January 14......

January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 (352 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

It is celebrated as New Year's Day by those still following the Julian calendar.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 1236 - English king Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence

● 1301 - Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Arpad dynasty in Hungary.

● 1501 - Martin Luther, 17, enters the University of Erfurt.

● 1514 - Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery.

● 1526 - Charles V & Francis I sign Treaty of Madrid; Francis I forced to give up claims in Burgundy, Italy & Flanders

● 1529 - Spanish reformer Juan de Valdes, 29, published his "Dialogue on Christian Doctrine," which paved the way in Spain for Protestant ideas. But his treatise was condemned by the Spanish Inquisition, and Valdes was forced to flee Spain, never to return

● 1539 - Spain annexes Cuba.

● 1601 - Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome.

● 1604 - The Hampton Court Conference opened in London, during which Puritan representatives met with their monarch, King James I, to discuss reform within the Church of England.

● 1639 - The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, was adopted in Connecticut.

● 1641 - United East Indian Company conquerors city of Malakka, 7,000 killed

● 1659 - Battle at Elvas Portuguese beat Spanish

● 1690 - The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany.

● 1699 - Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches"

● 1717 - German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam

● 1724 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.

● 1739 - England & Spain signs 2nd Convention of Pardo

● 1742 - English astronomer Edmond Halley, who observed the comet that now bears his name, died at age 85.

● 1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army leaves Glasgow

● 1784 - Treaty of Paris, officially ending U.S. War of Independence, ratified by Congress. By its terms, "His Britannic Majesty" is bound to withdraw his armies without "carrying away any Negroes or other property of American inhabitants."

● 1794 - First successful caesarean section in U.S., Edom, Virginia by Dr Jessee Bennet on his wife.

● 1799 - Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets

● 1799 - King of Naples flees before the advancing French armies

● 1813 - Gideon Hawley becomes 1st state school superintendent in US (NY)

● 1814 - Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.

● 1847 - Conspiracy in New Mexico against US

● 1850 - While held in the Konigstein fortress, Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin is condemned to death. Moved to Dresden in 1849, and played a principal role in the May 3 uprising with Richard Wagner. The rebellion is defeated by May 9. Bakunin is later arrested and today sentenced to die. His death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment. He spends some of this time chained hand and foot to a wall. After various extraditions, he ends up in Russia where he is again condemned, without trial, to a dungeon for six years in the Peter and Paul Fortress. In 1854, he succumbs to scurvy, which causes his teeth to fall out. Eventually in 1857, Tsar Alexander orders Bakunin's release from prison. He is then permanently exiled to Siberia, from which he will escape and voyage around the world stirring up trouble.

● 1858 - Italian nationalists led by Felice Orsini throw three bombs at Napoleon III's carriage in front of the Paris Opera, killing eight bystanders and injuring 148, but only slightly wounding the Emperor and Empress. Felice Orsini was later executed.

● 1861 - Fort Pikens FL falls into state hands

● 1863 - Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teched LA

● 1864 - Battle of Cosby Creek TN

● 1864 - General Sherman begins his march to the South

● 1868 - North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh

● 1868 - South Carolina constitutional convention, meets with a black majority

● 1873 - "Celluloid" registered as a trademark

● 1873 - P B S Pinchback elected to Senate

● 1874 - I D Shadd elected Speaker of the lower house of the Mississippi legislature

● 1875 - Birth of Albert Schweitzer, Kaysersberg, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany. Medical humanitarian, historian of the apocalyptic enigmas of early Christianity and the end times.

● 1878 - US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional

● 1878 - Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for Britain's Queen Victoria.

● 1882 - The Myopia {not a made up name, I swear!} Hunt Club, in Winchester, MA, became the first country club in the United States.

● 1888 - Birth of Maurice Dommanget, Paris. Labor historian and revolutionary syndicalist.

● 1892 - Martin Niemoeller, pacifist pastor, born, Germany.

● 1893 - Pope Leo XIII appointed Archbishop Francesco Satolli as the Vatican's first Apostolic Delegate to the United States.

● 1893 - England - Independent Labour Party founded, Bradford, headed by Keir Hardie.

● 1896 - Birth of John Dos Passos, radical American novelist, Chicago.

● 1898 - Mathematician and pedophile Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) dies at 66.

● 1900 - Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca premieres in Rome.

● 1907 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.

● 1912 - Raymond Poincaré becomes premier of France

● 1914 - Henry Ford's assembly line begins production of the Model T. Each car requires 90 minutes for assembly.

● 1914 - IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) Suhr Trial begins, Marysville, California.

● 1916 - Dutch South Sea dike cracks

● 1918 - Finland & USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar

● 1918 - Emma Goldman fined and sentenced to two years in prison for obstruction of justice (opposing the draft). Goldman was deported shortly thereafter.

● 1922 - Committee for International Cooperation, first world cultural organization, founded by League of Nations, Geneva.

● 1924 - Allies direct Fiume (Rijeka) in Italy

● 1929 - Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign

● 1932 - 1st totalisator (to record racetrack bets) in US installed, Hialeah

● 1935 - Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use

● 1938 - National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia formed (NY)

● 1938 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.

● 1939 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica

● 1941 - A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and chief spokesperson for the African American working class, calls for a March on Washington, demanding racial integration of the military and equal access to defense industry jobs. The call prompts black enthusiasm too great for the government to ignore. On June 18, less than two weeks before the march, Pres. Roosevelt invited Randolph to the White House. In the unpleasant confrontation, Randolph told Roosevelt he will abandon the march plans only if Roosevelt bars job discrimination in both the defense industry and government. Incredulous at Randolph's obstinacy, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, the government's most significant action on behalf of African Americans since post-Civil War reconstruction.

● 1942 - Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo

● 1943 - Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw

● 1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.

● 1943 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).

● 1944 - Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow

● 1946 - 2 jetties collapse in Ganges-160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed

● 1949 - Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die

● 1950 - US recalls all consular officials from China

● 1951 - NFL Pro Bowl 1st since 1942, Americans beat Nationals 28-27

● 1952 - "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV

● 1952 - Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends

● 1952 - Snow storm in Sierra NV kills 26

● 1953 - President Josip Broz Tito is elected president of Yugoslavia.

● 1954 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.

● 1954 - Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio.

● 1956 - Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad

● 1960 - Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded

● 1963 - George C Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"

● 1964 - Jacqueline Kennedy's 1st public appearance (TV) since assassination

● 1966 - March on Atlanta to protest ouster of Julian Bond, African American pacifist, from Georgia House of Representatives, after his endorsement of SNCC statement critical of U.S. involvement in Vietnam; Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke.

● 1966 - French-born American trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote in a letter: 'The best way to solve the problem of rendering to Caesar what is Caesar's is to have nothing that is Caesar's.'

● 1967 - Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Fransico's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. Between 20,000 to 30,000 people attend.

● 1967 - New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments

● 1967 - Earthquake in Sicily kills 231

● 1969 - Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later

● 1969 - Series of explosions aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise kills 17, injures 85.

● 1970 - Sato Eisaku is elected to his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.

● 1970 - United Airlines halted its "men only" executive flights between New York and Chicago.

● 1970 - A display of John Lennon's erotic "Bag One" lithographs opens in London. Scotland Yard seizes prints two days later as evidence of pornography.

● 1970 - Spain - Government drafts 55,000 postal workers to crush strike.

● 1972 - Adrien Perrissaguet (1898-1972) dies. Founder of "L'association des federalistes anarchistes." Activist in the Sacco and Vanzetti committee, he also fought in the Spanish Revolution of 1936 and was a member of the French Resistance during WWII.

● 1972 - Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.

● 1972 - American Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.'

● 1972 - The TV comedy Sanford & Son (an American import of the British comedy Steptoe and Son) premieres on NBC.

● 1973 - Super Bowl VII: The Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins. The Dolphins become the first NFL team to go undefeated in a season.

● 1975 - USSR breaks trade agreement with US

● 1975 - Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka "the Black Panther".

● 1976 - Wildcat strike wave spreads across Spain.

● 1978 - Johnny Rotten quits the Sex Pistols after the final show of their American tour, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.

● 1979 - President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday

● 1981 - FCC frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish

● 1981 - Just before being replaced by Ronald Reagan, Pres. Jimmy Carter authorizes sending combat equipment to Salvadoran junta.

● 1983 - Man shot by police hunting David Martin; A man is critically injured in West London during a police ambush aimed at capturing escaped prisoner David Martin.

● 1984 - Ray Kroc, founder of McDonalds, dies at 82. Cremated in one of his own restaurants, his ashes are kept at the first McDonalds. Don't ask where.

● 1984 - Ray Mancini defeats Bobby Chacon by a knockout in three to retain his WBA boxing world Lightweight title in Reno.

● 1985 - Martina Navratilova wins her 100th tennis tournament.

● 1985 - 16 indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees

● 1986 - Vinicio Cerezo becomes only the 2nd freely elected President of Guatemala since the CIA-sponsored coup in 1954

● 1986 - Constitution of Guatemala takes effect

● 1987 - In nuclear reactor protest, Robin Wood occupies Environment Ministry, Lower Saxony, Germany.

● 1989 - 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England

● 1989 - Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped

● 1990 - Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in the Gulf

● 1991 - Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR

● 1991 - An estimated 30,000-60,000 rally at Seattle Central Community College in vigil and opposition to pending U.S. invasion of Kuwait and Iraq. Protesters occupy Seattle's Federal Building; Univ. of Washington protesters block I-5 and march downtown to join the Federal Building demonstration. Evergreen State College students lead a demonstration that occupies the Washington state capitol building overnight.

● 1991 - Guatemala - Jorge Serrano Elias installed as president.

● 1993 - Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die

● 1993 - David Letterman announces he is moving his television talk show from NBC to CBS.

● 1993 - The British government pledged to introduce legislation to criminalize invasions of privacy by the press.

● 1994 - Spanish anarchist, feminist, educator Federica Montseny (1905-1994) dies, Toulouse, France. Daughter of Catalan anarchists, involved with regional committees of the CNT/FAI, during the Spanish Revolution urging participation in the Republican government. She joined the new Republican government with three other CNT members (a source of much bitter debate). As Minister of Health, she helped enact legalized abortion. She and her companion, Germinal Esgleas, fled into exile in France along with thousands of others with the defeat of the Republic. They continued their anarchist activities opposing Franco, and twice landed in French prisons.

● 1994 - U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords. These peace accords are to dismantle Ukraine's nuclear weapons and take U.S. and Russian missiles off Ukrainian targets.

● 1994 - Duchess of Kent joins Catholic church; The Duchess of Kent becomes the first member of the Royal Family to convert to Catholicism for more than 300 years.

● 1994 - Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands

● 1995 - 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo

● 1996 - Sixteen protesters arrested in a winter blockade of the rural Wisconsin site of the U.S. Navy's ELF transmitter, which transmits triggering signals to nuclear weapons aboard U.S. submarines. A total of nearly 400 arrests occurred in 24 actions between 1991-96.

● 1996 - Juan Garcia Abrego was arrested by Mexican agents. The alleged drug lord was handed over to the FBI the next day.

● 1996 - Jorge Sampaio is elected president of Portugal.

● 1998 - Whitewater prosecutors questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House for 10 minutes about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees.

● 1998 - Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis).

● 1998 - An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people.

● 1999 - The impeachment trial of U.S. President Clinton began in Washington, DC.

● 1999 - The U.S. proposed the lifting of the U.N. ceilings on the sale of oil in Iraq. The restriction being that the money be used to buy medicine and food for the Iraqi people.

● 2000 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.

● 2000 - Sport Club Corinthians Paulista defeat Vasco da Gama in the final match of the FIFA Club World Championship.

● 2000 - The Dow Jones industrial average hit a new high when it closed at 11,722.98. Earlier in the session, the Dow had risen to 11,750.98. Both records stood until October 3, 2006.

● 2000 - David Letterman undergoes quintuple heart bypass surgery.

● 2002 - UK declared free of foot-and-mouth; With no reported cases of foot-and-mouth for three months the UK's farming community can now look to the future.

● 2004 - Goatse.cx is suspended by the Christmas Island Internet Administration following a massive grassroots movement to close the site forever.

● 2004 - Amartya Sen steps down as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

● 2004 - The national flag of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", was restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.

● 2004 - US President George W. Bush announced the Vision for Space Exploration

● 2004 - In St. Louis, a Lewis and Clark Exhibition opened at the Missouri History Museum. The exhibit featured 500 rare and priceless objects used by the Corps of Discovery.

● 2004 - Former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow pleaded guilty to conspiracy as he accepted a 10-year prison sentence.

● 2004 - J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. struck a deal to buy Bank One Corp. for $58 billion.

● 2005 - Army Specialist Charles Graner Jr., the reputed ringleader of a band of rogue guards at the Abu Ghraib prison, was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of abusing Iraqi detainees. (He was later sentenced to 10 years in prison.).

● 2005 - A probe, from the Cassini-Huygens mission, sent back pictures during and after landing on Saturn's moon Titan. The mission was launched on October 15, 1997.

BIRTHS

● 1451 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (d. 1522)

● 1477 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (d. 1552)

● 1507 - Catherine of Austria, Infanta of Spain and queen of Portugal (d. 1578)

● 1551 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (d. 1608)

● 1615 - John Biddle, English theologian (d. 1662)

● 1684 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (d. 1745)

● 1684 - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (d. 1742)

● 1702 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (d. 1737)

● 1705 - Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French governor (d. 1786)

● 1741 - Benedict Arnold, American general patriot/traitor (d. 1801)

● 1780 - Henry Baldwin, American Supreme Court justice (d. 1844)

● 1792 - Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (d. 1865)

● 1798 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d. 1872)

● 1800 - Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Köchel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1877)

● 1806 - Matthew Fontaine Maury American oceanographer (d. 1873)

● 1818 - Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (d. 1898)

● 1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)

● 1841 - Berthe Morisot, French painter (d. 1895)

● 1850 - Pierre Loti, French writer (d. 1923)

● 1861 - Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926)

● 1866 - Art Young, American cartoonist (d. 1943)

● 1875 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)

● 1886 - Hugh Lofting, English author (d. 1947)

● 1892 - Hal Roach, American film producer (d. 1992)

● 1896 - John Dos Passos, American author (d. 1970)

● 1896 - Martin Niemöller, German theologian (d. 1984)

● 1899 - Carlos Romulo, Philippine diplomat (d. 1985)

● 1904 - Emily Hahn, American writer (d. 1997)

● 1904 - Babe Siebert, National Hockey League player (d. 1939)

● 1905(04? NYT) - Sir Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)

● 1906 - William Bendix, American actor (d. 1964)

● 1907 - Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec politician (d. 1985)

● 1908 - Russ Columbo, American singer (d. 1934)

● 1909 - Joseph Losey, American theatre and film director (d. 1984)

● 1914 - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (d. 2002)

● 1915 - Mark Goodson, American game show producer (d. 1992)

● 1917 - Billy Butterfield, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1988)

● 1919 - Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician

● 1919 - Andy Rooney, American journalist (''60 Minutes'')

● 1924 - Guy Williams, American actor (d. 2002)

● 1925 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970)

● 1925 - Louis Quilico, Canadian opera singer (d. 2000)

● 1926 - Tom Tryon, American actor (d. 1991)

● 1926 - Warren Mitchell, English actor

● 1931 - Caterina Valente, French-born singer

● 1932 - Don Garlits, American race car driver

● 1933 - Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (d. 2003)

● 1934 - Richard Briers, English actor

● 1935 - Lucille Wheeler, Canadian alpine skier

● 1936 - Clarence Carter, Blues singer

● 1937 - Billie Jo Spears, Country singer

● 1937 - Ken Higgs, English cricketer

● 1938 - Jack Jones, American singer

● 1938 - Allen Toussaint, American singer

● 1940 - Julian Bond, American civil rights activist

● 1941 - Faye Dunaway, American actress

● 1941 - Milan Kučan, Slovenian statesman

● 1942 - Dave Campbell, American baseball player

● 1943 - Holland Taylor, Actress

● 1943 - Shannon Lucid, American astronaut

● 1943 - Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor

● 1944 - Marjoe Gortner, American evangelist

● 1944 - Nina Totenberg, American journalist

● 1946 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer (d. 2004)

● 1947 - Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (d. 2003)

● 1948 - T-Bone Burnett, American producer

● 1948 - Carl Weathers, American actor

● 1948 - Valery Kharlamov, Soviet Union ice hockey player (d. 1981)

● 1949 - Lawrence Kasdan, American director

● 1949 - Mary Robison, American writer

● 1950 - Marco Antonio da Silva Ramos, Brazilian composer

● 1952 - Sydney Biddle Barrows, American author

● 1952 - Maureen Dowd, American writer

● 1952 - Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, Prime Minister of Romania

● 1954 - Jim Duggan, American wrestler

● 1956 - Ben Heppner, Canadian singer

● 1956 - Étienne Daho, French singer and songwriter

● 1957 - Suzanne Danielle, English actress

● 1957 - Anchee Min, Chinese writer

● 1959 - Geoff Tate, American musician (Queensrÿche)

● 1962 - Michael McCaul, American politician

● 1963 - Steven Soderbergh, American director

● 1964 - Shepard Smith, American news anchor (''The Fox Report'')

● 1964 - Mark Addy, British actor

● 1964 - Ernest Miller, American wrestler

● 1965 - Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (d. 2006)

● 1965 - Slick Rick, Rapper

● 1965 - Marc Delissen, Dutch field hockey player

● 1965 - Bob Essensa, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1965 - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, British chef

● 1966 - Dan Schneider, Actor

● 1967 - Tom Rhodes, Actor-comedian

● 1967 - Kerri Green, American actress

● 1967 - Emily Watson, English actress

● 1967 - Zakk Wylde, American musician (Black Label Society)

● 1968 - LL Cool J, American rapper and actor

● 1969 - Jason Bateman, American actor

● 1969 - David Grohl, American drummer and composer (Foo Fighters)

● 1970 - Gene Snitsky, American professional wrestler

● 1971 - Lasse Kjus, Norwegian skier

● 1972 - Predrag Gosta, Yugoslav-born conductor

● 1972 - Kyle Brady, American football player

● 1973 - Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian race car driver

● 1975 - Jordan Ladd, Actress

● 1977 - Darren Purse, English footballer

● 1977 - Narain Karthikeyan, Indian race car driver

● 1979 - Karen Elson, British supermodel

● 1979 - Angela Lindvall, American supermodel

● 1980 - Cory Gibbs, American soccer player

● 1980 - Byron Leftwich, American football player

● 1980 - Sosuke Sumitani, Japanese announcer

● 1981 - Rosa López, Spanish singer

● 1982 - Victor Valdes, Spanish goalkeeper

● 1982 - Caleb Followill, American musician (Kings of Leon)

● 1986 - 50 Pence, British rapper

● 1987 - Kristin Cavallari, American actress

● 1988 - Mikalah Gordon, American singer

● 1990 - Adélaïde Jalabert, famous French artist and painter

DEATHS

● 1163 - Ladislaus II of Hungary.

● 1331 - Odoric, Italian explorer

● 1640 - Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)

● 1676 - Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602)

● 1679 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)

● 1701 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (b. 1628)

● 1742 - Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)

● 1753 - George Berkeley, Irish theologian (b. 1685)

● 1786 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)

● 1788 - François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)

● 1825 - George Dance the Younger, English architect (b. 1741)

● 1867 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)

● 1889 - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834)

● 1898 - Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)

● 1901 - Charles Hermite, French mathematician

● 1905 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)

● 1915 - Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824)

● 1920 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)

● 1937 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (b. 1889)

● 1942 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (b. 1883)

● 1949 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)

● 1952 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)

● 1957 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)

● 1961 - Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)

● 1965 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903)

● 1966 - Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)

● 1966 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1906)

● 1970 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (b. 1906)

● 1972 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899)

● 1977 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)

● 1977 - Peter Finch, English-born actor (b. 1916)

● 1977 - Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903)

● 1978 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (b. 1899)

● 1978 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)

● 1978 - Blossom Rock, American actress (b. 1895)

● 1980 - Robert Ardrey, American author (b. 1908)

● 1984 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1902)

● 1986 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer (b. 1952)

● 1986 - Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)

● 1988 - Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902)

● 1990 - Mani Madhava Chakyar, Legendary Koodiyattam artist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)

● 1997 - Dollard Ménard, French Canadian general (b. 1913)

● 1999 - Bryn Jones, British musician (b. 1961)

● 2001 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist (b. 1925)

● 2004 - Uta Hagen, American actress (b. 1919)

● 2004 - Ron O'Neal, American actor (b. 1937)

● 2004 - Valfar, Norwegian musician (Windir)

● 2005 - Charlotte MacLeod, American writer (b. 1922)

● 2005 - Conroy Maddox, English painter (b. 1912)

● 2005 - Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)

● 2005 - Jesús-Rafael Soto, Venezuelan kinetic artist (b. 1923)

● 2006 - Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939)

● 2006 - Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)

● 2006 - Mark Philo, English footballer (b. 1984)

● 2006 - Henri Colpi, French film editor and director (b. 1921)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Felix of Nola
● St. Sava
● St. Barbasymas
● St. Datius
● St. Deusdedit
● St. Euphrasius
● St. Felix
● St. Macrina the Elder
● Martyrs of Mount Sinai
● Marytrs of Raithu

● Old Roman Catholic:
● St. Hilary, bishop/doctor (now 1/13)

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 2 (Civil Date: January 14)
● St. Sylvester, pope of Rome.
● Repose of St. Seraphim, wonderworker of Sarov.
● Hieromartyr Theogenes, Bishop of Parium on the Hellespont.
● St. Sylvester of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Theopemptus, monk.
● St. Theodota, mother of the first Saints Cosmas and Damian.
● St. Mark the Deaf-mute.
● Martyr Sergius of Caesarea in Cappadocia.
● Martyr Theopistus.
● St. Cosmas, Archbishop of Constantinople.
● New-Martyr Zorsisus.
● Righteous Juliana of Lazarevo.
● Repose of Abbess Thais of Leushy (1915).

● Eastern Orthodoxy:
● New Year's Day (January 1 on the Julian Calendar)
● St. Basil the Great
● Circumcision of Jesus

● Christian:
● St. Sava

● Lutheran:
● Eivind Berggrav, bishop of Oslo

● Julian calendar : New Year's Day in 20th, 21st centuries

● Maryland : Ratification Day (1784)

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Switzerland : Meitlisunntig Festival-Woman in Villmergen War (1712) - ( Sunday )

● Pongal in South India. Harvest Festival for Tamil people. Also celebrated as Makar Sankranti by Kannada and Telugu People.

● Makar Sankranti in India. The event is marked by flying kites.

● Feast of Divina Pastora, in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.

● Festum Asinorum, medieval burlesque festival celebrating the Flight into Egypt.


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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