1903 – W H M “Dicky” Richards, cricketer (score 4 and 0 in Test for S Af), dies
1924 – Alfred Grünfeld, Austrian pianist, composer (b. 1852)
1926 – Margherita of Savoy, Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy by marriage to Umberto I (1878-1900), dies at 74
1933 – Lucas Lindeboom, Dutch evangelist (Vredebond), dies at 87
1944 – Henri “Hans” Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder
1974 – Karel Janeček, Czech composer, dies at 70
1991 – Poon Lim, Chinese sailor who survived 133 days adrift at sea, dies at 72
1992 – Earl Colbert, entertainer, dies
2007 – Marais Viljoen, former State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
2015 – Barbara Tizard, British educator and author, dies at 88
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Historical Events for 4th January 2022
1868 – Wilkie Collins’ “The Moonstone” is first serialized in “All the Year Round” owned by Charles Dickins
1947 – “Park Avenue” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 72 performances
1976 – AFC Championship, Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Oakland Raiders, 16-10
1981 – “Red Right 88”, trailing 14–12 Clevelands Browns attempt an end zone pass play (Red Right 88) and a game-winning field goal in the final minute, but pass intercepted by Raiders safety Mike Davis and Oakland wins
1994 – 10th largest wrestling crowd (58,000-Tokyo Dome)
1998 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
2000 – After 2 months, Catherine Hartley and Fiona Thornewill, reach the South Poll, the same day as Edmund Hillary 48 years before
2001 – Rapper Vanilla Ice spends night in jail after allegedly ripping out some of his wife’s hair during a row
2004 – College Football, 6th BCS National Championship, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans: #2 LSU beats #1 Oklahoma, 21-14 at 70th Sugar Bowl
2004 – Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia
Today in History for 4th January 2022
Historical Events
1920 – Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits
1965 – LBJ’s “Great Society” State of the Union Address
1975 – New Orleans Jazz set a then NBA record (with 24-second shot clock) by scoring only 20 points in the first half of a 111-89 loss in Seattle; unwanted record stands for nearly 25 years
1998 – “Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” closes at St James NYC after 715 perform
1999 – Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
2014 – Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: France wins first title; Alizé Cornet and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Poland’s Agnieszka Radwańska and Grzegorz Panfil 6-0, 6-2 to clinch 2-1 victory
Famous Birthdays
1925 – Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross country skier (Olympic gold 1952, 56, 60), born in Kurkijoki, Finland (d. 2003)
1929 – Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist
1943 – Doris Kearns Goodwin, American historian and writer (Team of Rivals, No Ordinary Time), born in Brooklyn, New York
1947 – John King, American rock drummer (Steve Miller Band, 1972-74), born in Kingsport, Tennessee (d. 2010)
1960 – Michael Stipe, American rock vocalist and songwriter (R.E.M. – “Losing My Religion”; “Stand”; “Everybody Hurts”), born in Decatur, Georgia
1967 – Michael “Mike” Peterson, American rower (Olympics 1996), born in Washington, D.C.
Famous Deaths
1612 – Henry L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer, dies at 62
1825 – Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies at 73
1886 – Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher (Horace), dies at 77
1942 – Leon Jessel, German composer (The Parade of the Tin Soldiers), dies at 70
1968 – Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83
2020 – Walter Ormeño, Peruvian soccer goalkeeper (Peru 1949-57; Boca Juniors, Rosario Central), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 3rd January 2022
236 – St Anterus, Catholic Pope (235-6) dies in office and buried in Rome
1960 – Victor Sjöström, Swedish director (Wind, Under the Red Robe), dies at 80
1965 – Julius Tannen, comedian, dies at 84
1967 – Mary Garden, opera star, dies at 92
1970 – Gladys Aylward, British missionary in China; portrayed by Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (b. 1902)
1997 – Roger Goeb, American composer, dies at 82
2004 – Des Corcoran, Premier of South Australia (b. 1928)
2009 – Olga San Juan, American actress, dancer and comedian (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus), dies at 81
2012 – Wylie Walker Vale, American endocrinologist who discovered the stress hormone, dies at 70
2014 – Saul Zaentz, American record company executive (Fantasy), and film producer (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest; Amadeus; The Unbearable Lightness Of Being; The English Patient), dies of Alzheimer’s disease complications at 92
Historical Events for 3rd January 2022
1638 – Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of “Hostage rights of Aemstel”
1862 – Romney Campaign: Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester
1889 – Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood
1955 – Jose Ramon Guizado becomes president of Panama
1987 – Aretha Franklin is the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
2007 – National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport.
2007 – High profile Miami Dolphins NFL head coach Nick Saban resigns after agreeing to return to college football and take head coaching job at Alabama
2013 – 42nd Fiesta Bowl: #5 Oregon beats #7 Kansas State, 35-17
2018 – Security expert reveal two security flaws, Meltdown and Spectre which affect most microprocessors
2019 – 116th US Congress convenes in Washington, D.C., electing Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House of Representatives for the second time
Today in History for 3rd January 2022
Historical Events
1496 – Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine
1967 – Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion
1977 – Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computer, Inc
1992 – 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter
1993 – In Moscow, the Start II arms reduction treaty is signed by George H. W. Bush (USA) and Boris Yeltsin (Russia)
2012 – 78th Sugar Bowl: #13 Michigan beats #11 Virginia Tech, 23-20
Famous Birthdays
1861 – Ernest Renshaw, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1888), born in Leamington, England (d. 1899)
1887 – Helen Parkhurst, US educator (Education on the Dalton plan)
1901 – Ngô Đình Diệm, President and authoritarian leader of South Vietnam (1954-63), born in Quảng Bình, French Indochina (d. 1963)
1973 – Dan Harmon, American voice actor, producer and writer (Rick and Morty, Community), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1977 – Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress (seiyū)
1986 – Lloyd Polite, American RandB singer
Famous Deaths
1761 – Willem de Fesch, Dutch violinist and composer (Joseph), dies at 73
1900 – Edwin George Monk, English church organist and composer, dies at 80
1980 – Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (Tour de France 1926), dies at 87
1980 – Joy Adamson [Friederike Viktoria Gessner], Austrian naturalist and author (Born Free), murdered at 69 by her servant
1981 – Princess Alice of Albany (b. 1883)
2007 – William Verity Jr., United States Secretary of Commerce 1987-1989 (b. 1917)
Famous Deaths for 2nd January 2022
17 – Ovid, Roman poet (Metamorphoses), dies at ~59
1789 – Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer of Schauensee, Swiss composer and organist, dies at 68
1911 – Kanno Sugako, Japanese anarcho-feminist, hanged for her role in the plot to assassinate Emperor Meiji at 29
1936 – Sir Francis Newdegate, English politician (Governor of Tasmania, Western Australia), dies at 73
1950 – James Dooley, Irish-Australian Premier of New South Wales, dies at 72
1955 – Jose Antonio Remon, President of Panama (1952-55), assassinated at 46
1971 – Lloyd Hall, African-American chemist and pioneer in food chemistry (science of food preservation), dies at 76
1994 – Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (17th Governor of Washington) and chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), dies at 79
2012 – Ivan Calin, Moldavian President and Prime Minister 1980-1990, dies at 76
2019 – “Mean” Gene Okerlund, American pro wrestling interviewer, announcer and television host (WWF, WCW), dies of kidney failure at 76
Historical Events for 2nd January 2022
1585 – Spain and Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville
1791 – Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
1831 – Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston
1843 – Richard Wagner’s opera “The Flying Dutchman” premieres in Dresden
1885 – General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum
1920 – Responding to global fear of communism caused by the Russian Revolution, US Attorney General Palmer authorizes raids across the country on unionists and socialists
1968 – KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, California (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 – Dutch premiere of musical “Hair” in Amsterdam
1974 – Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
1997 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus OH on WBZX 99.7 FM
Today in History for 2nd January 2022
Historical Events
1921 – DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
1923 – Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood Florida, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995)
1972 – “Rothschilds” closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 505 performances
1986 – Islanders right wing Mike Bossy scores his 499th and 500th career goals in the final 2:22 to lift the New York to a 7-5 victory over the Boston Bruins; 11th player in NHL history to score 500 goals
1994 – Battles between army and rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57
1995 – Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)
Famous Birthdays
1822 – Rudolph J E Clausius, German physicist (thermodynamics)
1920 – Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker
1920 – Isaac Asimov, Russian scientist and sci-fi writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy), born in Petrovichi, Russia (d. 1992)
1928 – Harry Hyams, English immovable goods owner (Center Point)
1967 – Tia Carrere [Althea Janairo], American actress (Wayne’s World, True Lies), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
1976 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress
Famous Deaths
1790 – Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, German rococo sculptor, dies at 73
1937 – Ross Alexander, American stage and film actor (Captain Blood, Boulder Dam), commits suicide by gunshot at 29
1988 – E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist, dies at 86
2008 – Gerry Staley, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1952-53, 60; St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox), dies of natural causes at 87
2009 – Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian, dies at 115
2013 – Margaret A. Brewer, American soldier and first female general officer in US Marine Corps, dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 1st January 2022
898 – Odo of France, Count of Paris (888-98), dies at ~39
1766 – James Francis Edward Stuart “The old Pretender”, Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland after the death of his father James II, dies at 77
1800 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French zoologist, dies at 83
1901 – Ignatius Donnelly, American politician, writer, and amateur scientist. dies at 69
1905 – Mabel Cahill, Irish tennis player (US National C’ship 1891-92), dies at 41
1945 – Vit Nejedly, Czech composer, dies at the front during WWII at 33
2005 – Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson, Icelandic pianist and avant-garde composer, dies at 79
2008 – Pratap Chandra Chunder, Indian union minister, dies at 88
2012 – Marcelle Narbonne, French super-centenarian and oldest person in Europe, dies at 113
2020 – Doug Hart, American NFL defensive back (NFL champion 1965, 66, 67; Super Bowl 1967, 68; Green Bay Packers), dies at 80