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1960 – Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player and coach (b. 1878) 1963 – Arthur Edward Moore, New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (b. 1876) 1964 – Reg Parnell, English racing driver and manager (b. 1911) 1967 – David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
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Up to 1900
1. 1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 2. 1350 - Guttorm Palsson, Bishop of Stavanger in Norway, dies, as the last known death from Europe's 1347-1350 plague epidemic. 3. 1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England. 4. 1566 – Pius V becomes Pope. 5. 1598 – Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia. 6. 1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth I of England. 7. 1608 - Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia. 8. 1610 – G...
1901 – 1950
1. 1901 – Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism. 2. 1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS." 3. 1911 – Mary Pickford marries Owen Moore. 4. 1919 - Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation (take-over) of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail. 5. 1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treatyby 64-57 votes. 6. 1924 – George Gershwin completes "Rhapsody in Blue". 7. 1926 – George...
1951 – 2000
1. 1953 – President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. 2. 1954 – The first public demonstration of a machine translationsystem was held in New York at the head office of IBM. 3. 1955 - Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first African American person to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. 4. 1958 - Walter Hallstein becomes the first President of the European Commission. 5. 1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government...
Up to 1900
1. 889 - Li Bian, Emperor of Southern Tang, China (d. 943) 2. 1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (d. 1397) 3. 1434 - Adolf, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1441) 4. 1502 – Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585) 5. 1528 – Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572) 6. 1624 - Guarino Guarini, Italian architect (d. 1683) 7. 1634 - Adam Krieger, German composer (d. 1666) 8. 1685 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish agriculture and industry pioneer (d. 1761) 9. 1713 - Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian opera dir...
1901 – 1950
1. 1903 - Alan Napier, British actor (d. 1988) 2. 1903 - Carlos Di Sarli, Argentine tango musician (d. 1960) 3. 1907 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (d. 1993) 4. 1908 - Red Allen, American trumpeter (d. 1967) 5. 1910 - Frank Lubin, American-Lithuanian basketball player (d. 1999) 6. 1910 – Orval Faubus, American politician, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994) 7. 1911 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995) 8. 1912 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988) 9. 1915 - Chano Poco, Cub...
1951 – 1975
1. 1951 - Talgat Musabayev, Kazakhstani cosmonaut 2. 1951 - Helen Worth, English actress 3. 1953 - Jenis av Rana, Faroese physician and politician 4. 1953 - Dieter Hoeness, German footballer 5. 1956 – Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor and singer 6. 1956 – David Caruso, American actor 7. 1957 – Katie Couric, American newscaster 8. 1958 – Linda Kozlowski, American actress 9. 1959 - Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, English politician 10. 1960 - Loretta Sanchez, American politician 11. 1962...
Up to 1900
1. 312 – Lucianus of Antioch, theologist/saint 2. 672 - Emperor Tenji of Japan (b. 626) 3. 1131 - Canute Lavard, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and saint (b. 1096) 4. 1285 - King Charles I of Naples (b. 1226) 5. 1325 – King Dinis of Portugal (b. 1261) 6. 1355 - Ines de Castro, Castilian royal (b. 1320) 7. 1451 - Antipope Felix V (b. 1383) 8. 1536 – Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England (b. 1485) 9. 1609 - Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (b. 1547) 10. 1625 - Ruggiero Giovanelli, Italian compose...
1901 – 2000
1. 1913 - Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866) 2. 1920 – Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849) 3. 1927 - Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician (b. 1851) 4. 1932 - André Maginot, French civil servant, soldier and politician (b. 1877) 5. 1943 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (b. 1856). 6. 1944 - Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States (b. 1874) 7. 1945 - Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (b. 1870) 8. 1951 – René...
2001 – 2015
1. 2002 – Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935) 2. 2004 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926) 3. 2005 – Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913) 4. 2005 – Rosemary Kennedy, third child and first daughter of Joseph and Rose Kennedy (b. 1918) 5. 2005 – Eileen Desmond, Irish politician, former Minister for Health & Social Welfare (b. 1932) 6. 2007 - Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic television presenter (b. 1929) 7. 2008 - Alwyn Schlebusch, South African politician (b. 1917) 8. 2013 - Carl B...
Christmas in Eastern Orthodox Churches that still use the Julian calendarTricolour Day (Italy)Victory from Genocide Day (Cambodia)January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.Its length is 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day.It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).
Jan 7, 2024 · 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 by Jean Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. 1790 French Revolution: A major riot breaks out in Versailles as people demand lower bread prices.
Simon Marius appears on January 5, so Galilean moons should not appear in the same year. January 7: Christmas (Eastern Christianity); Victory over Genocide Day in Cambodia ( 1979 ); Tricolour Day in Italy ( 1797 ) Bank of North America. 1610 – Through his telescope, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made the first observation of Jupiter's ...
1734 – John Dennis, English playwright and critic (b. 1657) 1813 – Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764) 1829 – Josef Dobrovský, Czech philologist and historian (b. 1753) 1831 – Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1766) 1840 – Frances Burney, English author and playwright (b. 1752)
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. "The Day Before the Revolution" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin (pictured). First published in Galaxy in August 1974, it was republished in Le Guin's The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975). Set in her fictional Hainish universe, the story has strong connections to her ...
