Admire how radio ABC managed to shine a light of reason so bright, that Japanese soldiers listening in failed for decades to know Japan had lost the war. Was Snowden a useful idiot for Putin? Melbourne city council raises the interesting question of how would a terrorist who killed for sport be sentenced today?
Today is the anniversary of the foundation (1920) of the US Civil Liberties Union. Those bastards are the reason killers were freed before Obama used peace as an excuse. Fear of effective government is a big motivator for some. Some fear nuclear power in India, but praise it in Iran. Today is also another anniversary. Twenty minutes after Reagan was inaugurated, Iran released hostages .. why else would Obama be giving them nuclear weapons?
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Saulyn Anthony. Born on the same day, across the years, as
- 225 – Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
- 1703 – Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Flemish composer and violinist (d. 1741)
- 1762 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, Belgian-French composer and theorist (d. 1842)
- 1804 – Eugène Sue, French author (d. 1857)
- 1896 – George Burns, American comedian (d. 1996)
- 1896 – Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
- 1906 – Aristotle Onassis, Turkish-Greek businessman (d. 1975)
- 1920 – Federico Fellini, Italian director (d. 1993)
- 1920 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American pilot and astronaut
- 1934 – Tom Baker, English actor
- 1946 – David Lynch, American director
- 1999 – Shannon Tavarez, American actress (d. 2010)
Matches
- 250 – Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Pope Fabian is martyred.
- 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
- 1265 – In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting held by Simon de Montfort in the Palace of Westminster, now also known colloquially as the "Houses of Parliament".
- 1649 – Charles I of England goes on trial for treason and other "high crimes".
- 1783 – The Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence).
- 1785 – Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tay Son in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
- 1788 – The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson.
- 1841 – Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
- 1885 – L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
- 1887 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
- 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
- 1934 – Fujifilm, the photographic and electronics company, is founded in Tokyo, Japan.
- 1941 – A German officer is murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers.
- 1942 – World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solutionto the Jewish Question".
- 1949 – Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
- 1954 – The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
- 1969 – East Pakistani police kill student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman. The resulting outrage is in part responsible for the Bangladesh Liberation War.
- 1972 – Pakistan launched its Nuclear weapons program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
- 1981 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated, at age 69 the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as U.S. President, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
- 1987 – Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon.
Despatches
- 250 – Pope Fabian (b. 200)
- 820 – Imam al-Shafi'i, Muslim jurist, founder of the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence (b. 767)
- 1156 – Henry, English-Finnish bishop and saint
- 1779 – David Garrick, English actor (b. 1717)
- 1837 – John Soane, English architect, designed the Bank of England (b. 1753)
- 1841 – Minh Mang, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1791)
- 1924 – Ivor Crapp, Australian umpire (b. 1872)
- 1954 – Fred Root, English cricketer (b. 1890)
- 1984 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
RIP-OFF REMEDY
Tim Blair – Monday, January 20, 2014 (1:34pm)
Imagine my excitement when the Greens announced their new “climate champion” campaign:
Becoming a climate champion means you’ll be the first to know about campaign actions and opportunities in the coming months. We’ll send you a Climate Champion toolkit with everything you need to build awareness and support in your community.
Naturally, I signed up immediately and then began a letterbox vigil for the arrival of my personal climate champion toolkit. Tension grew as I fantasised over the possible contents. A t-shirt announcing my climate champion status? A secret decoder ring? Actual tools I could use to dismantle coal-fired power plants?
Continue reading 'RIP-OFF REMEDY'LIVES SAVED, LEFT SEETHES
Tim Blair – Monday, January 20, 2014 (12:59pm)
The absolute moral perversion of the Australian left is again dramatically apparent. Our leftists are actually more upset that lives are being saved by Tony Abbott’s government than they ever were by the deaths of asylum seekers under the previous Labor government.
Continue reading 'LIVES SAVED, LEFT SEETHES'RADIO DARKNESS
Tim Blair – Monday, January 20, 2014 (11:47am)
Several museums in Guam feature fine exhibits telling the stories of Japanese soldiers who remained hidden on the island long after the end of the war.
Some didn’t emerge for decades, preferring to skulk through the jungles in the apparent belief that World War II was ongoing.
Continue reading 'RADIO DARKNESS'NEW MAUNDERING
Tim Blair – Monday, January 20, 2014 (11:12am)
Solar colding causes scientific enbafflement:
“I’ve been a solar physicist for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything quite like this,” Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, told the BBC.“If you want to go back to see when the Sun was this inactive… you’ve got to go back about 100 years,” he said …Mike Lockwood, professor of space environment physics at the University of Reading, told the BBC there was a significant chance that the Sun could become increasingly quiet.He compared the current circumstances to the latter half of the 17th Century, when the sun went through an extremely quiet phase referred to as the Maunder Minimum.That era of solar inactivity coincided with bitterly cold winters to Europe, where the Baltic Sea and London’s River Thames froze over. Conditions were so harsh that some described it as a mini-Ice Age.
Via Mike, who emails: “Just wondering how this will be pinned on man-made emissions … from a mere 149.6 million kilometres away. A new measure of Tony Abbott’s intergalactic evil, I’ll wager.”
WORDS WORSE THAN DEATH
Tim Blair – Monday, January 20, 2014 (1:32am)
Under Labor, around one thousand asylum seekers were killed.
Under the current government, a few asylum seekers are spoken to rudely.
Leftists favour a return to Labor’s policies, presumably because dead people can’t hear anything.
IT CANNOT BE UNSEEN
Tim Blair – Sunday, January 19, 2014 (6:32pm)
Not that the Greens are an unusual bunch, but here’s their candidate for the Griffith by-election.
Geoff Ebbs is a publisher, broadcaster and performer and also a thinker, actor and writer.
UPDATE. In 2007 and 2010, Ebbs ran as a federal Greens candidate in NSW under the name Giovanni (Joe) Ebono. Or, as our new favourite Green puts it, he ”created Giovanni Ebono and ran him twice for federal politics.” The “visionary and pioneer” is now ”working under birth name - Geoff Ebbs.”
UPDATE II. Ebono/Ebbs has also performed in pantomimes.
No boats for a month. You’d think there would be applause…
Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (11:58am)
No boat arrivals for a month now. You’d think this was grounds for congratulations. But The Age prefers to retail lurid claims instead:
===Two asylum seekers jumped off their boat as the Australian Navy was taking them back to Indonesia around Christmas Day, in what a fellow passenger said was a suicide attempt.Pretty lame “suicide attempt”. But good enough for The Age to go with
Sailors from accompanying navy ships pulled them from the water and put them back on board, asylum seeker Rahman Ali said.
Were Snowden and his media allies Putin’s useful idiots?
Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (11:41am)
Who knows, but the possibility puts the role of the pro-Snowden media in an unflattering light:
===Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Mike Rogers said Sunday that Edward Snowden likely received help from the Russians in leaking NSA data.
“There’s some security things that he did get around that were clearly above his capabilities. The way he departed and how he ended up in Moscow—now, we still have some questions there,” Rogers, who appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” said.
Islamists go for gold in terrorism at Sochi
Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (11:26am)
Muslim terrorists seek to win the gold medal - again - for violence at the world’s greatest sports contest:
A new threat to the upcoming Winter Olympics surfaced Sunday as US lawmakers worried about attacks at the Games to be hosted by Russia.What is it about the Muslim faith that makes this threat so utterly predictable?
In a video posted on a well-known jihadi forum, two men believed to have been suicide bombers in last month’s deadly bombings in Volgograd speak of them—and warned of more.
“We’ve prepared a present for you and all tourists who’ll come over,” the video says in part.
”If you hold the Olympics, you’ll get a present from us for the Muslim blood that’s been spilled.”
Green against growth
Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (11:14am)
At least the Greens candidate for Griffiths is honest - he really is against growth.
And this time, at least, he is standing under his real name.
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Another dangerous fib about our past
Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (10:32am)
Our racial resentment industry really is out of control:
And there is this consideration. George Orwell, a Leftist, in writing about conservative Rudyard Kipling, conceded this about the Okes of his own generation:
We should imagine Oke as the judge presiding in the case of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, faced with two Tasmanian Aborigines in Victoria who’d murdered two civilians, wounded five others and burned down stations. Could she seriously have declared the two Tasmanians “freedom fighters” and acquitted them? What would have been the consequences, in terms of anarchy and bloodshed?
This is a case of Leftists re-imagining our history without a thought for the real-life choices faced at the time by those who were there. It is lazy and intellectually dishonest. Worse, it feeds the racial resentment industry, leading not to reconciliation but its opposite.
Shame on Lord Mayor Robert Doyle for going along with this destructive and dishonest farce. Power above principle, I guess.
===Melbourne City Council will build a memorial to two Aborigines who in 1842 were the first people executed in Melbourne…Resisting while settlement or simply stealing and killing?
On this day, January 20, in 1842, 5000 Melbourne citizens watched as Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were hanged for the murder of two whale hunters while resisting white settlement.
At a time of violence between European settlers and indigenous people, the Protector of Aborigines, George Robinson, brought Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner and 14 other native Tasmanian Aborigines to Melbourne in 1839 as intermediaries.So the settlement they were “resisting” was not even of their own lands. And note the Age’s use of the term “guerilla-style”, freighted with political meaning. By this measure Ned Kelly and every other bushranger ran “guerilla-style” campaigns.
In 1841 Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner and three indigenous women stole guns, and in a six week, guerilla-style campaign against authorities in the Dandenongs and the Mornington Peninsula, burnt and stole from houses and killed two whalers.
A buoyant Councillor Cathy Oke ... said Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were ‘’freedom fighters’’ whose crimes should be ‘’taken in context at the time that this occurred. It’s a time in Melbourne when the tensions between whites and the traditional owners, or Aboriginal people, was obviously quite heightened,’’ she said.Oke is plain foolish and misleading. Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were in no sense “tradtional owners” of these lands. Indeed, if anyone in these events were “traditional owners” of the land on which they operated they are the eight Aboriginal trackers who helped to catch them. Nor is there evidence that Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were fighting for “freedom”.
And there is this consideration. George Orwell, a Leftist, in writing about conservative Rudyard Kipling, conceded this about the Okes of his own generation:
One reason for Kipling’s power ... [was] his sense of responsibility, which made it possible for him to have a world-view… He identified himself with the ruling power and not with the opposition. In a gifted writer this seems to us strange and even disgusting, but it did have the advantage of giving Kipling a certain grip on reality. The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions. Where it is a permanent and pensioned opposition, as in England, the quality of its thought deteriorates accordingly.In this case, too, the quality of the Left’s thought has deteriorated for the same reason - the refusal to take responsibility and answer the question “In such and such circumstances, what would you do?”.
We should imagine Oke as the judge presiding in the case of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, faced with two Tasmanian Aborigines in Victoria who’d murdered two civilians, wounded five others and burned down stations. Could she seriously have declared the two Tasmanians “freedom fighters” and acquitted them? What would have been the consequences, in terms of anarchy and bloodshed?
This is a case of Leftists re-imagining our history without a thought for the real-life choices faced at the time by those who were there. It is lazy and intellectually dishonest. Worse, it feeds the racial resentment industry, leading not to reconciliation but its opposite.
Shame on Lord Mayor Robert Doyle for going along with this destructive and dishonest farce. Power above principle, I guess.
Drowning is better than swearing
Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (8:01am)
Tim Blair puts it perfectly:
===Under Labor, around one thousand asylum seekers were killed.Links at the link.
Under the current government, a few asylum seekers are spoken to rudely.
Leftists favour a return to Labor’s policies, presumably because dead people can’t hear anything.
Warmist BBC gets the chills as Sun goes quiet
Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (7:51am)
Even the warmist BBC warns of possible cold times ahead:
(Thanks to many readers.)
===Something is happening to the solar activity on the surface of the sun: it’s declining, fast… The number of sunspots is a fraction of what scientists expected, solar flares are half. Richard Harrison is the head of space physics at the Rutheford-Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. He says the rate at which solar activity is falling mirrors a period in the 17th century where sunspots virtually disappeared.As I write this, ABC Radio National is pumping out another global warming scare instead, warning of more droughts. No sceptics are interviewed.
Harrison [1:57]: The Maunder Minimum of course was a period of almost no sunspots at all for decades… It was a period where you had a kind of mini ice-age. You had a period where the Thames froze in winters and so on…
BBC science correspondent Rebecca Morelle [2:46]: The Maunder Minimum came at a time when snow cover was longer and more frequent. It wasn’t just the Thames that froze over. The Baltic Sea did too. Crop failures and famines were widespread across Northern Europe. So does a decline in solar activity mean plunging temperatures for decades to come?…
BBC voiceover: Some researchers have gone way further back in time, looked into the ice sheets of particles that were once in the upper atmosphere, particles that show variations in solar activity. Mike Lockwood’s work suggests that this is the fastest rate of solar decline for 10,000 years…
Dr. Lucie Green [5:38]: The world we live in today is very different to the world that was inhabited during the Maunder Minimum. So we have human activity, we have the industrial revolution, all kinds of gases being pumped into the atmosphere, so on the one hand we’ve got perhaps a cooling sun, but on the other hand you’ve got human activity that can counter that and I think it is quite difficult to say actually how these two are going to compete and what the consequences then are for the global climate.
BBC: So even if the planet as a whole continues to warm, if we enter a new Maunder Minimum the future for Northern Europe could be cold and frozen winters for decades to come...
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The Batzy one is on a roll again.
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This could actually be funny if it wasn't so tragic. Do you think Kerry will "get it"? I don't.
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Photos from Chloé Simone Valdary's post in Judea and Samaria- The Land of G-d
By Chloé Simone Valdary
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-soldier-and-the-refusenik-a-case-study-in-psychopathic-self-abhorrence/
All new article on my experiences at an anti-Israel event this past Thursday. Please kindly consider LIKING, SHARING, RETWEETING, etc. Todah Raba
Photo Cred. Ben Kravis
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Photo Cred. Ben Kravis
Xtians in Israel
by Rabbi Meir Kahane
July 20, 1990
The halacha concerning non-Jews and their right to live in the Land of Israel is clear, and was rather undisputed, until modern times pushed various rabbis into efforts to soften the "harsh" halacha, lest the gentiles rage. A non-Jew wishing to live in the Land of Israel must take upon himself misim v'avadut(tribute and servitude) as well as the status of ger toshav.
Concerning the latter, there are various views among the rishonim, the earlier and greater Commentators, a thing we will discuss, please G-d, in future issues.
Concerning the former, however, it is clear that any non-Jew wishing to live in the Land must take upon himself the tribute and servitude whose purpose is to declare that the Land is not his; that it belongs to the Jewish people alone; that he merely wishes to live in it as a resident stranger. And that, too, please G-d we will discuss in the future.
What is at the moment of interest is the status of Xtians and Xianity in the Land of Israel. What is their halachic status? Are they allowed to live in the Land?
All the Commentators admit that a non-Jew wishing to live in Israel must take upon himself the seven laws of the Children of Noah, of humanity. This, of course. includes the throwing off of pagaism and idolatry. And so, most of the rabbis of our time, in deadly fear of gentile reaction - not so much vis-avis Israel but as it would affect them living in the exile - hastened to give Xianity a hechsher, an approval, and declared that it is not idolatry.
That there are many Protestant sects that are not idolatrous is clear. Whether some others, and the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches are not, is a much more dubious question. Nevertheless, rabbis have hastily given blanket approval or even more quickly evaded the issue. What most do not realize is that whatever the truth, that is not the major reason to raise the issue of whether Xtians and Xianity are allowed to remain in Israel.
The Rambam in Hilchot Miachim 10:9 writes: "A non-Jew who studies Torah is guilty of the death penalty. He should not deal with anything except the seven mitzvot(commandments) of his group(non-Jews). And similarly, a non-Jew who rested on any day of the week, if he created it a Sabbath, is guilty of the death penalty. The rule is: We do not allow them to create a new religion or to create a commandment on their own volition. Either the non-Jew will become a convert and accept all the mitzvot of the Torah or he shall remain with his Torah(the seven laws of the Children of Noah as stated in the Torah) and shall neither add to nor subtract from them."
Concerning this, the Maharatz Hayut, in his Kuntrus Aharon, writes as follows:
Nevertheless, I mention below, in the name of the Ramabm, that we do not allow a gentile to create a new religion. And here, even though in the new religion their are included the seven laws, nevertheless, they include new commandments such as, in the case of Xtians, the eating of the bread and the wine(the sacrament), and in the Ishmaelites(Moslems) forbidding the eating of pork or the drinking of wine, since by the laws of Noah these are not forbidden to do them but only because of the new laws they have created for themselves. And it is forbidden to create a new law for the sons of Noah even though it does not contradict a law of the sons of Noah, therefore the Xtians and Ishmaelites(Moslems) are not within the category of ger toshav, resident stranger(Who is allowed to live in the Land).
To understand what the Rambam and the Maharatz Hayut mean, it is important that we understand the very purpose of the world.
The All Mighty created the world so that human beings would recognize Him and Him alone as the One G-d, the only G-d, the One before Whom all tongues shall pay fealty and all knees bend. He demands from all human beings that they accept His kingdom and His yolk of Heaven without question. It is only that which will allow the human being to harness and bridle and limit his egoand his "I." It is this which is the purpose of the world.
The All Mighty, therefore, created a special people, Israel, to be His unique and chosen and upraised one above all the others, with the perfect Torah. The gentiles would see the perfect society created by Jews in their Land and would seek to emulate them by joining them. But if not, they are obligated to follow the seven minmum laws and to do so because G-d Himself, through Moses, so commanded and not because of their own logic and decision. And thus, the Rambam, again(Hilchot Mlachim 8:11), in dicussing what a son of Noah and what a ger toshav is, writes: "And only when he(the gentile) accpets them(the seven laws) and observes them because the All Mighty commanded them in the Torah through Moses....But if he does them through his intellect he is not considered a ger toshav and is not a righteous gentile nor one of its wise ones."
The very fact that the gentile now rises to declare a new faith is a declaration that he is the true faith and the Torah is not the truth. He thus goes against the All Mighty and declares that he has changed His Torah and that, in effect, the L-rd we Jews follow is not the true L-rd. He does not bow his knees and bend his neck to the All Mighty, G-d of Israel, and thus cannot be considered ger toshav, resident stranger, whose sole ability to live in Israel is predicated on his accepting the kingship of the L-rd, G-d of Israel.
Does that mean that a Xtian cannot live in Israel? It would so appear. And Moslems, too.
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Chutzpah: UNESCO chief Irina Bokova standing next to the Jewish-Israel exhibit which she approved (see her signature on top right) — and then suddenly cancelled due to Arab pressure. Then read her absurd letter trying to show UNESCO bona fides by invoking their symposium on Yiddish: http://blog.unwatch.org/
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January 20: Martyrs' Day in Azerbaijan (1990); Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States (2014)
- 1576 – León in Guanajuato, Mexico, was founded by order ofViceroy Martín Enríquez de Almanza of New Spain.
- 1785 – Tây Sơn forces of Vietnam annihilated an invadingSiamese army who were attempting to restore Nguyễn Ánh to the throne.
- 1946 – Favouring stronger executive power than the draftconstitution for the French Fourth Republic provided, Charles de Gaulle(pictured) resigned as President of the Provisional Government.
- 1992 – Air Inter Flight 148 crashed into the Vosges Mountains while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport near Strasbourg, France, resulting in 87 deaths.
- 2007 – A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completed a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958, and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
Events[edit]
- 250 – Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Pope Fabian is martyred.
- 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
- 1265 – In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting held by Simon de Montfort in the Palace of Westminster, now also known colloquially as the "Houses of Parliament".
- 1320 – Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.
- 1356 – Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scotland.
- 1523 – Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
- 1567 – Battle of Rio de Janeiro: Portuguese forces under the command of Estácio de Sá definitively drive the French out of Rio de Janeiro.
- 1576 – The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.
- 1649 – Charles I of England goes on trial for treason and other "high crimes".
- 1783 – The Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence).
- 1785 – Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tay Son in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
- 1788 – The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move toPort Jackson.
- 1839 – In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
- 1841 – Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
- 1885 – L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
- 1887 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
- 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
- 1921 – The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.
- 1929 – In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, is released.
- 1934 – Fujifilm, the photographic and electronics company, is founded in Tokyo, Japan.
- 1936 – Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom.
- 1941 – A German officer is murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers.
- 1942 – World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question".
- 1945 – World War II: Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies.
- 1945 – World War II: Germany begins the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months.
- 1949 – Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
- 1954 – The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
- 1959 – The first flight of the Vickers Vanguard.
- 1960 – Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
- 1969 – East Pakistani police kill student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman. The resulting outrage is in part responsible for the Bangladesh Liberation War.
- 1972 – Pakistan launched its Nuclear weapons program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
- 1981 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated, at age 69 the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as U.S. President, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
- 1986 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
- 1987 – Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon.
- 1990 – On Black Saturday, the Red Army kills Azerbaijani civilians in Baku.
- 1991 – Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
- 1992 – Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near Strasbourg, France killing 87 of the 96 people on board. A design flaw in the computer mode selection system resulted in the crew selecting the wrong rate of descent.
- 1999 – The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use, aimed especially at Internet cafés.
- 2001 – Philippine president Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
- 2006 – Witnesses report seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913.
- 2007 – A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
Births[edit]
- 225 – Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
- 1292 – Elisabeth of Bohemia, Bohemian queen consort (d. 1330)
- 1435 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
- 1554 – Sebastian of Portugal, Portuguese king (d. 1578)
- 1573 – Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
- 1586 – Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)
- 1664 – Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian jurist (d. 1718)
- 1703 – Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Flemish composer and violinist (d. 1741)
- 1716 – Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French numismatist (d. 1795)
- 1716 – Charles III of Spain, Spanish king (d. 1788)
- 1732 – Richard Henry Lee, American politician (d. 1794)
- 1755 – Sir Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet, English admiral (d. 1824)
- 1761 – Giovanni Domenico Perotti, Italian composer (d. 1825)
- 1762 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, Belgian-French composer and theorist (d. 1842)
- 1775 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)
- 1781 – Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German politician (d. 1848)
- 1783 – Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
- 1798 – Anson Jones, American politician, 5th President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1858)
- 1804 – Eugène Sue, French author (d. 1857)
- 1812 – Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
- 1834 – George D. Robinson, American politician, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
- 1837 – David Josiah Brewer, American jurist (d. 1910)
- 1855 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
- 1867 – Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
- 1873 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
- 1876 – Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer (d. 1967)
- 1878 – Finlay Currie, Scottish actor (d. 1968)
- 1878 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (d. 1968)
- 1880 – Walter W. Bacon, American politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (d. 1962)
- 1880 – Max Schöne, German swimmer (d. 1961)
- 1882 – Johnny Torrio, Italian-American mobster (d. 1957)
- 1883 – Nucky Johnson, American political boss and racketeer (d. 1968)
- 1883 – Forrest Wilson, American writer (d. 1942)
- 1886 – Claude Jameson, American soccer player (d. 1943)
- 1889 – Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer and businessman, founded the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company (d. 1969)
- 1891 – Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (d. 1967)
- 1893 – Georg Åberg, Swedish triple jumper (d. 1946)
- 1893 – Ēriks Vanags, Latvian shot putter
- 1894 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (d. 1968)
- 1894 – Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976)
- 1895 – Gábor Szegő, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1985)
- 1896 – George Burns, American comedian (d. 1996)
- 1896 – Rolfe Sedan, American actor (d. 1982)
- 1896 – Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
- 1898 – U Razak, Burmese politician (d. 1947)
- 1899 – Clarice Cliff, English sculptor (d. 1972)
- 1899 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer (d. 1990)
- 1900 – Colin Clive, English actor (d. 1937)
- 1902 – Leon Ames, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1906 – Aristotle Onassis, Turkish-Greek businessman (d. 1975)
- 1907 – Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
- 1908 – Fleur Cowles, American writer and illustrator (d. 2009)
- 1908 – Jean S. MacLeod, Scottish author (d. 2011)
- 1910 – Joy Adamson, Austrian author (d. 1980)
- 1911 – Wendell J. Westcott, American carillon player (d. 2010)
- 1912 – Walter Briggs, Jr., American businessman (d. 1970)
- 1913 – S. M. Rasamanickam, Ceylon Tamil politician (d. 1974)
- 1918 – Cleon Skousen, American author (d. 2006)
- 1915 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistani politician, 7th President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
- 1918 – Juan García Esquivel, Mexican pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2002)
- 1918 – Nevin S. Scrimshaw, American scientist (d. 2013)
- 1920 – Federico Fellini, Italian director (d. 1993)
- 1920 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1920 – Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian ski jumper and author (d. 2006)
- 1921 – Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
- 1922 – Ray Anthony, American trumpet player, composer, bandleader, and actor
- 1922 – Elizabeth Diana Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (d. 2012)
- 1922 – Graham Stark, English actor and director
- 1923 – Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer
- 1923 – Slim Whitman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Tekin Akmansoy, Turkish actor and director (d. 2013)
- 1925 – Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest and politician
- 1926 – Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet and columnist
- 1926 – Qurratulain Hyder, Indian-Pakistani author (d. 2007)
- 1926 – Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1926 – David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
- 1927 – Helen Elliot, Scottish table tennis player (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Rudy Boesch, American soldier, contestant on Survivor: Borneo and Survivor: All-Stars
- 1929 – Jimmy Cobb, American drummer
- 1929 – Arte Johnson, American comedian
- 1929 – Frank Kush, American football player and coach
- 1929 – Fireball Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964)
- 1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American pilot and astronaut
- 1930 – Blair Lent, American children's author and illustrator (d. 2009)
- 1931 – Preston Henn, American businessman, founded the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop
- 1931 – David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1931 – Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese pianist and composer (d. 1992)
- 1932 – Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1933 – Ronald Townson, American singer and actor (The 5th Dimension) (d. 2001)
- 1934 – Tom Baker, English actor
- 1935 – Alexander Men, Russian priest and scholar (d. 1990)
- 1935 – Joan Weston, American roller derby racer (d. 1997)
- 1937 – Dorothy Provine, American singer, dancer and actress (d. 2010)
- 1938 – William Berger, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
- 1938 – Liz Calder, English publisher
- 1938 – Derek Dougan, Irish footballer (d. 2007)
- 1939 – Paul Coverdell, American captain and politician (d. 2000)
- 1939 – Chandra Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan astronomer
- 1940 – Carol Heiss, American figure skater
- 1940 – Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician
- 1940 – Mandé Sidibé, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali (d. 2009)
- 1941 – Pierre Lalonde, Canadian singer and television host
- 1942 – Linda Moulton Howe, American journalist
- 1943 – Rick Evans, American singer and guitarist (Zager and Evans)
- 1943 – Jessica Rawson, English art historian
- 1944 – José Luis Garci, Spanish director and producer
- 1944 – Farhad Mehrad, Iranian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
- 1945 – Dave Boswell, American baseball player (d. 2012)
- 1945 – Robert Olen Butler, American author
- 1945 – Christopher Martin-Jenkins, English journalist (d. 2013)
- 1945 – Eric Stewart, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (10cc, Hotlegs, Mandalaband, and The Mindbenders)
- 1946 – David Lynch, American director
- 1946 – Vladimír Merta, Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist
- 1947 – Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist
- 1948 – Nancy Kress, American author
- 1948 – Mel Pritchard, English drummer (Barclay James Harvest)
- 1948 – Natan Sharansky, Russian-Israeli physicist and politician
- 1948 – Nigel Williams, English novelist
- 1949 – Göran Persson, Swedish politician, 31st Prime Minister of Sweden
- 1950 – Daniel Benzali, Brazilian-American actor
- 1950 – Liza Goddard, English actress
- 1950 – Edward Hirsch, American poet
- 1950 – Chuck Lefley, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1950 – Mahamane Ousmane, Nigerien politician, President of Niger
- 1951 – Iván Fischer, Hungarian conductor and composer
- 1951 – Ian Hill, English bass player (Judas Priest)
- 1952 – Paul Stanley, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Kiss and Wicked Lester)
- 1952 – John Witherow, South African editor of The Times and The Sunday Times
- 1953 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and philanthropist
- 1953 – Barbara Hay, British diplomat
- 1953 – Colleen Zenk Pinter, American actress
- 1954 – Rudy La Scala, Venezuelan singer-songwriter and producer
- 1954 – Ken Page, American actor and singer
- 1954 – Alison Seabeck, English politician
- 1955 – McKeeva Bush, Caymanian politician, Premier of the Cayman Islands
- 1955 – Joe Doherty, Irish soldier and activist
- 1955 – Wyatt Knight, American actor
- 1955 – Hiromi Ōta, Japanese singer
- 1956 – Maria Larsson, Swedish politician
- 1956 – Bill Maher, American comedian, actor, and television host
- 1957 – Andy Sheppard, English jazz saxophonist
- 1958 – Lorenzo Lamas, American actor
- 1959 – Tami Hoag, American author
- 1959 – R.A. Salvatore, American author
- 1960 – Apa Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer
- 1960 – Scott Thunes, American bass player (Fear)
- 1960 – Will Wright, American video game designer, co-founded Maxis
- 1963 – Firebreaker Chip, American wrestler
- 1963 – James Denton, American actor
- 1964 – Ozzie Guillén, Venezuelan-American baseball player and manager
- 1964 – Ron Harper, American basketball player
- 1964 – Kazushige Nojima, Japanese screenwriter
- 1964 – Fareed Zakaria, Indian-American journalist and author
- 1965 – Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer
- 1965 – Warren Joyce, English footballer
- 1965 – Greg Kriesel, American bass player (The Offspring)
- 1965 – John Michael Montgomery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1965 – Heather Small, English singer-songwriter and actress (Hot House and M People)
- 1965 – Sophie, Countess of Wessex
- 1965 – Anton Weissenbacher, Romanian footballer
- 1966 – Stacey Dash, American actress
- 1966 – Tracii Guns, American guitarist and songwriter (L.A. Guns, Brides of Destruction, Hollywood Rose, and Contraband)
- 1966 – Rainn Wilson, American actor
- 1967 – Jay Hunt, Australian television executive
- 1968 – Nick Anderson, American basketball player
- 1968 – Melissa Rivers, American actress, television host, and producer
- 1968 – Charlie Swan, Irish jockey
- 1969 – Patrick K. Kroupa, American computer hacker and activist, co-founded MindVox
- 1969 – Nicky Wire, Welsh singer-songwriter and bass player (Manic Street Preachers)
- 1970 – Mitch Benn, English comedian, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
- 1970 – Kerri Kenney-Silver, American actress and singer
- 1970 – Edwin McCain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1970 – Mark Spencer, English politician
- 1970 – Skeet Ulrich, American actor
- 1971 – Gary Barlow, English singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (Take That)
- 1971 – Brian Giles, American baseball player
- 1971 – Derrick Green, American singer-songwriter (Sepultura)
- 1971 – Wakanohana Masaru, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 66th Yokozuna
- 1971 – Gerard McDonnell, Irish mountaineer (d. 2008)
- 1971 – Questlove, American drummer, DJ, and producer (The Roots and Soulquarians)
- 1972 – Tony DeVito, American wrestler
- 1973 – Stephen Crabb, Scottish politician
- 1973 – Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant
- 1973 – Josh Weston, American porn actor (d. 2012)
- 1974 – David Dei, Italian footballer
- 1975 – David Eckstein, American baseball player
- 1975 – Norberto Fontana, Argentine race car driver
- 1975 – Zac Goldsmith, English politician
- 1976 – Kirsty Gallacher, Scottish television host
- 1976 – Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
- 1977 – Liivo Leetma, Estonian footballer
- 1977 – Melody, Belgian singer
- 1977 – Sid Wilson, American DJ and pianist (Slipknot)
- 1978 – Salvatore Aronica, Italian footballer
- 1978 – Joy Giovanni, American actress, model and wrestling valet
- 1978 – Sonja Kesselschläger, German heptathlete
- 1978 – Allan Søgaard, Danish footballer
- 1978 – Luciano Zauri, Italian footballer
- 1979 – Asaka Kubo, Japanese singer
- 1979 – Shang Yi, Chinese footballer
- 1979 – Will Young, English singer-songwriter and actor
- 1980 – Philippe Cousteau, Jr., American-French oceanographer
- 1980 – Philippe Gagnon, Canadian Paralympic swimmer
- 1980 – Kim Jeong-hoon, South Korean singer and actor
- 1980 – Brigitte Olivier, Belgian martial artist
- 1980 – Petra Rampre, Slovenian tennis player
- 1980 – Matthew Tuck, Welsh singer and guitarist (Bullet for my Valentine)
- 1981 – Daniel Cudmore, Canadian actor
- 1981 – Brendan Fevola, Australian footballer
- 1981 – Freddy Guzmán, Dominican baseball player
- 1981 – Owen Hargreaves, English footballer
- 1981 – Crystal Lowe, Canadian actress
- 1981 – Jason Richardson, American basketball player
- 1982 – Abhilasha Singh Mathuriya, Indian biotechnologist
- 1982 – Fredrik Strømstad, Norwegian footballer
- 1982 – Joe Swash, English actor
- 1983 – Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1983 – Paula Taylor, English-Thai actress and model
- 1983 – Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume, and ZYX)
- 1984 – Victoria Asher, American keyboard player (Cobra Starship)
- 1984 – Toni Gonzaga, Filipino actress and singer
- 1984 – Olivia Hallinan, English actress
- 1984 – Rene Mandri, Estonian cyclist
- 1985 – Marina Inoue, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1985 – Tanel Sokk, Estonian basketball player
- 1986 – Genie Chuo, Taiwanese singer and actress
- 1986 – Bissan Rafe, Palestinian-American painter and biologist
- 1986 – Derek Fathauer, American golfer
- 1987 – Janin Lindenberg, German sprinter
- 1987 – Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2011)
- 1987 – Mark Wright, English actor, footballer and radio host (TOWIE)
- 1988 – Colin Bensadon, Gibraltarian swimmer
- 1988 – Uwa Elderson Echiéjilé, Nigerian footballer
- 1988 – Jeffrén Suárez, Spanish footballer
- 1988 – Benjamin Ulrich, German rugby player
- 1989 – Washington Santana da Silva, Brazilian footballer
- 1991 – Polona Hercog, Slovenian tennis player
- 1991 – Jolyon Palmer, English race car driver
- 1992 – Jorge Zárate, Mexican footballer
- 1994 – Denis Mukhametdinov, Russian footballer
- 1995 – Joey Badass, Brooklyn rapper
- 1999 – Shannon Tavarez, American actress (d. 2010)
Deaths[edit]
- 250 – Pope Fabian (b. 200)
- 820 – Imam al-Shafi'i, Muslim jurist, founder of the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence (b. 767)
- 1156 – Henry, English-Finnish bishop and saint
- 1191 – Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)
- 1410 – Martin of Aragon (b. 1356)
- 1479 – John II of Aragon (b. 1397)
- 1568 – Myles Coverdale, English translator (b. 1488)
- 1612 – Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1552)
- 1663 – Isaac Ambrose, English divine (b. 1604)
- 1666 – Anne of Austria (b. 1601)
- 1707 – Humphrey Hody, English theologian (b. 1659)
- 1709 – François de la Chaise, French priest (b. 1624)
- 1751 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665)
- 1770 – Charles Yorke, English politician (b. 1722)
- 1779 – David Garrick, English actor (b. 1717)
- 1810 – Benjamin Chew, American lawyer and judge (b. 1721)
- 1819 – Charles IV of Spain (b. 1748)
- 1837 – John Soane, English architect, designed the Bank of England (b. 1753)
- 1841 – Minh Mang, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1791)
- 1848 – Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786)
- 1850 – Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (b. 1779)
- 1852 – Ōnomatsu Midorinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 6th Yokozuna (b. 1794)
- 1873 – Basil Moreau, French priest, founded the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
- 1875 – Jean-François Millet, French painter (b. 1814)
- 1877 – Lela Pandak Lam, Malayan activist
- 1891 – Kalākaua of Hawaii (b. 1836)
- 1900 – John Ruskin, English critic (b. 1819)
- 1901 – Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer, invented the Gramme machine (b. 1826)
- 1908 – John Ordronaux, American surgeon (b. 1830)
- 1913 – José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican engraver and illustrator (b. 1852)
- 1920 – Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (b. 1876)
- 1924 – Ivor Crapp, Australian umpire (b. 1872)
- 1936 – George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
- 1940 – Omar Bundy, American general (b. 1861)
- 1941 – John Bissinger, American gymnast (b. 1879)
- 1944 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)
- 1947 – Josh Gibson, American baseball player (b. 1911)
- 1954 – Fred Root, English cricketer (b. 1890)
- 1955 – Robert P. T. Coffin, American writer and poet (b. 1892)
- 1962 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet (b. 1887)
- 1965 – Alan Freed, American radio host (b. 1922)
- 1971 – Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1880)
- 1971 – Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (b. 1903)
- 1973 – Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (b. 1885)
- 1973 – Amílcar Cabral, Guinea Bissauan-Cape Verdian engineer and politician (b. 1924)
- 1979 – Gustav Winckler, Danish singer-songwriter (b. 1925)
- 1980 – William Roberts, English painter (b. 1895)
- 1983 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
- 1984 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
- 1988 – Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Indian Freedom Fighter,Pakistani activist (b. 1890)
- 1988 – Dora Stratou, Greek author (b. 1903)
- 1989 – Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi director (b. 1938)
- 1990 – Hayedeh, Iranian singer (b. 1942)
- 1990 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907)
- 1991 – Stan Szelest American keyboardist (The Band) (b. 1943)
- 1993 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-English actress (b. 1929)
- 1994 – Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1909)
- 1996 – Gerry Mulligan, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1927)
- 1997 – Curt Flood, American baseball player (b. 1938)
- 1998 – Bobo Brazil, American wrestler (b. 1924)
- 2002 – Carrie Hamilton, American actress and singer (b. 1963)
- 2003 – Al Hirschfeld, American illustrator (b. 1903)
- 2003 – Craig Kelly, American snowboarder (b. 1966)
- 2003 – Nedra Volz, American actress (b. 1908)
- 2003 – Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (b. 1947)
- 2004 – T. Nadaraja, Sri Lankan Tamil academic and lawyer (b. 1917)
- 2004 – Guinn Smith, American pole vaulter (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Parveen Babi, Indian actress and model (b. 1949)
- 2005 – Per Borten, Norwegian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Roland Frye, American critic and theologian (b. 1921)
- 2005 – Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Polish journalist and politician (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Miriam Rothschild, English zoologist, entomologist, and author (b. 1908)
- 2006 – Dave Lepard, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Crashdïet) (b. 1980)
- 2009 – Stéphanos II Ghattas, Egyptian patriarch (b. 1920)
- 2009 – Stan Hagen, Canadian politician (b. 1940)
- 2009 – David "Fathead" Newman, American saxophonist and songwriter (b. 1933)
- 2009 – Sheila Walsh, English author (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Etta James, American singer (b. 1938)
- 2013 – Ron Fraser, American baseball coach (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Richard Garneau, Canadian journalist (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Dolores Prida, Cuban-American columnist and playwright (b. 1943)
- 2013 – Toyo Shibata, Japanese poet (b. 1911)
- 2013 – Tracy Sugarman, American illustrator (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Freddie Williams, Welsh motorcycle racer (b. 1926)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Armed Forces Day (Mali)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Inauguration Day (United States of America)
- Martyrs' Day (Azerbaijan)
- National 'Good Day' Day
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” - Matthew 7:12
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
January 19: Morning
"I sought him, but I found him not." - Song of Solomon 3:1
Tell me where you lost the company of Christ, and I will tell you the most likely place to find him. Have you lost Christ in the closet by restraining prayer? Then it is there you must seek and find him. Did you lose Christ by sin? You will find Christ in no other way but by the giving up of the sin, and seeking by the Holy Spirit to mortify the member in which the lust doth dwell. Did you lose Christ by neglecting the Scriptures? You must find Christ in the Scriptures. It is a true proverb, "Look for a thing where you dropped it, it is there." So look for Christ where you lost him, for he has not gone away. But it is hard work to go back for Christ. Bunyan tells us, the pilgrim found the piece of the road back to the Arbour of Ease, where he lost his roll, the hardest he had ever travelled. Twenty miles onward is easier than to go one mile back for the lost evidence.
Take care, then, when you find your Master, to cling close to him. But how is it you have lost him? One would have thought you would never have parted with such a precious friend, whose presence is so sweet, whose words are so comforting, and whose company is so dear to you! How is it that you did not watch him every moment for fear of losing sight of him? Yet, since you have let him go, what a mercy that you are seeking him, even though you mournfully groan, "O that I knew where I might find him!" Go on seeking, for it is dangerous to be without thy Lord. Without Christ you are like a sheep without its shepherd; like a tree without water at its roots; like a sere leaf in the tempest--not bound to the tree of life. With thine whole heart seek him, and he will be found of thee: only give thyself thoroughly up to the search, and verily, thou shalt yet discover him to thy joy and gladness.
Take care, then, when you find your Master, to cling close to him. But how is it you have lost him? One would have thought you would never have parted with such a precious friend, whose presence is so sweet, whose words are so comforting, and whose company is so dear to you! How is it that you did not watch him every moment for fear of losing sight of him? Yet, since you have let him go, what a mercy that you are seeking him, even though you mournfully groan, "O that I knew where I might find him!" Go on seeking, for it is dangerous to be without thy Lord. Without Christ you are like a sheep without its shepherd; like a tree without water at its roots; like a sere leaf in the tempest--not bound to the tree of life. With thine whole heart seek him, and he will be found of thee: only give thyself thoroughly up to the search, and verily, thou shalt yet discover him to thy joy and gladness.
Evening
"Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures." - Luke 24:45
He whom we viewed last evening as opening Scripture, we here perceive opening the understanding. In the first work he has many fellow-labourers, but in the second he stands alone; many can bring the Scriptures to the mind, but the Lord alone can prepare the mind to receive the Scriptures. Our Lord Jesus differs from all other teachers; they reach the ear, but he instructs the heart; they deal with the outward letter, but he imparts an inward taste for the truth, by which we perceive its savour and spirit. The most unlearned of men become ripe scholars in the school of grace when the Lord Jesus by his Holy Spirit unfolds the mysteries of the kingdom to them, and grants the divine anointing by which they are enabled to behold the invisible. Happy are we if we have had our understandings cleared and strengthened by the Master! How many men of profound learning are ignorant of eternal things! They know the killing letter of revelation, but its killing spirit they cannot discern; they have a veil upon their hearts which the eyes of carnal reason cannot penetrate. Such was our case a little time ago; we who now see were once utterly blind; truth was to us as beauty in the dark, a thing unnoticed and neglected. Had it not been for the love of Jesus we should have remained to this moment in utter ignorance, for without his gracious opening of our understanding, we could no more have attained to spiritual knowledge than an infant can climb the Pyramids, or an ostrich fly up to the stars. Jesus' College is the only one in which God's truth can be really learned; other schools may teach us what is to be believed, but Christ's alone can show us how to believe it. Let us sit at the feet of Jesus, and by earnest prayer call in his blessed aid that our dull wits may grow brighter, and our feeble understandings may receive heavenly things.
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Abner, Abiner
[Ăb'nûr] - father of light.
The son of Ner, cousin of Saul and captain of his army. Because of his relationship to the king and his force of character he exercised great influence during Saul's reign and afterwards (1 Sam. 14:50, 51; 1 Sam. 17:55, 57).
The Man Who Was Destitute of Lofty Ideals
Although Abner was the only capable person on the side of Saul and his family, he had little time for the lofty ideas of morality or religion (2 Sam. 3:8, 16).
As Saul's commander-in-chief, he greatly helped his cousin to maintain his military prowess. After Saul's death, he set Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, on the throne.
As an enemy of Joab, David's general, he fought long and bravely against him, and after a severe defeat, killed Asahel in self-defense (2 Sam. 2).
As a proud man, he resented most bitterly the remonstrance of Ish-bosheth, over the matter of Saul's concubines, and negotiated with David to make him king of Israel (2 Sam. 3:7-22).
As an unprincipled man, he reaped what he sowed. Joab, dreading the loss of his own position, and thirsting for revenge, murdered Abner at Hebron. David gave him a public funeral, and afterwards charged Solomon to avenge Abner's murder (2 Sam. 3:26-37; 1 Kings 2:5, 6).
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Today's reading: Genesis 46-48, Matthew 13:1-30 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Genesis 46-48
Jacob Goes to Egypt
1 So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2 And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, "Jacob! Jacob!"
"Here I am," he replied.
3 "I am God, the God of your father," he said. "Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. 4 I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph's own hand will close your eyes."
5 Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel's sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him. 6 So Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt, taking with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan. 7 Jacob brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons and his daughters and granddaughters--all his offspring.
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 13:1-30
The Parable of the Sower
1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3Then he told them many things in parables, saying: "A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop-a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9 Whoever has ears, let them hear."
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