Anniversaries.

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1349:Jewish pogrom in Basel ,Switzerland.

1431:Judges begin preparation for the trial of Joan of Arc(Jeanne d'Arc) in Rouen ,the seat of English power in France.

1570:Czar Ivan the Terrible massacres residents in Novgorod.

1793:Ist hit air balloon flight in the US.

1799:William Pitt the Younger ,the British P.M. introduces income tax, to help fund the war against Napoleon. It is claimed that it will be a temporary measure.

1806:State funeral of Admiral Horatio Nelson. He is interred in St.Paul's Cathedral, London.His body had been returned to England from Trafalgar preserved in a barrel of rum.

1839: Daguerreotype photo process announced at the French Academy of Science.
First known photograph of a person-captured in a Parisian streetscape by Louis Daguerre in early 1838.

1861:Mississippi secedes from the Union (American Civil War).

1861:First shots of American Civil War fired.

1941:Jewish pogrom in Bucharest.

1941:Maiden flight of Avro Lancaster bomber.

1942:Joe Louis retains world heavyweight boxing title at Madison Square Garden.

1945:General Douglas McArthur returns to the Phillipines at the head of US forces.

1959:"Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates begins in CBS TV.

1960:Building of Egypt's Aswan Dam begins.

1968:Surveyor 7 space probe lands on the Moon.

1969:First trial flight of Concorde supersonic jetliner.
It is called "Concorde" because its construction is the result of an agreement between 2 countries ,France and the UK.

1969:NI PM Terence O'Neill travels to London to brief Home Secretary James Callaghan on the growing unrest in Northern Ireland.

1972: Decommissioned passenger liner Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire in Hong Kong.

1983:Margaret Thatcher visits the Falklands.

1986:After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak gives up its instant camera business.

1992:First discovery of planets outside our Solar System announced.

1992:Serbs in Bosnia proclaim the breakaway Republika Srpska.

1997:Briton Tony Bullimore rescued alive from his capsized boat in the South Atlantic.

1998:Missing head of Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue is returned.

2001:Unmanned Chinese spacecraft launched.

2001:Apple announces iTunes.

2002:Michael Jackson receives the Artist of the Century award at the American music awards.

2005:Second Sudanese war ends.South Sudan given autonomy (becomes fully independent in 2011).

2005:Mahmoud Abbas wins election to succeed Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian Authority.

2007:Steve Jobs announces the iPhone.

Births.
1773:Cassandra Austen,sister of Jane.
1890:Karel Capek,Czech author,believed to be the originator of the word robot.
1898:Gracie Fields,English actress and singer.
1908:Simone de Beauvoir, French writer/feminist.
1913:Richard Milhous Nixon.
1925:Lee van Cleef,American actor often in Westerns
1929:Brian Friel,Irish author and playwright.
1933:Wilbur Smith,Zambian-English journalist and novelist.
1939:Susannah York,English actress.
1941:Joan Baez,American singer-songwriter.
1944:Jimmy Page, musician.
1956:Imelda Staunton, English actress.
1965:Ian Dowie,footballer and coach.
1965:Joely Richardson,English actress.
1973:Sean Paul,rapper,musician.
1980:Sergio Garcia,Spanish golfer.
1982:Kate Middleton ,Duchess of Cambridge.
1987:Paolo Nuttini ,Scottish singer-songwriter.


Deaths.
1324:Marco Polo,Italian explorer.
1873:Napoleon III,French politician and former President of France.
1878:Victor Emmanuel II,the first king of a united Italy.
1923:Katherine Mansfield, NZ writer.
1995:Peter Cook ,English actor and screenwriter.

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49BC:Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon,triggering civil war

1072:Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.(for a century and a half Sicily had been under Muslim control).

1776:Common Sense a pamphlet by Thomas Paine is published. It calls for a war of Independence and is believed to have helped inspire the American Revolution.

1839:Tea from India first arrives in Britain. Prior to this all tea had to be sourced from China.

1840:Penny post mail system starts in the UK.

1861:Florida secedes from the Union(US Civil war).

1863:First underground railway opens in London.

1870:Standard Oil is incorporated by J.D.Rockefeller.

1901:Oil discovered in Texas marking the start of its oil boom.

1912:Maiden flight of the World's first flying boat ,in NY.

1920:Treaty of Versailles comes into effect,officially ending WWI.

1920:Inauguration of the League of Nations in Paris.

1928: Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.

1929:First Adventures of Tintin comic book published.

1943:Soviet offensive against German 4th and 6th armies near Stalingrad.

1946:Radar signals bounced off the Moon detected for the first time.

1947:UN General Assembly meets for the first time.In London.

1951:First jet passenger trip .

1951:UN HQ opens in Manhattan, NY.

1956:Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel.

1957:After Anthony Eden's resignation (over Suez) Harold Macmillan becomes UK PM.

1958: "Great Balls of Fire " number 1 in the UK for Jerry Lee Lewis.

1973:Graduates studying from home receive their degrees from the Open University, for the first time.

1980:Last broadcast of the Rockford Files on NBC.

1984:The US and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations after a 117 year hiatus.

1990:Time Warner formed by the merger of Time inc and Warner Communications.

1994:Trial of Lorena Bobbitt begins.She had cut off her husband's penis.

1999:Fatboyslim no 1 in the UK with "Praise You".

1999:" The Soranos" debuts on NBC.

2018: Due to a rise in the Amazon share price ,Jeff Bezos' wealth rises to $106 billion.Other estimates put his wealth at $140 billion.After a 25 year marriage he and his wife have announced they are to divorce.

Births.
1769:Marshal Michel Ney,Napoleonic General, executed 1815.
1843:Outlaw Frank James.
1903: Dame Barbara Hepworth, British sculptress.
1945:Rod Stewart.
1949:Linda Lovelace ,American porn actress and activist.
1949:George Foreman,US boxer.
1953:Pat Benatar,US singer/songwriter.
1960:Brian Cowen,former Irish Taoiseach.
1976:Ian Poulter,English golfer.

Deaths.
1778:Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish taxonomist.
1862:Samuel Colt,pistol designer ,industrialist.
1917:"Buffalo Bill" Cody, hunter and showman.
1941:Sir John Lavery, NI artist,his portrait of his wife,Lady Lavery ,used on old Irish banknotes.
1961: Dashiell Hammett,American detective novelist and screenwriter.
1971:Coco Chanel,French fashion designer.
1997:Elspeth Huxley,Kenyan-English writer,"The Flame Trees of Thika".
2016: David Bowie,singer,songwriter, actor.

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1569:Ist recorded lottery in England held in St.Paul's Cathedral.

1693:In Sicily Mt.Etna erupts killing around 60,000 people.

1759:Ist American life assurance company is incorporated in Philadelphia.

1787:Titania and Oberon moons of Uranus discovered by William Herschel.

1794:Ist US Marshal killed on duty (In Augusta,Georgia).

1805:The Michigan Territory created.

1813:Ist pineapples planted in Hawaii.

1839:Earthquake in Martinique. Half of Port Royal destroyed. 700 die.

1861:Alabama secedes from the Union(US Civil War).

1864:Charing Cross Station opens in London.

1878:Milk delivered in glass bottles for the first time in NYC.

1879:Anglo-Zulu war commences as Chelmsford invades Zululand in Southern Africa.

1908:Grand Canyon National Monument created.

1919:Romania annexes Transylvania.

1922:Insulin first used in humans to treat diabetes.

1923:French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr to force Germany to make its war reparation payments.

1927:MGM head Louis B.Mayer announced creation of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

1935:Amelia Earhart flies nonstop from Honolulu to Oakland, California.

1942:Japan declares war on the Netherlands and on the same day invades the Dutch East Indies(now called Indonesia).

1942:The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur in Malaya.

1943:The Soviet Red Army encircles Stalingrad.

1943:US and Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China.

1946:Enver Hoxha declares People's Republic of Albania with himself as dictator.

1949:Ist snowfall recorded in Los Angeles.

1964:Panama ends diplomatic relations with the US.

1964:US -Surgeon General reveals government report that smoking may be hazardous.

1966:"Daktari" begins on CBS.

1970:Sinn Féin splits between those supporting continued abstentionism and those against its continuation.

1971:Ist "quickie" divorce granted in the UK.

1972:East Pakistan becomes the independent Bangladesh.

1973:Ist Open University degrees awarded.

1985:First Rock in Rio music festival is held. A massive 1.5 million people attend.

1989:140 countries agree to ban chemical weapons.

1990:200,000 demand independence for Lithuania.

1991:Congress empowers Bush senior to order attack on Iraq.

1991:Soviets storm building in Vilnius to block Lithuanian independence.

1992:Paul Simon begin controversial tour in South Africa.

1993:Howard Stern radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo,NY.

1994:Irish government announced lifting of a 20 year old broadcasting ban on Sinn Féin /IRA (Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act).

1996:Space Shuttle Endeavor launches to space.

2002:First prisoners arrive in Guantanamo Bay.

2007:J.K.Rowling finishes seventh and last Harry Potter novel in the Balmoral Hotel ,Edinburgh.

2009:Golden Globes-wins for Slumdog Millionaire,Mickey Rourke and Kate Winslet.

2010:Simon Ciwell leaves American Idol.

2016:FIFA Ballon d'Or.
Lionel Messi wins his record fifth.

2018:YouTube sanctions vlogger Logan Paul after he posted pictures of Japanese suicide victim the preceding December.

2018:US President Trump cause a shitstorm by referring to certain African countries as "shitholes" during an immigration meeting.

Births.
1755:Alexander Hamilton,economist, politician, philosopher-Ist US Secretary of the Treasury.
1807:Ezra Cornell,American businessman, philanthropist and founder of Western Union and Cornell University.
1815:John A. MacDonald ,Ist Prime Minister of Canada.
1858:Harry Gordon Selfridge, British merchant and founder of Selfridge's-supposed to have coined the phrase "the customer is always right".
1930:Rod Taylor,Australian actor.
1934:Jean Chretien, former Canadian PM.
1938:Arthur Scargill,British miners' leader.
1952:Ben Crenshaw," Gentle Ben",golfer.
1957:Brian Robson,English footballer and manager.
1967:Michael Healy-Rae,Kerry politician.
1971:Mary J.Blige,US singer.
1978:Emil Heskey,English footballer.
1979:Henry Sheflin,Kilkenny hurler.
1987:Jamie Vardy,English footballer.

Deaths.
1753:Hans Sloane,Anglo-Irish physician and academic,founder of the British Museum. Sloane Square in London is named after him.
1843:Frances Scott Key ,writer of the "Star-Spangled Banner"dies.The US national anthem was inspired by events in the War of 1812.
1914:Ambrose Bierce, American short story writer.
1928:Thomas Hardy,English novelist and poet.
1969:Richmal Crompton, English author and educator,writer of the " Just William " books.
1972:Padraic Colum,Irish poet and playwright.
2008:Edmund Hillary,mountaineer.
2913:Tom Party Jones,Welsh chemist who invented the breathalyzer.
2014:Ariel Sharon ,Israel soldier,politician and former PM.
2015:Anita Ekberg,Swedish actress.

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1816:France decrees Bonaparte family exiled from the country forever.

1820:Astronomical Society of London founded in England.
(It is now the Royal Astronomical Society).

1836:Charles Darwin reaches Sydney on H.M.S. Beagle.

1895:National Trust founded in Britain.

1913:After using other aliases over the years Josef Dzhugashvili signs himself as Stalin(Man of Steel) in a letter to a newspaper.

1915:US rejects proposal to give women the vote.

1932:Ist woman elected to the US Senate.

1933:US Congress recognises Phillipine independence.

1943:Soviets raise the siege of Leningrad, one of the longest and costliest in modern history.

1945:Germans retreat from the Battle of the Bulge.

1948:Ist UK supermarket opens.

1948:Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast.

1952:University of Tennessee admits its first black student.

1954:Avalanches in Austria.One kills 200,another 115.

1959:Motown record company founded by Berry Gordon Jr. as Tamala Records.

1962:Ist American combat mission in the Vietnam War.

1966:"Batman" starring Adam West,Burt Ward and Cesar Romero debuts on ABC.

1967:US draft board refuses exemption for Muhammad Ali.

1967:First body is preserved cryonically.

1970:Biafra capitulates and Nigerian civil war ends.

1979:Blizzard kills over 100 in US Midwest.

1981:Soap opera "Dynasty" premieres on ABC.

1990:Romania bans Communist party.

1995:NI Secretary Peter Mayhew announces that as of January 16 the British Army will no longer carry out daylight patrols in Belfast.

1995:Murder trial against O.J.Simpson begins in L.A.

1998:19European countries agree to ban human cloning.

2004:Queen Mary 2 ,the largest ocean liner begins its maiden voyage.

2005:NASA launches Deep Impact spacecraft on a mission to impact on and study comet.



2006:At least 362 killed during a stampede on the last day of the Hajj in Mecca.

2006:Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Agca from jail after serving 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II.

2009:Cristiano Rinaldo is awarded the 2008 FIFA Player of the Year.

2010:Haitian earthquake kills over 160,000 and largely destroys its capital Port-au- Prince.

2013:Beijing's air pollution is declared hazardous to human health.

2014:"True Detective" debuts on HBO.

2014:Woody Allen receives lifetime achievement award at the 71st Golden Globes."Twelve Years a Slave",Matthew McConaughey and Care Blanchett also win.

2015:Cristiano Ronaldo wins his third and second consecutive FIFA Ballon d'Or.

Births.
1729:Edmund Burke, American-Irish philosopher and writer.
1737:John Hancock,US statesman,first signatory of the US Declaration of Independence. His name has become a US byword for signature.
1876:Jack London, American author -Call of the Wild and White Fang.
1893:Hermann Goering,German WW I aerial ace and later head of the Luftwaffe and noted Nazi.Poisons himself in his cell at the Nuremberg War Trials.
1916:P.W.Botha South African politician and former president-not known as Pure White to his friends.
1923:IRA Hayes,US Marine and Native American, one of those photographed raising the flag on Mount Suribachi ,Iwo Jima.
1930:Tim Horton ,Canadian ice hockey player and co-founder of Tim Horton's coffee and doughnut chain.Died aged 44 in a car crash.
1944:Joe Frazier ,noted boxer and opponent of Ali.
1954:Howard Stern,noted American radio "shock jock".
1951:Kirstie Alley," Cheers"actress.
1951:Rush Limbaugh, American conservative radio commentator and personality.
1964:Jeff Bezos,chairman of Amazon and currently the world's richest man.
1968:Heather Mills former model,amputee and ex-wife of Paul McCartney.
1975:Mel C,Spice Girl.


Deaths.
1976:Agatha Christie,English crime writer who left the world Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple of St. Mary Mead.
1960:Nevil Shute,English author,"A Town like Alice".
2003:Maurice Gibb,BeeGee.

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532:Nika Riots in Constantinople, starting among chariot racing factions and leading to a revolt against the Emperor Justinian.

1128:Pope Honorius II grants a papal sanction to the Knights Templar calling them an army of God.

1404:Act of Multipliers passed in England banning alchemists from using their supposed powers to create precious metals in case it would destabilize the state.

1605:Controversial play "Eastward Ho" lands two of the three authors ,Ben Jonson,George Chapman and John Marston in prison.(Shakespeare was one of the few successful London playwrights of the time not to spend time in jail).

1610:Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto,the fourth moon of Jupiter.

1695:Jonathan Swift ordained as an Anglican priest in Ireland.

1794:US Congress changes US flag to 15 stars and 15 stripes.

1822: Design of Greek flag adopted.

1830:Great fire in New Orleans thought to be started by rebel slaves.

1842: Dr.William Brydon ,surgeon,becomes famous as (reputedly ) the only survivor of an army of 16,500 on the retreat from Kabul,when he reaches the safety of the garrison at Jalalabad.

1846:President James Polk dispatches 4,000 US troops to the Texas border as war with Mexico looms.

1849:Vancouver Island granted to the Hudson's Bay Company.

1874:Unemployed riot with police in NYC,hundreds injured.

1874:US troops land in Honolulu, Hawaii to protect the king .

1888:National Geographic Society founded in Washington DC.

1893:British Independent Labour Party forms with Keir Hardie as leader.

1893:US Marines land in Honolulu to prevent the Queen from abrogating the constitution.

1894:Government crushes revolution in Sicily.

1897:Emile Zola publishes his open letter "J'accuse" accusing the French government of framing Alfred Dreyfus for sabotage.

1910:J.M.Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows" premieres in Dublin.

1915:Worst earthquake in Italian history strikes about 100 km east of Rome.Kills 30,000.

1915:Winston Churchill ,First Lord of the Admiralty, presents plan for assault on the Dardanelles-which will lead to Gallipoli.

1923:Taking advantage of chaos in Germany,Hitler stages a demonstration of 5000 storm troopers.

1928:Schenectady, NY, RCA and GE install three test televisions in homes.

1929:Humanist Society established in Hollywood.

1930:Mickey Mouse appears in a comic strip.

1938:Church of England accepts the theory of evolution.

1942:German U-boats begin engaging shipping on the US east coast.

1942:First use of an aircraft ejection seat .Germans test it in a Heinkel He 280.

1942:Henry Ford patents plastic body automobile.

1943:Churchill arrives in Casablanca.

1943:Hitler declares total war.

1953:Josip Broz Tito becomes president of Yugoslavia.

1958:9,000 scientists from 43 countries petion UN for nuclear test ban.

1964:The future John Paul II(Karl Wojtyla) becomes Archbishop of Kracow.

1966:US nuclear test at Nevada test site.

1968:Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison.

1970:Riots in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast.

1975:Henry Kissinger hints at military action against oil states in the case of economic strangulation of industrialised world.

1976:Marvin Hagler suffers first career defeat in a points decision.

1978:NASA selects its first American female astronauts.

1979:YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song.

1982:Air Florida 737 crashes into bridge in Washington DC during a snowstorm and ends up in the Potomac River .78 die.

1983:American Medical Association urges ban on boxing citing Muhammad Ali's deteriorating condition.

1987:7 top ranking NYC mafia bosses jailed.

1989:Subway vigilante shooter Bernhard Goetz begins 1 year jail sentence.

1989:"A bit of Fry and Laurie " begins on BBC1.

1991:UN Secretary General Perez de Cuéllar meets Saddam Hussein.

1991:Soviet troops continue attack on Vilnius,Lithuania. 13 dead,hundreds injured and wounded.

1992:US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer,the "Milwaukee Cannibal" ,pleads guilty but insane.

1992:Japan apologises for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during WWII.

1993:US ,French and British fighter jets launch raids in Southern Iraq.

1993:Space Shuttle "Endeavor" heads to space for the third time launching from the Kennedy Space Center ,Florida.

2000:Bill Gates chairman of Microsoft, steps aside as chief executive, making way for Steve Ballmer.

2001: Devastating earthquake in El Salvador kills 1,000.

2004:Harold Shipman ,suspected serial killer ,found hanged in his prison cell.

2008:Golden Globes-wins for Atonement,Daniel Day-Lewis and Julie Christie.

2012:Costa Concordia (with its incompetent captain) cruise liner runs aground at Giglio,Italy causing 32 deaths.

2014:Ronaldo wins Ballon d'Or.

2018:Mark Wahlberg donates his $1.5 million reshoot fee for "All the Money in the World" to the "Time's Up" movement after revelations his co-star Michelle Williams was only paid $1,000 for her reshoot.

Births.
18884:Sophie Tucker ,American singer.
1926:Michael Bond,best known as author of the Paddington Bear books.
1957:Mark O'Meara,American golfer.
1961:Julia Louis-Dreyfus,American comedienne-Seinfeld.
1961:Suggs(Graham McPherson) lead singer with Madness.
1964:Bill Bailey,English comedian, actor,singer.
1966:Patrick Dempsey,US actor
1969:Stephen Hendry,Scottish snooker player.
1970:Marco Pantani,Italian cyclist.
1972:Mark Bosnich,Australian footballer and commentator.
1977:Orlando Bloom,English actor.
1990:Liam Hemsworth ,actor.

Deaths.
1599:Edmund Spenser,English poet,colonist in Munster.
1864:Stephen Foster, American songwriter,"Oh Susanna","Camptown Races","Way down upon the Swanee River",etc
1882:Wilhelm Mauser,German engineer and businessman,co-founder of the Mauser Company-a noted arms manufacture and supplier of small arms to German armed forces since the 1870s.
1929:Wyatt Earp,of Gunfight at the OK Corral fame.
1941:James Joyce,writer.
1958:Jesse L. Lansky,American producer and cofounder of Paramount Pictures.
2009:Patrick McGoohan,Irish-American actor ,director, producer-noted for the series "The Prisoner".
2011:Albert Heijn,Dutch businessman,introduced the supermarket concept to the Netherlands and instrumental in driving the Albert Heijn(named for his grandfather who had the first shop)Supermarket chain to be the largest in the Netherlands.
2017:Anthony Armstrong-Jones ,Ist Earl of Snowdon and one time husband of Princess Margaret,the Queen's sister.

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1501:Martin Luther enters university aged 17.

1514:Pope LeoX issues a papal bull against slavery.

1602:Roman church authorities burn Hebrew books.

1690:Invention of clarinet in Germany

1699:Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches".

1746:Bonnie Prince Charlie's army quits Glasgow.

1784:American Revolutionary War ends as US Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris.

1764:King of Denmark cedes Norway to the King of Sweden by way of the Treaty of Kiel.

1794:A Doctor Bennett performs the first successful US caesarian section on his wife.

1858:French Emperor Napoleon III escapes assassination attempt by Felice Orsini,an Italian patriot who was later executed.

1864:US Civil War,Sherman begins his march through the South.

1873:John Henry Hyatt the inventor of "celluloid" registers it as a trademark.

1878:Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates the telephone for Queen Victoria.

1894:After a long career at sea Polish born Joseph Conrad returns to London to settle into a new career as a writer and novelist.

1897:Aconcagua, the highest mountain in S.America,climbed for the first time.

1900:Puccini's opera "Tosca" premieres in Rome.

1907:Jamaican earthquake kills more than 1,000 in Kingston.

1911:Ronald Amundsen's polar expedition lands on the Ross Ice Shelf,Antarctica.

1914:Gandhi-Smuts agreement on Indian rights in S.Africa. (Gandhi spent a long period in S.Africa).

1916: Dutch Zuiderzee dyke cracks.

1918:USSR and Finland adopt Gregorian style calender.

1942:Roosevelt requires aliens from Germany,Italy and Japan to register with the US Department of Justice. Full scale internment of Japanese-Americans begins the following month.

1943:Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw.

1943:Japanese begin withdrawing troops from Guadalcanal.

1943:F.D.R.travels from Miami to Casablanca, Morocco to meet Churchill and De Gaulle,becoming the first American President to travel by aeroplane.

1949:Black and Indian race riots in Durban,S.Africa. 142 die.

1954:Joe DiMaggio marries Marilyn Monroe in San Francisco.

1959:Prototype Russian MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.

1959:US recalls all consular officials from the now Communist China.

1960:US Army promotes Elvis Presley to sergeant.

1963:George Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama.He states "segregation now,segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" in his inaugural address.

1963:"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath published in London.She commits suicide a month later.

1967:NY Times reports US Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.

1969:Matt Busby retires from Manchester United.

1970:RUC patrol the Falls Road for the first time since 1969.

1970:Final concert of Diana Ross and the Supremes as Ross is about to go solo.

1972:Queen Margarethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch named neither Friedrich or Christian since 1513.

1973:Elvis Presley concert "Aloha from Hawaii" is broadcast live by satellite and becomes the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer.

1973:Two RUC officers killed in Derry by an IRA explosive device attached to their cars.

1976:"The Bionic Woman" starring Lindsay Wagner begins on ABC.

1978:Sex Pistols final concert held in San Francisco.

1979:Jimmy Carter proposes that Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday.

1989:1,000 Muslims burn copies of Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses" in Bradford ,UK.

1994:The Duchess of Kent converts to Catholicism, the first member of the Royal Family to do so in over 300 years.

2002:UK declared free of foot and mouth disease.

2004:The "five star cross " reinstated as the national flag of Georgia after a gap of 500 years.

2005:European Huygens space probe lands on Jupiter's moon Titan ,the first ever landing in the outer Solar System.

2011:Tunisian president Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia during "the Arab Spring".

Births.
83BC:Mark Anthony.
1741:Benedict Arnold,American turncoat.
1875:Albert Schweitzer,Alsatian-German doctor ,humanitarian and Nobel Prize laureate.
1883:Nina Ricci,Italian-French fashion designer.
1892:Hal Roach,US actor ,director and producer of comedy films.
1937:Billie Jo Spears,US country singer.
1941:Faye Dunaway,American actress.
1946:Harold Shipman,English GP and serial killer.
1948:T Bone Burnett,American musician.
1963:Steven Soderbergh,American director.
1967:Emily Watson,English actress,played Frank McCourt's mother in the film "Angela's Ashes".
1968:LL Cool J,American rapper and actor.
1969: Dave Grohl,US musician/performer(Nirvana,Foo Fighters)
1992:Robbie Brady,Irish footballer.


Deaths.
1742:Edmund Halley,English astronomer, he of Halley's Comet fame.
1753:George Berkeley,Anglo-Irish philosopher and author, Berkeley, California is named for him.
1776:Edward Cornwallis, English general and politician active in Europe,Scotland and Canada.
1867:Ingres,French painter.
1898:Lewis Carroll(Charles Dodgson),English mathematician and author of " Alice in Wonderland".
1920:John Francis Dodge, co-founder of the Dodge Automobile Company.
1957:Humphrey Bogart, American actor.
1961:Barry Fitzgerald, Oscar winning Irish actor.
1965:Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer ,often partnered with Nelson Eddy.
1977:Anthony Eden ,former UK PM,notably during the Suez Crisis.
1977:Peter Finch,Anglo-Australian actor.
1977:Anaïs Nin,Franco-American writer.
1984:Ray Kroc,businessman who turned McDonald's into a multi-billion dollar franchise.
1986: Donna Reed,American actress.
2006:Shelley Winters ,American actress.
2016:Alan Rickman,English actor,played Eamonn DeValera in the film "Michael Collins".

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Jayzuz & I though I was long winded

Sadly I'm going to actually read all of this post now, the anoraks already on...

Question is though Frank. Without using Wikiwhatsitsname I see you missed the Battle Of Lepanto. What year was that again then?

Having consulted what's it?
Lepanto was 7 October 1571 under the command of Don John of Austria,the Illegitimate son of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
You weren't too far off the mark of an important date yesterday.
January 14. Charles V and Francis 1 sign the Treaty of Madrid.Francis is released after a year in captivity after the Battle of Pavia ,but is forced to give up claims to Burgandy ,Italy and Flanders.

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588BC:Babylonians Kay siege to Jerusalem.

69:The Year of 4 emperors.Otho seizes power-reigns for 3 months.

1535:Henry VIII declares himself head of the church in England.

1559:Elizabeth I crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1759:British Museum opens in Montague House,London.

1844:University of Notre Same receives its charter.

1861:Elisha Otis takes out patent on elevator.

1870: Donkey first used as a symbol of the US Democratic Party.

1892:James Naismith publishes rules of basketball.

1895:"Swan Lake" premiers in St.Petersburg.

1919:Socialists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht tortured and murdered by the German Freikorps.

1923:Arthur Griffith elected as President of the Irish Free State after DeValera resigns in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

1943:The Pentagon building is completed.

1951:The "Bitch of Buchenwald" sentenced to life in prison by West Germany.

1970:Muammar Gaddafi proclaimed premier of Libya.

1972:Joe Frazier retains his WBC and WBA titles.

1973:Nixon suspends all offensive action in N.Korea.

1974:"Happy Days" begins on SBC.

1981:"Hill Street Blues" begins on NBC.


1997:,Space Shuttle docks with Mir space station.

2002:Wickipedia launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.

2009:Miracle On the Hudson.

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January 18th 1983 Samantha mumba born. Happy birthday samantha.

We can also say Happy Birthday to a legend, Takeshi Kitano
He was the creator of Takeshi's Castle.

It is also the Birthday of Dave Bautista, aka Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy.
And we can't forget Kevin Costner, who we all know very well.

[FranknStein]

Stan the Man turns 50.
"The Gaffer" Steve Staunton born January 19,1969.