1879 – Don Joaquin BF Espartero, fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, dies at 86
1966 – Haro Levoni Step’anian, Armenian composer, dies at 68
1975 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor (Monsieur Vincent, Grand Illusion), dies at 77
1977 – Alexey Fedorovich Kozlovsky, Russian composer, dies at 71
1985 – Don Brennan, cricket wicket-keeper (England in 2 Tests 1951), dies
1991 – Chris Baay, Dutch actor (Tomorrow It Will Be Better, Klatergoud, Surprise Raid), dies at 86
2008 – Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (b. 1923)
2009 – Dave Dee, British musician (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich), dies of cancer at 67
2019 – Joseph Howze, American Roman Catholic bishop, 1st African American Bishop to be appointed in 20th century, dies at 95
2020 – Pete Dye, American golf course designer (TPC at Sawgrass, Crooked Stick, Oakwood CC), dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 94
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Historical Events for 9th January 2021
1861 – Mississippi secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1908 – Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
1929 – KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
1956 – Abigail Van Buren’s [Pauline Phillips] “Dear Abby” advice column 1st appears in newspapers
1970 – Constitution of Singapore enacted
1995 – Ecuador and Peru involved in boundary fight
1998 – Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
2006 – 11th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards: Brokeback Mountain wins Best Film
2007 – 33rd People’s Choice Awards: Johnny Depp and Jennifer Aniston win (Movie Star) and Patrick Dempsey and Eva Longoria win (TV)
2018 – The first same-sex marriages take place in Australia after legislation passed a month ago
Today in History for 9th January 2021
Historical Events
1855 – Clipper “Guiding Star” disappears in Atlantic, 480 dead
1937 – Italian regime bans marriages between Italians and Abyssinians
1970 – Constitution of Singapore enacted
1989 – Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 – Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) and lose 87-78
1998 – Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
Famous Birthdays
1867 – Jacques Urlus, Dutch tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth)
1940 – Barbara Buczek, Polish composer, born in Kraków, Poland (d. 1993)
1967 – Jamie Huscroft, Canadian NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames), born in Creston, British Columbia
1971 – MF Doom [Daniel Dumile], American hip hop artist, born in London, United Kingdom
1974 – Jamain Stephens, American NFL offensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers), born in Lumberton, North Carolina
1976 – Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer, born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Famous Deaths
1907 – Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Queen of Hanover, dies at 88
1911 – Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
1969 – Ladislav Vycpalek, composer, dies at 86
1971 – Giannis Christou, Greek composer (b. 1926)
1991 – Chris Baay, Dutch actor (Tomorrow It Will Be Better, Klatergoud, Surprise Raid), dies at 86
2017 – Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-born sociologist (Modernity and the Holocaust), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 8th January 2021
1336 – Giotto di Bondone, Italian Renaissance painter, dies at about 71
1811 – Friedrich Nicolai, writer, dies
1932 – Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (model of holiness in the daily life of a Catholic family), dies at 65
1975 – John Gregson, British actor (Gideon CID, The Longest Day, Shirley’s World), dies from a heart attack at 55
1989 – Kenneth McMillan, American actor (Malone, Concrete Beat), dies of liver disease at 56
1989 – Johnny Jordaan [Jan van Musscher], Dutch folk singer, dies at 64
1993 – Theo Bruins, Dutch concert pianist and composer (Sei Studi; Syncope), dies at 63
2011 – Hans Ulrich Engelmann, German composer (Ophelia), dies at 79
2013 – Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian Inuit artist, dies from lung cancer at 85
2017 – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 4th President of Iran (1989-97) and de facto commander-in-chief of the Iranian military during the Iran-Iraq War, dies of a heart attack at 82
Historical Events for 8th January 2021
1884 – Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz
1902 – 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Illinois)
1902 – The United Irish League, a leading force for unification in all Ireland and independence from Britain, holds its convention in Dublin
1952 – Jordan adopts constitution
1972 – NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall
1974 – Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York
1979 – Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh
2001 – 28th American Music Awards: Faith Hill and Kid Rock win
2009 – College Football, 11th BCS National Championship, Dolphin Stadium, Miami Gardens: #2 Florida beats #1 Oklahoma, 24-14
2009 – A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit Costa Rica´s region of Volcan Poás, with an epicenter near Cinchona. It was caused by Varablanca-Angel fault.
Today in History for 8th January 2021
Historical Events
1705 – George Frideric Handel’s 1st opera “Almira” premieres in Hamburg
1917 – Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy
1935 – Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
1974 – E Wilson Jr’s musical “Let My People Come” premieres in NYC
1995 – 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000
2013 – 2,130 prisoners held by the Syrian government are exchanged for 48 Iranians kidnapped by Syrian rebels
Famous Birthdays
1786 – Nicholas Biddle, American financier, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1844)
1873 – Elena of Montenegro, queen of Italy (d. 1956)
1941 – Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator, born in Lima, Peru
1943 – Lee Jackson, English bass guitarist and singer-songwriter (Nice), born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
1963 – Hiromi Kobayashi, Japanese golfer (3 LPGA Tour titles), born in Iwaki, Fukushima
1979 – Sequoyah, chimpanzee (son of Washoe)
Famous Deaths
1567 – Jacob Vaet, Flemish composer/royal chaplain master, dies at about 37
1789 – Jack Broughton, English boxer (published first boxing code), dies at 85
1880 – Emperor Norton [Joshua Abraham Norton], British born self proclaimed “Norton I, Emperor of the United States”, dies at 60
1979 – Sara Carter, American country musician, songwriter and vocalist (Carter Family), dies at 81
2006 – Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
2019 – Patricia McBride Lousada, American ballerina (NYC Ballet Co) and cookbook author, dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 7th January 2021
1400 – Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
1598 – Feodor I (Fyodor/Theodore Ivanovich), Tsar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40
1786 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
1830 – Infanta Carlota Joaquina, daughter of Charles IV of Spain and wife of John VI of Portugal, dies at 53
1960 – Luís Costa, Portuguese composer, dies at 80
1985 – Johnny Guarnieri, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show), dies at 67
1990 – Joseph Robbie, lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73
1994 – Bobby Pratt, American jazz trombone and piano player, dies at 67
1996 – Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist, dies at 88
2015 – Rod Taylor, Australian actor (Time Machine, The Birds), dies at 84
Historical Events for 7th January 2021
1579 – England signs an offensive and defensive alliance with Netherland
1610 – Galileo Galilei discovers the first three moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa and Ganymede
1698 – Russian Tsar Peter the Great departs Netherlands for England
1830 – 1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
1896 – Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook “The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book”
1899 – Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier’s
1916 – In response to pressure from President Woodrow Wilson, Germany notifies the US State Department that it will abide by strict international rules of maritime warfare
1945 – The last surface engagement between Allies and Japanese in the Pacific campaign, World War II
1972 – Lewis F. Powell Jr. becomes a US Supreme Court Justice
1973 – Mark Essex’s mass shooting comes to an end after he is shot by police more than 200 times on the roof of New Orlean’s Holiday Inn hotel. He killed nine people, including five policeman.
Today in History for 7th January 2021
Historical Events
1910 – Stanley Cup, Dey’s Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (ON), 3-1 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
1929 – “Buck Rogers” sci-fi comic strip’s 1st appearance in a newspaper
1942 – WW II siege of Bataan starts
1948 – US President Harry Truman raises taxes for the Marshall Plan
1986 – STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems
1990 – Tower of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
Famous Birthdays
1685 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
1916 – Bobo Jenkins [John Pickens Jenkins], American blues singer-songwriter (Democrat Blues), born in Forkland, Alabama (d. 1984)
1922 – Robert De Cormier, American conductor and musical director (The Belafonte Folk Singers), born in Long Island, New York (d. 2017)
1929 – Mario Bergamaschi, Italian soccer midfielder (5 caps; Calcio Como, A.C. Milan, U.C. Sampdoria), born in Crema, Italy (d. 2020)
1935 – Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, Soviet/Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 19, 36/35), born in Vyazniki, Russia (d. 2014)
1970 – Paul McCallum, Canadian football punter and placekicker (Claymores, Sask Roughriders), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
Famous Deaths
1590 – Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61
1830 – Infanta Carlota Joaquina, daughter of Charles IV of Spain and wife of John VI of Portugal, dies at 53
1830 – Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter, dies at 60
1907 – Anton Urspruch, composer, dies at 56
1981 – Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (b. 1908)
1995 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
Famous Deaths for 6th January 2021
1646 – Elias Hill, German architect of Augsburg, dies at 72
1831 – Rodolphe Kreutzer, French composer (La mort d’Abel) and virtuoso violinist, dies at 64
1847 – Tyagaraja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music, dies at 79
1907 – Walter Read, cricketer (Engl batsman, 117 at no 10 v Aust 1884), dies
1942 – Emma Calvé, French soprano (b. 1858)
1994 – “Iron” Adriaan van Es, Dutch undersec of Navy (1963-72), dies at 80
1994 – Virginia Kelley Clinton, Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70
1995 – Edward Sutcliffe, British judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77
2006 – Hugh Thompson Jr., American Vietnam War veteran who played a major role in ending the 1968 My Lai massacre, dies of cancer at 62
2007 – Roberta Wohlstetter, military historian and strategist (b. 1912)