Thursday, May 19, 2011

Famous Birth On 2 January

By Tracy Rocelyn


1921 - Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007) 1922 - Jason Evers, NYC, actor (Wrangler, Channing) 1922 - Nico Schuyt, composer 1922 - Renata Tebaldi, Pesaro Italy, lyric soprano 1925 - Andry Maryanovich Nikodemovich, composer 1925 - William J Crowe Jr, Kentucky, chairman joint chief of staff 1925 - Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (d. 2008) 1927 - David Herbert, publisher 1927 - Gino Marchetti, NFL defensive end (Dallas Texans, Baltimore Colts) 1927 - Richard Belmont Ray, (Rep-D-Ga) [or Feb 2] 1928 - Dan Rostenkowski, (Rep-D-Il, -94) 1928 - Gerhard Amanshauser, writer 1928 - Harry Hyams, English immovable goods owner (Center Point) 1928 - Howard Caine, Nashville TN, actor (Brushfire) 1928 - Tiberiu Olah, composer 1928 - Vaughn Beals, Cambridge Mass, CEO (Harley Davidson motorcycle) 1928 - Avie Bennett, Canadian philanthropist 1928 - Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese writer 1929 - Art Prysock, jazz musician

1981 - Maxi Rodrguez, Argentine footballer 1981 - Ryan Garko, American baseball player 1981 - Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player 1982 - Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker 1983 - Kate Bosworth, American actress 1984 - Colleen Taylor, American journalist 1985 - Heather O'Reilly, American soccer player 1987 - Loui Batley, British actress 1987 - Syesha Mercado, American singer 1988 - Jonny Evans, Northern Irish footballer

1892 - Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962) 1893 - Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931) 1894 - Robert Nathan, NYC, poet, novelist (Portrait of Jennie) 1895 - Count Folke Bernadotte, Sweden, statesman (Red Cross, UN) 1896 - Dziga Vertiv, [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director (Sjagai, Soviet!) 1896 - Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer 1896 - Sir Lawrence Wackett, Australian aircraft engineer (d. 1982) 1897 - Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (d. 1975) 1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, St Petersburg Russia, composer 1899 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, premier/sec-gen of NATO (1957-61) 1901 - Rex O'Malley, London England, actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight) 1901 - Robert Marshall, founder (Wilderness Society) 1901 - Torsten Ralf, Swedish tenor (Daphne) 1902 - Dan Keating, Irish republican (d. 2007) 1902 - Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998) 1903 - Anton van Duinkerken, [Willem JMA Asselbergs], literary 1904 - James Melton, Moultrie Ga, opera tenor (Ford Festival) 1904 - Sally Rand, Hickory County MO, stripper (fan dance) 1905 - Michael Kemp Tippett, English composer/conductor (Child of our Time) 1905 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (d. 1938) 1907 - Edward Albert Radice, economist 1907 - Salvador Ley, composer 1908 - Ben Grauer, NYC, newscaster (Big Story) 1908 - Janis Kepitis, composer 1909 - Rene Etiemble, French literature historian (Parlez-vous Franglais) 1910 - Ulrich Becher, writer

1910 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu Poet (d. 1983) 1912 - Andre Ameller, composer 1912 - Anna Lee, Ightham England, actress (Scruples, Lila-General Hospital) 1912 - Barbara Pentland, Winnipeg Canada, composer 1912 - Renato Guttuso, Italian painter (Flight from Etna, Crucifixion) 1913 - Ernest Sidey, British air marshal 1913 - Gardner Read, Evanston, Illinois, composer 1913 - Juanita E Jackson Mitchell, US head (NAACP) 1913 - Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, France, meteorologist 1913 - Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004) 1915 - John Hope Franklin, historian 1917 - Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003) 1918 - Willi Graf, German anti-Nazi activist (d. 1943) 1920 - Duke of Devonshire, English large landowner/art collector 1920 - Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy) 1920 - Penelope Jessel, politcal activist 1920 - Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker

366 - The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire 533 - Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy 1492 - Reconquista: the emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders 1777 - American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey 1788 - Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution 1791 - Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War 1818 - The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded 1833 - Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands. 1860 - The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the Acadmie des Sciences in Paris 1871 - Amadeus I becomes King of Spain 1900 - John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China 1911 - A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill 1920 - The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities.

1927 - Angered by the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, Catholic rebels in Mexico rebelled against the government. 1935 - Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh 1941 - World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales 1942 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history-the Duquesne Spy Ring 1942 - World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces 1945 - World War II: Nuremberg (in German, Nrnberg) is severely bombed by Allied forces 1949 - Luis Muoz Marn becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico 1955 - Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated 1959 - Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the U.S.S.R. 1971 - The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic football match 1974 - President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo 1999 - A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, where temperatures plunge to -13 F (-25 C); 68 deaths are reported 2001 - Sila Caldern becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico 2002 - Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly. 2004 - Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth. 2006 - An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, while leaving one miner in critical condition.




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