09JAN11

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Births for January 09

• 1554 Gregory XV, (Alessandro Ludovisi), pope (1621-23)

• 1695 John E Loovens, lawyer

• 1699 Robert J Pothier, French lawyer

• 1728 Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy)

• 1803 Christopher Gustavus Memminger, Secy Treas (Confederacy) died in 1888

• 1816 John Palmer Usher, Secy Int (Union) died in 1889

• 1822 John Porter Hatch, volunteers Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1901

• 1829 Thomas William Robertson, England, playwright (Caste)

• 1839 John Knowles Paine, Portland, Maine, composer

• 1843 Christiaan A Ulder, Cura‡ao, composer (walsen/tumba's)

• 1851 Luis Coloma, Spanish jesuiet/writer (Peque€eces, Boy)

• 1857 Henry B Fuller, American writer (Under the Skylights)

• 1859 Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder (League of Women Voters)

• 1866 Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher

• 1870 Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge)

• 1873 Hayyim Nahman Bialik, R„di Ukraine, Hebrew poet/translator

• 1879 John Broadus Watson, behaviorist psychologist

• 1881 Giovanni Papini, Italy, writer (Il Diavolo)

• 1881 Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic (Revaluations)

• 1890 Karel Capek, Czech, writer (R U R); coined "robot"

• 1890 Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist/writer (Panther Tiger & Co)

• 1894 Henryk Stazewski, Polish abstract painter, graphic artist

• 1898 Gracie Fields, (Stansfield), England, music hall/vaudeville performer

• 1899 Alexander Tcherepnin, St Petersburg Russia, composer (1/20 NS)

• 1901 Chic Young, cartoonist (Blondie)

• 1902 Rudolph Bing, opera manager (NY Metropolitan Opera)

• 1904 George Balanchine, dancer/choreographer/ballet producer

• 1908 Simone de Beauvoir, France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex)

• 1913 Richard Milhous Nixon, (R) 37th pres (1968-74) (I am not a crook!)

• 1914 Derek Allhusen, England, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1968)

• 1914 Gypsy Rose Lee, (Rose Hovick), Seattle, burlesque actress (Gypsy)

• 1914 Kenny (Klook) Clarke, Pittsburgh, jazz/drummer, composer (Epistrop)

• 1915 Anita Louise, NYC, actress (My Friend Flicka)

• 1915 Fernando Lamas, actor ("You look marvelous")

• 1916 Vic Mizzy, Bkln NY, orch leader (Don Rickles Show)

• 1917 Herbert Lom, Czech, actor (Pink Panther Strikes Again, Dorian Gray)

• 1922 Ahmed S‚kou Tour‚, president of Guinea (1957-84)

• 1925 Lee Van Cleef, NJ, actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from NY)

• 1928 Fernand J St Germain, (Rep-D-RI, 1961- )

• 1928 Judith Krantz, NYC, author (Scruples, Princess Daisy, Dazzle)

• 1931 Algi(rda)s (Jonas) Budrys, Prussia, sci-fi author (Man of Earth)

• 1933 Robert Garcia, (Rep-D-NY, 1978- )

• 1933 Sonia Garmers, (Justina), Cura‡ao, author (Dear Queen)

• 1934 Bart Starr, NFL quarterback/coach (Green Bay)

• 1934 Julian B Coco, Antilles, guitarist/tutor (Princess Christina)

• 1935 Bob Denver, New Rochelle NY, actor (Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island)

• 1935 Dick Enberg, Mt Clemens Mich, sportscaster (Where's Huddles)

• 1938 Aad Kosto, theologist/actor/Dutch asst secretary of state

• 1940 Jimmy Boyd, McComb Mo, actor/singer (Howard-Bachelor Father)

• 1941 Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate

• 1941 Susannah York, London, actress (A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones)

• 1943 Rob Hoeke, pianist/singer (Drinking on My Bed)

• 1944 Jimmy Page, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)

• 1944 Scott Engel, vocalist (Walker Brothers-Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore)

• 1948 William Cowsill, rocker (Cowsills-Hair)

• 1950 David Johansen, (Buster Poindexter), singer (Hot! Hot! Hot!)

• 1951 Crystal Gayle, Ky, country singer (Don't it make my brown eyes blue)

• 1951 Rosalyn Kind, Bkln, singer (« sister of Barbra Striesand)

• 1952 Eveline L Herfkens, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)

• 1954 Lance Hoppens, rocker (Orleans-Still the One, Dance With Me)

• 1956 Kimberly Beck Hilton, Glendale Calif, actress (Kim-Peyton Place)

• 1962 Phil Lewis, London England, rock vocalist (LA Guns-It's Over Now)

• 1965 Muggsy Bogues, NBA guard (Washington Bullets)

Passings for January 09

• 1499 Johan Cicero, monarch (Brandenburg, 1486-99), dies at 43

• 1843 Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy," dies at 98 in Germany

• 1854 Filippo Traetta/Philip Trajetta, Ital's composer/musicologist, dies

• 1878 Victor Emanuel II, king of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78), dies

• 1879 Don Joaquin BF Espartero, duke of Vitoria, dies

• 1902 Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian lawyer/foreign minister, dies at 66

• 1908 Abraham Goldfaden, Yiddish songwriter, dies

• 1923 Katherine Mansfield, Brits writer (Dove's Nest), dies

• 1927 Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist, dies

• 1931 Claude Anet (Jean Schopfer), French writer (La fille perdue), dies

• 1939 Johann Strauss, Austrian conductor/Royal ball music director, dies

• 1943 Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Novel Britain), dies

• 1946 Countee Cullen, black poet, dies at 42 in NYC

• 1958 Paul Fechter, German writer/historian (Um der Wende der Zeit), dies

• 1972 Ted Shawn, US dancer, dies at 80

• 1975 Pierre Fresnay, French actor (Monsieur Vincent), dies

• 1977 Hal Sawyer, TV host (Sawyer Views Hollywood), dies at 62

• 1984 Wolfgang Staudte, German director (Ciske de Rat), dies

• 1987 Arthur Lake, actor (Dagwood-Blondie), dies at 81

Special events for January 09

• 1317 Phillips V, the tall, crowned king of France

• 1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses

• 1522 Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI)

• 1558 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland

• 1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod

• 1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat

• 1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state

• 1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America

• 1793 Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery

• 1799 1st income tax imposed, in England

• 1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon

• 1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science

• 1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)

• 1847 1st SF newspaper published (California Star)

• 1848 1st commercial bank in SF established

• 1854 Astor Library opens in NYC

• 1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in the Atlantic, 480 dies

• 1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of the West fired on, Sumter, SC

• 1861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede

• 1861 Star of the West is fired upon as it enters Charlestown Harbor

• 1863 -Jan 11th) Battle of Arkansas Post, AK (Ft Hindman)

• 1866 Fisk University establishes

• 1879 Cheyennes prisioners revolt at Dull Knife Ft Robinson

• 1880 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days

• 1901 M Wolf discovers asteroid #464 Megaira & #467 Laura

• 1903 AL Baltimore baseball team bought for $18,000, moves to NYC (Yanks)

• 1903 Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace

• 1903 Wind Cave National Park, SD established

• 1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops (1/22 NS)

• 1908 Muir Woods National Monument, Calif established

• 1909 Ernest Shackleton reaches 88ø23' south

• 1912 US marines invade Honduras

• 1915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF

• 1922 KQV-AM in Pittsburgh PA begins radio transmissions

• 1923 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain

• 1925 German Postal Minister A H”fle dismissed due to coruption

• 1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died

• 1929 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions

• 1933 Amsterdam confectionary worker go on strike against wage reduction

• 1934 L Volta discovers asteroid #1332 Marconia

• 1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army

• 1937 A Patry discovers asteroid #3142 Kilopi

• 1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians

• 1937 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1424 Sundmania

• 1941 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane

• 1942 Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer

• 1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff was created

• 1945 US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines

• 1951 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #3383 Koyama

• 1951 Washington Capitals NBA club folds

• 1952 Belgian Pholien govt resigns

• 1952 Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title

• 1953 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game

• 1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249

• 1954 -87ø F (-66ø C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)

• 1954 Bert Olmstead, Mont Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game

• 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan & Leonie Adams

• 1956 Samir el-Rifai forms govt in Jordan

• 1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns

• 1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR

• 1957 Cooperation Dutch Dagbladpers publishes newspaper "The Truth"

• 1957 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2391 Tomita

• 1957 Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR

• 1957 Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR

• 1958 In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54

• 1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premiers on CBS TV

• 1959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die

• 1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins

• 1962 NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks

• 1963 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"

• 1964 Anti-US rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone

• 1965 "Beatles' '65" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks

• 1967 Georgia legislature seats Rep Julian Bond

• 1967 The NFL New Orleans franchise takes the name "Saints"

• 1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on the Moon

• 1969 1st trial flight of the Concorde

• 1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted

• 1972 Billionaire Howard Hughes said Clifford Irving's bio is a fake

• 1976 Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot

• 1976 Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK

• 1977 Oakland Raiders defeat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14, in Super Bowl XI

• 1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established

• 1978 R M West discovers asteroid #2117 Danmark

• 1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin

• 1979 High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws

• 1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

• 1982 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855

• 1982 Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game

• 1983 B A Skiff discovers asteroids #3140, #3505 & #3684

• 1983 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits the Falkland Islands

• 1984 "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" premiers on NBC TV (Whoops)

• 1984 EAA moves operations to Oshkosh

• 1984 John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me"

• 1985 Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-ou

• 1986 NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins

• 1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect

• 1987 Sir Rudolf Bing (of NY Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass

• 1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premiers on CBS

• 1990 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit

• 1990 Boston Celtics worst ¬ ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) & lose 87-78

• 1991 Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse the gulf crisis

• 1992 Asteroid 1992AD discovered 4.8 billion km from Sun

Songs for date January 09

• 01/09/42 --- Tonight We Love (Martin, Freddy)

• 01/09/42 --- I Said No (Rey, Alvino)

• 01/09/48 --- Ballerina (Crosby, Bing)

• 01/09/48 --- Beg Your Pardon (Craig, Francis)

• 01/09/65 --- Name Game, The (Ellis, Shirley)

• 01/09/71 --- Amos Moses (Reed, Jerry)

• 01/09/82 --- Sweet Dreams (Air Supply)

• 01/09/93 --- Mr. Wendal (Arrested Development)

• 01/09/93 --- Ditty (Paperboy)