This Day in History for 18th January (Part 2)

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Historical Events

Events 101 - 169 of 169

1967 - Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada
1968 - "Happy Time" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 286 performances
1968 - Hester & Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing," premieres in NYC
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris
1970 - Hasse Borjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec
1970 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 16-13
1971 - Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in NY, to become WWF champ
1973 - Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH
1973 - Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak
1973 - John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC
1974 - "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
1974 - Israel & Egypt sign weapons accord
1975 - "Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
1976 - Superbowl X: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Lynn Swann, Pittsburgh, WR
1977 - Imran Khan takes 12 wickets in match for Pakistan win at the SCG
1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
1978 - Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, v Pak Karachi
1978 - Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries)
1978 - Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB
1979 - Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon
1980 - Gold reaches $1,000 an oz
1980 - Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1
1980 - Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3½ years in prison for tax evasion & fined $20,000
1981 - Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets
1981 - Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity
Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe 1983 - IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball
1984 - 80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win
1985 - US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise
1986 - 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth
1986 - AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For," hits #1
1986 - NY Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
1987 - 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1988 - Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board
1989 - Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
1989 - IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988
1989 - Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder
1989 - West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
1990 - South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African Natl Congress
1990 - Wash DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
1991 - Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel
1991 - US acknowledges CIA & US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career
1991 - WLAF's NY Knights become NY-NJ Knights
1991 - Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours & 11 mins
1991 - Eastern Air Lines goes out of business after 62 years, citing financial problems.
1992 - 43rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 10-6 at Phila
1992 - 49th Golden Globes
1992 - Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident
1992 - NHL All Star Game - Campbell-10, Wales-6 (Brett Hull, MVP) at Phila
1993 - Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time
1993 - West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0
1994 - The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
1995 - Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka v Kerala
264th Pope John Paul II 1995 - Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia
1996 - Baseball owners unanimously approve interleague play in 1997
1997 - 47th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 11-7 at San Jose Arena
1997 - In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
1997 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
1998 - "Ragtime," opens at Ford Theater NYC
1998 - 48th NHL All-Star Game: North America beats World 8-7 at Vancouver
1998 - ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando
1998 - Boston Celtics retire Robert Parrish's #00
1998 - Kelly Robbins wins Healthsouth Golf Inaugural
1998 - UCP Telethon
2000 - The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
2002 - Sierra Leone Civil War was finally declared over.
2003 - A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2007 - The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm off the coast of Devon, England.
2012 - Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) blackout becomes the largest protest in the history of the internet

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 227

1927 - Sundaram Balachander, Indian veena player (d. 1990)
1932 - Joe Schmidt, NFL Hall-of-Famer
1932 - Robert Anton Wilson, US, sci-fi author (Trick Top Hat)
1933 - David Bellamy, English botanist/tv-program maker
1933 - John Boorman, producer/dir (Exorcist II, Deliverance, Zardoz)
1933 - Ray Dolby, sound expert/inventor (Dolby noise limiting system)
1933 - Vladimir Yevgrafovich Bugrov, cosmonaut
1935 - Raymond Briggs, English author (Fungus the Bogeyman)
1935 - Jon Stallworthy, English poet
1935 - Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister (d. 2007)
1938 - Curt Flood, American baseball player (d. 1997)
1939 - Bernard Glassman, NY, Zen teacher/head (Zen Center of NY)
1940 - Pedro Rodriguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1971)
1941 - Bobby Goldsboro, Marianna Fla, singer (Honey)
1941 - David Ruffin, Miss, vocalist (Temptations-Papa Was a Rolling Stone)
1941 - Iva Zanicchi, actress (Ragazza Tutta d'Oro)
1941 - Denise Bombardier, Quebec journalist, television host and novelist
1943 - Dave Greene, rocker
1943 - Kay Granger, American politician
1944 - Larry "Legs" Smith, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band-Urban Spaceman)
1944 - Relus ter Beek, Dutch Minister of defense (PvdA)
1944 - Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia
1944 - Carl Morton, American baseball player (d. 1983)
1946 - Katia Ricclarelli, actress (Falstaff, Otello, Turandot)
1946 - Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councilor
1948 - Takeshi Kitano, Tokyo Japan, actor (Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)
1949 - Philippe Starck, French designer
1949 - Bill Keller, American newspaper editor
1950 - Claudia de Colombia, Bogato Columbia, spanish singer (Yo Creo En Ti)
1950 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian auto racer
1950 - John Hughes, director (Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science)
1951 - Bob Latchford, English footballer
1951 - Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (d. 1982)
1952 - R. Stevie Moore, American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer
1952 - Michael Behe, American advocate of Intelligent Design
1953 - Brett Hudson, Portland Ore, comedian (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show)
1954 - Ted DiBiase, Retired Professional Wrestler
1955 - Johannes AM "Hans" van Tongeren, Dutch actor (Hunk)
Actor Kevin Costner (1955) 1955 - Kevin Costner, Los Angeles California, American actor (Fandango, Silverado, Bull Durham)
1955 - Mable Fergerson, LA California, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1972)
1956 - Mark Collie, Waynesboro Tn, country singer (Another Old Soldier)
1957 - Tom Bailey, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Thompson Twins-Doctor Doctor)
1958 - Jeffrey N Williams, Superior Wisc, Major Army/astronaut
1958 - Larry Smith, NBA player
1959 - Bob Rosenberg, rocker (Will To Power)
1961 - Mark D Messier, Edmonton Alberta, NHL Center (Edmonton, NY Rangers)
1961 - Peter Beardsley, English footballer
1961 - Jeff Yagher, American actor
1962 - Alison Arngrim, actress (Nellie-Little House of the Prairie)
1962 - David O'Connor, equestrian 3-day (Olympics-silver-96)
1963 - Jane Horrocks, Lancashire England, actress (Absolutely Fabulous)
1963 - Maxime Bernier, French Canadian politician
1963 - Martin O'Malley, Governor of Maryland
1963 - Yury Zakharevich, Soviet weightlifter
1964 - Brady Anderson, Silver Spring MD, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1964 - Jenny Holliday, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1964 - Enrico Lo Verso, Italian actor
1965 - Richard Dunwoody, British(?) jockey)
1965 - Dave Attell, American writer and comedian
1966 - Alexander Khalifman, Russian chess player
1966 - André Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
1967 - Kim Perrot, WNBA guard (Houston Comets)
1967 - M C Tab, [Sharon Richard], NYC, rapper
1967 - Peter Cox Jr, Bronxville NY, fencer-sabre (Olympics-96)
1967 - Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer
1968 - Frank Quitely, Scottish comic book artist
1969 - Larry Webster, defensive tackle (Baltimore Ravens)
1969 - Marvin Pope, CFL defensive end (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 - Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer
1969 - Dave Bautista, American professional wrestler
1970 - Leo Araguz, NLF/WLAF punter (Oakland Raiders, Rhein Fire)
1970 - DJ Quik, American rapper
1970 - Peter van Petegem, Belgian cyclist
1971 - Andre Coleman, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Greg Engel, NFL center (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Jonathan Davis, American singer (KoЯn)
1971 - Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver
1971 - Josep Guardiola, Spanish footballer
1971 - Seamus O'Regan, Canadian broadcast journalist
1972 - Dwayne Carswell, NFL tight end (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 - Mike Lieberthal, Glendale CA, catcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1972 - Ryan Kuehl, defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Steven Conley, linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Vinod Kambli, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1993-)
1973 - Crispian Mills, London, vocalist/guitarist (Kula Shaker)
1973 - Edward Jasper, defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Junior Burrough, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1973 - Regilio Vreede, soccer player (Blue White, RKC)
1974 - Devon Odessa, actor (Sharon-My So Called Life, Girl of Limberlost)
1974 - Shane Burton, defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1974 - Michael Tunn, Australian television and radio
1974 - Christian Burns, English musician (BBMak)
1974 - Maulik Pancholy, American actor
1974 - Princess Claire of Belgium
1975 - Derek Smith, linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1976 - Laurence Courtois, Kortrijk Belg, tennis star (1995 finalist Jakarta)
1976 - Vincent Polvliet, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1976 - Damien Leith, Australian Idol 2006
1977 - Curtis Cregan, American actor
1977 - Alina Jidkova, Russian tennis player

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Famous Weddings

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Famous Divorces

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 101 - 107 of 107

2008 - Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)
2008 - Frank Lewin, American composer and music theorist (b. 1925)
2008 - John Stroger, first African-American Cook County Board President (b. 1929)
2009 - Tony Hart, British artist and TV presenter (b. 1925)
2009 - Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet (b. 1935)
2009 - Bob May, American actor (b. 1939)
2011 - Sargent Shriver, American politician (b. 1915)