Sunday, 18 January 2015

Today in History for 18th January 2015

Historical Events


336 - St Mark elected Catholic Pope

1923 - 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies

1949 - "They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont)

1956 - German DR forms own army (National People's Army)

1971 - Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark meets British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling

1995 - Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia


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Famous Birthdays


1782 - Daniel Webster, Salisbury NH, orator/politician/lawyer, (d. 1852)

1813 - Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire)

1893 - John Lawrence Seymour, composer

1935 - Raymond Briggs, English author (Fungus the Bogeyman)

1944 - Relus ter Beek, Dutch Minister of defense (PvdA)

1977 - Alina Jidkova, Russian tennis player


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Famous Deaths


1906 - Bartolomé Mitre, president of Argentina (1862-70), dies at 84

1919 - John C F, son of English king George V, dies at 13

1967 - Simon FHJ Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, vicar/theologist, dies at 84

1982 - Trent Lehman, actor (Butch-Nanny and the Professor), dies at 20

1996 - Minnesota Fats, [Rudolf Wanderone Jr], billiard hustler, dies at 82

2008 - Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)


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