TODAY’S HISTORY
1575
English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis & William
Byrd music press monopoly
1831
Charles Darwin takes his Bachelors of Art exam
1837
Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
1873
British SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness
1879
Zulu warriors attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana, South
Africa
1883
England complete 1st innings victory in Tests v Australia
MCG
1895
National Association of Manufacturers organized in
Cincinnati
1905
In St Petersburg, Russia, a large demonstration of workers
led by Father Gapon, march to the Winter Palace with a petition to the Tsar
1931
French government of Steeg falls
1931
Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born
Governor-General of Australia.
1940
1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS
1941
1st mass killing of Jews in Romania
1945
Heavy US air raid on Okinawa
1951
Fidel Castro is ejected from a Winter League baseball game
after hitting a batter
1956
30 people die in a train crash in Los Angeles
1959
USAF concludes that less than 1% of UFOs are unknown objects
1964
World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured in Wisconsin
for New York's World Fair
1968
Apollo 5 launched to Moon
1969
Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of
Fame
1972
An anti-internment march is held at Magilligan strand,
County Derry; as the march nears the internment camp it is stopped by members
of the Green Jackets and the Parachute Regiment of the British Army, who used
barbed wire to close off the beach
1975
Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched
1982
75% of North America is covered by snow
1985
Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop
1987
Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills
himself at a press conference on live national television
1989
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh
1990
Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide
1990
President Mikhail Gorbachev sends Red Troops into the Soviet
republic of Azerbaijan
1994
5.5 magnitude earthquake strikes Sumatra
1997
Space shuttle Atlantis successfully returns to Earth
1999
Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are
burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India
2001
The British government launches pro-vaccine campaign
2013
A series of Baghdad car bombings kill 17 people
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
1797
Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826)
1845
Paul Vidal de la Blanche, France, geographer
1869
Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk and confidant of Russian Tsar
Nicholas II
1882
Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and
choreographer (d. 1956)
1897
Josef Stanislav, composer
1906
Joe Gladwin, English actor (d. 1987)
1907
Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
1909
Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international
playboy (d. 1965)
1916
Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati Author, Poet, Astrologist
(Gujarat is a State of India)
1921
Andy Ganteaume, cricketer
1923
Friedrich Zehm, composer
1934
Bill Bixby, actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian),
born in San Francisco, California
1948
Northern Calloway, American actor (d. 1990)
1951
Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater
1962
Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Yang di-Pertuan
Agong of Malaysia
1965
Chintara Sukapatana, Thai actress
1967
Nicholas Gillingham, British swimmer (world record 200m
freestyle)
1970
Alex Ross, American comic book painter (Marvels, Kingdom
Come)
1972
Gonzalo Rodríguez, Uruguayan racing driver (d. 1999)
1973
Rogerio Ceni, Brazilian footballer
1979
Melanie Winiger, Miss Switzerland Universe (1997)
1982
Kevin Sheridan, actor (Soul Man)
1986
Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model
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