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Updated January 21, 2012, 1:28 pm

On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized abortion.

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On Jan. 22, 1890, Fred M. Vinson, 13th Chief Justice of the United States, was born. Following his death on Sept. 8, 1953, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

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1901	Queen Victoria died at age 81 after 63 years on the British throne.
1905	Russian troops opened fired on marching workers in St. Petersburg, killing more than 100 in what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”
1922	Pope Benedict XV died.
1938	Thornton Wilder’s play “Our Town” premiered in Princeton, N.J.
1944	Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy, during World War II.
1953	The Arthur Miller drama “The Crucible” opened on Broadway.
1968	“Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” premiered on NBC.
1970	The Boeing 747 went on its first regularly scheduled commercial flight, from New York to London.
1973	Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, died at his ranch in Johnson City, Texas, at age 64.
1995	Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the mother of President John F. Kennedy, died in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 104.
1997	The Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the nation’s first female secretary of state.
1998	Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in Sacramento, Calif., to being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole.
2006	Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first Indian president, took office.
2008	Actor Heath Ledger, 28, was found dead of an accidental prescription drug overdose.
2008	Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive “dirty bomb,” was sentenced by a U.S. federal judge in Miami to more than 17 years in prison on terrorism conspiracy charges.
2009	President Barack Obama ordered the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay closed within a year and banned harsh interrogation of terror suspects.
2010	Conan O’Brien ended his brief tenure on “The Tonight Show” after accepting a $45 million buyout from NBC to leave the show after only seven months.

Current Birthdays

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Actress Diane Lane turns 47 years old today.

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Director Jim Jarmusch turns 59 years old today.

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1928	Birch Bayh, Former U.S. senator, D-Ind., turns 84
1932	Piper Laurie, Actress, turns 80
1937	Joseph Wambaugh, Author, turns 75
1940	John Hurt, Actor, turns 72
1949	Steve Perry, Rock singer (Journey), turns 63
1957	Mike Bossy, Hockey Hall of Famer, turns 55
1959	Linda Blair, Actress (“The Excorcist”), turns 53
1965	Jazzy Jeff, Actor, rapper (“The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”), turns 47
1981	Beverley Mitchell, Actress (“7th Heaven”), turns 31

Historic Birthdays

Fred Vinson 1/22/1890 – 9/8/1953 Chief Justice of the United States.Go to obituary »

36	Lord George Gordon Byron 1/22/1788 – 4/19/1824 English Romantic poet
63	August Strindberg 1/22/1849 – 5/14/1912 Swedish playwright/novelist
82	Robert Brookings 1/22/1850 – 11/15/1932 American businessman/philanthropist
73	D. W. Griffith 1/22/1875 – 7/23/1948 American film director
94	Marcel Dassault 1/22/1892 – 4/18/1986 French aircraft designer
84	Rosa Ponselle 1/22/1897 – 5/25/1981 American coloratura soprano
79	George Balanchine 1/22/1904 – 4/30/1983 Russian-bn. American choreographer
65	U Thant 1/22/1909 – 11/25/1974 Myanmar 3rd U.N. Secy. General
65	Howard Moss 1/22/1922 – 9/16/1987 American poet/editor of The New Yorker

Updated January 20, 2012, 1:28 pm

On Jan. 21, 1924, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died at age 54.

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On Jan. 21, 1905, Christian Dior , French fashion designer and creator of the ”New Look” in 1947, was born. Following his death on Oct. 24, 1957, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

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1861	Five Southerners resigned from the U.S. Senate, including Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, the future president of the Confederacy.
1915	The first Kiwanis Club was founded, in Detroit.
1924	Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died of a stroke at age 53.
1950	A federal jury in New York City found former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury.
1954	The first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched at Groton, Conn.
1976	The supersonic Concorde jet was put into service by Britain and France.
1977	President Jimmy Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.
1994	A jury in Manassas, Va., acquitted Lorena Bobbitt by reason of temporary insanity of maliciously wounding her husband, John, whom she’d accused of sexually assaulting her.
1997	Speaker Newt Gingrich was reprimanded and fined as the House voted for first time in history to discipline its leader for ethical misconduct.
1998	Pope John Paul II began his first visit to Cuba.
2003	The Census Bureau announced that Hispanics had surpassed blacks as America’s largest minority group.
2004	The recording industry sued 532 computer users it said were illegally distributing songs over the Internet.
2010	A bitterly divided Supreme Court, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, vastly increased the power of big business and labor unions to influence government decisions by freeing them to spend their millions directly to sway elections for president and Congress.
2010	Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards finally admitted fathering a child during an affair before his second White House bid.

Current Birthdays

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Attorney General Eric Holder turns 61 years old today.

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Opera singer Placido Domingo turns 71 years old today.

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1940	Jack Nicklaus, Golfer, turns 72
1941	Richie Havens, Folk singer, musician, turns 71
1942	Mac Davis, Singer, turns 70
1947	Jill Eikenberry, Actress (“L.A. Law”), turns 65
1950	Billy Ocean, R&B singer, turns 62
1950	Gary Locke, Secretary of commerce, turns 62
1956	Robby Benson, Actor, director, turns 56
1956	Geena Davis, Actress, turns 56
1963	Hakeem Olajuwon, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 49
1976	Emma Bunton, Singer (Spice Girls), turns 36

 

Historic Birthdays

Christian Dior 1/21/1905 – 10/24/1957 French fashion designer.Go to obituary »

35	George Gillespie 1/21/1613 – 12/17/1648 Scottish minister/polemical writer
51	Ethan Allen 1/21/1738 – 2/12/1789 American soldier – frontiersman
55	John Fitch 1/21/1743 – 7/2/1798 American steamboat builder
77	John Fremont 1/21/1813 – 7/13/1890 Americium mapmaker/explorer
39	Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson 1/21/1824 – 5/10/1863 American Civil War general
71	Sophia Jex-Blake 1/21/1840 – 1/7/1912 English physician
71	John Browning 1/21/1855 – 11/26/1926 American weapons designer
98	Maxime Weygand 1/21/1867 – 1/28/1965 Belgian-bn.French army officer
77	Cristobal Balenciaga 1/21/1895 – 3/23/1972 Spanish dress designer
88	Sir Charles Moses 1/21/1900 – 2/9/1988 English-bn. Australian broadcaster

 

Updated January 19, 2012, 1:28 pm

On Jan. 20, 1981, Iran released 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.

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On Jan. 20 , 1920, Federico Fellini, the Italian film director, was born. Following his death on Oct. 31, 1993, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

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1801	John Marshall was appointed chief justice of the United States.
1841	Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain.
1896	Comedian George Burns was born Nathan Birnbaum in New York City.
1936	Britain’s King George V died.
1961	John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president of the United States.
1981	Ronald Reagan was sworn in as the 40th president of the United States.
1981	Iran released 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days.
1986	The United States observed the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
1987	Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite disappeared in Beirut, Lebanon, while attempting to negotiate the release of Western hostages.
2001	Bill Clinton pardoned 140 people in one of his final acts as president. The list included fugitive financier Marc Rich, whose wife was a major Democratic donor.
2001	George W. Bush took the oath of office as the 43rd president of the United States.
2001	Hundreds of thousands of protesting Filipinos forced President Joseph Estrada to step down; Vice President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was sworn in as the new president.
2009	Barack Obama was sworn in as the first African-American president of the United States.

Current Birthdays

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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley turns 40 years old today.

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Comedian-talk show host Bill Maher turns 56 years old today.

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1924	Slim Whitman, Country singer, turns 88
1929	Arte Johnson, Comedian (“Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In”), turns 83
1930	Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Astronaut, turns 82
1946	David Lynch, Director, turns 66
1952	Paul Stanley, Rock musician (Kiss), turns 60
1958	Lorenzo Lamas, Actor, turns 54
1963	James Denton, Actor (“Desperate Housewives”), turns 49
1965	John Michael Montgomery, Country singer, turns 47
1966	Rainn Wilson, Actor (“The Office”), turns 46
1967	Stacey Dash, Actress, turns 45
1968	Melissa Rivers, TV personality, turns 44

 

Historic Birthdays

Federico Fellini 1/20/1920 – 10/31/1993 Italian film director.Go to obituary »

44	Johannes Schein 1/20/1586 – 11/19/1630 German composer
46	Henry Cromwell 1/20/1628 – 3/23/1674 English, brief ruler of Ireland
62	Richard Henry Lee 1/20/1732 – 6/19/1794 American statesman/orator
72	Anne J. Clough 1/20/1820 – 2/27/1892 English educator/feminist
77	Johannes Jenson 1/20/1873 – 11/25/1950 Danish novelist/essayist
91	Ruth St. Denis 1/20/1877 – 7/21/1968 American dancer & choreographer
82	Walter Piston 1/20/1894 – 11/12/1976 American composer/teacher
74	Harold Gray 1/20/1894 – 5/9/1968 American “Orphan Annie” cartoonist
69	Joy Adamson 1/20/1910 – 1/3/1980 Australian conservationist/writer

 

Updated January 18, 2012, 1:28 pm

On Jan. 19, 1937, millionaire Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record by flying his monoplane from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.

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On Jan. 19, 1807, Robert E. Lee, Confederate general during the American Civil War , was born. Following his death on Oct. 12, 1870, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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1736	James Watt, inventor of the steam engine, was born in Scotland.
1807	Robert E. Lee, the commander-in-chief of the Confederate armies, was born in Stratford, Va.
1809	Author Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston.
1861	Georgia seceded from the Union.
1943	Rock singer Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas.
1944	The federal government relinquished control of the nation’s railroads after settling a wage dispute.
1955	A presidential news conference was filmed for TV for the first time, with the permission of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1979	Former Attorney General John Mitchell was released on parole after serving 19 months in federal prison for Watergate-related crimes.
1981	The United States and Iran signed an agreement paving the way for the release of 52 Americans held hostage for more than 14 months.
2001	In a deal sparing himself possible indictment, President Bill Clinton acknowledged for the first time making false statements under oath about Monica Lewinsky; he also surrendered his law license for five years.
2006	An unmanned NASA spacecraft blasted off on a 3 billion-mile journey to Pluto.
2010	In a major upset, Republican Scott Brown captured the U.S. Senate seat held by liberal champion Edward Kennedy for nearly half a century as he defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in a special election.

Current Birthdays

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Country singer-actress Dolly Parton turns 66 years old today.

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Actress Katey Sagal turns 58 years old today.

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1923	Jean Stapleton, Actress (“All in the Family”), turns 89
1926	Fritz Weaver, Actor, turns 86
1930	Tippi Hedren, Actress (“The Birds”), turns 82
1931	Robert MacNeil, Journalist, turns 81
1939	Phil Everly, Singer (The Everly Brothers), turns 73
1942	Michael Crawford, Actor, singer, turns 70
1944	Dan Reeves, Football coach, turns 68
1947	Ann Compton, Broadcast journalist, turns 65
1947	Paula Deen, TV chef, turns 65
1953	Desi Arnaz Jr., Actor, turns 59
1955	Paul Rodriguez, Comedian, turns 57
1966	Stefan Edberg, Tennis Hall of Famer, turns 46
1969	Trey Lorenz, R&B singer, turns 43
1972	Drea de Matteo, Actress (“The Sopranos”), turns 40
1974	Frank Caliendo, Comedian, impressionist, turns 38
1982	Jodie Sweetin, Actress (“Full House”), turns 30
1992	Shawn Johnson, Gymnast, turns 20

 

Historic Birthdays

Robert E. Lee 1/19/1807 – 10/12/1870 American Civil War general.Go to obituary »

53	Tai Chen 1/19/1724 – 7/1/1777 Chinese philosopher
83	James Watt 1/19/1736 – 8/25/1819 Scottish steam engine inventor
82	Isaiah Thomas 1/19/1749 – 4/4/1831 American anti-British journalist
67	Auguste Comte 1/19/1790 – 9/5/1857 French philosopher
40	Edgar Allan Poe 1/19/1809 – 10/7/1849 American writer/poet
95	William Keen 1/19/1837 – 6/7/1932 American-1st Am. Brain surgeon
67	Paul Cezanne 1/19/1839 – 10/22/1906 French Post-Impressionist painter
79	George Trumbull Ladd 1/19/1842 – 8/8/1921 American philosopher/psychologist
56	Alexander Woollcott 1/19/1887 – 1/23/1943 American author/critic
72	Olafur Thors 1/19/1892 – 12/31/1964 Icelandic Prime Minister
90	Oveta Culp Hobby 1/19/1905 – 8/16/1995 American publisher and first secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1953-55)

 

Updated January 17, 2012, 1:28 pm

On Jan. 18, 1912, English explorer Robert F. Scott and his expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there first.

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On Jan. 18, 1854, Thomas Watson, the American telephone pioneer and shipbuilder, was born. Following his death on Dec. 13, 1934, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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1778	English navigator Captain James Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands.
1782	Lawyer and statesman Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury, N.H.
1788	The first English settlers arrived in Australia’s Botany Bay to establish a penal colony.
1862	John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, died in Richmond, Va., at age 71.
1871	William I of Prussia was proclaimed German emperor in Versailles, France.
1892	Oliver Hardy of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Ga.
1904	Actor Cary Grant was born Archibald Leach in Bristol, England.
1911	The first landing of an aircraft on a ship took place as pilot Eugene B. Ely flew onto the deck of the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco harbor.
1943	The Soviets announced that they had broken the long Nazi siege of Leningrad.
1990	Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
1991	Financially strapped Eastern Airlines shut down after more than six decades in business.
1993	The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was observed in all 50 states for the first time.
2005	The world’s largest commercial jet, an Airbus A380 that can carry 800 passengers, was unveiled in Toulouse, France.
2011	The first director of the Peace Corps, R. Sargent Shriver, died at age 95.

Current Birthdays

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Actor Jason Segel (“How I Met Your Mother”) turns 32 years old today.

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Actor Kevin Costner turns 57 years old today.

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1941	Bobby Goldsboro, Singer, songwriter, turns 71
1961	Mark Messier, Hockey Hall of Famer, turns 51
1963	Martin O’Malley, Governor of Maryland, turns 49
1965	Dave Attell, Comedian, turns 47
1969	Jesse L. Martin, Actor (“Law & Order”), turns 43

 

Historic Birthdays

Thomas Watson 1/18/1854 – 12/13/1934 American telephone pioneer/shipbuilder.Go to obituary »

70	Daniel Webster 1/18/1782 – 10/24/1852 American orator/politician
93	Joseph Glidden 1/18/1813 – 10/9/1906 American inventor
66	Seth Low 1/18/1850 – 9/17/1916 American philanthropist/educator
66	Oliver Hardy 1/18/1892 – 8/7/1957 American comic movie actor
73	Daniel Hale Williams 1/18/1858 – 8/4/1931 American physician
62	Hans Goldschmidt 1/18/1861 – 5/25/1923 German chemist
85	Myron Taylor 1/18/1874 – 5/6/1959 American financier/diplomat
74	A.A. Milne 1/18/1882 – 1/31/1956 English humorist
101	Sir Thomas Sopwith 1/18/1888 – 1/27/1989 English WW1 aircraft designer
82	Cary Grant 1/18/1904 – 11/29/1986 English/American actor
74	Danny Kaye 1/18/1913 – 3/3/1987 American actor/comedian

 

Updated January 16, 2012, 1:28 pm

On Jan. 17, 1893, Hawaii’s monarchy was overthrown as a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate.

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On Jan. 17, 1899, Al Capone, the American gangster and prohibition era crime leader , was born. Following his death on Jan. 25, 1947, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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1562	French Protestants were recognized under the Edict of St. Germain.
1706	Statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston.
1806	Thomas Jefferson’s daughter, Martha, gave birth to James Madison Randolph, the first child born in the White House.
1893	Hawaii’s monarchy was overthrown.
1893	Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States, died in Fremont, Ohio, at age 70.
1899	Gangster Al Capone was born in Brooklyn, N.Y.
1945	Soviet and Polish forces liberated Warsaw during World War II.
1945	Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, was taken into Soviet custody in Budapest, Hungary. (His fate has never been determined.)
1946	The United Nations Security Council held its first meeting.
1977	Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore was shot by a firing squad at Utah State Prison in the first U.S. execution in a decade.
1994	A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Southern California, killing at least 61 people and causing $20 billion worth of damage.
1995	A magnitude 7.2 earthquake devastated the city of Kobe, Japan; more than 6,000 people were killed.
1997	A court in Ireland granted the first divorce in the Roman Catholic country’s history.
1998	President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil suit when he answered questions from lawyers for Paula Jones, who had accused Clinton of sexual harassment.
2001	Faced with an electricity crisis, California used rolling blackouts to cut off power to hundreds of thousands of people.

Current Birthdays

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Actress Zooey Deschanel (“New Girl”) turns 32 years old today.

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First lady Michelle Obama turns 48 years old today.

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1922	Betty White, Actress (“The Golden Girls”), turns 90
1931	James Earl Jones, Actor, turns 81
1931	Don Zimmer, Baseball coach, turns 81
1939	Maury Povich, Talk show host, turns 73
1942	Muhammad Ali, Boxing Hall of Famer, turns 70
1948	Mick Taylor, Rock musician (Rolling Stones), turns 64
1954	Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Lawyer, environmental activist, turns 58
1955	Steve Earle, Rock singer, turns 57
1956	Paul Young, Rock singer, turns 56
1957	Steve Harvey, Actor, comedian, turns 55
1959	Susanna Hoffs, Rock musician, singer (The Bangles), turns 53
1962	Jim Carrey, Actor, turns 50
1966	Joshua Malina, Actor (“The West Wing,” “Sports Night”), turns 46
1969	Naveen Andrews, Actor (“Lost”), turns 43
1971	Kid Rock, Rapper, turns 41

 

Historic Birthdays

Al Capone 1/17/1899 – 1/25/1947 American gangster.Go to obituary »

62	Philip II of Burgandy 1/17/1342 – 4/27/1404 French Duke
59	Guarino Guarini 1/17/1624 – 3/6/1683 Italian architect
69	Jacques-Francois Blondel 1/17/1705 – 1/9/1774 French architect
29	Anne Bronte 1/17/1820 – 5/28/1849 English novelist
82	David Lloyd George 1/17/1863 – 3/26/1945 English Prime Minister
80	Mack Sennett 1/17/1880 – 11/5/1960 American director/producer
69	Glenn Martin 1/17/1886 – 12/4/1955 American airplane inventor
61	Nevil Shute 1/17/1899 – 1/12/1960 English/Australian writer
78	Robert M. Hutchins 1/17/1899 – 5/14/1977 American educator
67	Nora Kaye 1/17/1920 – 2/28/1987 American ballerina
34	Thomas Dooley 1/17/1927 – 1/18/1961 American physician/author

 

Updated January 15, 2012, 1:28 pm

 

On Jan. 16, 1991, the White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.

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On Jan. 16, 1908, Ethel Merman, the musical-comedy star whose belting voice and brassy style entertained Broadway and movie audiences for 50 years, was born. Following her death on Feb. 15, 1984, her obituary appeared in The Times.

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1547	Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of Russia.
1920	Prohibition began as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect.
1942	Actress Carole Lombard, 33, died in a plane crash near Las Vegas.
1944	Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied invasion force in London.
1964	The musical “Hello, Dolly!” starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
1969	Two manned Soviet Soyuz spaceships became the first vehicles to dock in space and transfer personnel.
1973	The final first-run episode of the long-running western “Bonanza” aired on NBC.
1989	Three days of rioting erupted in Miami when a police officer fatally shot a black motorcyclist, causing a crash that also claimed the life of a passenger.
1992	The government of El Salvador and rebel leaders signed a pact in Mexico City ending 12 years of civil war that had killed at least 75,000 people.
2003	The space shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven blasted off from Cape Canaveral. (The shuttle broke up during its return descent on Feb. 1, killing everyone on board.)
2004	Pop star Michael Jackson pleaded innocent to child molestation charges in Santa Maria, Calif. (Charges were later re-filed and Jackson was acquitted.)
2006	Africa’s first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was sworn in as Liberia’s president.
2007	Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., launched his successful bid for the White House.

Current Birthdays

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Los Angeles Angels first baseman Albert Pujols turns 32 years old today.

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Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco turns 27 years old today.

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1928	William Kennedy, Author, turns 84
1930	Norman Podhoretz, Writer, editor, turns 82
1934	Marilyn Horne, Opera singer, turns 78
1935	A.J. Foyt, Auto racer, turns 77
1943	Ronnie Milsap, Country singer, turns 69
1944	Jim Stafford, Country singer, turns 68
1947	Laura Schlessinger, Talk show host, turns 65
1948	John Carpenter, Movie director, turns 64
1950	Debbie Allen, Dancer, choreographer (“Fame”), turns 62
1959	Sade, R&B singer, turns 53
1974	Kate Moss, Model, turns 38

 

Historic Birthdays

Ethel Merman 1/16/1908 – 2/15/1984 American entertainer.Go to obituary »

72	Niccolo Piccinni 1/16/1728 – 5/7/1800 Italian composer
54	Vittorio Alfieri 1/16/1749 – 10/8/1803 Italian poet
71	George Cabot 1/16/1752 – 4/18/1823 American Federalist leader
56	Johannes Rebmann 1/16/1820 – 10/4/1876 German missionary/explorer
94	Sir Ian Hamilton 1/16/1853 – 10/12/1947 English general
84	Robert Service 1/16/1874 – 9/11/1958 Canadian verse writer
79	Sir Arthur Fleming 1/16/1881 – 9/14/1960 English engineer
87	George Kelly 1/16/1887 – 6/18/1974 American playwright/actor
72	Fulgencio Batista 1/16/1901 – 8/6/1973 Cuban dictator
64	Dizzy Dean 1/16/1910 – 7/17/1974 American baseball great

 

Updated January 14, 2012, 1:28 pm

On Jan. 15, 1967, the first Super Bowl was played as the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10.

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On Jan. 15, 1929, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the black Baptist minister who led the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950’s and ’60’s with his doctrine of nonviolent resistance, was born. Following his death on April 4, 1968, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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1559	England’s Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1844	The University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.
1947	The mutilated remains of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, who came to be known as the “Black Dahlia,” were found in a vacant Los Angeles lot; her slaying remains unsolved.
1967	The Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League 35-10 in the first Super Bowl.
1973	President Richard Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.
1978	Serial killer Ted Bundy murdered two students in a sorority house at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
1992	The Yugoslav federation effectively collapsed as the European Community recognized the republics of Croatia and Slovenia.
2001	Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia, made its debut.
2004	The NASA Spirit rover rolled onto the surface of Mars.
2005	A military court sentenced Army Specialist Charles Graner Jr. to 10 years behind bars for physically and sexually mistreating Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison.
2009	US Airways Capt Chelsey Sullenberger guided a jetliner disabled by a bird strike just after takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to a safe landing in the Hudson River. All 155 people aboard survived.

Current Birthdays

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St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday turns 32 years old today.

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Actress Andrea Martin turns 65 years old today.

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1957	Mario Van Peebles, Actor, director, turns 55
1967	Lisa Lisa, Singer (Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam), turns 45
1968	Chad Lowe, Actor, turns 44
1971	Regina King, Actress, turns 41
1975	Mary Pierce, Tennis player, turns 37
1981	Pitbull, Rapper, reggaeton artist, turns 31

 

Historic Birthdays

Martin Luther King 1/15/1929 – 4/4/1968 American minister and civil rights leader.Go to obituary »

51	(Jean B. Poquelin) Moliere 1/15/1622 – 2/17/1673 French playwright
75	Jean Coralli 1/15/1779 – 5/1/1854 French dancer/choreographer
76	Abigail Kelley Foster 1/15/1810 – 1/14/1887 American feminist/abolitionist
83	Josef Breuer 1/15/1842 – 6/20/1925 Austrian physician/physiologist
84	Pierre Samuel du Pont 1/15/1870 – 4/5/1954 American businessman
78	Arturi Virtanen 1/15/1895 – 11/11/1973 Finnish biochemist
83	Goodman Ace 1/15/1899 – 3/25/1982 American writer/producer
64	Gene Krupa 1/15/1909 – 10/16/1973 American jazz drummer
52	Gamal Nasser 1/15/1918 – 9/28/1970 Egyptian Prime Minister