This Day in "History"

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 22

Francis Bacon
philosopher (1561)

John Winthrop
colonial governor (1588)

Andre Marie Ampere
physicist (1775)

George Gordon Noel Byron
poet (1788)

August Strindberg
dramatist (1849)

Beatrice Potter Webb
socialist economist (1858)

D.W. Griffith
filmmaker (1880)

U Thant
U.N. statesman (1909)

Bill Bixby
actor, TV director (1934)

Diane Lane
actor (1965)
January 22 Birthdays: George Balanchine

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 23 Yesterday
Tomorrow
1556
The deadliest earthquake on record killed
830,000 in Shansi, China.
1789
Georgetown University established in what is
now Washington, DC.
1849
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman
physician in the U.S.
1964
The 24th Amendment to the Constitution , barring
poll taxes, was ratified.
1968
North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo
(the crew was released 11 months later.)
1973
President Nixon announced that an accord had
been reached to end the Vietnam War.
1989
Salvador Dali died in Spain at age 84.
2002
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was
kidnapped by the National Movement for the
Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty.
2004

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 24 Yesterday
Tomorrow
41
Roman emperor, Gaius Caesar, better known as
Caligula (meaning Little Boot—he used to wear
military boots as a child), was murdered.
1848
Gold was first discovered in California, in Sutter's
mill. When President Polk announced the news in
December, the gold rush began.
1908
Robert Baden-Powell organized the first Boy
Scout troop in England.
1943
The Casablanca Conference with Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Winston Churchill concluded.
1965
Winston Churchill died in London at age 90.
1972
Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was discovered in
Guam , having spent 28 years hiding in the jungle
thinking World War II was still going on.
1986
Voyager Two space probe passes within 51,000
miles of Uranus.
1993
The first African-American to sit on the Supreme
Court, Thurgood Marshall, died.
2003
The Department of Homeland Security, under
Tom Ridge, became a cabinet department.

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 25 Yesterday
Tomorrow
1890
Nellie Bly bested Jules Verne's Around the World
in 80 Days by completing her circumnavigation in
72 days.
1890
United Mine Workers of America was founded.
1915
Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated
transcontinental telephone service.
1924
The first Winter Olympic games opened at
Chamonix, France.
1961
President John F. Kennedy held the first
presidential news conference carried live on
radio and television.
1971
Charles Manson was found guilty of murdering
Sharon Tate and six others.

 

[SarFa]

bhai from last days why you where not updating this thread :huh

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 23
Stendhal
writer (1783)
Camilla Collett
novelist, essayist, and literary critic (1813)
Sergei Eisenstein
filmmaker (1898)
Django Reinhardt
jazz musician (1910)
Potter Stewart
Associate Justice (1915)
Gertrude B. Elion
pharmacologist (1918)
Ernie Kovacs
actor, comedian (1919)
Jeanne Moreau
actress (1928)
Derek Walcott
dramatist and poet (1930)
Princess Caroline of Monaco
royalty (1957)
Tiffani Thiessen
actor (1974)

 

[Dinesh jain]

bhai from last days why you where not updating this thread :huh

bcz my airtel net not working from last 8/10 dys ..now m got new bsnl sim ..for net

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 24

William Congreve
dramatist (1670)

Frederick the Great
Prussian King (1712)

Robert Motherwell
artist (1915)

Ernest Borgnine
actor (1917)

Maria Tallchief
ballerina (1925)

Neil Diamond
singer, songwriter (1941)

Aaron Neville
singer (1941)

Warren Zevon
singer, songwriter (1947)

John Belushi
actor, comedian (1949)

Mary Lou Retton
gymnast (1968)

Matthew Lillard
actor (1970)

Mischa Barton
actor, model (1986)

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on January 25

Joseph Louis Lagrange
mathematician and astronomer (1736)

Robert Burns
poet (1759)

George Edward Pickett
Confederate general (1825)

W. Somerset Maugham
writer (1874)

Corazon Aquino
politician (1933)

Eusebio
soccer player (1942)

Steve Prefontaine
runner (1951)

Alicia Keys
singer, songwriter (1981)

Tatiana Golovin
tennis player (1988)

 

[Dinesh jain]

January 26

1788
The first European settlers landed in Sydney,
Australia.

1802
Congress passed an act calling for establishment
of a library within the US Capitol.

1837
Michigan became the 26th state in the United
States .

1950
India , three years after gaining its independence
from the United Kingdom , formally became a
republic.

1979
Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller died in
New York at age 70.

1988
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera
opened on Broadway. It would go on to become
the longest-running Broadway show .

1993
Vaclav Havel was elected president of the new
Czech Republic.

2001
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked the Indian
state of Gujarat , killing more than 20,000 people.
2004
President Hamid Karzai signed the new
constitution of Afghanistan.