Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Famous Birth On Jan 26

By Tracy Rocelyn


1497 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)

1541 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)

1613 - Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer

1956 - Lisa Boray, [Schulte Nordholt], Dutch singer (Lovers Until the End)

1708 - William Hayes, composer

1924 - Warren Frank Benson, composer

1924 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998)

1957 - Shivlal Yadav, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 102 Test wickets 1979-87)

1958 - Anita Baker, Toledo Oh, singer (Giving You the Best That I Got)

1958 - B James Lowry, rocker (Boys Band)

1742 - Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, composer

1958 - Ellen DeGeneres, New Orleans LA, comediene (Ellen Morgan-Ellen)

1925 - Claude Ryan, Quebec newspaper editor (d. 2004)

1958 - Salvador Snchez, Mexican boxer

1771 - Jacob Andries van Braam, colonial director (Suriname)

1778 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis)

1926 - Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar

1781 - Ludwig Joachim "Achim" von Arnim, German poet (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

1961 - Wayne Gretzky, Brantford Ont, NHL great scorer (Oiler, King, Rangers)

1813 - Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876

1928 - Eartha Kitt, SC, singer/actress (Catwoman-Batman)

1962 - Tom Keifer, rock guitarist/vocalist (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)

1928 - Philip Jose Farmer, Indiana, science fiction novelist (Riverworld)

1928 - Roger Vadim, France, director (And God Created Women, Barbarella)

1828 - Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer

1929 - M R Turner, publisher

1832 - George Shiras Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924)

1852 - Frederick Corder, composer

1930 - Anne Macfarlane, Master (Court of Protection)

1965 - Lou Frazier, US baseball outfielder (Montreal Expos)

1857 - the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)

1965 - Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast

1965 - Thomas stros, Swedish politician

1878 - A W "Dave" Nourse, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of S African cricket)

1932 - Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer

1933 - Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist

1967 - Pradip Somasundaran, Indian playback singer

1934 - Roger Landry, Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher

1935 - Bob Uecker, Milwaukee Wisc, catcher/actor (Mr Belvedere)

1887 - Enrique E Ecker, Curacao, bacteriologist

1935 - Peter Ronnefeld, composer

1935 - Zbigniew Penherski, composer

1936 - Noel Harrison, London, singer/actor (Mark-Girl from UNCLE)

1970 - Kirk Franklin, American singer

1971 - Jon Heidenreich, WLAF G (Frankfurt Galaxy)

1892 - Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978)

1971 - Lee Naylor, Australian 400m runner (Olympics-96)

1938 - Margaret Daly, British MEP

1971 - Bryan Callen, American actor

1941 - Henry Jaglom, London England, actor (Eating, Lucky Ducks, Always)

1942 - Nigel Walmsley, chairman (Carlton UK Television)

1902 - Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer

1942 - William McLennan, CEO (Central Statistical Office)

1973 - Tony Ramirez, tackle (Detroit Lions)

1973 - Mayu Shinjo, Japanese mangaka

1943 - Peter Kenton Winkler, composer

1943 - Sherian Grace Cadoria, brigadier general

1905 - Charles Lane, SF Calif, actor (Homer-Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show)

1976 - Willie Adler, American guitar player

1945 - Mick Hill, cricketer (NSW all-rounder 1964-75)

1945 - Jacqueline du Pr, English cellist (d. 1987)

1946 - Christopher Hampton, Azores, playwright (Oviri, Hotel du Lac)

1978 - Reesa Starr Jr

1978 - Estban Germn, Dominican baseball player

1908 - Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)

1947 - Michel Sardou, French singer

1948 - Corky Laing, rocker (Mountain)

1910 - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (d. 1989)

1911 - Norbert Schultze, composer

1984 - Luo Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer

1984 - Layla Kayleigh, British television personality

1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen, songwriter (Love & Marriage)

1913 - William Prince, Nichols NY, actor (City in Fear, Cyrano de Bergerac)

1986 - Shantelle Taylor, Canadian professional wrestler

1951 - David Briggs, rock guitarist (Little River Band-Help is on it's Way)

1915 - William Hopper, NYC, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason)

1951 - Walt Willey, Ottawa Ill, actor (Jackson Montgomery-All My Children)

1990 - Christopher Massey, American actor

1993 - Cameron Bright, Canadian actor

1997 - Pasaye, Palatine Ill, twin born 92 days after his brother (Oct 26)

1500 - Vicente Yez Pinzn becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.

1531 - Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake--thousands die.

1564 - The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.

1564 - The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.

1565 - Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.

1589 - Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.

1699 - Treaty of Carlowitz is signed.

1700 - The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake takes place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.

1736 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.

1788 - The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day

1808 - Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.

1837 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.

1838 - Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States

1841 - The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China later formally cedes.

1855 - Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.

1856 - First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.

1861 - American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.

1863 - American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.

1863 - American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.

1870 - American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.

1885 - Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum.

1905 - The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.62135 kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.

1907 - The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use.

1911 - Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.

1911 - Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.

1918 - Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.

1920 - Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.

1924 - Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.

1930 - The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) which occurred 20 years later.

1934 - The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.

1934 - German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.

1939 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.

1942 - World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.

1945 - World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.

1950 - The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.

1952 - Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.

1958 - Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsizes off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.

1960 - Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia)

1961 - John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.

1962 - Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).

1965 - Hindi becomes the official language of India.

1966 - The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.

1978 - The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US, strikes the Ohio - Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).

1980 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.

1991 - Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.

1992 - Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.

1998 - Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

2001 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.

2004 - President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.

2004 - A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.

2005 - Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.

2009 - Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.




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