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100 years anniversary | ||||
12 Jan 1924 | Jan Willem Radecker: Sculptor / Son of John Raedecker | |||
12 Jan 1924 | History of Science Society organized at Boston | |||
12 Jan 1924 | Chris Chase, American model, actress, and journalist (d. 2013) | |||
12 Jan 1924 | Grethe Holmer, Danish actress (d. 2004) | |||
12 Jan 1924 | Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (d. 1998) | |||
12 Jan 1924 | History of Science Society organized at Boston | |||
12 Jan 1924 | Jan Willem Radecker sculptor/son of John Radecker | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
12 Jan 1949 | James W Dietz: Rower | |||
12 Jan 1949 | Wayne Wang: Director (Chan is Missing, Slamdance) | |||
12 Jan 1949 | "Arthur Godfrey & His Friends" premieres on CBS TV | |||
12 Jan 1949 | Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter | |||
12 Jan 1949 | Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter | |||
12 Jan 1949 | "Arthur Godfrey & His Friends" premieres on CBS TV | |||
12 Jan 1949 | Wayne Wang director (Chan is Missing, Slamdance) | |||
12 Jan 1949 | James W Dietz rower | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
12 Jan 1974 | "Joker" by Steve Miller Band peaks at #1 | |||
12 Jan 1974 | Libya and Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic" | |||
12 Jan 1974 | Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886) | |||
12 Jan 1974 | Jim Croce started a five-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'You Don't Mess Around With Jim'. | |||
12 Jan 1974 | The Steve Miller Band were at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Joker', the group's first of three No.1's. It reached No.1 on the UK chart in 1990. | |||
12 Jan 1974 | birth Melanie Chisholm, Mel C, Sporty Spice, The Spice Girls, (1996 UK No.1 & 1997 US No.1 single 'Wannabe', solo, 2000 UK No.1 single, 'Never Be The Same Again'). | |||
12 Jan 1974 | Libya & Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic" | |||
12 Jan 1974 | "Joker" by Steve Miller Band peaks at #1 | |||
12 Jan 1974 | Melanie Jayne Chisholm "Sporty Spice", Widnes, vocalist (Spice Girls) | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
12 Jan 1999 | Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1961) | |||
12 Jan 1999 | Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (b. 1914) | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
12 Jan 2004 | The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage. | |||
12 Jan 2004 | Randy VanWarmer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1955) | |||
12 Jan 2004 | Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1921) | |||
12 Jan 2004 | American songwriter and guitarist Randy VanWarmer died from leukaemia aged 48. (1979 US No.4 & UK No.8 single 'Just When I Needed You Most'). Also wrote The Oak Ridge Boys No.1 US Country hit 'I Guess It Never Hurts to Hurt Sometimes.' VanWarmer's had arranged for a space burial and his cremated remains were sent into space in 2007. | |||
12 Jan 2004 |
death Francis R. "Joe" Boyd Died 12 Jan 2004 at age 77 (born 26 Jan 1926). American geologist whose studies on the origins of volcanic rocks contributed to the understanding of the formation of the Earth. In Yellowstone National Park, he discovered that the volcanic eruptions that formed Yellowstone Plateau produced rocks of an unusual type, called welded tuff. In the 1960s, he helped develop the Boyd-English device, a piston-cylinder laboratory apparatus to simulate the pressure exerted on minerals deep within the Earth. Able to create a synthetic diamond, it also helps scientists determine the nature of minerals in the various rock layers of the Earth. He was a leading authority on the mantle root of the 3.5-billion-year-old Kaapvaal craton (the kernel on which a continent grows) rock in southern Africa. |
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15 years anniversary | ||||
12 Jan 2009 | Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher and academic (b. 1912) | |||
12 Jan 2009 | Russ Conway, Canadian-American actor (b. 1913) | |||
12 Jan 2009 | Claude Berri, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1934) | |||
12 Jan 2009 | A full frontal nude photo of Madonna, taken in 1979 before she became famous, sold at auction for $37,500. The black and white picture was taken at a time when Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone was a 20-year-old dancer trying to make ends meet in New York. | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
12 Jan 2014 | John Horsley, English actor (b. 1920) | |||
12 Jan 2014 | Tony Harding, English illustrator (b. 1942) | |||
12 Jan 2014 | George Dement, American soldier, politician and businessman (b. 1922) | |||
12 Jan 2014 | Connie Binsfeld, American educator and politician; 58th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (b. 1924) | |||
12 Jan 2014 | Alexandra Bastedo, English actress (b. 1946) | |||
12 Jan 2014
William Feindel |
death William Feindel William Feindel, 95, Canadian neurosurgeon, scientist and professor |