity, some soldiers invariably got wounded, and press correspondents based in Saigon were beginning to see casualties from the "support" missions and ask questions. ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
1973 Nixon halts military action against North Vietnam
Citing "progress" in the Paris peace negotiations between National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam, President Richard Nixon halts the most concentrated bombing of the war, as well as mining, shelling, and all other offensive action against North Vietnam. The cessation of direct attacks against North Vietnam did not extend to South Vietnam, where the fighting continued as both sides jockeyed for control of territory before the anticipated cease-fire.
On December 13, North Vietnamese negotiators had walked out of secret talks with Kissinger. President Nixon issued an ultimatum to Hanoi to send its representatives back to the conference table within 72 hours "or else." The North Vietnamese rejected Nixon's demand and the president ordered Operation Linebacker II, a full-scale air campaign against the Hanoi area. This operation was the most concentrated air offensive of the war.
During the 11 days of the attack, 700 B-52 sorties and more than 1,000 fighter-bomber sorties dropped roughly 20,000 tons of bombs, mostly over the densely populated area between Hanoi and Haiphong. On December 28, after 11 days of intensive bombing, the North Vietnamese agreed to return to the talks. When the negotiators met again in early January, they quickly worked out a settlement. The Paris Peace Accords were signed on January 23 and a cease-fire went into effect five days later.
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