February 4......

February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 (331 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

● 211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta.

● 362 - Roman Emperor Julian promulgates an edict that recognizes equal rights to all the religions in the Roman Empire.

● 708 Sisinnius ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1194 - Richard I Lion Hearted pays Leopold O Fenrik VI's ransom of 100,000

● 1441 - Pope Eugene IV published the encyclical "Cantante domino." It asserted that the biblical canon of the Roman Catholic Church contains both the 66 protocanonical books (i.e., the complete Protestant Bible) and 12 deuterocanonical (aka "apocryphal") books 78 writings in all.

● 1454 - In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.

● 1508 - Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned

● 1586 - Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor of Netherlands

● 1600 - Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague

● 1620 - Prince Bethlen Gábor signs peace with emperor Ferdinand II

● 1657 - Oliver Cromwell grants residency to Luis Caravajal

● 1697 - 3 VOC-ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia

● 1699 - 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow

● 1703 - In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-Seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.

● 1712 - South Carolina slave traders unable to take Chief Hancock's Tuscarora fort.

● 1782 - British garrison surrenders to French & Spanish fleet

● 1783 - Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)

● 1783 - American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States of America.

● 1787 - 1st Anglican bishops of New York & Pennsylvania consecrated in London

● 1787 - Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails

● 1789 - George Washington is unanimously elected to be the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.

● 1792 - George Washington is unanimously elected to a second term as President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.

● 1794 - The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.

● 1797 - Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 40,000

● 1801 - John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.

● 1810 - British Navy seizes Guadeloupe.

● 1810 - The Cumberland Presbyterian Church was organized in Tennessee as an outgrowth of the Great Revival of 1800. Standing between Calvinism and Arminianism, the denomination holds a "medium theology" which affirms unlimited atonement, universal grace, conditional election, eternal security of the believer and salvation of all children dying in infancy.

● 1819 - Birth of Emperor Norton I, fanciful San Francisco area monarch (self- proclaimed) of the mid-19th Century.

● 1822 - Emancipated U.S. blacks settle in Liberia, West Africa.

● 1824 - J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to the public

● 1825 - The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.

● 1846 - Mormons leave Nauvoo MO for settlement in the west

● 1847 - 1st US telegraph company established in Maryland

● 1849 - University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students

● 1854 - Alvan Bovay proposes the name "Republican Party", Ripon WI

● 1855 - Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela

● 1859 - Codex Sinaiticus discovered in Egypt.

● 1861 - American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, Delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form The Confederate States of America.

● 1864 - Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi

● 1865 - Hawaiian Board of Education formed

● 1866 - Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible

● 1869 - Birth of Big Bill Haywood, founder of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Salt Lake City, Utah.

● 1873 - Birth of George Bennard, American Methodist evangelist. He penned over 300 Gospel songs during his lifetime, but is primarily remembered today for one: "The Old Rugged Cross."

● 1874 - English poet and devotional writer Frances Ridley Havergal, 37, penned the words to the popular hymn of commitment, "Take My Life and Let It Be [Consecrated, Lord, to Thee]."

● 1887 - Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads

● 1895 - 1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago

● 1899 - Revolt against U.S. occupation forces begins in the Philippines. The Islands became a U.S. colony as a result of the Spanish-American War, ostensibly fought to free Cuba from foreign control (sic). Explained the president of the Philippine Commission - "We propose to stay there indefinitely in working out this good that we propose to do them."

● 1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh, the American aviator who became the first man to fly the Atlantic solo nonstop from the United States to Europe, was born.

● 1904 - The Russo-Japanese War began after Japan laid seige to Port Arthur.

● 1913 - Birth of Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, Tuskegee, Alabama. Contrary to popular mythology, Parks was not simply a random bus rider. In 1943, she became one of the NAACP's first women members. She also joined the Montgomery Voters League to encourage black registration. In her most famous act of resistance, on December 1, 1955, Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger in a city bus, sparking the successful Montgomery bus boycott. Her activism made it impossible for her to find work in Montgomery. She moved to Detroit and continued working for civil rights.

● 1913 - Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim

● 1914 - US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law

● 1915 - Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Mississippi Penitentiary

● 1915 - Germany establishes a submarine blockade around the UK and declares any vessel in it a legitimate target.

● 1917 - Belgium Council of Flanders established

● 1919 - City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown

● 1920 - 1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off (1½ months)

● 1921 - Birth of Betty Friedan, founder of National Organization for Women. Peoria, Illinois.

● 1922 - Indian peasants at Churi Chauna attack village police, killing 21.

● 1926 - Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany

● 1930 - 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans

● 1932 - World War II: Japan occupies Harbin, China.

● 1933 - Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts

● 1933 - German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press

● 1936 - Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.

● 1938 - Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts

● 1941 - British tanks occupy Maus Libya

● 1941 - Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin

● 1941 - World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.

● 1942 - Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US General wounded in action in WWII

● 1943 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad ends.

● 1944 - US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein

● 1945 - FDR, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta

● 1948 - Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.

● 1949 - Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia

● 1950 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot resolved in his journal: 'I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.'

● 1952 - First meeting of U.N. Disarmament Commission.

● 1956 - White student riot at University of Alabama against court-ordered admission of first Negro student.

● 1957 - USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, logs her 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".

● 1957 - Smith-Corona Manufacturing Inc., of New York, began selling portable electric typewriters. The first machine weighed 19 pounds.

● 1959 - Israel begins exporting copper ore

● 1961 - Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure

● 1964 - 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax

● 1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1966 - All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 jet plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.

● 1967 - US launches Lunar Orbiter 3

● 1968 - More Kenyan Asians flee to Britain; Another 96 Indians and Pakistanis from Kenya arrive in Britain, the latest in a growing exodus of Kenyan Asians fleeing discrimination.

● 1968 - The inspirational genius of the Beat writers, Prankster Neal Cassady, collapses and dies along railroad tracks, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico.

● 1968 - The world's largest hovercraft was launched at Cowes, Isle of Wight.

● 1969 - Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

● 1970 - After 35 days, the Menominee Indians end their occupation of an unused Gresham, Wisconsin Roman Catholic novitiate, when the church promises to deed it to them for a tribal hospital.

● 1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1971 - Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil

● 1971 - National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC

● 1971 - Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard & Mitchell)

● 1971 - British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt

● 1972 - Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported

● 1972 - 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria

● 1973 - Vietnam observers' struggle for peace; International inspection teams in Vietnam have been sent into the countryside to monitor the truce agreed last Saturday in Paris.

● 1973 - Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled

● 1974 - Heiress Patricia Hearst is kidnapped in Berkeley by the Symbionese Liberation Army, which demands that the Hearst family organize and fund a free food program for poor people in Oakland. Several street feeds do take place before the program runs out of money in March.

● 1974 - Soldiers and children killed in coach bombing; Eleven people are killed in a bomb blast on a bus travelling to an army base in North Yorkshire.

● 1974 - Benzine rationing ends in Netherlands

● 1974 - Gas rationing ends in Netherlands

● 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1976 - Senate subcommittee reveals Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (the predecessor to today's Lockheed Martin) made payments abroad of $22 million in bribes to sell planes. Lockheed admits payments in Japan, Turkey, Italy, and Holland. Today, federal government agencies like the Export-Import Bank make such bribery unnecessary; now, the government does it for them.

● 1976 - Violent earthquake strikes Guatemala City, Guatemala, killing 24,000 people, injuring 50,000. The quake rendered as much as one-sixth of the country's population homeless. Thousands more killed by aftershocks in the following days.

● 1977 - Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago street (11 die, 200 hurt)

● 1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.

● 1982 - Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees

● 1983 - José Happart becomes mayor of Voeren Belgium

● 1983 - Pop singer Karen Carpenter, 32, dies of heart failure brought on by anorexia nervosa.

● 1985 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan's defense budget called for a tripling of the expenditure on the "Star Wars" research program.

● 1985 - Visit by U.S.S. Buchanan refused due to non-nuclear port policy, New Zealand.

● 1985 - 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture

● 1986 - Israeli fighters intercept Libyan liner (passenger plane)

● 1987 - Congress overrides Pres. Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act.

● 1987 - Gay pianist, fashion victim Liberace dies.

● 1988 - Defiant seamen strike on; Thousands of seamen at major British ports are continuing to strike even though their union has called an end to the action.

● 1988 - Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges

● 1990 - 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo

● 1990 - Colombian government recognizes native rights to 69,000 square miles (slightly larger than area of state of Washington) in Amazon Basin, home to 55,000 native people.

● 1991 - The Baseball Hall of Fame votes to ban Pete Rose.

● 1991 - US postage raises from 25¢ to 29¢

● 1992 - A Coup d'état is leaded by Hugo Chávez Frías, against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.

● 1993 - Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA

● 1993 - Russian scientists unfurled a giant mirror in orbit and flashed a beam of sunlight across Europe during the night. Observers saw it only as an momentary flash.

● 1994 - 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum Sudan

● 1996 - Start of week of marches for peace by thousands, Grozny, Chechnya.

● 1996 - Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties all-time record low temperature at -26°F (-22°C).

● 1997 - En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.

● 1997 - After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.

● 1997 - OJ Simpson found liable in murders of Ron Goldman & Nicole Simpson

● 1997 - Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish

● 1998 - Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium

● 1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.

● 1999 - Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela.

● 1999 - Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.

● 1999 - Warplanes from Israel attacked south Lebanon just after rockets were fired toward Israel. No casualies were claimed on either side.

● 1999 - Gary Coleman was sentenced to a $400 fine, a suspended 90-day jail sentence, and ordered to attend 52 anger-management classes. The sentence stemmed from Coleman assaulting an autograph seeker on July 30, 1998.

● 2000 - Austrian President Thomas Klestil swore in a coalition government that included Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party. European Union sanctions were a result of the action.

● 2000 - German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.

● 2002 - After a previous wave of police shootings of non-white suspects, New York City police mistakenly shoot and kill immigrant Amadou Diallo in a particularly egregious case of racial profiling; 15 days of civil disobedience bring changes in the city's police procedures.

● 2003 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.

● 2004 - The Massachusetts high court declared that gays were entitled to marriage.

● 2006 - Thousands of Syrians enraged by caricatures of Islam's revered prophet torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus. In Gaza, Palestinians marched through the streets, storming European buildings and burning German and Danish flags.

● 2006 - A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing at least 74.

BIRTHS

● 1575 - Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1629)

● 1620 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (d. 1667)

● 1646 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (d. 1699)

● 1677 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (d. 1731)

● 1688 - Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (d. 1763)

● 1725 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804)

● 1746 - Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish, Belarusian and Lithuanian national hero (d. 1817)

● 1778 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (d. 1841)

● 1799 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (d. 1854)

● 1802 - Mark Hopkins, American educator and theologian (d. 1887)

● 1859 - Timofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya

● 1841 - Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (d. 1926)

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

● 1849 - Jean Richepin, French poet (d. 1926)

● 1871 - Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925)

● 1873 - Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (d. 1905)

● 1875 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (d. 1953)

● 1979 - Jacques Copeau, French actor/critic/director (d. 1949)

● 1881 - Fernand Léger, French painter (d. 1955)

● 1882 - E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d. 1964)

● 1883 - George Kennedy Bell, English Anglican bishop of Chichester (d. 1958)

● 1892 - Andreu Nin, Catalan politician (d. 1937)

● 1893 - Raymond Dart, Australian-born. South African physical anthropologist (d. 1988)

● 1896 - Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (d. 1938)

● 1896 - Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)

● 1897 - Ludwig Erhard, 2nd Bundeskanzler of Germany (d. 1977)

● 1900 - Jacques Prévert, French poet and lyricist (d. 1977)

● 1902 - Charles Lindbergh, American pilot (d. 1974)

● 1902 - Hartley Shawcross, British lawyer and politician (d. 2003)

● 1904 - MacKinlay Kantor, American writer (d. 1977)

● 1906 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (d. 1945)

● 1906 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)

● 1908 - Julian Bell, British poet (d. 1937)

● 1912 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (d. 1993)

● 1912 - Byron Nelson, American golfer (d. 2006)

● 1912 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, archbishop of Quebec (d. 2006)

● 1913 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)

● 1914 - Alfred Andersch, German writer (d. 1980)

● 1915 - William Talman, American actor (1968)

● 1915 - Norman Wisdom, English actor and comedian

● 1916 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi Order (d. 1980)

● 1917 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1980)

● 1918 - Janet Waldo, American actress

● 1918 - Ida Lupino, English film actress and director (d. 1995)

● 1921 - Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)

● 1921 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (d. 2005)

● 1922 - William Phipps, Actor

● 1923 - Conrad Bain, Canadian-born actor

● 1925 - Russell Hoban, American writer

● 1931 - Isabel Martínez de Perón, third wife of Argentine dictator Juan Perón

● 1935 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989)

● 1936 - David Brenner, American comedian

● 1936 - Gary Conway, American actor

● 1937 - David Newman, American filmmaker (d. 2003)

● 1938 - Jim Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

● 1940 - George Romero, American director, screenwriter and producer

● 1940 - John Schuck, American actor

● 1941 - John Steel, British musician (The Animals)

● 1943 - Ken Thompson, American computer scientist

● 1943 - Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese president of the regional government of Madeira

● 1944 - Florence LaRue, American singer (The Fifth Dimension)

● 1945 - David Brenner, Comedian

● 1947 - Dan Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States

● 1948 - Alice Cooper, American musician

● 1949 - Michael Beck, American actor

● 1950 - Pamela Franklin, British actress

● 1951 - Patrick Bergin, Irish actor

● 1951 - Phil Ehart, American musician (Kansas)

● 1951 - Dariush Eghbali, Iranian singer and musician

● 1952 - Li Yinhe, Chinese Sexologist

● 1952 - Lisa Eichhorn, American actress

● 1953 - Kitaro, Japanese composer

● 1957 - Don Davis, American composer

● 1957 - Evan Wolfson, American attorney and activist

● 1958 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer

● 1959 - Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress

● 1959 - Lawrence Taylor, American football player and Hall of Fame member

● 1960 - Jonathan Larson, American composer of "RENT" and other musicals (d. 1996)

● 1960 - Tim Booth, British singer (James)

● 1960 - Siobhan Dowd, Irish author

● 1960 - Jenette Goldstein, American actress

● 1961 - Henry Bogdan, Rock musician

● 1961 - Stewart O'Nan, American author

● 1961 - Denis Savard, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1962 - Clint Black, American musician

● 1962 - Michael Riley, Canadian actor

● 1963 - Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss skier

● 1964 - Noodles, American guitarist (The Offspring)

● 1965 - Jerome Brown, American football player (d. 1992)

● 1966 - Dave Buchanan, Country musician (Yankee Grey)

● 1966 - Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist

● 1966 - Kyoko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer

● 1967 - Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (d. 1995)

● 1968 - Marko Matvere, Estonian actor

● 1969 - Duncan Coutts, Canadian bassist (Our Lady Peace)

● 1969 - Dallas Drake, ice hockey player

● 1970 - Gabrielle Anwar, English actress

● 1971 - David Garza, Rock singer

● 1971 - Rob Corddry, American actor and comedian

● 1971 - Michael Goorjian, American actor

● 1972 - Giovanni Silva De Oliveira, Brazilian footballer

● 1973 - Oscar de la Hoya, Mexican-born boxer

● 1975 - Rick Burch, Rock musician (Jimmy Eat World)

● 1975 - Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician and actress

● 1976 - Cam'ron, American rapper

● 1977 - Gavin DeGraw, American musician

● 1978 - Danna Garcia, Colombian actress

● 1979 - Giorgio Pantano, Italian racing car driver

● 1981 - Jason Kapono, America Professional Basketball Player

● 1982 - Chris Sabin, American professional wrestler

● 1982 - Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist

● 1982 - Kimberly Wyatt, American singer and dancer (Pussycat Dolls)

● 1984 - Bug Hall, American actor

● 1987 - Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player

● 1988 - Carly Patterson, American gymnast

DEATHS

● 211 - Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome (b. 146)

● 708 - Pope Sisinnius

● 856 - Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of Mainz

● 869 - Saint Cyril, Greek missionary to the Slavs (b. 827)

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

● 1590 - Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (b. 1517)

● 1615 - Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)

● 1615 - Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian physicist (b. 1535)

● 1694 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)

● 1713 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (b. 1671)

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

● 1799 - Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)

● 1781 - Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (b. 1737)

● 1894 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker (b. 1814)

● 1905 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841)

● 1928 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1853)

● 1933 - Archibald Sayce, English educator (b. 1846)

● 1936 - Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)

● 1940 - Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895)

● 1944 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867)

● 1944 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (b. 1872)

● 1958 - Henry Kuttner, American author (b. 1915)

● 1959 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)

● 1966 - Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American president of the National Geographic Society (b. 1875)

● 1967 - Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886)

● 1968 - Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)

● 1969 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1905)

● 1974 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894)

● 1975 - Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)

● 1977 - Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904)

● 1982 - Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935)

● 1983 - Karen Carpenter, American singer and musician (Carpenters) (anorexia) (b. 1950)

● 1984 - Anna Anderson, claimant to the throne of Russia

● 1987 - Liberace, American musician (b. 1919)

● 1987 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (b. 1902)

● 1990 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1917)

● 1992 - Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b. 1911)

● 1995 - Godfrey Brown, British athlete and teacher (b. 1915)

● 1995 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (b. 1921)

● 2000 - Carl Albert, American politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)

● 2000 - Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1941)

● 2001 - J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (b. 1924)

● 2001 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek-born composer (b. 1922)

● 2002 - George Nader, American film and television actor (b. 1921)

● 2003 - Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist (b. 1926)

● 2005 - Ossie Davis, American actor (b. 1917)

● 2006 - Betty Friedan, American feminist (b. 1921)

● 2006 - Myron Waldman, American animator (b. 1908)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aldate
● St. Andrew Corsini, bishop of Fiesole/confessor
● St. Aventinus of Chartres
● St. Gilbert of Sempringham
● St. John de Britto, Portuguese Jesuit
● St. John Stone
● St. Joseph of Leonissa
● St. Liephard
● St. Modan
● St. Nicholas Studites
● St. Nithard
● St. Obitius
● St. Rembert of Torhout
● St. Theophilus the Penitent
● St. Veronica, patron saint of photographers
● St. Vincent of Troyes
● St. Vulgis
● Bl. John Speed

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 22 (Civil Date: February 4)
● Apostle Timothy of the Seventy
● Monk-martyr Anastasius the Persian.
● Martyrs Manuel, Parodus, presbyters; and 377 companions in Bulgaria.
● Martyr Anastasius the deacon of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Macarius, abbot of Zhabyn.
● St. Ioasaph, Enlightener of Alaska and the American land.

● Greek Calendar:
● St. Joseph Samakus the Sanctified of Crete.

● Anglican:
● Cornelius the Centurion

● Ancient Latvia - Biezputras Diena observed.

● Independence Day in Sri Lanka (1948).

● Angolan Anniversary of the Outbreak of Armed Struggle against Portuguese Colonialism.

● World Cancer Day

● US : Kosciuszko Day

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Switzerland : Homstrom-celebrates end of winter - ( 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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