Saturday, 21 May 2011

Famous Birthdays On 15 Jan

By Tracy Rocelyn


1969 - Siupeli Malamala, NFL guard/tackle (NY Jets) 1970 - Dan Landry, San Diego Ca, volleyball opposite hitter (Olympics-96) 1970 - Elroy Kromheer, soccer player (FC Volendam) 1970 - Michele Granger, Anaheim Calif, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96) 1971 - LeShon Johnson, running back (Arizona Cardinals) 1971 - Regina King, LA Calif, actress (Brenda Jenkins-227) 1971 - Max Beesley, English musician and actor 1971 - Teanna Kai, American porn star 1972 - Ernie Reyes Jr, San Jose Calif, actor (Ernie-Sidekicks) 1972 - Kimberly Anne Massaro, St Louis Mo, Miss America (Missouri-5th-1997) 1972 - Kobe Tai, American porn star 1972 - Claudia Winkleman, English television presenter 1973 - Daniel Nijhof, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente) 1973 - Randy Srochenski, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders) 1973 - Essam El-Hadary, Egyptian footballer 1974 - Aubrey Jo Hiller, Missoula Montana, Miss America-Montana (1997) 1974 - Mike Minter, safety (Carolina Panthers) 1974 - Ray King, American baseball player

1975 - Greg Loveridge, cricketer (NZ leg-spinner, did not bowl v Zim 1996) 1975 - Mary Pierce, Montreal Canada, tennis star (1995 Australian Open) 1975 - Edith Bowman, Scottish television and radio presenter 1976 - Corey Chavous, American football player 1976 - Dorian Missick, American actor 1978 - Franco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist 1978 - Eddie Cahill, American actor 1979 - Drew Brees, American football player 1979 - Young Dro, American rapper 1979 - Ken Chu, Taiwanese singer-actor and taichi champ 1979 - Martin Petrov, Bulgarian footballer 1980 - Matt Holliday, American baseball player

1948 - Ronnie Van Zant, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 1948 - Tommy Nolan, Montreal Canada, actor (Jody-Buckskin) 1949 - Howard Allen Twitty, Phoenix AZ, PGA golfer (1979 BC Open) 1949 - Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 1987) 1949 - Panos Mihalopoulos, Greek actor 1950 - David Lynn Jones, Bexar Ark, country singer (Bonnie Jean) 1950 - Marius Trsor, French footballer 1951 - Charo, Murcia Spain, actress/singer (Chico & the Man, Love Boat) 1951 - Martha Davis, Calif, vocalist/guitar (Motels-Only the Lonely, Shame) 1952 - Melvyn Gale, rocker (ELO) 1953 - Boris Blank, rocker (Yello) 1953 - Randy White, NFL tackle (Dallas Cowboys) 1953 - Kent Hovind, American evangelist 1953 - Ta-Tanisha, American actress 1954 - Nikos Sarganis, Greek footballer 1954 - Jose Dalisay, Jr., Filipino writer 1955 - Enrico Mentana, Milan Italy, Italian newscaster (RAI) 1956 - Paul Parker, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1981) 1956 - Vera Sosulya, USSR, toboggan (Olympic-gold-1980) 1956 - Mayawati, Indian politician 1957 - Mario Van Peebles, Mexico, actor (Posse, South Bronx Heroes) 1957 - Patrick Dixon, English entrepreneur 1958 - Julian Sands, actor (One Night Stand) 1958 - Boris Tadić, President of Serbia 1959 - Pete Trewavas, Middlesbrough, bassist, (Marillion-Clutching at Straws) 1959 - Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian climber (d. 2008) 1960 - Tim Curtis, cricketer (England righty batsman in 5 Tests 1988-89) 1960 - Kelly Asbury, American director and actor 1960 - Aaron Jay Kernis, American composer 1961 - Iris DeMent, Paragould Ar, country singer (Our Town) 1961 - Yves P. Pelletier, Canadian comedian and film director 1962 - Creflo Dollar, American televangelist 1962 - Conrad Lant, English musician 1963 - Erling Kagge, Norway, explorer (South Pole) 1963 - Lijuan Geng, Hebei China, Canadian tennis player (Olympics-96) 1963 - Richard Nasheim, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)

588 BC - Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 23, 586 BC. 69 - Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but rules for only three months before committing suicide. 1493 - Christopher Columbus sets sail for Spain from Hispaniola, ending his first voyage to the New World. 1559 - Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London. 1582 - Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1759 - The British Museum opens. 1777 - American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence. 1782 - Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage. 1815 - War of 1812: American frigate USS President (1800), commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates. 1822 - Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly. 1844 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana. 1865 - American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy. 1870 - A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly). 1889 - The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta. 1892 - James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.

1908 - The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African-American college women. 1910 - Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, US, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft (99 m). 1919 - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps. 1919 - Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others. 1936 - The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio. 1943 - World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins. 1943 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia. 1947 - The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. 1949 - Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government. 1951 - Ilse Koch, "The Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany. 1966 - The Nigerian First Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'tat. 1967 - The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 1969 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5. 1970 - Nigerian Civil War: After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders. 1970 - Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya. 1973 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam. 1974 - Dennis Rader aka the BTK Killer kills his first victims by binding, torturing and murdering Joseph, Joseph II, Josephine and Julie Otero in their house. 1976 - Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.

1977 - The Klvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweden's history. 1986 - The Living Seas opens at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World, Florida. 1990 - AT&T's long distance telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure. 1991 - The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm. 1991 - Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth Realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system. 1992 - The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 1993 - Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as "The Beast", is arrested in Sicily after three decades as a fugitive. 1999 - The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak are killed by Yugoslav security forces. 2001 - Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online. 2005 - An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system. 2005 - ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon. 2007 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq. 2009 - US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. All passengers and crew members survive.




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