Today in History for January 2008

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 5 of 5

1st - A New Hampshire law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples comes into effect.
1st - Malta and Cyprus officially adopt the Euro currency and become the fourteenth and fifteenth Eurozone countries.
8th - New Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so.
21st - Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%.
21st - The Eyak language in Alaska becomes extinct as its last native speaker dies.

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 64 of 64

1st - Salvatore Bonanno, son of Joseph Bonnano (b. 1932)
1st - Peter Caffrey, Irish actor (b. 1949)
1st - Pratap Chandra Chunder, union minister of India (b. 1919)
1st - Harold Corsini, American photographer (b. 1919)
2nd - Gerry Staley, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2nd - Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krommaluang Narathiwat Rajanagarindra, elder sister of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand (b. 1923)
2nd - George MacDonald Fraser, British author (b. 1925)
2nd - Lee S. Dreyfus, American politician (b. 1926)
3rd - Werner Dollinger, German politician and economist (b. 1918)
3rd - Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
3rd - Natasha Collins, British actress and television presenter (b. 1976)
3rd - Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer/former WBC light flyweight champion (b. 1972)
4th - Joyce Carlson, American artist (b. 1923)
4th - Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan print editor (b. 1932)
4th - Jimmy Nah, Singapore celebrity (b. 1968)
5th - Clinton Grybas, Australian sports commentator (b. 1975)
7th - Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917)
8th - George Moore, Australian champion jockey (b. 1923)
8th - Clyde Otis, American song writer and music producer (b. c. 1924)
9th - Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (b. 1923)
9th - William Quinn, Irish Republican Army soldier (b. 1950)
9th - Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (b. 1977)
9th - Sir John Harvey-Jones, chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (b.1924).
10th - Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (b. 1967)
10th - Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira, Finnish-born American actress (b. 1921)
10th - Mikhail Minin, Russian Soviet soldier (b. 1922)
11th - Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (b. 1917)
Mount Everest Conquerer Edmund Hillary (11th) 11th - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer/1st to climb Mt Everest in 1953, dies from a heart attack at 88
13th - Sergei Larin, Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956)
13th - Johnny Podres, American baseball player (b. 1932)
14th - Judah Folkman, Surgeon that developed Angiogenesis (b. 1933)
15th - Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, Game Designer (b. 1964)
15th - Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
17th - Bobby Fischer, American chess player (b. 1943)
17th - Ernie Holmes, American football player (b. 1948)
17th - Allan Melvin, American actor (b. 1923)
18th - Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)
18th - Frank Lewin, American composer and music theorist (b. 1925)
18th - John Stroger, first African-American Cook County Board President (b. 1929)
19th - Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
19th - John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1939)
19th - Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster for CBC (b. 1936)
Chess Champion Bobby Fischer (17th) 20th - Ali Sadikin, former Jakarta famous governor (b. 1927)
21st - Pam Barrett, Canadian politician (b. 1953)
21st - Marie Smith Jones, last native speaker of the Eyak language (b. 1918)
22nd - Roberto Gari, American actor (b. 1920)
22nd - Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
22nd - Miles Lerman, Polish-American activist (b. 1920)
24th - Randy Salerno, co-anchor of Chicago's CBS 2 News (b. 1963)
25th - Christopher Allport, American actor (b. 1947)
25th - Evelyn Barbirolli,English musician (b. 1911)
26th - Christian Brando, actor and son of Marlon Brando (b 1958)
27th - Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1910)
27th - Suharto, President of Indonesia (b. 1921)
27th - Louie Welch, mayor of Houston (b. 1918)
27th - Gordon B. Hinckley, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
28th - Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece (b. 1939)
Actor Heath Ledger (22nd) 28th - Bengt Lindström, Swedish artist (b. 1925)
29th - Raymond Jacobs, American soldier (b. 1925)
29th - Philippe Khorsand, French actor (b. 1948)
30th - Jeremy Beadle, British television host, (b. 1948)
30th - Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (b. 1969)
30th - Marcial Maciel, Mexican religious leader (b. 1920)
31st - Zeltim Odie Peterson, famous pug (b. 1997)