21JAN11

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Births for January 21

• 1338 Charles V (the Wise), king of France (1364-80)

• 1743 John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)

• 1746 Johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard & Gertrude)

• 1813 John C Fr‚mont, (Pathfinder), map maker/explorer (western US)/Gov (AZ

• 1815 Horace Wells, dentist (pioneered use of medical anethesia)

• 1821 John Cabell Breckinridge, (D) 14th US VP (1857-61)/mjr-gen (Confed)

• 1824 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Lt Gen 2nd Corps (ANV, Confed)

• 1829 Oscar II Frederik, King of Sweden (1872-1907)/Norway (-1905)/poet

• 1833 Norman Willis, union leader (Britain's Trades Union Congress)

• 1840 Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician

• 1855 Ernest Chausson, Paris, composer (Pome for Violin & Orchestra)

• 1855 John M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer

• 1867 Maxime Weygard, French general

• 1872 Jonkhr Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister

• 1875 Paul E Kahle, Germany, professor of oriental studies

• 1878 Egon Friedell, Austria, journalist/actor/writer (Der Partylowe)

• 1883 Olav Aukrust, Norway, poet

• 1884 Katie Sandwina, Germany, legendary woman weight-lifter

• 1884 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (American Civil Liberties Union)

• 1885 Umberto Nobile, Italian general

• 1886 Gustaaf Juice, Belgian minister of Finance

• 1887 Wolfgang K”hler, Gestalt psychologist (The Mentality of Apes)

• 1897 J Carrol Naish, NYC, actor (Charlie Chan-Adv of Charlie Chan)

• 1898 John George, Syria, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu)

• 1904 Richard P Blackmur, Mass, critic/poet (Good Europeans)

• 1905 Christian Dior, Normandy France, fashion designer (long-skirted look)

• 1908 Bengt Str”mgren, G”teborg Sweden, astrophysicist (studied gas cloud)

• 1912 Konrad Bloch, Germany, biochemist (studied cholesterol-Nobel 1964)

• 1915 Alan Hewitt, NYC, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian)

• 1919 Jinx Falkenburg, Barcelona Spain, actress (Masquerade Party)

• 1920 Errol Walton Barrow, PM of Barbados (DLP) (1966-76, 1986- )

• 1921 Barney Clark, 1st to receive a permanent artificial heart

• 1921 John Doucette, Brockton Mass, actor (Lock Up, Big Town)

• 1922 1st slalom ski race run, Mrren, Switzerland

• 1922 Jean P Vroom, sculptor

• 1922 Paul Scofield, British actor (Man for All Seasons, Train)

• 1924 Benny Hill, Southampton England, comedian (Benny Hill Show)

• 1924 Telly Savalas, Garden City NJ, actor (Acapulco, Kojak)

• 1926 Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer

• 1926 Paul Burke, New Orleans La, actor (Neal-Dynasty)

• 1926 Raf Reymen, Flemish actor

• 1926 Steve Reeves, Montana, actor (Hercules, Hercules Unchained)

• 1932 Boris Shakhlin, Russia, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1956-60-64)

• 1933 Itzhak Fuks, captain

• 1935 Ann Wedgeworth, Abilene Tx, actress (Tiger's Tale, Men's Club, Bogie)

• 1939 Mary Ellen McAnally, Illinois, poet (Dance of the Zygotes)

• 1939 Wolfman Jack, (Bob Smith), Bkln NY, DJ (Midnight Special)

• 1940 Jack Nicklaus, Columbus Ohio, golfer (Player of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76)

• 1941 Edwin Starr, rocker

• 1941 Placido Domingo, Madrid Spain, opera tenor (Pinkerton-Mme Butterfly)

• 1941 Richie Havens, Bkln, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun)

• 1942 Mac Davis, Lubbock Tx, singer/actor (Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40)

• 1945 Andrew Stein, pres of NYC council (D)

• 1945 Chris Britton, rocker (Troggs-Rock & Roll Goldmine)

• 1946 Vincent Placoly, Martinique, writer (L'eau-de-mort guildive)

• 1947 Jill Eikenberry, New Haven Ct, (Ann Kelsey-LA Law, Manhattan Project)

• 1950 Billy Ocean, Trinidad, singer (Suddenly, Caribbean Queen)

• 1950 Joseph R Tanner, Danville Ill, astronaut

• 1955 Peter Fleming, NJ, tennis player (US Open Doubles 1979, 81, 83)

• 1955 Robby Benson, Dallas Tx, actor (One on One, Running Brave, Chosen)

• 1956 Bob Brill, NYC, drummer (Berlin-You Take My Breath Away)

• 1957 Geena (Virginia) Davis, Wareham Mass, actress (Beetlejuice, Fly)

• 1957 Jacob Green, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawk)

• 1958 Miguel Alejandro, NYC, actor (Popi)

• 1961 Gabrielle Carteris, Phoenix Az, actress (Andrea-Beverly Hills 90210)

• 1961 Sherry Ramsay, Stauton Va, actress (Trish Mason-As the World Turns)

• 1966 Katrine Michelsen, Gentokte Denmark, Miss Denmark 1984

• 1967 Willem Royaards, theater director (Summer olympics)

• 1968 Charlotte Ross, Chicago, actress (Eve-Days of Our Lives)

• 1971 Tommy Puett, Gary Ind, actor (Tyler-Life Goes On, America's Top 10)

Passings for January 21

• 1118 Paschalis II, (Raniero), pope (1099-1118), dies

• 1609 Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies

• 1626 John Dowland, English musician/lyric poet, dies at about 63

• 1665 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat thesis), dies at 24

• 1686 Nicolas-Fran‡ois Blondel, French architect, dies

• 1774 Moestafa III, sultan (Turkey), dies at 56

• 1793 Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by French revolutionaries

• 1892 John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies

• 1903 Hermanus J A M Schaepman, clergyman/politician, dies

• 1924 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 54

• 1926 Camillo Golgi, Italian medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies

• 1950 George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46

• 1955 Maarten P Vrij, lawyer/criminologist/member High Council, dies

• 1957 Arthur L Bowley, English statisician/economist, dies at 87

• 1959 Cecil B(lount) de Mille, producer (10 Commandments), dies at 77

• 1961 Blaise Cendrars, Swiss/French poet (J'ai tu‚), dies at 73

• 1965 Harvey Zorbaugh, doctor/TV host (Play the Game), dies at 68

• 1967 Ann Sheridan, actress (Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 51

• 1971 Richard B Russell, (Sen-D-Ga), dies at 73

• 1974 Lewis L Strauss, head US Atomic Energy Comm (1953-58), dies at 78

• 1981 Allyn Joslyn, actor (They Won't Forget, Cafe Society), dies at 79

• 1991 Howard "Red" Grange, football's galloping ghost, dies at 87

• 1991 Richard Bolling, US civil-rights leader, dies

• 1992 William T "Champion Jack" Dupree, US boxer/pianist, dies

Special events for January 21

• 1276 Pierre the Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V

• 1542 Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard

• 1604 Tsar Ivan IV defeats the False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar

• 1677 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston

• 1789 1st American novel, WH Brown's "The Power of Sympathy," is published

• 1799 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced

• 1813 Pineapple introduced to Hawaii (or 01/111)

• 1818 Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"

• 1824 Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa

• 1827 Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing

• 1830 Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported

• 1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Mass

• 1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign

• 1863 City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years

• 1880 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis

• 1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms

• 1890 1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper

• 1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #356 Liguria

• 1907 Kenora Thistles sweep Mont Wanderers in 2 for the Stanley Cup

• 1908 NYC regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public

• 1910 British-Russian military intervention in Persia

• 1913 Aristide Briand forms French cabinet

• 1915 Kiwanis International founded in Detroit

• 1919 Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland

• 1925 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe pres

• 1925 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1382 Gerti

• 1926 Belgian Chamber chooses seal of Locarno Switzerland

• 1927 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)

• 1932 USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty

• 1935 30.5 cm precipitation/radioactive at Quinault RS, Washington

• 1935 The Wilderness Society forms

• 1935 WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ)

• 1938 Dutch govt starts obligatory unemployment insurance

• 1941 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX

• 1941 Australia & Britian attack Tobroek Libya

• 1942 Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal

• 1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain

• 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk

• 1945 British troops land on Ramree, near the coast of Burma

• 1949 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman)

• 1950 NY jury finds former State Dept official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury

• 1952 Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India

• 1953 John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State

• 1954 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (NYC)

• 1954 Nautilus, 1st atomic powered submarine launched (Groton Conn)

• 1956 William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of the New Yorker

• 1957 KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting

• 1958 KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting

• 1960 Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km

• 1960 Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook S Afr, 417 die of methane poisoning

• 1961 KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls, ID (NBC) begins broadcasting

• 1961 Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria

• 1962 Snow falls in SF

• 1964 Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency

• 1966 Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd

• 1968 US B-52 bombers with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland

• 1971 "Alias Smith & Jones" premiers on ABC TV

• 1972 Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh terr

• 1972 Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union

• 1972 Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory

• 1973 3rd AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 33-28

• 1973 Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger"

• 1974 Gold hits record $161.31 an ounce in London

• 1974 Silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London

• 1976 Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France

• 1977 Pres Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders

• 1978 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks

• 1979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)

• 1979 Steelers beat Cowboys (35-31), 1st team to win 3 Super Bowls (XIII)

• 1980 Gold hits record $850 an ounce

• 1980 Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal

• 1981 Bernhard Goetz is assault for 1st time on a NY subway train

• 1982 Islanders start NHL record 15 game win streak (15-0-0)

• 1983 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Appends

• 1985 -19ø F (-28ø C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record)

• 1985 -34ø F (-37ø C), Mt Mitchell, North Carolina (state record)

• 1985 Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals

• 1986 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38ø F (3ø C), Indiana

• 1987 BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to U of Mississippi

• 1989 A woman is assaulted & raped in the room of an Ok football player

• 1989 Wayne Gretsky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time score

• 1990 Bob Goodenow suceeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players assn exec director

• 1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77

Songs for date January 21

• 01/21/43 --- Brazil (Cugat, Xavier)

• 01/21/43 --- For Me And My Gal (Garland, Judy)

• 01/21/43 --- I've Heard That Song Before (James, Harry)

• 01/21/49 --- Cruising Down The River (Barron, Blue)

• 01/21/67 --- Kind Of A Drag (Buckinghams)

• 01/21/84 --- Nobody Told Me (Lennon, John)

• 01/21/84 --- 99 Luftballons (Nena)

• 01/21/84 --- Wrapped Around Your Finger (Police)

• 01/21/84 --- Jump (Van Halen)

• 01/21/89 --- Living Years, The (Mike + The Mechanics)

• 01/21/89 --- Surrender To Me (Wilson, Ann)