15JAN11

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Births for January 15

• 1432 Afonso of Africa, king of Portugal

• 1622 Molire, France, dramatist (Tartuffe, Les Misanthrope) (baptized)

• 1709 Nicolas van de Veken, Flemish sculptor

• 1715 Georg C Wagenzeil, Austria (court)composer/pianist

• 1716 Philip Livingston, merchant (signed Declaration of Independence)

• 1779 Jean Coralli, Paris, ballet producer/choreographer

• 1791 Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece)

• 1793 Ferdinand G Waldmller, Austrian painter

• 1798 Thomas Croker, Irish antiquary, collector of songs & legends

• 1809 Cornelia Connelly, Phila, founder (Society of the Holy Child Jesus)

• 1809 Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician (libertarian socialist)

• 1812 Peter C Asbjírnsen, Norwegian fairy tale collector

• 1813 James Marion Sims, SC, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation)

• 1815 Henry Morris Naglee, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886

• 1817 Lewis Golding Arnold, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1871

• 1821 Lafayette McLaws, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1897

• 1826 Mikhail Saltykov, Spas-Ugol Russia, satirist (Family of Noblemen)

• 1841 Lord Frederick Stanley, presenter of hockey's Stanley Cup

• 1845 Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman pres (National Educational Association)

• 1850 Sofya Kovalevskaya, Russia, mathematician (or 1919)

• 1858 Giovanni Segantini, Italy, painter

• 1863 Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian

• 1863 Wilhelm Marx, premier (Prussia)

• 1866 Nathan S”derblom, Lutheran archbishop, internationalist (Nobel '30)

• 1877 Lewis M Terman, Ind, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test)

• 1891 Osip Mandelstam, Warsaw, Russian poet (Noise of Time)

• 1893 D Ivor D Novello, British composer/writer (Truth Game)

• 1894 Edmond Rubbens, Belgian attorney/minister of colonization

• 1899 Goodman Ace, radio/TV actor/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman)

• 1900 C‚sar (Caesar) Domela, painter (Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis)

• 1900 William Heinesen, F„ro‰s Island, writer (Noatun)

• 1902 Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saoed, king (Saudi Arabia)

• 1906 Aristotle Onassis, Greece, rich shipping magnate

• 1908 Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project)

• 1909 Elie Siegmeister, NYC, composer (Plough & the Stars)

• 1909 Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, drummer (Sing Sing Sing)

• 1911 Cy Feuer, NYC, Bdwy producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line)

• 1911 Wim Kan, cabaretier

• 1912 Michel J-P Debr‚, premier of France (1959-62)

• 1913 Lloyd Bridges, San Leandro Calif, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane)

• 1918 Andreas M Donner, reich leader

• 1918 Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (1954-1971)

• 1920 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, Phila, Roman Catholic Archbishop of NY

• 1923 Lee Teng-hui, president of ROC (Taiwan), head of KMT (1988- )

• 1925 Ruth Slenczynska, Sacramento, California, pianist

• 1926 Maria Schell, Vienna Austria, actress (Space 1999)

• 1929 "Queen Ida" Guillory, Ziadaco music

• 1929 Martin Luther King Jr, Atlanta, dreamer (Nobel 1964)

• 1931 Thomas Hoving, NYC, news correspondent (20/20)

• 1932 Dean Smith, US actor/relay runner (Olympic-gold-1952)

• 1932 Louis Woodard Jones, New Rochelle NY, 4X400m relayer (Oly-gold-56)

• 1935 Malcolm Frager, St Louis, Missouri, pianist

• 1935 Robert Silverberg, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan's Planet)

• 1937 Margaret O'Brien, San Diego, actress (Jane Eyre, Meet Me in St Louis)

• 1941 Captain Beefheart, (Don Van Vilet), rocker (Bongo Fury, Shiny Beast)

• 1945 Michael, (Marie-Christine von Reibnitz), Bohemia, Princess of Kent

• 1947 Pete Waterman, rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)

• 1948 Dini Petty, Canadian talk show host (CITY-TV)

• 1948 Tommy Nolan, Montreal Canada, actor (Jody-Buckskin)

• 1951 Charo, Murcia Spain, actress/singer (Chico & the Man, Love Boat)

• 1953 Randy White, NFLer (Dallas Cowboys)

• 1956 Vera Sosulya, USSR, toboggan (Olympic-gold-1980)

• 1957 Mario Van Peebles, Mexico, actor (South Bronx Heroes)

• 1959 Pete Trewavas, rock bassist (Marillion-Real to Reel)

• 1963 Erling Kagge, Norway, explorer (South Pole)

• 1964 Jack Teagarden, US, trombonist/actor

• 1965 Derek B, rocker (Bullet from a Gun)

• 1967 Lisa Lisa, (Velez), rock vocalist (& Cult Jam)

• 1968 Chad Lowe, Dayton Ohio, actor (Spencer, Apprentice to Murder)

• 1971 Regina King, LA Calif, actress (Brenda-227)

• 1972 Ernie Reyes Jr, San Jose Calif, actor (Ernie-Sidekicks)

Passings for January 15

• 69 Galba, Roman emperor (68-69), killed by Praetorian guard in Rome

• 1705 Walraad, the Young, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nijmegen, dies

• 1896 Matthew Brady, photographer, dies

• 1919 Karl Liebknecht, Marxist revolutionary, murdered

• 1919 Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist revolutionary, murdered

• 1934 Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Tie Konzert), dies

• 1942 Melvin Winfield Sheppard, runner (Olympic-gold-08, 12), dies at 58

• 1949 Black Dahlia, murder victim found in LA (basis of the movie)

• 1955 Yves Tanguy, French/Americans sailor/surrealistic painter, dies

• 1978 Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ten Bundy

• 1981 Emanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73), dies at 92

• 1982 Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76

• 1983 Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach, Fla, at 81

• 1983 Shepperd Strudwick, actor, dies of cancer at 75

• 1986 James H "Jim" Crowley, US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83

• 1987 Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58

• 1987 Ray Bolger, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), dies at 82

• 1988 Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 8

• 1993 Huub H Jacobse, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD), dies

• 1993 Sammy Cahn, (Cohen), US songwriter (Bei mir bist du sch”n), dies at 7

Special events for January 15

• 708 Sisinnius begins his reign as Pope (dies 20 days later)

• 1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church

• 1582 Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to the Baltic

• 1680 French explorer Sieur de la Salle builds Ft Crvecoeur

• 1752 Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism

• 1759 British Museum opens

• 1762 Fraunces Tavern opens in NYC

• 1777 People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England

• 1847 1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in NYC

• 1851 Gen Arista replaces Mexican Pres Herrera

• 1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis

• 1863 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal

• 1865 Ft Fisher, NC falls to Union troops

• 1870 Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly

• 1877 US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens

• 1882 1st US ski club formed, Berlin, NH

• 1886 Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue

• 1892 Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass

• 1895 Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premiers, St Petersburg (1/27 NS)

• 1905 Coen de King becomes world champion all-round skater

• 1906 A Kopff discovers asteroid #584 Semiramis

• 1907 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee de Forest

• 1907 Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them

• 1915 Japan claims economic control of China

• 1919 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21

• 1919 Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland

• 1919 Semana tragedy: bloodbath in Buenos Aires

• 1922 Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier

• 1923 Lithuania seize & annex the country of Memel

• 1925 Hans Luther forms German cabinet, with DNVP

• 1936 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio

• 1936 Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates

• 1939 1st NFL pro bowl, NY Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field

• 1939 Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal

• 1940 German U-Boot torpedoes the Eagle church

• 1942 FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II

• 1943 1,000 workers complete the air conditioning system for the Pentagon

• 1943 Japanese driven off Guadalcanal

• 1943 Vught Concentration Camp opens

• 1943 World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed

• 1944 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany

• 1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell

• 1945 Red army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp

• 1949 Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin

• 1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Wash DC

• 1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000

• 1953 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Wash DC statio

• 1953 DDR Min of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage"

• 1955 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum

• 1955 USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic

• 1956 KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting

• 1962 Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea

• 1964 Teamsters negotiated the 1st national labor contract

• 1965 Rock group Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain"

• 1967 Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs 35-10 in Super Bowl I (NBC & CBS)

• 1968 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) begins broadcasting

• 1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union

• 1971 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"

• 1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels

• 1973 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court

• 1973 Gene Shalit joins the Today Show panel

• 1973 Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican

• 1973 Pres Nixon suspensends all US offensive action in N Vietnam

• 1974 "Happy Days" premiers on ABC

• 1974 Expert panel reports 18«-m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures

• 1975 Space Mountain opens (Disneyland)

• 1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot Pres Ford

• 1976 US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit

• 1978 Super Bowl XII-Dallas Cowboys-27, Denver Broncos-10

• 1978 Theodore Bundy kills Fla State U coeds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman

• 1981 "Hill Street Blues" premiers on NBC-TV

• 1983 Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard

• 1984 Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak

• 1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery

• 1985 K Suzuki & T Urata discovers asteroid #3733

• 1985 Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years

• 1986 Living Seas opens (Disneyland)

• 1990 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds

• 1990 AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch

• 1990 NY Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106

• 1991 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't)

• 1992 Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Josephy Doherty isn't entitled to asylum

• 1993 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die

• 1993 Mafia leader Salvatore "Gambling pool" Riina arrested

• 1993 Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV

• 1993 Top mafia leader Salvatore "Tot•" Riina arrested in Palermo

Songs for date January 15

• 01/15/55 --- Melody Of Love (Four Aces)

• 01/15/66 --- Barbara Ann (Beach Boys)

• 01/15/66 --- Crying Time (Charles, Ray)

• 01/15/66 --- My Love (Clark, Petula)

• 01/15/72 --- Without You (Nilsson)

• 01/15/77 --- Night Moves (Seger, Bob)

• 01/15/83 --- Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (Culture Club)

• 01/15/83 --- Pass The Dutchie (Musical Youth)