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January 1st, 2006 (January 01 2006) | Death | Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (born in 1913) | |
January 1st, 2006 (January 01 2006) | Death | Hugh McLaughlin, Irish publisher and inventor (born in 1918) | |
January 1st, 2006 (January 01 2006) | Death | Dawn Lake, Australian TV comedienne (born in 1927) | |
January 1st, 2006 (January 01 2006) | Death | Bryan Harvey, American musician (House of Freaks) (born in 1956) | |
January 1st, 1996 (January 01 1996) | Event | Curacao gains limited self-government, though it remains within free association with the Kingdom of the Netherlands. | Cao Cao Quotes |
January 1st, 1996 (January 01 1996) | Birth | Mary Gibbs, American child actress | |
January 1st, 1996 (January 01 1996) | Death | Arleigh Burke, American admiral (born in 1901) | |
January 1st, 1996 (January 01 1996) | Death | Arthur Rudolph, German engineer (born in 1906) | |
January 1st, 1986 (January 01 1986) | Event | Aruba becomes independent of Curacao, though it remains in free association with the Kingdom of the Netherlands. | Cao Cao Quotes |
January 1st, 1986 (January 01 1986) | Event | The Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic are admitted into the European Community. | |
January 1st, 1986 (January 01 1986) | Birth | Glen Davis, American basketball player | |
January 1st, 1986 (January 01 1986) | Death | Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (born in 1902) | |
January 1st, 1986 (January 01 1986) | Death | Bruce Norris, American hockey executive (Detroit Red Wings) (born in 1924) | |
January 1st, 1976 (January 01 1976) | Birth | Caleb Wyatt, American motocross rider | |
January 1st, 1976 (January 01 1976) | Birth | Georgina Chapman, British fashion designer and actress | |
January 1st, 1966 (January 01 1966) | Event | A twelve-day New York City transit strike begins. | |
January 1st, 1966 (January 01 1966) | Event | After a coup, Colonel Jean-Bedel Bokassa assumes power as president of the Central African Republic. | Bede Quotes |
January 1st, 1966 (January 01 1966) | Birth | Anna Burke, Australian politician | |
January 1st, 1966 (January 01 1966) | Death | Vincent Auriol, French politician (born in 1884) | |
January 1st, 1956 (January 01 1956) | Event | The Republic of the Sudan achieves independence from the Egyptian Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. | |
January 1st, 1956 (January 01 1956) | Event | A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people. | |
January 1st, 1956 (January 01 1956) | Birth | Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (died in 2000) | |
January 1st, 1956 (January 01 1956) | Birth | Sergei Avdeyev, Russian cosmonaut | |
January 1st, 1956 (January 01 1956) | Birth | Mike Mitchell, American basketball player | |
January 1st, 1956 (January 01 1956) | Birth | Koji Yakusho, Japanese actor | |
January 1st, 1946 (January 01 1946) | Event | The first civil flight from Heathrow Airport occurs. | |
January 1st, 1946 (January 01 1946) | Birth | Carl B. Hamilton, Swedish economist and politician | |
January 1st, 1946 (January 01 1946) | Birth | Rick Hurst, American actor | |
January 1st, 1946 (January 01 1946) | Birth | Rivelino, Brazilian football player | |
January 1st, 1926 (January 01 1926) | Birth | Richard Verreau, French-Canadian tenor (died in 2005) | |
January 1st, 1916 (January 01 1916) | Event | German troops abandon Yaounde and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea. | |
January 1st, 1906 (January 01 1906) | Event | British India officially adopts the Indian Standard Time. | |
January 1st, 1906 (January 01 1906) | Birth | Giovanni D Anzi, Italian songwriter (died in 1974) | |
January 1st, 1906 (January 01 1906) | Death | Sir Hugh Nelson, Premier of Queensland (born in 1835) | |
January 1st, 1896 (January 01 1896) | Death | Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor (born in 1826) | |
January 1st, 1876 (January 01 1876) | Event | The Reichsbank opens in Berlin. | |
January 1st, 1876 (January 01 1876) | Birth | Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (died in 1933) | |
January 1st, 1806 (January 01 1806) | Event | The French Republican Calendar is abolished. | |
January 1st, 1796 (January 01 1796) | Death | Alexandre-Theophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (born in 1735) | |
January 1st, 1766 (January 01 1766) | Death | James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (born in 1688) | |
January 1st, 1716 (January 01 1716) | Death | William Wycherley, English dramatist (born in 1640) | William Wycherley Quotes |
January 1st, 1516 (January 01 1516) | Birth | Margaret Leijonhufvud, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (died in 1551) | |
January 1st, 0766 (January 01 0766) | Birth | Ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (died in 818) | |