Happy birthday and many happy returns Stephanie Hurst. Remember, birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live
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January 10: Traditional Day in Benin
- 1645 – William Laud (pictured), Archbishop of Canterbury and a fervent supporter of King Charles I, was beheaded in the midst of the English Civil War.
- 1776 – Common Sense by Thomas Paine, a document denouncing British rule in the Thirteen Colonies, was published.
- 1954 – BOAC Flight 781 suffered an explosive decompression at altitude and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, killing everyone on board.
- 1993 – The Braer Storm, the strongest extratropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Atlantic, reached its peak intensity.
- 2007 – A general strike, an attempt to force President Lansana Contéto resign which eventually resulted in the appointment of two new prime ministers, began in Guinea.
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Events
- 49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
- 69 – Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba to deputy Roman Emperor.
- 236 – Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus as the twentieth pope of Rome.
- 1072 – Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
- 1475 – Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
- 1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
- 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
- 1806 – Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
- 1810 – Napoleon Bonaparte divorces his first wife Joséphine.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
- 1863 – The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
- 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
- 1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
- 1916 – Erzurum Offensive during World War I, Russian victory over Ottoman Empire.
- 1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
- 1922 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Dáil Éireann.
- 1923 – Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
- 1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
- 1929 – The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular European comic books ever, is first published in Belgium.
- 1941 – World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
- 1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
- 1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
- 1954 – BOAC Flight 781 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
- 1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
- 1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
- 1981 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
- 1984 – The United States and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
- 1985 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
- 1990 – Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
- 1999 – Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi, India with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in theIndian legal system.
- 2005 – A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between San Franciscoand Los Angeles, for 10 days.
- 2007 – A general strike begins in Guinea in an eventually successful attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
- 2011 – 2010–2011 Queensland floods: Torrential rain in the Lockyer Valley region of South East Queensland, Australia causes severe flash flooding, killing 9 people.
[edit]Births
- 1480 – Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
- 1538 – Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d. 1574)
- 1573 – Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
- 1607 – Isaac Jogues, French missionary (d. 1646)
- 1628 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)
- 1644 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (d. 1711)
- 1654 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar (d. 1712)
- 1702 – Johannes Zick, German painter (d. 1762)
- 1715 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)
- 1721 – Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740)
- 1729 – Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d. 1799)
- 1738 – Ethan Allen, American military leader (d. 1789)
- 1741 – Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1759)
- 1745 – Isaac Titsingh, Dutch diplomat (d. 1812)
- 1750 – Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, British Lord Chancellor (d. 1823)
- 1760 – Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, German composer and conductor (d. 1802)
- 1769 – Michel Ney, French marshal (d. 1815)
- 1776 – George Birkbeck, British academic (d. 1841)
- 1780 – Martin Lichtenstein, German physician (d. 1857)
- 1797 – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848)
- 1797 – Eugenio Kincaid, American missionary (d. 1883)
- 1810 – Ferdinand Barbedienne, French engineer (d. 1892)
- 1810 – Jeremiah S. Black, American jurist and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of State (d. 1883)
- 1812 – Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (d. 1881)
- 1828 – Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (d. 1892)
- 1834 – Lord Acton, British historian (d. 1902)
- 1836 – Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
- 1840 – Louis Nazaire Bégin, Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)
- 1842 – Luigi Pigorini, Italian palaeoethnologist, archaeologist and ethnographer (d. 1925)
- 1843 – Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
- 1848 – Reinhold Sadler, 9th Governor of Nevada (d. 1906)
- 1849 – Robert Crosbie, Canadian theosophist (d. 1919)
- 1850 – John Wellborn Root, American architect (d. 1891)
- 1853 – Jessie Bond, English singer and actress (d. 1942)
- 1858 – Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
- 1859 – Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish free-thinker (d. 1909)
- 1860 – Charles G.D. Roberts, Canadian poet and writer (d. 1943)
- 1864 – Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1931)
- 1865 – Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
- 1873 – Algernon Maudslay, British sailor (d. 1948)
- 1873 – Jack O'Neill, Irish-born baseball player (d. 1935)
- 1873 – George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
- 1875 – Issai Schur, German mathematician (d. 1941)
- 1880 – Manuel Azaña y Diaz, Spanish republican President (d. 1940)
- 1881 – Leslie Rainey, Australian sportsman (d. 1962)
- 1883 – Francis X. Bushman, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1883 – Oscar Goerke, American cyclist (d. 1934)
- 1883 – Alfred Saalwächter, German U-boat commander (d. 1945)
- 1883 – Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1945)
- 1887 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962)
- 1889 – Maurice Collis, Irish writer (d. 1973)
- 1890 – Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d. 1957)
- 1890 – Pina Menichelli, Italian actress (d. 1984)
- 1891 – Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician (d. 1970)
- 1892 – Melchior Wańkowicz, Polish writer (d. 1974)
- 1893 – Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Victoria Cross winner (d. 1932)
- 1894 – Pingali Lakshmikantam, Indian poet (d. 1972)
- 1898 – Katharine Blodgett, American scientist and inventor (d. 1979)
- 1903 – Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)
- 1903 – Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (d. 1997)
- 1903 – Violet Wilkey, American actress (d. 1976)
- 1904 – Ray Bolger, American actor and dancer (d. 1987)
- 1905 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, director (d. 1993)
- 1908 – Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (d. 1992)
- 1908 – Bernard Lee, English actor (d. 1981)
- 1910 – Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (d. 1976)
- 1911 – Norman Heatley, English biologist (d. 2004)
- 1912 – Maria Mandel, Austrian Auschwitz prison guard (d. 1948)
- 1913 – Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
- 1913 – Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician (d. 1981)
- 1914 – Yu Kuo-hwa, Premier of Taiwan (d. 2000)
- 1915 – Dean Dixon, American conductor (d. 1976)
- 1916 – Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
- 1916 – Don Metz, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
- 1916 – Eldzier Cortor, American painter
- 1917 – Hilde Krahl, Austrian actress (d. 1999)
- 1917 – Jerry Wexler, American record producer (d. 2008)
- 1918 – Les Bennett, English footballer (d. 1999)
- 1918 – Arthur Chung, President of Guyana (d. 2008)
- 1919 – Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (d. 1977)
- 1919 – Milton Parker, American businessman (d. 2009)
- 1920 – Georges Marchal, French actor (d. 1997)
- 1920 – Max Patkin, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1921 – Rodger Ward, American racing driver (d. 2004)
- 1921 – Tasso Kavadia, Greek actress (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Billy Liddell, Scottish Footballer (d. 2001)
- 1922 – Hannelore Schroth, German actress (d. 1987)
- 1924 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer and director (d. 1996)
- 1924 – Max Roach, American musician and composer (M'Boom) (d. 2007)
- 1925 – Günther Knödler, German fencer
- 1926 – Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist and politician
- 1927 – Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian singer (d. 2003)
- 1927 – Lee Philips, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1927 – Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)
- 1927 – Otto Stich, Swiss politician (d. 2012)
- 1928 – Philip Levine, American poet
- 1929 – Derek Hammond-Stroud, English operatic baritone
- 1930 – Elaine Devry, American actress
- 1930 – Roy Edward Disney, American film executive (d. 2009)
- 1931 – Peter Barnes, English writer (d. 2004)
- 1931 – John Zizioulas, Greek Orthodox metropolitan of Pergamon
- 1933 – Anton Rodgers, English actor (d. 2007)
- 1934 – Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician
- 1935 – Ronnie Hawkins, American musician
- 1935 – Georg Katzer, German composer
- 1935 – Sherrill Milnes, American baritone
- 1936 – Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d. 2002)
- 1936 – Burnum Burnum, Australian activist, actor and author (d. 1997)
- 1936 – Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer
- 1936 – Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist, radio astronomer, Nobel laureate
- 1937 – Thomas Penfield Jackson, American jurist
- 1938 – Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist
- 1938 – Frank Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
- 1938 – Willie McCovey, American baseball player
- 1939 – Jared Carter, American poet
- 1939 – Sonosuke Fujimaki, Japanese fencer
- 1939 – David Horowitz, American author and political commentator
- 1939 – William Levy, Dutch writer
- 1939 – Scott McKenzie, American singer (d. 2012)
- 1939 – Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)
- 1939 – Bill Toomey, American athlete
- 1940 – Guy Chevrette, Quebec politician
- 1940 – Harry Gant, American racing driver
- 1940 – Walter Hill, American film director
- 1940 – Ntare VI of Ankole, Omugabe of Nkole
- 1940 – Yesudas, Indian playback singer and classical musician
- 1942 – Graeme Gahan, Australian rules footballer
- 1943 – Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)
- 1943 – Jantzen Derrick, English footballer
- 1943 – Kristiina Elstelä, Finnish actress
- 1944 – Rory Byrne, South African racing car designer
- 1944 – Bernard Derome, Canadian news presenter
- 1944 – William Sanderson, American actor
- 1944 – Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer
- 1945 – John Fahey, Australian politician
- 1945 – Gunther von Hagens, German anatomist
- 1945 – Jennifer Moss, English Actress (d. 2006)
- 1945 – Rod Stewart, Scottish singer ( The Jeff Beck Group and Faces)
- 1945 – Edward Wiskoski, American wrestler
- 1945 – Jerome Drayton, Canadian marathon runner
- 1946 – Aynsley Dunbar, English musician (Frank Zappa)
- 1947 – Peer Steinbrück, German politician
- 1948 – Donald Fagen, American musician (Steely Dan)
- 1948 – Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (d. 2002)
- 1948 – Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
- 1948 – Bernard Thévenet, French cyclist
- 1949 – Allu Aravind, Indian film producer
- 1949 – George Foreman, American boxer
- 1949 – James Lapine, American stage director
- 1949 – Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress (d. 2002)
- 1950 – Roy Blunt, American politician
- 1950 – Ernie Wasson, American gardener and writer
- 1951 – Paul DiMaggio, American educator
- 1951 – Nicolas Philibert, French film director
- 1951 – Pez Whatley, American wrestler (d. 2005)
- 1952 – Scott Thurston, American musician (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Iggy and the Stooges)
- 1953 – Pat Benatar, American singer
- 1953 – Dennis Cooper, American author
- 1953 – Bobby Rahal, American racing driver and team owner
- 1954 – John Gidman, English footballer
- 1954 – Greg Towns, Australian rules footballer
- 1955 – Michael Schenker, German guitarist (UFO)
- 1955 – Franco Tancredi, Italian footballer
- 1956 – Shawn Colvin, American singer
- 1956 – Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish writer
- 1957 – Paula Smith, American tennis player
- 1957 – Greg Walden, American politician
- 1958 – Eddie Cheever, American Formula One driver
- 1958 – Caroline Langrishe, English actress
- 1958 – Anatoly Pisarenko, Soviet weightlifter
- 1959 – Bernhard Hoff, East German athlete
- 1959 – Chris Van Hollen, American congressman
- 1959 – Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter
- 1960 – Gurinder Chadha, British film director
- 1960 – Brian Cowen, Taoiseach of Ireland
- 1960 – Benoît Pelletier, Canadian politician
- 1960 – Samira Said, Moroccan singer
- 1961 – Evan Handler, American actor
- 1961 – Janet Jones, American actress
- 1961 – Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian violinist
- 1962 – Michael Fortier, Canadian politician
- 1963 – Malcolm Dunford, New Zealand footballer
- 1963 – Kira Ivanova, Soviet figure skater (d. 2001)
- 1963 – David Dewayne Johnson, American convicted murderer (d. 2000)
- 1963 – Mark Pryor, American politician
- 1964 – Tony Gardner, English actor
- 1964 – Brad Roberts, Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies)
- 1965 – Butch Hartman, American animator
- 1966 – Steve Kramer, American politician
- 1966 – Murali Nair, Indian film director
- 1966 – Jeremy Sims, Australian actor
- 1967 – Jeremy Cumpston, Australian actor
- 1967 – Johan Laats, Belgian judoka
- 1967 – Maciej Śliwowski, Polish footballer
- 1969 – Janko Kastelic, Canadian conductor
- 1969 – Andreas Reinke, German footballer
- 1970 – Buff Bagwell, American wrestler
- 1970 – Scott Ludlam, Australian politician
- 1970 – Alisa Marić, Serbian chess grandmaster
- 1972 – Thomas Alsgaard, Norwegian cross-country skier
- 1972 – Mohammed Benzakour, Dutch writer
- 1972 – Brian Lawler, American wrestler
- 1973 – Jakob Cedergren, Danish actor
- 1973 – Ryan Drummond, American voice actor
- 1973 – Glenn Robinson, American basketball player
- 1973 – Félix Trinidad, Puerto Rican boxer
- 1974 – Jemaine Clement, New Zealand actor
- 1974 – Davide Dionigi, Italian footballer
- 1974 – Akari Kaida, Japanese composer
- 1974 – Andrey Korneyev, Russian swimmer
- 1974 – Steve Marlet, French footballer
- 1974 – Clinton O'Brien, Australian rugby league player
- 1974 – Bob Peeters, Belgian footballer
- 1974 – Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor
- 1975 – Jake Delhomme, American football player
- 1976 – Adam Kennedy, American baseball player
- 1976 – Ian Poulter, English golfer
- 1978 – Brent Smith, American singer (Shinedown)
- 1979 – Simone Cavalli, Italian footballer
- 1979 – Bodo Sieber, German rugby player
- 1980 – Nelson Cuevas, Paraguayan footballer
- 1980 – Petri Lindroos, Finnish musician (Ensiferum and Norther)
- 1980 – Sarah Shahi, American actress and model
- 1981 – James Coppinger, English footballer
- 1981 – Inga Jankauskaitė, Lithuanian actress and singer
- 1981 – Brian Joo, American-born Korean singer (Fly to the Sky)
- 1982 – Julien Brellier, French footballer
- 1982 – Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1983 – Danilo Dirani, Brazilian racing driver
- 1983 – Li Nina, Chinese aerial skier
- 1984 – Trent Cutler, Australian rugby league player
- 1984 – Nando Rafael, Angolan-German footballer
- 1984 – Marouane Chamakh, Moroccan footballer
- 1985 – Abdulkader Dakka, Syrian footballer
- 1985 – Jaroslav Kolbas, Slovak footballer
- 1985 – Craig Lewis, American cyclist
- 1985 – Alex Meraz, American actor
- 1986 – Abigail Clancy, English model
- 1986 – Kirsten Flipkens, Belgian tennis player
- 1986 – Hideaki Ikematsu, Japanese footballer
- 1986 – Chen Jin, Chinese badminton player
- 1986 – Saleisha Stowers, American model
- 1986 – Kenneth Vermeer, Dutch footballer
- 1987 – César Cielo, Brazilian swimmer
- 1988 – Vladimir Zharkov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1988 – Marvin Martin, French footballer
- 1989 – Kyle Reimers, Australian rules footballer
- 1990 – Mirko Bortolotti, Italian racing car driver
- 1990 – Wilhelm Ingves, Finnish footballer
- 1990 – Tao Li, Singaporean swimmer
- 1990 – Stefano Lilipaly, Dutch-born Indonesian footballer
- 1990 – César Ruiz, Peruvian footballer
- 1991 – Romain Wattel, French golf player
- 1992 – Emmanuel Frimpong, Ghanaian footballer
[edit]Deaths
- 681 – Pope Agatho
- 976 – John I Tzimiskes, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 925)
- 1094 – Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029)
- 1276 – Pope Gregory X (b. c. 1210)
- 1645 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573)
- 1654 – Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616)
- 1662 – Prince Honoré II of Monaco (b. 1597)
- 1698 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637)
- 1707 – Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (b. 1621)
- 1754 – Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (b. 1691)
- 1761 – Edward Boscawen, British admiral (b. 1711)
- 1777 – Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)
- 1778 – Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)
- 1794 – Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754)
- 1811 – Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet (b. 1764)
- 1824 – King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (b. 1759)
- 1825 – Ioannis Varvakis, Greek national hero and benefactor (b. 1745)
- 1828 – François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (b. 1750)
- 1829 – Gregorio Funes, Argentine Dean and politician, member of the Junta Grande
- 1833 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)
- 1851 – Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)
- 1855 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist (b. 1787)
- 1862 – Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814)
- 1863 – Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b. 1775)
- 1866 – Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet (b. 1792)
- 1883 – Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (b. 1833)
- 1895 – Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849)
- 1895 – Eli Whitney Blake, Jr., American scientist (b. 1836)
- 1901 – Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1832)
- 1904 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
- 1905 – Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)
- 1917 – William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846)
- 1917 – Feliks Leparsky, Russian fencer (b. 1875)
- 1921 – Raymond Thorne, American freestyle swimmer (b. 1887)
- 1922 – Frank Tudor, Australian Labor Opposition leader (b. 1866)
- 1934 – Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting the Reichstag fire (b. 1909)
- 1935 – Edwin Flack, Australian athlete, first Olympic champion (b. 1873)
- 1941 – Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879)
- 1941 – Sir John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (b. 1856)
- 1941 – Joe Penner, Hungarian-born comedian and actor (b. 1904)
- 1941 – Issai Schur, German mathematician (b. 1875)
- 1949 – Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865)
- 1951 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
- 1951 – Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b. 1890)
- 1954 – Oscar Brockmeyer, American soccer player (b. 1883)
- 1954 – Chester Wilmot, American war correspondent (b. 1911)
- 1957 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1889)
- 1960 – Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1879)
- 1961 – Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)
- 1965 – Frederick Fleet, English crewman and survivor of RMS Titanic (b. 1887)
- 1968 – Basil Sydney, English actor (b. 1894)
- 1969 – John Brownlee, Australian tenor (b. 1900)
- 1970 – Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925)
- 1971 – Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883)
- 1972 – Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897)
- 1976 – Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b. 1910)
- 1978 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist (b. 1924)
- 1978 – Don Gillis, American composer (b. 1912)
- 1980 – Hughie Critz, American baseball player (b. 1900)
- 1980 – George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)
- 1980 – Bo Rein, American college football coach (b. 1945)
- 1981 – Katherine Alexander, American actress (b. 1898)
- 1981 – Richard Boone, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1981 – Fawn M. Brodie, American historian (b. 1915)
- 1982 – Paul Lynde, American comedian (b. 1926)
- 1984 – Souvanna Phouma, Prince and Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1901)
- 1985 – Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (b. 1906)
- 1986 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
- 1987 – Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (b. 1919)
- 1987 – Sir David Robinson, English philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904)
- 1989 – Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905)
- 1989 – Colin Winchester, Australian Assistant Police Commissioner, murdered (b. 1933)
- 1990 – Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna (b. 1925)
- 1992 – Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (b. 1919)
- 1995 – Kathleen Tynan, Canadian-British journalist, author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
- 1997 – Elspeth Huxley, British journalist and writer (b. 1907)
- 1997 – Sheldon Leonard, American film producer, actor, and director (b. 1907)
- 1997 – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)
- 1999 – Sir Edward Williams, Australian judge (b. 1921)
- 2000 – Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)
- 2002 – W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (b. 1909)
- 2004 – Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
- 2004 – Alexandra Ripley, American author (b. 1934)
- 2005 – Gene Baylos, American comedian (b. 1906)
- 2005 – Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)
- 2005 – James Forman, American civil rights leader (b. 1928)
- 2005 – Kalevi Hämäläinen, Finnish cross country skier (b. 1932)
- 2005 – Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (b. 1911)
- 2005 – Jack Horner, American sports journalist (b. 1912)
- 2005 – Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
- 2005 – Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b. 1909)
- 2007 – Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
- 2007 – Bradford Washburn, American explorer (b. 1910)
- 2008 – Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (b. 1967)
- 2008 – Mikhail Minin, Soviet soldier (b. 1922)
- 2008 – Maila Nurmi, Finnish-born American actress (b. 1921)
- 2009 – William Frederick "Bill" Stone, British World War I veteran (b. 1900)
- 2011 – Vivek Shauq, Indian actor (b. 1963)
- 2011 – Margaret Whiting, American singer (b. 1924)
[edit]Holidays and observances
- Christian Feast Day:
- Traditional Day (Benin)
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Abusing their power is a long Labor tradition
Piers Akerman – Thursday, January 10, 2013 (6:06pm)
FEDERAL Labor minister Brendan O’Connor on Wednesday rushed to label Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s volunteer fire fighting service a “stunt” - in a tweet which managed to offend almost every one of the more than 70,000 men and women who belong to NSW’s 2100 rural fire brigades.
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FRED TURNER
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 10, 2013 (5:52pm)
Former McDonald’s CEO Fred Turner, creator of the Chicken McNugget, has died at 80:
Last week when he was in the hospital, Mr. Turner turned to his daughter, Teri Turner, and two of his grandchildren.“He said to us, ‘Who’s had a better life than me?’ “ she recalled. “He said, ‘I did something with my life. I made a difference.’ ”
God bless that man.
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WHAT WOULD JESUS BURN?
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 10, 2013 (1:22pm)
Greens hero Jonathan Moylan continues his Christ transformation:
This process apparently commenced in 2008, when young Jonathan took part in a Uniting Church seminar that asked: Would Jesus Burn Coal? Well, let’s see what the Bible has to say:
This process apparently commenced in 2008, when young Jonathan took part in a Uniting Church seminar that asked: Would Jesus Burn Coal? Well, let’s see what the Bible has to say:
And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again …And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.
No evidence of coal hatred there. And here’s the ABC’s spin:
The activist who caused a $314 million temporary plunge in Whitehaven Coal’s share price could face 10 years in jail, despite having no intention of personally profiting from his fake press release.
Question to the ABC: so what?
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GLOBAL WARMING IS HITLER
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 10, 2013 (12:49pm)
Old crazy eyes Bill McKibben goes for it:
Consider the moment when the great president of the last century, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was confronted with an implacable enemy, Adolf Hitler (the closest analogue to physics we’re going to get, in that he was insanely solipsistic, though in his case also evil). Even as the German armies started to roll through Europe, however, FDR couldn’t muster America to get off the couch and fight.There were even the equivalent of climate deniers at that time, happy to make the case that Hitler presented no threat to America.
Wow. Let’s hope that Weepy Bill can save us:
Those of us in the growing grassroots climate movement are going as fast and hard as we know how …
(Via Brat)
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THE KIDS ARE ALL WRONG
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 10, 2013 (12:19pm)
Opinions up, ability down:
Over the last four decades there’s been a dramatic rise in the number of students who describe themselves as being ‘above average’ in the areas of academic ability, drive to achieve, mathematical ability, and self-confidence …Researchers also found a disconnect between the student’s opinions of themselves and actual ability.While students are much more likely to call themselves gifted in writing abilities, objective test scores actually show that their writing abilities are far less than those of their 1960s counterparts.
I blame teachers.
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Your flesh might be weak but your spirit is strong. Listen to your spirit because your spirit is willing to persevere through the storms when your flesh is ready to give up.
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GLOBAL EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME (ETS) AS LIKELY AS “THE FAIRY GOD-MOTHER”
Interesting letter written by Roger Helmer - United Kingdom Independence Party Spokesman on Industry and Energy, and published this week in the UK’s ‘Financial Times’ putting another nail into the coffin of the ETS. Worth a read ……….
“Sir, in your editorial ‘Worsening weather’ (January 4), you say that “the best solution [to climate issues] remains a global emissions market”. This is about as practical as suggesting that the best solution might be a fairy godmother.
It is plain as daylight that Kyoto 2 is a dead letter.
There are some 1,200 new coal-fired power stations currently in the pipeline around the world (including 20-plus in Germany).
If we believe that increasing carbon dioxide emissions mean an ecological disaster, we had better prepare for disaster, because emissions will continue to rise whatever policy makers do.
Emerging markets are not going to give up on growth and prosperity at the request of hand-wringing western green alarmists.
Meantime, we in Europe, in our futile pursuit of green gestures, are intent on giving ourselves the most expensive energy in the world.
We are undermining competitiveness, precluding recovery and growth, and driving energy-intensive businesses offshore, with their jobs and investment.
We are forcing millions of households, and pensioners, into fuel poverty. We are determined to lead, but the rest of the world is not following.
It is time for citizens and businesses to speak up and demand affordable energy. Without it, we are mortgaging our children and bankrupting our grandchildren.”
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Flip training in Bankstown with our boy Cabelinho! @cabelinhomusty #team9lives #9lives1love #bankstown #acrobatics
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So the AWU scandal isn't just about Julia Gillard - sure she was an accomplice to fraud and it goes to the heart of her morality. It at it's heart is a very very complex web of silence and acceptance. Many many people have their finger in the pie. This diagram only show a small part of it's complexity. It's the reason people like Michael Smith lost his job. But I think it's important that people truly understand why she has so many people protecting her, why files have gone missing and why the media have been soft on Gillard. This is really just a snippet but essentially doesn't even touch the surface.
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