January 26......

January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 339 (340 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

● 66 - 5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

● 1340 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France.

● 1500 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to discover Brazil.

● 1531 - Lisbon, Portugal hit by an earthquake; about 30,000 die.

● 1564 - The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.

● 1564 - Following the closing of the Council of Trent, Pius IV ratified its enactments by the bull "Benedictus Deus." Included among the Tridentine decisions were decrees concerning the creation of an Index of Prohibited Books (a list of condemned authors and their works).

● 1565 - Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.

● 1589 - Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.

● 1654 - Portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife

● 1666 - France declares war on England & Münster

● 1697 - Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night

● 1699 - Venice, Poland & Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey

● 1700 - The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.

● 1736 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.

● 1748 - England, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty

● 1779 - Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.'

● 1784 - Benjamin Franklin, noting the bald eagle was "a Bird of bad moral character" who lived "by Sharping and Robbing," expressed regret it had been selected to be the U.S. national symbol. Franklin's choice - the turkey, "a much more respectable Bird and withal a true original Native of America."

● 1788 - Australia - A fleet of 11 ships lands in Port Jackson after sailing with the continent's first 1,030 English settlers, including 736 convicts. England will ship more than 160,000 men, women, and children in bondage to Australia in the largest forced exile of citizens by a European government in pre-modern history. The exiles that land today will become known as the First Fleet. They'll be so unfit for survival in the new land that they will live near starvation amid what is natural abundance to Aborigines. Most of the First Fleet convicts have never traveled more than 10 miles from their birth places. They saw the sea for the first time when they were clapped in irons and thrust onto the ships. All the convicts were transported for crimes against property. They include 70-year-old Elizabeth Beckford, who was exiled for stealing 12 pounds of Gloucester cheese. West-Indian Thomas Chaddick was sent to Australia after hunger drove him to steal cucumbers from a kitchen garden. Obviously, not much has changed in 200-plus years.

● 1789 - John Odell signs contract for £336 to build St Peter's church (Bronx)

● 1797 - Russia, Prussia & Austria sign treaty

● 1802 - The U.S. Congress passes an act calling for a library to be established within the U.S. Capitol; eventually this becomes the Library of Congress.

● 1808 - Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.

● 1827 - Peru seceded from Colombia in protest against Simón Bolívar's alleged tyranny.

● 1837 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.

● 1838 - Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States

● 1841 - The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China had ceded.

● 1855 - What's the point? - Clallam band signs Treaty of Point-No Point in what is now Washington state.

● 1856 - In the first "Battle of Seattle," settlers drove Indians off from their land so that a little town of white folks could prosper.

● 1861 - Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede

● 1862 - Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order

● 1863 - American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.

● 1863 - American Civil War: Massachusetts Governor receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.

● 1863 - 54th Regiment (Black) infantry forms

● 1870 - American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.

● 1871 - US income tax repealed

● 1875 - George F. Green patented the electric dental drill for sawing, filing, dressing and polishing teeth.

● 1880 - Douglas MacArthur , the American general who achieved acclaim as a grand strategist in World War II and in Korea , was born.

● 1881 - Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl

● 1882 - France government of Gambetta falls

● 1885 - Muhammad Ahmed ("Mahdi") rebels conquer Khartoum.

● 1886 - Karl Benz patents 1st auto with burning motor

● 1887 - Battle of Dogali Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians

● 1897 - Battle at Bida Gold Coast British troops beat Nupe's army

● 1904 - Sean MacBride, diplomat and peacemaker, born, Ireland.

● 1905 - Han Yong-woon [Bongwan, Manhae] (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea

● 1905 - The Cullinan diamond, weighing 114 lbs, was found by Captain Wells at the Premier Mine, near Pretoria, South Africa.

● 1906 - The first General Assembly of the Church of God convened. Headquartered today in Cleveland, TN, the Church of God is the oldest Pentecostal Church denomination in the U.S., with roots going back to 1886.

● 1907 - U.S. Congress passes an act forbidding corporations from contributing to election campaigns for national office. Hahahahaha.

● 1907 - The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the oldest military rifle still in official use.

● 1910 - Heavy rains cause floods in Paris

● 1911 - Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.

● 1913 - Native American sensation Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for being a pro.

● 1914 - 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike

● 1914 - Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index

● 1915 - Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established

● 1918 - US food administrator Hoover calls for "wheatless" & "meatless" days for war effort

● 1920 - Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches The Lincoln Motor Co., which he'd later sell to his former employer.

● 1920 - Amadeo Modigliani's mistress jumps out of a window

● 1924 - Birth of Armand Gatti, Monaco. Libertarian playwright, author of more than 40 plays. A Resistance member during WWII, he was captured in 1943, condemned to death and shipped to Germany, near Hamburg, from which he escaped to England. After the war he became a prize-winning journalist, then devoted himself to the theatre. His "La passion du general Franco” (1968) was banned in France, under pressure from Franco's Spain.

● 1926 - Television demonstrated publicly for the first time by J.L. Baird in London.

● 1928 - Eleven French soldiers condemned to death for fraternizing with Moors in colonial war.

● 1929 - Birth of cartoonist/dramatist Jules Feiffer, New York City.

● 1930 - The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence)

● 1930 - Cleveland's Terminal Tower opens (52 stories)

● 1931 - Hungary-Austria sign peace treaty

● 1932 - British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead)

● 1934 - Nazi Germany & Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years

● 1934 - The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, New York City.

● 1939 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to fascist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.

● 1939 - Federal Hall National Monument established

● 1940 - Nazis forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains

● 1942 - Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel

● 1942 - World War II: The first American forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.

● 1944 - Birth of Angela Davis, Black Panther, radical, activist, author. Birmingham, Ala.

● 1945 - Liberation of extermination camp, Auschwitz/Oswiecim, Poland.

● 1946 - Félix Gouin becomes Prime Minister of France.

● 1947 - KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die

● 1948 - Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed

● 1950 - India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president.

● 1950 - The American Associated Insurance Companies, of St. Louis, MO, issued the first baby sitter’s insurance policy.

● 1951 - The Temple Beth Israel of Meridian, Miss. became the first Jewish congregation to allow women to perform the functions of a rabbi.

● 1952 - Britons killed in Cairo riots; Reports from Egypt say at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds injured in anti-British riots in Cairo.

● 1953 - Radioactive rain falls on Troy, New York.

● 1956 - Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested for the first time; his home will be bombed in a few days.

● 1956 - Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR

● 1957 - Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms

● 1957 - India annexes Kashmir

● 1958 - H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan as Israeli minister of Defense

● 1961 - John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.

● 1962 - The U.S. destroyer Hobson sank in the Atlantic after colliding with the aircraft carrier Wasp; 175 lives were lost.

● 1962 - Bishop Burke of the Buffalo, New York Catholic Diocese bans the Twist. It can't be danced, sung about, or listened to in any Catholic school, parish, or youth event. Later in the year, the Twist will be banned from community center dances in Tampa, Fla. as well.

● 1962 - Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).

● 1962 - Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard

● 1965 - South Vietnam military coup under General Nguyen Khanh

● 1965 - Hindi becomes the official language of India.

● 1966 - Eruption of Mt. Kelud, in Java, kills 1,000 people.

● 1966 - The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.

● 1967 - Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'What God has done is well done.'

● 1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

● 1968 - Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die

● 1969 - Prague riots over student martyr; Police wielding truncheons and firing tear gas from pressure canisters break up a march by hundreds of demonstrators in central Prague.

● 1969 - Edwin Pratt, director of Seattle Urban League, is assassinated; police involvement is widely suspected. An arrest is never made in the case.

● 1970 - Twenty thousand riot in Manila to protest the regime of U.S.-backed Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. (His wife tries to pacify crowd by displaying shoe collection.)

● 1970 - State capitol of Louisiana, in Baton Rouge, is damaged by a dynamite explosion.

● 1971 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes

● 1972 - In Hermsdorf, Czechoslovakia, a JAT Yugoslav Airlines flight crashed after the detonation of a bomb in the forward cargo hold killing 27 people. The bomb was believed to have been placed on the plane by a Croatian extremist group. Vesna Vulovic, a stewardess, survived after falling 33,000 feet in the tail section. She broke both legs and became paralyzed from the waist down.

● 1973 - Belgium government of Leburton forms

● 1973 - U.S. puts Selective Service military draft on standby, never (so far) to return.

● 1976 - Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon

● 1976 - Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals

● 1978 - International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit

● 1978 - Mario Soares forms Portuguese government

● 1978 - Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40

● 1979 - Former Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller died at age 70.

● 1980 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.

● 1980 - 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro!

● 1982 - UK unemployment tops three million; The number of people out of work in Britain rises above three million for the first time since the 1930s.

● 1982 - Mauno Koivisto elected President of Finland

● 1983 - Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from California

● 1983 - Lotus 1-2-3 is released.

● 1984 - US navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters & a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst New Jersey

● 1986 - Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquerors Kampala Uganda

● 1986 - The Chicago Bears win Super Bowl XX.

● 1986 - Halley's Comet is visible in the night sky as it passes in its 76-year orbit around the sun.

● 1988 - Australia - Aborigines mark 200th anniversary as "invasion day."

● 1988 - The musical The Phantom of the Opera opens for the first time on broadway.

● 1988 - Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor

● 1989 - AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988

● 1989 - Madison Square Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan

● 1989 - US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus

● 1990 - Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic

● 1990 - Technology critic Lewis Mumford dies, Amenia, New York.

● 1991 - One hundred thousand march against Gulf War, New York City and San Francisco.

● 1991 - Mohamed Siad Barre is removed in Somalia, ending centralized government

● 1991 - Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church

● 1992 - Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect

● 1992 - Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.

● 1992 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Buffalo Bills 37-24 in Super Bowl XXVI.

● 1993 - Women in Black demonstrate in solidarity with their Serbian sisters, Toronto, Canada.

● 1993 - Václav Havel elected President of the Czech Republic.

● 1994 - In Sydney, Australia, a young man lunged at and fired two blank shots at Britain's Prince Charles.

● 1995 - New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman, dedicates a rest stop to Howard Stern. And to think that Dubya hired her (as head of the EPA) to keep America clean...

● 1996 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testified before a grand jury concerning the Whitewater probe.

● 1997 - The Green Bay Packers won Super Bowl XXXI

● 1998 - "I am not a dick" - Pres. Clinton assures America on television - "I want to say one thing to the American people, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss (Monica) Lewinsky...," a former White House intern.

● 1998 - Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip

● 1999 - Saddam Hussein vowed revenge against the U.S. in response to air-strikes that reportedly killed civilians. The strikes were U.S. planes defending themselves against anti-aircraft fire. {Anti-aircraft fire is densive not the other way around.}

● 2001 - A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.

● 2001 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.

● 2004 - President Hamid Karzai signed the new constitution of Afghanistan.

● 2005 - Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.

● 2005 - Having been confirmed earlier in the day by a vote of 85-13 in the United States Senate, Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post.

● 2005 - A helicopter crash in eastern Iraq kills 31 United States soldiers.

● 2005 - Condoleezza Rice was sworn in as secretary of state. {Thus becoming the worst Secretary of State ever and getting promoted for failure.}

● 2006 - A large fire breaks out on Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa.

● 2006 - Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service.

BIRTHS

● 1497 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)

● 1541 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)

● 1714 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)

● 1715 - Claude-Adrien Helvatius, French philosopher (d. 1771)

● 1716 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (d. 1785)

● 1722 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805)

● 1763 - Charles XIV John of Sweden, Napoleonic general (d. 1844)

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

● 1813 - Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876)

● 1826 - Julia Dent Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)

● 1842 - François Coppée, French poet and novelist (d. 1908)

● 1846 - Benjamin Franklin Keith, American impresario (d. 1914)

● 1852 - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà), explorer (d. 1905)

● 1857 - the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)

● 1868 - Juventino Rosas, Mexican composer (d. 1894)

● 1871 - Samuel Hopkins Adams, American journalist and author (d. 1958)

● 1872 - Julia Morgan, American architect (d. 1957)

● 1880 - Douglas MacArthur, American general and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)

● 1887 - François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (d. 1915)

● 1891 - Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (d. 1973)

● 1891 - Wilder Penfield, American-born Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976)

● 1892 - Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978)

● 1893 - Bessie Coleman, American aviator (d. 1926)

● 1900 - Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)

● 1901 - Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988)

● 1902 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940)

● 1904 - Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)

● 1904 - Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)

● 1905 - Charles Lane, American actor

● 1905 - Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (d. 1987)

● 1908 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (d. 1997)

● 1908 - Jill Esmond, English actess (d. 1990)

● 1911 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1993)

● 1913 - James Van Heusen, American songwriter (d. 1990)

● 1914 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (d. 2006)

● 1915 - William Hopper, American actor (d. 1970)

● 1918 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)

● 1918 - Philip José Farmer, American writer

● 1921 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (d. 1999)

● 1921 - Eddie Barclay, French producer (Barclay Records) (d. 2005)

● 1922 - Michael Bentine, British comedian (d. 1996)

● 1923 - Anne Jeffreys, American actress

● 1924 - Rauf Denktash, Cypriot politician

● 1924 - Annette Strauss, philanthropist and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1998)

● 1924 - Alice Babs, Swedish singer

● 1925 - Joan Leslie, American actress

● 1925 - Paul Newman, American actor

● 1925 - Claude Ryan, Quebec newspaper director (Le Devoir) and politician, leader of the Parti libéral du Québec (d. 2004)

● 1926 - Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar, writer and linguist

● 1927 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (d. 2005)

● 1927 - Bob Nieman, baseball player (d. 1985)

● 1928 - Roger Vadim, French film director and actor (d. 2000)

● 1928 - George H. Ross, American attorney and TV reality show star (The Apprentice)

● 1929 - Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and writer

● 1929 - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator

● 1931 - Mary Murphy, American film actress

● 1932 - Claude Gray, Country singer

● 1932 - Clement Seymour "Sir Coxsone" Dodd, Jamaican record producer

● 1933 - Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist

● 1934 - Roger Landry, Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher (La Presse)

● 1935 - Bob Uecker, baseball player, broadcaster, and actor

● 1937 - Joseph Saidu Momoh, Sierra Leone political leader (d. 2003)

● 1941(39? NYT) - Scott Glenn, American actor

● 1941 - Henry Jaglom, English director

● 1943 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)

● 1943 - Jean Knight, American singer

● 1944 - Angela Davis, American feminist and activist

● 1945 - Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987)

● 1946 - Gene Siskel, American film critic (d. 1999)

● 1947 - Mark Dayton, U.S. senator, D-Minn.

● 1947 - Michel Sardou, French singer

● 1947 - Patrick Dewaere, French actor (d. 1982)

● 1948 - Corky Laing, Rock musician (Mountain)

● 1949 - Jonathan Carroll, American author

● 1949 - David Strathairn, American actor (''Good Night, and Good Luck'')

● 1950 - Jack Youngblood, Football hall-of-famer

● 1950 - Janet Lupo, American model

● 1953 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark

● 1953 - Lucinda Williams, American singer

● 1955 - Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-born musician (Van Halen)

● 1958 - Anita Baker, American singer

● 1958 - Norman Hassan, Reggae musician (UB40)

● 1958 - Ellen DeGeneres, American actress, comedian, and talk show host

● 1958 - Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer

● 1961 - Wayne Gretzky, Canadian hockey player, coach, and team owner

● 1962 - Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer

● 1963 - José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager

● 1963 - Jazzie B., R&B singer (Soul II Soul)

● 1963 - Andrew Ridgeley, English musician (Wham!)

● 1964 - Paul Johansson, American actor (''One Tree Hill'')

● 1965 - Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast

● 1968 - Ravi Teja, Tollywood film actor

● 1970 - Kirk Franklin, American singer

● 1971 - Dorian Gregory, American actor

● 1971 - Bryan Callen, American actor

● 1973 - Jennifer Crystal, Actress

● 1974 - Chris Hesse, Rock musician (Hoobastank)

● 1976 - Frankie Rayder, American model

● 1976 - Maggie Lawson, Australian musician

● 1977 - Vince Carter, American basketball player

● 1977 - Justin Gimelstob, American tennis player

● 1978 - Corina Morariu, American tennis player

● 1978 - Kelly Stables, American actress

● 1979 - Sara Rue, American actress

● 1983 - Michael Martin, Country musician (Marshall Dyllon)

● 1986 - Matt Heafy, Japenese-born musician (Trivium)

● 1986 - Shantelle Taylor, Canadian professional wrestler

● 1989 - Emily Hughes, American figure skater

● 1989 - Jin Yu Zhou, Chinese flutist

● 1993 - Cameron Bright, Canadian actor

● 1995 - Kyle Chavarria, American actress

DEATHS

● 1567 - Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat

● 1630 - Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)

● 1636 - Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)

● 1697 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)

● 1744 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)

● 1750 - Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)

● 1795 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (b. 1732)

● 1799 - Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)

● 1823 - Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749)

● 1824 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791)

● 1855 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)

● 1869 - Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)

● 1870 - Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1785)

● 1885 - Edward Davy, English inventor (b. 1806)

● 1885 - Charles George Gordon, British general (b. 1833)

● 1886 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)

● 1891 - Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor (b. 1833)

● 1893 - Abner Doubleday, credited inventor of baseball (b. 1819)

● 1904 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)

● 1932 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (b. 1861)

● 1933 - Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)

● 1942 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (b. 1868)

● 1943 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (b. 1880)

● 1943 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist (b. 1887)

● 1947 - Grace Moore, American soprano (b. 1898)

● 1947 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Westrobothnia, (b. 1906)

● 1952 - Horloogiyn Choybalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895)

● 1953 - Athanase David, French Canadian lawyer, politician and businessman (b. 1882)

● 1961 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900)

● 1962 - Lucky Luciano, American mobster (b. 1897)

● 1968 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883)

● 1968 - Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900)

● 1973 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893)

● 1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)

● 1984 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (b. 1913)

● 1990 - Lewis Mumford, American historian (b. 1895)

● 1992 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1912)

● 1993 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (b. 1905)

● 1993 - Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1922)

● 1996 - Harold Brodkey, American author (b. 1930)

● 1996 - Dave Schultz, American wrestler (b. 1959)

● 1997 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)

● 1998 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (b. 1898)

● 2000 - Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915)

● 2000 - Kathleen Hale, British author (b. 1898)

● 2000 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author (b. 1912)

● 2001 - Al McGuire, American basketball coach (b. 1928)

● 2001 - Jessica Michalik, Australian victim of Big Day Out (b. 1985)

● 2003 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (b. 1917)

● 2003 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (b. 1931)

● 2003 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet olympic athlete (b. 1942)

● 2004 - Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)

● 2004 - Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alberic
● St. Ansurius
● St. Athanasius
● St. Conan
● St. Margaret of Hungary
● St. Paula
● St. Robert of Newmister
● St. Theofrid
● St. Thordgith
● St. Timothy
● St. Titus

● Old Roman Catholic:
● St. Polycarp, bishop/martyr (now 2/23)

● Anglican and Lutheran:
● Sts. Timothy & Titus, companions of Paul

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 14 (Civil Date: January 26)
● Apodosis of the Theophany.
● The Holy Fathers slain at Sinai and Raithu: Isaiah, Sabbas, Moses and his disciple Moses, Jeremiah, Paul, Adam, Sergius, Domnus, Proclus, Hypatius, Isaac, Macarius, Mark, Benjamin, Eusebius, Elias and others.
● St. Stephen, abbot of Chenolakos Monastery near Chalcedon.
● St. Theodulus, son of St. Nilus of Sinai.
● St. Joseph Analytinus of Raithu Monastery.
● St. Nina (Nino), Equal-to-the-Apostles, Enlightener of Georgia.
● Virgin Martyr Agnes.
● New-Martyr Platon, Archbishop of Reval (Estonia) (1919).
● New Martyrs slain at Raithu Monastery, and New Hieromartyr Ambrose of Sarapul (1918).

● Roman Empire - third day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra.

● India - Republic Day - One of only three state holidays in India, celebrated with pomp and a military parade in New Delhi.

● Uganda - Liberation Day.

● International Customs Day.

● Arkansas : General Douglas MacArthur Day

● China : Chinese New Year-The Year of the Ox (2009/4707)

● Dominican Republic : Duarte's Day/Dia de Duarte

● Michigan : Admission Day (1837)

● Australia : Australia Day (1994 - Present)

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Australia : Australia Day (1788 - 1993) - ( Monday )


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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