Today in History

15th January

1535 Henry VIII assumed the title 'Supreme Head of the Church'.

1559 Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England at the age of 26. She was the daughter of Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn and the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.

1790 Fletcher Christian, eight fellow mutineers from the ship Bounty, six Tahitian men and 12 women, landed on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn following the mutiny led by Christian.They stripped the Bounty of all that could be floated ashore before setting it on fire.

1797 The first top hat was worn by John Hetherington, a London haberdasher. He was fined £50 the first time he wore his new creation, 'for causing a disturbance'. 🎩

1867 Crowds flocked onto the frozen surface of the lake in London’s Regent's Park during a severe frost. The ice broke, and 40 people died.

1991 Elizabeth II signed letters allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth country to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award.
 

This day in History January 16th

2005 Adriana Iliescu gives birth at the age of 66
The Romanian university lecturer broke the record for the world's oldest birth mother.

1992 The civil war in El Salvador ends
The war had lasted over 12 years and left more than 75,000 people dead.

1979 The Shah of Iran flees the country
As a consequence, Ayatollah Khomeini later took power and proclaimed the Islamic Republic.

1919 Prohibition begins in the United States
The 18th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.

27 The Roman Empire is established
One of the events marking the beginning of the Imperium Romanum was the Roman Senate's granting of the honorific Augustus to Octavian on this day.
 
Births On This Day, January 16

1974 Kate Moss
English model

1959 Sade Adu
Nigerian/English singer-songwriter, producer

1948 John Carpenter
American director

1933 Susan Sontag
American author

1932 Dian Fossey
American zoologist

Deaths On This Day, January 16

2009 John Mortimer
English lawyer, author

1986 Herbert W. Armstrong
American evangelist, author, publisher

1979 Ted Cassidy
American actor

1957 Arturo Toscanini
Italian conductor

1917 George Dewey
American Admiral
 

Jan 16th
1868
William Davis,a Detroit,Michigan fish dealer patents the refrigerator car
1938
1st Jazz Concert held at Carneige Hall in NYC featured clarentist/band leader, Benny Goodman
1957
The Cavern Club in Liverpool,England opens,home of The Beatles 1st appearance
1963
Los Angeles night club/music venue'Whiskey a Go-Go" opens. It was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006
2005
Romanian university lecturer, Adriana Illescu became the world's oldest mother by giving birth to a daughter, Eliza.She was 66
 
Jan 16th Birthdays
1853
Andre Michelin,French industralist/manufacteur of Michelin tire
1902
Eric Liddell,Scottish {Olympic Gold Medal winner 1924},runner/ Christain missionary.His story depicted in movie' Chariots of Fire' '81
1932
Dian Fossey U.S. zoologist,her story was depicted in movie' Gorillas of The Mist' '88
Deaths:
1794
Edward Gibbon,British historian best known for writing "History of The Decline of Roman Empire' 83
1942
actress, Carole Lombard died in plane crash, 33
1957
Arturo Toscanni,Italian composer/U.S. conductor 89
2009
Andrew Wyeth,realist painter 91
2017 Eugene Cernan,NASA astronaut,12th person on the moon 82
 
This day in History January 17th

1995 The Great Hanshin earthquake hits Kobe, Japan
6,434 people lost their lives during the quake, according to estimates.

1991 The Gulf War in Iraq begins
“Operation Desert Storm”, launched in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, resulted in about 100,000 civilian deaths.

1961 Patrice Lumumba is murdered with support from western governments
An independent commission concluded that Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Congo, died at the hands of his domestic adversaries with the assistance of the Belgian government and the CIA.

1946 The UN Security Council holds its first session
The UNSC is the most powerful organ of the United Nations and it is charged with upholding international peace and security.

1945 Soviet and Polish forces liberated Warsaw during World War II
About 85% of the city was destroyed at that point.
 
Births On This Day, January 17

1962 Jim Carrey
Canadian/American actor, producer

1942 Muhammad Ali
American boxer

1927 Eartha Kitt
American actress, singer

1899 Al Capone
American gangster

1706 Benjamin Franklin
American politician, scientist, publisher, 6th President of Pennsylvania

Deaths On This Day, January 17

2008 Bobby Fischer
American chess player

1961 Patrice Lumumba
Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

1936 Mateiu Caragiale
Romanian author

1893 Rutherford B. Hayes
American politician, 19th President of the United States

1468 Skanderbeg
Albanian lord
 
Jan 17th
1871
The 1st U.S. cable car was patented by Andrew Smith Hallide,service started in 1873
1945
Swedish diplomat, Rauol Wallenberg credited with saving thousands of Jews from the Nazis was arrested in Hungary by Soviet secret police
1984
U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws
 
Jan 17th Birthdays:
1706
Benjamin Franklin,one of U.S founders/ambassador/writer
1829
Catherine Booth,co founder of the Salvation Army
1922
Betty White, comedic actress'Mary Tyler Moore Show',Golden Girls'
1931
James Earl Jones,TV/movie/Broadway actor, voice of'Darth Vader' in 'Star War movies. He does voice for CNN cable Network,'This is CNN"
1964
Michelle O'Bama, former U.S. first lady
Deaths:
1927
Juliette Gordon Low founder of Girl Scouts of USA 66
1964
T.H. White- English writer, wrote the 'King Arthur 'novels 57
1972
Betty Smith writer'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" 75
2003
Richard Crenna, actor TV show 'Our Miss Brooks' 52-'56 played' Walter Denton' ,"Rambo' movies 76
2008
Bobby Fischer, world champion chess player '72-'75 64
 
This day in History January 18th

2002 The Sierra Leone Civil War ends
The conflict had lasted 11 years and leftover 50,000 dead.

1997 Børge Ousland becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided
The Norwegian polar explorer walked 3000 km (1864 miles) across the Earth's southernmost continent.

1943 Insurgents in the Warsaw Ghetto take up arms against the German oppressors
This lead to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II.

1919 The Paris Peace Conference opens
The aim of the conference was to set the peace terms after World War I, resulting in the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

1886 Modern hockey is born
The foundation of The Hockey Association in England formalized a modern version of the game that had already been played in ancient times.
 
Births On This Day, January 18

1955 Kevin Costner
American actor, singer, director, producer

1913 Danny Kaye
American actor

1892 Oliver Hardy
American comedian, actor

1882 A. A. Milne
English author

1689 Montesquieu
French philosopher

Deaths On This Day, January 18

2011 Sargent Shriver
American politician, 21st United States Ambassador to France

1956 Konstantin Päts
Estonian politician, 1st President of Estonia

1952 Curly Howard
American actor, comedian

1936 Rudyard Kipling
English author, poet, Nobel Prize laureate

1862 John Tyler
American lawyer, politician, 10th President of the United States
 
1919
The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles to draw up the treaties to end WWI
1933
White Sands National Monument in New Mexico established by Pres Herbert Hoover,a U.S. national park run by the park service. It covers 145,762 acres in the Tularosa Basin,field of white sand dunes composed of gypsum crystals
1964
The Beatles debut on Billboard Music Chart with single'I Want to Hold Your Hand' at #45
1983
The IOC{International Olympic Comm} restores Olympic athlete,Jim Thorpe's medals 70 yrs after they were taken away from him because at the time he was being paid $25 in a semi-pro baseball league
2005
world's largest commerical airplane 'Airbus A380' was unveiled in France. Its double decker large body which can seat over 525 passengers
 
Jan 18th birthdays:
1779
British lexicographer, Peter Mark Roget"Roget's Thesaurus' invented slide rule
1854
Thomas A. Watson,assistant to Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone
1882
British author A.A. Milne who wrote' Winnie-The-Pooh books
1904
actor Cary Grant{born Archibald Leach}
1955
actor, Kevin Costner who won his 1st Academy Award debut as director of movie'Dances with Wolves" '90
deaths:
1936
author Rudyard Kipling' Gunga Din' 70
1954
British actor, Sydney Greenstreet "Casablanca,Maltese Falcon" 74
1978
actor, Carl Betz' The Donna Reed Show' 56
2016
singer/songwriter, Glen Frey of rock group 'The Eagles' 67
 
This day in History January 19th

2007 Turkish journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated
The murderer was a 17-year old Turkish nationalist who disagreed with Dink's view on the Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

1983 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia
Barbie was known as the “Butcher of Lyon”.

1966 Indira Gandhi becomes India's first female prime minister
She was assassinated on October 31, 1984.

1915 Georges Claude patents his neon discharge tube
Neon lighting soon became popular for outdoor advertising.

1829 Goethe's “Faust” (Part 1) is premiered
The work is considered one of the greatest works of German literature.
 
Births On This Day, January 19

1946 Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter, actress

1943 Janis Joplin
American singer-songwriter

1839 Paul Cézanne
French painter

1809 Edgar Allan Poe
American author, poet

1807 Robert E. Lee
American general

Deaths On This Day, January 19

2015 Adam Yahiye Gadahn
American terrorist

2007 Hrant Dink
Turkish/Armenian journalist

1990 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Indian mystic, guru, educator

1874 August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
German poet

1865 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French politician, philosopher, economist
 
19th January

1915 More than 20 people were killed when German zeppelins bombed England for the first time. The bombs were dropped on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn.

1917 The Silvertown explosion in West Ham. 73 people were killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant . The plant was destroyed instantly, as were many nearby buildings, including the Silvertown Fire Station and a gasometer.

1973 The Statesman, an unarmed ocean going tug, was sent to protect British trawlers from Icelandic patrol boats as the dispute over cod fishing rights intensified.

2013 A piece of music that was composed by waiting for bird droppings to fall onto giant sheets of manuscript paper received its premiere at the Tate Liverpool art gallery. Artist Kerry Morrison said that the music represented the role that birds play in the environment. 🕊️🎼
 
1825
Ezra Dagget, &his nephew, Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans
1883
The 1st electric lighting system with overhead wires built by Thomas Edison begins service in Roselle, New Jersey
1929
Arcadia National Park in Maine is established, covers 49,000 acres,protects highest rocky headlands along Atlantic coast line 158 hiking trails The carriage road system was fiananced by John D. Rockeffer,Jr
1955
board game' Scrabble' debuts on game market
2013
NASA"s Curiosty Rover discovers calcium deposits on Mars
 
Jan 19th birthdays:
1736
Scottish inventor/engineer/chemist,James Watt
1809
writer/poet/ critic,Edgar Allan Poe'The Pit &The Pendulum',he's considered the inventor of detective fiction genre
1839
French post impressionist painter, Paul Cezanne
1923
actress, Jean Stapleton' Edith" on classic CBS sitcom'All In The Family"
1942
actor/singer,Michael Crawford, Broadway's original 'Phantom of the Opera'
1966
retired Swedish tennis player, Stefan Edberg won 6 Grand Slam tennis titles
Deaths:
1977
actress, Geraldine Brooks 51
1980
William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice 81
1997
Adriana Caselotte, voice of' Snow White' in Walt Disney film 70
2006
soul singer/songwriter, Wilson Pickett "Funky Broadway,The Midnight Hour' 64
 
This day in History January 20th

2009 Barack Obama is sworn in as U.S. president
Obama became the country's first black president.

1981 The Iran hostage crisis ends
52 U.S. citizens were released after 444 days at the hands of a group of Islamists.

1969 The killing of a student activist sets the stage for the Bangladesh Liberation War
The war resulted in the secession of East Pakistan from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the establishment of Bangladesh as a sovereign nation.

1942 Nazi officials meet to organize the extermination of Jews
During the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, the Nazis discussed what they called the “Final Solution to the Jewish question”.

1934 Fujifilm is founded
The Japanese photography and electronics company soon became a global player in its field.
 
Births On This Day, January 20

1971 Gary Barlow
English singer-songwriter, pianist, producer

1956 Bill Maher
American comedian, actor, television host

1946 David Lynch
American director

1930 Buzz Aldrin
American pilot, astronaut

1920 Federico Fellini
Italian director

Deaths On This Day, January 20

2012 Etta James
American singer-songwriter

1993 Audrey Hepburn
Belgian/English actress, singer

1936 George V
of the United Kingdom

1900 John Ruskin
English author

1837 John Soane
English architect
 
1841
China cedes Hong Kong to the British during 1st Opium War
1887
U.S. Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
1945
Pres. Franklin Roosevelt sworn in for 4th term{never to be repeated} It didn't last long he died on April 12th at Warm Springs, Georgia.
1980
Pres. Jimmy Carter announces U.S. is boycotting the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow in protest because of Soviet invasion in Afghanistan
 
Jan 20th Birthdays:
1894
Harold L. Gray creator of' Little Orphan Annie"
1896
George Burns, comedian/actor
1910
Joy Adamson naturalist/author'Born Free'
1926
Patricia Neal,actress 'Hud' Subject Was Roses'. won Best Actress Oscar for'Hud',
1930
Buzz Aldrin NASA astronaut
Deaths:
1569
Miles Coverdale,British bishop/translator of the 1st translation of Bible 80
1900
R.D. Blackmore,author' Lorna Doone' 74
1965
Alan Freed, U.S. disc jockey who introduced the term 'rock n roll' 42
1993
Audrey Hepburn British actress,"Roman Holiday',"Breakfast at Tiffanys', "My Fair Lady' 63
2003
Al Hirschfeld, caircaturalist NINA,NYTimes 89
 
This day in History January 21st

1998 Pope John Paul II visits Cuba
It was the first time any Pope visited the country.

1976 Concorde takes off on its first scheduled flights
2 of the supersonic aircraft took off from Paris and London simultaneously.

1968 The Battle of Khe Sanh begins
It is one of the most publicized battles of the Vietnam War.

1911 23 cars take part in the first Rally Monte Carlo
Unlike today, the competitors set out from 11 different European locations, heading for the finish line in Monte Carlo.

1899 Opel builds its first automobile
Today, Opel is one of the world's largest car manufacturers
 

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