07JAN11

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Births for January 07

• 1611 James Harrington, England, political author (Commonwealth of Oceans)

• 1652 Pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer/historian

• 1653 Bernhard Albinus, (Weiss) Germany, bodyguard (Frederik of Prussia)

• 1799 Daniel Tyler, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1882

• 1800 Millard Fillmore, Locke NY, (Whig) 13th president (1850-53)

• 1808 Jacob Ammen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1894

• 1816 Stephen Miller, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881

• 1821 Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brig General (Confed Army), died in 1891

• 1824 James Morrison Hawes, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889

• 1830 (Samuel) Emerson Opdycke, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)

• 1830 Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter (US landscapes)

• 1844 Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, (St Bernadette of Lourdes), saint/visionary

• 1845 Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18)

• 1845 Paul Deusen, German philospher (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft)

• 1855 Eli‰zer Ben-Jehuda, (Perelmann), Latvia, writer (1st hebrew newspaper

• 1873 Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive (Paramount)

• 1873 Charles Pierre P‚guy, Orl‚ans Fr, Catholic writer (God Speaks)

• 1877 Johannes F Buziau, cabaret performer (1 great dog)

• 1895 Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist

• 1896 Arnold Ridley, English actor/dramatist (The Ghost Train)

• 1898 Art Baker, NYC, TV host (You Asked For It)

• 1899 Francis Poulenc, Paris France, composer/pianist (Lesson Biches)

• 1903 Alan Napier, Birmingham England, actor (Alfred-Batman)

• 1907 Nicanor Zabaleta, San Sebastian, Spain, harpist

• 1910 Alain JG de Rothschild, France, banker/baron

• 1912 Charles Addams, cartoonist (New Yorker, Addams Family)

• 1913 Francis De Wolff, England, actor (From Russia With Love)

• 1915 Herman Musaph, psychiatrist/sexologist/founder (NVSH)

• 1916 Gerrit Schulte, (Le fou pedalant), 6 day bicyclist

• 1916 Paul Keres, USSR, chess grandmaster (1950)

• 1918 Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader (Communist Party)

• 1922 Jean-Pierre Prampal, Marseilles France, flautist

• 1922 Vincent Gardenia, Naples Italy, actor (All in the Family, LA Law)

• 1924 Roloff Beny, Alberta, painter/photographer (A Time of Gods)

• 1925 Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Britain, zoologist/writer (Mockery Bird)

• 1928 William Peter Blatty, NYC, author (The Exorcist)

• 1929 Douglas Kiker, NBC newsman (1970 Peabody Award)

• 1929 Kenneth Henry, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1952)

• 1929 Terry Moore, (Helen Luella Koford), LA Cal, actress (Little Sheba)

• 1931 Mack Mattingly, (Sen-R-GA, 1981-86)

• 1934 Charles Lamont Jenkins, NYC, 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1956)

• 1935 Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 36, Apollo-Soyuz)

• 1938 Jasperina de Jong, cabaret performer

• 1939 Maury Povich, TV host (Current Affair, Maury)/Mr Connie Chung

• 1941 Frederick D Gregory, Wash DC, Col USAF/astro (STS 51-B, 33, 44)

• 1942 Paul Revere, Boise Id, keyboard (Paul Revere & Raiders-Fallin in Love

• 1942 Vasili Alexeyev, USSR, weightlifer (Olympic-gold- )

• 1943 Jim Lefebvre, Hawthorne Calif, baseball manager (Seattle Mariners)

• 1943 Leona Williams, singer/songwriter (Ladies Get the Blues)

• 1944 Ad (GB) N˜huis, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD)

• 1944 Mike McGear, Liverpool, singer (Paul McCartney's brother)

• 1945 Tony Conigliaro, Mass, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox)

• 1947 David Porcel˜n, composer/conductor

• 1948 Kaz Lux, Poland/Netherland, singer

• 1948 Kenny Loggins, singer (Loggins & Messina-This is it, Footloose)

• 1951 Talgat Amangeldyyevich Musabayev, Russia, major/cosmonaut

• 1952 Erin Gray, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Silver Spoons, Buck Rogers)

• 1955 Sandra Bernhard, Arizona (Follow That Bird, King of Comedy)

• 1956 Rosalyn Bryant, Chic Ill, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1976)

• 1957 Katherine Kouric, US, (political?)

• 1957 Kristen Meadows, actress (Santa Barbara)

• 1958 Donna Rice, model, Gary Hart's alledged lover

• 1960 Tierre Turner, Detroit Mich, actor (Waverly Wonders, Cop & the Kid)

• 1964 Nicolas Cage, actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon)

• 1977 Dustin Diamond, actor (Screech-Saved by the Bell)

Passings for January 07

• 312 Lucianus, saint, dies

• 1285 Charles I van Anjou, brother of King Louis IX of France, dies

• 1325 Dionysius, the justified, King of Portugal (1279-1325), dies

• 1451 Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy/last anti-pope Felix V (1439-49), dies

• 1529 Peter de Oude Vischer, German count of Sebaldus, dies

• 1536 Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies

• 1537 Alessandro de' Medici, of Florence, assassinated

• 1566 Ludovicus Blosius, (Louis de Blois"Dacrianus"), wrtier, dies

• 1655 Innocentius X, (Giambattista Pamfili), pope (1644-55), dies

• 1830 Charlotte J T, infant of Portugal, dies

• 1892 Tewfik Pasja, viceroy of Egypt, dies

• 1932 Henri Stroethoff, actor (Slight Paradise), dies at 60

• 1943 Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavian physicist (tesla), dies

• 1944 J Verleun, resistance fighter, executed

• 1957 Al White, choreographer (NBC Comedy Hour), dies

• 1958 Petru Groza, premier/president (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74

• 1961 Clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Assn dies at 74

• 1964 Colin McPhee, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles), dies at 62

• 1971 Dick Kollmar, actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What), dies at 60

• 1972 John Berryman, US poet (Imaginary Jew), dies

• 1982 Bert Oosterhuis, auto racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in race crash

• 1983 August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies

• 1985 Johnny Guarnieri, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show), dies at 67

• 1987 Larry Carr, pianist (Flight to Rhythm), dies at 72

• 1988 Trevor Howard, actor (Ryan's Daughter), dies at 71 of bronchitis

• 1990 Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at 81

• 1990 Horace Stoneham, baseball owner (Giants), dies at 86

• 1990 Joseph Robbie, lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73

Special events for January 07

• 1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French

• 1558 French under Fran‡ois, Duke of Guise, capture Calais from England

• 1566 Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V

• 1579 England signs an offensive & defensive alliance with the Netherland

• 1584 Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia

• 1598 Boris Godunov seizes the Russian throne on death of Feodore I

• 1601 Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth

• 1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia

• 1610 Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede

• 1714 Typewriter patented (built years later)

• 1782 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia

• 1784 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia

• 1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries)

• 1789 1st national (presidential) election in US

• 1817 2nd Bank of the United States opens

• 1822 1st printing in Hawaii

• 1822 Liberia colonized by Americans

• 1830 Baltimore & Ohio RR Co begins carrying revenue traffic

• 1842 Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premiers in Paris

• 1861 Florida troops takeover Ft Marion at St Augustine

• 1862 Battle of Manassas Junction, VA

• 1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, WV

• 1868 Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock

• 1868 Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson

• 1879 King Willem II marries Emma von Waldeck-Pyrmont

• 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Valley of Fear" (BG)

• 1890 W B Purvis patents fountain pen

• 1896 A Charlois discovers asteroids #410 Chloris & #411 Xanthe

• 1896 Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook

• 1896 M Wolf discovers asteroids #412 Elisabetha & #413 Edburga

• 1899 Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's

• 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier" (BG)

• 1904 Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st int'l radio distress signal

• 1910 Ottawa Senators sweep Galt in 2 games for the Stanley Cup

• 1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF

• 1913 F Kaiser discovers asteroid #738 Alagasta

• 1913 William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum

• 1914 1st steamboat passes through the Panama Canal

• 1923 Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan

• 1927 Coml transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between NY & London

• 1927 Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Ill)

• 1929 "Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premiers

• 1929 "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears

• 1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & East Indies

• 1932 1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Mich

• 1933 1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands

• 1934 "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts

• 1934 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1297 Quadea & #1298 Nocturna & #3264

• 1934 Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld

• 1936 Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)

• 1939 US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)

• 1940 G Kulin discovers asteroid #3019

• 1942 WWII siege of Bataan starts

• 1948 US president Truman raises taxes for the Marshall-plan

• 1950 Hank Snow's 1st appearance on the "Grand Ole Opry"

• 1950 Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia)

• 1952 French Plevin govt falls

• 1953 Pres Truman announces development of the hydrogen bomb

• 1955 Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at the Met (NYC)

• 1955 WCIQ TV channel 7 in Mt Cheaha, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting

• 1958 USSR shrinks army to 300,000

• 1959 US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban govt

• 1961 1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16

• 1961 Trucial States (now UAE) issue their 1st postage stamps

• 1962 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails

• 1962 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock

• 1963 1st class postage raised from 4› to 5›

• 1964 Bahamas achieves internal self-government & cabinet responsibility

• 1964 Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in the air (Boeing 707)

• 1965 France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold

• 1967 "Newlywed Game" premiers

• 1968 "The GE College Bowl" quiz show premiers on NBC TV

• 1968 1st class postage raised from 5› to 6›

• 1968 Surveyor 7 lands on the Moon

• 1969 US Congress doubles president salary

• 1971 -40ø F (-40ø C), Hawley Lake, Ariz (state record)

• 1972 Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die

• 1972 LA Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)

• 1972 Lewis F Powell Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice

• 1973 British Darts Organisation founded in North London

• 1973 US poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize

• 1973 WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting

• 1975 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)

• 1975 P Wild discovers asteroid #3468

• 1976 E F Helin discovers asteroid #2062 Aten

• 1978 Angola revises its constitution

• 1979 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge

• 1980 Minn ends Phila Flyers' NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak ends

• 1982 "Fame" premiers on NBC TV

• 1982 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick

• 1983 Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala

• 1985 KHQ-AM in Spokane WA changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ)

• 1986 Chicago Bears defeat New England Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX

• 1986 STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems

• 1986 US president Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya

• 1989 Akhito becomes emperor of Japan

• 1989 Intl Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris

• 1990 Lynn Jennings cycles world record 5K indoor at 15:22.64

• 1991 "Nia Peeples Party Machine" premiers on TV

• 1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1499)

Songs for date January 07

• 01/07/43 --- Moonlight Becomes You (Crosby, Bing)

• 01/07/43 --- Why Don't You Fall In Love With Me (Shore, Dinah)

• 01/07/49 --- Far Away Places (Como, Perry)

• 01/07/56 --- Rock And Roll Waltz (Starr, Kay)

• 01/07/67 --- Nothin' Yet, (We Ain't Got) (Blues Magoos)

• 01/07/67 --- 98.6 (Keith)

• 01/07/78 --- Emotion (Sang, Samantha)

• 01/07/84 --- Innocent Man, An (Joel, Billy)

• 01/07/84 --- Let The Music Play (Shannon)

• 01/07/89 --- She Wants To Dance With Me (Astley, Rick)

• 01/07/89 --- Walking Away (Information Society)