From: kevinle@eb4ts1.EBay.Sun.COM (Kevin Le)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: Birthdates Which Occur on January 12
Date: 12 Jan 1993 17:41:48 GMT
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 Birthdates Which Occur on January 12: 
1960  33 Dominique Wilkins NBA star
1955  38 Kirstie Alley  Wichita, Kans., actress (Star Trek II, Cheers)
1954  39 Howard Stern "Radio's Bad Boy" (WKRK, WYSP, WJFK)
1952  41 John Walker  New Zealand, 1,500-m runner (Olympic gold 1976)
1945  48 Maggie Bell  Glasgow, Scotland, rock singer (Stone the Crows)
1944  49 Joe Frazier SC, heavyweight champion boxer (1968-73)
1941  52 Long John Baldry England, blues vocalist
1939  54 William Lee Gloden singer
1937  56 Liliana Cavani  Bologna, Italy, director (Berlin Affair)
1935  58 "The Amazing" Kreskin mentalist, telepath
1934  59 Burdette Haldorson US basketball player (Olympic gold 1956, 1960)
1933  60 Michael Aspel British talk show host
1930  63 Glenn Yarborough singer
1926  67 Morton Feldman NYC, composer
   and   Ray Price country singer
1921  72 Leo Smit Philadelphia, pianist
   and   John Davis US, world champion weight lifter (Olympic gold 1948, 1952)
1920  73 James Farmer black activist
1917  76 Walter Hendl  West New York, NJ, conductor
1916  77 P[ieter] W. Botha Orange Free State, president of South Africa
1915  78 Martin Agronsky journalist (1952 Peabody, 1961 DuPont-Columbia)
1913  80 Sen. Edward Gurney (D-Florida)
1910  83 Luise Rainer actress (Escapade, The Good Earth, Big City, Hostages)
   and   Patsy Kelly actress (Rosemary's Baby, North Avenue Irregulars)
1906  87 Tex Ritter country singer (The Wayward Wind)
   and   Henny Youngman comedian (Take my wife please...)
1902  91 Ibn Abdul-Aziz Saud  Kuwait, king of Saudi Arabia
1901  92 Kurt Jooss  W|rtemburg, Germany, ballet choreographer
1893 100 Hermann Gvring propaganda minister for Nazi Germany
1876 117 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Venice, composer
   and   Jack London writer, socialist (The Call of the Wild)
1863 130 Vivekananda  Calcutta, Hindu religious leader, reformer
1856 137 John Singer Sargent  US painter (The Wyndham Sisters)
1853 140 Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro  Italian mathematician (tensor analysis)
1825 168 Francis Underwood Mass., abolitionist, "Atlantic Monthly" cofounder
1808 185 Paul Taglioni [Paul the Great] Vienna, ballet choreographer
1746 247 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi  Switzerland, educational reformer
1737 256 John Hancock 1st to sign the Declaration of Independence
1628 365 Charles Perrault  Paris, poet, fairy tale collector (Mother Goose)
1588 405 John Winthrop 1st governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony

 Deaths Which Occured January 12: 
1965  28 Porcupine in Washington DC zoo dies at 27; oldest known rodent
1928  65 Ruth Snyder becomes 1st woman to die in the electric chair
1705 288 Luca Giordano Italian artist, dies at about 73
1674 319 Giacomo Carissimi Italian musician, dies at about 70

 Holidays Which Occur January 12: 

 Religious Observances on January 12: 
         Feast of St. Victorian (RC)
         Commemoration of St. Aelred (Ang)

 Things to Remember for January 12:
         Flowers - Carnation & Snowdrop        Gem - Garnet
  8 Days Astrological sign:  Capricorn
         Volunteer Fireman Day

 Highlights in History Which Occur January 12: 
1903  90  Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown, Pa. killing 170.
1954  39  Austria's worst avalanche at Blons, kills 200. Second avalanche
          9 hrs. later kills 115 rescue workers and survivors.
1988   5 Willie Stargell elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
1986   7 24th space shuttle mission, Columbia 7, launched
1981  12 -370 C (-350 F), Chester, Massachusetts (state record)
1979  14 Record blizzard strikes the Midwest, killing over 100
   and   LA's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in Bellingham, WA
1973  20 Emily Howell becomes 1st woman pilot for a scheduled US air carrier
1971  22 "All in the Family" premiers on CBS TV (-1983)
1969  24 AFC (AFL) wins its 1st Super Bowl (#3, NY Jets 16, Baltimore Colts 7)
1966  27 LBJ says US should stay in So. Vietnam until communist aggression ends
   and   "Batman" with Adam West & Burt Ward premiers on ABC TV (-1968)
1964  29 Revolution overthrows Sultan of Zanzibar 1 month after independence
   and   US Surgeon General Luther Terry says smoking is a health hazard
1962  31 USAF begins chemical defoliation of South Vietnam (Agent Orange)
1951  42 United Nations pact against genocide goes into effect
1950  43 Capital punishment reintroduced in USSR
1949  44 "Arthur Godfrey & His Friends" premiers on CBS TV (-1959)
1946  47 Cleveland Rams football club announces move to Los Angeles
1945  48 US navy destroys 41 Japanese ships in battle of South China Sea
   and   German forces in Belgium retreat in battle of the Bulge
1944  49 Churchill & de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh
1937  56 Plow for laying submarine cable patented
1932  61 Hattie Caraway (D-Arkansas) becomes 1st woman elected to US senate
   and   "The Ed Sullivan Show" premiers on CBS radio
1929  64 Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana
1921  72 Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes 1st commissioner of baseball
1917  76 1st provisional council of Palestinian Jewry is founded
1916  77 Britain proclaims Gilbert & Ellice Is. colony in the Pacific
1915  78 US House rejects proposal to give women the right to vote
1912  81 -440 C (-470 F), Washta, Iowa (state record)
1907  86 Britain grants responsible government to former colony of Transvaal
1906  87 Football rules committee legalizes the forward pass
1896  97 1st x-ray photo in US, Dr. Henry Smith, Davidson, NC
1879 114 British-Zulu War begins
1875 118 Kwang-su becomes emperor of China (-1908)
1863 130 CSA Pres. Davis gives his "State of the Confederacy" address
1839 154 Anthracite coal used experimentally to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Penn.
1820 173 Royal Astronomical Society founded in England
1812 181 1st cargo arrives in New Orleans by steam, from Natchez
1777 216 Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded in California
1773 220 1st US public museum established (Charlestown, SC)

 That's all for TODAY!



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