Happy birthday and many happy returns Natalie Tran,Andrew Mussell, Lynda Ly and Vu Tran. Born on the same day, across the years, as my father. Remember, birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
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- 1816 – Inventor Humphry Davy first tested his Davy lamp (examples pictured), a safety lamp containing a candle for use in coal mines.
- 1857 – A 7.9 Mw earthquake ruptured part of the San Andreas fault in California and was felt as far east asLas Vegas.
- 1981 – U.S. Representative Raymond F. Lederer was convicted ofbribery and conspiracy for his role in the Abscam scandal, but continued to serve his term for three more months.
- 1991 – Representatives from the United States and Iraq met at theGeneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
- 2004 – Twenty-eight illegal Albanian emigrants died when theirinflatable boat stalled near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way toBrindisi, Italy.
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Events
- 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
- 1127 – Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin Dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song Dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty.
- 1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated.
- 1431 – Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.
- 1760 – Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
- 1768 – In London, England, Great Britain, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
- 1788 – Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
- 1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
- 1806 – Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
- 1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
- 1822 – The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, starting the Brazilian independence process.
- 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
- 1857 – The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
- 1858 – Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War".
- 1861 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
- 1863 – American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas.
- 1878 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
- 1880 – The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
- 1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- 1903 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
- 1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
- 1914 – Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University, is founded.
- 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
- 1917 – World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
- 1918 – Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
- 1921 – Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, began near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
- 1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
- 1923 – Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
- 1927 – A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
- 1941 – World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
- 1941 – World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
- 1945 – World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
- 1947 – Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
- 1960 – President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
- 1964 – Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.
- 1965 – The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
- 1991 – Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
- 1992 – The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.
- 1996 – First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
- 2004 – An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28.
- 2005 – Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority. He replaces interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
- 2007 – Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first IPhone (original)
[edit]Births
- 1475 – Crinitus, Florentine humanist (d. 1507)
- 1554 – Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623)
- 1571 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (d. 1621)
- 1589 – Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (d. 1638)
- 1622 – Empress Meishō of Japan (d. 1696)
- 1674 – Reinhard Keiser, German opera composer (d. 1739)
- 1685 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (d. 1766)
- 1728 – Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790)
- 1735 – John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent Royal Navy, Admiral of the Fleet
- 1745 – Caleb Strong, 6th and 10th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1819)
- 1753 – Luísa Todi, Portuguese opera singer (d. 1833)
- 1773 – Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845)
- 1790 – Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (d. 1855)
- 1811 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)
- 1818 – Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer (d. 1881)
- 1819 – James Francis, Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)
- 1822 – Carol Benesch, Silesian and Romanian architect (d. 1896)
- 1823 – Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (d. 1908)
- 1829 – Thomas William Robertson, English playwright (d. 1871)
- 1829 – Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (d. 1857)
- 1832 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, French-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1900)
- 1839 – John Knowles Paine, American composer (d. 1906)
- 1848 – Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)
- 1849 – John Hartley, English tennis player (d. 1935)
- 1854 – Jennie Jerome, American socialite and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)
- 1856 – Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest and poet (d. 1912)
- 1859 – Carrie Chapman Catt, American suffragist leader (d. 1947)
- 1864 – Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
- 1868 – S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
- 1870 – Joseph B Strauss, American civil engineer (d. 1938)
- 1873 – Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet (d. 1934)
- 1873 – John Flanagan, Irish born-American athlete (d. 1938)
- 1873 – Harry Spanjer, American boxer (d. 1958)
- 1875 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)
- 1876 – Arthur Darby, British rugby player (d. 1960)
- 1879 – John Broadus Watson, American psychologist (d. 1958)
- 1881 – Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic (d. 1938)
- 1881 – Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)
- 1881 – Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (d. 1956)
- 1886 – Lloyd Loar, Acoustical engineer and inventor of the Gibson F-5 mandolin (d. 1943)
- 1889 –Vrindavan Lal Verma,Indian Hindi writer(d.1969)
- 1890 – Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
- 1890 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist (d. 1935)
- 1892 – Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985)
- 1896 – Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
- 1897 – Karl Löwith, German philosopher (d. 1973)
- 1898 – Wally Baker, American supercentenarian (d. 2009)
- 1898 – Vilma Bánky, Hungarian actress (d. 1991)
- 1898 – Gracie Fields, English music hall performer (d. 1979)
- 1900 – Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939)
- 1900 – Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
- 1901 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
- 1902 – Rudolf Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997)
- 1902 – Saint Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975)
- 1903 – Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969)
- 1908 – Simone de Beauvoir, French author (d. 1986)
- 1909 – Anthony Mamo, Malta's 1st President (d. 2008)
- 1909 – Herva Nelli, Italian-born soprano (d. 1994)
- 1909 – Patrick Peyton, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1992)
- 1909 – J. R. Simplot, American entrepreneur (d. 2008)
- 1911 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American burlesque entertainer, dancer, actress, and author (d. 1970)
- 1912 – Ralph Tubbs, British architect (d. 1996)
- 1913 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
- 1914 – Kenny (Klook) Clarke, American jazz drummer and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 1985)
- 1915 – Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (d. 1982)
- 1915 – Anita Louise, American actress (d. 1970)
- 1916 – Vic Mizzy, American orchestra leader (d. 2009)
- 1916 – Peter Twinn, English World War II code-breaker (d. 2004)
- 1918 – Alma Ziegler, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician (d. 1999)
- 1920 – Clive Dunn, British actor (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar (d. 1998)
- 1921 – Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
- 1922 – Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American Nobel laureate (d. 2011)
- 1922 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
- 1924 – Sergei Parajanov, Soviet film director (d. 1990)
- 1925 – Len Quested, English footballer (d. 2012)
- 1925 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)
- 1926 – Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 2002)
- 1928 – Judith Krantz, American author
- 1928 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (d. 1994)
- 1929 – Brian Friel, Irish dramatist
- 1929 – Heiner Muller, German dramatist (d. 1995)
- 1929 – Dorothea Puente, American serial killer (d. 2011)
- 1929 – Tom Riley, American lawyer and politician (d. 2011)
- 1931 – Algis Budrys, American author (d. 2008)
- 1933 – Robert Garcia, American politician
- 1933 – Wilbur Smith, Zambian-British novelist
- 1934 – Bart Starr, American football player
- 1934 – Mahendra Kapoor, Indian singer (d. 2008)
- 1935 – Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1935 – Dick Enberg, American sportscaster
- 1935 – Earl G. Graves, Sr., African-American publisher
- 1935 – Brian Harradine, Australian independent Senator
- 1936 – Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer
- 1936 – Marko Veselica, Croatian politician
- 1938 – Stuart Woods, American novelist
- 1939 – Rik Kemp, Australian cartoonist
- 1939 – Susannah York, British actress (d. 2011)
- 1940 – Jimmy Boyd, American actor and singer (d. 2009)
- 1940 – Barbara Buczek, Polish composer (d. 1993)
- 1940 – Al Downing, American singer (d. 2005)
- 1940 – Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
- 1941 – Joan Baez, American singer and activist
- 1941 – Gilles Vaillancourt, Canadian politician
- 1942 – K Callan, American actress
- 1942 – John Dunning, American writer
- 1942 – Lee Kun-hee, Korean industrialist
- 1942 – Judy Malloy, American hypertext fiction pioneer and artist
- 1943 – Robert Drewe, Australian author
- 1943 – Elmer MacFadyen, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
- 1943 – Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer
- 1943 – Scott Walker, American singer
- 1944 – Ian Hornak, American painter, draughtsman and sculptor (d. 2002)
- 1944 – Jimmy Page, British musician and producer (The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin)
- 1945 – John Doman, American actor
- 1947 – Ronnie Landfield, American artist
- 1948 – Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (d. 2006)
- 1948 – Cassie Gaines, American singer (The Honkettes) (d. 1977)
- 1950 – David Johansen, American singer
- 1950 – Rio Reiser, German singer (d. 1996)
- 1951 – M.L. Carr, basketball player and coach
- 1951 – Crystal Gayle, American singer
- 1952 – Hugh Bayley, British politician
- 1952 – Michael Capuano, American politician, United States Congressman from Massachusetts
- 1953 – Javad Alizadeh, Iranian cartoonist
- 1953 – Morris Gleitzman, British-Australian children's author
- 1954 – Philippa Gregory, English historical novelist
- 1955 – Michiko Kakutani, American literary critic
- 1955 – J. K. Simmons, American actor
- 1956 – Kimberly Beck, American actress
- 1956 – Imelda Staunton, British actress
- 1956 – Mike Walczewski, American public address announcer at Madison Square Garden
- 1957 – Bibie, Ghanaian singer
- 1957 – Phil Lewis, American singer (L.A. Guns)
- 1957 – Yury Bandazhevsky, Belarusian scientist imprisoned for work on the Chernobyl disaster
- 1958 – Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
- 1958 – Stephen Neale, British philosopher
- 1959 – Mark Martin, American race car driver
- 1959 – Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1959 – Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician
- 1959 – Otis Nixon, American baseball player
- 1961 – Oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter
- 1961 – Al Jean, American television writer
- 1963 – Michael Everson, expert in writing systems and Unicode
- 1964 – Stan Javier, Dominican baseball player
- 1965 – Darren Bennett, Australian-born American football player
- 1965 – Muggsy Bogues, American basketball player
- 1965 – Iain Dowie, English football manager
- 1965 – Eric Erlandson, American musician (Hole and RRIICCEE)
- 1965 – Haddaway, Trinidadian singer
- 1965 – Joely Richardson, British actress
- 1965 – Farah Khan, Indian film director and choreographer
- 1966 – Jan Johansen, Swedish singer
- 1966 – Candi Milo, American voice actress
- 1967 – Carl Bell, American musician (Fuel)
- 1967 – Claudio Caniggia, Argentinian footballer
- 1967 – Steve Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
- 1967 – Dave Matthews, South African singer and musician (Dave Matthews Band)
- 1967 – Gary Teichmann, South African rugby player
- 1968 – Jimmy Adams, West Indian cricketer
- 1968 – Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
- 1968 – Catalina Saavedra, Chilean actress
- 1968 – Al Schnier, American rock guitarist (moe.)
- 1970 – Lara Fabian, Belgian singer
- 1970 – Alex Staropoli, Italian keyboardist (Rhapsody Of Fire)
- 1970 – Mia X, American rapper
- 1971 – Daniel Dumile, American hip hop artist (Danger Doom and Madvillain)
- 1971 – Angie Martinez, American rapper and radio talk host
- 1971 – Yusuke Naora, Japanese game art director
- 1971 – Hal Niedzviecki, Canadian author
- 1971 – Scott Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1972 – Sarah Beeny, British TV personality
- 1972 – Mat Hoffman, professional BMX rider
- 1972 – Jay Powell, baseball player
- 1973 – Angela Bettis, American actress
- 1973 – Sean Paul, Jamaican Grammy-winning dancehall and reggae artist.
- 1974 – Farhan Akhtar, Indian Bollywood director, actor, producer, singer.
- 1975 – Kiko Calero, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1975 – Julia Lutrova, Russian tennis player
- 1976 – Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player
- 1976 – Simon Gosejohann, German comedian
- 1976 – Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer
- 1977 – Beth Troutman, American production assistant
- 1978 – Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978 – Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer
- 1978 – AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
- 1978 – Chad Ochocinco, American football player
- 1978 – Maggie Rizer, American model and AIDS activist
- 1979 – Athanassios Prittas, Greek footballer
- 1979 – Tomiko Van, Japanese singer (Do As Infinity)
- 1980 – Sergio García, Spanish golfer
- 1980 – Edgar Álvarez, Honduran footballer
- 1980 – Sandip Gupta, Joda India
- 1981 – Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer
- 1982 – Timmy Bowers, American basketball player
- 1982 – Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- 1982 – Grétar Steinsson, Icelandic footballer
- 1983 – Sharad Malhotra, Indian television actor
- 1984 – Benjamin Danso, German rugby player
- 1984 – Drew Brown, American guitarist (OneRepublic and Debate Team)
- 1985 – Juanfran, Spanish footballer
- 1986 – Jéferson, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Amanda Mynhardt, South African netballer
- 1987 – Sam Bird, English racing driver
- 1987 – Mao Inoue, Japanese actress
- 1987 – Lucas Leiva, Brazilian footballer
- 1987 – Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer-songwriter
- 1987 – Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d. 2006)
- 1988 – Marc Crosas, Spanish footballer
- 1989 – Michael Beasley, American basketball player
- 1989 – Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress
- 1989 – Michaëlla Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
- 1989 – Chris Sandow, Australian rugby player
- 1990 – Justin Blackmon, American football Player
- 1990 – Oteng Oteng, Batswana boxer
- 1990 – Melissa Ricks, Filipino actress
- 1993 – Ashley Argota, American actress
[edit]Deaths
- 1150 – Emperor Xizong of Jin is murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a coup d'état. (b. 1119)
- 1282 – Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204)
- 1283 – Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236)
- 1499 – John Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
- 1514 – Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477)
- 1543 – Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
- 1562 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)
- 1571 – Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
- 1598 – Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553)
- 1677 – Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
- 1757 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657)
- 1757 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688)
- 1766 – Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
- 1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
- 1800 – Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
- 1805 – Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
- 1843 – William Hedley, British industrial engineer (b. 1773)
- 1848 – Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
- 1856 – Neophytus Vamvas, Greek cleric and educator (b. 1770)
- 1858 – Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
- 1873 – Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
- 1876 – Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
- 1877 – Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)
- 1878 – King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
- 1895 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)
- 1901 – Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
- 1908 – Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
- 1908 – Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (b. 1840)
- 1910 – Nathaniel Moore, American golfer (b. 1884)
- 1911 – Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853)
- 1911 – Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
- 1918 – Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
- 1923 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
- 1927 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British pro-Aryan anti-semitic writer, son-in-law of Richard Wagner (b. 1855)
- 1931 – Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896)
- 1936 – John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1938 – Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (b. 1880)
- 1939 – Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1866)
- 1941 – Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
- 1945 – Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese career officer (b. 1908)
- 1945 – Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890)
- 1946 – Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903)
- 1947 – Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)
- 1958 – Dick Grant, Canadian athlete (b. 1878)
- 1960 – Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880)
- 1961 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867)
- 1971 – Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
- 1972 – Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891)
- 1975 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
- 1975 – Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
- 1979 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect (b. 1891)
- 1981 – Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
- 1981 – Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (b. 1922)
- 1984 – Wolfgang Staudte, German director (b. 1906)
- 1985 – Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)
- 1987 – Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1989 – Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1990 – Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
- 1992 – Steve Brodie, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1992 – Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
- 1993 – Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
- 1994 – Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927)
- 1995 – Peter Cook, British actor and comedian (b. 1937)
- 1995 – Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)
- 1997 – Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
- 1997 – Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1998 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1918)
- 1998 – Charito Solis, Filipino actress (b. 1935)
- 2000 – Arnold Alexander Hall, British aeronautical engineer, scientist, and industrialist (b. 1915)
- 2000 – Ted Jones, Hydroplane builder/designer (b. 1908)
- 2000 – Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
- 2001 – Maurice Prather, American photographer (b. 1926)
- 2003 – Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935)
- 2004 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
- 2005 – Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925)
- 2006 – Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
- 2006 – Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937)
- 2007 – Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977)
- 2007 – Jean-Pierre Vernant, French structuralist historian and anthropologist (b. 1914)
- 2008 – Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (b. 1923)
- 2008 – Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (b. 1977)
- 2008 – Sir John Harvey-Jones, chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (b. 1924)
- 2008 – Liam Quinn, Provisional IRA member (b. 1949)
- 2009 – Rob Gauntlett, English adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker (b. 1987)
- 2009 – René Herms, German athlete (b. 1982)
- 2009 – T. Llew Jones, Welsh author (b. 1914)
- 2010 – Vimcy, Sports writer (b. 1925)
- 2011 – Makinti Napanangka, Indigenous Australian artist (b.c. 1930)
- 2012 – Malam Bacai Sanhá, President of Guinea-Bissau (b.1947)
- 2012 – Pyotr Vasilevsky, Belarusian footballer (b. 1956)
- 2012 – Alex DeCroce, American Republican Party Politician (b. 1936)
[edit]Holidays and observances
- Christian Feast Day:
- Feast of the Most Holy Black Nazarene (Quiapo district, Manila, Philippines)
- Martyrs' Day (Panama)
- Republic Day (Republika Srpska)
- First Agonalia (Roman Empire)
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Greens show contempt for shareholders
Piers Akerman – Wednesday, January 09, 2013 (7:14am)
IT took the Greens less than a week to blow their new attempt to present themselves as moderates rather than the extremists they are.
After attempting to hide their radical economy and family-destroying policies by claiming they were only goals, Greens leader, Senator Christine Milne, and her fellow traveller and Communist Party propagandist, Senator Lee Rhiannon, have backed the idiot activist who impersonated an ANZ bank officer and destroyed share values Monday.
Milne endorsed the expensive stunt by anti-coal activist Jonathon Moylan as “part of a long and proud history of civil disobedience, potentially breaking the law, to highlight something wrong”.
Rhiannon had earlier publicly congratulated Jonathan Moylan, an activist under scrutiny for impersonating a bank and temporarily wiping $314 million off the value of Whitehaven Coal.
“Congrats to Jonathan Moylan, Frontline Action on Coal, for exposing ANZ investment in coalmines,” she tweeted on Tuesday night.
Moylan tricked investors into thinking that a recent $1.2 billion loan arranged by ANZ for Whitehaven had been cancelled on “ethical” grounds.
Shares in Whitehaven fell from $3.52 to $3.21 in rapid time before the stock was put into a trading halt.
Moylan designed a fake ANZ press template, website and dummy email inbox online and impersonated a company spokesperson to callers, including Fairfax Media.
He is being investigated by ASIC.
The Greens try to appeal to new constituencies and recast themselves as less “extreme” in an election year – but that strategy has now fallen apart.
The cost to investors including retirees and mums and dads has not yet been fully calculated but millions were wiped off the value of Whitehaven.
In a further demonstration of the radicalism of the Greens, former leader Bob Brown is to take over running the hardline and death-threatening Antarctic anti-whaling campaign by the extremist Sea Shepherd organisation.
That’s the Greens – no concern for ordinary Australians, no care for the lives of seamen, nothing but concern for their own self importance and moral vanity.
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TELEGRAPH 500
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 09, 2013 (4:30pm)
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LONG AND PROUD HISTORY OF LIES
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 09, 2013 (2:32am)
The Greens’ mainstream experiment lasted for just two weeks before the party’s elders couldn’t take it anymore and ran screaming to the fringes. Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon yesterdayendorsed an idiot’s destructive deceit:
Congrats to Jonathan Moylan, Frontline Action on Coal, for exposing ANZ investment in coalmines.
As reader Shaun predicted: “Bandt, Milne and the rest of the greens will crawl over themselves like zombies after fresh meat to sign this tosser up.” They sure are. Here’s former Greens candidateClive Hamilton:
Perhaps Jonathan Moylan and Tim DeChristopher are pioneering a new phase of climate campaigning aimed at making it more difficult for coal and oil companies to do business. What might be dubbed “virtuous malfeasance” — hostile actions motivated by the public good aimed at damaging a company’s interests — may be a new form of civil disobedience practiced by a market-savvy generation of young activists …Often those who engage in civil disobedience are otherwise the most law-abiding citizens. They are those who have most regard for the social interest and the keenest understanding of the democratic process, including its failures.
The Greens leader, Senator Christine Milne, has endorsed a controversial hoax by an anti-coal activist, saying his actions were ‘’part of a long and proud history of civil disobedience, potentially breaking the law, to highlight something wrong’’.
Milne, Hamilton and Rhiannon – combined ages: 179 – have allowed themselves to become girlishly infatuated with a 24-year-old forest-dwelling liar who thinks that he’s Jesus:
From his bunker in NSW’s Leard State Forest, where he has been holed up for the past 159 days, Mr Moylan told The Daily Telegraph he had received numerous voicemails from ASIC, but didn’t plan to return their calls …Mr Moylan and an activist group called Frontline Action on Coal created the fake press release, using a real ANZ release as a template, and purchased a website name and dummy ANZ email address for $25 on the internet. “I’m getting advice from my lawyers now and don’t plan to call them back,” he said.
Last word to former Julia Gillard media advisor Russell Mahoney: “If ever anyone needed a reason to never, ever vote for the Greens political party, Lee Rhiannon keeps serving them up.”
The securities watchdog has seized Whitehaven hoaxer Jonathan Moylan’s phone and computer from his camp site at Maules Creek.The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) also told the 24-year-old anti-coal activist that he will be questioned over the hoax he perpetrated on Monday that temporarily wiped $340 million from the value of coal miner Whitehaven.Mr Moylan told ABC radio today: “ASIC turned up at the camp and I don’t know how much I’m allowed to say because there are offences for revealing details of an investigation … I’ve been asked to attend questioning and they’ve seized my phone and computer.”
So now he’s worried about breaking the law?
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A CHANCE TO ESCAPE RIBA
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 09, 2013 (1:49am)
Monoculturalism in multicultural Sydney:
An interest-free housing project aimed at the Muslim community and boasting 100 per cent halal housing has sparked a major row, with critics labelling it a discriminatory plan that could lead to a Muslim enclave.Qartaba Homes’ plan offers “100 per cent Halal housing to the growing Muslim community of Australia” in the heart of the northwestern Sydney suburb of Riverstone.While the company has insisted people from all religious backgrounds are free to take up the offer, it advises that the loans are “100 per cent Halal” and a “chance to escape Riba (interest)” because interest is a sin under Islamic law.
Sydney’s Little Gaza may be a natural result of Clover Moore’s City of Villages plan.
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PERFORMANCE ART
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 09, 2013 (1:29am)
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ISRAEL TO BUILD SECURITY FENCE ON SYRIAN BORDER
Israel will erect a security fence along its border with Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו said. The fence, which will be nearly identical to the one erected on the border with Egypt, will defend the border with Syria "against both infiltration and terrorism," Netanyahu said Sunday at the start of the regular Cabinet meeting.
Read more about the proposed fence:http://www.jspace.com/
Further proof Israel isn't expansionist - ed===
The latest heat wave comes from central Australia. It hasn't anyting to do with AGW but plenty to do with a failure to implement a Bradfield Scheme which would flood central Australia and prevent such heat waves as well as watering/irrigating a lot of what is now desert - ed
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