January 28......

January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 337 (338 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

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EVENTS

● 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.

● 1099 - 1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria

● 1262 - Flemish/Dutch coast ravaged by north western storm

● 1393 - Fire during Royal Ball at Paris, 4 die (Ball of the Ardents)

● 1495 - Pope gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France

● 1521 - The Diet of Worms began, lasting until May 25, at which Protestant reformer Luther was declared an outlaw by the Roman Catholic church.

● 1547 - England's King Henry VIII died. His son 9-year-old Edward VI becomes King, the first Protestant ruler of England.

● 1561 - By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended

● 1573 - Articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.

● 1581 - Scotland's King James VI, who in 1603 would become England's James I, signed the Second Scottish Confession of Faith.

● 1595 - Sir Francis Drake, English navigator/pirate (Porto Bello West Indies), dies at about 50.

● 1596 - English navigator Sir Francis Drake died off the coast of Panama.

● 1613 - Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune

● 1689 - English parliament ends king Charles II reign

● 1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.

● 1760 - Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.

● 1787 - The Free Africa Society organizes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

● 1788 - Lord Gordon found guilty of libeling of the queen of France

● 1788 - The first penal colony is founded at Botany Bay, Australia.

● 1807 - London's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight

● 1813 - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.

● 1819 - Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore

● 1820 - Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.

● 1821 - Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica

● 1822 - Birth of William D. Longstaff, English philanthropist. A close acquaintance of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey, Longstaff is better remembered today as author of the hymn, "Take Time to Be Holy."

● 1824 - William Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40)

● 1834 - Birth of Sabine Baring-Gould, Anglican clergyman and author. A man of widely diverging interests, he published numerous books on history, biography, poetry and fiction. He also penned the enduring hymns, "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "Now the Day is Over."

● 1846 - Battle of Aliwal, India beaten by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.

● 1848 - King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution

● 1851 - Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered

● 1853 - Birth of Cuban independence hero Jose Marti (1853-1895), Havana.

● 1854 - Vigilantes attack Coquille village near Randolph, Oregon, killing 16.

● 1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Railway.

● 1858 - John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry

● 1860 - Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua

● 1861 - American Miners Association, first national coal miners' union, founded.

● 1864 - Battle of New Bern, NC

● 1865 - President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners

● 1871 - Franco-Prussian War: France surrenders, ending the war.

● 1878 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States.

● 1878 - 1st telephone exchange (New Haven CT)

● 1878 - George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator

● 1881 - Battle at Laing's Neck Natal Boers beat superior powered British

● 1883 - The trial to suppress the anarchists of the First International concludes in Lyon, France, against those known as "The 66. " They are accused of promoting workers' strikes, and the abolition of the rights of property, of family, of fatherland, of religion, and to thus attacking the public peace. Stiff sentences were handed down - "Leaders" such as Peter Kropotkin, Emile Gautier, Bernard, Bordat received four years in prison, while 39 of their companions were sentenced from six months to three years. Antoine Cyvoct, a Lyon citizen, received five years.

● 1887 - Arthur Rubinstein , the Polish-American virtuoso pianist , was born.

● 1887 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.

● 1899 - American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress

● 1902 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.

● 1904 - 1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on University of Chicago's football team are awarded blankets with letter "C" on them

● 1909 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War.

● 1914 - Beverly Hills, California, is incorporated

● 1915 - 1st US ship lost in WWI, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)

● 1915 - US President Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates

● 1915 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.

● 1916 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

● 1916 - German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain & France

● 1917 - U.S. forces withdraw from Mexico after failing to find Pancho Villa.

● 1917 - Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco.

● 1918 - Germany - General strike in the large cities. In Munich, the anarchist Erich Muhsam, at a meeting of 10,000 workers, calls for the continuation of the strike movement and is subsequently stopped by police and put under house arrest.

● 1918 - Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.

● 1918 - Trotsky becomes leader of Reds

● 1921 - A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honour the unknown dead of World War I.

● 1923 - 1st "Reichs Party" (NSDAP) forms in Munich

● 1923 - Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent

● 1923 - NSDAP 1st election in Munich

● 1925 - -46ºF (-43ºC), Pittsburgh NH (state record)

● 1927 - Serbian-Croatian-Slavic government of Oezonowitsj falls

● 1928 - Christopher Hornsrud chosen PM of Norway at age 101

● 1932 - First U.S. unemployment compensation law enacted, Wisconsin.

● 1932 - Japan occupies Shanghai.

● 1933 - The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and by a group of Cambridge University Students and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement of the formal Indian Independence Act 1947 during World War II

● 1933 - French government of Paul Boncour falls

● 1933 - German government of Von Schleicher falls

● 1935 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion.

● 1938 - Emile Bidault (1869-1938) dies. French anarchist and organizer, with Joseph Tortelier and others, the "League of the Antipatriots," to combat militarism, the war it promotes and its corollary, patriotism.

● 1938 - The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont.

● 1938 - The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195.

● 1942 - General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine

● 1942 - German troops occupy Benghazi Libya

● 1944 - 683 British bombers attack Berlin

● 1944 - U-271 & U-571 sunk off Ireland

● 1945 - Dutch airplanes dump pamphlets on Java

● 1945 - Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands

● 1945 - Beginning of the Naples Congress, first congress of the united trade union movement in liberated Italy.

● 1945 - World War II: General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell & truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China so that supplies begin to reach the Republic of China.

● 1946 - Bluenose, Canada's greatest sailing ship, founders on a Haitian reef.

● 1947 - In NY City, a copy of the 1640 Bay Psalm Book was purchased at an auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries for $150,000 --the highest price ever paid to date for a single volume. (The original title of the book was: "The Whole Book of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre.")

● 1949 - UN Security council condemns Dutch aggression in Indonesia

● 1950 - Preston Tucker, auto maker, found not guilty of mail fraud

● 1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1952 - Derek Bentley hanged for murder.

● 1953 - Derek Bentley hanged for murder; Teenager Derek Bentley is executed at Wandsworth Prison in London for his part in the murder of PC Sidney Miles.

● 1958 - Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor

● 1958 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister.

● 1959 - Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US

● 1960 - 1st photograph bounced off Moon, Washington DC

● 1961 - Republic of Rwanda proclaimed

● 1961 - Committee for Nonviolent Action demonstrates against nuclear-armed ships, New London, Connecticut.

● 1963 - -34ºF (-37ºC), Cynthiana KY (state record)

● 1965 - General Motors reported the biggest profit of any U.S. company in history.

● 1968 - Radiation alert following B-52 crash; A recovery team searches for wreckage from an American Air Force B-52 bomber armed with four hydrogen bombs.

● 1969 - Santa Barbara oil well blowout (continues into midsummer). Union Oil Company drill strikes a deposit of high-pressure natural gas five miles off the Santa Barbara coast. Millions of gallons of "California crude" were sent spewing over the seaside. Tens of thousands of birds and whole populations of marine life were wiped out before the drilling hole was plugged up with cement, temporarily containing the flow.

● 1970 - Lubomír Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia

● 1973 - A cease-fire officially went into effect in the Vietnam War.

● 1977 - The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith published an 18-page document ruling out the admission of women to the Roman Catholic priesthood because women lacked a "natural resemblance which must exist between Christ and his ministers."

● 1980 - Six Americans who had fled the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 1979, left Iran using false Canadian diplomatic passports. The Americans had been hidden at the Canadian embassy in Tehran.

● 1981 - Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision

● 1981 - "5 O'Clock Girl" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City NY for 12 performances

● 1981 - William J Casey becomes the 13th director of CIA (until 1987)

● 1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1982 - US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades.

● 1986 - Moments after liftoff, the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing six astronauts and Christa McAuliffe, a New Hampshire teacher. Subsequent investigations found NASA abandoned "good judgment and common sense" regarding safety problems causing the explosion. Engineers that wanted to scrub the launch were overridden by bureaucrats worried by costs. News that the explosion was caused by an o-ring failure was followed later in the year by a revelation that virtually every safety system in U.S. nuclear power plants used such o-rings to prevent dangerous leaks. In 1981, the government found that viton, a material in the Challenger's o-rings, slowly disintegrates when exposed to large amounts of radiation. By 1986, more than 60 reports documented o-ring failure in nuclear plants.

● 1986 - Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, DC

● 1987 - US Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo

● 1987 - Wrestler Jim Neidhart indicted for assaulting a flight attendant

● 1988 - Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional

● 1988 - Public Service Co. of New Hampshire declares bankruptcy after drug scandal and rejected evacuation plans render Seabrook nuclear power plant unusable.

● 1990 - Romanians call for government change; Thousands of demonstrators take to the streets to protest against the interim government of Ion Iliescu.

● 1990 - East German agreement to form all-party government

● 1991 - Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule

● 1992 - Nuclear production at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Arsenal -- a complex used for both power and nuclear weapon munitions manufacture -- is permanently closed after repeated revelations of environmental contamination in the surrounding land and water supply, 25 miles northwest of Denver. Never mind that major storage bunkers were at the end of runways for Denver's Stapleton airport.

● 1994 - Actress Lorraine Bracco (39) weds actor Edward James Olmos (46)

● 1994 - Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose CA, 1 dead

● 1994 - The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ends in a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

● 1995 - George Woodcock, Canadian anarchist, literary critic, and anarchist historian, dies, age 82.

● 1995 - Over 100 Soldiers' Mothers Committee members go to Russian army training camp to reclaim their sons from the Army.

● 1998 - France - Two hundred members of the Farmers Confederation, reacting against the government decision to authorize the use of bioengineered corn in France, broke into the Novartis Seed Company warehouse in southwest France where this corn was stored, "ripped open the sacks and drenched the corn with a fire hose, in order to call attention to the dangers posed to humanity by the agricultural use of bioengineering."

● 1998 - Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines.

● 1999 - Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan honored a personal request for mercy from Pope John Paul II, sparing triple murderer Darrell Mease from execution.

● 1999 - Ford Motor company announced the purchase of Sweden's Volvo AB for $6.45 billion.

● 2002 - Toys R Us Inc. announced that it would be closing 27 Toys R Us stores and 37 Kids R Us stores in order to cut costs and boost operating profits.

● 2002 - TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.

● 2004 - Lord Hutton publishes his report into the death of UN weapons inspector Dr David Kelly.

● 2007 - WWE's 20th annual Royal Rumble 2007 was held in San Antonio, Texas.

BIRTHS

● 1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)

● 1540 - Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)

● 1582 - John Barclay, Scottish writer (d. 1621)

● 1600 - Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)

● 1608 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)

● 1611 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d. 1687)

● 1622 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)

● 1701 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)

● 1706 - John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)

● 1712 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)

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

● 1719 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)

● 1755 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (d. 1830)

● 1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)

● 1822 - Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)

● 1833 - Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d. 1885)

● 1841 - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d. 1904)

● 1853 - José Martí, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)

● 1855 - William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (d. 1898)

● 1862 - Franklin Hooper, American editor in chief of Encyclopedia Britiannica. (d. 1940)

● 1865 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter

● 1873 - Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle), French writer (d. 1954)

● 1874 - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (d. 1940)

● 1879 - Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)

● 1880 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970)

● 1884 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962)

● 1886 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973)

● 1887 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist and conductor (d. 1982)

● 1890 - Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963)

● 1891 - Bill Doak, baseball player (d. 1954)

● 1892 - Arnst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)

● 1897 - Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986)

● 1899 - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)

● 1903 - Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, British crystallographer (d. 1971)

● 1903 - Aleksander Kamiński, Polish writer

● 1908 - Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998)

● 1910 - John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)

● 1910 - Arnold Moss, American character actor (d. 1989)

● 1912 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)

● 1916 - Virgilio Ferreira, Portuguese teacher and novelist (d. 1996)

● 1922 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1993)

● 1927 - Ronnie Scott, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner (d. 1996)

● 1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)

● 1929 - Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist

● 1929 - Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist

● 1934 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)

● 1935 - Nicholas Pryor, Actor

● 1935 - David Lodge, English author

● 1936 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer

● 1936 - Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director (''M*A*S*H'')

● 1938 - Leonid Zhabotinsky, Russian weightlifter

● 1941 - Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985)

● 1942 - Susan Howard, Actress

● 1943 - Paul Henderson, National Hockey League player

● 1944 - John Tavener, English composer

● 1945 - Marthe Keller, Actress

● 1945 - Robert Wyatt, English musician

● 1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer

● 1948 - Charles Taylor, former leader of Liberia

● 1950 - Barbi Benton, American actress

● 1950 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain

● 1951 - Brian Bilbray, American politician

● 1951 - Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut

● 1953 - Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and executive

● 1954 - Rick Warren, pastor and author

● 1957 - Harley Jane Kozak, Actress

● 1957 - Nick Price, Golfer

● 1957 - Mark Napier, National Hockey League player

● 1959 - Randi Rhodes, American personality

● 1959 - Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm)

● 1959 - Frank Darabont, American filmmaker

● 1960 - Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer

● 1961 - Normand Rochefort, National Hockey League defenseman

● 1962 - Sam Phillips, American singer

● 1963 - Dan Spitz, American musician, guitarist for Anthrax

● 1965 - Greg Cook, Country musician (Ricochet)

● 1968 - Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter

● 1968 - DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill)

● 1968 - Rakim, American rapper

● 1969 - Kathryn Morris, American actress (''Cold Case'')

● 1969 - Linda Sanchez, American politician

● 1969 - Mo Rocca, American writer and comedian

● 1972 - Nicky Southall, English footballer

● 1973 - Brandon Bush, Rock musician (Train)

● 1974 - Tony Delk, American basketball player

● 1974 - Jason Dancisin, Graphic Designer

● 1974 - Jermaine Dye, baseball player

● 1975 - David Zingler, American writer

● 1975 - Junior Spivey, baseball player

● 1975 - Anne Montminy, Quebec olympic diver

● 1976 - Mark Madsen, American basketball player

● 1976 - Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot)

● 1976 - Lee Ingleby, British actor

● 1976 - Emiko Kado, wrestler (d. 1999)

● 1977 - Daunte Culpepper, American football player

● 1977 - Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC)

● 1977 - Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira)

● 1977 - Takuma Sato, Japanese Formula One driver

● 1978 - Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer

● 1978 - Jamie Carragher, English footballer

● 1978 - Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer

● 1979 - Pixie, English model

● 1979 - Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder

● 1980 - Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys)

● 1981 - Rick Razzano, American football player

● 1981 - Elijah Wood, American actor (''Lord of the Rings'' movies)

● 1984 - Andre Iguodala, American basketball player

● 1986 - Jessica Ennis, English heptathlete

● 1991 - Rhodri Evans, Welsh Legendary Folk Dancer

DEATHS

● 814 - Charlemagne (b. 742)

● 1061 - Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia (b. 1031)

● 1271 - Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)

● 1443 - Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France

● 1547 - King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)

● 1596 - Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier

● 1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)

● 1613 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545)

● 1621 - Pope Paul V (b. 1550)

● 1681 - Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619)

● 1672 - Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588)

● 1687 - Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (b. 1611)

● 1697 - John Fenwick, English conspirator

● 1725 (O.S.) - Tsar Peter I of Russia, (b. 1672)

● 1754 - Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (b. 1684)

● 1832 - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769)

● 1859 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)

● 1864 - Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)

● 1903 - Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847)

● 1912 - Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)

● 1915 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)

● 1918 - John McCrae, Canadian poet (b. 1872)

● 1935 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859)

● 1938 - Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (b. 1909)

● 1939 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1865)

● 1949 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)

● 1950 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)

● 1953 - James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)

● 1953 - Derek Bentley (b. 1933) (executed)

● 1960 - Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b. 1891)

● 1963 - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)

● 1965 - Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)

● 1965 - Maxime Weygand, French soldier (b. 1867)

● 1971 - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)

● 1973 - John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910)

● 1983 - Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)

● 1986 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger:
● Greg Jarvis (b. 1944)
● Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948)
● Ronald McNair (b. 1950)
● Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946)
● Judith Resnik (b. 1949)
● Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939)
● Michael J. Smith (b. 1945)

● 1988 - Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (b. 1911)

● 1991 - Red Grange, American football player (b. 1903)

● 1994 - Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)

● 1996 - Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1940)

● 1996 - Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)

● 1996 - Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist (b. 1911)

● 1999 - Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b. 1918)

● 1999 - Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (b. 1908)

● 2001 - Curt Blefary, baseball player (b. 1943)

● 2002 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)

● 2004 - Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer (b. 1927)

● 2004 - Don Cholito, Puerto Rican radio host (b. 1923)

● 2004 - Elroy Hirsch, American football player (b. 1923)

● 2004 - Don Stansauk, professional wrestler (b. 1936)

● 2004 - Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937)

● 2005 - Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter (b. 1944)

● 2005 - Karen Lancaume, French actress (suicide) (b. 1973)

● 2005 - Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951)

● 2006 - Yitzchak Kadouri, rabbi (b. around 1900)

● 2006 - Henry McGee, English comedian (b. 1929)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Antilnus
● St. Cannera
● St. Charlemagne
● St. Flavian
● St. Glastian
● St. James the Hermit
● St. Jerome Lu, Blessed
● St. John of Reomay
● St. Julian of Cuenca
● St. Odo of Beauvais
● St. Palladius
● St. Paulinus of Aquileia
● St. Peter Nolasco
● St. Richard of Vaucelles
● St. Thomas Aquinas
● St. Thyrsus, Leucius, & Callinicus
● St. Valerius
● Bl. Amadeus of Lausanne
● Bl. Lawrence Wang
● Bl. Roger of Todi

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 16 (Civil Date: January 28)
● Veneration of the Precious Chains of the Holy Glorious Apostle Peter Martyrs Speusippus, Eleusippus, and Meleusippus the brothers, their grandmother Leonilla, and with them Neon, Turbo, and the woman Jonilla (Jovilla), in Cappadocia.
● Martyr Danax in Macedonia.
● New Hieromartyr Damascene of Chilandar on Mt. Athos.
● Blessed Maximus of Totma (Vologda), fool-for-Christ.
● St. Honoratus, Archbishop of Arles and founder of Lerins Monastery.
● St. Romil, monk of Mt. Athos. disciple of St. Gregory of Sinai, and with him Saints Nestor, Martinius, Daniel, Sisoes, Zosimas, and Gregory.

● Orthodox Church
● St. Ephraim the Syrian
● St. Isaac the Syrian bishop of Nineveh
● St. Theodosius, abbot of Totma
● St. Paladius the hermit of Antioch
● St. Ephraim, wonderworker of Novotorzhok
● St. Ephraim, Bishop of Pereyaslavl (Kyiv Caves)

● Anglican:
● St. Thomas Aquinas, priest, friar

● World Leprosy Day

● Rwanda : Democracy Day (1961)

● 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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