Birthdays:
1979 ~ Drew Brees (né Drew Christopher Brees), American football player with a long career as quarterback for the New Orleans Saints.
1958 ~ Boris Tadić, 3rd President of Serbia. He served as President from July 2004 until April 2012. He was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
1945 ~ Vince Foster (né Vincent Walker Foster, Jr.; d. July 20, 1993), Deputy White House Counsel in the Bill Clinton Administration. He died of a gunshot wound at age 48 under some mysterious circumstances, but ultimately his death was ruled a suicide.
1942 ~ Frank Polozola (né Frank Joseph Polozola; d. Feb. 24, 2013) American Federal District Court Judge in the Middle District of Louisiana. He was born and died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He died just over a month after his 71st birthday.
1933 ~ Ernest J. Gaines (né Ernest James Gaines; d. Nov. 5, 2019), Louisiana-born African-American author. He is best known for his 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying. He died at age 86 following a long illness.
1929 ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. (né Michael King, Jr., d. Apr. 4, 1968), African-American Civil Rights activist and recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee at age 39.
1918 ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser (d. Sept. 28, 1970), second president of Egypt. He died of a heart attack at age 52 while still in office. Anwar Sadat was named his successor.
1915 ~ Susan Ahn Cuddy (née Susan Ahn; d. June 24, 2015), American naval officer. She was the first Asian-American woman to join the United States Navy. She was also the first female gunnery officer in Navy. She was the daughter of Ahn Chang-ho and Helen Ahn, the first married Korean couple to emigrated to the United States. She retired from the Navy as a lieutenant. She died at age 100.
1913 ~ Lloyd Bridges (né Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr.; d. Mar. 10, 1998), American actor. He died at age 85.
1908 ~ Edward Teller (d. Sept. 9, 2003), Hungarian-born theoretical physicist. He is sometimes known as the Father of the Hydrogen Bomb. He died at age 95.
1903 ~ Paul A. Dever (né Paul Andrew Dever; d. Apr. 11, 1958), 58th Governor of Massachusetts. He served as Governor from January 1946 until January 1953. He was born and died in Boston. He died at age 55 of a heart attack.
1895 ~ Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (d. Nov. 11, 1973), Finnish chemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry. He died at age 78.
1866 ~ Nathan Söderblom (né Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom; d. July 12, 1931), Swedish archbishop and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize. He died at age 65.
1850 ~ Sofia Kovalevskaya (d. Feb. 10, 1891), Russian mathematician. She is known for her contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics. She died of influenza 26 days after her 41st birthday.
1827 ~ Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin (d. June 17, 1900), Russian mathematician and clergyman. He died at age 73.
1754 ~ Richard Martin (d. Jan. 6, 1834), Irish activist and co-founder of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). He died 9 days before his 80th birthday.
1717 ~ Matthew Stewart (d. Jan. 23, 1785) Scottish mathematician and cleric. He died 8 days after his 68thbirthday.
1716 ~ Philip Livingston (d. June 12, 1778), early American patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence. He died at age 62.
1622 ~ Molière (né Jean-Baptiste Poquelin; d. Feb. 17, 1673), French playwright. He died of tuberculosis a month after his 51st birthday.
1432 ~ Afonso V of Portugal and the Algarves (d. Aug. 28, 1481). He ruled from September 1438 until his death in August 1481. He was married twice, first to Isabel of Coimbra (1432 ~ 1455), and then to Joanna la Beltraneja (1462 ~ 1530). He was from the House of Aviz. He died at age 49.
Event that Changed the World:
2018 ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day observed.
2009 ~ US Airways Flight 1549 made an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after take-off from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. The plane was piloted by Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (b. 1953). There were no fatalities and the incident became known as the Miracle on the Hudson. This event was also depicted in the 2016 movie, Sully.
2001 ~ Wikipedia became available online.
1971 ~ The Aswan Dam on the Nile in Egypt was dedicated.
1970 ~ Muammar Gadhafi (1942 ~ 2011) was proclaimed premier of Libya.
1970 ~ After nearly 3 years of war in order to gain its independence from Nigeria, Biafra, a small country-state that had seceded from Nigeria in 1967, ceased to exist and became once again incorporated into Nigeria
1967 ~ The first Football Super Bowl was held in Los Angeles, California. The Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the game with a score of 35-10.
1962 ~ The Derveni Papyrus, the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, was found in northern Greece. The papyrus was believed to be from approximately 340 BCE.
1949 ~ During the Chinese Civil War, the Communist forces took over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
1947 ~ The dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short (1924 ~ 1947) was found in Los Angeles. She became known as the Black Dahlia due to the graphic nature of her murder.
1943 ~ The Pentagon, the world’s largest office building, was dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
1934 ~ A massive earthquake in Nepal and Bihar killed between 6,000 and 10,000 people.
1919 ~ The Boston Molasses Disaster occurred when a large tank of molasses burst sending a wave of molasses throughout the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others. This event was depicted in Dennis Lehane’s novel The Given Day.
1892 ~ James Naismith (1861 ~ 1939) published the rules of basketball.
1889 ~ The Coca-Cola Company (initially known as the Pemberton Medicine Company) was incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1870 ~ The donkey is first depicted as representing the United States Democratic party in a cartoon by Thomas Nast (1840 ~ 1902) that was published in Harper’s Weekly.
1844 ~ The University of Notre Dame received its charter from the State of Indiana.
1815 ~ During the War of 1812, the American frigate, the USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur (1779 ~ 1820), was captured by the British.
1782 ~ Robert Morris (1734 ~ 1806), the United States Superintendent of Finance, recommended the establishment of a national mint to the United States Congress.
1759 ~ The British Museum opened.
1559 ~ Elizabeth I (1522 ~ 1603) was crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abby. She had become Queen and began her rule in November 1558 upon the death of her half-sister, Mary I (1516 ~ 1558). She ruled until her death in March 1603.
1493 ~ Christopher Columbus began his return voyage from Hispaniola, thus ending his first trip to the New World.
588 BCE ~ The traditional date given to the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon began and lasted until July 23, 586 BCE.
Good-Byes:
2019 ~ Carol Channing (née Carol Elaine Channing; b. Jan. 31, 1921), American Broadway star who was the definition of Dolly. She was best known for her role as Dolly Levi in the musical Hello, Dolly!, which opened on Broadway on January 16, 1964, almost exactly 45 years before her death. She died 16 days before her 98th birthday.
2018 ~ Dolores O’Riordan (née Dolores Mary Eileen O’Riordan, b. Sept. 6, 1971), Irish Cranberries singer who battled depression. She died unexpectedly at age 46.
2016 ~ Daniel Haggerty (né Daniel Francis Haggerty; b. Nov. 19, 1942), American animal loving actor best known for playing the title role in The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. He died of spinal cancer at age 73.
2014 ~ John Dobson (né John Lowry Dobson, b. Sept. 14, 1915), American former Hindu monk who looked to the stars. He was an amateur astronomer and is best known for the Dobsonian telescope. He died at age 98.
2012 ~ Ed Derwinski (né Edward Joseph Derwinksi; b. Sept. 15, 1926), 1st United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He served from 1989 to 1992 under President George H.W. Bush. He died at age 85.
2011 ~ Susannah York (née Susannah Yolande Fletcher; b. Jan. 9, 1939), English actress, known as the “English Rose”, who hungered for edgy roles. She died of multiple myeloma 6 days after her 72nd birthday.
2011 ~ Romulus Linney (né Romulus Zachariah Linney, IV; b. Sept. 21, 1930), American playwright who drew on his Southern boyhood. His daughter is the actress Laura Linney. He died at age 80.
2010 ~ Marshall Warren Nirenberg (b. Apr. 10, 1927), American biochemist and recipient of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for breaking the genetic code. He died at age 82.
2007 ~ James Hillier (b. Aug. 22, 1915), Canadian-born scientist who co-designed the electron microscope. He died at age 91.
2005 ~ Ruth Warrick (née Ruth Elizabeth Warrick, b. June 29, 1916), American singer and actress who made her screen debut in Citizen Kane. She played Emily Norton Kane, the aloof, icy first wife of the fictional publisher Charles Foster Kane in the film. She died of pneumonia at age 88.
2004 ~ Olivia Goldsmith (née Randy Goldfield; d. Jan 1, 1949), American author. She died following complications of cosmetic surgery just 2 weeks after her 55th birthday.
2002 ~ Michael Bilandic (né Michael Anthony Bilandic; b. Feb. 13, 1923), Mayor of Chicago. He served as mayor from December 1976 until April 1979. He died a month before his 79th birthday.
2000 ~ Carolyn Eisele (b. June 13, 1902), American mathematician and math historian. She died at age 97.
1996 ~ Amber Hagerman (b. Nov. 25, 1986), American kidnapped and murder victim. Her kidnapping inspired the AMBER Alert system for missing children. She was 9 years old at the time of her abduction. She was abducted on January 15, 1996; her body was discovered 2 days later, on January 17.
1994 ~ Harry Nilsson (né Harry Edward Nilsson, III; b. June 15, 1941), American singer-songwriter and musician. He died of a heart attack at age 52.
1993 ~ Sammy Cahn (né Samuel Cohen; b. June 18, 1913), American lyricist who wrote many songs for Broadway shows. He is also known for his winter song, Let it Snow! He died at age 79.
1988 ~ Seán MacBride (b. Jan. 26, 1904), Irish politician and recipient of the 1974 Nobel Peace Prize. He died 11 days before his 84th birthday.
1987 ~ Ray Bolger (né Raymond Wallace Bolger, b. Jan. 10, 1904), American actor best known for his role as the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He died of cancer 5 days after his 83rdbirthday.
1983 ~ Meyer Lansky (né Meier Suchowlanski; b. July 4, 1902), Russian-born American gangster. He died of lung cancer at age 80.
1973 ~ Ivan Petrovsky (b. Jan. 18, 1901), Russian mathematician. He died 3 days before his 72nd birthday.
1970 ~ William Piper, Sr. (né William Thomas Piper; b. Jan. 8, 1881), American businessman and founder of Piper Aircraft. He died 7 days after his 89th birthday.
1948 ~ Josephus Daniels (b. May 18, 1862), 41st Secretary of the Navy. He served under President Woodrow Wilson from March 1913 until March 1921. Although he was not a member, he was a strong supporter of the KKK. He died at age 85.
1947 ~ Black Dahlia (né Elizabeth Short; b. July 29, 1924), American waitress and murder victim. She was the victim of a gruesome and highly publicized murder, which remains unsolved. She was 22 years old at the time of her death.
1945 ~ Wilhelm Wirtinger (b. July 15, 1865), Austrian mathematician. He died at age 79.
1927 ~ David R. Francis (né David Rowland Francis; d. Oct. 1, 1850), 20th United States Secretary of the Interior. He served under Presidents Grover Cleveland and William McKinley from September 1896 until March 1897. He had been the United States Ambassador to Russia during the Russian Revolution. He died at age 76.
1919 ~ Rosa Luxemburg (né Rozalia Luksenburg; b. Mar. 5, 1871), Polish socialist revolutionary, Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and political activist. She was murdered by the Freikorps, a group was right-wing paramilitary group in Germany. She was 47 at the time of her murder.
1915 ~ Nikolay Umov (b. Jan. 23, 1844), Russian physicist and mathematician. He died 8 days before his 69thbirthday.
1896 ~ Mathew Brady (b. May 18, 1822), American pioneer in photography. He is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War. He died at age 73.
1891 ~ John Wellborn Root (b. Jan. 10, 1850), American architect who helped develop the “Chicago School” style of architecture. He designed the Rookery Building in Chicago. He died of pneumonia 5 days after his 41st birthday.
1889 ~ Sarah Bagley (née Sarah George Bagley; b. Apr. 19, 1806), American activist for woman’s rights and labor reform. She was born in Candia, New Hampshire. She died at age 81.
1876 ~ Eliza Johnson (née Eliza McCardle; b. Oct. 4, 1810), American wife of President Andrew Johnson. They married in March 1827. She became the First Lady at age 54 when President Johnson assumed the presidency. She served in that role April 1965 until March 1869. She died at age 65.
1865 ~ Edward Everett (b. Apr. 11, 1794), 20th United States Secretary of State. He served in this office from November 1852 until March 1853. He served under President Millard Fillmore. Previously, he had served as the 15th Governor of Massachusetts, from January 1836 until January 1840. The town of Everett, Massachusetts was named in his honor. He died at age 70.
1815 ~ Emma, Lady Hamilton (née Amy Lyon; b. Apr. 26, 1761), English mistress of Horatio Nelson. She died of liver failure at age 49.
1790 ~ John Landen (b. Jan. 23, 1719), English mathematician. He died 8 days before his 71st birthday.
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