February 1......

February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 333 (334 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date. This day is known as National Agwenyi Day in Africa and most of North America.

{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

● 772 - Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.

● 1411 - Peace of Toruń 1411 signed in Toruń, Poland

● 1539 - Emperor Karel & King François I sign anti-English treaty

● 1587 - English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence

● 1662 - The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege from the Dutch.

● 1669 - French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion

● 1709 - British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island (Fernandez Island) for 5 years, his story is the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"

● 1713 - The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.

● 1717 - Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France

● 1720 - Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty

● 1732 - Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions

● 1742 - Sardinia & Austria sign alliance

● 1750 - Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton (author of "Amazing Grace"), 24, wedded Mary Catlett. Their marriage lasted 40 years, before her death in 1790. John lived another 17 years, and died in 1807.

● 1783 - William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex

● 1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat.

● 1789 - Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long

● 1790 - In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.

● 1791 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'Probably I should not be able to do so much did not many of you assist me by your prayers.'

● 1793 - French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

● 1793 - Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk & linen

● 1796 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.

● 1803 - Anglican missionary to Persia, Henry Martyn wrote in his journal: 'Oh, that I may learn my utter helplessness without Thee, and so by deep humiliation be qualified for greater usefulness.'

● 1806 - Unauthorized expedition set sail from New York in an unsuccessful attempt to free Caracas from Spanish rule.

● 1809 - Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system

● 1810 - 1st insurance company managed by blacks (American Insurance Company of Philadelphia)

● 1810 - Seville, Spain surrenders to the French

● 1810 - US Population - 7,239,881; Black population - 1,377,808 (19%)

● 1814 - Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people; most devastating eruption of Mayon Volcano.

● 1840 - Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated

● 1856 - Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College.

● 1860 - 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of New York NY

● 1861 - Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands

● 1861 - Texas becomes 7th state to secede

● 1862 - Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is published for the first time in the Atlantic Monthly.

● 1864 - The Collar Laundry Union forms in Troy, New York. Led by Kate Mullaney, a National Labor Union activist, the union will successfully increase earnings for laundresses from two dollars to 14 dollars a week.

● 1864 - 2nd German-Danish war begins

● 1864 - Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein

● 1864 - Battle of Yazoo River, Mississippi

● 1865 - 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)

● 1865 - General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins

● 1865 - JS Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Court, admitted to bar

● 1867 - Bricklayers start working eight-hour days.

● 1870 - Jonathon Jasper Wright is elected to South Carolina Supreme Court, becoming the first African-American to hold a major judicial post in the U.S.

● 1871 - Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates)

● 1876 - Sec. of Interior notifies Sec. of War that time given to "hostile" Sioux and Cheyenne Indians to abandon their villages and come into U.S. agencies had expired; it was now a military matter.

● 1880 - The first edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published.

● 1881 - US Assay Office in St Louis MO authorized

● 1883 - French Lieutenant-Colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger

● 1884 - 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published

● 1887 - Harvey Wilcox of Kansas subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)

● 1890 - British Columbia Miners and Labourers Protective Association founded.

● 1892 - Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning the use of the "400" to describe the socially elite

● 1893 - Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria (West Orange, New Jersey).

● 1896 - The opera La bohème premieres (Turin).

● 1897 - Shinhan Bank (former CHB), oldest bank in South Korea, opened in Seoul.

● 1898 - The Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, CT, issued the first automobile insurance policy. Dr. Truman Martin of Buffalo, NY, paid $11.25 for the policy, which gave him $5,000 in liability coverage.

● 1900 - Eastman Kodak Co. introduced the $1 Brownie box camera.

● 1901 - Pioneer American missionaries Charles (37) and Lettie (31) Cowman set sail for Japan. Later in the year they founded the Oriental Missionary Society. They labored in the foreign field until Charles' worsening health forced them to retire in 1917.

● 1902 - China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet

● 1902 - African-American poet/author Langston Hughes born, Joplin, Missoui.

● 1905 - Hungarian premier Tisza resigns

● 1906 - 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth KS

● 1906 - English Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured

● 1908 - King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed by a mob in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.

● 1909 - US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens

● 1910 - 1st British labour exchange opens

● 1910 - Dragoumis government forms in Greece

● 1912 - IWW San Diego, California free-speech fight begins.

● 1913 - New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station.

● 1914 - Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] Censors appointed

● 1914 - Tanganyika Railway opens

● 1917 - Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war

● 1918 - Russia adopts Gregorian calendar (becomes Feb 14)

● 1919 - The first Miss America was crowned in New York City.

● 1920 - 1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul MN)

● 1920 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police

● 1921 - Carmen Fasanella registered as a taxicab owner and driver in Princeton, New Jersey. Fasanella retired November 2, 1989 after 68 years and 243 days of service.

● 1923 - Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel

● 1923 - Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini

● 1923 - Government soldiers kill 15 in Mexico City during public transit strike.

● 1923 - Seventy percent of Tokyo and 100% of Yokohama destroyed by fire following an earthquake, taking as many as 140,000 lives.

● 1924 - United Kingdom recognizes USSR.

● 1924 - New British MacDonald government recognizes USSR

● 1925 - 1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkämpferbund in Berlin

● 1926 - Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR

● 1926 - Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per square inch

● 1926 - Colonel Billy Mitchell convicted by courtmartial of criticizing his superiors for not seeing the merit in expanding the combat use of air power. Mitchell resigned his commission and, after warning of the danger of a Japanese attack on Hawaii, died in New York in February, 1936.

● 1929 - Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method.

● 1930 - The Times published its first crossword puzzle.

● 1931 - Anarchist Severino Di Giovanni dies in shoot-out with the police. Typographer. Fled to Argentina in 1923 to escape Italian fascism. When Sacco and Vanzetti, were executed in 1927, began violent actions with the Scarfo brothers (Alejandro and Paulino); many bombs were set off, especially aimed at North American interests.

● 1932 - Augustin F. Marti, Mario Zapata, and other revolt leaders executed in El Salvador.

● 1933 - Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname

● 1933 - Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions

● 1933 - German Parliament dissolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe

● 1934 - Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his own

● 1937 - Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port

● 1940 - Russia begins new offensive against Finland

● 1942 - 2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms

● 1943 - German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier

● 1943 - Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Netherlands)

● 1944 - Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy

● 1944 - US 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur

● 1945 - US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie

● 1946 - Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Secretary-General of UN

● 1946 - Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president

● 1947 - Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of Christian-democrats & communists

● 1947 - NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established

● 1948 - Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed

● 1948 - Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates

● 1949 - The modern state of Israel formally annexed West Jerusalem.

● 1949 - 200" (5.08-meter) Hale telescope 1st used

● 1950 - Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland

● 1950 - USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes

● 1951 - 1st telecast of atomic explosion - US nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1951 - 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated

● 1951 - -50ºF (-46ºC), Gavilan NM (state record)

● 1951 - Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed

● 1951 - UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea

● 1952 - General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia

● 1952 - Test drive for TV detector vans; A new method for tracking down users of unlicensed television sets is unveiled in the UK.

● 1953 - Violent storms claim hundreds of lives; Violent storms wreak havoc up and down the East coast of Britain claiming hundreds of lives.

● 1953 - Dr A de Waal appointed as Netherlands 1st female assistant Secretary of state

● 1953 - Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835

● 1955 - H C Hansen appointed premier of Denmark

● 1956 - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Montgomery Improvement Association files suit in federal court against Alabama for segregation of buses.

● 1956 - Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking

● 1957 - 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline

● 1957 - Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam

● 1957 - Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine was running at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany

● 1958 - Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.

● 1958 - 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched

● 1959 - Swiss males vote against voting rights for women

● 1959 - Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)

● 1960 - Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender

● 1960 - Four black students sit in at a Woolworths' lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina to protest segregation. Similar protests later take place all over the South and in some northern communities. By September 1961, more than 70,000 students, whites and blacks, will have participated in sit-ins.

● 1961 - First anniversary of the Greensboro sit-in - demonstrations all across the south, including a Nashville movie theater desegregation campaign (which sparks similar demos in 10 other cities); nine students arrested at lunch counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina, choose to take 30 days hard labor on a road gang; next week, four other students repeat the sit-in, also choose jail.

● 1961 - 1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful

● 1961 - British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive

● 1963 - Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda

● 1964 - Suriname River dammed

● 1964 - Indiana Governor Welsh declares the song "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen pornographic, wants it banned. Stations say it's impossible to figure out the lyrics from "the unintelligible rendition as performed," but Welsh claims his "ears tingle" when he hears the song.

● 1965 - Churchill River, Newfoundland - Hamilton River in Labrador renamed Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.

● 1965 - Israel - Uri Davies jailed for three months for entering military territory.

● 1965 - Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma AL

● 1965 - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam

● 1967 - Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives

● 1967 - The 1,000th gang murder in Chicago (since 1919) occurs.

● 1968 - Vietnam War: Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem is executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan a South Vietnamese National Police Chief. The execution was videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams and helped sway public opinion against the war.

● 1968 - Official unification of the three military services of Canada, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, into the united Canadian Armed Forces.

● 1968 - Merger of the historic New York Central Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad to form ill-fated Penn Central Transportation.

● 1968 - Former Vice-President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President

● 1968 - World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi

● 1969 - Saturday mail delivery in Canada eliminated.

● 1970 - Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die

● 1970 - West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract

● 1972 - 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)

● 1974 - Joelma Building fire - a fire in a 25-story office building kills 189 and injures 293 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

● 1974 - Kuala Lumpur declared a Federal Territory.

● 1974 - Lynda Ann Healy, first of serial killer Ted Bundy's murder victims, abducted in Seattle, Washington.

● 1975 - Otis Francis Tabler is first open homosexual to get federal security clearance.

● 1977 - U.S. Federal Power Commission Report recommends approval of proposed Mackenzie Valley Pipeline in British Columbia, suggesting that legal land claims of sovereign First Nation peoples were not a major concern.

● 1977 - Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives

● 1978 - Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.

● 1978 - First U.S. postage stamp to honor an African-American woman, Harriet Tubman, is issued.

● 1979 - Patty Hearst was released from prison after serving 22 months of a seven-year sentence for bank robbery. Her sentence had been commuted by U.S. President Carter.

● 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back into Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.

● 1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1980 - In honor of the first anniversary of the death of ex- Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, 1,000 punks march from London's Chelsea section to Hyde Park. Sid's mom, Ann Beverly, was to head the march; however, the night before she was sent to the hospital for a drug overdose.

● 1980 - Seven thousand march to protest KKK in Greensboro, North Carolina.

● 1981 - Trevor Chappell bowls his infamous "Underarm Ball" to Brian McKechnie to prevent New Zealand scoring a 6, and tying the ODI, on the last ball of the third match in the final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup. It directly led to the banning of underarm bowling by the International Cricket Council as not within the spirit of the game.

● 1981 - Dutch Antilles census is 231,932

● 1981 - French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq

● 1982 - Senegal and Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.

● 1982 - David Letterman begins an 11-year run as the host of the NBC program Late Night with David Letterman.

● 1982 - 174 arrested at blockade of Livermore (Calif.) Nuclear Research Laboratory.

● 1983 - USSR performs underground nuclear test

● 1984 - Halfpenny coin to meet its maker; Britain's least-loved currency is to leave the nation's purses after 13 years of almost universal unpopularity.

● 1984 - Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 2/3)

● 1984 - China & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations

● 1985 - -69ºF (-56ºC), Peter's Sink UT (state record)

● 1985 - -61ºF (-52ºC), Maybell CO (state record)

● 1987 - 163 day strike against Deere & Company ends, workers accept wage freeze

● 1988 - Two Native American activists, Eddie Hatcher and Tim Jacobs, occupy a newspaper office in Lumberton, NC to highlight racism issues.

● 1989 - The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

● 1989 - Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion

● 1989 - Princess Diana of England visits New York NY

● 1991 - President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws

● 1991 - Afghanistan/Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die

● 1991 - US Air & Skywest Fairchild commuter jet collide at Los Angeles Airport killing 32

● 1992 - The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case.

● 1992 - Two-month campaign of Citizens Against War begins, Belgrade, Serbia.

● 1993 - Soyuz TM-16 lands

● 1994 - MPs condemn sale of Rover; There are angry clashes in the House of Commons over the sale of the last major British car manufacturer Rover.

● 1994 - Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean

● 1994 - In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.

● 1995 - Manic Street Preachers lyricist Richey James Edwards goes missing from the Embassy Hotel in London, UK.

● 1995 - Amtrak New York-Tampa run ends

● 1996 - The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.

● 1996 - Visa and Mastercard announced security measures that would make it safe to shop on the Internet.

● 1999 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky gave a deposition that was videotaped for senators weighing impeachment charges against U.S. President Clinton.

● 2001 - Three Scottish judges found Abdel Basset al-Mergrahi guilty of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people. The court said that Megrahi was a member of the Libyan intelligence service. Al-Amin Khalifa, who had been co-accused, was acquitted and freed.

● 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.

● 2004 - At least 244 people are trampled to death in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

● 2004 - Janet Jackson exposes her breast on American television during the half-time show of the Super Bowl, prompting the "Nipplegate" controversy.

● 2005 - Pope John Paul II was hospitalized for breathing problems and the flu.

● 2005 - Nepal King Gyanendra exercises Coup d'état to capture the democracy becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.

● 2005 - Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction same-sex marriage.

● 2006 - French and German newspapers republished caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in what they called a defense of freedom of expression, sparking fresh anger from Muslims.

BIRTHS

● 1261 - Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (d. 1326)

● 1459 - Conrad Celtes, German scholar (d. 1508)

● 1462 - Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (d. 1516)

● 1552 - Sir Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur (d. 1634)

● 1635 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (d. 1689)

● 1690 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (d. 1768)

● 1757 - John Philip Kemble, English Shakespearean actor and theater manager (d. 1823)

● 1761 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist (d. 1836)

● 1801 - Thomas Cole, American painter (d. 1848)

● 1801 - Émile Littré, French lexicographer (d. 1881)

● 1838 - Joseph Keppler, Austria born American caricaturist and magazine founder (d. 1894)

● 1844 - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (d. 1924)

● 1859 - Victor Herbert, Irish composer (d. 1924)

● 1873 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1901)

● 1874 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (d. 1929)

● 1878 - Hattie O. Caraway, First female U.S. senator (d. 1950)

● 1878 - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (d. 1944)

● 1882 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)

● 1884 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (d. 1937)

● 1887 - Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947)

● 1894(95? NYT) - John Ford, American director and producer (d. 1973)

● 1894 - James P. Johnson, American composer (d. 1955)

● 1895 - Conn Smythe, Canadian builder of the National Hockey League (d. 1980)

● 1901 - Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)

● 1902 - Langston Hughes American writer (d. 1967)

● 1904 - S. J. Perelman, American humorist (d. 1979)

● 1905 - Emilio G. Segrè, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1989)

● 1906 - Hildegarde, American actress and singer (d. 2005)

● 1907 - Günter Eich, German lyricist (d. 1972)

● 1907 - Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (d. 1993)

● 1908 - George Pál, Hungarian-born director and producer (d. 1980)

● 1909 - George Beverly Shea, Canadian singer

● 1915 - Stanley Matthews, English football player (d. 2000)

● 1918 - Muriel Spark, Scottish author (d. 2006)

● 1922 - Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004)

● 1926(28? NYT) - Stuart Whitman, American actor

● 1930 - Shahabuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh

● 1930 - Mario Beaulieu, Quebec politician (d. 1998)

● 1931 - Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of the Russian Federation

● 1931 - Iajuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh

● 1934 - Bob Shane, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio)

● 1936 - Azie Taylor Morton, 35th Treasurer of the United States (d. 2003)

● 1937 - Don Everly, American musician (Everly Brothers)

● 1937 - Garrett Morris, American comedian (''Saturday Night Live'')

● 1937 - Ray Sawyer, American singer (Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show)

● 1938 - Sherman Hemsley, American comedian and actor (''The Jeffersons'')

● 1939 - Claude François, French singer (d. 1978)

● 1939 - Del McCoury, Bluegrass singer

● 1939 - Joe Sample, Jazz pianist

● 1940 - Bibi Besch, Austrian-American actress (d. 1996)

● 1940 - Hervé Filion, Quebec harness racer

● 1941 - Karl Dall, German television host.

● 1941 - Jerry Spinelli, Children's Author

● 1942 - Terry Jones, Welsh actor and writer (Monty Python)

● 1944 - Burkhard Ziese, German football manager

● 1944 - Mike Enzi, U.S. senator, R-Wyo.

● 1945 - Serge Joyal, French Canadian politician

● 1947 - Jessica Savitch, American journalist (d. 1983)

● 1948 - Rick James, American musician and composer (d. 2004)

● 1948 - Elisabeth Sladen, British actress

● 1950 - Mike Campbell, American guitarist and producer (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)

● 1953 - Duane Chapman, American TV personality

● 1954 - Bill Mumy, American actor and musician (''Lost in Space'' and "Babylon 5")

● 1955 - Ernie Camacho, baseball player

● 1956 - Exene Cervenka, American musician (X)

● 1956 - Mike Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

● 1958 - Jackie Shroff, Indian actor

● 1961 - Volker Fried, German field hockey player

● 1962 - José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (d. 2004)

● 1962 - Tomoyasu Hotei, Japanese guitarist

● 1964 - Linus Roache, English actor

● 1965 - Sherilyn Fenn, American actress

● 1965 - Brandon Lee, American actor (d. 1993)

● 1965 - Princess Stéphanie of Monaco

● 1965 - Dwayne Dupuy, Country musician (Ricochet)

● 1965 - Noah Blake, American actor and reality series star

● 1966 - Michelle Akers, American soccer player

● 1966 - Rob Lee, English footballer

● 1968 - Lisa Marie Presley, American singer and actress

● 1968 - Pauly Shore, American comedian

● 1968 - Mark Recchi, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1968 - Kent Mercker, baseball player

● 1969 - Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer

● 1969 - Joshua Redman, American musician

● 1969 - Brian Krause, American actor

● 1969 - Patrick Wilson, American musician (Weezer)

● 1971 - Jill Kelly, American pornographic actress

● 1971 - Ron Welty, American musician

● 1971 - Michael C. Hall, Actor

● 1971 - Zlatko Zahovič, Slovenian footballer

● 1972 - Yoshi DeHerrera, American TV personality

● 1973 - Makiko Ohmoto, Japanese voice actress

● 1974 - Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist

● 1974 - David Meca, Spanish long distance swimmer

● 1975 - Big Boi, American musician (Outkast)

● 1977 - Kevin Kilbane, Irish footballer

● 1979 - Julie Roberts, Country singer

● 1979 - Julie Augustyniak, American soccer player

● 1979 - Juan Silveira dos Santos, Brazilian footballer

● 1980 - Héctor Luna, baseball player

● 1981 - Luis Lamá, Angolan footballer

● 1982 - Jarrett Lennon, Actor

● 1982 - Shoaib Malik, Pakistani cricketer

● 1983 - Kevin Martin, American basketball player

● 1984 - Darren Fletcher, Scottish footballer

● 1985 - Dean Shiels, Northern Irish footballer

● 1985 - Rachael Scdoris, American dog musher

● 1986 - Lauren Conrad, American TV star

DEATHS

● 1248 - Henry II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1207)

● 1328 - King Charles IV of France (b. 1294)

● 1542 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1480)

● 1563 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia (died of fever)

● 1590 - Lawrence Humphrey, English clergyman and educator

● 1691 - Pope Alexander VIII (b. 1610)

● 1718 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (b. 1660)

● 1733 - King Augustus II of Poland (b. 1670)

● 1734 - John Floyer, English physician and writer (b. 1649)

● 1743 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (b. 1657)

● 1761 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (b. 1682)

● 1768 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (b. 1685)

● 1793 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (b. 1717)

● 1851 - Mary Shelley, English author (b. 1797)

● 1893 - George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)

● 1897 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist (b. 1826)

● 1903 - George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (b. 1819)

● 1908 - King Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863)

● 1928 - Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)

● 1944 - Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (b. 1872)

● 1957 - Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890)

● 1958 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1888)

● 1959 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (b. 1873)

● 1963 - Fleetwood Lindley, the last living person to see Abraham Lincoln's face (b. 1888)

● 1966 - Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (b. 1885)

● 1966 - Buster Keaton, American actor (b. 1895)

● 1970 - Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1921)

● 1976 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1901)

● 1976 - George Whipple, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1878)

● 1980 - Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (b. 1930)

● 1981 - Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1892)

● 1981 - Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (b. 1908)

● 1986 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1902)

● 1988 - Heather O'Rourke, American actress (b. 1975)

● 1989 - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (b. 1918)

● 1991 - Carol Dempster, American actress (b. 1901)

● 1991 - Phil Watson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)

● 1997 - Herb Caen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1916)

● 1999 - Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (b. 1907)

● 2001 - André D'Allemagne, Quebec teacher, political observer and essayist (b. 1929)

● 2002 - Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer, and writer (b. 1925)

● 2003 - The crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), astronauts:
● Michael P. Anderson (b. 1959)
● David Brown (b. 1956)
● Kalpana Chawla (b. 1961)
● Laurel Clark (b. 1961)
● Rick D. Husband (b. 1957)
● Willie McCool (b. 1961)
● Ilan Ramon (b. 1954)

● 2003 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban percussionist and band leader (b. 1922)

● 2005 - John Vernon, Canadian actor (b. 1932)

● 2007 - Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (b. 1911)

● 2007 - Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dance choreographer (b. 1937)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Brigid of Kildar, patron saint of Ireland
● St. Cinnia
● St. Crewanna
● St. Darulagdach
● St. John of the Grating
● St. Kinnia
● St. Paul of Trois Chateaux
● St. Pionius
● St. Seiriol
● St. Veridiana
● Bl. Andrew of Segni
● Bl. Anthony Manzi

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 19 (Civil Date: February 1)
● St. Macarius the Great of Egypt St. Macarius of Alexandria.
● Virgin Martyr Euphrasia of Nicomedia.
● St. Arsenius, Archbishop of Kerkyra (Corfu).
● Translation of the Relics of St. Gregory the Theologian.
● St. Mark, Archbishop of Ephesus.
● St. Meletius the Gallesiote, monk.
● Blessed Theodore of Novgorod, fool-for-Christ.
● Opening of the Relics of St. Sabbas of Storozhev or Zvenigorod.
● St. Macarius, deacon of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Macarius of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Anthony, hermit of Georgia.
● St. Macarius the Roman of Novgorod.

● Old Roman Catholic:
● St. Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, martyr

● Imbolc - the first day of Spring in Ireland (Irish Calendar), one of the eight solar holidays in the Wheel of the Year.

● The start of Black History Month in the United States.

● The start of LGBT History Month in the United Kingdom.

● Observed as "national" porridge day by parts of Northern England, but this has been disputed by Southern England in the past.

● Malaysia : Federal Territory Holiday (1974)

● Nicaragua : Air Force Day

● US : National Freedom Day

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Switzerland : Homstrom-celebrates end of winter - ( Sunday )
● Australia : Australia Day - ( Monday )


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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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