Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Famous Birthdays On 30 January

By Tracy Rocelyn


133 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193) 1505 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (d. 1585) 1563 - Franciscus Gomarus, [Francois Gomaer], Dutch theologist/opera singer 1566 - Alessandro Piccinini, composer 1615 - Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler and only child of Pocahontas and John Rolfe (d. 1675) 1616 - William Sancroft, Archbishop (Canterbury) 1624 - Arnold Geulincx, South Netherland, philosopher (About Virtue) 1628 - George Villiers, 2nd duke of Buckingham England 1647 - Konrad Hoffler, composer 1661 - Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741) 1687 - [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, baptized 1694 - Joseph Joachim Benedict Munster, composer 1697 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer 1708 - Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist 1710 - Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer 1720 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778) 1724 - Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer 1752 - Joseph Matthias Kracher, composer 1754 - John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829) 1756 - Josef Preindl, composer

1760 - Franz Xaver Partsch, composer 1775 - Walter Savage Landor, Warwick, critic/writer (Imaginary Conversation) 1781 - A v Chamisso, writer 1789 - George Augustus Kollmann, composer 1797 - Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 1814 - Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian glass painter 1816 - Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894 1822 - John Basil Turchin, [Ivan Turchinoff], Brig General (Union volunteers) 1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899) 1829 - Alfred Cummings, Georgia, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1910 1830 - James G Blaine, US, minister of foreign affairs 1832 - Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897) 1834 - Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician 1835 - Oliver Edwards, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1904 1841 - Alfred Townsend George, Civil War journalist, died in 1914 1841 - Flix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (d. 1899) 1844 - Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, German gen/gov-gen of Belgium (1914-17) 1846 - Francis H Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism) 1853 - Leland Hone, cricketer (England keeper 1879 without county experience) 1859 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944) 1861 - Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler, Mulhouse Alsace, composer

1862 - Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer 1865 - Samuel Pl'h Naber, Dutch rear-admiral/librarian 1866 - Gelett Burgess, author (Purple Cow) 1871 - Seymour Hicks, St Helier Jersey, actor-manager (Scrooge) 1871 - Wilfred Lucas, actor (Pardon Us, Chump at Oxford) 1873 - Rose Melville, actress (Sis) 1873 - Georges Ricard-Cordingley, painter (d. 1939) 1878 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940) 1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, New Hyde Park NY, 32nd Pres (D) (1933-1945) 1885 - John Henry Towers, aviator/naval hero 1889 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (d. 1937) 1892 - Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, composer 1892 - Grigore Gafencu, Roman minister of Foreign affairs (1938-39) 1894 - Boris III, czar of Bulgaria (1918-43) 1894 - Marcel Canneel, Flemish painter (Reuzenstoet) 1899 - Max Theiler, English/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951) 1900 - Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer 1900 - Martita Hunt, Argentina, actress (Man in Grey, Becket) 1900 - Sandy Powell, Rotherham England, costume designer (Rob Roy) 1901 - Earl of Huntingdon, mural painter 1901 - H E Nossak, writer 1902 - Elise Cavanna, actress (Pharmacist, Dentist, Barber Shop) 1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner, Engl, art historian (The Buildings of England) 1903 - G Evelyn Hutchinson, British zoologist (Treatise on Limnology) 1906 - Greta Nissen, actress (Ambassador Bill) 1909 - Mihaly Hajou, composer 1909 - Richard Hearne, Norwich England, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower) 1909 - Saul David Alinsky, Chic Ill, radical writer (John L Lewis) 1910 - Frans Dohmen, union leader (Dutch Catholic Mineworker's Union) 1910 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)

1048 - Protestantism: The villagers around today's Baden-Baden elect their own priest in defiance of the local bishop. 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Mnster and Osnabrck is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain. 1649 - King Charles I of England is beheaded. 1661 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed. 1667 - The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo. 1703 - The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master. 1790 - The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne. 1806 - The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened. 1820 - Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica. 1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened. 1835 - In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen. 1841 - A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagez, Puerto Rico. 1847 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco. 1858 - The first Hall concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hall Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra. 1862 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched. 1889 - Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling. 1902 - The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.

1911 - The destroyer USS Terry (DD-25) makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba. 1911 - The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy. 1913 - The United Kingdom's House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill. 1925 - The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul. 1933 - Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. 1942 - World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. 1943 - World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago (CA-29) is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes. 1944 - World War II: United States troops land on Majuro. 1945 - World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9,400 people. 1945 - World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp. 1948 - Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. 1956 - American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1959 - MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, killing all 95 aboard. 1960 - The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties. 1964 - Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.

1964 - In a bloodless coup, General Nguyen Khanh overthrows General Duong Van Minh's military junta in South Vietnam. 1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police. 1971 - Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide. 1972 - Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland. 1972 - Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations. 1975 - The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary. 1979 - Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo. 1982 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner". 1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes. 1994 - Pter Lk becomes the youngest chess grand master. 1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease. 1996 - Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit. 2000 - Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.




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