Historical Events
1571 – Queen Elizabeth I of England opens Royal Exchange in London
1865 – -Jan 25th) Battle of City Point, VA (James River, Trent’s Reach)
1923 – Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th)
1976 – Wash Caps end 25 game winless streak (0-22-3) beat NY Rangers 7-5
1994 – NFC Championship, Texas Stadium, Irving: Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers, 38-21
1994 – Bernie Kosar is 2nd QB to throw TD passes in AFC and NFC Champ games
Famous Birthdays
1923 – Walter M. Miller Jr., American sci-fi author (Hugo, View from Stars), born in New Smyrna Beach, Florida
1930 – William Reid Pogue, American fighter pilot and astronaut (Skylab 4), born in Okemah, Oklahoma (d. 2014)
1955 – Reginald Calloway, American trumpet player (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1971 – Julie Foudy, American soccer midfielder (Olympics 1996), born in San Diego, California
1972 – Anthony Peterson, American NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears, SF 49ers), born in Washington, D.C.
1975 – Tito Ortiz, American UFC fighter, born in Huntington Beach, California
Famous Deaths
1549 – Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498)
1805 – Vaclav Pichl, Czech composer, dies at 63
1995 – Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright, dies at 75
2001 – Eugene [Brother Jack] McDuff, American jazz organist (George Benson, Brother Jack), dies of heart failure at 74
2002 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist and anthropologist, dies at 71
2018 – Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist (Defense of Violeta Parra), dies at 103