January 15th....This Day in History
I didn't know that Kobe Tai was that old....[:0][:0]
Events
588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 18, 586 BC.
69 - Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but only survives for three months before committing suicide.
1559 - Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of Carlisle, instead of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
1582 - Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland.
1759 - The British Museum opens.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
1782 - Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
1844 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter from Indiana.
1870 - A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
1885 - Wilson Bentley takes the first photograph of a snowflake.
1892 - James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.
1908 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the first Greek-letter organization by and for Black college women is established.
1919 - The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people.
1919 - Ignace Paderewski becomes Premier of Poland.
1919 - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, were tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
1936 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company).
1943 - World War II: Japanese driven off Guadalcanal.
1943 - World War II: Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begun.
1943 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated (Arlington, Virginia).
1947 - The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California. Her murderer has never been found and it has become a notorious case in the history of American crime.
1951 - Ilse Koch, The "gripe of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.
1966 - First Military Coup in Nigeria, government of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown.
1967 - In the first ever Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
1969 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
1970 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
1970 - Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
1973 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
1974 - Happy Days premieres on ABC.
1975 - Portugal grants independence to Angola.
1976 - Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
1977 - The K?lvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweden's history.
1986 - The Living Seas opens at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World, Florida.
1986 - The HBO and Cinemax pay cable television services initiate scrambling of their national satellite feeds on Galaxy 1 with the Videocipher II system.
1990 - AT&T's long distance telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure.
1991 - The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
1992 - The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1993 - Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Sicily after three decades as a fugitive
1995 - The first episode of Star Trek: Voyager airs.
1999 - The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak were killed by Yugoslav security forces.
2001 - Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
2005 - An intense solar flare blasted X rays across the solar system. ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovered elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
Births
1342 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)
1412 - Saint Joan of Arc (d. 1431)
1432 - King Afonso V of Portugal (d. 1481)
1481 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511)
1538 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (d. 1599)
1622 - Moli?re, French playwright (d. 1673)
1671 - Abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian (d. 1704)
1674 - Prosper Jolyot de Cr?billon, French writer (d. 1762)
1716 - Philip Livingston, American founding father (d. 1778)
1747 - John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822)
1754 - Richard Martin, Irish founder of the SPCA (d. 1834)
1791 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (1872)
1795 - Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (d. 1829)
1809 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1865)
1812 - Peter Christen Asbjornsen, Norwegian scientist (d. 1885)
1816 - Marie LaFarge, French murderer (d. 1852)
1841 - Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Governor General of Canada (d. 1908)
1842 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (d. 1925)
1850 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (d. 1889)
1850 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1891)
1863 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946)
1866 - Nathan S?derblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel laureate (d. 1931)
1869 - Stanis#322;aw Wyspia#324;ski, Polish dramatist (d. 1907)
1872 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (d. 1944)
1875 - Tom Burke, American runner (d. 1929)
1879 - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (d. 1961)
1885 - Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (d. 1915)
1885 - Lorenz B?hler, Austrian physician (d. 1973)
1885 - Grover Lowdermilk, baseball player (d. 1968)
1891 - Ray Chapman, baseball player (d. 1920)
1891 - Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (d. 1938)
1892 - Rex Ingram, Irish director (d. 1950)
1893 - Ivor Novello, Welsh actor (d. 1951)
1895 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1899 - Goodman Ace, American actor (d. 1982)
1901 - Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983)
1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek businessman (d. 1975)
1908 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 2003)
1909 - Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939)
1909 - Gene Krupa, American drummer (d. 1973)
1912 - Michel Debr?, French politician (d. 1996)
1913 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)
1914 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (d. 2003)
1917 - Robert Byrd, American politician
1918 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)
1920 - John Cardinal O'Connor, American Catholic cardinal (d. 2000)
1920 - Steve Gromek, Baseball player (d. 2002)
1923 - Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician
1923 - Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (d. 2006)
1926 - Maria Schell, Swiss actress (d. 2005)
1926 - Florence Buchsbaum, theater director (d. 1996)
1927 - Phyllis Coates, American actress
1927 - Norm Crosby, American comedian
1929 - Martin Luther King Jr, American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
1930 - Eddie Graham, wrestler (d. 1985)
1933 - Ernest J. Gaines, American author
1937 - Margaret O'Brien, American actress
1941 - Captain Beefheart, American singer
1945 - Vince Foster, American lawyer (d. 1993)
1947 - Andrea Martin, Canadian actress
1948 - Ronnie VanZant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
1949 - Luis Alvarado, baseball player (d. 2001)
1950 - Marius Tr?sor, French footballer
1951 - Charo, Spanish-born singer
1955 - Nigel Benson, British author
1957 - Marty Lyons, American professional football player
1957 - Mario Van Peebles, American actor
1957 - Patrick Dixon, British entrepreneur
1958 - Boris Tadi#263;, President of Serbia
1959 - Pete Trewavas, British bass guitarist (Marillion)
1960 - Kelly Asbury, American director and actor
1961 - Yves P. Pelletier, Quebec comedian (Rock et Belles Oreilles), actor and film director
1964 - Osmo Tapio R?ih?l?, Finnish composer
1965 - Bernard Hopkins, American boxer
1965 - Adam Jones, American musician (Tool)
1965 - James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor
1965 - Maurizio Fondriest, Italian cyclist
1968 - Chad Lowe, American actor
1968 - I?aki Urdangar?n, Spanish royalty
1969 - Delino DeShields, baseball player
1970 - Shane McMahon, American professional wrestler
1971 - Max Beesley, British musician and actor
1971 - Regina King, American actress
1972 - Kobe Tai, American porn star
1972 - Claudia Winkleman, British television presenter
1974 - Ray King, baseball player
1975 - Mary Pierce, American tennis player
1975 - Edith Bowman, British television and radio presenter
1975 - Greg Strause, American artist
1976 - Corey Chavous, American football player
1978 - Franco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist
1979 - Drew Brees, American football player
1980 - Matt Holliday, American baseball player
1981 - El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese footballer
1981 - Howie Day, American pop singer
1982 - Benjamin Agosto, American skater
1982 - Megan Quann, American swimmer
1982 - Philip and Alexander, American-born princes of the Yugoslav Royal Family
1983 - Jermaine Pennant, English footballer
1984 - Victor Rasuk, American actor
1987 - Barbie Blank, American model and professional wrestling valet
1987 - Michael Seater, Canadian actor
Deaths
69 - Galba, Roman Emperor (b. 3 BC)
570 - Saint Ita, Irish nun
1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
1672 - John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
1781 - Marianne Victoria of Borb?n, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718)
1790 - John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719)
1804 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)
1915 - Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (b. 1870)
1945 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (b. 1865)
1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, (b. 1924)
1955 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)
1964 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (b. 1905)
1967 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882)
1973 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1973 - Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)
1983 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster (b. 1902)
1987 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)
1988 - Se?n MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
1990 - Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (b. 1923)
1992 - Dee Murray, English bassist (b. 1946)
1993 - Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
1994 - Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)
1996 - Les Baxter, American musician and composer (b. 1922)
1996 - Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)
1998 - Junior Wells, American musician (b. 1934)
2000 - Zeljko Raznatovi#263;, widely known as Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
2000 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 - Georges-Henri L?vesque, French Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)
2001 - Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916)
2002 - Steve Gromek, baseball player (b. 1920)
2003 - Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
2005 - Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor (b. 1947)
2005 - Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
2005 - Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)
2005 - Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)
2005 - Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969)
2005 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (b. 1915)
2006 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
Holidays and observances
Roman Empire - Second day of the Carmentalia in honor of Carmenta.
Roman Catholic Church - Saint Ita, virgin, died January 15, 570.
Malawi - John Chilembwe Day.
North Korea - Korean Alphabet Day.
United States - Traditionally, Martin Luther King Day.
Kerala in India - Makaravilakku or Makara Sankranthy at Sabarimala.
Jallikattu in South India.
Wikipedia Day.
Pongal in Tamil Nadu (2007).
January 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Events
588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 18, 586 BC.
69 - Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but only survives for three months before committing suicide.
1559 - Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of Carlisle, instead of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
1582 - Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland.
1759 - The British Museum opens.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
1782 - Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
1844 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter from Indiana.
1870 - A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
1885 - Wilson Bentley takes the first photograph of a snowflake.
1892 - James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.
1908 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the first Greek-letter organization by and for Black college women is established.
1919 - The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people.
1919 - Ignace Paderewski becomes Premier of Poland.
1919 - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, were tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
1936 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company).
1943 - World War II: Japanese driven off Guadalcanal.
1943 - World War II: Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begun.
1943 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated (Arlington, Virginia).
1947 - The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California. Her murderer has never been found and it has become a notorious case in the history of American crime.
1951 - Ilse Koch, The "gripe of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.
1966 - First Military Coup in Nigeria, government of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown.
1967 - In the first ever Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
1969 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
1970 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
1970 - Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
1973 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
1974 - Happy Days premieres on ABC.
1975 - Portugal grants independence to Angola.
1976 - Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
1977 - The K?lvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweden's history.
1986 - The Living Seas opens at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World, Florida.
1986 - The HBO and Cinemax pay cable television services initiate scrambling of their national satellite feeds on Galaxy 1 with the Videocipher II system.
1990 - AT&T's long distance telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure.
1991 - The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
1992 - The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1993 - Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Sicily after three decades as a fugitive
1995 - The first episode of Star Trek: Voyager airs.
1999 - The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak were killed by Yugoslav security forces.
2001 - Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
2005 - An intense solar flare blasted X rays across the solar system. ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovered elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
Births
1342 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)
1412 - Saint Joan of Arc (d. 1431)
1432 - King Afonso V of Portugal (d. 1481)
1481 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511)
1538 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (d. 1599)
1622 - Moli?re, French playwright (d. 1673)
1671 - Abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian (d. 1704)
1674 - Prosper Jolyot de Cr?billon, French writer (d. 1762)
1716 - Philip Livingston, American founding father (d. 1778)
1747 - John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822)
1754 - Richard Martin, Irish founder of the SPCA (d. 1834)
1791 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (1872)
1795 - Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (d. 1829)
1809 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1865)
1812 - Peter Christen Asbjornsen, Norwegian scientist (d. 1885)
1816 - Marie LaFarge, French murderer (d. 1852)
1841 - Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Governor General of Canada (d. 1908)
1842 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (d. 1925)
1850 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (d. 1889)
1850 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1891)
1863 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946)
1866 - Nathan S?derblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel laureate (d. 1931)
1869 - Stanis#322;aw Wyspia#324;ski, Polish dramatist (d. 1907)
1872 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (d. 1944)
1875 - Tom Burke, American runner (d. 1929)
1879 - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (d. 1961)
1885 - Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (d. 1915)
1885 - Lorenz B?hler, Austrian physician (d. 1973)
1885 - Grover Lowdermilk, baseball player (d. 1968)
1891 - Ray Chapman, baseball player (d. 1920)
1891 - Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (d. 1938)
1892 - Rex Ingram, Irish director (d. 1950)
1893 - Ivor Novello, Welsh actor (d. 1951)
1895 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1899 - Goodman Ace, American actor (d. 1982)
1901 - Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983)
1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek businessman (d. 1975)
1908 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 2003)
1909 - Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939)
1909 - Gene Krupa, American drummer (d. 1973)
1912 - Michel Debr?, French politician (d. 1996)
1913 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)
1914 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (d. 2003)
1917 - Robert Byrd, American politician
1918 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)
1920 - John Cardinal O'Connor, American Catholic cardinal (d. 2000)
1920 - Steve Gromek, Baseball player (d. 2002)
1923 - Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician
1923 - Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (d. 2006)
1926 - Maria Schell, Swiss actress (d. 2005)
1926 - Florence Buchsbaum, theater director (d. 1996)
1927 - Phyllis Coates, American actress
1927 - Norm Crosby, American comedian
1929 - Martin Luther King Jr, American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
1930 - Eddie Graham, wrestler (d. 1985)
1933 - Ernest J. Gaines, American author
1937 - Margaret O'Brien, American actress
1941 - Captain Beefheart, American singer
1945 - Vince Foster, American lawyer (d. 1993)
1947 - Andrea Martin, Canadian actress
1948 - Ronnie VanZant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
1949 - Luis Alvarado, baseball player (d. 2001)
1950 - Marius Tr?sor, French footballer
1951 - Charo, Spanish-born singer
1955 - Nigel Benson, British author
1957 - Marty Lyons, American professional football player
1957 - Mario Van Peebles, American actor
1957 - Patrick Dixon, British entrepreneur
1958 - Boris Tadi#263;, President of Serbia
1959 - Pete Trewavas, British bass guitarist (Marillion)
1960 - Kelly Asbury, American director and actor
1961 - Yves P. Pelletier, Quebec comedian (Rock et Belles Oreilles), actor and film director
1964 - Osmo Tapio R?ih?l?, Finnish composer
1965 - Bernard Hopkins, American boxer
1965 - Adam Jones, American musician (Tool)
1965 - James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor
1965 - Maurizio Fondriest, Italian cyclist
1968 - Chad Lowe, American actor
1968 - I?aki Urdangar?n, Spanish royalty
1969 - Delino DeShields, baseball player
1970 - Shane McMahon, American professional wrestler
1971 - Max Beesley, British musician and actor
1971 - Regina King, American actress
1972 - Kobe Tai, American porn star
1972 - Claudia Winkleman, British television presenter
1974 - Ray King, baseball player
1975 - Mary Pierce, American tennis player
1975 - Edith Bowman, British television and radio presenter
1975 - Greg Strause, American artist
1976 - Corey Chavous, American football player
1978 - Franco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist
1979 - Drew Brees, American football player
1980 - Matt Holliday, American baseball player
1981 - El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese footballer
1981 - Howie Day, American pop singer
1982 - Benjamin Agosto, American skater
1982 - Megan Quann, American swimmer
1982 - Philip and Alexander, American-born princes of the Yugoslav Royal Family
1983 - Jermaine Pennant, English footballer
1984 - Victor Rasuk, American actor
1987 - Barbie Blank, American model and professional wrestling valet
1987 - Michael Seater, Canadian actor
Deaths
69 - Galba, Roman Emperor (b. 3 BC)
570 - Saint Ita, Irish nun
1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
1672 - John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
1781 - Marianne Victoria of Borb?n, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718)
1790 - John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719)
1804 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)
1915 - Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (b. 1870)
1945 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (b. 1865)
1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, (b. 1924)
1955 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)
1964 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (b. 1905)
1967 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882)
1973 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1973 - Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)
1983 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster (b. 1902)
1987 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)
1988 - Se?n MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
1990 - Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (b. 1923)
1992 - Dee Murray, English bassist (b. 1946)
1993 - Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
1994 - Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)
1996 - Les Baxter, American musician and composer (b. 1922)
1996 - Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)
1998 - Junior Wells, American musician (b. 1934)
2000 - Zeljko Raznatovi#263;, widely known as Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
2000 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 - Georges-Henri L?vesque, French Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)
2001 - Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916)
2002 - Steve Gromek, baseball player (b. 1920)
2003 - Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
2005 - Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor (b. 1947)
2005 - Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
2005 - Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)
2005 - Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)
2005 - Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969)
2005 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (b. 1915)
2006 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
Holidays and observances
Roman Empire - Second day of the Carmentalia in honor of Carmenta.
Roman Catholic Church - Saint Ita, virgin, died January 15, 570.
Malawi - John Chilembwe Day.
North Korea - Korean Alphabet Day.
United States - Traditionally, Martin Luther King Day.
Kerala in India - Makaravilakku or Makara Sankranthy at Sabarimala.
Jallikattu in South India.
Wikipedia Day.
Pongal in Tamil Nadu (2007).
January 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Wow, that's a lot of reading. 0 -
You can add one to the deaths section...Saddam Hussains half brother was executed today. 0 -
You forgot my mother passed away on this day back in 1972 of cancer. Born in 1925. 0 -
1908 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the first Greek-letter organization by and for Black college women is established.
We celebrate our 100th anniversary NEXT YEAR!!! WOOHOO! Can't wait!!0 -
quote:Originally posted by T1jetmech
You can add one to the deaths section...Saddam Hussains half brother was executed today.
Yeah, and I heard that his head was separated from his body when the rope snapped tight. Must have made for an entertaining spectacle.0 -
where did you find all that info
my birthday was January 13.
all that i know that is significant about that is wyate aearp died on that day in 1923 i believe0 -
quote:where did you find all that info
my birthday was January 13.
all that i know that is significant about that is wyate aearp died on that day in 1923 i believe
Found this...seems you and old Wyatt have something in common. [:)][:)]
"Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 - January 13, 1929), was a teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western frontier towns, gambler, and saloon-keeper in the Wild West and the U.S. mining frontier from California to Alaska. He is best known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, along with Doc Holliday, Virgil Earp, and Morgan Earp".
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quote:Originally posted by staind460
where did you find all that info
my birthday was January 13.
all that i know that is significant about that is wyate aearp died on that day in 1923 i believe
Try
ing it .
Google is your friend [;)].
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan13.html
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/January-13
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_13
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1919 - The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people.[:0]
1982 - Philip and Alexander, American-born princes of the Yugoslav Royal Family ...
may be interesting....0
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