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100 years anniversary | ||||
02 Jan 1924 | Sabine Baring-Gould, English author and scholar (b. 1834) | |||
02 Jan 1924 | Evgenios Spatharis, Greek puppeteer, actor, and director (d. 2009) | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
02 Jan 1949 | Christopher Durang: Montclair, New Jersey -- Playwright / actor (Sister Mary) | |||
02 Jan 1949 | KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting | |||
02 Jan 1949 | Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. | |||
02 Jan 1949 | Iris Marion Young, American feminist philosopher (d. 2006) | |||
02 Jan 1949 | John Turner, English cricketer (d. 2012) | |||
02 Jan 1949 | Leijn Loevesijn, Dutch cyclist | |||
02 Jan 1949 | Jean Krier, Luxembourger poet (d. 2013) | |||
02 Jan 1949 | Christopher Durang, American playwright and screenwriter | |||
02 Jan 1949 | WW2 | Chen Changjie received a letter from the Chinese Communists urging his surrender of Tianjin, China; he would reject the request. | ||
50 years anniversary | ||||
02 Jan 1974 | Juha Lind: NHL forward (Team Finland Olympics - Bronze - 1998, Dallas) | |||
02 Jan 1974 | Tex Ritter: Country singer (5 Star Jubilee), dies at 67 | |||
02 Jan 1974 | 55 mph speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon | |||
02 Jan 1974 | Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres | |||
02 Jan 1974 | United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo. | |||
02 Jan 1974 | Tex Ritter, American singer and actor (b. 1905) | |||
02 Jan 1974 | Deborah Sengl, Austrian painter | |||
02 Jan 1974 | Tomáš Řepka, Czech footballer | |||
02 Jan 1974 | Ludmila Formanová, Czech runner | |||
02 Jan 1974 | Jason de Vos, Canadian soccer player and sportscaster | |||
02 Jan 1974 | US country singer, actor and radio presenter Tex Ritter died of a heart attack when he was trying to bail a member of his band from a jail in Nashville. His song 'High Noon' won an Oscar for Best Song in 1952. | |||
02 Jan 1974 |
death Errett Lobban Cord Died 2 Jan 1974 at age 79 (born 20 Jul 1894). U.S. automobile manufacturer, advocate of front-wheel-drive vehicles. Cord, still in his twenties when he arrived at the Auburn Automobile Company, had a talent for seeking and hiring young, innovative minds, full of drive and ambition. Cord was a brilliant, complex industrialist who helped personal and public transportation come of age. He is best known today for Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg automobiles, Cord's greatest talent may have been his unparalleled ability to construct an automotive empire durable enough to thrive during the darkest years of the Great Depression. |
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25 years anniversary | ||||
02 Jan 1999 | A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, where temperatures plunge to -13 °F (-25 °C); 68 deaths are reported. | |||
02 Jan 1999 | Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907) | |||
02 Jan 1999 | Rolf Liebermann, Swiss-French composer and manager (b. 1910) | |||
02 Jan 1999 | Chef went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with Chocolate Salty Balls (PS I Love You). Chef appeared in the cult TV series South Park, the voice was that of Isaac Hayes (who had a hit with Shaft in 1971). | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
02 Jan 2004 | Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth. | |||
02 Jan 2004 | Daniel Bedingfield suffered two fractured vertebrae in his neck after the jeep he was driving rolled over and crashed when on holiday in New Zealand. Emergency workers had to cut the singer free before he could be taken to hospital. | |||
02 Jan 2004
NASA |
NASA (space exploration) NASA's Stardust space probe flies by comet 81P/Wild and collects particle samples from its coma. |
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15 years anniversary | ||||
02 Jan 2009 | Steven Gilborn, American actor and educator (b. 1936) | |||
02 Jan 2009 | Maria de Jesus, Portuguese super-centenarian (b. 1893) | |||
02 Jan 2009 | Inger Christensen, Danish poet and author (b. 1935) | |||
02 Jan 2009 | According to official US sales figures AC/DC were the biggest sellers of 2008 with over 3.4m sales. To promote the groups latest album Black Ice, Columbia Records created "Rock Again AC/DC Stores" as well as "Black Ice" trucks which were dispatched on the streets of New York and Los Angeles playing AC/DC music aloud and making various stops each day to sell merchandise. | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
02 Jan 2014 | Thomas Kurzhals, German keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1953) | |||
02 Jan 2014 | Michael J. Matthews, American politician; 34th Mayor of Atlantic City (b. 1934) | |||
02 Jan 2014 | Jay Traynor, American singer (b. 1943) | |||
02 Jan 2014 | Elizabeth Jane Howard, English author and screenwriter (b. 1923) | |||
02 Jan 2014 | Bernard Glasser, American director and producer (b. 1924) | |||
02 Jan 2014 | Anne Dorte of Rosenborg (b. 1947) |