It is celebrated as
New Year's Day by
those still following the
Julian
calendar.
Events
- 1129 – Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes.
- 1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the
Arpad dynasty in Hungary
.
- 1514 – Pope Leo X
issues a papal bull against slavery.
- 1539 – Spain
annexes
Cuba
.
- 1639 – The "Fundamental Orders", the
first written constitution that created
a government, is adopted in Connecticut
.
- 1724 – King Philip V of Spain abdicates the
throne.
- 1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in
India
between the Afghan
under
Ahmad Shah Durrani and the
Marhatas. The Afghan victory changes the course of Indian
History.
- 1784 – American Revolutionary War:
Ratification Day, United
States Congress ratifies Treaty of
Paris with Great
Britain
.
- 1814 – Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes
Norway
to Sweden
in return
for Pomerania.
- 1822 – Greek War of Independence:
Acrocorinth
is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrius Ypsilanti.
- 1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an
assassination attempt.
- 1907 – An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica
kills more than 1,000.
- 1913 – First Balkan War: The Greek
army defeats
the Turks at Bizani
.
- 1938 – Norway
claims
Queen Maud Land in Antarctica
.
- 1943 – World War II: Operation Ke
, the successful Japanese
operation to evacuate their forces from Guadalcanal
during the Guadalcanal campaign
, begins.
- 1943 – World War II: Franklin
D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss
strategy and study the next phase of the war.
- 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the
first President of the
United States to travel via airplane while in office when he travels
from Miami,
Florida
to Morocco
to meet with Winston
Churchill.
- 1950 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
- 1952 – NBC's long-running morning news
program Today debuts, with host
Dave Garroway.
- 1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges
with Nash-Kelvinator
Corporation forming the American Motors
Corporation.
- 1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The
Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco
's Golden Gate Park
, launching the Summer of
Love. Between 20,000 to 30,000 people attend.
- 1969 – An explosion
aboard the near Hawaii
kills 27
people.
- 1970- Diana Ross & The Supremes final
concert appearance at The Frontier Hotel- Las Vegas
- 1972 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the
throne, the first Queen of Denmark
since 1412 and the first Danish
monarch not
named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
- 1975 – Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka "the Black
Panther".
- 1998 – Researchers in
Dallas,
Texas
present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis).
- 1998
– An Afghan
cargo plane
crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan
killing more than 50 people.
- 1999 – Toronto
, Ontario
Mayor Mel Lastman
becomes the first mayor in Canada
to call in
the Army to help with emergency medical evacuations and snow
removal after more than one meter of snow paralyzes the
city.
- 2000 – A United Nations tribunal sentences five
Bosnia
Croats to up to 25 years for
the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
- 2004 – The national flag of Georgia
, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to
official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
- 2005 – Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan.
Births
- 83 BC – Marcus
Antonius, Roman politician (d. 30 BC)
- 1131 – King Valdemar I of Denmark (d. 1182)
- 1451 – Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian music
theorist (d. 1522)
- 1477 – Hermann
of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (d. 1552)
- 1507 – Catherine of Habsburg, Infanta of
Spain and queen of Portugal (d. 1578)
- 1551 – Alberico
Gentili, Italian jurist (d. 1608)
- 1615 – John Biddle, English theologian (d.
1662)
- 1684 – Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist
(d. 1742)
- 1684 – Jean-Baptiste van
Loo, French painter (d. 1745)
- 1702 – Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (d.
1737)
- 1705 – Jean-Baptiste Charles
Bouvet de Lozier, French governor (d. 1786)
- 1741 – Benedict
Arnold, American Traitor (d. 1801)
- 1767 – Maria Theresia of Tuscany, queen
consort of Saxony (d. 1827)
- 1780 – Henry Baldwin, U.S. Supreme Court
Justice (d. 1844)
- 1792 – Christian Julius De Meza, Danish
general (d. 1865)
- 1793 – John C.
Clark, American politician (d.
1852)
- 1798 – Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch
politician (d. 1872)
- 1800 – Ludwig Alois Ferdinand
Köchel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1877)
- 1806 – Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria (d.
1855)
- 1806 – Matthew Fontaine
Maury American oceanographer (d. 1873)
- 1818 – Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish
writer (d. 1898)
- 1824 – Vladimir
Stasov, Russian art and music critic (d. 1906)
- 1836 – Henri
Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
- 1841 – Berthe
Morisot, French painter (d. 1895)
- 1845 – 5th Marquess
of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, Viceroy of India (d.
1927)
- 1850 – Pierre
Loti, French writer (d. 1923)
- 1850 – Jean de Reszke, Polish
operatic tenor (d. 1925)
- 1856 – J.
F. Archibald, Australian journalist and
publisher (d. 1919)
- 1861 – Mehmed VI,
Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926)
- 1863 – Manuel
Gomes da Costa, 96th Prime Minister of Portugal and
10th President of
Portugal (d. 1929)
- 1870 – Sir George
Pearce, Australian politician (d. 1952)
- 1875 – Albert
Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
- 1882 – Hendrik Willem van Loon,
Dutch-American historian and journalist (d. 1944)
- 1883 – Nina Ricci, Italian-born French
fashion designer (d. 1970)
- 1886 – Hugh
Lofting, English author (d. 1947)
- 1892 – Martin Niemöller, German theologian
(d. 1984)
- 1892 – Hal Roach, American film
producer (d. 1992)
- 1896 – John Dos
Passos, American author (d. 1970)
- 1897 – Hasso von Manteuffel, German general
and politician (d. 1978)
- 1899 – Carlos
Romulo, Filipino diplomat and author (d. 1985)
- 1901 – Bebe
Daniels, American actress (d. 1971)
- 1904 – Sir Cecil
Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)
- 1904 – Emily Hahn, American writer
(d. 1997)
- 1904 – Babe Siebert, National Hockey League player (d.
1939)
- 1905 – Takeo
Fukuda, 67th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1995)
- 1905 – Sterling Holloway, American Character
Actor (d. 1992)
- 1906 – William
Bendix, American actor (d. 1964)
- 1907 – Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec
politician (d. 1985)
- 1908 – Russ
Columbo, American singer (d. 1934)
- 1909 – Joseph
Losey, American theatre and film director (d. 1984)
- 1911 – Anatoly
Rybakov, Russian writer (d. 1998)
- 1912 – Tillie
Olsen, American writer (d. 2007)
- 1914 – Harold
Russell, Canadian-born actor (d. 2002)
- 1915 – Mark
Goodson, American game show producer (d. 1992)
- 1917 – Billy
Butterfield, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1988)
- 1919 – Giulio
Andreotti, Italian politician
- 1919 – Andy Rooney, American
journalist
- 1921 – Murray
Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
- 1924 – Guy
Williams, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1925 – Yukio
Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970)
- 1925 – Louis Quilico, Canadian
baritone (d. 2000)
- 1926 – Frank
Aletter, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1926 – Warren Mitchell, English
actor
- 1926 – Tom Tryon, American actor (d.
1991)
- 1927 – Zuzana
Ruzickova, Czech harpsichordist
- 1928 – Gerald
Arpino, American dancer and choreographer
- 1928 – Garry Winogrand, American
photographer (d. 1984)
- 1928 – Lars Forssell, Swedish
writer (d. 2007)
- 1931 – Frank
Costigan, Australian lawyer
- 1931 – Caterina Valente,
French-born singer
- 1932 – Don
Garlits, American race car driver
- 1933 – Stan
Brakhage, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
- 1934 – Alberto Rodriguez Larreta,
Argentine racing driver (d. 1977)
- 1934 – Richard Briers, English
actor
- 1935 – Lucille
Wheeler, Canadian alpine skier
- 1937 – Ken Higgs,
English cricketer
- 1937 – Erland Kops, Danish badminton
player
- 1937 – Shoban Babu, Indian
actor
- 1938 – Morihiro Hosokawa, 79th Prime Minister of
Japan
- 1938 – Jack Jones, American
singer
- 1938 – Allen Toussaint, American
singer
- 1940 – Julian
Bond, American civil rights activist
- 1940 – Sir Trevor Nunn, English
theatre director and film director
- 1940 – Ron Kostelnik, American
football player (d. 1993)
- 1941 – Faye
Dunaway, American actress
- 1941 – Milan Kučan, Slovenian
statesman
- 1942 – Ian
Brayshaw, Australian cricketer and footballer
- 1942 – Dave Campbell,
American baseball player
- 1943 – Mariss
Jansons, Latvian conductor
- 1943 – Shannon Lucid, American
astronaut
- 1943 – José Luis
Rodríguez, Venezuelan singer
- 1944 – Marjoe
Gortner, American evangelist
- 1944 – Graham Marsh, Australian
golfer
- 1944 – Nina Totenberg, American
journalist
- 1945 – Einar
Hakonarson, Icelandic painter
- 1945 – Maina Gielgud, British
ballet dancer and administrator
- 1946 – Harold
Shipman, British serial killer (d. 2004)
- 1947 – Taylor
Branch, American author and historian
- 1947 – Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian
snooker player (d. 2003)
- 1947 – Beverly Perdue, American
politician
- 1948 – T-Bone
Burnett, American producer
- 1948 – Valeri Kharlamov, Soviet
Union ice hockey player (d. 1981)
- 1948 – Carl Weathers, American
actor
- 1949 – Paul
Chubb, Australian actor (d. 2002)
- 1949 – Lawrence Kasdan, American
director
- 1949 – Mary Robison, American
writer
- 1952 – Sydney Biddle Barrows, American
author
- 1952 – Maureen Dowd, American
writer
- 1952 – Călin
Popescu-Tăriceanu, ex-Prime Minister of Romania
- 1954 – Jim
Duggan, American professional wrestler
- 1954 – Masanobu Fuchi, Japanese
professional wrestler
- 1954 – Vernee
Watson-Johnson, American actress
- 1956 – Étienne
Daho, French singer and songwriter
- 1956 – Ben Heppner, Canadian
tenor
- 1956 – Rosina Lippi-Green
(Rosina Lippi, Sara Donati), U.S.American writer.
- 1957 – Suzanne
Danielle, English actress
- 1957 – Anchee Min, Chinese
writer
- 1959 – Geoff
Tate, American musician (Queensrÿche)
- 1961 – Mike
Tramp, Danish singer (White
Lion)
- 1962 – Michael
McCaul, American politician
- 1963 – Steven
Soderbergh, American director
- 1964 – Mark Addy,
British actor
- 1964 – Ernest Miller, American
wrestler
- 1964 – Shepard Smith, American
news anchor
- 1965 – Shamil
Basayev, Chechen rebel (d. 2006)
- 1965 – Marc Delissen, Dutch field
hockey player
- 1965 – Bob Essensa, Canadian ice
hockey player
- 1965 – Hugh
Fearnley-Whittingstall, British chef
- 1965 – Ellis Paul, American
singer-songwriter and folk musician
- 1967 – Kerri
Green, American actress
- 1967 – Leonardo "Leo"
Ortolani, Italian comic book author
- 1967 – Emily Watson, English
actress
- 1967 – Saskia Wickham, British
actress
- 1967 – Zakk Wylde, American musician
(Black Label Society)
- 1968 – LL Cool J,
American rapper and actor
- 1968 – Ruel Fox, English
footballer
- 1968 – Veikka Gustafsson,
Finnish mountaineer
- 1969 – Jason
Bateman, American actor
- 1969 – David Grohl, American drummer
and composer (Nirvana, Foo Fighters)
- 1970 – Gene
Snitsky, American professional wrestler
- 1971 – Lasse
Kjus, Norwegian skier
- 1971 – Antonios
Nikopolidis, Greek footballer
- 1972 – Kyle
Brady, American football player
- 1972 – Dion Forster, South African
theologian
- 1972 – Predrag Gosta,
Yugoslav-born conductor
- 1972 – Raimondas Rumšas,
Lithuanian cyclist
- 1973 – Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian race car
driver
- 1974 – Kevin
Durand, Canadian actor
- 1977 – Narain
Karthikeyan, Indian A1GP driver
- 1978 – Just
Blaze, American hip hop producer
- 1978 – Shawn Crawford, American
sprinter
- 1979 – Karen
Elson, British supermodel
- 1979 – Angela Lindvall, American
supermodel
- 1979 – John Reuben, American hip hop
artist
- 1980 – Clive
Clarke, Irish footballer
- 1980 – Cory Gibbs, American soccer
player
- 1980 – Ossama Haidar, a Lebanese
soccer player
- 1980 – Byron Leftwich, American
football player
- 1980 – Sosuke Sumitani, Japanese
announcer
- 1980 – Hiroshi Tamaki, Japanese
actor and model
- 1981 – Abdelmalek Cherrad, Algerian
football
- 1981 – Rosa López, Spanish
singer
- 1981 – Pitbull, American
rapper
- 1982 – Caleb
Followill, American singer (Kings of
Leon)
- 1982 – Léo Lima, Brazilian
footballer
- 1982 – Víctor Valdés,
Spanish goalkeeper
- 1983 – Maxime
Monfort, Belgian cyclist
- 1983 – Jason Krejza, Australian
cricketer
- 1984 – Mike
Pelfrey, American baseball player
- 1986 – Gary
Brolsma, American internet celebrity
- 1986 – Cristina Aicardi,
Peruvian badminton player
- 1988 – Mikalah
Gordon, American singer
- 1988 – Hakeem Nicks, American
football player
- 1988 – Jack P. Shepherd, English actor
- 1994 – Samir
Patel, American spelling bee
winner
Deaths
- 1163 – Ladislaus II of Hungary (b.
1131)
- 1235 – Saint
Sava, Serbian saint (b. 1175)
- 1301 – King Andrew III of Hungary (b. 1265)
- 1331 – Odoric, Italian explorer (b. 1286)
- 1640 – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron
Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)
- 1676 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b.
1602)
- 1679 – Jacques
de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)
- 1701 – Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (b.
1628)
- 1742 – Edmond
Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)
- 1753 – George
Berkeley, Irish theologian (b. 1685)
- 1776 – Edward
Cornwallis, English military officer (b. 1713)
- 1786 – Michael
Arne, English composer (b. 1741)
- 1786 – Meshech Weare, Governor of
New Hampshire (b. 1713)
- 1788 –
François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse,
French admiral (b. 1722)
- 1819 – Peter
Pindar, English satirist (b. 1738)
- 1825 – George Dance the Younger, English
architect (b. 1741)
- 1833 – Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox saint
(b. 1759)
- 1867 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres,
French painter (b. 1780)
- 1872 – Greyfriars Bobby, Famous dog (b. 1856)
- 1888 – Stephen
Heller, Hungarian composer (b. 1813)
- 1889 – Ema
Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834)
- 1892 – Prince Albert Victor,
Duke of Clarence, British prince (b. 1864)
- 1898 – Lewis
Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)
- 1901 – Bishop Mandell Creighton, English historian and
ecclesiastic (b. 1843)
- 1901 – Charles Hermite, French
mathematician (b. 1822)
- 1905 – Ernst
Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
- 1907 – Sir
James Fergusson, British politician (b. 1832)
- 1908 – Holger
Drachmann, Danish poet and dramatist (b. 1846)
- 1915 – Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
- 1920 – John
Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)
- 1923 – Zübeyde Hanım, Mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b.
1857)
- 1937 – Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist
and novelist (b. 1889)
- 1942 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer
(b. 1883)
- 1949 – Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b.
1882)
- 1952 – Artur
Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)
- 1957 – Humphrey
Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1961 – Barry
Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)
- 1965 – Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and
singer (b. 1903)
- 1966 – Bill Carr,
American athlete (b. 1909)
- 1966 – Sergei Korolev, Russian
rocket scientist (b. 1906)
- 1968 – Dorothea Mackellar, Australian poet
(My Country) (b. 1885)
- 1970 – William
Feller, Croatian mathematician (b. 1906)
- 1972 – King Frederick IX of Denmark (b.
1899)
- 1976 – Tun Abdul
Razak, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1922)
- 1977 – Anthony
Eden, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
- 1977 – Peter Finch, English-born
actor (b. 1916)
- 1977 – Anaïs Nin, French author
(b. 1903)
- 1978 – Harold
Abrahams, British athlete (b. 1899)
- 1978 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian
mathematician (b. 1906)
- 1978 – Robert Heger, German
conductor and composer (b. 1886)
- 1978 – Blossom Rock, American
actress (b. 1895)
- 1979 – Thomas
DeSimone, gangster associate of the Lucchese crime family (b.
1950)
- 1980 – Robert
Ardrey, American author (b. 1908)
- 1981 – John
O'Grady, Australian writer (Nino
Culotta) (b. 1907)
- 1984 – Ray Kroc,
American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1902)
- 1986 – Daniel
Balavoine, French singer (b. 1952)
- 1986 – Donna Reed, American actress
(b. 1921)
- 1987 – Douglas
Sirk, German-U.S. film director (b. 1900)
- 1988 – Georgi
Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the
Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902)
- 1990 – Mani
Madhava Chakyar, Koodiyattam artist
and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
- 1991 – Gordon
Bryant, Australian politician (b. 1914)
- 1995 – Sir Alexander Gibson, Scottish
conductor (b. 1926)
- 1997 – Dollard Ménard, French Canadian general
(b. 1913)
- 1999 – Jerzy
Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
- 2001 – Burkhard
Heim, German physicist (b. 1925)
- 2003 – Koloman
Sokol, Slovak painter (b. 1902)
- 2004 – Uta Hagen,
American actress (b. 1919)
- 2004 – Ron O'Neal, American actor (b.
1937)
- 2004 – Valfar, Norwegian musician
(Windir) (b. 1978)
- 2005 – Charlotte MacLeod, American writer (b.
1922)
- 2005 – Conroy Maddox, English
painter (b. 1912)
- 2005 – Rudolph Moshammer,
German fashion designer (b. 1940)
- 2005 – Jesús-Rafael Soto,
Venezuelan kinetic artist (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Henri
Colpi, French film editor and director (b. 1921)
- 2006 – Jim Gary, American sculptor (b.
1939)
- 2006 – Mark Philo, English footballer
(b. 1984)
- 2006 – Shelley Winters, American
actress (b. 1920)
- 2007 – Darlene
Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
- 2007 – Barbara Kelly,
Canadian-born actress (b. 1924)
- 2007 – Vassilis
Photopoulos, Greek painter, film director, art director and set
designer (b. 1934)
- 2008 – Judah
Folkman, American medical scientist (b. 1933)
- 2009 – Jan
Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin (b. 1937)
- 2009 – Ricardo Montalbán,
Mexican actor (b. 1920)
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