Monday, 5 January 2015

Today in History for 5th January 2015

Historical Events


1649 - Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone" premieres in Venice

1804 - Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement

1854 - Steamship San Francisco wrecked-300 die

1905 - National Association of Audubon Society, a non-profit, environmental organization dedicated to conservation, incorporates

1927 - Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox

1968 - Alexander Dubček succeeds Antonín Novotný as communist party leader of Czechoslovakia


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Famous Birthdays


1762 - Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)

1787 - John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage)

1897 - Jack Wagner, OH, actor (Jive Junction)

1962 - Joel Wyner, actor/director (Lyle Springer-Sirens, Listen, Club)

1966 - Renaldo Turnbull, NFL defensive end (NO Saints, Carolina Panthers)

1969 - David Dixon, NFL guard (Minnesota Vikings)


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Famous Deaths


1856 - Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor, dies at 67

1939 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator declared dead after disappearance in 1937. (b. 1897)

1974 - Roy Bargy, orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 79

1996 - Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader, dies at 84

2005 - Danny Sugerman, American music manager (The Doors) (b. 1954)

2006 - Lord Merlyn-Rees, British politician (b. 1920)


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