Thursday, May 19, 2011

Celebrity Birth On 3 January

By Tracy Rocelyn


106 BC - Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC) 1196 - Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231) 1624 - William Tucker, 1st Black child born in America 1680 - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker 1698 - Pietro Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782) 1710 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1796) 1719 - Francisco Jos Freire, Portuguese historian (d. 1773) 1722 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (d. 1752) 1730 - Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician 1757 - Johann Abraham Sixt, composer 1760 - John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1835) 1763 - Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator 1777 - Louis Poinsot, French instrument worker 1777 - M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca/Piombino 1778 - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (d. 1861) 1786 - Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer 1789 - Carl G Carus, German physician/psychologist/philosopher 1793 - Lucretia Coffin Mott, US, teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist 1802 - Feliks Ostrowski, composer

1976 - Dinara Drukarova, Russian actress 1976 - Nicholas Gonzalez, American actor 1977 - Beata Handra, SF Calif, dance skater (& Sinek-1997 Pac Coast Sr 3rd) 1977 - Lee Bowyer, English footballer 1977 - A.J. Burnett, American baseball player 1977 - Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress (seiyū) 1978 - Kimberley Locke, American singer 1978 - Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress 1978 - Dominic Wood, English children's television presenter and magician 1978 - Mike York, American ice hockey player 1979 - Francesco Bellissimo, Italian mangaka 1980 - Angela Ruggiero, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98) 1980 - Rob Arnold, American guitarist (Chimaira) 1980 - Liya Kebede, Ethiopian model

1980 - David Tyree, American football player 1981 - Eli Manning, American football player 1981 - Chris Blais, California racecar driver 1985 - John David Booty, American football player 1986 - Lloyd Polite, American R&B singer 1986 - Jacob Timpano, Australian soccer player 1988 - Rodrigo de la Cadena, Mexican artist and performer 1989 - Anya Kop, Russian model and America's Next Top Model contestant 1989 - Alex D. Linz, American actor

1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. 1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. 1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. 1749 - Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont. 1777 - American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton. 1782 - Sylhet District in north-east Bangladesh is established 1815 - Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia. 1823 - Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico. 1848 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia. 1861 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States. 1868 - Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power. 1870 - The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins. 1888 - The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time. 1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy. 1932 - Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit. 1933 - Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.

1938 - The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1944 - World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero. 1945 - World War II: Admiral Chester W Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan. 1947 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time. 1953 - Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress. 1956 - A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower. 1957 - The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. 1958 - The West Indies Federation is formed. 1959 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. State. 1961 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba. 1961 - The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, leaks radiation, killing three workers. 1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro. 1977 - Apple Computer is incorporated.

1961 - The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, leaks radiation, killing three workers. 1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro. 1977 - Apple Computer is incorporated. 1990 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces. 1993 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). 1994 - An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkutsk, Russia, killing 125 people including one on the ground. 1994 - More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receive South African citizenship. 1997 - The People's Republic of China announces it will spend $27.7 billion USD to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys. 1999 - The Mars Polar Lander is launched. 1999 - Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians. 2004 - Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people on board. 2007 - National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport.




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