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Anniversary on the 5th of January 1759

Anniversary
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100 years anniversary
05 Jan 1924   Sam Phillips, American record producer, founded Sun Records (d. 2003)
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05 Jan 1924 WW2 Zhaohe arrived at Qingdao, Shandong, Province, China. 
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75 years anniversary
05 Jan 1949   George Brown: Rock drummer (Kool & the Gang-Celebration)
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05 Jan 1949   General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra
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05 Jan 1949   President Harry S Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal"
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05 Jan 1949   United States President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
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05 Jan 1949 WW2 Chen Cheng was named the Chairman of Taiwan Province, Republic of China and the Chief of Police. 
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05 Jan 1949   birth George Brown, singer, Kool & The Gang, (1981 US No.1 & UK No.7 single 'Celebration', plus over 15 other UK Top 40 hits).
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50 years anniversary
05 Jan 1974   Calvin Collins: Center / guard (Atlanta Falcons)
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05 Jan 1974   John Drew Nichols: Oklahoma, United States -- Rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
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05 Jan 1974   Michelle Scerri: Melbourne, Victoria -- Golfer (1995 Tasmanian)
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05 Jan 1974   Roy Bargy: Orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 79
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05 Jan 1974   Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother"
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05 Jan 1974   Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59 °F (+15 °C) recorded at Vanda Station
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05 Jan 1974   An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
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05 Jan 1974   Lev Oborin, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1907)
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05 Jan 1974   Iwan Thomas, Welsh sprinter
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05 Jan 1974   Sarah-Jane Honeywell, English actress and dancer
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25 years anniversary
05 Jan 1999   Marc Yu, American pianist and cellist
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20 years anniversary
05 Jan 2004   Tug McGraw, American baseball player (b. 1944)
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05 Jan 2004   Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist, co-developed penicillin (b. 1911)
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05 Jan 2004   Kinks singer Ray Davies was shot in the leg while on holiday in New Orleans. The 59-year-old singer-songwriter was shot when running after two men who stole his girlfriend's purse at gunpoint. Davies was admitted to the Medical Centre of Louisiana but his injuries were not considered serious. New Orleans police said one person had been arrested, and police were still searching for the second.
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05 Jan 2004   death
Norman Heatley
Died 5 Jan 2004 at age 92 (born 10 Jan 1911).
English biochemist who solved problems in the extraction of penicillin from its mould, and paved the way for mass production. By D-Day of WW II, the Allies had an adequate stock to treat the wounded in danger of serious bacterial infections. Although it was Fleming who accidentally discovered penicillin (1928), it was Heatley who made it practical, making sufficient quantity by 1941 for its first clinical tests. His apparatus included porcelain "bedpans", milk churns and roasting trays to grow the bacteria. Also, an assay method he developed could precisely measure the activity of a sample of penicillin, in what became known as “Oxford units”. His production method used pie plates, cookie tins, and a porcelain vessel dubbed the bedpan.
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05 Jan 2004   death
Merrill W. Chase
Died 5 Jan 2004 at age 98 (born 17 Sep 1905).
American immunologist who made groundbreaking discoveries in cellular immunology and experimental allergy. In the early 1940's, by transferring white blood cells between guinea pigs he found an immunity in the donor against the tuberculosis organism was also transferred. Thus he discovered a new class of immune response - cell-mediated immunity (which aids antibodies in protecting against disease). By the 1950s, using improved cell culture techniques, other experimenters identified lymphocyte cells (about 25% of white blood cells) as responsible for immunity, and later found different types. T cells are derived from the thymus mediated cellular immunity, and B cells from the bursa of Fabricius (an outgrowth of the cloaca in birds).
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15 years anniversary
05 Jan 2009   Ned Tanen, American businessman (b. 1931)
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05 Jan 2009   Griffin Bell, American lawyer and politician, 72nd United States Attorney General (b. 1918)
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10 years anniversary
05 Jan 2014   A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the GSLV MK.II D5 marks the first successful flight of an Indian cryogenic engine.
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05 Jan 2014   Uday Kiran, Indian actor and singer (b. 1980)
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05 Jan 2014   Simon Hoggart, English journalist (b. 1946)
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05 Jan 2014   Philippe Boiry, French journalist (b. 1927)
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05 Jan 2014   K. P. Udayabhanu, Indian singer (b. 1936)
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05 Jan 2014   Jerry Coleman, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
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05 Jan 2014   Eusébio, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1942)
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05 Jan 2014   Carmen Zapata, American actress (b. 1927)
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