February 6......

February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 328 (329 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

● 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians under Metellus Scipio and Juba at Thapsus.

● 337 - Julius I is elected pope.

● 679 Death of Amandus, the founder of Belgian monasticism. During his 95 years, he established eight abbeys, five in the Southern Netherlands.

● 1508 - Maximilian I crowned Holy Roman Emperor

● 1577 - King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots

● 1626 - Huguenot rebels & the French sign Peace of La Rochelle

● 1651 - Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris

● 1685 - James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.

● 1693 - Royal charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg VA

● 1716 - England & Netherlands renew alliance

● 1756 - Aaron Burr, America's third vice president, was born in Newark, N.J.

● 1778 - England declares war on France

● 1778 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.

● 1788 - Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.

● 1806 - Royal Navy victory off Santo Domingo - Action of 6 February 1806.

● 1815 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.

● 1817 - The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.

● 1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.

● 1820 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.

● 1820 - US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%))

● 1832 - 1st appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland

● 1832 - U.S. ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy.

● 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land (Tasmania)

● 1839 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Even in the wildest storms the sky is not all dark; and so in the darkest dealings of God with His children, there are always some bright tokens for good.'

● 1840 - Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.

● 1843 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).

● 1861 - English Admiral Robert Ritzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships

● 1861 - 1st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America

● 1862 - Victory for General Ulysses S Grant in Tennessee, capturing Fort Henry, and ten days later Fort Donelson; Grant earns the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" Grant

● 1862 - Naval Engagement at Tennessee River-USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle

● 1864 - Birth of gay individualist anarchist novelist/poet John Henry Mackay.

● 1864 - Skirmish at Barnett's Ford Virginia

● 1865 - 2nd day of battle at Dabney's Mills (Hatcher's Run)

● 1867 - Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in South

● 1869 - Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers

● 1872 - Birth of Luigi Bertoni (1872-1947), Milan, Italy. Swiss anarchist, typographer. Fought on the Huesca front with Italian comrades during the Spanish Revolution.

● 1878 - General Trepoff, enemy of the Russian popular movement, is shot by Vera Sassulitch.

● 1891 - 1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)

● 1895 - George Herman 'Babe' Ruth, baseball's great star, was born.

● 1899 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris (1898), a peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.

● 1900 - The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.

● 1900 - Battle at Vaalkrans, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)

● 1900 - U.S. President McKinley appointed W.H. Taft as commissioner to report on the Philippines.

● 1902 - Young Women's Hebrew Association organized in New York NY

● 1904 - Russian-Japanese war began

● 1909 - Act of Congress makes it illegal to sell alcohol to natives of Alaska.

● 1910 - Philadelphia shirtwaist makers voted to accept arbitration offer and end strike as Triangle Shirtwaist strike winds down.

● 1911 - Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was born in Tampico, Ill.

● 1911 - 1st old-age home opened in Prescott AZ

● 1911 - Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey

● 1918 - Women over the age of 30 are given the right to vote in England.

● 1919 - In one of the largest labor demonstrations in U.S. history, the Seattle general strike takes control of the city of Seattle in support of 32,000 striking longshoremen.

● 1919 - 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike

● 1920 - Saarland administrated by League of Nations

● 1922 - Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.

● 1922 - The Washington Naval Treaty was signed in Washington, DC, limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.

● 1923 - On hundred seventy-two revolutionary peasants condemned to death at Chanch, India.

● 1924 - Station KFSG (Kall Four Square Gospel) went on the air. One of the earliest radio stations licensed, it broadcast the services of Angelus Temple, the flagship congregation of the International Foursquare Gospel Church, founded by Aimee Semple Mc Pherson in 1923.

● 1931 - Pioneer American linguist and missionary Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'There is a deep peace that grows out of illness and loneliness and a sense of failure. God cannot get close when everything is delightful. He seems to need these darker hours, these empty-hearted hours, to mean the most to people.'

● 1932 - Fascist coup in the Memel territory

● 1933 - -90ºF (-68ºC), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record)

● 1933 - Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 meters (112 feet), in Pacific hurricane near Manila

● 1933 - 20th Amendment goes into effect; Presidential term begins in Jan not March

● 1933 - President von Hindenburg & von Papen end Prussian parliament

● 1934 - February 6, 1934 political crisis in France. The far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon, an attempted coup against the Third Republic.

● 1935 - 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey

● 1936 - Olympic Games: Winter Olympic Games - IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

● 1937 - K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-US female lawyer

● 1938 - Algeria - Han Ryner (1895-1938) dies. French teacher, anticlericalist, pacifist, anarchist, philosopher.

● 1939 - Spain - 130,000 refugees cross the border, fleeing Franco's Fascists.

● 1939 - Spanish government flees to France

● 1941 - Battle of Beda Fomm Italian 10th army destroyed

● 1941 - British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya

● 1943 - 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down

● 1943 - U.S. government requires the 110,000 Japanese-Americans imprisoned in internment camps to answer loyalty surveys.

● 1945 - 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz

● 1945 - Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder

● 1945 - Birth of reggae revolutionary Bob Marley, Spanish Town, Jamaica.

● 1947 - Three shots fired at Minneapolis mayor Hubert Humphrey as he returned home after a political meeting. All three bullets missed their mark, and no trace was ever found of the would-be assassin.

● 1948 - 1st radio-controlled airplane flown

● 1951 - Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into the Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago IL

● 1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Illinois), to demonstrate lax in security

● 1951 - The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.

● 1952 - First session of U.N. Population Commission.

● 1952 - King George VI dies in his sleep; His Majesty, King George VI, dies peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham House, aged 56. Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya. England replaces King George VI stamp series with Queen Elizabeth II

● 1952 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Christianity, disruptive in nature, has nonetheless integrating powers for the individual in the culture, though both he and it may expect revolution.'

● 1953 - US controls on wages & some consumer goods were lifted

● 1956 - Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing

● 1956 - French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers

● 1956 - Autherine Lucy, the first black student to enter the University of Alabama, is suspended after three days of riots due to her presence. It is not clear why the University, in its vast academic wisdom, did not elect to suspend the rioters.

● 1956 - St. Patrick Center opened in Kankakee, IL. It was the first circular school building in the United States.

● 1958 - Bobby Charlton survived the Munich air disaster in Germany, which killed eight of his teammates with Manchester United F.C..

● 1958 - United players killed in air disaster; Seven Manchester United footballers are among 21 dead after an air crash in Munich.

● 1959 - Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow

● 1959 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.

● 1959 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.

● 1961 - The jail-in movement begins when students in Rock Hill, South Carolina are arrested and demand jail time rather than fines.

● 1964 - France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel

● 1967 - Cultural Revolution in Albania

● 1968 - Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one

● 1968 - Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam

● 1968 - Olympic Games: Winter Olympic Games - X Olympic Winter Games open in Grenoble, France.

● 1971 - NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used a six-iron that he had brought inside his spacecraft, Apollo 14, and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon.

● 1972 - Over 500,000 irate letters arrive at CBS-TV, when word leaks out the network would air an edited-for-TV version of the X-rated movie, The Demand.

● 1973 - Two hundred American Indian Movement protesters clash with police for three days in Custer, S. Dak., over murder of Wesley Bad Heart; 37 arrested.

● 1974 - Dutch speed limit set at 100 km due to oil crisis

● 1974 - US House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon

● 1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1975 - Heline Patou (1902-1975) dies. French writer, militant anarchist and neo-Malthusian.

● 1976 - Native American activist Leonard Peltier is captured in Canada and, on the basis of fictitious affadavits generated by the FBI, is later extradited to the U.S.

● 1978 - Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Senator-D-MN) takes his office

● 1978 - The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.

● 1979 - Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto

● 1983 - 'Butcher of Lyon' returns to face trial; War criminal and former Gestapo commandant, Klaus Barbie, arrives in France to stand trial for crimes committed 37 years ago.

● 1984 - Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army

● 1985 - The French mineral water company, Perrier, debuted its first new product in 123 years. The new items were water with a twist of lemon, lime or orange.

● 1985 - Peace camp evicted by army at CIA base, Molesworth, Britain.

● 1985 - Steve Wozniak leaves Apple Computer.

● 1987 - President Ronald Reagan turned 76 years old this day and became the oldest U.S. President in history.

● 1987 - No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings

● 1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1989 - Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman died at age 77.

● 1989 - Lech Walesa begins negotiating with the Polish government

● 1992 - The Saami people of Scandinavia have an official day celebrating their existence.

● 1993 - Tennis hall-of-famer Arthur Ashe died at age 49.

● 1994 - José Maria Figueres elected President of Costa Rica

● 1994 - Martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland

● 1996 - Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence

● 1996 - A Turkish Airlines Boeing 757 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Dominican Republic killing 189.

● 1997 - Widow allowed dead husband's baby; The Court of Appeal makes an historic judgement in favour of Diane Blood who will be allowed to be inseminated with her dead husband's sperm.

● 1998 - Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7½ years

● 1998 - President Bill Clinton signed a bill changing the name of Washington National Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

● 1999 - King Hussein of Jordan transferred full political power to his oldest son the Crown Prince Abdullah.

● 1999 - Excerpts of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky's videotaped testimony were shown at President Clinton's impeachment trial.

● 1999 - Heavy fighting resumed along the common border between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

● 2000 - Russia's acting President Vladimir Putin announced that Russian forces had captured Grozny, Chechnya. The capital city had been under the control of Chechen rebels.

● 2000 - In Finland, Foreign Minister Tarja Halonen became the first woman to be elected president.

● 2000 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton formally declared that she was a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from the state of New York.

● 2001 - Ariel Sharon was elected Israeli prime minister.

● 2002 - A federal judge ordered John Walker Lindh to be held without bail pending trial. Lindh was known as the "American Taliban."

● 2003 - ABC's ''20/20'' aired a British documentary on Michael Jackson in which the singer revealed he sometimes let children sleep in his bed.

● 2004 - In Russia, a suicide-attack in a Moscow metro kills 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine. The blast is blamed on Chechen separatist groups.

● 2005 - Blair is Labour's longest-serving PM; British Prime Minister Tony Blair marks 2,838 days in his post at Number 10.

● 2005 - Jerrick De Leon, born 13 weeks premature, becomes the world's smallest infant to survive an open-heart procedure called an arterial switch.

● 2006 - The Conservative Party of Canada becomes a minority government in Canada's Parliament, replacing the Liberals after 13 years in power. Stephen Harper becomes the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada.

BIRTHS

● 1577 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (d. 1599)

● 1608 - Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)

● 1611 - Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1644)

● 1639 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)

● 1664 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d, 1703)

● 1665 - Queen Anne of England (d. 1714)

● 1695 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)

● 1732 - Charles Lee, General in the American Revolution (d. 1782)

● 1744 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795)

● 1748 - Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati (d. 1811)

● 1756 - Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)

● 1757 - Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman. (d. 1841)

● 1802 - Sir Charles Wheatstone, English physicist (d. 1875)

● 1818 - William Maxwell Evarts, American lawyer/statesman (d. 1901)

● 1833 - James Ewell Brown (JEB) Stuart, American Confederate general (d. 1864)

● 1834 - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (d. 1889)

● 1838 - Sir Henry Irving, British actor, inspiration for Dracula (d. 1905)

● 1838 - Yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)

● 1843 - F. W. H. Myers, English writer/cofounder of the Society for Psychical Research (d. 1901)

● 1853 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)

● 1861 - George Tyrrell, Irish-born English Jesuit priest/philosopher (d. 1909)

● 1887 - Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)

● 1875 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (d. 1915)

● 1892 - William Parry Murphy, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)

● 1894 - Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)

● 1895 - Babe Ruth, baseball player (d. 1948)

● 1897 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (d. 1944)

● 1898 - Melvin Tolson, African-American poet (d. 1966)

● 1899 - Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (d. 1968)

● 1901 - Ben Lyon, American actor (d. 1979)

● 1902 - George Brunies, American musician (d. 1974)

● 1903 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)

● 1905 - Władysław Gomułka, Polish leader (d. 1982)

● 1908 - Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician and prime minister (d. 1999)

● 1910 - Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)

● 1910 - Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (d. 1993)

● 1911 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)

● 1912 - Eva Braun, German mistress of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)

● 1913 - Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996)

● 1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005)

● 1917 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian actress

● 1918 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author

● 1922 - Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer

● 1922 - Patrick Macnee, British actor

● 1922 - Denis Norden, British television personality

● 1926 - Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer

● 1929 - Pierre Brice, French actor

● 1931 - Rip Torn, American actor (''The Larry Sanders Show'')

● 1931 - Mamie Van Doren, American actress

● 1932 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)

● 1932 - François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)

● 1933 - Leslie Crowther, British comedian (d. 1996)

● 1936 - Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1939 - Mike Farrell, American actor (''M*A*S*H,'' ''Providence'')

● 1939 - Orlando Parga, Vice President of the Puerto Rico Senate

● 1940 - Tom Brokaw, American news anchorman

● 1940 - Jimmy Tarbuck, British comedian

● 1942 - Sarah Brady, American gun-control activist

● 1943 - Fabian, American singer

● 1943 - Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress

● 1944 - Michael Tucker, American actor (''L.A. Law'')

● 1945 - Bob Marley, Jamaican singer (d. 1981)

● 1946 - Jim Turner, American politician

● 1946 - Kate McGarrigle, Canadian folk music singer and songwriter

● 1949 - Jim Sheridan, Irish film director

● 1950 - Natalie Cole, American singer

● 1951 - Marco Antônio, Brazilian footballer

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

● 1952 - Ricardo Lavolpe, Argentine football coach

● 1955 - Michael Pollan, American journalist

● 1956 - Jon Walmsley, Actor (''The Waltons'')

● 1957 - Simon Phillips, Rock musician (Toto)

● 1957 - Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedian

● 1957 - Robert Townsend, American actor

● 1958 - Barry Miller, American actor

● 1958 - Cecily Adams, American actress (d. 2004)

● 1960 - Megan Gallagher, American actress

● 1961 - Bill Lester, American racecar driver

● 1962 - Richie McDonald, Country singer (Lonestar)

● 1962 - Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses)

● 1963 - Kevin Trudeau, American entrepreneur

● 1966 - Rick Astley, British singer

● 1968 - Akira Yamaoka, Japanese composer

● 1968 - Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer

● 1969 - Tim Brown, Rock musician (Boo Radleys)

● 1970 - Per Frandsen, Danish footballer

● 1970 - Kitty Yung, American pornographic actress

● 1971 - Brian Stepanek, American actor

● 1972 - David Binn, American football player

● 1975 - Svend-Allan Sørensen, Danish artist

● 1975 - Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer

● 1976 - Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast

● 1976 - Colin Teo, Singaporean D1 Professional Grand Prix drifter

● 1979 - Dan Bălan, Founder of European Pop Band O-Zone

● 1980 - Mamiko Noto, Japanese seiyu

● 1980 - Ryan O'Reilly, American wrestler

● 1981 - Jens Lekman, Swedish musician

● 1981 - Calum Best, American model

● 1983 - Brodie Croyle, American football player

● 1983 - Myron Wolf Child, Canadian politician

● 1984 - Brandon Hammond, Actor

● 1984 - Darren Bent, English footballer

● 1984 - Daisy Marie, American pornographic actress

● 1985 - Kris Humphries, American basketball player

● 1986 - Brendan Taylor, Zimbabwean wicket-keeper

● 1986 - Alice Greczyn, American actress

● 1988 - Allison Holker, American dancer

DEATHS

● 891 - Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople

● 1378 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)

● 1497 - Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (b. c. 1410)

● 1515 - Aldus Manutius, Italian printer

● 1585 - Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)

● 1593 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)

● 1593 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)

● 1617 - Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)

● 1685 - King Charles II of England (b. 1630)

● 1740 - Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)

● 1775 - William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)

● 1783 - Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)

● 1793 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707)

● 1816 - Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)

● 1833 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)

● 1834 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (b. 1804)

● 1855 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)

● 1899 - Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)

● 1899 - Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (b. 1874)

● 1916 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)

● 1918 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)

● 1927 - Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)

● 1938 - Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)

● 1950 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)

● 1952 - George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)

● 1963 - Abd el-Krim, Moroccan politician

● 1964 - Emilio Aguinaldo, First President of the 1st Philippines Republic (b. 1869)

● 1967 - Martine Carol, French film actress (b. 1920)

● 1976 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician (b. 1928)

● 1981 - Hugo Montenegro, American film music composer and orchestra leader (b. 1925)

● 1985 - James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)

● 1986 - Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899)

● 1986 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)

● 1989 - Chris Gueffroy, last person killed escaping over the Berlin wall (b. 1968)

● 1989 - Barbara Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)

● 1989 - André Cayatte, French filmmaker (b. 1909)

● 1991 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1912)

● 1991 - Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)

● 1993 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)

● 1994 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)

● 1994 - Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917)

● 1995 - James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)

● 1996 - Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)

● 1998 - Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)

● 1998 - Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)

● 1998 - Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)

● 2001 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)

● 2001 - Fulgence Charpentier, Quebec journalist, editor and publisher (b. 1897)

● 2002 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1914)

● 2005 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)

● 2005 - Karl Haas, American radio presenter (b. 1913)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Amand, Apostle of the Franks
● St. Antholian
● St. Anthony Dainan
● St. Bonaventure of Miako
● St. Cosmas
● St. Dorothy, patron saint of florists
● St. Francis Nagasaki
● St. Francis of St. Michael
● St. James Kisai
● St. John Soan de Goto
● St. Martin de Aguirre
● St. Martin Loynaz of the Ascension
● St. Matthias of Meako
● St. Mel
● St. Michael Kozaki
● St. Mun
● St. Paul Miki & his companions, martyrs
● St. Peter Shukeshiko
● St. Philip of Jesus, 1st Christian martyr in Japan
● St. Relindis
● Sts. Saturninus, Theophilus, & Revocata
● St. Tanco
● St. Theophilus the Lawyer
● St. Thomas Danki
● St. Thomas Kozaki
● St. Vedastus
● Bl. Diego De Avezedo

● Traditional Catholic:
● St. Titus, bishop of Crete, confessor

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 24 (Civil Date: February 6)
● St. Xenia of Rome and her two female slaves.
● St. Macedonius, hermit of Syria.
● Martyrs Babylas of Sicily and his two disciples, Timothy and Agapius.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Anastasius the Persian.
● Martyrs Paul, Pausirius, and Theodotian, of Egypt.
● St. Philo, Bishop of Kalpa in Cyprus.
● St. Philippicus the presbyter.
● Martyr Barsimaeus of Syria and his two brothers.
● St. Zosimas, Bishop of Babylon in Egypt.
● St. Dionysius of Olympus and Platina.
● Martyr John of Kazan.
● St. Gerasimus, Bishop of Perm.
● St. Xenia of Petersburg, fool-for-Christ
● St. Felician, Bishop of Foligno in Italy.

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Hermogenes and Mamas.
● St. Neophytecluse of Cyprus.
● Repose of Abbess Sophia of Shamordina Convent (1888)
● Repose of Bishop Nektary of Seattle (1983).

● Christian:
● St. Vaast (St. Gaston)
● St. Vedastus

● Bob Marley Day in Rastafarianism (Jamaica and Ethiopia)

● Waitangi Day (National Holiday) in New Zealand

● Sami National Day (known as Lapps; in Finland and Scandinavia)

● Massachusetts : Ratification Day (1788)

● New Zealand : Waitangi Day-New Zealand Day (1840)

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