For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
The best known Australian in the world is an ethnically Vietnamese girl, Natalie Tran, or Community Channel. She is humorous, self deprecating and talented. She makes social observations and now, after many years, she has taken a stand on an issue that is utterly reasonable, but she is being torn apart for. She said it was ridiculous for religious people to tie young girls with bombs to blow up others. So as to not point the finger at any one religion, she stated she wasn't a fan of any of them. She is an atheist. Not in the Dawkins mould where anyone who is not atheist is a fantasist by definition, Tran has made the personal choice not to believe in God. One might disagree with that view, but her right to have it is absolute. It is an informed point of view, with many corrupt (so called) Christians contributing to it, from the KKK and IRA, through the hating Westboro Baptist, Gosford Anglican or Tim Costello or Fred Nile. Tran has examples of stupid and compromised people who speak out on issues they don't understand. With free speech, one might listen to Tran and present a different front to her showing that religion is not as she knows it, and that God is real. Instead, some ridiculously outraged 'fans' have abused her. Free speech is not mere abuse.
On this day in 27 BC Octavian took on the title Augustus, which is Latin for Majestic. It is connected with the word Augury and some said that Rome was founded after Romulus' august augury. The day marks the beginning of imperial Rome and the passing of the republic. Many believed the republic did not truly pass. Many died believing that. Some things are known of the Maya, although much was destroyed of there culture by conquistadors and the passing of time. In 378, General Siyaj K'ak' conquered land in what is now Guatemala. During this time he highly influenced Maya with culture from Mexico, but it is not known precisely how that influence was made. In 1412, the Medici family were made official bankers of the Papacy. In 1492, the first grammar for Spanish was presented to the Spanish Queen Isabella I .. and in 1605, the first edition of book one of Don Quixote by Cervantes was published in Madrid. In 1707, the Scottish parliament passed legislation allowing the creation of Great Britain.
In 1862, the Hartley Colliery mining disaster resulted in legislation changes to make mines safer. The US modernised her civil service in 1883. In 1919, the US ratified the prohibition 18th amendment. In 1939, sensing an opportunity to promote Hitler, the IRA began a campaign of bombing and sabotaging in England. In 1942, Actress Carol Lombard died when TWA flight 3 crashed, killing all 22 on board. Fantasist Orson Welles was to claim it had been shot down by Germans, but it had failed from navigational error flying from Las Vegas to California over an inconvenient mountain range. In 1945, Hitler went to his bunker. In 1956, Egyptian President Nasser, armed with a Nazis developed military, threatened to take so called Palestine. In 1969 a Czech student burned himself alive to protest the Soviet Union occupation. On the same day, the Soviet Union performed the first of transferring crew via spacewalk between craft. In 1991, the first Gulf War began. In 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia took off on her final journey. No one could have helped the damaged craft, and she burned up on re entry.
On this day in 27 BC Octavian took on the title Augustus, which is Latin for Majestic. It is connected with the word Augury and some said that Rome was founded after Romulus' august augury. The day marks the beginning of imperial Rome and the passing of the republic. Many believed the republic did not truly pass. Many died believing that. Some things are known of the Maya, although much was destroyed of there culture by conquistadors and the passing of time. In 378, General Siyaj K'ak' conquered land in what is now Guatemala. During this time he highly influenced Maya with culture from Mexico, but it is not known precisely how that influence was made. In 1412, the Medici family were made official bankers of the Papacy. In 1492, the first grammar for Spanish was presented to the Spanish Queen Isabella I .. and in 1605, the first edition of book one of Don Quixote by Cervantes was published in Madrid. In 1707, the Scottish parliament passed legislation allowing the creation of Great Britain.
In 1862, the Hartley Colliery mining disaster resulted in legislation changes to make mines safer. The US modernised her civil service in 1883. In 1919, the US ratified the prohibition 18th amendment. In 1939, sensing an opportunity to promote Hitler, the IRA began a campaign of bombing and sabotaging in England. In 1942, Actress Carol Lombard died when TWA flight 3 crashed, killing all 22 on board. Fantasist Orson Welles was to claim it had been shot down by Germans, but it had failed from navigational error flying from Las Vegas to California over an inconvenient mountain range. In 1945, Hitler went to his bunker. In 1956, Egyptian President Nasser, armed with a Nazis developed military, threatened to take so called Palestine. In 1969 a Czech student burned himself alive to protest the Soviet Union occupation. On the same day, the Soviet Union performed the first of transferring crew via spacewalk between craft. In 1991, the first Gulf War began. In 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia took off on her final journey. No one could have helped the damaged craft, and she burned up on re entry.
From 2014
New Zealand is beautiful. I cannot thank her enough for snowing in summer. Sydney hasn't done that for me recently. Meteorologists called some white stuff falling in Turramurra a decade ago "Soft Hail" which is apparently warmer than snow .. We need a Poley Dancer .. a dancer for money .. heat waves in Australia could be made a thing of the past with a Bradfield scheme .. Still, there is a blast of cold coming from highly paid climate scientists claiming the world is warming.
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.
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.
Historical perspective on this day
In 27 BC, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus was granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire. 378, General Siyaj K'ak'conquered Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán. 550, Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquered Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison. 929, Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III established the Caliphate of Córdoba.
In 1120, the Council of Nablus was held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. 1362, a storm tide in the North Sea destroyed the Germancity of Rungholt on the island of Strand. 1412, the Medici family was appointed official banker of the Papacy. 1492, the first grammar of the Spanish language was presented to Queen Isabella I. 1547, Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible became Czar of Russia. 1556, Philip IIbecame King of Spain. 1572, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk was tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. 1581, the English Parliamentoutlawed 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 ratified 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.
In 1809, Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña. 1847, John C. Frémont was 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 Buragowith a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberated Plovdiv from Ottoman rule. 1883, the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, established the United States Civil Service, was passed. 1896, Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
In 1900, the United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the Samoan islands. 1909, Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. 1919, Temperance movement: The United Statesratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorising Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification. 1920, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University. 1920, the League of Nations held its first council meeting in Paris, France. 1924, Eleftherios Venizelos became Prime Minister of Greecefor the fourth time. 1939, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) began a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
In 1942, Crash of TWA Flight 3, killed all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard. 1945, Adolf Hitler moved into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker. 1956, President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt vowed 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 committed suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before. Also 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 Fullerreceived the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. 1979, the last Iranian Shah fled Iran with his family for good and relocated to Egypt.
In 1986, first meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force. 1991, the Coalition Forces went to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time). 1992, El Salvador officials and rebel leaders signed 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 was assassinated by one of his own bodyguards. Also 2001, US President Bill Clinton awarded former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War. 2002, the UN Security Council unanimously established 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 took 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 gave birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world. 2006, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was sworn in as Liberia's new president. She became Africa's first female elected head of state. 2013, an estimated 41 international workers were taken hostage in an attack in the town of In Aménas, Algeria.
In 1120, the Council of Nablus was held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. 1362, a storm tide in the North Sea destroyed the Germancity of Rungholt on the island of Strand. 1412, the Medici family was appointed official banker of the Papacy. 1492, the first grammar of the Spanish language was presented to Queen Isabella I. 1547, Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible became Czar of Russia. 1556, Philip IIbecame King of Spain. 1572, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk was tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. 1581, the English Parliamentoutlawed 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 ratified 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.
In 1809, Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña. 1847, John C. Frémont was 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 Buragowith a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberated Plovdiv from Ottoman rule. 1883, the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, established the United States Civil Service, was passed. 1896, Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
In 1900, the United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the Samoan islands. 1909, Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. 1919, Temperance movement: The United Statesratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorising Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification. 1920, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University. 1920, the League of Nations held its first council meeting in Paris, France. 1924, Eleftherios Venizelos became Prime Minister of Greecefor the fourth time. 1939, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) began a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
In 1942, Crash of TWA Flight 3, killed all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard. 1945, Adolf Hitler moved into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker. 1956, President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt vowed 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 committed suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before. Also 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 Fullerreceived the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. 1979, the last Iranian Shah fled Iran with his family for good and relocated to Egypt.
In 1986, first meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force. 1991, the Coalition Forces went to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time). 1992, El Salvador officials and rebel leaders signed 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 was assassinated by one of his own bodyguards. Also 2001, US President Bill Clinton awarded former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War. 2002, the UN Security Council unanimously established 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 took 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 gave birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world. 2006, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was sworn in as Liberia's new president. She became Africa's first female elected head of state. 2013, an estimated 41 international workers were taken hostage in an attack in the town of In Aménas, Algeria.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
https://www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or http://wh.gov/ilXYR
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
https://www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or http://wh.gov/ilXYR
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
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
- 27 BC – Gaius Octavianus was given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate when he became the first Roman emperor.
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: The British Royal 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 Colliery in Northumberland, England, and fell down the shaft trapping the men below, resulting in the deaths of 204 men.
- 1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler and his staff moved into the Führerbunker, where he would eventually commit suicide.
- 1969 – Student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square in Prague as a protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia the previous year.
Deaths
- 378 – Chak Tok Ich'aak I, Mayan king
- 654 – Gao Jifu, Chinese politician, Chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 596)
- 970 – Patriarch Polyeuctus of Constantinople (b. 956)
- 1327 – Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine scholar and politician (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-Sri Lankan priest (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)
- 1834 – Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
- 1907 – Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte, French noblewoman and reputed child of Napoleon (b. 1816)
- 1935 – Fred Barker, American criminal (b. 1901)
- 1935 – Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
- 1942 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (b. 1850)
- 1942 – Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Estonian poet and linguist (b. 1885)
- 1942 – Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
- 1942 – Ernst Scheller, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1899)
- 1959 – Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and author (b. 1887)
- 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)
- 1997 – Ennis Cosby, American educator (b. 1969)
- 2001 – Auberon Waugh, English author and journalist (b. 1939)
- 2013 – André Cassagnes, French toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Pauline Phillips, American journalist and radio host, created Dear Abby (b. 1918)
- 2014 – Ruth Duccini, American actress (b. 1918)
THE YEAR OF MILO
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 16, 2016 (4:13pm)
Excellent Breitbart columnist and jazz hands scholar Milo Yiannopoulos is 16 days into his year of revolutionary cultural libertarianism:
It stands against any authoritarian, from the Right or the Left, who sucks fun and freedom from the world like some kind of vampire without the cool factor, and who uses faux grievances and exaggerated victimhood to get what they want. Cultural libertarianism rejects the fainting-couch feminism and race-baiting of the Left in favour of deliberately provocative joyfulness and exuberance. It also predicates facts over hurt feelings, versus the social justice crowd who want to turn harrowing anecdotes into “lived experience” — which we are then expected to treat like scientific data.While college campuses retreat into safe spaces, emotional coddling and treating the leaders of tomorrow like primary school children, cultural libertarians think of new ways to provoke and offend people. In a culture of control, conformity, and coddling, cultural libertarians are the true counterculture. 2015 was the year victimhood and hurt feelings became social currency — but cultural libertarians are putting an end to the madness.
It’s all part of Milo’s Dangerous Faggot tour of 2016, which aims to take down the social justice warrior movement:
If you take their crybully pronouncements at face value, social justice warriors believe, with all the fervor of a paranoiac, that they are helpless, fragile things, buffeted by sinister structural forces they are powerless to resist. They believe that their opponents possess power that, if used ruthlessly enough, could eradicate them. What do you say we prove them right?
Quite so. Milo should bring his tour to target-rich Australia.
THEY’RE SCARED OF MALCOLM
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 16, 2016 (4:12pm)
An unusual phobia at the ABC:
The former technology editor of the ABC’s website has claimed he was gagged from writing about the National Broadband Network because management “didn’t want to upset” Malcolm Turnbull.
ABC fans always claim their billion dollar baby is independent because it is not beholden to advertisers. Of course, this just means it is beholden to government.
OUAGADOUGOU ATTACKED
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 16, 2016 (3:20pm)
Bloodlust in Burkina Faso, where up to 20 people have been killed in a hotel raid by Islamic terrorists. The hotel is now ablaze:
Several cars outside the hotel, which is popular with Westerners, also were engulfed in flames after the attackers set them on fire when they launched their assault.It was not immediately known how many people may have been killed during the siege, though a survivor told hospital director Robert Sangare he estimated the toll could be as high as 20.
At least 15 other people were seriously wounded by bullets and undergoing treatment at the Yalgado Ouedraogo hospital, he said …In a message posted in Arabic on the militants’ “Muslim Africa” Telegram account, [al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb] said fighters had “broke into a restaurant of one of the biggest hotels in the capital of Burkina Faso, and are now entrenched and the clashes are continuing with the enemies of the religion.”
Innocent non-Muslims enjoying a meal, in other words.
UPDATE:
Members of Burkina Faso’s fire brigade found about ten bodies on the terrace of a restaurant opposite the Splendid Hotel in the capital that was attacked by suspected militants.
UPDATE II:
Burkina Faso’s Interior Minister says 126 people have been freed and three jihadists killed in the operation against al-Qai’da-linked extremists who seized a foreigners’ hotel in the capital of the West African nation.As many as 30 people are reported killed.
OLD BULL
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 16, 2016 (3:00pm)
Whenever Red Bull presents one of their impressive publicity stunts, they always use an elderly non-turbo car – presumably because the current turbo engines are difficult to run in sub-optimal conditions and sound like garbage:
Nine news last night claimed driver Max Verstappen was performing in Red Bull’s 2016 vehicle. Not so. The RB7 last ran in competition five years ago.
Nine news last night claimed driver Max Verstappen was performing in Red Bull’s 2016 vehicle. Not so. The RB7 last ran in competition five years ago.
EVERYTHING GREEN IS HOPELESS AND SLOW
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 16, 2016 (1:41pm)
Tony Thomas reviews the progress of the $250 million Solar Impulse 2, a sun-powered aircraft attempting to fly around the world:
Departing Abu Dhabi, Solar Impulse 2 got half-way in 200 days, but it’s going nowhere until at least April. That’s because its solar batteries overheated during a wrong flight pattern and have to be replaced.The fuel-free plane was meant to show the delicious potential of clean solar energy, ‘therapy for the planet’ and a climate-change stopper, as its founders balloonist Bertrand Piccard and ex-Swiss air force man Andre Borschberg see it. The solar plane’s actually demonstrated the superiority of a few drums of avgas.Its 17,200 solar cells generate 17 horsepower for each of the four props – less than half the grunt of my four-cylinder Camry …The solar plane is at the mercy of sun and breezes. It was held up at Nagoya for a month waiting for favorable winds, much like a 17th century galleon.But there’s more. To keep this gossamer confection airborne, an Ilyushin 76 strategic airlifter flies ahead with a blow-up hangar and all the high-tech servicing gear. Aviation buffs call the airlifter a ‘bad-ass’, not just because of its ugly nose and four droopy jets, but because its takeoffs are real Russian screamers. Once aloft, it burns eight tons of CO2-spewing avgas per hour.This behemoth is accompanied by a twin-turboprop ATR72 which can carry a support crew of up to 60, apart from the dozens left at Monaco mission control. The ATR burns a more modest tonne of fuel per 90 minutes.With these two little helpers, the solar plane flies (half) around the world ‘without using a drop of fuel’. Piccard says, ‘What we have here is the future’.
The future is a busted-arse quarter-billion sky Camry? Give me the past any day.
UPDATE. In further aviation news, this discussion about the BAC 1-11 and its Nigerian fate is hilarious.
UPDATE II. The real future is pies.
POODLE LADY STRIKES AGAIN
Tim Blair – Friday, January 16, 2015 (11:32am)
Whether she’s riding her bicycle, avoiding parked trucks, walking her dog or trying to book a flight, Elizabeth Farrelly invariably encounters some form of transport trouble. And now it’s happened again:
It’s Sunday afternoon. I’m walking the dog on Cleveland Street. The traffic is relatively light and the footpath outside the Greek Orthodox church relatively cluttered – three poles, two palm trees, one oncoming pedestrian with full set of golf clubs, and a standard poodle (mine).
Natch.
Behind me sounds a bicycle bell. It gets louder, faster, more insistent every second. In fact, it sounds increasingly bad-tempered. Yet, given Golf-club Guy, dopey poodle and fixed paraphernalia, inside four linear metres, I cannot let a bike past without actually stepping into the carriageway. Plus, to be honest, I shouldn’t have to.
Queen Elizabeth, as we know, never steps aside.
Within 20 seconds of Golf-club Guy’s passing, there’s the unmistakable sound of collision. I turn to see Golf-club standing, gobsmacked, and Bike Bloke on the ground – large, middle-aged, helmetless, red-faced, shouting. I stand, astonished. Which is when Bike Bloke starts on me.“And you, ya f-----g c---!” he roars, straight to full throttle. “You could’ve got outta the way! You’re just a great big f-----g c---!”I explain politely that there was limited room on the path and rather a lot of room on the road, where he, a cyclist, belongs.
This latest incident bears remarkable similarities to a previous Farrelly clash: “Anzac Day, mid-morning. A quiet street on quieter day. I’m poodle-walking. Dog’s a little wide, footpath’s a little narrow, so between us we occupy it. Behind me comes the jolly yet peremptory ‘tring!’ of a bicycle bell. Ignore it. Beside me, the road is empty, as is its designated cycle lane.” On that occasion, the angry cyclist followed the initial dispute with a belated rejoinder ("Don’t be so rude, lady!"). The pattern is repeated:
He cycles off. I walk on. After a few second he returns.“You’re Elizabeth Farrelly, aren’t you?” he screams.
Lizzie’s brilliantly regal response:
I say this is irrelevant to the discussion in hand.
Our favourite columnist really should start wearing a Russian-style dash cam on her head. Farrelly is a one-woman reality show just waiting to happen.
UPDATE. Reader Brad checks Google Street View’s image of the Farrelly conflict zone, and discovers it has enough space to walk THREE dogs:
HEBDO II AVERTED
Tim Blair – Friday, January 16, 2015 (10:49am)
Two dead following terror raids in Belgium:
Belgian police have killed two men in a fierce gunfight – foiling a major and imminent terror attack in the country, according to authorities.They died in the eastern town of Verviers during one of 10 raids as part of an investigation into Islamist extremists returning from fighting in Syria.As police closed in near a train station, the suspects opened fire with automatic weapons and there was an intense shootout for several minutes before the pair were killed, said a prosecutor …The website of La Meuse newspaper quoted an unidentified police officer as saying: “We’ve averted a Belgian Charlie Hebdo.”
Meanwhile, in Sydney:
Controversial Islamic preacher Junaid Thorne has warned his “brothers” to be secretive after his western Sydney home was raided by police yesterday …The 25-year-old is expected to attend a Hizb ut-Tahrir rally in Lakemba tomorrow night “We Will Not Abandon Our Prophet”.
None of this has anything to do with Islam.
UPDATE. Solitary Melbourne-raised Canis lupus Suhan Rahman:
I say stuf the peaceful protests. Spill blood, young aussies
They say ‘were all charlie.’ I say that means uze all deserve death and worse.
Let the heads fly and blood flow.
May allah accept the french brothers who terrorised france. Day by daywe will bring the war home to you.
No matterr how much they try they cant stop the influence. They can lok mee away but by that time i vee already f… the world.
Rahman is now running with the pack in Syria:
His distraught father Lutfur Rahman told The Daily Telegraph Rahman had brought “shame” on the family.
I’ll say. That spelling is atrocious.
UPDATE II. Several Australia-connected wolves of loneliness are arrested in Malaysia.
I remember a scientist visiting my elementary school to tell us of global cooling circa '76 in Princeton NJ. They had cool chemical lights that were lit by breaking the internal seals. We were told that there was only a decade of gas left to power cars. And a futuristic TV series had scientists in a futuristic camper van that ran on solar power .. Thing is, I was sanguine with it. As I am with less heat needed for toast. But other kids shivered in their boots bemoaned losing life to nuclear strikes and enjoyed listening to KISS.
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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 therecord-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:
===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:
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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- 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 CrusaderKingdom 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 a.k.a. 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.
- 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: Two hundred and four 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 (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman 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 States one year after ratification.
- 1920 – Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
- 1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
- 1921 – The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.
- 1924 – Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time.
- 1938 – Benny Goodman, and his band, performed in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2016 – 30 hostages have been freed and 20 killed in 2016 Ouagadougou attack in Burkina Faso. The attack was carried out on a hotel in the capital.
- 1093 – Isaac Komnenos, Byzantine son of Alexios I Komnenos (d. 1152)
- 1245 – Edmund Crouchback, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (d. 1296)
- 1362 – Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland, English Duke (d. 1392)
- 1409 – René of Anjou (d. 1480)
- 1477 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
- 1501 – Anthony Denny, English politician (d. 1559)
- 1516 – Bayinnaung, Burmese king (d. 1581)
- 1616 – François de Vendôme, Duke of Beaufort (d. 1669)
- 1626 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Belgian painter (d. 1699)
- 1634 – Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Norwegian author and poet (d. 1716)
- 1675 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1755)
- 1691 – Peter Scheemakers, Belgian sculptor (d. 1781)
- 1728 – Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer and educator (d. 1800)
- 1749 – Vittorio Alfieri, Italian poet and playwright (d. 1803)
- 1757 – Richard Goodwin Keats, English admiral and politician, 3rd Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1834)
- 1807 – Charles Henry Davis, American admiral (d. 1877)
- 1815 – Henry Halleck, American lawyer, general, and scholar (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 general (d. 1947)
- 1853 – André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company (d. 1931)
- 1855 – Eleanor Marx, English activist and author (d. 1898)
- 1870 – Jüri Jaakson, Estonian businessman and politician, State Elder of Estonia (d. 1942)
- 1872 – Henri Büsser, French organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1973)
- 1872 – Edward Gordon Craig, English actor, director, and producer (d. 1966)
- 1874 – Robert W. Service, English-Canadian poet and author (d. 1958)
- 1875 – Leonor Michaelis, German biochemist and physician (d. 1947)
- 1876 – Claude Buckenham, English cricketer and footballer (d. 1937)
- 1878 – Harry Carey, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1947)
- 1880 – Samuel Jones, American high jumper (d. 1954)
- 1882 – Robert Lane, Canadian soccer player (d. 1940)
- 1882 – Margaret Wilson, American author (d. 1973)
- 1885 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author and translator (d. 1967)
- 1887 – John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)
- 1888 – Osip Brik, Russian critic (d. 1945)
- 1891 – Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
- 1893 – Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)
- 1894 – Irving Mills, American publisher (d. 1985)
- 1895 – Evripidis Bakirtzis, Greek soldier and politician (d. 1947)
- 1895 – T. M. Sabaratnam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1966)
- 1895 – Nat Schachner, American lawyer, chemist, and author (d. 1955)
- 1897 – Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet and academic (d. 1977)
- 1897 – Bedia Muvahhit, Turkish actress (d. 1994)
- 1898 – Margaret Booth, American producer and editor (d. 2002)
- 1898 – Irving Rapper, English-American director and producer (d. 1999)
- 1900 – Edith Frank, German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
- 1901 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (d. 1973)
- 1901 – Frank Zamboni, American businessman, founded the Zamboni Company (d. 1988)
- 1902 – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner, rugby 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 and pilot (d. 1975)
- 1906 – Diana Wynyard, English actress (d. 1964)
- 1907 – Alexander Knox, Canadian-English actor and screenwriter (d. 1995)
- 1907 – Paul Nitze, American banker and politician, 10th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2004)
- 1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
- 1908 – Günther Prien, German captain (d. 1941)
- 1910 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1974)
- 1911 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean lawyer and politician, 28th President of Chile (d. 1982)
- 1911 – Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996)
- 1914 – Roger Wagner, French-American conductor and educator (d. 1992)
- 1915 – Leslie H. Martinson, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 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 and educator (d. 2005)
- 1918 – Allan Ekelund, Swedish director, producer, and production manager (d. 2009)
- 1918 – Clem Jones, Australian surveyor and politician, 8th Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2007)
- 1918 – Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)
- 1919 – Jerome Horwitz, American chemist and academic (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Alberto Crespo, Argentinian 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 – Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (d. 2014)
- 1923 – Gene Feist, American director and playwright, co-founded the Roundabout Theatre Company (d. 2014)
- 1923 – Anthony Hecht, American soldier, poet, and academic (d. 2004)
- 1923 – Keith Shackleton, English painter and television host (d. 2015)
- 1924 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
- 1925 – Peter Hirsch, English metallurgist and academic
- 1925 – James Robinson Risner, American general (d. 2013)
- 1925 – Harold Switzer, American actor and singer (d. 1967)
- 1926 – O. P. Nayyar, Indian director and composer (d. 2007)
- 1928 – William Kennedy, American novelist, essayist, and journalist
- 1928 – Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996)
- 1929 – Shigeru Kōyama, Japanese actor
- 1929 – Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Sri Lankan anthropologist and academic (d. 2014)
- 1930 – Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (d. 2006)
- 1930 – Mary Ann McMorrow, American lawyer and judge (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Norman Podhoretz, American journalist and author
- 1930 – Paula Tilbrook, English actress
- 1931 – John Enderby, English physicist
- 1931 – Robert L. Park, American physicist and academic
- 1931 – Johannes Rau, German journalist and politician, 8th Federal President of Germany (d. 2006)
- 1932 – Victor Ciocâltea, Romanian chess player (d. 1983)
- 1932 – Dian Fossey, American zoologist and anthropologist (d. 1985)
- 1933 – Susan Sontag, American novelist, essayist, critic, and playwright (d. 2004)
- 1934 – Marilyn Horne, American soprano and actress
- 1935 – A. J. Foyt, American race car driver
- 1935 – Udo Lattek, German footballer, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2015)
- 1936 – Michael White, Scottish actor and producer
- 1937 – Lorraine Bayly, Australian actress
- 1937 – Luiz Bueno, Brazilian race car driver (d. 2011)
- 1937 – Francis George, American cardinal (d. 2015)
- 1938 – Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (d. 2015)
- 1938 – Michael Pataki, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2010)
- 1938 – Jô Soares, Brazilian comedian, actor, and talk show host
- 1938 – Marina Vaizey, American journalist and critic
- 1939 – Mac Curtis, American singer (d. 2013)
- 1939 – Ralph Gibson, American photographer
- 1940 – Lepa Lukić, Serbian singer
- 1941 – Christine Truman, English tennis player and sportscaster
- 1942 – René Angélil, Canadian singer and manager (d. 2016)
- 1942 – Barbara Lynn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1943 – Gavin Bryars, English bassist and composer
- 1943 – Brian Ferneyhough, English composer and academic
- 1943 – Ronnie Milsap, American singer and pianist
- 1944 – Dieter Moebius, Swiss-German keyboard player and producer (Cluster, Harmonia, and Moebius & Plank) (d. 2015)
- 1944 – Jim Stafford, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1944 – Jill Tarter, American astronomer
- 1944 – Judy Baar Topinka, American journalist and politician (d. 2014)
- 1945 – Wim Suurbier, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1946 – Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
- 1946 – Katia Ricciarelli, Italian soprano and actress
- 1947 – Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy, English academic and politician
- 1947 – Magdalen Nabb, English author and educator (d. 2007)
- 1947 – Sara Jane Olson, American criminal
- 1947 – Harvey Proctor, English politician
- 1947 – Laura Schlessinger, American physiologist, talk show host, and author
- 1948 – John Carpenter, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer
- 1948 – Ants Laaneots, Estonian military general, former Commander-in-Chief of the Estonian Defence Forces
- 1948 – Dalvanius Prime, New Zealand singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
- 1948 – Ruth Reichl, American journalist and critic
- 1948 – Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
- 1949 – Anne F. Beiler, American businesswoman, founded Auntie Anne's
- 1949 – R. F. Foster, Irish historian and academic
- 1949 – Oliver Humperdink, American wrestling manager (d. 2011)
- 1949 – Caroline Munro, English actress and singer
- 1949 – Andrew Refshauge, Australian physician and politician, 13th Deputy Premier of New South Wales
- 1950 – Debbie Allen, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
- 1950 – Brian Castro, Hong Kong-Australian author and academic
- 1950 – Robert Schimmel, American comedian, actor, and producer (d. 2010)
- 1950 – Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer and guitarist (Can)
- 1951 – Glenn Ordway, American sportscaster
- 1952 – Fuad II of Egypt
- 1952 – L. Blaine Hammond, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
- 1952 – Piercarlo Ghinzani, Italian race car driver
- 1952 – Julie Anne Peters, American engineer and author
- 1953 – Robert Jay Mathews, American militant, founded The Order (d. 1984)
- 1953 – John Stephen Hill, Canadian actor
- 1954 – Wolfgang Schmidt, German discus thrower
- 1954 – Vasili Zhupikov, Russian footballer and coach (d. 2015)
- 1955 – Jerry M. Linenger, American captain, physician, and astronaut
- 1956 – Jennifer Dale, Canadian actress and dancer
- 1956 – Wayne Daniel, Barbadian cricketer
- 1956 – Martin Jol, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1956 – Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist and engineer (d. 2007)
- 1957 – Jurijs Andrejevs, Latvian footballer and manager
- 1957 – Ricardo Darín, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1957 – Mark Pawsey, English businessman and politician
- 1958 – Andriy Bal, Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2014)
- 1958 – Anatoli Boukreev, Russian mountaineer and explorer (d. 1997)
- 1958 – Lena Ek, Swedish politician, 9th Swedish Minister for the Environment
- 1958 – Marla Frazee, American author and illustrator
- 1958 – Tony Pulis, Welsh footballer and manager
- 1958 – Andris Šķēle, Latvian politician and businessman, former Prime Minister of Latvia
- 1959 – Sade, Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer
- 1959 – Juanita Bynum, American actress and singer
- 1959 – Kimiko Ikegami, Japanese actress
- 1959 – Lisa Milroy, Canadian painter and educator
- 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)
- 1961 – Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian guitarist and composer (d. 2006)
- 1962 – Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian electrician and politician, 51st Australian Minister of Defence
- 1962 – Denis O'Hare, American-Irish actor and singer
- 1962 – John T. Riedl, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2013)
- 1962 – Ileana Salvador, Italian race walker
- 1962 – Paul Webb, English bass player (Talk Talk and .O.rang)
- 1963 – James May, English journalist and television host
- 1964 – Deyan Nedelchev, Bulgarian singer-songwriter
- 1965 – Maxine Jones, American singer (En Vogue)
- 1965 – Jill Sobule, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1966 – Anthony Washington, American discus thrower and hammer thrower
- 1967 – Dandy Sakano, Japanese comedian
- 1968 – Danni Ashe, American model, dancer, and businesswoman
- 1968 – David Chokachi, American actor
- 1968 – Rebecca Stead, American author
- 1969 – Neil Back, English rugby player and coach
- 1969 – Marinus Bester, German footballer
- 1969 – Stevie Jackson, Scottish guitarist and songwriter (Belle and Sebastian and The Vaselines)
- 1969 – Roy Jones, Jr., American boxer, rapper, and actor
- 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 and actor
- 1970 – Garth Ennis, Irish physiotherapist and author
- 1970 – Brendan O'Hare, Scottish drummer (Teenage Fanclub, Telstar Ponies, and Mogwai)
- 1970 – Ron Villone, American baseball player and coach
- 1971 – Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player and coach
- 1971 – Jonathan Mangum, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1972 – Ruben Bagger, Danish footballer
- 1972 – Ang Christou, Australian footballer
- 1972 – Dameon Clarke, Canadian-American actor
- 1972 – Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov, Russian footballer and manager
- 1972 – Ezra Hendrickson, Vincentian footballer and manager
- 1972 – Salah Hissou, Moroccan runner
- 1972 – Joe Horn, American football player
- 1972 – Richard T. Jones, Japanese-American actor and producer
- 1972 – Greg Page, Australian singer and actor (The Wiggles)
- 1972 – Alen Peternac, Croatian footballer
- 1973 – Sheila, Japanese model, entertainer, sportscaster, and actress
- 1973 – Josie Davis, American actress and producer
- 1974 – Marlon Anderson, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1974 – Brent Hinds, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1974 – John Hopoate, Tongan-Australian rugby league player and boxer
- 1974 – Kate Moss, English model and fashion designer
- 1975 – Greg Strause, American director and producer
- 1975 – Gillian Iliana Waters, American actress
- 1975 – Anthony Taberna, Filipino journalist
- 1976 – Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie, Bahamian sprinter
- 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 – Toshiki Kashu, Japanese actor
- 1979 – Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 – Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Alyssa Edwards, American drag queen, dancer and businessman
- 1980 – Seydou Keita, Malian footballer
- 1980 – Lin-Manuel Miranda, American actor, playwright, 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 – Miroslav Radović, Serbian footballer
- 1984 – Jared Slingerland, Canadian guitarist
- 1984 – Kurt Travis, American singer-songwriter
- 1985 – Joe Flacco, American football player
- 1985 – Gintaras Januševičius, Russian-Lithuanian pianist
- 1985 – Sidharth Malhotra, Indian actor
- 1985 – Jonathan Richter, Danish footballer
- 1985 – Simon Richter, Danish footballer
- 1986 – Mason Gamble, American actor
- 1986 – Irina Kuzmina, Latvian tennis player
- 1986 – Paula Pareto, Argentinian 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
- 1987 – Sheena Halili, Filipino actress
- 1988 – Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
- 1988 – Jorge Torres Nilo, Mexican footballer
- 1988 – FKA twigs, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and producer
- 1988 – Li Xiaoxia, Chinese table tennis player
- 1988 – Alex Gonzaga, Filipino actress, host, and writer
- 1989 – Yvonne Zima, American actress
- 1991 – Matt Duchene, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1992 – Matt Doherty, Irish footballer
- 1992 – Maja Keuc, Slovenian singer
- 1993 – Hannes Anier, Estonian footballer
- 1993 – Amandine Hesse, French tennis player
- 1994 – Charlotte Best, Australian model and actress
- 1995 – Mikaela Turik, Australian-Canadian cricketer
Births[edit]
- 378 – Chak Tok Ich'aak I, Mayan king
- 654 – Gao Jifu, Chinese politician, Chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. 596)
- 957 – Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali al-Madhara'i, senior official of the Tulunid, Abbasid and Ikhshidid dynasties (b. 871)
- 970 – Patriarch Polyeuctus of Constantinople
- 1327 – Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine monk, scholar, and politician (b. 1250)
- 1387 – Elizabeth of Bosnia (b. 1339)
- 1400 – John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician, Lord Great Chamberlain (b. 1352)
- 1545 – George Spalatin, German priest and 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 and politician (b. 1512)
- 1592 – John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern (b. 1543)
- 1595 – Murad III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1546)
- 1659 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
- 1710 – Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
- 1711 – Joseph Vaz, Indian-Sri Lankan priest and saint (b. 1651)
- 1747 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet and playwright (b. 1680)
- 1748 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch lawyer and scholar (b. 1684)
- 1750 – Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1667)
- 1752 – Francis Blomefield, English historian and author (b. 1705)
- 1794 – Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (b. 1737)
- 1809 – John Moore, Scottish general (b. 1761)
- 1817 – Alexander J. Dallas, Jamaican-American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1759)
- 1834 – Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic (b. 1769)
- 1856 – Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist (b. 1795)
- 1864 – Anton Schindler, Austrian secretary and author (b. 1795)
- 1865 – Edmond François Valentin About, French journalist and author (b. 1828)
- 1879 – Octave Crémazie, Canadian-French poet and bookseller (b. 1827)
- 1886 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer and academic (b. 1834)
- 1891 – Léo Delibes, French pianist and composer (b. 1836)
- 1898 – Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
- 1901 – Jules Barbier, French poet and playwright (b. 1825)
- 1901 – Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter (b. 1827)
- 1901 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, American solder, minister, and politician (b. 1822)
- 1906 – Marshall Field, American businessman, founded Marshall Field's (b. 1834)
- 1907 – Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte, French daughter of Napoleon (b. 1816)
- 1917 – George Dewey, American admiral (b. 1837)
- 1919 – Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 5th President of Brazil (b. 1848)
- 1920 – Reginald De Koven, American composer and critic (b. 1859)
- 1933 – Bekir Sami Kunduh, Turkish politician (b. 1867)
- 1935 – Fred Barker, American criminal (b. 1901)
- 1935 – Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
- 1936 – Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870)
- 1938 – Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Indian author and playwright (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 and linguist (b. 1885)
- 1942 – Carole Lombard, American actress and singer (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 cellist and 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, director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1885)
- 1962 – Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor; designed the Gregory of Nin, The Bowman and The Spearman, Monument to the Unknown Hero, Pobednik (b. 1883)
- 1963 – Ike Quebec, American saxophonist (b. 1918)
- 1967 – Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist and academic (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 soldier and politician, 28th Governor of Colorado (b. 1895)
- 1972 – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (b. 1919)
- 1975 – Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (b. 1888)
- 1978 – A. V. Kulasingham, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1890)
- 1979 – Ted Cassidy, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1932)
- 1979 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)
- 1981 – Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
- 1982 – Red Smith, American journalist (b. 1905)
- 1985 – Robert Fitzgerald, American poet, critic, and translator (b. 1910)
- 1986 – Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
- 1987 – Joyce Jameson, American actress (b. 1932)
- 1987 – Bertram Wainer, Australian physician and activist (b. 1928)
- 1988 – Andrija Artuković, Croatian Ustaše leader, Porajmos perpetrator (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 weightlifter (b. 1960)
- 1995 – Eric Mottram, English poet and critic (b. 1924)
- 1996 – Marcia Davenport, American author and critic (b. 1903)
- 1996 – Kaye Webb, English journalist and publisher (b. 1914)
- 1997 – Ennis Cosby, American educator (b. 1969)
- 1997 – Markus Hoffmann, German actor (b. 1971)
- 1998 – Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (b. 1921)
- 1999 – Jim McClelland, Australian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 12th Minister for Industry and Science (b. 1915)
- 2000 – Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters and The Cadets) (b. 1928)
- 2000 – Robert R. Wilson, American physicist and academic (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 and author (b. 1958)
- 2006 – Stanley Biber, American soldier and physician (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)
- 2010 – Takumi Shibano, Japanese translator and author (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Joe Bygraves, Jamaican-English boxer (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Jimmy Castor, American saxophonist (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Mike Current, American football player (b. 1945)
- 2012 – Sigursteinn Gíslason, Icelandic footballer and manager (b. 1968)
- 2012 – Lorna Kesterson, American journalist and politician (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Gustav Leonhardt, Dutch pianist, conductor, and musicologist (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Wayne D. Anderson, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)
- 2013 – André Cassagnes, French technician and toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Gussie Moran, American tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Pauline Phillips, American journalist and radio host, created Dear Abby (b. 1918)
- 2013 – Nic Potter, English bass player and songwriter (Van der Graaf Generator and The Misunderstood) (b. 1951)
- 2013 – Glen P. Robinson, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Burhan Doğançay, Turkish-American artist (b. 1929)
- 2014 – Gary Arlington, American author and illustrator (b. 1938)
- 2014 – Ruth Duccini, American actress (b. 1918)
- 2014 – Wiley W. Hilburn, American journalist and academic (b. 1938)
- 2014 – Russell Johnson, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2014 – Dave Madden, Canadian-American actor (b. 1931)
- 2014 – Hiroo Onoda, Japanese lieutenant (b. 1922)
- 2014 – Bud Spangler, American drummer, composer, and producer (b. 1938)
- 2015 – Miriam Akavia, Polish-Israeli author and translator (b. 1927)
- 2015 – Ian Athfield, New Zealand architect (b. 1940)
- 2015 – Yao Beina, Chinese singer (b. 1981)
- 2015 – Stuart Loory, American journalist and academic (b. 1932)
- 2015 – Rimma Markova Russian actress (b. 1925)
Deaths[edit]
- Christian feast day:
- Juuruku Nichi (Ryukyuan religion)
- National Nothing Day (United States)
- National Religious Freedom Day (United States)
- Teachers' Day (Thailand)
- Teacher's Day (Myanmar)
- Thiruvalluvar Day (Tamil Nadu, India)
Holidays and observances[edit]
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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