Happy birthday and many happy returns Jenny Vuong, Amy Tran and Dione Hortin. Born on the same day, across the years. Remember, birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
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- 1838 – In order to avoid persecution by anti-Mormons, Latter Day Saint movementfounder Joseph Smith (pictured) and his followers fled Kirtland, Ohio, for Far West, Missouri.
- 1899 – During a storm, the crew of theLynmouth Lifeboat Station transported their 10-tonlifeboat 15 mi (24 km) overland in order to rescue a damaged schooner.
- 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union's Red Armycrossed the Vistula River in Poland on their way toinvade Germany.
- 1969 – In American football, the New York Jets upset theBaltimore Colts to win Super Bowl III in one of the greatest upsets in American sports history.
- 2007 – Comet McNaught reached perihelion and became the brightest comet in over 40 years with an apparent magnitude of −5.5.
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Events
- 475 – Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace inConstantinople.
- 1528 – Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
- 1539 – Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
- 1773 – The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1777 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.
- 1808 – The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
- 1848 – The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
- 1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London, England, United Kingdom.
- 1872 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
- 1895 – The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
- 1898 – Itō Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
- 1899 – 13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued from the stricken schooner Forest Hall by the Lynmouth Lifeboat when the former flounders off the coast of Devon, England, United Kingdom.
- 1906 – Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
- 1908 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
- 1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
- 1915 – The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
- 1915 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
- 1918 – Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.
- 1921 – Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
- 1926 – Original Sam 'n' Henry aired on Chicago, Illinois radio later renamed Amos 'n' Andy in 1928.
- 1932 – Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
- 1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
- 1959 – The Caves of Nerja are rediscovered in Spain.
- 1962 – Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
- 1964 – Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
- 1966 – Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
- 1967 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
- 1969 – The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl IIIin what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
- 1970 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
- 1971 – The Harrisburg Seven: Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
- 1971 – All in the Family The famous situation comedy premieres on CBS
- 1976 – The United Nations Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
- 1986 – Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as aMission Specialist.
- 1991 – Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
- 1998 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
- 2001 – Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
- 2004 – The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
- 2005 – Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket.
- 2006 – A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
- 2006 – The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
- 2007 – Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
- 2010 – The 2010 Haiti earthquake occurs killing an estimated 316,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.
[edit]Births
- 1483 – Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German nobleman (d. 1538)
- 1562 – Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630)
- 1576 – Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (d. 1660)
- 1577 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (d. 1644)
- 1580 – Lord Alexander Ruthven, Scottish nobleman (d. 1600)
- 1588 – John Winthrop, English-born politician (d. 1649)
- 1591 – José Ribera, Spanish painter (d. 1652)
- 1597 – François Duquesnoy, French sculptor (d. 1643)
- 1628 – Charles Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703)
- 1711 – Gaetano Latilla, Italian opera composer (d. 1788)
- 1715 – Jacques Duphly, French composer (d. 1789)
- 1716 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general (d. 1795)
- 1721 – Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, Prussian general (d. 1792)
- 1723 – Samuel Langdon, American college educator (d. 1797)
- 1729 – Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and philosopher (d. 1797)
- 1737 – John Hancock, American merchant and statesman (d. 1793)
- 1746 – Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (d. 1827)
- 1751 – King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1825)
- 1772 – Count Mikhail Speransky, Russian reformer (d. 1839)
- 1786 – Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855)
- 1792 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841)
- 1797 – Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (d. 1873)
- 1810 – King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1859)
- 1822 – Étienne Lenoir, French engineer (d. 1900)
- 1837 – Adolf Jensen, German pianist, composer (d. 1879)
- 1849 – Jean Béraud, French painter (d. 1935)
- 1856 – John Singer Sargent, American artist (d. 1925)
- 1860 – Louis Dutfoy, French sports shooter (d. 1904)
- 1863 – Swami Vivekananda, Indian philosopher (d. 1902)
- 1873 – Spiridon Louis, Greek marathon runner (d. 1940)
- 1874 – James Juvenal, American rower (d. 1942)
- 1876 – Jack London, American author (d. 1916)
- 1876 – Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (d. 1948)
- 1876 – Fevzi Çakmak, Turkish Field Marshal and Prime Minister (d. 1950)
- 1877 – Frank J. Corr, American politician (d. 1934)
- 1878 – Ferenc Molnár, Hungarian writer (d. 1952)
- 1879 – Ray Harroun, American race car driver (d. 1968)
- 1879 – Anton Uesson, Estonian politician and engineer (d. 1942)
- 1882 – Milton Sills, American actor (d. 1930)
- 1884 – Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)
- 1889 – Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, Indian-born spiritual leader (d. 1965)
- 1892 – Mikhail Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1976)
- 1893 – Hermann Göring, German Nazi official (d. 1946)
- 1893 – Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi official (d. 1946)
- 1894 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer (d. 1975)
- 1895 – Leo Aryeh Mayer, Israeli professor (d. 1959)
- 1896 – David Wechsler, American psychologist (d. 1981)
- 1899 – Pierre Bernac, French baritone (d. 1979)
- 1899 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
- 1903 – Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)
- 1904 – Fred McDowell, American blues musician (d. 1972)
- 1905 – James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (d. 1997)
- 1905 – Tex Ritter, American country singer and actor (d. 1974)
- 1906 – Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher (d. 1995)
- 1907 – Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966)
- 1908 – Jean Delannoy, French film director (d. 2008)
- 1908 – Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988)
- 1910 – Patsy Kelly, American actress (d. 1981)
- 1910 – Luise Rainer, German actress
- 1915 – Paul Jarrico, American writer (d. 1997)
- 1915 – Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Canadian archbishop (d. 2013)
- 1916 – P. W. Botha, South African politician (d. 2006)
- 1916 – Jay McShann, American musician (d. 2006)
- 1916 – William Pleeth, British cellist (d. 1999)
- 1917 – Walter Hendl, American conductor (d. 2007)
- 1917 – Jimmy Skinner, Canadian hockey coach (d. 2007)
- 1917 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritualist (d. 2008)
- 1920 – James L. Farmer, Jr., American activist (d. 1999)
- 1920 – Jerzy Zubrzycki, Polish-born Australian sociologist (d. 2009)
- 1922 – Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist and art historian (d. 1994)
- 1923 – Ira Hayes, American serviceman (d. 1955)
- 1924 – Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (d. 1998)
- 1924 – Grethe Holmer, Danish actress (d. 2004)
- 1925 – Bill Burrud, American television host (d. 1990)
- 1925 – Scottie MacGregor, American actress
- 1925 – Bodil Udsen, Danish actress (d. 2008)
- 1926 – Morton Feldman, American composer (d. 1987)
- 1926 – Ray Price, American singer
- 1928 – Lloyd Ruby, American race car driver (d. 2009)
- 1929 – Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish-born American philosopher
- 1930 – Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (d. 1974)
- 1930 – Glenn Yarborough, American singer (The Limeliters)
- 1932 – Tzeni Karezi, Greek actress (d. 1992)
- 1932 – Des O'Connor, British television presenter
- 1933 – Michael Aspel, English broadcaster
- 1934 – Mick Sullivan, English rugby league footballer
- 1935 – Kreskin, American mentalist
- 1935 – Tomiko Ishii, Japanese actress
- 1936 – Raimonds Pauls, Latvian Composer
- 1937 – Marie Dubois, French actress
- 1937 – Shirley Eaton, British actress
- 1937 – Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (d. 2002)
- 1938 – Lewis Fiander, Australian actor
- 1939 – Jim Palosaari, Christian evangelist (d. 2011)
- 1941 – Long John Baldry, British blues singer (d. 2005)
- 1942 – Bernardine Dohrn, American activist
- 1944 – Joe Frazier, American boxer (d. 2011)
- 1944 – Hans Henning Atrott, Prussian euthanasia advocate
- 1944 – Vlastimil Hort, Czechoslovakian chess player
- 1944 – Viktoria Postnikova, Russian pianist
- 1944 – Carlos Villagrán, Mexican actor
- 1945 – Maggie Bell, Scottish singer (Stone the Crows)
- 1946 – Lady Cosgrove, Scottish judiciary figure
- 1946 – George Duke, American musician
- 1946 – Cynthia Robinson, American musician (Sly & the Family Stone)
- 1947 – Tom Dempsey, American football player
- 1948 – Kenny Allen, English footballer
- 1948 – Anthony Andrews, English actor
- 1948 – Gordon Campbell, Canadian politician
- 1948 – Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American religious spokesperson (d. 2001)
- 1948 – William Nicholson, English writer
- 1949 – Kentarō Haneda, Japanese composer (d. 2007)
- 1949 – Ottmar Hitzfeld, German football manager
- 1949 – Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist
- 1949 – Michael W. Vannier, American radiologist
- 1949 – Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born American director
- 1949 – Hamadi Jebali, Tunisian prime minister
- 1950 – Sheila Jackson Lee, American politician
- 1950 – Göran Lindblad, Swedish politician
- 1950 – Bob McEwen, American politician
- 1950 – Dorrit Moussaieff, First Lady of Iceland
- 1950 – Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (d. 1992)
- 1950 – Greg X. Volz, Christian singer (Petra)
- 1951 – Kirstie Alley, American actress
- 1951 – Ann Althouse, American law professor
- 1951 – Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality and author
- 1951 – Drew Pearson, American football player
- 1952 – Charles Faulkner, American motivational speaker and author
- 1952 – Walter Mosley, American author
- 1952 – John Walker, New Zealand middle distance runner
- 1953 – Mary Harron, Canadian screenwriter
- 1954 – Howard Stern, American radio personality and author
- 1955 – Tom Ardolino, American drummer (NRBQ) (d. 2012)
- 1955 – Rockne S. O'Bannon, American screenwriter
- 1957 – John Lasseter, American director and producer
- 1958 – Christiane Amanpour, American news anchor
- 1958 – Curt Fraser, American ice hockey coach
- 1959 – Blixa Bargeld, German singer and musician (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
- 1959 – Per Gessle, Swedish songwriter and musician (Roxette)
- 1959 – Nick Nairn, British celebrity chef
- 1960 – Oliver Platt, American actor
- 1960 – Dominique Wilkins, American basketball player
- 1961 – Tahawwur Hussain Rana, Pakistani Canadian terrorist accomplice
- 1962 – Luna Vachon, Canadian wrestler (d. 2010)
- 1962 – Joe Quesada, American comic book writer and artist.
- 1963 – François Girard, Canadian director and screenwriter
- 1963 – Nando Reis, Brazilian singer and composer (Titãs)
- 1964 – Jeff Bezos, American entrepreneur
- 1964 – Laura Gildemeister, Argentine tennis player
- 1964 – Clare Holman, British actress
- 1965 – Mark Moore, British record producer
- 1965 – Rob Zombie, American musician and director (White Zombie)
- 1965 – Alexandra Wentworth, American actress
- 1966 – Olivier Martinez, French actor
- 1967 – Vendela Kirsebom, Swedish supermodel
- 1968 – Keith Anderson, American singer-songwriter
- 1968 – Rachael Harris, American actress
- 1968 – Junichi Masuda, Japanese composer
- 1968 – Heather Mills, British activist and model
- 1968 – Mauro Silva, Brazilian footballer
- 1969 – Margaret Nagle, American screenwriter and TV producer
- 1969 – Robert Prosinečki, Croatian footballer
- 1970 – Mig Ayesa, Australian musician
- 1970 – Raekwon, American rapper
- 1970 – Zack de la Rocha, American musician (Rage Against the Machine)
- 1971 – Scott Burrell, American basketball player
- 1972 – Priyanka Gandhi, Indian politician
- 1972 – Espen Knutsen, Norwegian ice hockey player
- 1972 – Jason Sklar, American comedian
- 1972 – Randy Sklar, American comedian
- 1973 – Dan Haseltine, American singer (Jars of Clay)
- 1973 – Matthew Wong, American musician (Reel Big Fish)
- 1973 – Hande Yener, Turkish singer
- 1974 – Melanie Chisholm, British singer (Spice Girls)
- 1974 – Claudia Conserva, Chilean television presenter
- 1974 – Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skier
- 1975 – Jason Freese, American musician (Green Day)
- 1975 – Jocelyn Thibault, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976 – Miki Nakatani, Japanese actress and singer
- 1977 – Yoandy Garlobo, Cuban baseball player
- 1977 – Cade McNown, American football player
- 1977 – Piolo Pascual, Filipino actor
- 1978 – Luis Ayala, Mexican baseball pitcher
- 1978 – Jeremy Camp, American Christan singer
- 1978 – Bonaventure Kalou, Ivorian footballer
- 1978 – Kris Roe, American musician (The Ataris)
- 1978 – Kim Sa-rang, Korean actress
- 1978 – Maurizio Zaffiri, Italian rugby player
- 1979 – Lee Bo-young, South Korean actress and model
- 1979 – Marián Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player
- 1979 – Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
- 1979 – David Zabriskie, American cyclist
- 1979 – Matt Kohler, American actor
- 1980 – Bobby Crosby, American baseball player
- 1980 – Vanessa Johansson, American actress
- 1981 – Amerie, American singer
- 1981 – Dan Klecko, American football player
- 1981 – Angus Macdonald, New Zealand rugby player
- 1981 – João Paulo, Brazilian footballer
- 1981 – Luis Ernesto Pérez, Mexican footballer
- 1982 – Sherzod Abdurahmonov, Uzbek boxer
- 1982 – Paul-Henri Mathieu, French tennis player
- 1982 – Dean Whitehead, English footballer
- 1982 – Chris Ray, American baseball player
- 1982 – Dimitrios Tsiamis, Greek triple jumper
- 1982 – Hans Van Alphen, Belgian decathlete
- 1982 – Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player
- 1983 – Stella Kaltsidou, Greek basketball player
- 1984 – Scott Olsen, American baseball player
- 1984 – Oribe Peralta, Mexican footballer
- 1984 – Daniel Sepulveda, American football player
- 1984 – Jonathan Zydko, French footballer
- 1985 – Yohana Cobo, Spanish actress
- 1985 – Gerard Lawson, American football player
- 1985 – Borja Valero, Spanish footballer
- 1985 – Artem Milevskiy, Ukrainian footballer
- 1986 – Gemma Arterton, English actress
- 1986 – Kehoma Brenner, German rugby player
- 1986 – Miguel Ángel Nieto, Spanish footballer
- 1986 – Pablo Daniel Osvaldo, Italian Argentine footballer
- 1986 – Kieron Richardson, English actor
- 1987 – Naya Rivera, American actress and singer
- 1987 – Andi Muise, Canadian model
- 1987 – Will Rothhaar, American actor
- 1987 – Salvatore Sirigu, Italian footballer
- 1988 – Chris Casement, Irish footballer
- 1988 – Holder da Silva, Guinea-Bissauan sprinter
- 1988 – Claude Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1988 – Andrew Lawrence, American actor
- 1988 – Ytalo, Brazilian footballer
- 1989 – Thiemo-Jérôme Kialka, German footballer
- 1990 – Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian chess player
- 1991 – Pixie Lott, English singer
- 1992 – Ishak Belfodil, Franco-Algerian footballer
- 1992 – Samuele Longo, Italian footballer
- 1992 – Mao Kobayashi, Japanese gravure idol
- 1993 – Zayn Malik , Member of British Boy-Band One Direction
- 1994 – Emre Can, German footballer
- 1998 – Nathan Gamble, American actor
[edit]Deaths
- 690 – Benedict Biscop, saint (b. 628)
- 1167 – Ailred of Rievaulx, saint (b. 1110)
- 1321 – Maria of Brabant, wife of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
- 1519 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
- 1665 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
- 1674 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (b. 1605)
- 1700 – Marguerite Bourgeoys, saint (b. 1620)
- 1705 – Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
- 1732 – John Horsley, British archaeologist (b. 1685)
- 1735 – John Eccles, English composer (b. 1668)
- 1759 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1709)
- 1765 – Johann Melchior Molter, German composer (b. 1696)
- 1777 – Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1726)
- 1781 – Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (b. 1691)
- 1829 – Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (b. 1772)
- 1833 – Marie-Antoine Carême, French chef (b. 1784)
- 1834 – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
- 1856 – Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language, (b. 1815)
- 1861 – Václav Hanka, Czech philologist, (b. 1791)
- 1892 – William Reeves, bishop, antiquarian (b. 1815)
- 1897 – Isaac Pitman, British inventor (Pitman Shorthand) (b. 1813)
- 1899 – Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816)
- 1909 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)
- 1911 – Andreas Papagiannakopoulos, Greek judge and politician (b. 1845)
- 1921 – Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
- 1926 – Sir Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
- 1934 – Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist, composer and arranger (b. 1887)
- 1938 – Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor (b. 1890)
- 1940 – Edward Smith, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1899)
- 1943 – Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1902)
- 1944 – Lance C. Wade, American pilot (b. 1915)
- 1956 – Norman Kerry, American actor (b. 1894)
- 1958 – Charles Mallory Hatfield, U.S. rainmaker (b. 1875)
- 1960 – Nevil Shute, English writer (b. 1899)
- 1962 – Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian writer and feminist (b. 1869)
- 1965 – Lorraine Hansberry, American writer (b. 1936)
- 1971 – John Tovey, English Royal Navy admiral (b. 1885)
- 1974 – Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)
- 1976 – Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
- 1977 – Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
- 1983 – Rebop Kwaku Baah, Ghanaian percussionist (b. 1944)
- 1983 – Nikolai Podgorny, President of the USSR (b. 1903)
- 1988 – Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925)
- 1990 – Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-born educator and writer (b. 1919)
- 1991 – Mary Francis Shura, American writer (b. 1923)
- 1996 – Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician (b. 1926)
- 1997 – Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (b. 1936)
- 1997 – Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1901)
- 1999 – Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (b. 1914)
- 1999 – Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1961)
- 2000 – Marc Davis, American animator (b. 1913)
- 2000 – Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)
- 2001 – Affirmed, American racehorse (b. 1975)
- 2001 – Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1922)
- 2001 – William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman (b. 1913)
- 2002 – Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911)
- 2002 – Cyrus Vance, 57th U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1917)
- 2003 – Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (b. 1912)
- 2003 – Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese director (b. 1930)
- 2003 – Leopoldo Galtieri, dictator of Argentina (b. 1926)
- 2003 – Maurice Gibb, British musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
- 2003 – Alan Nunn May, English physicist and Soviet spy (b. 1911)
- 2004 – Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
- 2004 – Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
- 2005 – Alessia di Matteo, first survivor of eight transplants in one operation (b. 2003)
- 2005 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
- 2005 – Edmund S. Valtman, Estonian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)
- 2007 – Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
- 2007 – James Killen, Australian politician (b. 1925)
- 2009 – Claude Berri, French movie director (b. 1934)
- 2009 – Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (b. 1912)
- 2010 – Daniel Bensaid, French philosopher (b. 1946)
- 2010 – Hasib Sabbagh, Palestinian businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Consolidated Contractors Company (b. 1920)
[edit]Holidays and observances
- Christian Feast Day:
- Memorial Day (Turkmenistan)
- National Youth Day (India)
- Zanzibar Revolution Day (Tanzania)
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THE PRIMARY GOAL IS PHYSICAL WARFARE
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 12, 2013 (2:44pm)
UPDATE. Further from Brother Musa during last year’s Sydney tour, if you can stand his habit of inserting made-up baby talk into almost every single sentence. The Jews receive one or two mentions.
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WARMIES RESTRUCTURED
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 12, 2013 (2:40pm)
It’s a sign:
The New York Times will close its environment desk in the next few weeks and assign its seven reporters and two editors to other departments. The positions of environment editor and deputy environment editor are being eliminated …“It wasn’t a decision we made lightly,” said Dean Baquet, the paper’s managing editor for news operations. “To both me and Jill [Abramson, executive editor], coverage of the environment is what separates the New York Times from other papers. We devote a lot of resources to it, now more than ever. We have not lost any desire for environmental coverage. This is purely a structural matter.”
“Absolutely,” responds James Delingpole. “It’s what newspapers always do when they’re committed to a particular field: close down the entire department responsible for covering it.” Further from the Times:
Baquet said editors are also considering whether religion reporting could benefit from this type of change.
Seems only fair.
(Via Correllio)
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SYDNEY COOLS
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 12, 2013 (2:24pm)
Remember when Tim Flannery predicted that many areas of Australia would run out of water? And then it rained so much that all our dams were filled? According to Flannery, those dam-filling rains were brought about by global warming:
Climate extremes have a way of stacking up to produce unpleasant consequences. Two years ago, the ocean temperature off northwestern Australia reached a record high, and evaporation of the warm seawater led to Australia’s wettest year on record.
Surprising that Tim didn’t see that coming. And now the Flannery Effect kicks in, as usual when the Climate Commissioner opens his yap:
A cool change has swept across Sydney earlier than expected with temperatures dropping and the possibility of afternoon showers.
Thanks for that, mate. Further from Australia’s holy mammalogist:
With a carbon price in place, Australia’s emissions curve is beginning to flatten out.
So we’re still emitting just a tiny fraction of the planet’s output, then. Merely 1.2 per cent of the global total in 2011.
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FAT REDNECKS BARGE IN
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 12, 2013 (3:53am)
Lie-supporting Greens senator Lee Rhiannon:
Imagine you are a bird and you weigh about 30 grams.
OK, Jonathan Livingston Leegull. And now I’m imagining running into one of these. But do continue:
Every year as the days start to shorten over your home in the Arctic Circle, you eat so much your weight nearly doubles.
Avian obesity is a serious problem.
Then the urge kicks in to fly and fly and you head south. The fatty reserves stand you in good stead for your incredible flight to Australia.But when you arrive off the east coast and swing across the Hunter River you can’t find your second home. It is now a coal terminal.
Man, don’t you just hate it when that happens. And being a 30-gram bird, of course, your housing options are extremely limited.
For red-necked stints and other species this is a real story.
The Greens have finally found rednecks they can love.
When the red-necked stint flies in after more than 10,000 kilometres it has a right to find its home and feeding grounds.
Something else the Greens love: arrivals without passports.
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ENDORSED BY CHRISTINE MILNE
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 12, 2013 (3:40am)
More bogus press release fun with the Greens, who adore these modern political tactics.
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STEP FORWARD
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 12, 2013 (3:09am)
An email from longtime reader Irobot:
I submitted my first comment onto your blog today after about three months. This may seem somewhat mundane news but for me it is a step forward.
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SAFETY CONSIDERED
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 12, 2013 (3:06am)
Presumably they’d be armed:
The Obama administration is considering funding many more police officers in public schoolsto secure campuses …
Via Instapundit, who notes: “Wait, weren’t the lefty pundits telling us that only an idiot NRA shill would endorse this idea?”
Ernestine Aldana used a gun to protect herself from a robber in her own grocery store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A man pulled a knife on her and tried to grab the cash register, but when Ms. Aldana grabbed her gun, he quickly fled the scene …More and more armed citizen stories are coming to light now that the federal government is going after gun rights. A Georgia mother used a .38 revolver to protect her and her 9 year old sons against an intruder, while an Ohio man used his gun to shield his 2-month old son from an armed robber. A 15-year old boy used his father’s AR-15 to protect himself and his 12-year old sister against two intruders.
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WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 12, 2013 (2:53am)
Great British cheeses.
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SHEIK WAHWAH
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 12, 2013 (12:35am)
Just another moderate Islamic leader:
A radical sheik … has called for Australia to become an Islamic state ruled by sharia law ...Sheik Ismail Al-Wahwah, the Australian head of extremist Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir, suggested during a Christmas Eve sermon that jihad should be used to implement hardline teachings …He said under an Islamic government, alcohol would be banned, a strict dress code enforced for all Australians and languages other than Arabic banned in schools.
Sheik Wahwah models Australia’s next official outfit while speaking in our future language:
UPDATE. Waaaah! The Hizbies are hurtin’:
UPDATE. Waaaah! The Hizbies are hurtin’:
Ismail al-Wahwah did not mention Australia at all in his lecture, a fact evident to anyone who watches the excerpts of the lecture on the basis of which the claim was made. The lecture – the complete recording of which will be up on our website soon – was about the establishment of the Caliphate in the Muslim World. At no point was any vision for Australia presented.
Ah, but Mr Wahwah didn’t limit his vision to merely the “Muslim World”, whatever that is. He called for a global caliphate:
That is the duty of the caliphate – to implement Islam internally and carry the light of Islam to the rest of the world. How? Not with flowers.
So he wants his rules to apply throughout the world, of which Australia is a part. Shove it, Hizbie idiots.
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How does chemical castration violate human rights? - ed
Seven year old girl raped and murdered as claims of Indian suspects being beaten emerge===
She has ignored me .. and abused me when I ran for Blaxland against Jason Clare. She made a commitment on Sunrise in 2007 she never honoured - ed
PM Julia Gillard meets with sex abuse survivors
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I started as an atheist and became a Christian .. so this only concerns me in an academic way .. I didn't believe in spirituality as an Atheist and as a Christian I eschew Religion in fovor of a spiritual relationship with God. I go to worship on Sunday not because of an order for rest on the Sabbath, but because I am with my 'family' .. which disturbingly I must leave if I can't reconcile with that woman .. - ed
The Divided Influence of Gnosticism===
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Chills. Imagine Hathaway playing Cello .. - ed
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A GLACIAL ROYAL COMMISSION... while the paedophile still prowls Larry Pickering
The terms of reference of the McClellan Commission are practical. There needed to be some perimeter of reference or it risked a time-scale of millennia. This Commission will see Peter McClellan QC well past dementia.
An interim report is due in 18 months time and there should be subsequent annual reports submitted to Government so terms of reference can be refined to cater for the current “don’t knows”.
Among the initial “don’t knows” is the wobbly line pencilled in regarding the Commission’s limitation to hear cases of child “sexual” abuse only.
Why is that?
Equally devastating border-line cases may warrant a hearing also.
Should the rationale be based on a scale of psychological damage?
There is no funding arrangements for potential damages and Churches seem to be hesitant to waive confidentiality clauses attached to previously-settled claims.
More important is the cultural issues regarding historic Aboriginal, Islamic and Indian attitudes to young girls as they compare to Western values.
McLellan QC will need the patience of Job and the wisdom of Solomon to navigate his way around those discrepancies.
But it’s a start and the fact that a Royal Commission is in progress at all may serve to temporarily dissuade some potential child abusers.
There are hundreds of thousands of victims of this worst of all crimes. They deserve cleansing by admission and apology which is not even within the powers of the Commission to enforce.
Public Prosecutors will take responsibility for the second stage of reparation.
Interim reports and findings are critical to the Commission’s success. The abuse of children is an ongoing wrong and should be addressed contemporaneously and not be allowed to continue while awaiting final reports.
This Royal Commission is a can of worms that should have been opened a century ago. There will be sensitive toes to be trodden on.
There is no doubt the Catholic Church is in the cross-hairs of this Government and may not be in ensuing governments.
It is unfair to focus on this one entity because of its greater involvement in children’s needs. Although one may ask why a church involves itself in children’s needs at all, if it’s not for indoctrinal gain.
There are many decent money-making pursuits open to churches that don’t involve children. Veterinary clinics, higher education institutions, aged homes and the like but they won’t solve the church’s greatest need... perpetual indoctrination of the young through fear, and that spans generational loyalty.
Some will disagree there is any element of fear. I disagree with them. If hellfire and eternal damnation aren’t fearful propositions to a child I don’t know what the hell is.
Many a confirmed atheist at death’s door has called for a priest.
But the greatest problem is one this Royal Commission will not have to concern itself with, and that’s the recidivistic compulsion of the paedophile.
Paedophilia has no cure.
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9 News HEADLINE: British police have released a scathing report detailing decades of child sex abuse by late television presenter Jimmy Savile.
The report found the British star, who died in October 2011 at 84, had almost certainly abused more than 450 people. The late BBC presenter spent ‘every waking minute’ of his life thinking about abusing children.
Read more: http://bit.ly/Ucz4tx
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Introducing Element – The first ever synthesizer by Waves
http://www.waves.com/
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April 29, 2009 was the last time Senate Democrats passed a budget. Here are a few things that have happened since then.
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Maria Tran - Last night's shoot for "Fist of A Dragon". My character - Zhen and main - Damon
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