1785 – Continental Congress convenes in NYC
1861 – Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform
1919 – 3 year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed
1927 – Louis B. Mayer head of film studio MGM announces creation of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
1936 – Charles Anderson enters Kentucky House of Representatives
1941 – Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton
1976 – Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Pacific Overtures” opens at Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 193 performances, wins 2 Tony and 2 Drama Desk Awards
1981 – Palau adopts constitution
1998 – Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed.
1998 – 24th People’s Choice Awards: Harrison Ford and Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen and Oprah Winfrey win (TV)
Author: gil7
Today in History for 11th January 2022
Historical Events
1775 – Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC)
1779 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
1865 – Battle of Beverly, West Virginia, Confederate forces attack Union post
1962 – Landslide at dormant volcano Huascaran in Peru kills an estimated 4,000
1978 – Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 and Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link)
1981 – NFC Championship, Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Eagles beat Dallas Cowboys, 20-7
Famous Birthdays
1630 – John Rogers, American President of Harvard in the US (d. 1684)
1901 – Andries D Copier, Dutch glass manufacturer (Gildeglass)
1920 – John Powell, campaigner
1965 – Roland Scholten, Dutch darts player (UK Open 2004), born in The Hague, Netherlands
1968 – Benjamin List, German chemist (2021 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for asymmetric organocatalysis), born in Frankfurt, Germany
1993 – Flora Cross, French-American actress, born in Paris, France
Famous Deaths
1771 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens, French author, dies at 66
1847 – Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, dies at 83
1870 – Adolf Ganz, German composer and violinist, dies at 73
1931 – James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852)
1952 – Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor, dies at 66
1994 – John Bradley, United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt. Suribachi (see Iwo Jima), dies of a stroke at 70
Famous Deaths for 10th January 2022
314 – Pope St. Miltiades, Bishop of Rome (311-314)
1777 – Spranger Barry, Irish Shakespearean actor, dies at 57
1780 – Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian organist/composer, dies at 82
1939 – Jameson Thomas, British actor (Piccadilly, Farmer’s Wife), dies from tuberculosis at 50
1954 – Fred Raymond, Austrian composer, dies at 53
1966 – Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom), dies at 69
1986 – Joseph Kraft, American columnist, dies at 61
1989 – Colin Winchester, Australian Assistant Police Commissioner, murdered (b. 1933)
2008 – Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (b. 1967)
2017 – Clare Hollingworth, British war correspondent who was the first to report on the outbreak of WWII, dies at 105
Historical Events for 10th January 2022
1475 – Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui
1862 – Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek)
1930 – Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England v NZ Christchurch
1945 – LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
1954 – A Comet jet airliner crashes in the Mediterranean; 35 people are missing
1970 – Preview Center opens at Walt Disney World, Florida – first building to open
1994 – Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs
1997 – Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as president of Nicaragua
1997 – 1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1
2018 – Jeff Bezos becomes the second man worth over $100 billion as his wealth hits $106 billion due to a rise in Amazon’s share price
Today in History for 10th January 2022
Historical Events
1889 – Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
1914 – Yuan Shih-k’ai, president of the new Chinese republic, dissolves parliament and prepares a constitution of his own design: he will set himself up as dictator, preparatory to an attempt to make himself emperor
1948 – “Call Me Mister” closes at National Theater NYC after 734 performances
1965 – WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
1966 – The Georgia House of Representatives votes 184-12 to deny Julian Bond his seat as a result of his opposition to the Vietnam War
1991 – Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
Famous Birthdays
1502 – Hendrik Niclaes, German mystic and founder of Christian sect “Familia Caritatis”, born in Münster, Germany (d. 1570)
1538 – Louis of Nassau, Dutch general, born in Dillenburg, Germany (d. 1574)
1573 – Simon Marius, German astronomer, born in Gunzenhausen, Germany (d. 1624)
1654 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar, born in London, United Kingdom (d. 1712)
1963 – Deborah Bone, English mental health nurse who was the inspiration for the song Disco 2000 by Jarvis Cocker, born in Sheffield, England (d. 2014)
1971 – Sergi Bruguera, Italian tennis star, born in Barcelona, Spain
Famous Deaths
1951 – [Harry] Sinclair Lewis, American writer (Nobel Prize in Literature 1930), dies from advanced alcoholism at 65
1966 – George Cresswell, cricketer (Took 13 wkts in 3 Tests for NZ), suicide
1997 – Hilary Grover Barratt Brown, conservationist, dies at 71
2015 – Francesco Rosi, Italian film director (“The Mattei Affair” – Palme d’Or 1972), dies at 92
2020 – Guido Messina, Italian road and track cyclist (World C’ship gold individual 4000m pursuit 1948, 53, 54, 55, 56; Olympic gold team 1952), dies at 89
2021 – Donald Smith, English cricket batsman (3 Tests; Sussex), dies at 97
Famous Deaths for 9th January 2022
1283 – Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China and scholar-general in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty, executed at 46
1653 – John Haynes, 5th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, dies at 58
1800 – Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
1828 – Pieter ‘t Hoen, Dutch journalist and patriot (Neder-Rhijn), dies at 83
1879 – Don Joaquin BF Espartero, fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, dies at 86
1958 – Paul Fechter, German writer (Der Zauberer Gottes), dies at 77
1966 – Haro Levoni Step’anian, Armenian composer, dies at 68
1975 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor (Monsieur Vincent, Grand Illusion), dies at 77
1994 – Silas Hogan, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 82
2006 – Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
Historical Events for 9th January 2022
1839 – Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
1858 – Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide
1915 – Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated in San Francisco
1923 – Swaraj political party founded in India with Chittaranjan Das as president and Motilal Nehru its secretary
1941 – 6,000 Jews murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest, Romania
1951 – Washington Capitals NBA club folds
1953 – Korean ferryboat “Chang Tyong-Ho” sank off Pusan killing 249
1960 – Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
1966 – Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
1976 – Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
Today in History for 9th January 2022
Historical Events
1930 – Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
1972 – Retired passenger liner Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbour
1990 – US Supreme Court strikes down Dallas’ ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
1998 – Boston Red Sox Mo Vaughn pleads not guilty to drunken driving
2001 – Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music and videos
2007 – Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone
Famous Birthdays
1870 – Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge)
1901 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (Blondie), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1973)
1916 – Peter Twinn, English World War II code-breaker, born in Streatham, London (d. 2004)
1940 – Al Downing, American rockabilly piano player and singer (Big Al and The Chartbusters), born in Centralia, Oklahoma (d. 2005)
1959 – Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician, born in Pitești, Romania
1972 – Jay Powell, American baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins), born in Meridian, Mississippi
Famous Deaths
1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
1876 – Samuel Gridley Howe, United States physician, abolitionist, and an advocate of education for the blind, dies at 74
1904 – Alfred Richard, cricketer (6 and 0 in only Test for S Af 1895-96), dies
1929 – Heiner Muller, writer, dies
1941 – Ko Boezeman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
2017 – Warren Allen Smith, American gay rights activist and writer, dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 8th January 2022
1100 – Antipope Clement III, Italian archbishop, dies at about 71
1891 – Fredrik Pacius, composer, dies at 81
1950 – Joseph A Schumpeter, Aus/US economist/Minister of Finance, dies at 66
1952 – Antonia Maury, discoverer (supergiant, giant and dwarf stars), dies
1989 – Kenneth McMillan, American actor (Malone, Concrete Beat), dies of liver disease at 56
1992 – Johnny Meijer, Dutch accordionist known as the King of Accordions (Body and Soul), dies at 79
1995 – Carlos Monzon [El Macho], Argentine medium weight boxing champ (1970-77), dies at 52
2000 – Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
2015 – Virginia “Patsy” Garrett, American singer and actress (Nanny and the Professor, Fred Waring’s Pleasure Time), dies at 93
2020 – Edd Byrnes, American actor (77 Sunset Strip, Jack the Ripper), dies at 87
Historical Events for 8th January 2022
1816 – Sophie Germain is the first woman to win a prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her paper on elasticity
1833 – Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established
1870 – US mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins
1901 – New South Wales score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes
1906 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
1913 – Frank Chance becomes NY Yankees manager
1971 – Voyageurs National Park, Minn, established
1981 – Isabel Allende begins a letter to her dying grandfather that will become her first novel “The House of the Spirits”
1989 – AFC Championship, Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati: Cincinnati Bengals beat Buffalo Bills, 21-10
2008 – 34th People’s Choice Awards: Johnny Depp and Reese Witherspoon win (Movie Star) and Patrick Dempsey and Katherine Heigl win (TV)