January 21......

January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 344 (345 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{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

● 1077 - German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness

● 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.

● 1276 - Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocent V

● 1287 - The treaty of San Agayz is signed. Minorca is conquered by King Alfons III of Aragon.

● 1324 - Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai & Shingon

● 1522 - Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope

● 1525 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.

● 1542 - Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard

● 1549 - Parliament passed the first of four British Acts of Uniformity, this first requiring the exclusive use of the Book of Common Prayer (later called the First Prayer Book of Edward VI) in all public services of the Anglican Church.

● 1604 - Tsar Ivan IV defeats the False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar

● 1643 - Abel Tasman discovers Tonga.

● 1647 - Margaret Brent becomes first U.S. woman to ask for vote (in Maryland assembly).

● 1661 - Quaker Peace Testimony presented to Charles II, England.

● 1664 - Count Miklós of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army

● 1677 - 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston

● 1720 - Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.

● 1732 - Russia & Persia sign Treaty of Riascha

● 1738 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in his journal: 'I desire to have no greater portion than the prayers of the poor.'

● 1772 - Pioneer Methodist bishop Frances Asbury wrote in his journal: 'Though a stranger in a strange land, God has taken care of me.'

● 1789 - The first American novel, W.H. Brown's "The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth," is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.

● 1793 - Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)

● 1793 - After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is guillotined.

● 1799 - Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced

● 1801 - "Federal Bonfire Number Two" sweeps the offices of the Department of Treasury, destroying books and papers, after Republicans demanded proof that the expenditures of Timothy Pickering, the recently replaced Federalist Secretary of War, could be properly accounted for. Two months after a similar mysterious fire ("Number One") swept the Dept. of War.

● 1812 - The Y-bridge in Zanesville, OH, was approved for construction.

● 1821 - Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die

● 1824 - Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa

● 1827 - Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing

● 1830 - Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported

● 1846 - The first issue of the "Daily News," edited by Charles Dickens, was published.

● 1853 - Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope-folding machine.

● 1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign from the United States Senate.

● 1863 - City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years

● 1864 - The Tauranga Campaign starts during the Maori Wars.

● 1865 - An oil well was drilled by torpedoes for the first time.

● 1867 - An overzealous Patrol Special Officer, Armand Barbier, arrested His Majesty Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, for involuntary treatment of a mental disorder, thereby creating a major civic uproar. Police Chief Patrick Crowley apologized to His Majesty and ordered him released. Several scathing newspaper editorials followed the arrest. All police officers began to salute His Majesty when he passed them on the street.

● 1870 - Russian anarchist Alexander Herzen dies, Paris, France

● 1880 - 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis TN

● 1884 - Birth of Roger Baldwin, founder of ACLU.

● 1887 - The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed.

● 1887 - Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city.

● 1899 - Opel Motors opens for business.

● 1900 - Canadian troops set sail to fight in South Africa. The Boers had attacked Ladysmith on January 8, 1900.

● 1903 - Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam

● 1905 - Christian Dior , French fashion designer and creator of the ''New Look'' in 1947 , was born.

● 1907 - The Kenora Thistles win the Stanley Cup, representing the smallest town (Kenora, Ontario) ever to win ice hockey's ultimate prize, or any major North American sports title.

● 1908 - New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor. {It is highly doubtful the mayor had women's best interest at heart since his family owned many stores that sold cigarettes.}

● 1910 - British-Russian military intervention in Persia

● 1911 - U.S. Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin establishes the National Progressive Republican League. {It didn't even bring a smile as an oxymoron that it would be today.}

● 1911 - The first Monte Carlo Rally.

● 1913 - Aristide Briand forms French government

● 1915 - Kiwanis International founded in Detroit, Michigan.

● 1919 - Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin, Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.

● 1920 - Palmer "Red" Raids target labor activists and radicals for U.S. government repression. The Attorney General orders the roundup of all suspected for prosecution and deportation where possible. Thousands of people are arrested in a nationwide sweep.

● 1921 - Birth of feminist anthropologist Marija Gimbutas, Vilnius, Lithuania.

● 1921 - The Italian Communist Party is founded at Livorno.

● 1922 - 1st slalom ski race run, Mürren, Switzerland

● 1924 - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, leader of the Russian Bolshevik party, dies of a stroke at 54 and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.

● 1925 - Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe President

● 1926 - Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties

● 1932 - USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty

● 1938 - Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance

● 1938 - Emma Tenayuca leads pecan shellers strike, San Antonio, Texas.

● 1940 - Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship

● 1941 - 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport TX

● 1941 - 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria

● 1941 - British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned

● 1941 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya.

● 1942 - Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal

● 1942 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain

● 1942 - Tito's partisans occupy Foca

● 1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad

● 1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk

● 1943 - Vice-Admiral Cunningham appointed British Admiral of fleet

● 1944 - 447 German bombers attack London

● 1944 - 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg

● 1945 - British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma

● 1950 - New York jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury

● 1950 - Novelist and activist George Orwell (Eric Blair) age 46, dies, London, England. The British writer dies after a three-year battle against tuberculosis.

● 1952 - Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India

● 1953 - John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State

● 1953 - Thirteen communists convicted of plotting overthrow of U.S. government.

● 1954 - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, then the First Lady of the United States.

● 1954 - 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (New York City NY)

● 1958 - The last Fokker C.X in military service, the FAF FK-111 target tower, crashed, killing the pilot and winch-operator.

● 1960 - Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km

● 1960 - Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook, South Africa; 417 die of methane poisoning.

● 1961 - Spanish, Portuguese, and South American activists hijack Portuguese liner "Santa Maria" to protest the Franco and Salazar dictatorships.

● 1962 - Snow falls in San Francisco

● 1962 - JFK arrives in Uruguay

● 1964 - Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency

● 1965 - Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured

● 1966 - Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd

● 1968 - Four hydrogen bombs lost when a U.S. B-52 crashes, spewing radioactive debris for miles. North Star Bay, Greenland.

● 1968 - Simon & Garfunkel release the Original Soundtrack to The Graduate, which quickly goes to #1 on the pop charts and which will bring Simon a Grammy for Best Original Score and Song of the Year (Mrs. Robinson).

● 1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh - One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.

● 1969 - The Navajo Community College, the first tribally established and operated community college in the U.S., opens at Many Farms, Arizona.

● 1969 - Switzerland - Coolant malfunction from an experimental underground reactor at Lucens Vad results in the release of a large amount of radiation into a cavern, which was then sealed.

● 1970 - The Boeing 747 made its first commercial flight from New York to London for Pan American.

● 1972 - Tripura becomes a full- fledged state in India.

● 1972 - Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh territory

● 1972 - Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union

● 1972 - Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory

● 1972 - Belgium government of Eyskens-Cools forms

● 1974 - Gold hits record $161.31 an ounce in London

● 1974 - Silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London

● 1974 - Oneida Nation wins U.S. Supreme Court decision to sue state of New York for rent on five million acres.

● 1974 - Four-day postal strike begins at Jersey City, N.J.

● 1976 - Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice starts in Ukiah, California, headed for Washington, D.C.

● 1976 - Commercial service of Concorde begins with London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.

● 1977 - Italy legalizes abortion

● 1977 - Jimmy Carter issues unconditional pardon to Vietnam draft resisters. Affects between 100,000 to 500,000 people. {Unlike the conditional amnesty Gerald "Fully Pardon Nixon" Ford issued. Is it any wonder why I call ford, President Quid-pro-quo?}

● 1979 - Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)

● 1979 - Price of gold increases to record $875 troy ounce

● 1980 - Gold hits record $850 an ounce

● 1981 - Bernhard Goetz is assaulted for 1st time on a New York subway train

● 1983 - Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid

● 1984 - Women's resistence camp set up, Volkel airbase, Netherlands.

● 1985 - Because January 20 had fallen on a Sunday, Ronald Reagan's public inaugural ceremony (for his second term as President) was moved to Monday, January 21. Due to bad weather, the ceremony was held indoors in the United States Capital Rotunda.

● 1985 - -19ºF (-28ºC), Caesar's Head SC (state record)

● 1985 - -34ºF (-37ºC), Mt Mitchell NC (state record)

● 1985 - Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java

● 1986 - Charismatic Bible Ministries was founded in Oklahoma. A fraternal fellowship of charismatic organizations, CBM held its first major conference in June 1986 in Tulsa.

● 1986 - 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38ºF (3ºC), Indiana

● 1986 - Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed

● 1988 - US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children

● 1989 - A woman is assaulted & raped in the room of an Oklahoma football player

● 1991 - CBS News correspondent Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf

● 1992 - UN threatens Libya with sanctions; Libya has been served with a resolution to hand over intelligence agents accused of two airliner bombings.

● 1993 - Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder

● 1994 - Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20)

● 1994 - Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane for chopping off the penis of her allegedly abusive spouse. Hubby's later use of his fifteen minutes to launch a porn star career confirms that she was pretty sane the whole time.

● 1997 - Carers accused in child abuse inquiry; More than 80 people are named as child abusers in statements to the North Wales inquiry.

● 1997 - Sixty protesters with bathrobes, shower caps, and toothbrushes traipse through Nordstrom's and NikeTown in downtown Seattle, looking for a place to take a shower, in a protest drawing attention to City Council plans to de- fund a proposed downtown public hygiene center that could be used by the homeless.

● 1997 - Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.

● 1998 - A former White House intern said on tape that she had an affair with U.S. President Clinton.

● 1998 - Pope John Paul II began his first visit to Cuba.

● 1999 - War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4,300 kg) of cocaine on board.

● 2000 - U.N. Working Party agrees on a draft protocol prohibiting the use of soldiers under the age of 18 in combat. Geneva, Switzerland.

● 2002 - Canadian Dollar sets all-time low against the US Dollar (US$0.6179).

● 2002 - In Goma, Congo, about fifty people were killed when lava flow ignited a gas station. The people killed were trying to steal fuel from elevated tanks. The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo began on January 17, 2002.

● 2002 - In London, a 17th century book by Capt. John Smith, founder of the English settlement at Jamestown, was sold at auction for $48,800. "The General History of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles" was published in 1632.

● 2003 - It was announced by the U.S. Census Bureau that estimates showed that the Hispanic population had passed the black population for the first time.

● 2004 - The recording industry sued 532 computer users it said were illegally distributing songs over the Internet.

● 2004 - Canada: The residence of reporter Juliet O'Neill is searched by the RCMP investigating leaks concerning the deportation of Maher Arar.

● 2004 - NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies with Flash Memory management and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6th.

● 2005 - A car bomb outside a Shiite mosque in Baghdad killed at least 14 people; a suicide bombing at a Shiite wedding south of the capital killed at least seven people, including the bride and the groom.

● 2005 - In Belize's capital city, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.

● 2007 - In the NFL, the Chicago Bears win NFC Championship and are headed to Super Bowl XLI, the Bears' first Super Bowl since 1985.

BIRTHS

● 1613 - George Gillespie, Scottish minister/polemical writer (d. 1648)

● 1721 - James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)

● 1738 - Ethan Allen, American soldier – frontiersman (d. 1789)

● 1743 - John Fitch, American steamboat builder (d. 1798)

● 1804 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)

● 1813 - John Fremont, Americium mapmaker/explorer, Civil War general (d. 1890)

● 1815 - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (d. 1900)

● 1824 - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate Army general (d. 1863)

● 1825 - Imre Madách, Hungarian writer (d. 1864)

● 1827 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900)

● 1829 - King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907)

● 1840 - Sophia Jex-Blake, English physician (d. 1912)

● 1848 - Henri Duparc, French composer (d. 1933)

● 1855 - John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926)

● 1860 - Karl Staaff, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915)

● 1867 - Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921)

● 1867 - Maxime Weygand, French general (d. 1965)

● 1882 - Pavel Florensky, Russian mathematician (d. 1937)

● 1883 - Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (d. 1929)

● 1884 - Roger Baldwin, American social activist (d. 1981)

● 1885 - Umberto Nobile, Italian politician (d. 1978)

● 1887 - Georges Vezina, Canadian hockey player (d. 1926)

● 1895 - Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972)

● 1897 - René Iché, French sculptor (d. 1954)

● 1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian born American composer (d. 1977)

● 1900 - Sir Charles Moses, English-born Australian broadcaster (d. 1988)

● 1901 - Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)

● 1905 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)

● 1905 - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978)

● 1906 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer

● 1912 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)

● 1918 - Richard D. Winters, American war hero

● 1921 - Howard Unruh, American mass murderer

● 1922 - Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)

● 1922 - Paul Scofield, English actor

● 1923 - Lola Flores, Spanish singer (d. 1995)

● 1924 - Benny Hill, British actor, comedian, and singer (d. 1992)

● 1926 - Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)

● 1927 - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby player (d. 1985)

● 1932 - John Chaney, American basketball coach

● 1934 - Audrey Dalton, Irish actress

● 1935 - Ann Wedgeworth, Actress

● 1936 - Snooks Eaglin, Blues singer-musician

● 1936 - Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (d. 2005)

● 1937 - Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria

● 1938 - Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Brazilian footballer

● 1938 - John Savident, British actor

● 1938 - Wolfman Jack, disk jockey and actor (d. 1995)

● 1940 - Jack Nicklaus, American golfer

● 1941 - Plácido Domingo, Spanish-born tenor

● 1941 - Richie Havens, American musician

● 1941 - Ivan Putski, Polish professional wrestler

● 1942 - Mac Davis, American musician

● 1942 - Edwin Starr, American singer (d. 2003)

● 1946 - Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (d. 2004)

● 1947 - Jim Ibbotson, Country musician (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)

● 1947 - Jill Eikenberry, American actress (''L.A. Law'')

● 1950 - Billy Ocean, West Indian musician

● 1952 - Louis Menand, American writer and critic

● 1953 - Paul Allen, American entrepreneur

● 1955 - Jeff Koons, American artist

● 1956 - Robby Benson, American actor

● 1956 - Geena Davis, American actress

● 1958 - Michael Wincott, Canadian actor

● 1962 - Tyler Cowen, American economist

● 1962 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)

● 1963 - Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-born basketball player

● 1963 - Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player

● 1965 - Jam Master Jay, American disc jockey (d. 2002)

● 1966 - Robert Del Naja, English musician

● 1968 - Charlotte Ross, American actress

● 1969 - John Ducey, Actor

● 1969 - Karina Lombard, Actress

● 1969 - Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist

● 1970 - Levirt, Rapper (B-Rock and the Bizz)

● 1970 - Mark Trojanowski, Rock musician (Sister Hazel)

● 1970 - Ken Leung, American actor

● 1971 - Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player

● 1971 - Doug Weight, American hockey player

● 1971 - Brian Giles, baseball player

● 1972 - Chan Marshall, American musician (Cat Power)

● 1972 - Alan Benes, baseball player

● 1973 - Chris Kilmore, DJ (Incubus)

● 1975 - Nicky Butt, English footballer

● 1975 - Antonio Álvarez "Ito", Spanish footballer

● 1976 - Emma Bunton, English singer (Spice Girls)

● 1977 - Al Baxter, Australian rugby player

● 1977 - Philip Neville, English footballer

● 1978 - Nokio, R&B singer (Dru Hill)

● 1978 - Andrei Zyuzin, Russian hockey player

● 1979 - Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby player

● 1979 - Byung-Hyun Kim, Korean baseball player

● 1980 - Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer

● 1980 - Dave Kitson, English footballer

● 1981 - Andy Lee, Korean rapper (Shinhwa)

● 1981 - Ivan Ergic, Serbian footballer

● 1981 - Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Hong Kong singer (Twins)

● 1981 - Jamie Dalrymple, English cricketer

● 1981 - Dany Heatley, Canadian hockey player

● 1981 - Izabella Miko, Polish-born actress and model

● 1983 - Moritz Volz, German footballer

● 1985 - Alex Pérez, Spanish footballer

● 1990 - Jacob Smith, American actor

● 1991 - Paige and Ryanne Kettner, American actresses

● 2004 - Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway

DEATHS

● 304 - Saint Agnes (martyred)

● 1118 - Pope Paschal II

● 1519 - Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer

● 1527 - Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador

● 1546 - Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)

● 1609 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant scholar (b. 1540)

● 1638 - Ignazio Donati, Italian composer

● 1683 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician (b. 1621)

● 1699 - Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)

● 1706 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)

● 1710 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)

● 1722 - Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661)

● 1731 - Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)

● 1766 - James Quin, English actor (b. 1693)

● 1773 - Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)

● 1774 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717)

● 1793 - King Louis XVI of France (executed) (b. 1754)

● 1795 - Samuel Wallis, English navigator

● 1809 - Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729)

● 1814 - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737)

● 1831 - Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781)

● 1851 - Albert Lortzing, German composer (b. 1801)

● 1870 - Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812)

● 1872 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (b. 1791)

● 1881 - Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1802)

● 1891 - Calixa Lavallée, Canadian composer (b. 1842)

● 1901 - Elisha Gray, American inventor (b. 1835)

● 1914 - Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (b. 1857)

● 1919 - Gojong of Joseon, Emperor of Korea (b. 1852)

● 1924 - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (b. 1870)

● 1926 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843)

● 1928 - George Goethals, American army engineer (b. 1858)

● 1931 - Felix Blumenfeld, Russian composer (b. 1863)

● 1932 - Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer (b. 1880)

● 1933 - George A. Moore, Irish novelist (b. 1852)

● 1948 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (b. 1876)

● 1950 - George Orwell, British writer (b. 1903)

● 1955 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)

● 1956 - Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (b. 1883)

● 1959 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (b. 1881)

● 1959 - Carl Switzer, American actor (b. 1927)

● 1961 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b. 1887)

● 1967 - Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915)

● 1968 - Will Lang Jr., American magazine executive (b. 1914)

● 1977 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (b. 1906)

● 1984 - Jackie Wilson, American musician (b. 1934)

● 1985 - James Beard, American chef and author (b. 1903)

● 1985 - Eddie Graham, American professional wrestler and promoter (b. 1930)

● 1987 - Charles Goodell, American politician (b. 1926)

● 1989 - Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)

● 1989 - Carl Furillo, Major League Baseball player (b. 1922)

● 1993 - Charlie Gehringer, baseball player (b. 1903)

● 1996 - René Marc Jalbert, sergeant-at-Arms at the National Assembly of Quebec (b. 1921)

● 1997 - Colonel Tom Parker, American manager of Elvis Presley (b. 1909)

● 1998 - Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)

● 1999 - Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)

● 1999 - Charles Brown, American blues singer and pianist (b. 1920)

● 2001 - Byron De La Beckwith, American white supremacist (b. 1921)

● 2001 - Chung Ju-yung, Korean industrialist (b. 1915)

● 2002 - Peggy Lee, American singer (b. 1920)

● 2004 - Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (b. 1929)

● 2005 - Parveen Babi, Indian actress (b. 1955)

● 2005 - John L. Hess, American journalist (b. 1917)

● 2005 - Theun de Vries, Dutch writer (b. 1907)

● 2006 - Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (b. 1944)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Agnes, virgin/martyr at Rome
● St. Alban Bartholomew Roe
● St. Brigid
● St. Epiphanius
● St. Fructuosus
● St. Lawdog
● St. Maccalin
● St. Meinrad
● St. Patroclus
● St. Vimin
● Bl. Edward Stransham
● Bl. Inez
● Bl. Thomas Reynolds

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 9 (Civil Date: January 21)
● Afterfeast of the Theophany.
● Martyr Polyeuctus of Melitine in Armenia.
● Hieromartyr Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia.
● St. Eustratius the wonderworker.
● Prophet Shemaiah (Samaia, Semeias)
● St. Peter, Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, and brother of St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory of Nyssa.
● New-Martyr Paul (Florensky).
● Repose of Elder Jonah (Peter in schema), founder of Holy Trinity Monastery in Kiev (1902).

● Baha'i : World Religion Day (Sultan 3)

● Christian:
● St. Meinrad

● Anglican:
● St. Agnes, virgin/martyr at Rome

● Mauritius - Thaipoosam Cavadee.

● National Hugging Day

● UN Arms Day

● Squirrel Appreciation Day

● Dominican Republic : Nuestra Senora de Altagracia Day (Our Lady of Altagracia)

● 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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