By Tracy Rocelyn
1971 - Yusuke Naora, Japanese game art director 1972 - Eddie Mason, NFL linebacker (NY Jets) 1972 - Jay Powell, Meridian MS, pitcher (Florida Marlins) 1972 - Kristie Hicks, Bardstown Kentucky, Miss America-Kentucky (1996) 1972 - Sarah Beeny, British TV personality 1972 - Angie Martinez, American radio and television personality 1972 - Jay Powell, baseball player 1973 - Aaron Holbert, US baseball infielder (St Louis Cardinals) 1973 - Ronald Hamming, soccer player (FC Groningen, Fortuna Sittard) 1974 - Craig Wishart, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman vs South Africa 1995) 1974 - Jamain Stephens, NFL offensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers) 1974 - Farhan Akhtar, Indian Bollywood Director, Actor, Producer, Singer. 1975 - Justin Huish, Fountain Valley CA, archer (Olympics-gold-1996) 1975 - Mariano Friedick, Tarzana Calif, pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96) 1975 - Kiko Calero, Puerto Rican baseball player1975 - Kimberley Ann Scott Mathers, former wife of Eminem 1976 - Amy Safe, Australian rower (Olympics-96) 1976 - Radek Bonk, Koprivnice Cze, NHL center (Ottawa Senators, Team Czech) 1976 - Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer 1977 - Beth Troutman, American production assistant 1978 - Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer 1978 - Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player 1978 - Chad Johnson, American football player 1978 - AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys) 1978 - Maggie Rizer, American model and AIDS activist 1979 - Lavinia Magruder, Miss Vermont Teen USA (1996) 1979 - Tomiko Van, Japanese singer 1980 - Sergio Garca, Spanish golfer 1981 - Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer 1987 - Lucas Pezzini Leiva, Brazilian and Liverpool Footballer 1987 - Sam Bird, English racing driver 1987 - Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer/songwriter 1987 - Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d. 2006) 1989 - Michaella Krajicek, Dutch tennis player 1997 - Lauryn McClain, American actress and singer
1897 - Karl Lwith, German philosopher (d. 1973) 1898 - Gracie Fields, [Stansfield], England, music hall/vaudeville performer 1898 - Vilma Banky, Budapest Hungary, silent screen actress (Eagle, Rebel) 1898 - Wally Baker, American supercentenarian 1900 - Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer 1900 - Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939) 1901 - Chic Young, cartoonist (Blondie) 1902 - Rudolph Bing, opera manager (NY Metropolitan Opera) 1903 - Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969) 1904 - George Balanchine, dancer/choreographer/ballet producer [NS=Jan 22] 1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex) 1909 - Herva Nelli, soprano 1910 - Dick Henry Jurgen, bandleader 1911 - Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health 1911 - Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, British newspaper editor 1912 - Ralph Tubbs, architect 1913 - Lavad "Dr Hepcat" Durst, vocal/piano 1913 - Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist 1913 - Richard Milhous Nixon, (R) 37th pres (1968-74) (I am not a crook!) 1914 - Derek Allhusen, England, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1968) 1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, [Rose Hovick], Seattle, burlesque actress (Gypsy) 1914 - Kenny [Klook] Clarke, Pittsburgh, jazz/drummer, composer (Epistrop) 1915 - Anita Louise, NYC, actress (My Friend Flicka) 1915 - Fernando Lamas, Buenos Aires Argentina, actor ("You look marvelous") 1916 - Alain Bernardin, impressario (Crazy Horse Saloon) 1916 - Vic Mizzy, Bkln NY, orch leader (Don Rickles Show) 1916 - Peter Twinn, English World War II code-breaker (d. 2004)
1822 - The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king Joo VI, starting the Brazilian independence process. 1839 - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. 1857 - The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9. 1858 - Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide. 1861 - American Civil War: The "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War". 1861 - Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War. 1863 - American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas. 1878 - Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
1880 - The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow. 1894 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. 1903 - Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia. 1905 - According to the Julian Calendar which is used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905. 1909 - Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time. 1914 - Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University is founded. 1916 - World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula. 1917 - World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine. 1918 - Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars. 1921 - Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of nn, the first battle of the war, began near Eskiehir in Anatolia. 1923 - Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
1923 - Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebelled against the League of Nations decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control. 1927 - A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, kills 78 children. 1941 - World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster. 1941 - World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto. 1945 - World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines. 1947 - Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive. 1960 - President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile. 1964 - Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians. 1991 - Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try and find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. 1992 - The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia. 1996 - First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighbouring Republic of Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians. 2005 - Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
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