February 10......

February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 324 (325 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

● 60 - St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta

● 1098 - Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch

● 1258 - Battle of Baghdad - Mongols overrun Baghdad, burning it to the ground and killing large numbers of citizens (estimates range from 10,000 to 800,000).

● 1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.

● 1495 - King's College was founded under Roman Catholic sponsorship in Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1860 it merged with the Protestant Marischal College (established in 1593) to become the University of Aberdeen.

● 1535 - 12 nude Anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets

● 1542 - Queen Catherine Howard of England is confined in the Tower of London to be executed three days later for treason (adultery).

● 1546 - German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter to his wife Kate: 'Pray, and let God worry.'

● 1549 - Tomé de Sousa appointed Governor-General of Brazil

● 1567 - An explosion destroys the Kirk-o-Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.

● 1635 - Académie Française is founded in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)

● 1676 - Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster MA

● 1713 - Netherlands & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier

● 1716 - Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France

● 1720 - Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England

● 1746 - English Pelham government resigns

● 1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.

● 1774 - Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit

● 1794 - Suicide of Jacques Roux (1752-1794) in his Paris prison cell. French revolutionist, known as the pitiless and sometimes cruel "Red Priest," but also a precursor of socialism and modern anarchism. Denounced those monopolizing the revolution, the speculator, the merchant -- and also government and the whole apparatus of the parliamentary state. A spokesman of poorest "sans-culottes" and incited women to assert their rights.

● 1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome and removes Pope Pius VI from power.

● 1807 - US Coast Survey authorized by Congress

● 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert

● 1824 - Simon Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Perú

● 1840 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

● 1846 - First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon - British defeat Sikhs in final battle the war

● 1846 - Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began their exodus to the west from Illinois.

● 1855 - The Women's Hospital of New York City is founded. Although it provides much needed care for poor women, the hospital was also the arena for J. Marion Sims, known for his hatred of women and for ruthlessly cutting up their bodies. Here he performs brutal operations, including ovariotomies and clitoridectomies, and uses indigent women as guinea pigs before audiences of men. Sims began his career performing dangerous sexual surgery on black slave women who were housed in a stable in his yard. On a slave named Anarcha, he performed 30 operations. After affiliating with the New York Women's Hospital, Sims will perform the same number of operations on Irish indigent Mary Smith from 1856 to 1859. Internationally famous and honored by his peers, Sims was an object of adulation at Harvard Medical School, counted as one of the immortals.

● 1855 - US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship

● 1859 - General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny

● 1862 - Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms

● 1863 - The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City.

● 1863 - 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia

● 1866 - Dutch government Frans van der Putte forms

● 1868 - Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida

● 1869 - Birth of Octave Jahn (1869-1917), Cherbourg. French anarchist who founded, with Tortelier and others, the "League of the Anti-patriots" in1886. Went to Belgium during the French repression, and did 2 1/2 years in prison there for his vehement and revolutionary speeches during a strike in May 1897. He emerged, despite numerous trials and several stays in prison, an untiring, much-traveled anarchist propagandist, in France, North Africa, Switzerland, England, Spain, and Mexico, where he settled. Jahn was involved in the Mexican revolution, helped start a rationalist school on the Ferrer model, and wrote for the anarchist press.

● 1870 - City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)

● 1870 - The YWCA is founded (New York City).

● 1872 - Birth of Eugene Bigel. French Ardennes anarchist and proponent of direct action. Dynamited numerous police stations, inflicting material damage. His last attempted bombing, in July 1891, at the residence of an industrialist, failed to explode and was traced to him. Received heavy sentences and sent to the prison colony in Cayenne.

● 1878 - Peace of Zanjón

● 1879 - 1st electric arc light used (California Theater)

● 1879 - Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo

● 1880 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage

● 1883 - Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee WI, kills 71

● 1888 - Birth of Giuseppe Pasotti (1888-1951). Italian anarcho-syndicalist and member of the Italian League of Human Rights. An antimilitarist, jailed, in 1915, for the duration of the war; a mechanic, active in the '20s in strikes and agitated to save Sacco and Vanzetti. Watched by the fascists, he took refuge in France. Jailed and threatened with expulsion for a fight with the Italian fascist consul, Pasotti went into hiding, then to Tunisia.

● 1890 - Boris Pasternak, the Russian Nobel Prize-winning novelist and poet, was born.

● 1890 - Around 11 million acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement

● 1892 - Four leaders of a January anarchist revolt in Andalusia, Spain, are executed, setting off new waves of violence. In January of 1892, hundreds of farm workers calling for "social revolution," took over the town of Jerez. The insurrection was quickly subdued, the leaders captured and tortured.

● 1896 - Home Colony Co-Operative founded on Van Geldern Cove near Seattle and Tacoma, Wash.

● 1897 - New York Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"

● 1897 - Freedom of religion in Madagascar

● 1898 - Birth of Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht lives, Augsburg, Germany. Doctor, poet, playwright, theatrical reformer. Fled right wing German Nazis. After moving to the U.S., fled from the Land of the Free when right wing HUAC comes after him during the Cold War.

● 1899 - -39ºF (-39ºC), Milligan OH (state lowest temperature record)

● 1899 - US-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley; US gets Puerto Rico & Guam

● 1899 - The Church of England first authorized use of the 1885 English Revised (RV or ERV) Version of the Bible in Anglican liturgy and worship.

● 1904 - Japan & Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships

● 1906 - Britain's 1st modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched

● 1906 - State of siege proclaimed in Zululand

● 1916 - Conscription begins in Britain

● 1917 - Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands 1st female professor

● 1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic engagement of Poland with the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.

● 1922 - Irish railroad workers seize railroads and prepare to run their own trains.

● 1923 - SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied

● 1925 - 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City IN

● 1927 - President Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference

● 1927 - Birth of Leontyne Price, first African-American international opera star.

● 1929 - In London, renowned Baptist clergyman and devotional author F. B. Meyer, 81, preached his last sermon. He soon entered a nursing home where his health failed rapidly, and he died March 28.

● 1929 - Msgr. Stephen Alencastre, SS.CC., dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu.

● 1930 - Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress

● 1931 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India.

● 1932 - Spain - Anarcho-syndicalist CNT proclaims general strike; insurrections follow.

● 1933 - The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.

● 1933 - In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.

● 1933 - -54ºF (-48ºC), Seneca OR (state record)

● 1933 - Dutch sea-plane bombs Dutch ship

● 1933 - Hitler proclaims end of Marxism

● 1933 - Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed

● 1934 - Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp

● 1934 - 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine

● 1934 - Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier"

● 1935 - Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new streamlined electric locomotive

● 1938 - King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga

● 1941 - 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Washington DC-Harrisonburg, VA

● 1941 - Anti-Nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands

● 1942 - The Normandie, the former French liner, capsized in New York Harbor. The day before the ship had caught fire while it was being fitted for the U.S. Navy.

● 1943 - "Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality & self-determination

● 1943 - 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia

● 1943 - Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau

● 1944 - Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested

● 1944 - U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland

● 1947 - U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'Save Thy servants from the tyranny of the nonessential. Give them the courage to say "No" to everything that makes it more difficult to say "Yes" to Thee.'

● 1947 - Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland

● 1947 - Netherlands Radio Union forms

● 1947 - WWII peace treaties signed

● 1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.

● 1948 - Greek General Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki

● 1949 - Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman premiered in New York City.

● 1951 - Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari

● 1952 - India passes first test of democracy; Independent India's first general elections pass off peacefully, and return Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to power.

● 1954 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.

● 1955 - US evacuates Pacific islands; The American Navy has moved thousands of people from the Chinese Nationalist Tachen Islands.

● 1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms

● 1959 - Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265

● 1961 - Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power

● 1961 - Voice of Nuclear Disarmament pirate radio station begins operation off shore of Britain.

● 1962 - Francis Gary Powers, a CIA pilot allows both himself and his super-secret airplane to be captured by the Russians, then confessed everything before a Soviet court. Exchanged for reputed Soviet master spy Rudolf Abel.

● 1964 - The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82.

● 1966 - Harmel government in Belgium resigns

● 1967 - 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect

● 1969 - Mozambique - Eduardo Mondiane, president of Frelimo, assassinated.

● 1970 - Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France)

● 1970 - 26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record)

● 1971 - National protests against U.S. invasion of Laos include 1,500 protesters and nine arrests at the Univ. of Washington.

● 1972 - Ras al Khaima joins the United Arab Emirates

● 1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1973 - Gigantic storage tank filled with liquefied gas explodes killing 40 workers. Staten Island, New York.

● 1974 - Silver futures hit record $4.81½ an ounce in London

● 1974 - Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out

● 1977 - Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx named in honor of Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid (1976)

● 1977 - Bomb explosion in Moskouse metro

● 1978 - Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA

● 1981 - Jamestown Clallam tribe, on Olympic Peninsula, receives federal recognition.

● 1981 - A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.

● 1983 - British police on trail of mass murderer; Police launch a mass murder investigation in London after discovering human remains in drains.

● 1983 - Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament

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

● 1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission

● 1985 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1987 - Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre

● 1988 - 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)

● 1988 - Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails

● 1989 - Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff

● 1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1989 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.

● 1990 - Eight hundred loot Rio de Janeiro food market while security guards watch.

● 1990 - James "Buster" Douglas KO's Mike Tyson In what perhaps was one of the greatest upsets in sports history .

● 1990 - Perrier Water pulls product from shelf due to benzene in water

● 1990 - South Africa President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th

● 1991 - Lithuania votes for independence from USSR

● 1992 - Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana

● 1993 - US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia

● 1996 - Docklands bomb ends IRA ceasefire; The IRA admit planting the bomb that exploded in the Docklands area of London last night.

● 1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.

● 1997 - The United States Army suspends CSM Gene C. McKinney, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.

● 1997 - Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991

● 1997 - O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25 million in punitive damages

● 1997 - Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR

● 1998 - A college dropout becomes the first person to be convicted of a hate crime committed in cyberspace.

● 1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.

● 1999 - Avalanches in the French Alps near Geneva kill at least 10.

● 2000 - U.N. Conference on Caring Communities for the 21st Century, New York.

● 2001 - The Southerner train service between Christchurch and Invercargill is axed after the New Zealand Government and Tranz Scenic fail to support the service.

● 2003 - Iraq agreed to allow U-2 surveillance flights over its territory, meeting a key demand by U.N. inspectors searching for banned weapons; President George W. Bush brushed aside Iraqi concessions as too little, too late.

● 2003 - France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.

● 2005 - North Korea suspends participation in multi-nation talks to discuss its arms program and officially admits to developing nuclear weapons.

● 2005 - Charles and Camilla to be married; The Prince of Wales and long-term partner Camilla Parker Bowles are engaged, Clarence House announces.

● 2006 - The XX Olympic Winter Games open in Turin, Italy.

● 2007 - LSAT tests are to be given

BIRTHS

● 1499 - Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)

● 1524 - Albrecht Giese IV, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)

● 1609 - John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)

● 1685 - Aaron Hill, English writer (d. 1750)

● 1741 - Andre-Ernest Gretry, French operatic composer (d. 1813)

● 1775 - Charles Lamb, English essayist/critic (d. 1834)

● 1783 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)

● 1785 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1936)

● 1795 - Ary Scheffer, French painter (d. 1858)

● 1837 - Harrison Gray Otis, American newspaper publisher-Los Angeles Times (d. 1917)

● 1846 - Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919)

● 1846 - Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)

● 1868 - William Allen White, American journalist/writer (d. 1944)

● 1887 - John Franklin Enders, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1985)

● 1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960)

● 1892 - Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)

● 1893 - Jimmy Durante, American actor/comedian (d. 1980)

● 1893 - Bill Tilden, American tennis player (d. 1953)

● 1894 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)

● 1897 - Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992)

● 1898 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian-born American stage and film actress (d. 1992)

● 1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)

● 1898 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (d. 1979)

● 1901 - Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)

● 1902 - Walter Houser Brattain, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987)

● 1904 - John Farrow, American film director (d. 1963)

● 1906 - Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)

● 1906 - Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)

● 1910 - Georges Pire, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)

● 1914 - Larry Adler, American musician (d. 2001)

● 1920 - Alex Comfort, physician and writer (d. 2000)

● 1924 - Bud Poile, National Hockey League player, coach, manager and executive (d. 2005)

● 1926 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1993)

● 1927 - Leontyne Price, American soprano

● 1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)

● 1930 - Robert Wagner, American actor (''Hart to Hart'')

● 1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)

● 1933 - Richard Schickel, American film critic

● 1934 - Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet

● 1939 - Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada

● 1939 - Roberta Flack, American singer

● 1940 - Jimmy Merchant, Singer (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers)

● 1941 - Michael Apted, British director

● 1944 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and actor (d. 1992)

● 1944 - Rufus Reid, American musician

● 1944 - Frank Keating, American politician

● 1944 - Vernor Vinge, American novelist

● 1947 - Louise Arbour, Canadian judge

● 1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)

● 1949 - Maxime Le Forestier, French singer

● 1949 - Harold Sylvester, American actor

● 1949 - Jim Corcoran, Quebec singer and songwriter

● 1950 - Mark Spitz, American swimmer

● 1951 - Roxanne Pulitzer, American model

● 1951 - Robert Iger, President/CEO of The Walt Disney Company

● 1954 - Larry McWilliams, baseball player

● 1955 - Greg Norman, Australian golfer

● 1955 - James Cramer, American television personality

● 1959 - Dennis Gentry, American football player

● 1960 - Lionel Cartwright, Country singer

● 1960 - Robert Addie, British actor (d. 2003)

● 1961 - Alexander Payne, American film director (''Sideways,'' ''About Schmidt'')

● 1961 - George Stephanopoulos, American political commentator (''This Week'')

● 1962 - Cliff Burton, American musician (d. 1986)

● 1962 - Bobby Czyz, American boxer

● 1963 - Lenny Dykstra, baseball player

● 1964 - Glenn Beck, Radio and Television host

● 1964 - Victor Davis, Canadian olympic swimmer (d. 1989)

● 1965 - Mario Jean, Quebec stand up comedian and television actor

● 1967 - Jacky Durand, French cyclist

● 1967 - Laura Dern, American actress

● 1968 - Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster

● 1969 - Joe Mangrum, American artist

● 1970 - Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer

● 1970 - Alberto Castillo, baseball player

● 1971 - Lisa Marie Varon, American professional wrestler

● 1971 - Louie Spicolli, American wrestler

● 1972 - Dude Mowrey, Country singer

● 1974 - Elizabeth Banks, Actress

● 1974 - Ty Law, American football player

● 1975 - Amber Frey, American witness

● 1975 - Kool Savas, German rapper

● 1976 - Lance Berkman, baseball player

● 1977 - Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer

● 1978 - Lorna Bailey, English ceramic designer

● 1978 - Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer

● 1979 - Daryl Palumbo, American musician

● 1979 - Ross Powers, American snowboarder

● 1980 - César Izturis, baseball player

● 1980 - Steve Tully, English footballer

● 1980 - Mike Ribeiro, National Hockey League player

● 1981 - Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer

● 1981 - The Reverend Tholomew Plague, American musician

● 1981 - Andy Johnson, English footballer

● 1982 - Justin Gatlin, American sprinter

● 1982 - Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player

● 1984 - Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress

● 1985 - Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper

● 1987 - Choi Si Won, actor/singer, member of Korean boyband Super Junior

● 1991 - Emma Roberts, American actress

● 1994 - Makenzie Vega, American actress

● 1997 - Chloe Moretz, American actress

DEATHS

● 1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (b. 1071)

● 1162 - King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)

● 1242 - Emperor Shijo of Japan (b. 1231)

● 1278 - Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)

● 1576 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)

● 1686 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)

● 1722 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)

● 1755 - Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)

● 1758 - Thomas Ripley, English architect

● 1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)

● 1829 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)

● 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)

● 1857 - David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)

● 1865 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)

● 1891 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)

● 1904 - John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)

● 1906 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician (b. 1827)

● 1912 - Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827)

● 1917 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)

● 1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842)

● 1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1833)

● 1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)

● 1932 - Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)

● 1939 - Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)

● 1950 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)

● 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)

● 1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)

● 1964 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)

● 1966 - Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)

● 1984 - David Von Erich, professional wrestler (b. 1958)

● 1985 - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)

● 1987 - Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)

● 1992 - Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)

● 1993 - Fred Hollows, Australian ophthalmologist (b. 1929)

● 2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)

● 2001 - Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)

● 2001 - Buddy Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1913)

● 2002 - Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary (b. 1920)

● 2003 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)

● 2003 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)

● 2003 - Clark MacGregor, United States Congressman from Minnesota (b. 1922)

● 2003 - Al Ruffo, Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908)

● 2003 - Ron Ziegler, American press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)

● 2004 - Guy Provost, Quebec actor (b. 1925)

● 2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)

● 2006 - J Dilla, Rapper/Producer, former member of Slum Village (b. 1974)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Austreberta
● St. Andrew
● St. Aponius
● St. Baldegundis
● St. Charalampe
● St. Paganus
● St. Paul and Ninety Companions
● St. Scholastica
● St. Silvanus
● St. Trumwin
● St. William of Maleval
● Bl. Alexander of Lugo
● Bl. Arnaud
● Bl. Hugo
● Malta - St. Paul's shipwreck day; birth of Catholicism in Malta

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 28 (Civil Date: February 10)
● St. Ephraim the Syrian St. Theodosius, abbot of Totma (Vologda).
● St. Paladius the hermit of Antioch.
● St. Ephraim, wonderworker of Novotorzhk.
● St. Ephraim, Bishop of Pereyaslavl (Kiev Caves).
● St. Isaac the Syrian, Bishop of Ninevah (ascetic writer).

● Greek Calendar:
● St. James the Ascetic of Porphyrianos.
● Martyr Charis.

● Italy - National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe to commemorate Italian Istrian and Dalmatian exiles and Foibe massacres.

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● World : Boy Scouts Day (1910) - ( Sunday )


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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