08JAN11

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Births for January 08

• 1081 Hendrik V, Roman Catholic German king/emperor (1098/1111-25)

• 1583 Simon Episcopius, bishop/theologist

• 1587 Johannes Fabricius, Denmark, astronomer (discovered sunspots)

• 1589 Ivan (Dzivo F) Gundulic, Dalmatisch writer (Dubravka)

• 1628 Fran‡ois de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxemburg, French soldier

• 1632 Samuel, Freiherr von Pufendorf, German jurist

• 1777 Filippo Traetta, Italy, composer/musicology

• 1786 Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd bank of US 1st effective central bank

• 1791 Jacob Collamer, (Sen-Vt)

• 1792 Lowell Mason, Medfield Mass, organist/composer (Zebulo)

• 1814 Johannes Kneppelhout, (Klikspaan), writer

• 1814 Thomas Green, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864

• 1815 George Webb Morell, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883

• 1815 Lawrence Pike Graham, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1905

• 1817 John Selden Roane, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1867

• 1821 James Longstreet, Confederate general (1st Corps, ANV)

• 1823 Alfred Russel Wallace, British zoologist/co-discoverer (evolution)

• 1824 Wilkie Collins, English novelist (Woman in White)

• 1830 Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Major Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1882

• 1830 Hans von Blow, Dresden, pianist/virtuoso conductor/musical writer

• 1836 Fannie M Jackson, pioneer & educator, 1st US Black woman college grad

• 1851 G‚rard Leman, Belgian general

• 1862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co)

• 1864 William Wilkie Collins, England, novelist (The Moonstone)

• 1867 Emily Balch, US, sociologist/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1946)

• 1868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity

• 1870 Miguel Primo de Rivera Orbaneja, dictator of Spain (1923-30)

• 1885 John Curtin, Victoria, Australian PM (Labor, 1941-45)

• 1891 Bronislava Nijinska, ballet choreographer

• 1891 Storm Jameson, English novelist (The Green Man, Cousin Honor‚)

• 1891 Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954)

• 1896 Jaromir Weinberger, Prague, Czechoslovakia, composer (Bird's Opera)

• 1896 Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chile, writer (Men of the South)

• 1899 Solomon WRD Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon (1956-59)

• 1900 Queen Marie, of Yugoslavia

• 1901 Edmond Vandercammen, French/Belgian writer (L'amour responsable)

• 1902 Alexander Gray, Wrightsville Pa, actor (This is Music)

• 1902 Carl R(ansom) Rogers, US, psychologist (Client-Centered Therapy)

• 1902 Georgy M Malenkov, Stalin's successor as head of CPSU, PM (1953-55)

• 1902 Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreography (Entartet/Stilles Song)

• 1904 Peter Arno, NYC, cartoonist (New Yorker)

• 1905 Carl Gustav Hempel, German Logical Positivist philosopher

• 1906 Jacob C van Marken, owner (Calv‚-Delft)

• 1906 John AHJS Bruins editor in chief (illegal) Loyal/ARP

• 1906 Serge Poliakoff, Russian/French painter

• 1909 Jos‚ Ferrer, Santurce PR, oscar winning actor (Cyrano de Bergerac)

• 1911 Butterfly McQueen, (Thelma), Tampa Fla, actress (Gone With the Wind)

• 1912 Rudolf G Escher, composer

• 1917 Peter Taylor, US writer

• 1917 Stanley Prager, NYC, comedian (College Bowl)

• 1922 Abbey Simon, NYC, pianist

• 1923 Giorgio Tozzi, Chicago Illinois, basso

• 1923 Iva Michiels, (Rik Ceuppens), Flemish writer (Ksiega Alfa)

• 1923 Joseph Wiezenbaum, artificial intelligence pioneer

• 1923 Larry Storch, NYC, comedian (F Troop, Larry Storch Show)

• 1924 Benjamin Lees, (Lysniansky), Harbin Manchuria, composer

• 1924 Robert Starer, Vienna Austria, composer

• 1924 Ron Moody, London England, actor (12 Chairs, Wrong is Right)

• 1926 Evelyn Lear, Brooklyn NY, soprano

• 1926 Soupy Sales, (Milton Hines), NC, comedian (Soupy Sales Show)

• 1928 Sander Vanocur, Cleve Ohio, news anchor (NBC Weekend News)

• 1930 Doreen Wilber, US, archer (Olympic-gold-1972)

• 1931 Bill Graham, Germany, rock promoter (Fillmore)

• 1931 May Wynn, (Donna Lee Hickey), NYC, actress (Caine Mutiny, Noah's Ark)

• 1933 Charles Osgood, NYC, news anchor (CBS Weekend News)

• 1933 Jean-Marie Straub, France, director (Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

• 1934 Jacques Anquetil, France, Tour de France bicycle racer (5-time winner

• 1934 Piet Dankert, Dutch politician (PvdA)

• 1934 Roy Kinnear, English actor (TW3, Help!, The 3 Musketeers)

• 1935 Elvis Aaron Presley, Tupelo Miss, singer (Blue Suede Shoes, Hounddog)

• 1935 Nolan Miller, Burkburnett Tx, fashion designer (Dynasty, Love Boat)

• 1937 Shirley Bassey, Cardiff Wales, singer (Goldfinger, Moonraker)

• 1939 Yvette Mimieux, Hollywood Cal, actr (Time Machine, Where the Boys Are

• 1940 Anthony Gaurdine, (Little Anthony & Imperials-Goin Out of My Head)

• 1942 Vyacheslav D Zudov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)

• 1944 Terry Brooks, US, sci-fi author (Sword of Shannara)

• 1945 Jac(obus) P Th˜sse, biologist (Omgang met planten)

• 1946 Kathleen Noone, actress (All My Children, Knots Landing)

• 1946 Robbie Kreiger, rocker (Doors-Come on Baby Light My Fire)

• 1946 Tod Brannan

• 1947 David Bowie, singer/actor (Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust)

• 1947 Igor Ivanov, Leningrad, Canadian chess champion (1981-84, 1985- )

• 1947 Terry Sylvester, rocker (Hollies-You are the Air that I Breathe)

• 1953 Bruce Sutter, pitcher (Cubs, Cards, Braves)

• 1955 Mike Reno, rock vocalist (Loverboy-Get Lucky, Heaven in Your Eyes)

• 1960 Jolanda Egger, Luzean Switz, playmate (June, 1983)

• 1964 Peter (Ped) Gill, rocker (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax)

• 1964 Virgil Hill, Missouri, middleweight boxer (Olympic-silver-1984)

• 1967 Hollis Conway, high jumper (Olympic-silver-1988)

• 1967 Willie Anderson, US, basketball player (Olympic-bronze-1988)

• 1968 Ami Dolenz, actress (General Hospital, Can't Buy Me Love)

• 1971 Brenda Lee Armstrong, Albert Lea Minn, Miss Minn-America (1991)

• 1975 Jenny Lewis, Las Vegas Nv, actress (Becky-Life With Lucy)

• 1979 Sequoyah, chimpanzee (son of Washoe)

Passings for January 08

• 482 Severinus, German monastary founder/saint, dies

• 1198 Coelestinus III, (Giacinto Bobo), pope (1191-98), dies

• 1324 Marco Polo, Venetian explorer/gov of Nanking, dies

• 1336 Giotto di Bondone, Italian Renaissance painter, dies at about 71

• 1455 Laurentius Justitianus, (Lorenzo Giustiniani), saint, dies

• 1567 Jacob Vaet, Flemish composer/royal chaplain master, dies at about 37

• 1598 Johan Georg, ruler of Brandenburg (1571-91), dies

• 1642 Galileo Galilei, astronomer, dies at 78 in Arceti Italy

• 1775 John Baskerville, English printer/type designer, dies at 68

• 1796 Jean Marie Collot d'herbois, French actor, dies

• 1808 Messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies

• 1815 Edward Pakenham, Engl general (Battle of New Orleans), dies in battle

• 1842 Pierre, earl the Cambronne, French general (Waterloo, Elba), dies

• 1880 Norton I, Emperor of US, Protector of M‚xico, dies

• 1896 Paul M Verlaine, French poet (El‚gies, Bonne Chanson), dies

• 1906 Jacob C of Marken, founder (Calv‚-Delft), dies

• 1922 Charles R Young, colonel, dies at 58, in Lagos Nigeria

• 1934 Alexandre Stavisky, French swindler, dies

• 1941 Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement, dies

• 1945 Jacobus P Thijsse, biologist (Contact with Plant), dies

• 1948 Richard Tauber, Austria/British tenor/composer (L‚har), dies

• 1950 Joseph A Schumpeter, Austrian/US economist/Minister of Finance, dies

• 1950 Joseph Issac Shneerson, Jewish Lubavitch Chabal leader, dies

• 1952 Antonia Maury, discoverer of supergiant, giant & dwarf stars, dies

• 1963 Stark Young, US writer (So Red the Rose), dies at 81

• 1975 Louis J H C A de Bourbon, writer/poet (Gypsy Blood), dies

• 1975 Richard Tucker, (Reuben Ticker), US tenor (La Gioconda), dies

• 1976 Chou En-lai, China's premier, dies of cancer in Peking at 78

• 1978 Walter Keirnan, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret), dies at 75

• 1980 Oscar Ewing, US govt official (Everybody's Business), dies at 90

• 1981 Woody Chamblis, actor (Mr Lathrop-Gunsmoke), dies at 66

• 1982 Gregoire Aslan, character actor, dies of 73 of a heart attack

• 1982 Reta Shaw, actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir), dies at 69

• 1983 Gale Page, actress, dies of cancer at 72

• 1983 Lois Wilson, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 88

• 1988 Frank Pace Jr, US Secretary of Army (1950-53), dies at 76

• 1989 Johnny Jordaan (Jan van Musscher), Dutch folk singer, dies

• 1991 Steve Clark, guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria), dies at 30

• 1992 Abderrahim Bouabid, Moroccan politician, dies

• 1992 Johnny (Jan) Me˜er, king of accordians (Body & Soul), dies

• 1992 Menachim Begin, Israeli PM, dies at 78 of a heart attack

• 1993 Asif Nawaz, Pakistani general, dies

• 1993 Hakija Turajlic, Bosnian vice-premier, murdered

• 1993 Theo Bruins, pianist/composer (Syncopation), dies

Special events for January 08

• 794 Church at Lindisfarne, England destroyed by Northmen

• 1198 Lotario di Segni becomes Pope Innocentius III

• 1598 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy

• 1656 Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)

• 1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)

• 1705 "Almira," Handel's 1st opera, premiers, Hamburg

• 1790 George Washington delivers 1st state of union address (or 0104)

• 1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed

• 1800 Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi

• 1800 Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France

• 1811 Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes

• 1815 Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew

• 1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established

• 1838 1st telegraph message sent using dots & dashes, NJ

• 1838 Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out

• 1848 Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia

• 1853 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Wash

• 1856 Dr John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, Calif

• 1867 Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite Pres Johnson's veto

• 1870 US mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins

• 1884 Augustus Schultz, NYC, patents chrome tanning process for leather

• 1884 Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz

• 1889 Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a tabulating machine

• 1894 A Charlois discovers asteroids #379 Huenna & #380 Fiducia

• 1894 Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire

• 1897 Michael Eagan wins 1st US national amateur handball championship

• 1902 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)

• 1905 P Gotz discovers asteroids #554 Peraga & #556 Phyllis

• 1908 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #660 Crescentia

• 1913 Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager

• 1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition)

• 1918 Pres Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I

• 1923 Typography strike in Amsterdam

• 1925 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas

• 1926 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia

• 1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies

• 1929 CBS radio network buys WABC in NYC

• 1930 Belgium Princess Marie Jos‚ marries Italian's crown prince Umberto

• 1930 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1152 Pawona

• 1931 Phila Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses

• 1932 Ratification of present SF City Charter

• 1934 Cut Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam

• 1934 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #3177

• 1935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy

• 1937 -50ø F (-45ø C), San Jacinto, Nevada (state record)

• 1937 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1409 Isko, #1410 Margret & #1411 Braun

• 1940 Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar)

• 1945 "Youth for Christ" organizes

• 1947 Gen George Marshall becomes Sect of State

• 1947 Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game

• 1948 M Laugier discovers asteroid #2068 Dangreen

• 1952 Jordan adopts constitution

• 1953 Ren‚ Mayer forms French cabinet

• 1954 S Arend discovers asteroid #1717 Arlon

• 1955 Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt

• 1955 Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak

• 1955 WUNC TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting

• 1956 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken

• 1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana

• 1959 Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as pres of France's 5th Republic

• 1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters

• 1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Neth)

• 1964 European Parliament accept Mansholt Plan

• 1964 President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"

• 1965 Sen Dirksen proposes marigold as national flower (didn't pass)

• 1965 Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History

• 1966 Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks

• 1966 Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks

• 1968 Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on US network TV

• 1970 H Potter & A Lokalov discovers asteroid #2975

• 1971 Voyageurs National Park, Minn established

• 1973 Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris

• 1973 USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing

• 1974 Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London

• 1974 Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York

• 1975 Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III,

• 1976 Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles

• 1978 Israel's Cabinet votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai

• 1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up

• 1979 Today Show gets a new theme song

• 1980 Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0

• 1980 NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports

• 1981 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #2367 Praha

• 1982 AT&T agrees to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies

• 1982 Justice Dept withdraws antitrust suit against IBM, pending since

• 1984 E Bowell discovers asteroids #3277 Aaronson, #3759 & #3760

• 1984 J Wagner discovers asteroids #3045 Alois, #3512, #3562 & #3589

• 1984 Wash Caps Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals

• 1985 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet

• 1987 1st time, Dow Jones avg surpassed 2,000, closing at 2,002.25

• 1987 Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games

• 1988 9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit

• 1988 Dow Jones down 140.58 points

• 1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator

• 1989 Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die

• 1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons

• 1991 Davis Rules with Jonathan Winters & Randy Quaid premiers on ABC-TV

• 1992 George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap

Songs for date January 08

• 01/08/55 --- Melody Of Love (Carroll, David)

• 01/08/55 --- Sincerely (McGuire Sisters)

• 01/08/66 --- Men In My Little Girl's Life, The (Douglas, Mike)

• 01/08/66 --- Jenny Take A Ride! (Ryder, Mitch & The Detroit Wheels)

• 01/08/66 --- As Tears Go By (Rolling Stones)

• 01/08/72 --- Never Been To Spain (Three Dog Night)

• 01/08/77 --- Fly Like An Eagle (Miller, Steve)

• 01/08/77 --- Evergreen (A Star Is Born Theme) (Streisand, Barbra)

• 01/08/83 --- Stray Cat Strut (Stray Cats)