January 18......

January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 347 (348 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

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EVENTS

● 336 - Marcellus I (St. Mark) elected Catholic Pope.

● 350 - General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans, proclaims himself Emperor.

● 474 - Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor

● 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople fail.

● 1126 - Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne to his son Emperor Qinzong

● 1307 - German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia

● 1478 - Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod

● 1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV.

● 1520 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Åsunden.

● 1535 - Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro.

● 1562 - Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session to deal with the monumental problems caused by the Reformation, following a suspension of ten years.

● 1644 - Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting

● 1650 - French Prince Louis II of Condé captured

● 1671 - Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panama.

● 1691 - English king Willem III travels to The Hague

● 1701 - Frederik I/Sophie Charlotte van Hanover crowned king/queen of Prussia.

● 1733 - 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)

● 1777 - San Jose CA founded

● 1777 - Representatives of the New Hampshire Grants declare the independence of the Vermont Republic from Britain.

● 1778 - English explorer Captain James Cook stumbles over ("discovers") the Hawai'ian Islands, renames them the "Sandwich Islands."

● 1782 - Lawyer and statesman Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury, NH.

● 1788 - The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.

● 1795 - French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance

● 1795 - Governor/Viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England

● 1803 - Thomas Jefferson, in secret communication with Congress, seeked authorization for the first official exploration by the U.S. government.

● 1815 - Birth of L.F.K. Tischendorf, German biblical and textual scholar. In 1844 he discovered one of the oldest and most valuable manuscripts of the Greek Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus, which dates back to the 4th century.

● 1817 - San Martin leads a revolutionary army over Andes

● 1827 - Joseph Smith, Jr. marries Emma Hale.

● 1840 - Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears

● 1846 - Taylor University was established in Fort Wayne, Indiana, under Methodist sponsorship.

● 1850 - British blockade Piræus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims

● 1854 - Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in northwestern Mexico.

● 1854 - Thomas Watson , the American telephone pioneer and shipbuilder, was born.

● 1857 - Birth of Gustave Boullard, Launois-sous-Vence, France. Ardennes anarchist, member of the groups "The Stateless Persons" of Charleville, then "The Disinherited" of Nouzon, and the "Libertarians of Nouzon" who met in the Colony of Aiglemont, founded by Fortune Henry. He was once imprisoned for six weeks for declaring his refusal to recognize the authority of the Mayor of Nouzon.

● 1861 - American Civil War - Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in secession from the United States.

● 1862 - John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, died in Richmond, Va., at age 71.

● 1862 - Confederate Territory of Arizona is formed

● 1865 - Battle of Fort Moultrie SC

● 1867 - Birth of Nicaraguan poet Ruben Dario.

● 1871 - Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the 'Hall of Mirrors' of the Palace of Versailles towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War.

● 1881 - Spokane (Indian) Reservation established.

● 1884 - Dr William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the UK.

● 1884 - General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum

● 1886 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.

● 1891 - The first Armenian Church in the U.S. was consecrated in Worcester, MA. New churches were later consecrated in Fresno, CA (1900); West Hoboken, NJ (1907); and Fowler, CA (1910).

● 1896 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.

● 1896 - British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa

● 1901 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re

● 1903 - Theodore Roosevelt, the President of the United States, sends a message of greetings from a Marconi station built near Wellfleet, Massachusetts to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, marking the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.

● 1905 - French government of Combes falls

● 1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.

● 1912 - British explorer Robert Falcon Scott arrives at the South Pole only to find that Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, had preceded them by just over a month.

● 1913 - A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.

● 1915 - Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die

● 1915 - Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.

● 1916 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite struck a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.

● 1918 - World War I : Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech in front of Congress.

● 1919 - World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France. Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.

● 1919 - Bentley Motors Limited is founded.

● 1922 - Irish author Liam O'Flaherty and several Republican comrades take over the Rotunda in Dublin; they will hold the building for several days.

● 1923 - 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies

● 1925 - Birth of radical anti-capitalist philosopher Gilles Deleuze, Paris, France.

● 1929 - "New York Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio

● 1929 - Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo

● 1930 - -27ºF (-33ºC), Watts OK (state record)

● 1930 - Fourteen African miners killed in uprising at Crown mines, Johannesburg, South Africa.

● 1932 - Spain - In the Catalonia mine fields of High Llobregat, in Berga, Cardona, Fijols, Sallent, Suria, a libertarian communism is proclaimed. The government subdues the insurrection in one week. Over 100 militants, including the anarchists Ascaso and Durruti, were sent to Rio de Oro, aprison colony in Africa. The Republic had recently been proclaimed, but the hopes of the Spanish people were quickly dashed. Several times, there were open revolts against the state, with numerous attempts to immediately establish libertarian communism. This began with the rising in Fijols in Catalonia, which was repressed. The socialist Republican government shipped 120 Catalan anarchists to Africa, where several died of fever contracted there.

● 1933 - White Sands National Monument, NM established

● 1936 - In Washington, DC, Catholic biblical scholars met to discuss two proposals: the preparation of a new Bible translation and the formation of a society of Catholic biblical scholars. In result, the Catholic Biblical Association (CBA) was formed in 1937, and the New American Bible (NAB) was published in 1970.

● 1936 - Author Rudyard Kipling died in Burwash, England, at age 70.

● 1939 - Louis Armstrong records Jeepers Creepers.

● 1942 - Nazis arrest journalists Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman

● 1943 - WW II hardship, Soviet style - Red Army breaks 890-day-long German siege of Leningrad.

● 1943 - WW II hardship, American style - U.S. bans sale of pre-sliced bread for duration of the war. The banned was supposedly to reduce bakery demand for metal parts.

● 1943 - Mary Kenney O'Sullivan dies. First American Federation of Labor (AFL) woman organizer and cofounder of the National Women's Trade Union League (WTUL). O'Sullivan organized the Woman's Bookbinder Union in 1880.

● 1943 - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

● 1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a jazz concert; the performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.

● 1944 - Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.

● 1944 - 1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts

● 1945 - Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army

● 1947 - Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400

● 1948 - 1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria

● 1949 - 1st US Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson)

● 1950 - The federal tax on oleomargarine was repealed.

● 1951 - 1st use of lie detector in Netherlands

● 1951 - Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against German Democratic Republic"

● 1952 - U.N. General Assembly recommends abolition of corporal punishment.

● 1954 - Fanfani forms Italian government

● 1955 - Battle of Yijiangshan occurred.

● 1956 - German Democratic Republic forms own army (National People's Army)

● 1957 - 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hours 19 minutes

● 1958 - Lumbee Indians drive Ku Klux Klan off their land in Maxton, N. Car.

● 1958 - Willie O'Ree, the first African American National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.

● 1960 - US & Japan sign joint defense treaty

● 1961 - Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote & parliament by a single seat

● 1962 - Southern University closed due to demonstrations

● 1962 - US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas

● 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1963 - Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell dies; Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell dies after a sudden deterioration in his heart condition.

● 1964 - Plans are revealed for the World Trade Center in New York City.

● 1964 - The Beatles appear on the Billboard magazine charts for the first time.

● 1965 - Segregationists assault Martin Luther King, Jr., in Selma, Alabama, as he registers as the first black guest in a hotel built a century earlier with slave labor.

● 1965 - H L de Vries appointed Dutch Governor of Suriname

● 1966 - Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD)

● 1967 - Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada

● 1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1967 - Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the "Boston Strangler," was convicted in Cambridge, MA, of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses. He was sentenced to life in prison. Desalvo was killed in 1973 by a fellow inmate.

● 1968 - Police attack a crowd of 600 protesting an appearance by U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk in San Francisco.

● 1968 - Eartha Kitt disrupts White House luncheon giving her views on poverty and the Vietnam War.

● 1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR

● 1969 - Soyuz 5 returns to Earth

● 1969 - 8,500 riot police storm University of Tokyo to end student occupation.

● 1969 - The U.S., North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the National Liberation Front begin peace talks in Paris.

● 1969 - United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay resulting in the loss of all 32 passengers and six crewmembers.

● 1971 - Fifty march against naval target shelling, Flamingo Beach, Culebra, Puerto Rico.

● 1972 - Former Rhodesian prime minister Garfield Todd and his daughter were placed under house arrest for campaigning against Rhodesian independence.

● 1973 - Seven disciples of the black Islamic Hanafi Musselman sect slaughtered by an organized band of armed intruders which stormed their Washington, D.C. headquarters -- a brick and fieldstone house purchased for the sect by Milwaukee Bucks basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Three of the dead were youngsters drowned in an upstairs bathroom; a fourth was a nine-day-old baby found submerged in a water-filled sink.

● 1974 - A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.

● 1974 - The Six Million Dollar Man debuts on ABC.

● 1974 - Israel & Egypt sign weapons accord

● 1975 - The Jeffersons debuts on CBS.

● 1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.

● 1977 - Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.

● 1978 - British government cancels arms sale to El Salvador.

● 1978 - Ending of the last show of the Sex Pistols' U.S. tour, Johnny Rotten sneers at his San Francisco audience, "How does it feel to be swindled?" The next morning he announces the group is history, blaming manager Malcolm McLaren for "sensationalizing" everything about the band. That afternoon Sid Vicious is taken unconscious off their London bound plane in New York and rushed to a hospital. He is treated for an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol.

● 1978 - The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.

● 1978 - Roof of 3-year-old Civic Center in Hartford CT collapses (no injuries)

● 1978 - Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB

● 1980 - Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce

● 1980 - Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3½ years in prison for tax evasion & fined $20,000

● 1981 - Nine die in New Cross house fire; Nine people are killed and 20 injured in a blaze which engulfed a house early this morning in south London.

● 1981 - Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets

● 1981 - Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity

● 1982 - U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds: "Diamond Crash" kills four team members.

● 1982 - Anti-nuclear Greenham Commons women "keen" outside House of Commons in London.

● 1983 - Pres. Reagan asks for largest peace-time build-up of the CIA in history -- including a 25% budget increase.

● 1983 - IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball.

● 1985 - US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise

● 1986 - 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth

● 1987 - For the first time in history the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) was seen by over 100 million viewers. The audience was measured during the week of January 12-18.

● 1988 - Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board

● 1989 - Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A

● 1989 - IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988

● 1990 - South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African National Congress

● 1990 - Former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother Peggy McMartin Buckey are acquitted in a Los Angeles, California court of 52 child molestation charges.

● 1990 - Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting. He was later convicted of a misdemeanor.

● 1991 - Eastern Air Lines shuts down after 62 years citing financial problems.

● 1991 - Iraqi Scud missiles hit Israel; Israel teeters on the brink of joining the Gulf War after Iraq attacks Tel Aviv and Haifa with Scud missiles.

● 1991 - US acknowledges CIA and US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career

● 1993 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50 United States states.

● 1994 - The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.

● 1995 - In southern France near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc a network of caves are discovered that contain paintings and engravings that are 17,000 to 20,000 years old.

● 1995 - Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia

● 1996 - Green groups join bypass battle; Six major environmental organisations add their support to the growing anti-bypass campaign in Newbury, Berkshire.

● 1996 - Baseball owners unanimously approve interleague play in 1997

● 1997 - In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.

● 1997 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.

● 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the Bill Clinton - Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report.

● 2000 - The strange Tagish Lake meteorite impacted the Earth.

● 2001 - The British digital television channel e4 (TV) was launched.

● 2002 - A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying anhydrous ammonia derails outside of Minot, North Dakota, killing one man and calling into question the maintenance of CP track and the policy of voice-tracking used by Clear Channel Communications.

● 2002 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of a saliva-based ovulation test.

● 2003 - A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.

● 2004 - A suicide truck bombing outside the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition in Baghdad killed at least 31 people.

● 2005 - The world's largest commercial jet, an Airbus A380 that can carry 800 passengers, was unveiled in Toulouse, France.

● 2005 - A U.N. World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan begins.

● 2007 - The strongest storm in Germany since 1999, Hurricane Kyrill, reaches Western Europe causing at least 34 deaths, many injuries and heavy damage across 20 different countries.

BIRTHS

● 885 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (d. 930)

● 1543 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (d. 1588)

● 1641 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)

● 1672 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)

● 1688 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)

● 1689 - Montesquieu, French writer (d. 1755)

● 1779 - Peter Roget, British lexicographer (d. 1869)

● 1782 - Daniel Webster, American statesman (d. 1852)

● 1813 - Joseph Glidden, American farmer who patented barbed wire (d. 1906)

● 1815 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (d. 1874)

● 1840 - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (d. 1921)

● 1841 - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (d. 1894)

● 1842 - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)

● 1848 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925)

● 1849 - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)

● 1850 - Seth Low, American philanthropist/educator (d. 1916)

● 1854 - Thomas Watson, American telephone pioneer (d. 1934)

● 1858 - Daniel Hale Williams, American physician (d. 1931)

● 1861 - Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist (d. 1923)

● 1874 - Myron Taylor, American financier/diplomat (d. 1959)

● 1877 - Samuel Zemurray, U.S. businessman (d.1961)

● 1879 - Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949)

● 1881 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (d. 1975)

● 1882 - A. A. Milne, English author (d. 1956)

● 1886 - Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (d. 1962)

● 1888 - Sir Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (d. 1989)

● 1892 - Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (d. 1957)

● 1892 - Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956)

● 1901 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1973)

● 1904 - Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)

● 1905 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002)

● 1908 - Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born mathematician, poet, and physicist (d. 1974)

● 1913 - Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)

● 1914 - Arno Schmidt, German author (d. 1979)

● 1917 - Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese businessman

● 1918 - Gustave Gingras, French Canadian physician (d. 1996)

● 1922 - Bob Bell, American clown (d. 1997)

● 1925 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995)

● 1931 - Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea

● 1932 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author (d. 2007)

● 1933 - John Boorman, Irish film director

● 1933 - Ray Dolby, American inventor (Dolby noise reduction system)

● 1934 - Raymond Briggs, English writer and illustrator

● 1935 - Albert Millaire, Quebec actor and theatre director

● 1935 - Jon Stallworthy, English poet

● 1937 - John Hume, Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998

● 1938 - Curt Flood, baseball player (d. 1997)

● 1940 - Pedro Rodriguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1971)

● 1941 - David Ruffin, American singer (d. 1991)

● 1941 - Bobby Goldsboro, American country/pop singer

● 1943 - Kay Granger, American politician

● 1944 - Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia

● 1944 - Carl Morton, Major League baseball pitcher (d. 1983)

● 1945 - José Luis Perales, Spanish singer

● 1946 - Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councilor

● 1947 - Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director

● 1949 - Philippe Starck, French designer

● 1949 - Bill Keller, American newspaper editor

● 1950 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)

● 1951 - Bob Latchford, English footballer

● 1951 - Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (d. 1982)

● 1952 - R. Stevie Moore, American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer

● 1953 - Brett Hudson, American actor

● 1955 - Kevin Costner, American actor

● 1955 - Fergus Martin, Irish artist

● 1956 - Sharon Mitchell, American porn actress

● 1956 - Mark Collie, Country singer

● 1956 - Tom Bailey, British singer (Thompson Twins)

● 1961 - Mark Messier, Canadian hockey player

● 1961 - Jeff Yagher, American actor

● 1963 - Martin O'Malley, Governor of Maryland

● 1964 - Jane Horrocks, British actress (''Absolutely Fabulous'')

● 1965 - Dave Attell, American writer and comedian

● 1967 - Kim Perrot, American basketball player (d. 1999)

● 1967 - Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer

● 1968 - Frank Quitely, Scottish comic book artist

● 1969 - Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer ("Law and Order")

● 1969 - David Bautista, American professional wrestler

● 1969 - Jim O'Rourke, American musician and producer (Loose Fur and Wilco)

● 1970 - DJ Quik, American rapper

● 1970 - Peter van Petegem, Belgian cyclist

● 1971 - Jonathan Davis, American musician (KoЯn)

● 1971 - Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver

● 1971 - Josep Guardiola, Spanish footballer

● 1972 - Mike Lieberthal, baseball player

● 1973 - Christian Burns, Singer (BBMak)

● 1973 - Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker)

● 1974 - Michael Tunn, Australian television and radio

● 1974 - Maulik Pancholy, American actor

● 1974 - Christian Burns, English musician (BBMak)

● 1976 - Damien Leith, Australian Idol 2006

● 1977 - Curtis Cregan, American actor

● 1977 - Alina Jidkova, Russian tennis player

● 1978 - Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player

● 1979 - Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer and producer

● 1979 - Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer

● 1979 - Brian Gionta, professional hockey player

● 1980 - Jason Segel, Actor

● 1980 - Robert Green, English footballer

● 1980 - Julius Peppers, American football player

● 1981 - Kang Dong-won, South Korean model and actor

● 1981 - Khari Stephenson, Jamaican soccer player

● 1982 - Quinn Allman, American musician (The Used)

● 1983 - Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress

● 1984 - Benji Schwimmer, American dancer

● 1987 - Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer

DEATHS

● 52 BC - Publius Clodius Pulcher (murdered)

● 350 - Constans, Roman Emperor, (b. 320)

● 474 - Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)

● 1367 - King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)

● 1425 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)

● 1471 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)

● 1547 - Pietro Bembo, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1470)

● 1583 - Margaret of Austria, regent of The Netherlands (b. 1522)

● 1664 - Moses Amyraut, French theologian (b. 1596)

● 1677 - Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch merchant (b. 1619)

● 1803 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)

● 1862 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)

● 1873 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)

● 1878 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)

● 1892 - Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)

● 1896 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)

● 1927 - Empress Carlotta of Mexico (b. 1840)

● 1936 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)

● 1940 - Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer (b. 1865)

● 1952 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)

● 1954 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)

● 1963 - Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labour Party (b. 1906)

● 1966 - Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)

● 1967 - Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921)

● 1969 - Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)

● 1970 - David O. McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)

● 1978 - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (b. 1919)

● 1978 - Carl Betz, English musician (b. 1921)

● 1980 - Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)

● 1984 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915)

● 1985 - Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)

● 1995 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)

● 1995 - Ron Luciano, baseball umpire (b. 1937)

● 1997 - Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1941)

● 2000 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)

● 2001 - Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)

● 2003 - Edward Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)

● 2005 - Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)

● 2006 - Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● The Feast of the Confession of St. Peter
● St. Cyril of Alexandria
● St. Ammonius
● St. Archelais and Companions
● St. Volusian
● St. Ulfrid
● St. Vincenza Mary Lopez y Vicuna
● St. Day
● St. Deicola
● St. Fazzio
● St. Leobard
● St. Liberata
● St. Moseus & Ammonius
● St. Margaret of Hungary
● Bl. Beatrix d'Este
● Mexico: St. Prisca, virgin/martyr at 13

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 6 (Civil Date: January 18)
● THE HOLY THEOPHANY OF OUR LORD, GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.
● New Hieromartyr Romanus, beheaded by the Turks.
● New-Martyrs priest Andrew, and with him Lydia, Domnica, Maria and his two daughters (1919).
● Repose of Schemamonk Nicholas of Valaam (1824), Schemamonk Sergius (Yanovsky), disciple of St. Herman of Alaska (1876), and Bishop Theophan the Recluse (1894).

● Eastern Orthodox:
● The Feast of the Confession of St. Peter
● St. Athanasius

● Anglican and Lutheran:
● The Feast of the Confession of St. Peter

● Lutheran:
● Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins

● Christian ecumenism - Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins

● Winnie The Pooh Day (In observance of the birthday of Alan Alexander Milne, 1882.)

● Tunisia : Revolution Day (1956)

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● US : Martin Luther King Jr Day (1929) - ( Monday )
● Virginia : Lee-Jackson Day - ( Monday )
● Florida : Arbor Day - ( Friday )


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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