Day of the week in surrounding years:
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—MON—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—TUE—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—WED—2011
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—THU—2012
. . . .,1990,1996,2001,2007—FRI—. . . .
1985,1991,. . . .,2002,2008—SAT—2013
1986,1992,1997,2003,. . . .—SUN—2014
PASCAL DATE INFORMATION
Easter Sunday for the Western Christian Church is defined as the first Sunday following the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. Lent is defined as the forty days prior to Easter not including Sundays thus Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which is 46 days prior to Easter. Calculations for Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday were performed for the 3774 years from 326 to 4099. For the year range 326 to 1582, dates are based on the Julian calendar. For years 1583 to 4099, dates are based on the Gregorian calendar. Ash Wednesday falls in a range of 36 days from February 4 to March 10. Easter Sunday falls in a range of 35 days from March 22 to April 25. The extra day in the Ash Wednesday range is February 29, which only occurs in leap years. February 29 only effects when Ash Wednesday occurs since it is well before the Spring Equinox and has no effect on the date for Easter Sunday. March 10 to March 21 is a twelve-day range that must occur in Lent no matter the timing of Easter Sunday. The entire range of 82 dates from February 4 to April 25 represents all dates with Pascal ramifications.
February 9 is the 6th possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 88 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 27th/28th of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
343, 354, 365, 376, 438, 449, 460, 533, 544, 623, 628, 707, 718, 791, 802, 813, 875, 886, 897, 908, 970, 981, 992, 1065, 1076, 1155, 1160, 1239, 1250, 1323, 1334, 1345, 1407, 1418, 1429, 1440, 1502, 1513, 1524, 1622, 1633, 1701, 1780, 1785, 1842, 1853, 1910, 1921, 2005
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2084, 2157, 2214, 2225, 2372, 2377, 2456, 2461, 2524, 2529, 2676, 2681, 2738, 2749, 2828, 2833, 2901, 2980, 2991, 3048, 3053, 3121, 3200, 3284, 3295, 3352, 3420, 3425, 3572, 3583, 3656, 3667, 3724, 3735, 3876, 3887, 3944, 4028, 4039
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Conscience "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." — Lillian Hellman
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Treason, Traitors, Freedom-Fried Frenchmen ". . .
The second effect of the war was to surrender South Vietnam to the forces of Communism. This resulted in the imposition of a monstrous police state, the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent South Vietnamese, the incarceration in "Re-education camps" of hundreds of thousands more, and a quarter of a century of abject poverty imposed by crackpot Marxist economic plans, which continue to this day. This too, is the responsibility of the so-called anti-war movement of the 1960s.
. . ." — David Horowitz, "Horowitz's Notepad: An Open Letter to the 'Anti-War' Demonstrators: Think Twice Before You Bring the War Home,' FrontPageMag.com, 9-27-01.—Part 2 of 4 {Due to the length of some of these nutball quotes, I have decided to split the longer ones into parts. I could have abridged them but I think that would have lessened the impact of showing just how crazy these guys are. Please refer to previous and/or subsequent posts for complete quote.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "I couldn't have done it without my players." — Charles "Casey" Stengel, New York Yankees Hall of Fame Manager, was another master of obfuscation, Stengel is Hall of Shame member #7.
{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.}
MOON PHASE
Berkeley, California—Times are Pacific Standard Time (PST)
Feb 9, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 6% Age: 8% Rise: 8:23 AM Set: 8:49 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 9, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 6% Age: 8% Rise: 8:42 AM Set: 9:06 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 9, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 6% Age: 8% Rise: 8:19 AM Set: 8:40 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 9, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 5% Age: 7% Rise: 7:57 AM Set: 8:15 PM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Atlantis on Pad 39A
Image Credit: NASA, Kim Shiflett
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
● 1267 - Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps
● 1499 - France & Venice sign treaty against Milan
● 1537 - Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England
● 1554 - Battle at London Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated
● 1555 - Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
● 1574 - Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht
● 1619 - Vanini burned at the stake as an atheist. {I have never understood the logic of this; burning at the stake was supposed to convert them at the moment of death?}
● 1621 - Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
● 1667 - Treaty of Andrussovo Russia/Poland signs peace treaty
● 1674 - English re-conquer New York from Netherlands
● 1742 - British ex-premier Walpole becomes earl of Orford
● 1744 - Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Admiral Matthews)
● 1760 - Birth of Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Church.
● 1773 - William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, was born in Charles City County, Va.
● 1775 - American Revolutionary War: British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
● 1788 - The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
● 1799 - USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgente off Nevis, West Indies
● 1801 - France & Austrian sign Peace of Lunéville
● 1807 - French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon
● 1812 - Pioneer missionary Samuel Newell married fellow Congregationalist Harriet Atwood. They afterward sailed for India with Adoniram and Ann Hasseltine Judson. (Harriet Newell and Ann Judson thereby became the first American women commissioned for missionary work abroad.)
● 1819 - Birth of William True Sleeper, New England Congregational clergyman and author of the hymns "Jesus, I Come" and "Ye Must Be Born Again."
● 1822 - American Indian Society organizes
● 1822 - Haiti invades the newly founded Dominican Republic.
● 1825 - After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams the sixth President of the United States.
● 1839 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Savior is away.'
● 1849 - Birth of Laura Clay, suffragist and states' rights supporter from Kentucky.
● 1849 - Roman Republic declared
● 1861 - Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states
● 1861 - Former Mississippi Sen. Jefferson Davis is elected provisional President of the new Confederate States of America, at a constitutional convention at Montgomery, Alabama. War with the Union would begin two months later; in November, Davis would be elected to a presumably permanent six-year term.
● 1861 - Tennessee votes against secession
● 1863 - Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane
● 1867 - Nebraska becomes 37th US state
● 1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau was established.
● 1871 - Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress
● 1881 - Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ("Crime & Punishment") dies.
● 1884 - Thomas Edison and Patrick Kenny executed a patent application for a chemical recording stock quotation telegraph (U.S. Pat. 314,115).
● 1885 - The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
● 1886 - Pres. Grover Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence.
● 1889 - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is established as a Cabinet-level agency.
● 1891 - 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in San Francisco from Sacramento
● 1893 - Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud
● 1895 - William G. Morgan invents volleyball.
● 1904 - Battle of Port Arthur
● 1904 - Japan declares war on Russia
● 1906 - Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising
● 1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, son of a slave, the first black writer in the U.S. to support himself by writing, dies in Dayton, Ohio.
● 1909 - 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent OH
● 1909 - First federal legislation in the United States prohibiting narcotics (opium).
● 1910 - Jacques Monod, the French Nobel Prize-winning biologist, was born.
● 1913 - 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die
● 1915 - World Union of Women for International Concord founded, Geneva.
● 1916 - Britain's military service act enforced (conscription)
● 1917 - American labor agitator Tom Mooney falsely convicted of fatal bombing. He will be pardoned and released over 22 years later, in 1939.
● 1918 - Army chaplain school organized at Fort Monroe VA
● 1920 - By the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
● 1922 - Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
● 1922 - Italian government of Bonomi falls
● 1922 - Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii
● 1923 - Soviet Aeroflot airlines established
● 1924 - Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR
● 1925 - German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France
● 1926 - Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta GA schools. {Intelligence still trying to make a resurgence.}
● 1929 - USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland & Romania sign Litvinov Pact
● 1930 - American pioneer linguist and missionary Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.'
● 1932 - Harry Simms, youth organizer for National Miners Union, killed by company thugs, Kentucky.
● 1932 - US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing NY)
● 1933 - -63ºF (-53ºC), Moran WY (state record)
● 1934 - -14.3ºF (-25.8ºC), coldest day in New York City NY
● 1934 - -51ºF (-46ºC), Vanderbilt MI (state record)
● 1934 - The Balkan Entente is formed.
● 1939 - Belgian Spaak government falls
● 1941 - British troops conquer El Agheila
● 1941 - Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar in Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe)
● 1942 - Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States.
● 1942 - Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes
● 1942 - World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
● 1943 - FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
● 1943 - German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes", 1,200 in Vught Camp
● 1943 - Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents
● 1943 - World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
● 1944 - Birth of novelist and activist Alice Walker.
● 1944 - U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland
● 1945 - Germany destroys Ruhrdammen
● 1945 - The Battle of the Atlantic the HMS Venturer sinking U-Boat 864 off the coast of Norway.
● 1945 - WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire
● 1946 - Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms
● 1947 - Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia PA
● 1948 - U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'We are tempted to despair of our world. Remind us, O Lord, that Thou hast been facing the same thing in all the world since time began.'
● 1950 - Second Red Scare: Sen. Joseph McCarthy, in Wheeling, West Virginia, accuses State Department employees of Communist Party affiliation. "I have here in my hand," he states, "the names of 205 men that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department." Some years later, he confided the paper was actually an old laundry list. {The first Red Scare was when McCarthy accused the Armed Forces of being filled with Communists.}
● 1953 - General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA
● 1954 - Mario Scelba forms new government in Italy
● 1955 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law
● 1955 - US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO
● 1956 - -5ºF (15ºC) in Sicily
● 1956 - R Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria
● 1961 - Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo
● 1962 - Jamaica becomes independent nation within the Commonwealth of Nations.
● 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1963 - 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
● 1963 - 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")
● 1965 - Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
● 1966 - New nuclear reactor for Dounreay; A Protype Fast Reactor will be built at the Dounreay power station in a remote part of Scotland, the government announces.
● 1968 - Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix
● 1969 - First test flight of the Boeing 747.
● 1970 - Underground `Rat' publishes Robin Morgan's "Goodbye to All That" feminist statement in New York.
● 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
● 1971 - Probably 1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family
● 1971 - Protests led by the Oriental Student Union briefly close Seattle Central Community College.
● 1971 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
● 1971 - The 6.4 on the Richter Scale Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
● 1972 - British government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike
● 1973 - Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party elected leader of opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
● 1975 - The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
● 1978 - Ted Bundy kills Kimberly Leach, 12, Lake City FL; later executed
● 1979 - Nigeria amends constitution
● 1981 - Army general takes over as Prime Minister, Poland.
● 1982 - Reagan Vice President George H. W. Bush (aka "Poppy") denies he ever used the phrase "voodoo economics" to describe Reagan's supply side economic prescriptions, and challenges "anybody to find it." NBC's Ken Bode promptly broadcasts the 1980 tape with the phrase.
● 1983 - Belgium buys 44 F-16s
● 1983 - Police hunt Shergar's kidnappers; A nationwide hunt for 1981 Derby winner and prize stallion Shergar begins in Ireland.
● 1984 - Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov died at age 69, less than 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev.
● 1986 - Comet Halley reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the sun, during its second visit to the inner solar system in the 20th century.
● 1986 - Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed President of South Yemen
● 1987 - Former Reagan national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide.
● 1987 - New York Stock Exchange installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club
● 1988 - Panel of international historians issues a report finding Austrian President Kurt Waldheim knew of war crimes committed by his WWII units, and that he concealed and misrepresented his service during the war. He also served as Secretary General of the United Nations.
● 1988 - Thousands demonstrate against Sandanista conscription, Masaya, Nicaragua.
● 1989 - Jamaica - Michael Manley, democratic socialist, re-elected Prime Minister.
● 1990 - Galileo flies by Venus
● 1990 - Namibia's constitution ratified
● 1991 - In San Salvador, fire destroys the offices of "Diaro Latino," the only newspaper in El Salvador willing to print opposing views.
● 1991 - US Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case
● 1991 - Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
● 1993 - Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in mountainous, rural northestern Burma.
● 1994 - Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat
● 1994 - Vance-Owen peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced.
● 1995 - Mexican government cancels Zapatista peace process and claims to know the identity of leader Marcos; troops invade Chiapas strongholds of Zapatista rebels.
● 1995 - Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.
● 1996 - The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
● 1998 - Failed assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze
● 1999 - The Senate began closed-door deliberations in President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial.
● 2001 - The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School, killing nine people aboard the boat.
● 2002 - Britain's Princess Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II, died at age 71.
● 2002 - Ten thousand march in Tel Aviv, Israel, against the Sharon government's increasingly brutal attacks on Palestinian civilians.
● 2006 - Kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll appeared in a video aired on a private Kuwaiti TV station, appealing for her supporters to do whatever it took to win her release "as quickly as possible." (She was freed on March 30, 2006.)
BIRTHS
● 1533 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
● 1645 - Johann Aegidius Bach, German violistian (d. 1716)
● 1666 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (d. 1737)
● 1731 - Gasparo Angiolini, Italian choreographer/composer (d. 1803)
● 1748 - Luther Martin, American patriot (d. 1826)
● 1756 - Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Czech composer (d. 1785)
● 1763 - Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1830)
● 1769 - Susette Gontard, the beloved of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin (d. 1802
● 1773 - William Henry Harrison, Ninth President of the United States (d. 1841)
● 1775 - Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1856)
● 1781 - Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist (d. 1826)
● 1783 - Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)
● 1789 - Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of the stenography (d. 1849)
● 1800 - Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (d. 1844)
● 1814 - Samuel Jones Tilden, 28th Governor of New York (d. 1886)
● 1814 - Samuel Tilden, American lawyer and governor of New York (d. 1886)
● 1830 - Abd-ul-Aziz, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1876)
● 1834 - Felix Dahn, German author (d. 1912)
● 1839 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (d. 1896)
● 1846 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (d. 1904)
● 1846 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automotive designer (d. 1929)
● 1865 - Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (d. 1949)
● 1865 - Mrs. Patrick Campbell, British actress (d. 1940)
● 1874 - Amy Lowell, American poet (d. 1925)
● 1880 - Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1959)
● 1885 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer (d. 1935)
● 1891 - Ronald Colman, English actor (d. 1958)
● 1892 - Peggy Wood, American actress (d. 1978)
● 1892 - Tommy Treichel, American professional wrestler (d. 1936)
● 1895 - Hermann Brill, German politician (d. 1959)
● 1897 - Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian pilot (d. 1935)
● 1901 - Brian Donlevy, Irish actor (d. 1972)
● 1901 - James Murray, American actor (d. 1936)
● 1902 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's leader (d. 1999)
● 1906 - André Kostolany, stock market expert and speculator (d. 1999)
● 1909 - Carmen Miranda, Brazilian actress (d. 1955)
● 1909 - Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (d. 1994)
● 1909 - Harald Genzmer, German composer (d. 2007)
● 1909 - Heather Angel, British actress (d. 1986)
● 1910 - Jacques Monod, French biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
● 1911 - William Darby, American WWII Army officer (d. 1945)
● 1914 - Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (d. 1986)
● 1914 - Ernest Tubb, American singer (d. 1984)
● 1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, American dancer (d. 1970)
● 1915 - Lennard Pearce, English actor (d. 1984)
● 1916 - Tex Hughson, American baseball player (d. 1993)
● 1922 - Jim Laker, English cricketer (d. 1986)
● 1922 - Kathryn Grayson, American actress
● 1923 - Brendan Behan, Irish author (d. 1964)
● 1925 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist (d. 2001)
● 1926 - Garret FitzGerald, 7th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
● 1928 - Frank Frazetta, American illustrator
● 1928 - Rinus Michels, Dutch football coach (d. 2005)
● 1928 - Roger Mudd, American journalist
● 1929 - Clement Meadmore, Australian-born sculptor (d. 2005)
● 1930 - Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 2003)
● 1931 - Josef Masopust, Czech footballer
● 1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and novelist (d. 1989)
● 1932 - Gerhard Richter, German painter
● 1932 - Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player
● 1933 - Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (d. 2003)
● 1934 - John Ziegler, former NHL Commissioner
● 1936 - Clive Swift, British actor
● 1936 - Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country/folk singer
● 1937 - Clete Boyer, American baseball player
● 1939 - Barry Mann, American singer
● 1939 - Janet Suzman, South African actress
● 1940 - Brian Bennett, British musician (The Shadows)
● 1940 - J. M. Coetzee, South African author, Nobel laureate
● 1941 - Sheila Kuehl, American actress
● 1942 - Carole King, American singer
● 1943 - Barbara Lewis, American singer and songwriter
● 1943 - Joe Pesci, American actor
● 1943 - Jonny Nilsson, Swedish speedskater
● 1943 - Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
● 1944 - Alice Walker, American writer
● 1944 - Derryn Hinch, Australian media personality
● 1945 - Gérard Lenorman, French singer
● 1945 - Mia Farrow, American actress
● 1946 - Jim Webb, Sen. D-VA
● 1946 - Séan Neeson, Northern Irish politician
● 1946 - Vince Papale, NFL player
● 1947 - Carla Del Ponte, Swiss UN prosecutor
● 1947 - Joe Ely, American musician
● 1949 - Judith Light, American actress (''Who's the Boss?'')
● 1950 - Richard F. Colburn, American politician
● 1951 - Dennis ''DT''' Thomas, R&B musician (Kool & the Gang)
● 1952 - Danny White, American football player
● 1952 - Mookie Wilson, American baseball player
● 1953 - Ciarán Hinds, Northern Irish actor
● 1953 - Gabriel Rotello, American television documentary producer
● 1954 - Christopher Gardner, American Entrepreneur
● 1954 - Kevin Warwick, Cyborg Scientist
● 1955 - Charles Shaughnessy, British actor
● 1955 - JM J. Bullock, American actor
● 1957 - Gordon Strachan, Scottish football player and manager
● 1958 - Chris Nilan, National Hockey League player
● 1958 - Cyrille Regis, English former footballer
● 1960 - Holly Johnson, British singer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
● 1961 - John Kruk, American baseball player
● 1961 - Jussi Lampi, Finnish musician and actor
● 1962 - Anik Bissonnette, Quebec ballet dancer (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens)
● 1963 - Brian Greene, American physicist
● 1963 - Travis Tritt, American singer
● 1965 - Igor Malkov, Russian speedskater
● 1965 - Julie Warner, American actress
● 1966 - Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
● 1967 - Todd Pratt, American baseball player
● 1968 - Alejandra Guzmán, Mexican singer
● 1969 - Jimmy Smith, American football player
● 1970 - Danni Leigh, Country singer
● 1970 - Glenn McGrath, Australian cricketer
● 1971 - Johan Mjällby, Swedish footballer
● 1971 - Sharon Case, American actress
● 1972 - Crispin Freeman, American voice actor
● 1972 - Jason George, Actor
● 1973 - Svetlana Boginskaya, Soviet gymnast
● 1974 - Amber Valletta, American model
● 1975 - Clinton Grybas, Australian Football commentator (d. 2008)
● 1975 - Viktor Chistiakov, Russian-born Australian athlete
● 1976 - Charlie Day, American actor
● 1976 - Georgios Korakakis, Greek footballer
● 1976 - Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
● 1978 - Airton Daré, Brazilian racing driver
● 1978 - Daniel Mann, British television commentator
● 1979 - Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player
● 1979 - David Gray, English snooker player
● 1979 - Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
● 1979 - Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress
● 1980 - Angelos Charisteas, Greek footballer
● 1980 - Shelly Martinez, American wrestler
● 1981 - Joël Camathias, Swiss racing driver
● 1981 - John Walker Lindh, American Taliban fighter
● 1981 - The Reverend Tholomew Plague, drummer (Avenged Sevenfold)
● 1982 - Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer ("Memoirs of a Geisha")
● 1983 - Mikel Arruabarrena, Spanish footballer
● 1984 - Dioner Navarro, Venezuelan baseball player
● 1984 - Han Kyung, Korean singer Super Junior
● 1984 - Han Kyung, member of Korean boyband Super Junior
● 1985 - David Gallagher, American actor (''7th Heaven'')
● 1986 - Princess Raiyah bint Al Hussein, of Jordan
● 1987 - Joe O'Cearuill, Irish footballer
● 1987 - Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
● 1987 - Marina Malota, Actress
● 1989 - Gia Farrell, American singer
● 1989 - Wu Chia-ching, Taiwanese pool player
● 1990 - Camille Winbush, Actress (''The Bernie Mac Show'')
● 1996 - Jimmy Bennett, American actor
DEATHS
● 1011 - Bernard I, Duke of Saxony
● 1199 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)
● 1450 - Agnès Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
● 1555 - Rowland Taylor, English pastor (executed) (b. 1510)
● 1619 - Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)
● 1640 - Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1612)
● 1675 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
● 1709 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (b. 1664)
● 1751 - Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)
● 1752 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (b. 1722)
● 1777 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706)
● 1782 - Joseph Aloysius Assemani, Syrian orientalist (b. 1710)
● 1803 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716)
● 1857 - Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798)
● 1874 - Jules Michelet, French historian (b. 1798)
● 1881 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (b. 1821)
● 1891 - Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819)
● 1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet (b. 1872)
● 1940 - Eugene Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857)
● 1951 - Eddy Duchin, American musician (b. 1910)
● 1957 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral (b. 1868)
● 1960 - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (b. 1870)
● 1960 - Ernö Dohnányi, Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1877)
● 1966 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-born actress (b. 1884)
● 1969 - Gabby Hayes, American actor (b. 1885)
● 1973 - Max Yasgur, American farmer (Woodstock Festival) (b. 1919)
● 1973 - Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (b. 1883)
● 1976 - Percy Faith, Canadian musician (b. 1908)
● 1977 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1894)
● 1978 - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (b. 1893)
● 1978 - Julio Jaramillo, Ecuadorian singer (b. 1935)
● 1979 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
● 1981 - Bill Haley, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1925)
● 1984 - Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician (b. 1914)
● 1989 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (b. 1928)
● 1991 - James Cleveland, American gospel singer (b. 1931)
● 1994 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1934)
● 1995 - David Wayne, American actor (b. 1914)
● 1995 - J. William Fulbright, American politician (b. 1905)
● 1997 - Brian Connolly, English singer (Sweet) (b. 1945)
● 1999 - Bryan Mosley, British actor (b. 1931)
● 2001 - Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
● 2002 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)
● 2002 - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (b. 1937)
● 2004 - Claude Ryan, newspaper director (Le Devoir) and politician (Parti libéral du Québec) (b. 1925)
● 2006 - Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
● 2006 - Nadira, Indian actress (b. 1932)
● 2007 - Hank Bauer, American baseball player (b. 1922)
● 2007 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alexander
● St. Alto
● St. Ammon
● St. Ansbert of Rouen
● St. Apollonia, patron saint of dentists and dental technicians
● St. Cronan the Wise
● St. Cuaran
● St. Eingan
● St. Michael Febres Cordero
● St. Nebridius
● St. Nicephorus
● St. Raynald of Nocera
● St. Teilo
● Bl. Alvarez of Córdoba
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 27 (Civil Date: February 9)
● Translation of the relics of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople.
● St. Peter of Egypt.
● New-Martyr Demetrius at Constantinople.
● St. Titus the Soldier, monk of the Kiev Caves.
● New Hieromartyr Peter Zverev (1929).
● Greek Calendar:
● Translation of the Relics of St. Marciana the Queen to the Church of the Holy Apostles.
● St. Claudinus, monk.
● Repose of Nun Neonilla of the Farther Davidov Convent (1875).
● Old Roman Catholic:
● St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop/confessor/doctor
● Lebanon - St. Maroon's Day
● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● World : Boy Scouts Day (1910) - ( Sunday )
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