From: kevinle@eb4ts1.EBay.Sun.COM (Kevin Le)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: Birthdates Which Occur on January 21
Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:47:27 GMT
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 Birthdates Which Occur on January 21: 
1958  35 Miguel Alejandro NYC, actor (Popi)
1957  36 Geena Davis actress (Beetlejuice, The Fly)
   and   Jacob Green Seattle Seahawk defensive end
1956  37 Bob Brill NYC, drummer (Berlin - You Take My Breath Away)
1955  38 Peter Fleming NJ, tennis player (US Open doubles 1979, 1981, 1983)
   and   Robby Bensen actor (1 on 1, Running Brave, The Chosen)
1950  43 Billy Ocean singer (Suddenly, Caribbean Queen)
1947  46 Jill Eikenberry actress (Manhattan Project, LA Law - Anne Kelsey)
1942  51 Mac Davis  Lubbock, TX, singer, actor (Mac Davis Show, No. Dallas 40)
1941  52 Placido Domingo Madrid, operatic tenor
   and   Richie Havens Brooklyn, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun)
1940  53 Jack Nicklaus  Columbus, OH, golfer (player of year 1967, 72-3, 75-6)
1939  54 Wolfman Jack DJ (Midnight Special), a howling success in radio
   and   Mary Ellen McAnally  Illinois, poet (Dance of the Zygotes)
1935  58 Ann Wedgeworth Texas, actress (Tiger's Tale, Men's Club, Bogie)
1932  61 Boris Shakhlin USSR, Olympic gymnast (gold 1956, 1960, 1964)
1926  67 Steve Reeves Montana, actor (Hercules, Hercules Unchained)
1924  69 Telly Savalas actor, "Who Loves Ya Baby?" (Kojak)
   and   Benny Hill British comedian (Benny Hill Show)
1922  71 Paul Scofield actor (A Man for All Seasons, Train)
1921  72 Barney Clark 1st person to receive a permanent artificial heart
1920  73 Errol Walton Barrow (DLP) PM of Barbados (1966-76, 1986-  )
1919  74 Jinx Falkenberg actress (2 Senoritas from Chicago, Cover Girl)
1912  81 Konrad Bloch Germany, biochemist; studied cholesterol (Nobel 1964)
1908  85 Bengt Strvmgren  Gvteborg, Sweden, astrophysicist; studied gas clouds
1905  88 Christian Dior France, designer
1904  89 Richard P. Blackmur Mass., poet, critic
1884 109 Katie Sandwina  Germany, legendary woman weight lifter
   and   Roger Nash Baldwin founder of American Civil Liberties Union
1855 138 Ernest Chausson Paris, composer (Pohme for Violin & Orchestra)
1840 153 Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake pioneer English woman physician
1833 160 Norman Willis head of Britain's Trades Union Congress
1824 169 Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Confederate general
1821 172 John Cabell Breckinridge (D) 14th US VP (1857-61)
1815 178 Horace Wells dentist, pioneer in use of medical anesthesia
1813 180 John C. Frimont map maker, explorer of western US
1743 250 John Fitch who had a working steamboat years before Fulton
1338 655 Charles V (the Wise) king of France (1364-80)

 Deaths Which Occured January 21: 
1924  69 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 54
1793 200 Louis XVI French king, beheaded by French revolutionaries
   911   King Louis the Child last Carolingian ruler of Germany, dies

 Holidays Which Occur January 21: 
         Nuestra Seqora de Altagracia (Dominican Republic)

 Religious Observances on January 21: 
 Today - Night of the Ascent (Moslem feast); Rajab 27, 1413 AH
   304   Memorial of St. Agnes, virgin & martyr at Rome (RC, Ang)
         World Religion Day (Baha'm); Sultan 3

 Things to Remember for January 21: 
         Flowers - Carnation & Snowdrop        Gem - Garnet
 29 Days Astrological sign:  Aquarius
         National Hugging Day
         St. Agnes Husband Finding Day

 Highlights in History Which Occur January 21:
1960  33  Rock falls trap 437 underground at Coalbrook, South Africa.
          417 die of methane poisoning.
1990   3 SF Lutherans ordain 2 lesbians & 1 gay man
   and   John MacEnroe disqualified from Australian Open for cursing officials
1986   7 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 30 C (380 F), Indiana
1985   8 -370 C (-340 F), Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina (state record)
   and   -280 C (-190 F), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record)
1981  12 1st date in Rudy Rucker's "The 57th Franz Kafka"
1980  13 Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal v. FSU
1979  14 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
   and   Steelers beat Cowboys 35-31, become 1st team to win 3 Super Bowls
1977  16 Pres. Carter pardons most (10,000) Vietnam War draft evaders
1976  17 Supersonic Concorde makes 1st commercial flights
1971  22 Western "Alias Smith & Jones" premiers on ABC TV (-1973)
1966  27 3-day Trips Festival begins, SF - Grateful Dead, Big Brother & LSD
1962  31 Snow falls in San Francisco
1960  33 Worst South African mine disaster - 6 whites & 429 blacks die
1954  39 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited, in NYC
   and   1st atomic submarine, "USS Nautilus," is launched, Groton, Conn.
1950  43 Former State Dept. official Alger Hiss found guilty of perjury
1949  44 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman's)
1942  51 Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
1941  52 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, Texas
1937  56 1st TV cooking demonstration - Marcel Boulestin makes an omelet
1935  58 The Wilderness Society is founded
1927  66 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
1922  71 1st slalom ski race run, M|rren, Switzerland
1915  78 Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
1908  85 NYC regulation makes it illegal for women to smoke in public
1880 113 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis
1863 130 City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
1861 132 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign
1853 140 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Mass.
1824 169 Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa
1799 194 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced
1789 204 1st American novel, W.H. Brown's "The Power of Sympathy," is published
1677 316 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
1472 521 Great daylight comet of 1472 passes within 10.5 million km of earth

 That's all for TODAY! 



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