Today in History for January 2006
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 14 of 14
1st - Sydney, Australia swelters through its hottest New Years Day on record. The thermometre peaked at 45 degrees celsius, sparking bushfires and power outages.
4th - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
8th - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake with its epicenter just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.
12th - A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
12th - Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II.
12th - The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
12th - The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council.
16th - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
19th - A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary.
19th - The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
19th - Terrorist blows himself up in Tel Aviv, killing only himself but injuring 20 people, one of them seriously.
22nd - Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
25th - Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
26th - Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service.
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 51 of 51
1st - Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (b. 1913)
1st - Hugh McLaughlin, Irish publisher and inventor (b. 1918)
1st - Dawn Lake, Australian TV comedienne (b. 1927)
1st - Bryan Harvey, American musician (House of Freaks) (b. 1956)
2nd - Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (b. 1913)
3rd - Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
3rd - Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1954)
4th - Irving Layton, Canadian poet (b. 1912)
4th - Robert Howard White, Mayor of Papatoetoe, New Zealand (b. 1914)
4th - Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai (b. 1946)
5th - Lord Merlyn-Rees, British politician (b. 1920)
6th - Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
6th - Hugh Thompson, Jr., decorated Vietnam War helicopter pilot (b. 1943)
7th - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
8th - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
9th - Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
9th - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937)
11th - Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon), German DJ (b. 1966)
11th - Nixzmary Brown, American child abuse victim (b. 1998)
13th - Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (b. 1934)
13th - Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
14th - Shelly Winters, actress (A Place in the Sun, A Patch of Blue & Poseidon Aventure)
14th - Henri Colpi, French film editor and director (b. 1921)
14th - Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939)
14th - Mark Philo, English footballer (b. 1984)
15th - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
16th - Stanley Biber, American physician, pioneer of transgender surgery, (b. 1923)
17th - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
17th - Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925)
18th - Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
19th - Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
19th - Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim, Sudanese writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1933)
19th - Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1921)
19th - Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
21st - Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
21st - Bedanand Jha, Nepalese politician
23rd - Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (b. 1967)
24th - Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers (b. 1914)
24th - Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician
24th - Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
25th - Anna Malle, adult film star (b. 1967)
26th - Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist (b. 1917)
26th - Len Carlson, Canadian actor (b. 1937)
26th - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (b. 1920)
27th - Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
27th - Gene McFadden, American singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
27th - Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (disappeared) (b. 1965)
28th - Yitzchak Kaduri, rabbi (b. around 1900)
28th - Henry McGee, English comedian (b. 1929)
30th - Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
31st - Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina (b. 1926)
