A shot is heard around the world. Rumour has it that an unidentified police source that might be from Indonesia thinks an Australian defence person has discharged a weapon without hitting their target. Further evidence, were it needed, that training has suffered under the ALP in the armed services. Become a climate champion. Change your lights to plasma TVs. Keep the oven hot. If a light is out, replace that TV set. Burn a candle or ten for Maurice Newman.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns to those born on this day, across the years, along with
- 1093 – Isaac Komnenos, Byzantine sebastokratōr (d. 1152)
- 1245 – Edmund Crouchback, English prince and crusader (d. 1296)
- 1516 – Bayinnaung, Burmese king (d. 1581)
- 1728 – Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer (d. 1800)
- 1853 – André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company (d. 1931)
- 1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
- 1933 – Susan Sontag, American author (d. 2004)
- 1948 – John Carpenter, American director
- 1974 – Kate Moss, English model
- 1979 – Aaliyah, American singer, dancer, and actress (d. 2001)
- 1995 – Mikaela Turik, Australian-Canadian cricketer
Matches
- 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
- 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
- 550 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
- 1120 – The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- 1362 – A storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand.
- 1412 – The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
- 1492 – The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.
- 1547 – Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia.
- 1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
- 1581 – The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
- 1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
- 1707 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
- 1786 – Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
- 1862 – Hartley Colliery Disaster: 204 men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompted a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
- 1909 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
- 1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United Statesone year after ratification.
- 1939 – The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
- 1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
- 1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
- 1956 – President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
- 1964 – Hello, Dolly! (musical) starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
- 1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
- 1970 – Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
- 1991 – The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
Despatches
- 378 – Chak Tok Ich'aak I, Mayan king
- 654 – Gao Jifu, Chinese chancellor (b. 596)
- 960 – Patriarch Polyeuctus of Constantinople (b. 956)
- 1554 – Christiern Pedersen, Danish publisher and scholar (b. 1480)
- 1935 – Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
Keep Searching! But where are Wally, Wenda and Wizard Whitebeard?
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What’s hot is the alarmism back home
Andrew Bolt January 16 2014 (6:56am)
Back last night from
New Zealand, where tour operators on the South Island were apologising
for the unseasonal cold, with summer snow falling on mountains from
Southland to Kaikoura. In Queenstown, though, a tourist from Chicago
still gloated to me how he’d dodged the record-breaking cold gripping the US:
But back in Melbourne I am plunged back in the same global warming madness, with a local heat wave treated by warmists as a proxy for a world-wide heating. The Climate Council of professional alarmist Tim Flannery once again hypes the scare with the ABC’s help:
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Heatwaves in Australia are becoming more frequent, hotter and are lasting longer, a report released today by the Climate Council says.Decades of man-made warming and we still can’t beat a 1908 record?
The interim findings of the report, Australian Heatwaves: Hotter, Longer, Earlier and More Often, come as southern Australia swelters through a heatwave.
After notching up two consecutive days over 40 degrees Celsius, Melbourne is on track to record its second-longest heatwave since records began in the 1830s… The longest heatwave in Melbourne was in 1908, when there were five consecutive days over 40C.
Still waiting for warming - and a sorry
Andrew Bolt January 16 2014 (6:33am)
Richard Kerr in Science, flagship publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, talked to warmist scientists convinced global warming would resume within five years:
What would it take for warmist scientists to admit they were wrong?
Well, more than mere evidence, suggests Maurice Newman:
===The blogosphere has been having a field day with global warming’s apparent decade-long stagnation…Time’s up. Kerr wrote that five years ago. And sill no warming.
The latest response from the climate community comes in State of the Climate… [in] the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Climate researcher Jeff Knight and eight colleagues at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, U.K., first establish that—at least in one leading temperature record—greenhouse warming has been stopped in its tracks for the past 10 years… But natural climate variability in the model has its limits. Pauses as long as 15 years are rare in the simulations, and “we expect that [real-world] warming will resume in the next few years,” the Hadley Centre group writes.
And that resumption could come as a bit of a jolt, says Adam Scaife of the group, as the temperature catches up with the greenhouse gases added during the pause…
Solar physicist Judith Lean of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., and climate modeler David Rind of GISS reached the same conclusion in a peer-reviewed 15 August paper in Geophysical Research Letters…
Researchers may differ about exactly what’s behind recent natural climate variability, but they agree that no sort of natural variability can hold off greenhouse warming much longer. “Our prediction is that if past is prologue, the solar component will turn around and lead to rapid warming in the next 5 years,” says Rind.
Climate modeler David Smith of the Hadley Centre, who was not involved in the State of the Climate analysis, says his group’s climate model forecasts—made much the way weather forecasts are made—are still calling for warming to resume in the next few years as ocean influences reverse...
What would it take for warmist scientists to admit they were wrong?
Well, more than mere evidence, suggests Maurice Newman:
The IPCC was bound to be captured by the green movement. After all, it is a political body. It is not a panel of scientists but a panel of governments driven by the UN. Its sole purpose is to assess the risks of human-induced climate change. It has spawned industries. One is scientists determined to find an anthropogenic cause. Another is climate remediation. And, naturally, an industry to redistribute taxes to sustain it all. With hundreds of billions of dollars at stake, this cartel will deny all contrary evidence. Its very survival depends on it. But the tide is turning and Mother Nature has signalled her intention not to co-operate.
POLEY DANCER
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 16, 2014 (2:47pm)
There are no words.
(Via Jaki)
I'm your poley dancer. A dancer for money. Do what you want me to do. - ed
NAVY ACCUSED
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 16, 2014 (2:45pm)
A totally believable claim from an impeccable source:
Indonesian authorities have quoted the asylum seekers on board saying Australian navy personnel fired shots as part of the operation to turn around the boat carrying 25 people …A local police commissioner from southern Java, who did not want his name or his district published, has told Fairfax Media that villagers plucked a number of asylum seekers from the water a week ago, on January 8, after their boat was turned back by Australia.The officer, quoting one of those on board, Snilul, 25, from Bangladesh, said the navy had “shot into the air just to scare them”.
Naturally, leftoids fell for it. They’re seething like hot rats. Never mind this, from immigration minister Scott Morrison:
“Without commenting on any specific alleged incident I can confirm that no shots have been fired at any time by any persons involved in Operation Sovereign Borders since the operation commenced,” he said in a statement.
Leftoids aren’t listening to him. They prefer secondhand claims passed on by “a local police commissioner from southern Java, who did not want his name or his district published”.
I’M A CLIMATE CHAMPION
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 16, 2014 (4:45am)
The latest Greens email to their tragic supporters:
Yet Sophie is somehow still alive despite all those years of superheated horror. Her email launches the Greens’ fantastic new climate champion campaign:
Yet Sophie is somehow still alive despite all those years of superheated horror. Her email launches the Greens’ fantastic new climate champion campaign:
The Abbott Government wants to demolish our clean energy laws – legislation we know is working to halt global warming.
This is a lie. Australian legislation cannot change the planet’s temperature.
Currently, the Greens are standing in the way of Abbott ramming his roll-back through the Senate.
Sophie! Language!
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.
A climate champion toolkit … how absolutely darling. I’ve already applied for mine, and strongly encourage all of my fellow climate champions to join in. We want our climate champion toolkits now.
UPDATE. Links dropped out earlier, possibly due to climate change. Or maybe the Greens don’t want us in their climate champion club. Try them again.
ALL ABOARD
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 16, 2014 (4:40am)
Pirelli’s fancy 50th anniversary calendar has nothing on this:
Note the Winfield cigarettes ad. Order here to satisfy all of your hot 1970s bus action needs, or select from an extensive calendar range featuring road trains, trams and … huts.
Note the Winfield cigarettes ad. Order here to satisfy all of your hot 1970s bus action needs, or select from an extensive calendar range featuring road trains, trams and … huts.
BUTTOCKS OF SHAME
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 16, 2014 (2:44am)
David Thompson’s latest examination of leftist pain includes the phrases “intersectional revolutionary movement” and “performativity of gender”.
MINISTER FOR SNOOP
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 16, 2014 (2:17am)
Immigration minister Scott Morrison no doubt anticipated one or two elements of his current job: hypocritical heckling from those whose policies killed more than one thousand asylum seekers, for example, and crybaby complaints from reporters who never bothered covering illegal boat arrivals when Labor was in power. But he probably didn’t expect thismagnificent ministerial moment:
“Snoop Dogg has a visa,” Mr Morrison told reporters in Canberra.
PARTY OVER
Tim Blair – Thursday, January 16, 2014 (1:49am)
Maurice Newman, the man who made Jonathan Holmes so angry he could barely concentrate, continues his pursuitof climate berserkers:
The IPCC was bound to be captured by the green movement. After all, it is a political body. It is not a panel of scientists but a panel of governments driven by the UN. Its sole purpose is to assess the risks of human-induced climate change. It has spawned industries. One is scientists determined to find an anthropogenic cause. Another is climate remediation. And, naturally, an industry to redistribute taxes to sustain it all. With hundreds of billions of dollars at stake, this cartel will deny all contrary evidence. Its very survival depends on it. But the tide is turning and Mother Nature has signalled her intention not to co-operate.In the meantime, childish personal attacks on those who point out flaws in IPCC reasoning and advice only increase scepticism. They are no substitute for empirical evidence and are well into diminishing returns. The party’s over.
Not much fun these days either for Lord Stern, the bumbling British warmist who doesn’t know anything aboutCadillacs and China.
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January 16: Tu Bishvat (Judaism, 2014)
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: The BritishRoyal Navy gained their first major naval victory over their European enemies in the war when they defeated a Spanish squadron in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent (pictured).
- 1862 – The beam of a pumping engine broke at the Hartley Collieryin Northumberland, England, and fell down the shaft trapping the men below, resulting in the deaths of 204 men.
- 1920 – The League of Nations, the first intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace, held its first council meeting in Paris.
- 1942 – TWA Flight 3 crashed into Potosi Mountain in Nevada, killing actress Carole Lombard and all of the other 21 people on board.
- 1964 – The musical Hello, Dolly! opened at the St. James Theatreon Broadway, and would go on to win ten Tony Awards, a record that stood for 35 years.
Events[edit]
- 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
- 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
- 550 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
- 929 – Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III established the Caliphate of Córdoba.
- 1120 – The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- 1362 – A storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand.
- 1412 – The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
- 1492 – The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.
- 1547 – Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia.
- 1556 – Philip II becomes King of Spain.
- 1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
- 1581 – The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
- 1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
- 1707 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
- 1761 – The British capture Pondichéry, India from the French.
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
- 1786 – Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
- 1809 – Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
- 1847 – John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
- 1862 – Hartley Colliery Disaster: 204 men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompted a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
- 1878 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) – Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv fromOttoman rule.
- 1883 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
- 1896 – Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
- 1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
- 1909 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
- 1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United Statesone year after ratification.
- 1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
- 1924 – Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time.
- 1939 – The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
- 1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
- 1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
- 1956 – President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
- 1964 – Hello, Dolly! (musical) starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
- 1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
- 1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
- 1970 – Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
- 1973 – Anna Christian Waters disappears from her backyard. She is never found.
- 1973 – The final episode of Bonanza airs on NBC.
- 1979 – The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
- 1986 – First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
- 1991 – The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
- 1992 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
- 2001 – Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
- 2001 – US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
- 2002 – The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
- 2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
- 2005 – Romanian university lecturer and novelist Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world
- 2006 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
- 2013 – An estimated 41 international workers are taken hostage in an attack in the town of In Aménas, Algeria.
Births[edit]
- 1093 – Isaac Komnenos, Byzantine sebastokratōr (d. 1152)
- 1245 – Edmund Crouchback, English prince and crusader (d. 1296)
- 1409 – René of Anjou, King of Naples (d. 1480)
- 1477 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
- 1501 – Anthony Denny, English confidant of Henry VIII (d. 1559)
- 1516 – Bayinnaung, Burmese king (d. 1581)
- 1616 – François de Vendôme, Duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
- 1626 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699)
- 1634 – Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)
- 1675 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French soldier, diplomat, and author (d. 1755)
- 1691 – Peter Scheemakers, Flemish sculptor (d. 1781)
- 1728 – Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer (d. 1800)
- 1749 – Vittorio Alfieri, Italian playwright (d. 1803)
- 1757 – Richard Goodwin Keats, English admiral (d. 1834)
- 1807 – Charles Henry Davis, American admiral (d. 1877)
- 1815 – Henry Halleck, American general (d. 1872)
- 1821 – John C. Breckinridge, American general and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States (d. 1875)
- 1834 – Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1906)
- 1836 – Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894)
- 1838 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
- 1844 – Ismail Qemali, Albanian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1919)
- 1853 – Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and manager (d. 1937)
- 1853 – Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, Greek-English military commander (d. 1947)
- 1853 – André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company (d. 1931)
- 1855 – Eleanor Marx, English social activist and translator (d. 1898)
- 1870 – Jüri Jaakson, Estonian politician and businessman (d. 1942)
- 1872 – Henri Büsser, French organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1973)
- 1872 – Edward Gordon Craig, English actor, producer, and director (d. 1966)
- 1874 – Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958)
- 1875 – Leonor Michaelis, German biochemist (d. 1947)
- 1878 – Harry Carey, American actor (d. 1947)
- 1880 – Samuel Jones, American high jumper (d. 1954)
- 1882 – Robert Lane, Canadian soccer player (d. 1940)
- 1882 – Margaret Wilson, American novelist (d. 1973)
- 1885 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author (d. 1967)
- 1886 – John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)
- 1888 – Osip Brik, Russian author and critic (d. 1945)
- 1893 – Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)
- 1894 – Irving Mills, American publisher (d. 1985)
- 1895 – T. M. Sabaratnam, Ceylon Tamil politician (d. 1966)
- 1895 – Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
- 1896 – Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
- 1897 – Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (d. 1977)
- 1898 – Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)
- 1898 – Irving Rapper, English-American director and producer (d. 1999)
- 1900 – Edith Frank, German Holocaust victim, mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
- 1901 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban army officer and politician, 9th President of Cuba (d. 1973)
- 1901 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor and businessman, invented the ice resurfacer (d. 1988)
- 1902 – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner, rugby union player, and missionary (d. 1945)
- 1903 – William Grover-Williams, English-French race car driver (d. 1945)
- 1905 – Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989)
- 1906 – Johannes Brenner, Estonian footballer (d. 1975)
- 1906 – Diana Wynyard, English actress (d. 1964)
- 1907 – Alexander Knox, Canadian actor (d. 1995)
- 1907 – Paul Nitze, American banker and politician (d. 2004)
- 1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
- 1908 – Günther Prien, German captain (d. 1941)
- 1910 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (d. 1974)
- 1911 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician, 28th President of Chile (d. 1982)
- 1911 – Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996)
- 1914 – Roger Wagner, French-American conductor (d. 1992)
- 1915 – Leslie H. Martinson, American director
- 1916 – Philip Lucock, English-Australian minister and politician (d. 1996)
- 1917 – Carl Karcher, American businessman, founded Carl's Jr. (d. 2008)
- 1918 – Nel Benschop, Dutch poet (d. 2005)
- 1918 – Allan Ekelund, Swedish film producer (d. 2009)
- 1918 – Clem Jones, Australian politician, 8th Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2007)
- 1918 – Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)
- 1919 – Jerome Horwitz, American scientist (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Alberto Crespo, Argentine race car driver (d. 1991)
- 1920 – Elliott Reid, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2013)
- 1921 – Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
- 1922 – Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Gene Feist, American playwright and director, co-founded the Roundabout Theatre Company
- 1923 – Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
- 1923 – Keith Shackleton, English artist
- 1924 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
- 1925 – Peter Hirsch, English metallurgist
- 1925 – James Robinson Risner, American general (d. 2013)
- 1926 – O. P. Nayyar, Indian film music director and composer (d. 2007)
- 1928 – William Kennedy, American journalist and author
- 1928 – Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996)
- 1929 – Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Sri Lankan anthropologist and academic
- 1930 – Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (d. 2006)
- 1930 – Mary Ann McMorrow, American judge (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Norman Podhoretz, American author
- 1930 – Paula Tilbrook, English actress
- 1931 – Robert L. Park, American physicist
- 1931 – Johannes Rau, German politician, 8th Federal President of Germany (d. 2006)
- 1932 – Victor Ciocâltea, Romanian chess player (d. 1983)
- 1932 – Dian Fossey, American primatologist (d. 1985)
- 1933 – Susan Sontag, American author (d. 2004)
- 1934 – Marilyn Horne, American soprano
- 1935 – A. J. Foyt, American race car driver
- 1936 – Michael White, Scottish film producer
- 1937 – Lorraine Bayly, Australian actress
- 1937 – Luiz Bueno, Brazilian race car driver (d. 2011)
- 1938 – Michael Pataki, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1938 – Jô Soares, Brazilian comedian, actor, and talk show host
- 1938 – Marina Vaizey, American art critic
- 1939 – Mac Curtis, American singer (d. 2013)
- 1940 – Lepa Lukić, Serbian singer
- 1941 – Christine Truman, English tennis player
- 1942 – René Angélil, Canadian singer and manager
- 1942 – Barbara Lynn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1943 – Gavin Bryars, English bassist and composer
- 1943 – Brian Ferneyhough, English-American composer
- 1944 – Gerd Klier, German footballer (d. 2011)
- 1944 – Jim Stafford, American singer-songwriter
- 1945 – Wim Suurbier, Dutch footballer
- 1946 – Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
- 1946 – Ronnie Milsap, American singer and pianist
- 1946 – Katia Ricciarelli, Italian soprano
- 1947 – Elaine Murphy, English psychogeriatrician and politician
- 1947 – Magdalen Nabb, English author (d. 2007)
- 1947 – Sara Jane Olson, American terrorist
- 1947 – Harvey Proctor, English politician
- 1947 – Laura Schlessinger, American physiologist, talk show host, and author
- 1947 – Harald Stabell, Norwegian lawyer
- 1948 – John Carpenter, American director
- 1948 – Dalvanius Prime, New Zealand singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
- 1948 – Ruth Reichl, American critic
- 1948 – Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
- 1949 – Anne F. Beiler, American businesswoman, founded Auntie Anne's
- 1949 – Roy Foster, Irish historian
- 1949 – Oliver Humperdink, American wrestling manager (d. 2011)
- 1949 – Caroline Munro, English actress and singer
- 1949 – Andrew Refshauge, Australian politician, 13th Deputy Premier of New South Wales
- 1950 – Debbie Allen, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
- 1950 – Brian Castro, Australian author
- 1950 – Robert Schimmel, American comedian (d. 2010)
- 1950 – Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer and guitarist (Can)
- 1951 – Glenn Ordway, American radio host
- 1952 – Fuad II of Egypt
- 1952 – L. Blaine Hammond, American pilot and astronaut
- 1952 – Piercarlo Ghinzani, Italian racing driver
- 1952 – Julie Anne Peters, American young adult author
- 1953 – Robert Jay Mathews, American militant, founded The Order (d. 1984)
- 1953 – John Stephen Hill, Canadian actor
- 1954 – Vasili Zhupikov, Russian footballer and coach
- 1955 – Jerry M. Linenger, American doctor and astronaut
- 1956 – Jennifer Dale, Canadian actress
- 1956 – Wayne Daniel, Barbadian cricketer
- 1956 – Martin Jol, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1956 – Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (d. 2007)
- 1957 – Jurijs Andrejevs, Latvian footballer
- 1957 – Ricardo Darín, Argentine actor, screenwriter, and director
- 1957 – Mark Pawsey, English politician
- 1958 – Anatoli Boukreev, Russian mountaineer (d. 1997)
- 1958 – Lena Ek, Swedish politician
- 1958 – Marla Frazee, American children's author and illustrator
- 1959 – Sade Adu, Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer
- 1959 – Juanita Bynum, American actress, singer, and author
- 1959 – Lisa Milroy, Canadian painter
- 1961 – Ronnie Lee Gardner, American criminal (d. 2010)
- 1961 – Paul Raven, English bass player (Killing Joke, Prong, Godflesh, Zilch, Society 1, and Ministry) (d. 2007)
- 1962 – Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian politician, 51st Minister of Defence for Australia
- 1962 – Denis O'Hare, Irish-American actor
- 1962 – John T. Riedl, American computer scientist (d. 2013)
- 1962 – Paul Webb, English bass player (Talk Talk and .O.rang)
- 1963 – James May, English journalist and television host
- 1964 – Deyan Nedelchev, Bulgarian pop singer, composer and showman
- 1965 – Maxine Jones, American singer (En Vogue)
- 1965 – Jill Sobule, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1968 – Danni Ashe, American model and businesswoman
- 1968 – David Chokachi, American actor
- 1968 – Rebecca Stead, American author
- 1969 – Neil Back, England rugby player
- 1969 – Marinus Bester, German footballer
- 1969 – Roy Jones, Jr., American boxer
- 1969 – Per "Dead" Ohlin, Swedish singer-songwriter (Mayhem and Morbid) (d. 1991)
- 1969 – Rich Ward, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fozzy, Stuck Mojo, and Adrenaline Mob)
- 1970 – Rick Bognar, Canadian wrestler
- 1970 – Garth Ennis, British comics writer
- 1970 – Brendan O'Hare, Scottish drummer (Teenage Fanclub, Telstar Ponies, Mogwai)
- 1970 – Ron Villone, American baseball player
- 1971 – Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player
- 1971 – Jonathan Mangum, American actor
- 1972 – Ruben Bagger, Danish footballer
- 1972 – Ang Christou, Australian footballer
- 1972 – Dameon Clarke, Canadian actor
- 1972 – Yuri Drozdov, Russian footballer
- 1972 – Ezra Hendrickson, Vincentian footballer
- 1972 – Salah Hissou, Moroccan runner
- 1972 – Joe Horn, American football player
- 1972 – Richard T. Jones, Japanese-American actor
- 1972 – Greg Page, Australian singer and actor (The Wiggles)
- 1972 – Alen Peternac, Croatian footballer
- 1973 – Josie Davis, American actress and producer
- 1974 – Marlon Anderson, American baseball player
- 1974 – Brent Hinds, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mastodon)
- 1974 – Kate Moss, English model
- 1975 – Greg Strause, American director and producer
- 1975 – Gillian Iliana Waters, American actress
- 1976 – Viktor Maslov, Russian race car driver
- 1976 – Martina Moravcová, Slovak swimmer
- 1977 – Jeff Foster, American basketball player
- 1977 – Ariel Ze'evi, Israeli martial artist
- 1978 – Alfredo Amézaga, Mexican baseball player
- 1979 – Aaliyah, American singer, dancer, and actress (d. 2001)
- 1979 – Muntadhar al-Zaidi, Iraqi journalist
- 1979 – Mark Anthony Fernandez, Filipino actor
- 1979 – Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 – Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Seydou Keita, Malian footballer
- 1980 – Lin-Manuel Miranda, American actor and composer
- 1980 – Albert Pujols, Dominican-American baseball player
- 1980 – Katalin Vad, Hungarian porn actress and model
- 1981 – Jamie Lundmark, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981 – Nick Valensi, American guitarist (The Strokes)
- 1981 – Bobby Zamora, English footballer
- 1982 – Preston, English singer-songwriter (The Ordinary Boys)
- 1982 – Tuncay Şanlı, Turkish footballer
- 1982 – Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Danish actress
- 1983 – Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
- 1983 – Andriy Rusol, Ukrainian footballer
- 1984 – Stephan Lichtsteiner, Swiss footballer
- 1984 – Jared Slingerland, Canadian guitarist (Left Spine Down and Front Line Assembly)
- 1984 – Kurt Travis, American singer-songwriter (Dance Gavin Dance and A Lot Like Birds)
- 1985 – Joe Flacco, American football player
- 1985 – Gintaras Januševičius, Lithuanian pianist
- 1985 – Sidharth Malhotra, Indian actor
- 1985 – Jonathan Richter, Danish footballer
- 1985 – Simon Richter, Danish footballer
- 1985 – Pablo Zabaleta, Argentine footballer
- 1986 – Mason Gamble, American actor
- 1986 – Irina Kuzmina, Latvian tennis player
- 1986 – Paula Pareto, Argentine martial artist
- 1986 – Johannes Rahn, German footballer
- 1986 – Mark Trumbo, American baseball player
- 1986 – Reto Ziegler, Swiss footballer
- 1987 – Charlotte Henshaw, English swimmer
- 1987 – Lauren McAvoy, English model
- 1988 – Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
- 1988 – Li Xiaoxia, Chinese table tennis player
- 1988 – Jorge Torres Nilo, Mexican footballer
- 1989 – Yvonne Zima, American actress
- 1991 – Matt Duchene, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1992 – Maja Keuc, Slovenian singer
- 1993 – Hannes Anier, Estonian footballer
- 1993 – Amandine Hesse, French tennis player
- 1995 – Mikaela Turik, Australian-Canadian cricketer
Deaths[edit]
- 378 – Chak Tok Ich'aak I, Mayan king
- 654 – Gao Jifu, Chinese chancellor (b. 596)
- 960 – Patriarch Polyeuctus of Constantinople (b. 956)
- 1327 – Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine politician and scholar (b. 1250)
- 1387 – Elizabeth of Bosnia (b. 1339)
- 1400 – John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (b. 1352)
- 1545 – George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)
- 1547 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
- 1554 – Christiern Pedersen, Danish publisher and scholar (b. 1480)
- 1585 – Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)
- 1592 – John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern (b. 1543)
- 1659 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
- 1710 – Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
- 1711 – Joseph Vaz, Indian priest and apostle (b. 1651)
- 1747 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
- 1748 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch scholar (b. 1684)
- 1750 – Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (b. 1667)
- 1752 – Francis Blomefield, English historian (b. 1705)
- 1794 – Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (b. 1737)
- 1809 – John Moore, English general (b. 1761)
- 1817 – Alexander J. Dallas, Jamacian-American politician, 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1759)
- 1834 – Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
- 1856 – Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist (b. 1795)
- 1864 – Anton Schindler, Austrian biographer (b. 1795)
- 1865 – Edmond François Valentin About, French journalist and author (b. 1828)
- 1879 – Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet (b. 1827)
- 1886 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (b. 1834)
- 1891 – Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
- 1898 – Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
- 1901 – Jules Barbier, French poet (b. 1825)
- 1901 – Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter (b. 1827)
- 1901 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, American minister and politician (b. 1822)
- 1906 – Marshall Field, American businessman, founded Marshall Field's (b. 1834)
- 1917 – George Dewey, American admiral (b. 1837)
- 1917 – Herbert von Petersdorff, German swimmer (b. 1882)
- 1919 – Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician, 5th President of Brazil (b. 1848)
- 1920 – Reginald De Koven, American composer and critic (b. 1859)
- 1935 – Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
- 1936 – Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870)
- 1938 – Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Indian author (b. 1876)
- 1939 – William O'Connor, American fencer (b. 1864)
- 1942 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (b. 1850)
- 1942 – Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Estonian poet, translator, linguist and folklorist (b. 1885)
- 1942 – Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
- 1942 – Ernst Scheller, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1899)
- 1957 – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, English general and politician, 16th Governor General of Canada (b. 1874)
- 1957 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
- 1959 – Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and author (b. 1887)
- 1960 – Arthur Darby, English rugby player (b. 1876)
- 1961 – Max Schöne, German swimmer (b. 1880)
- 1962 – Frank Hurley, Australian photographer (b. 1885)
- 1962 – Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor, designed the Monument to the Unknown Hero and Pobednik (b. 1883)
- 1963 – Ike Quebec, American saxophonist (b. 1918)
- 1967 – Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist (b. 1901)
- 1968 – Bob Jones, Sr., American evangelist, founded Bob Jones University (b. 1883)
- 1968 – Panagiotis Poulitsas, Greek judge and archeologist (b. 1881)
- 1969 – Vernon Duke, Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1903)
- 1971 – Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
- 1972 – Teller Ammons, American politician, 28th Governor of Colorado (b. 1895)
- 1972 – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (Alvin and the Chipmunks) (b. 1919)
- 1975 – Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (b. 1888)
- 1978 – A. V. Kulasingham, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer (b. 1890)
- 1979 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)
- 1979 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)
- 1981 – Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
- 1982 – Red Smith, American columnist (b. 1905)
- 1985 – Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (b. 1910)
- 1986 – Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
- 1987 – Bertram Wainer, Australian physician and activist (b. 1928)
- 1988 – Andrija Artuković, Croatian politician (b. 1899)
- 1988 – Ballard Berkeley, English actor (b. 1904)
- 1989 – Prem Nazir, Indian actor (b. 1926)
- 1993 – Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
- 1993 – Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strongman and powerlifter (b. 1960)
- 1995 – Eric Mottram, English poet and critic (b. 1924)
- 1996 – Marcia Davenport, American author and critic (b. 1903)
- 1996 – Kaye Webb, British journalist and publisher(b. 1914)
- 1997 – Ennis Cosby, American son of Bill Cosby (b. 1969)
- 1997 – Markus Hoffmann, German actor (b. 1971)
- 1998 – Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (b. 1921)
- 1999 – Jim McClelland, Australian jurist and politician (b. 1915)
- 2000 – Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters and The Cadets) (b. 1928)
- 2000 – Robert R. Wilson, American physicist (b. 1914)
- 2001 – Auberon Waugh, English author and journalist (b. 1939)
- 2002 – Robert Hanbury Brown, English astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
- 2002 – Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
- 2002 – Ron Taylor, American actor and singer (b. 1952)
- 2003 – Richard Wainwright, English politician (b. 1918)
- 2004 – Kalevi Sorsa, Finnish politician 34th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
- 2005 – Marjorie Williams, American journalist (b. 1958)
- 2006 – Stanley Biber, American surgeon (b. 1923)
- 2007 – Ron Carey, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2007 – Benny Parsons, American race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1941)
- 2009 – Joe Erskine, American boxer and runner (b. 1930)
- 2009 – John Mortimer, English lawyer and author (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Andrew Wyeth, American painter (b. 1917)
- 2010 – Glen Bell, American businessman, founded Taco Bell (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Gustav Leonhardt, Dutch pianist and conductor (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Wayne D. Anderson, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)
- 2013 – André Cassagnes, French toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Robert Citron, American politician (b. 1925)
- 2013 – Burhan Doğançay, Turkish painter (b. 1929)
- 2013 – Noé Hernández, Mexican race walker (b. 1978)
- 2013 – Barry Holloway, Australian-Papua New Guinean politician (b. 1934)
- 2013 – Samson Kimobwa, Kenyan runner (b. 1955)
- 2013 – Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Russian skier (b. 1931)
- 2013 – Gussie Moran, American tennis player (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Pauline Phillips, American columnist and radio host, created Dear Abby (b. 1918)
- 2013 – Kroum Pindoff, Greek-Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
- 2013 – Nic Potter, English bass player and songwriter (Van der Graaf Generator and The Misunderstood) (b. 1951)
- 2013 – John R. Powers, American author and playwright (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Perrette Pradier, French actress (b. 1938)
- 2013 – Glen P. Robinson, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Aslan Usoyan, Georgian-Russian mobster (b. 1937)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Flag Day or Magen David Day (Israel)
- Teachers' Day (Thailand)
John 8:31-32
To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
January 15: Morning
"Do as thou hast said." - 2 Samuel 7:25
God's promises were never meant to be thrown aside as waste paper; he intended that they should be used. God's gold is not miser's money, but is minted to be traded with. Nothing pleases our Lord better than to see his promises put in circulation; he loves to see his children bring them up to him, and say, "Lord, do as thou hast said." We glorify God when we plead his promises. Do you think that God will be any the poorer for giving you the riches he has promised? Do you dream that he will be any the less holy for giving holiness to you? Do you imagine he will be any the less pure for washing you from your sins? He has said "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Faith lays hold upon the promise of pardon, and it does not delay, saying, "This is a precious promise, I wonder if it be true?" but it goes straight to the throne with it, and pleads, "Lord, here is the promise, Do as thou hast said.'" Our Lord replies, "Be it unto thee even as thou wilt." When a Christian grasps a promise, if he does not take it to God, he dishonours him; but when he hastens to the throne of grace, and cries, "Lord, I have nothing to recommend me but this, Thou hast said it;'" then his desire shall be granted. Our heavenly Banker delights to cash his own notes. Never let the promise rust. Draw the sword of promise out of its scabbard, and use it with holy violence. Think not that God will be troubled by your importunately reminding him of his promises. He loves to hear the loud outcries of needy souls. It is his delight to bestow favours. He is more ready to hear than you are to ask. The sun is not weary of shining, nor the fountain of flowing. It is God's nature to keep his promises; therefore go at once to the throne with "Do as thou hast said."
Evening
"But I give myself unto prayer." - Psalm 109:4
Lying tongues were busy against the reputation of David, but he did not defend himself; he moved the case into a higher court, and pleaded before the great King himself. Prayer is the safest method of replying to words of hatred. The Psalmist prayed in no cold-hearted manner, he gave himself to the exercise--threw his whole soul and heart into it--straining every sinew and muscle, as Jacob did when wrestling with the angel. Thus, and thus only, shall any of us speed at the throne of grace. As a shadow has no power because there is no substance in it, even so that supplication, in which a man's proper self is not thoroughly present in agonizing earnestness and vehement desire, is utterly ineffectual, for it lacks that which would give it force. "Fervent prayer," says an old divine, "like a cannon planted at the gates of heaven, makes them fly open." The common fault with the most of us is our readiness to yield to distractions. Our thoughts go roving hither and thither, and we make little progress towards our desired end. Like quicksilver our mind will not hold together, but rolls off this way and that. How great an evil this is! It injures us, and what is worse, it insults our God. What should we think of a petitioner, if, while having an audience with a prince, he should be playing with a feather or catching a fly?
Continuance and perseverance are intended in the expression of our text. David did not cry once, and then relapse into silence; his holy clamour was continued till it brought down the blessing. Prayer must not be our chance work, but our daily business, our habit and vocation. As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. We must be immersed in prayer as in our element, and so pray without ceasing. Lord, teach us so to pray that we may be more and more prevalent in supplication.
Continuance and perseverance are intended in the expression of our text. David did not cry once, and then relapse into silence; his holy clamour was continued till it brought down the blessing. Prayer must not be our chance work, but our daily business, our habit and vocation. As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. We must be immersed in prayer as in our element, and so pray without ceasing. Lord, teach us so to pray that we may be more and more prevalent in supplication.
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Today's reading: Genesis 36-38, Matthew 10:21-42 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Genesis 36-38
Esau's Descendants
1 This is the account of the family line of Esau (that is, Edom).
2 Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite-- 3 also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.
4 Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel, 5 and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in Canaan.
6 Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan, and moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob. 7 Their possessions were too great for them to remain together; the land where they were staying could not support them both because of their livestock. 8 So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the hill country of Seir.
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 10:21-42
21 "Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. 22You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. 23 When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. Truly I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
24 "The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master. 25 It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!
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