1531 – Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die
1697 – Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli’s 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
1861 – Louisiana secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1934 – Nazi Germany and Poland sign 10-year non-aggression treaty
1940 – Nazis forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains
1958 – Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
1958 – Jack Smith takes over from Art Baker as TV host of “You Asked for It”
1990 – Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica and South Atlantic
1991 – Australian Open Women’s Tennis: Monica Seles becomes the only Yugoslav player – male or female – to win a Grand Slam singles title; beats Jana Novotná 5-7, 6-3, 6-1
1993 – West Indies defeat Australia by one run in 4th Test at Adelaide
Author: gil7
Today in History for 26th January 2023
Historical Events
1929 – Rube Goldberg’s “The Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, A.K.,” cartoon series first published in “Colliers Weekly”
1959 – KOKH TV channel 25 in Oklahoma City, OK (IND/PBS) begins broadcasting
1991 – Houston guard Vernon Maxwell is 4th NBAer to score 30 pts in a quarter
1997 – Super Bowl XXXI, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA: Green Bay Packers beat New England Patriots, 35-21; MVP: Desmond Howard, Green Bay KR
2003 – Australian Open Men’s Tennis: Andre Agassi of the US wins his 8th and last Grand Slam title; beats Rainer Schuttler of Germany 6-2, 6-2, 6-1
2018 – Residents left without heat in -27C in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan after boiler breaks in main power station
Famous Birthdays
1813 – Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876
1857 – Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama, born in Tibet (d. 1875)
1924 – Warren Frank Benson, American composer (The Leaves Are Falling), and educator (Eastman School, 1967-1993), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2005)
1925 – Paul Newman, American actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler), auto racer and team owner (Newman/Haas Racing) and charity food company founder (Newman’s Own), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2008)
1932 – Ronald Allison, British author/broadcaster
1964 – Cathy Podewell, American actress (Cally Harper Ewing-Dallas), born in Evanston, Illinois
Famous Deaths
1870 – Cesare Pugni, Italian composer, dies at 67
1920 – Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered
1974 – Wiktor Labunski, Polish-American composer, dies at 78
1975 – Lubov Orlova, Russian actress (Moscow Laughs; Man of Music; Tanya), dies at 74
2007 – Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at 77
2021 – Jozef Vengloš, Slovak soccer manager (Australia, Czechoslovakia, Malaysia, Fenerbahçe, Aston Villa, Celtic, Slovakia), dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 25th January 2023
1751 – Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts, dies at 75
1920 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (Reclining Nude), dies at 35
1952 – Sveinn Bjornsson, Danish 1st President of Iceland (1944-52), dies at 70
1957 – Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
1970 – Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese television writer and producer (Ultraman) (b. 1901)
1978 – Tango Duke, dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse
1991 – Stanley Brock, American actor (UHF, Hard to Kill, Ivan-He’s the Mayor), dies of a heart attack at 59
1991 – Hoot Evers, American MLB player, dies at 69
2004 – Francina “Fanny” Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (Olympic gold 100m, 200m, 80m hurdles, 4x100m relay 1948), dies at 85
2017 – Robert Garcia, American politician hit by Wedtech scandal (Rep-D-NY, 1978-83), dies at 84
Historical Events for 25th January 2023
1885 – Vincent d’Indy’s “Saugefleurie” premieres
1904 – John Millington Synge’s play “Riders to the Sea” premieres in Dublin
1907 – Julia Ward Howe is first woman elected to National Institute of Arts and Letters (USA)
1945 – West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma
1952 – Test debut of great Australian cricket captain (62 Tests) and broadcaster Richie Benaud, v West Indies at the SCG
1966 – WCMC (now WMGM) TV channel 40 in Wildwood, NJ (NBC) 1st broadcast
1977 – 30th NHL All-Star Game, Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC: Wales beats Campbell, 4-3; MVP: Rick Martin, Buffalo Sabres, LW
1998 – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka’s Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others.
2019 – At least 20 people have died this week in Venezuelan anti-government protests according to the UN
2019 – Documentary “Leaving Neverland” detailing singer Michael Jackson’s relationship with two boys premieres at the Sundance Film Festival
Today in History for 25th January 2023
Historical Events
1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
1906 – Del Valle Inclans “El Marqués de Bradomin” premieres in Madrid
1941 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
1955 – US and Panama sign canal treaty
1970 – Dark comedy film “M*A*S*H”, directed by Robert Altman, starring Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, and based on novel by Richard Hooker, premieres (Palme d’Or 1970)
2013 – Initial GDP figures for the fourth quarter of 2012 show the UK economy shrank by 0.3% raising fears of a triple dip recession
Famous Birthdays
1640 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English polymath and aristocrat, born in Handsworth, England (d. 1707)
1736 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician and astronomer (number theory, celestial mechanics), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1813)
1814 – Francis Harrison Pierpont, American lawyer and politician (Union), born in Morgantown, West Virginia (d. 1899)
1900 – Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer, born in Hirosaki, Japan (d. 1986)
1931 – Harold Lloyd Jr., American actor, singer and son of famous silent film actor Harold Lloyd, Sr. (Frankenstein’s Daughter), born in Beverly Hills, California (d. 1971)
1987 – Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player, born in Moscow, Russia
Famous Deaths
1910 – Leon Walras, French economist (School of Lausanne), dies at 75
1933 – William Faulkes, British organist, transcriber and composer, dies at 59
1949 – Emil Axman, Czech composer, dies at 61
1972 – Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1998 – Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afganistan in (1963-65), dies
2016 – Concepcion Picciotto, American peace activist (longest political protest in US history, outside The White House), dies at 80
Famous Deaths for 24th January 2023
1864 – Stephen Gardner Champlin, brigadier general (Union), dies at about 36
1901 – Simon Hassler, German-American composer, dies at 68
1967 – Howard Charles Shaiffer, entertainer, dies at 49
1969 – Pauline Hall, Norwegian composer, dies at 78
1970 – Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891)
1973 – Alan Lisette, New Zealand cricketer (NZ slow left-armer vs West Indies 1956), dies at 53
1991 – Harold “Shot” Jackson, American country dobro player, and pedal steel guitarist (Roy Acuff), and guitar designer and builder (Sho-Bud), dies after his second stroke at 70
1992 – John Bleifer, actor (Highway to Heaven), dies at 90
1998 – Walter Bishop, Jr, American bebop jazz pianist, music theorist, and educator, dies of a heart attack at 70
2008 – J. Robert Hooper, American politician, dies at 71
Historical Events for 24th January 2023
1936 – Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
1944 – Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy
1950 – Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history
1959 – WHCT TV channel 18 in Hartford, CT (IND) begins broadcasting
1973 – Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1976 – Former world heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman KOs Ron Lyle in 5th round at Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas; Foreman knocked down twice in 4th; ‘The Ring’ Fight of the Year
1981 – Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques
2021 – NFC Championship, Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisconsin: Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat Green Bay Packers, 31-26
2022 – 19 die in a fight and a fire at a nightclub in Sorong city, West Papua, Indonesia
2022 – At least 34 people killed and 65,000 left homeless after two different tropical storms batter Madagascar and Mozambique with Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo particularly affected
Today in History for 24th January 2023
Historical Events
1568 – In Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw
1847 – 1,500 New Mexican Indians and Mexicans defeated by US Colonel Price
1900 – Battle of Spion Kop: South African Boers defeat the British army after it attempts to cross the Tugela River and relieve the besieged city Ladysmith
2001 – Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson resigns
2006 – After losing the federal election to Stephen Harper, Paul Martin resigns as leader of the Liberal party
2013 – A Japanese Coast guard ship engages a Taiwanese activist ship in the Senkaku Islands dispute
Famous Birthdays
1778 – Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, son of French King Charles X, born in Versailles, France (d. 1820)
1820 – John Milton Thayer, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Bellingham, Massachusetts (d. 1906)
1872 – Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958)
1872 – Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
1948 – Elliott Abrams, American ass. secretary of state/supplied arms to the Contras, born in New York
1987 – Luis Suárez, Uruguayan football player (Barcelona, Uruguay national team), born in Salto, Uruguay
Famous Deaths
1619 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator against the rule of James I of England, dies at 54
1678 – Joan Maetsuyker, gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 72
1924 – Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, dies at 29
1979 – Mabel Taliaferro, actress (My Love Come Back), dies at 91
1986 – L. Ron Hubbard, American sci-fi writer (Death Quest) and founder of the Scientology cult, dies at 74
1992 – Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (b. 1950)
Famous Deaths for 23rd January 2023
1199 – Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (b. 1160)
1622 – William Baffin, English explorer, dies of a gunshot wound at in attack on Qeshm about 38
1785 – Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
1988 – Dan Daniel, American politician (Rep-D-VA, 1969-88), dies at 73
1993 – Thomas A. Dorsey, American jazz pianist (Take My Hand, Precious Lord), dies at 93
1997 – Charles Craig, English opera singer, dies at 77
1997 – Roger John Tayler, British astrophysicist (author of The Origin of the Chemical Elements), dies at 67
2002 – Igor Kipnis, American harpsichordist, pianist, conductor, and educatordies of renal cancer at 71
2007 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1932)
2017 – Gorden Kaye, British actor (Allo Allo), dies at 75
Historical Events for 23rd January 2023
1908 – US and Great Britain demand end of abuses in Congo
1950 – Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel
1951 – 3rd Emmy Awards: Alan Young Show, Alan Young and Gertrude Berg win
1972 – Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest
1973 – Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs
1977 – Mini-series “Roots” premieres on ABC
1983 – Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean
1984 – Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to win his 1st World Wrestling Federation title at Madison Gardens, New York
2019 – New record for most expensive US property, $238 million for penthouse condominium overlooking Central Park, NY, bought by hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin
2020 – Voice of a 3,000 year old Egyptian priest recreated by scientists 3D printing his vocal tract published in “Scientific Reports”