This Day in "History"

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 12

Charles Perrault
poet (1628)

Edmund Burke
political writer and statesman (1729)

John Singer Sargent
painter (1856)

Jack London
novelist (1876)

P. W. Botha
political leader (1916)

James Farmer
civil rights leader (1920)

Joe Frazier
boxer (1944)

Rush Limbaugh
radio personality (1951)

Howard Stern
radio personality (1954)

Jeff Bezos
entrepreneur (1964)

Rob Zombie
rock musician, filmmaker (1966)

Vendela
model (1967)

January 12 Birthdays: John Hancock

 

[Dinesh jain]

ThisDayInHISTORY Rakesh Sharma, the first
Indian in space, was born on this day. When
asked by the PM how India looks from the
space, his response was "Saare Jahan Se
Achcha"

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 13

1898
French writer Emile Zola published his
"J'Accuse" letter, accusing the French of a
cover-up in the Alfred Dreyfus treason case.

1941
Novelist James Joyce died in Zurich.

1990
Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the first
elected African-American governor in the United
States.

1999
Michael Jordan announced his second retirement
from the NBA. He would "unretire" again in 2001.

2002
After 17,162 performances, The Fantasticks
ended its almost 42-year off-Broadway run.

2004
Joseph Darby, a U.S. soldier at Iraq's Abu Ghraib
prison, reported U.S. abuses of Iraqi prisoners to
the Army's Criminal Investigations Division..

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 13

Jan van Goyen
landscape painter (1596)

Salmon P. Chase
public official and jurist (1808)

Elmer Davis
radio commentator (1890)

Gwen Verdon
dancer, actor (1925)

Charles Nelson Reilly
actor, theater director (1931)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus
actress (1961)

Patrick Dempsey
actor (1966)

Orlando Bloom
actor (1977)

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 14

1639
The first constitution of Connecticut,
Fundamental Orders , was adopted.

1784
The United States ratified treaty with England
ending the Revolutionary War.

1943
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill
meet at the Casablanca Conference.

1953
Tito formally became the first president of the
Republic of Yugoslavia.

1954
Marilyn Monroe married baseball legend Joe
DiMaggio .

1963
George Wallace sworn in as Alabama's governor,
promising "segregation forever."

1973
The Miami Dolphins became the first NFL team
to go undefeated and have a perfect season by
beating the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl
VII .

1990
The Simpsons premiered on television.

2008
Bobby Jindal takes office as governor of
Louisiana as the first elected Indian-American
governor of the U.S.


This Day in History: January 14

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 14

Benedict Arnold
general and traitor (1741)

Henri Fantin-Latour
painter (1836)

Berthe Morisot
impressionist painter (1841)

R.F. Outcault
cartoonist and illustrator (1863)

Hugh Lofting
writer (1886)

John Dos Passos
novelist (1896)

Harold Russell
soldier and actor (1914)

Yukio Mishima
writer (1925)

Julian Bond
politician (1940)

Faye Dunaway
actress (1941)

Shannon Lucid
astronaut and biochemist (1943)

Maureen Dowd
journalist (1952)

Steven Soderbergh
filmmaker (1963)

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 15 Yesterday
Tomorrow
1559
Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster
Abbey.
1759
The British Museum opened.
1777
The Republic of New Connecticut declared its
independence. Six months later it was renamed
Vermont .
1870
The donkey was first used as symbol of the
Democratic Party in Harper's Weekly .
1943
The world's largest office building, the Pentagon ,
was completed.
1967
The first Super Bowl was played: Green Bay
Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10.
1973
President Nixon orders halt to offensive
operations in North Vietnam.
1992
The European Community recognized Croatia and
Slovenia as separate states, effectively ending
the Yugoslav federation , founded in 1918.
2009

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 16 Yesterday
Tomorrow
1547
Ivan the Terrible was crowned the first czar of
Russia .
1883
The U.S. Civil Service Commission established.
1920
A year after it was ratified, the 18th Amendment
to the Constitution , prohibiting the sale of
alcoholic beverages, went into effect.
1942
Actress Carole Lombard , the wife of actor Clark
Gable , died in a plane crash.
1991
Operation Desert Storm was announced by the
White House.
1992
The El Salvador government signed a peace
treaty with guerrilla forces, formally ending 12
years of civil war.
2001
Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, was assassinated.
2003
Space shuttle Columbia blasted off on what
would be its final mission. The craft broke up on
its descent on Feb. 1, killing all on board.

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 17 Yesterday
Tomorrow
1706
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston.
1806
James Madison Randolph, the grandson of
Thomas Jefferson, became the first child born in
the White House.
1893
Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani was forced to
abdicate by a group of planters and
businessmen.
1945
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappeared
in Hungary while in Soviet custody.
1977
Gary Gilmore became the first person executed
in the U.S. since the death penalty was
reintroduced.
1991
Operation Desert Storm was launched against
Iraq .
1998
President Clinton became the first sitting U.S.
president to testify as a defendant in a criminal
or civil suit.
2001
Gov. Gray Davis declared a state of emergency
concerning California's electricity crisis.

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 15
Moliere
playwright (1622)
Abigail Kelley Foster
abolitionist (1810)
Edward Teller
atomic physicist (1908)
Lloyd Bridges
actor (1913)
Robert Byrd
political leader (1917)
Gamal Nasser
political leader (1918)