January 20......

January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 345 (346 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

In astrology, it is the cusp day between Capricorn and Aquarius.

{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

● 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Pope Fabian is martyred. Afterwards the Donatist controversy over readmitting lapsed Christians disaffects many in North Africa.

● 820 - Book of mother, published

● 1045 - Giovanni di Sabina elected Pope Sylvester III

● 1156 - According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of the lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland.

● 1265 - In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now also known as the "Houses of Parliament" called into session by Earl of Leicester.

● 1320 - Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.

● 1356 - Edward Balliol resigns as King of Scotland.

● 1503 - Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) found (Spain) to deal with American affairs

● 1513 - Christian II succeeds Johan I as Danish/Norwegian king

● 1523 - Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.

● 1576 - The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almansa.

● 1613 - Peace of Knärod ends War of Kalmar between Denmark & Sweden

● 1648 - Cornerstone of Amsterdam town hall laid

● 1649 - Charles I of England goes on trial for treason and other "high crimes"

● 1667 - Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to Imperial Russia in the treaty of Andrusovo-ends 13 year war between Poland & Russia.

● 1669 - Birth of Susannah Annesley, "Mother of Methodism." Born the 25th child in her family, she married Samuel Wesley in 1689 and bore him 19 children, the last two being John (1703) and Charles (1707) Wesley.

● 1758 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'I cannot think of you, without thinking of God. Others often lead me to Him, as it were, going round about. You bring me straight into His presence.'

● 1778 - 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge MA

● 1783 - The Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the Revolutionary War.

● 1785 - Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Island), no takers

● 1788 - Third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides Botany Bay is unsuitable for location of a penal colony. Decides to move to Port Jackson.

● 1788 - Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah GA

● 1800 - Napoleon I's sister Carolina marries King Joachim Murat of Naples

● 1801 - John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.

● 1807 - Napoleon convenes the great Sanhedrin, Paris

● 1809 - 1st US geology book published by William Maclure

● 1839 - In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance.

● 1840 - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica.

● 1840 - Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.

● 1841 - The island of Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain. It returned to Chinese control in July 1997.

● 1847 - Governor of Taos, New Mexico, killed by rebellious Mexicans during Mexican War.

● 1850 - Investigator, 1st ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England

● 1860 - Dutch troops conquer Watampone in Celebes

● 1862 - Birth of anarchist and later socialist Augustin Hamon (1862-1945), Nantes, France.

● 1866 - Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends

● 1868 - Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee

● 1869 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before Congress

● 1870 - "City of Boston" vanishes at sea with all 177 aboard

● 1870 - Hiram R Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Jefferson Davis

● 1872 - California Stock Exchange Board organized

● 1879 - Birth of Albert S. Reitz, American Baptist evangelist and clergyman. He published over 100 hymns during his lifetime. Of these, the one best remembered today is "Teach Me to Pray, Lord."

● 1879 - British troops under Lord Chelmsford set camp at Isandlwana

● 1885 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.

● 1886 - The Mersey Railway Tunnel was officially opened by the Prince of Wales.

● 1887 - The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.

● 1891 - James Hogg took office as the first native-born governor of Texas.

● 1892 - At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played.

● 1896 - Comedian George Burns was born Nathan Birnbaum in New York City.

● 1918 - In Russia, following the Bolshevik Revolution, all church property was confiscated and all religious instruction in the schools was abolished.

● 1920 - Federico Fellini , the Italian film director , was born in Rimini, Italy.

● 1920 - Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws

● 1921 - British submarine K5 leaves with man & mouse

● 1921 - The first Constitution of Turkey was adopted, which made fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.

● 1921 - Spain - three imprisoned trade unionists in Barcelona become the first victims of the "law of escape" -- that is, being "set free" only to be shot down moments later.

● 1923 - Varban Kilifarski (1879-1923), Bulgarian anarchist and libertarian teacher, dies.

● 1925 - USSR & Japan sign treaty of Peking, Seychelles back to USSR

● 1926 - 2nd German government of Luther begins

● 1929 - In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking film filmed outdoors, is released.

● 1932 - El Salvador - Peasant uprising leading to the "Matanza Massacre" of 30,000. The uprising began after the government refused to seat Salvadoran Communist Party candidates who won municipal and legislative elections. Three days ago, Augustin Farabundo Marti and other leaders were arrested. With rebel communications severed, unarmed peasants and farm workers follow a plan to march into the nation's cities. The army, in response launches a genocidal campaign known as La Matanza. Within a few weeks, the army killings will number more than 30,000. By the time La Matanza is over, four percent of the Salvadoran population is dead, the Communist Party liquidated, and the Indian population forced to abandon its native dress, languages, and customs. In five decades, Salvadoran rebels will name their organization after Marti.

● 1934 - Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria

● 1936 - Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom as Britain's King George V dies.

● 1937 - -45ºF (-43ºC), Boca CA (state record)

● 1937 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first inauguration scheduled on January 20, following adoption of the 20th Amendment. Previous inaugurations were scheduled on March 4.

● 1939 - Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews

● 1942 - At the notorious Wannsee Conference in Berlin, German Nazi officials decided on their "final solution," which called for a mass extermination of all the Jews in Europe.

● 1942 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain

● 1942 - Japanese invade Burma

● 1943 - Lead SD, temp is 52ºF, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood SD records -16ºF

● 1943 - Operation-Weiss Assault of German, Italian, Bulgarian & Croatian

● 1944 - World War II: The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin.

● 1945 - Hungary drops out of the Second World War, agreeing an armistice with the Allies.

● 1945 - FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as President

● 1946 - F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French government

● 1947 - Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA

● 1949 - J. Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen. How cute!

● 1949 - President Truman announces his point 4 program

● 1950 - Alger Hiss found guilty of perjury.

● 1950 - Suriname becomes independent part in Realm of Netherlands

● 1952 - British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone

● 1952 - Edgar Faure becomes Prime Minister of France.

● 1953 - 1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower)

● 1954 - -70ºF (-57ºC), Rogers Pass, Montana (state 48 record)

● 1954 - The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.

● 1957 - Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election

● 1958 - Explorers meet at South Pole; Members of the team attempting the first surface crossing of the Antarctic have joined up at the South Pole.

● 1960 - Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo

● 1960 - Hendrik Verwoerd announced a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic.

● 1961 - John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president of the United States.

● 1961 - Robert Frost recites "The Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration

● 1961 - Arthur M Ramsay becomes archbishop of Canterbury

● 1961 - Yugoslav ex-Vice-President Milovan Djilas flees

● 1964 - Meet the Beatles, the first Beatles album in the United States, is released.

● 1965 - JPL proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars & return

● 1965 - Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain

● 1968 - Houston ends UCLA's 47-game basketball winning streak, 71-69. Game of the Century, which allowed the NCAA to gradually have influence over college sports broadcasting and introduce NCAA higher education opportunities; also a game that influenced the enactment of Title IX.

● 1969 - Richard M Nixon inaugurated as President

● 1969 - U of Arizona reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula).

● 1969 - People's Park in Berkeley, California, declared a National Hallucination.

● 1972 - UK unemployment tops one million; The number of people out of work and claiming benefit rises above one million, causing uproar in the House of Commons.

● 1973 - Amilcar Cabral, activist of liberation struggles in Guinea-Bissau, assassinated.

● 1977 - George Bush, ends term as 11th director of CIA

● 1977 - Mr Knoche, serves as acting director of CIA through March 9

● 1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow

● 1981 - Ten thousand Mexican farmers in southeastern Chiapas block roads to major oil fields to protest pollution of their crops.

● 1981 - Minutes after the presidential inauguration of Ronald Reagan, Iran releases 52 Americans held 444 days in exchange for the release of $8 billion in frozen Iranian assets seized by the U.S. Later, it's revealed that the release was delayed until the first hours of the administration by Reagan's transition team, in order to make him look good. {Thus began one of the most deceit-filled presidencies in U.S. history.}

● 1981 - Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN (Retired), ends term as 12th director of CIA

● 1981 - Ronald Reagan was sworn in as the 40th president of the United States.

● 1982 - 7 miners killed in an explosion in Craynor KY

● 1982 - Honduras constitution goes into effect

● 1982 - Piet Dankert elected chairman of European Parliament

● 1983 - Five people in Vancouver charged with the B.C. Hydro bombing, leading to the trial by media of "The Vancouver Five."

● 1985 - U.S. officially observes Martin Luther King Day for the first time.

● 1986 - Martin Luther King, Jr., day was celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.

● 1986 - The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel.

● 1986 - Military coup in Lesotho under General-Major Lekhanya & premier Leabua Jonathan

● 1986 - New footage of the 1931 "Frankenstein" was found. The footage was originally deleted because it was considered to be too shocking.

● 1987 - Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite was kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon. He was there attempting to negotiate the release of Western hostages. He was not freed until November 1991.

● 1987 - Police crack down on soccer hooligans; Police carry out a series of dawn raids and make 26 arrests in their biggest operation so far against violence in and around football stadiums.

● 1988 - Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Governor Evan Mecham

● 1989 - Bush inaugurated as 41st President & Quayle becomes 44th Vice President

● 1989 - Reagan becomes 1st President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive

● 1990 - US 64th manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) returns from space

● 1990 - Black January - bloody crackdown of Azerbaijani peaceful pro-independence demonstrations by Soviet army in Baku.

● 1991 - Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.

● 1991 - Iraq pardes captured Allied airmen on TV

● 1991 - US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles

● 1993 - Admiral Studeman, serves as acting director of CIA

● 1993 - Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd President

● 1993 - Actress Audrey Hepburn died at age 63.

● 1994 - Nebraska State Historical Society agrees to return burial remains and artifacts to Pawnee tribe.

● 1994 - Shannon Faulkner became the first woman to attend classes at The Citadel in South Carolina. Faulkner joined the cadet corps in August 1995 under court order but soon dropped out.

● 1996 - Yasser Arafat was elected president of the Palestinian Authority and his supporters won two thirds of the 80 seats in the Legislative Council.

● 1996 - Benjamin and Betty Mims each post a $5,000 bond and are released from the Clarendon County, S.C. jail after being charged with 2nd-degree lynching for allegedly tying a nine-year old black boy to a tree, shooting a gun past his head, and tying a belt around his neck until he passed out. The couple claimed the boy was "stealing" from their truck. Eventually freed, the boy was told not to tell anyone what happened or his family would be killed and his house burned.

● 1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mars' orbit

● 1997 - Bill Clinton was inagurated for his second term as president of the United States.

● 1998 - American researchers announced that they had cloned calves that may produce medicinal milk.

● 1998 - In Chili, a judge agreed to hear a lawsuit that accused Chili's former dictator Augusto Pinochet with genocide.

● 1998 - Over 200 citizens show up at a Seattle public hearing, many in radiation suits and mutant radioactive survivor makeup, and conduct die-ins to protest possible restart of nuclear weapon production at Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

● 1999 - The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafés.

● 2000 - Greece and Turkey signed five accords aimed to build confidence between the two nations.

● 2001 - Tens of thousands, lining Pennsylvania Ave. to protest the inauguration of Pres. George W. Bush, are systematically excluded from almost all media coverage of the event.

● 2001 - Philippine president Joseph Estrada is ousted in the EDSA II Revolution, succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

● 2002 - Camp X-Ray pictures spark outrage; Photographs showing al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects shackled and masked are published by the United States military.

● 2002 - Michael Jordan (Washington Wizards) played his first game in Chicago as a visiting player. The Wizards beat the Bulls 77-69.

● 2004 - The Salvation Army announced it had received a $1.5 billion donation from the estate of Joan Kroc, widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc.

● 2005 - Ireland completes metrication.

● 2007 - NFL The Chicago Bears make it to Super Bowl XLI making this the first time in history for an African American Coach to make it to the Super Bowl

● 2160 - Dawning of the Age of Aquarius, when the Sun moves into the 11th sign of the zodiac. Astrologers believe the next 2,000 years will bring a Golden Age of Enlightenment. Yup.

BIRTHS

● 225 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)

● 1358 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (d. 1382)

● 1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)

● 1554 - King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)

● 1586 - Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)

● 1628 - Henry Cromwell, English, brief ruler of Ireland (d. 1674)

● 1664 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (d. 1718)

● 1716 - King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)

● 1716 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795)

● 1732 - Richard Henry Lee, American statesman/orator (d. 1794)

● 1775 - Andre Marie Ampere, French physicist (d. 1836)

● 1783 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)

● 1798 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (d. 1858)

● 1804 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)

● 1812 - Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)

● 1820 - Anne J. Clough, English educator/feminist (d. 1892)

● 1837 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)

● 1855 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)

● 1867 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)

● 1873 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1950)

● 1876 - Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967)

● 1878(77? NYT) - Ruth St. Denis, dancer (d. 1968)

● 1878 - Finlay Currie, British actor (d. 1968)

● 1880 - Walter W. Bacon, Governor of Delaware (d. 1962)

● 1891 - Mischa Elman, Ukrainian born violinist (d. 1967)

● 1894 - Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976)

● 1894 - Harold Gray, American "Orphan Annie" cartoonist (d. 1968)

● 1896 - George Burns, American actor, comedian (d. 1996)

● 1898 - U Razak, Burmese politician (d. 1947)

● 1900 - Colin Clive, British actor (d. 1937)

● 1902 - Leon Ames, American actor (d. 1993)

● 1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek industrialist (d. 1975)

● 1907 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)

● 1910 - Joy Adamson, Australian naturalist and writer (d. 1980)

● 1915 - Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006)

● 1918 - Juan Garcia Esquivel, Mexican musician (d. 2002)

● 1920 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)

● 1920 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)

● 1920 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (d. 2006)

● 1922 - Ray Anthony, American trumpeter, bandleader, songwriter and actor

● 1923 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer

● 1924 - Slim Whitman, American singer

● 1925 - Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan theologian and author and politician

● 1926 - Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, essayist and columnist

● 1926 - Patricia Neal, American actress

● 1926 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)

● 1929 - Jimmy Cobb, American jazz drummer

● 1929 - Bob Denard, French mercenary

● 1929 - Arte Johnson, American actor (''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'')

● 1929 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964)

● 1930 - Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., astronaut

● 1931 - David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate

● 1932 - Lou Fontinato, National Hockey League defenceman

● 1934 - Tom Baker, British actor

● 1937 - Dorothy Provine, American singer, dancer and actress

● 1938 - William Berger, Austrian actor (d. 1993)

● 1938 - Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer

● 1939 - Paul Coverdell, American politician (d. 2000)

● 1940 - Carol Heiss, American figure skater

● 1941 - Pierre Lalonde, Quebec singer and television host

● 1941 - Ron Townson, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) (d. 2001)

● 1945 - Robert Olen Butler, American writer

● 1945 - Christopher Martin-Jenkins, cricket commentator and chief cricket correspondent of The Times

● 1945 - Eric Stewart, English musician and songwriter (10cc)

● 1946 - David Lynch, American film director

● 1947 - Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and directeur sportif

● 1948 - Natan Sharansky, Russian-born physicist and politician

● 1949 - Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden

● 1950 - Liza Goddard, British actress

● 1950 - Edward Hirsch. American poet

● 1950 - Chuck Lefley, National Hockey League player

● 1950 - Daniel Benzali, Actor

● 1950 - Mahamane Ousmane, President of Niger

● 1951 - Ian Hill, British musician (Judas Priest)

● 1951 - Ivan Fischer, Hungarian conductor

● 1952 - Ian Hill, Rock musician (Judas Priest)

● 1952 - Paul Stanley, American musician (KISS)

● 1955 - Wyatt Knight, American actor

● 1956 - Bill Maher, American actor, comedian, and political analyst

● 1958 - Lorenzo Lamas, American actor

● 1960 - Will Wright, American computer game designer

● 1960 - Scott Thunes, American musician (Frank Zappa)

● 1963 - James Denton, American actor (''Desperate Housewives'')

● 1965 - Greg Kriesel, American bassist (The Offspring)

● 1965 - Sophie, The Countess of Wessex, the wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex

● 1965 - John Michael Montgomery, American singer

● 1966 - Tracii Guns, American guitarist

● 1967 - Stacey Dash, Actress

● 1968 - Xavier, R&B singer

● 1968 - Melissa Rivers, American reporter and actress

● 1968 - Rainn Wilson, American actor ("The Office")

● 1969 - Patrick K. Kroupa, American writer, hacker

● 1970 - Edwin McCain, Rock singer

● 1970 - Mitch Benn, UK comedian, songwriter, actor

● 1970 - Skeet Ulrich, American actor

● 1971 - Derrick Green, American singer (Sepultura)

● 1971 - Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, American drummer (The Roots)

● 1975 - David Eckstein, baseball player

● 1976 - Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater

● 1979 - Rob Bourdon, American musician (Linkin Park)

● 1979 - Will Young, British singer

● 1981 - Owen Hargreaves, English international footballer

● 1981 - Crystal Lowe, Canadian actress

● 1982 - Erin Wasson, American model

● 1987 - Evan Peters, Actor

● 1989 - Nadia Di Cello, Argentine actress

DEATHS

● 1156 - Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland

● 1479 - King John II of Aragon (b. 1397)

● 1568 - Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator

● 1612 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1552)

● 1666 - Anna of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France and regent (b. 1601)

● 1707 - Humphrey Hody, English theologian (b. 1659)

● 1709 - François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (b. 1624)

● 1739 - Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (b. 1659)

● 1745 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1697)

● 1751 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665)

● 1770 - Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722)

● 1779 - David Garrick, English actor (b. 1717)

● 1810 - Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (b. 1722)

● 1819 - King Charles IV of Spain (b. 1748)

● 1848 - Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786)

● 1850 - Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (b. 1779)

● 1873 - The Venerable Father Basil Anthony Marie Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)

● 1891 - David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii (b. 1836)

● 1900 - John Ruskin, art critic (b. 1819)

● 1901 - Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (b. 1826)

● 1907 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)

● 1920 - Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (b. 1876)

● 1936 - King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)

● 1944 - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)

● 1947 - Josh Gibson, African-American baseball player (b. 1911)

● 1954 - Fred Root, English cricketer (b. 1890)

● 1962 - Robinson Jeffers, American poet (b. 1887)

● 1965 - Alan Freed, American disk jockey (b. 1922)

● 1979 - Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (b. 1925)

● 1971 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor, director, writer, and producer (b. 1880)

● 1973 - Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (b. 1885)

● 1983 - Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)

● 1984 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)

● 1988 - Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pashtun Nationalist & non-violent freedom fighter (b. 1890)

● 1990 - Hayedeh, Persian singer (b. 1942)

● 1990 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907)

● 1993 - Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (b. 1929)

● 1994 - Matt Busby, Scottish football manager (b. 1909)

● 1996 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b. 1927)

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

● 1998 - Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)

● 2003 - Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (b. 1903)

● 2003 - Nedra Volz, American actress (b. 1908)

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

● 2004 - Guinn Smith, American athlete (b. 1920)

● 2005 - Per Borten, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)

● 2005 - Roland Frye, American literary critic and theologian (b. 1921)

● 2005 - Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Polish journalist, writer, and politician (b. 1913)

● 2005 - Miriam Louisa Rothschild, British zoologist, entomologist, and author (b. 1908)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Sebastian, martyr/patron of Andorra
● St. Fabian, 20th pope (236-50)
● St. Euthymus
● St. Desiderius
● St. Meinrad
● St. Epiphanius of Pavia
● St. Fechin
● St. Maurus
● St. Eustochium Calafato
● St. Neophytus
● St. Molagga
● The Eve of St. Agnes

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 8 (Civil Date: January 20)
● St. George the Chozebite, abbot.
● St. Domnica of Constantinople.
● St. Emilian the Confessor, bishop of Cyzicus.
● St. Gregory of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Elias the hermit of Egypt.
● Martyrs Julian and his wife Basilissa, and with them Marcionilla and her son Celsus, Anthony, Anastasius, seven children and twenty soldiers, at Antinoe in Egypt.
● Hieromartyr Carterius of Caesarea in Cappadocia.
● Martyrs Theophilus the deacon and Helladius in Libya.
● Saints Cyrus and Atticus, patriarchs of Constantinople.
● St. Agatho of Egypt, monk.
● Hieromartyr Isidore and 72 companions at Yuriev (Dorpats in Estonia), slain by the Latins in 1472.
● St. Gregory, Bishop of Moesia (Bulgaria).
● Martyr Abo of Tiflis.
● St. Paisius of Uglich.
● St. Gregory (another), wonderworker of the Kiev Caves.
● Repose of Elder Isaiah of Valaam (1914).

● Anglican:
● St. Fabian, 20th pope (236-50)

● Presidential Inauguration Day in the United States.

● Astrology: First day of sun sign Aquarius.

● Philippines - Ati-Atihan Festival

● Bulgaria : Grandmother's Day/Babin Den

● Mali : National Army Day

● 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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