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100 years anniversary | ||||
17 Jan 1924 | Jewel Plummer Cobb: Educator / President (California State University at Fullerton) | |||
17 Jan 1924 | Rik De Saedeleer, Belgian footballer and journalist (d. 2013) | |||
17 Jan 1924 | Jewel Plummer Cobb educator/president (California State University at Fullerton) | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
17 Jan 1949 | Debbie Watson: La Mirada, California -- Actress (Karen, Tammy) | |||
17 Jan 1949 | The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, airs for the first time. | |||
17 Jan 1949 | Mick Taylor, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and The Rolling Stones) | |||
17 Jan 1949 | Andy Kaufman, American actor and comedian (d. 1984) | |||
17 Jan 1949 | Augustin Dumay, French violinist and conductor | |||
17 Jan 1949 | Gyude Bryant, Liberian businessman and politician (d. 2014) | |||
17 Jan 1949 | Anita Borg, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2003) | |||
17 Jan 1949 | Debbie Watson La Mirada CA, actress (Karen, Tammy) | |||
17 Jan 1949 | Andy Kaufman New York City NY, comedian/actor (Latka Gravas-Taxi) | |||
17 Jan 1949
Synchrotron |
Synchrotron In 1949, for the first time, full energy was released by the first synchrotron which was installed at the Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. It was invented by Edwin Mattison of the same university, and would accelerate electrons by virtue of their negative charges, using a betatron-type magnet that weighed about 8 tons. The synchrotron was constructed at the General Electric Research Laboratory at Schnectady, N.Y. by Dr. Herbert C. Pollock and Willem F. Westendorp. |
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50 years anniversary | ||||
17 Jan 1974 | Derrick Mason: Wide receiver (Tennessee Oilers) | |||
17 Jan 1974 | Guillermo Mercedes: Dominican / US baseball infielder (Texas Rangers) | |||
17 Jan 1974 | Marcus Spriggs: Offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills) | |||
17 Jan 1974 | Sharon Marie Ferris: New Zealand -- Yachter (1996 Olympics) | |||
17 Jan 1974 | Derrick Mason, American football player | |||
17 Jan 1974 | Yang Chen, Chinese footballer and manager | |||
17 Jan 1974 | Vesko Kountchev, Bulgarian viola player, composer, and producer (Amparanoia) | |||
17 Jan 1974 | Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins (d. 2003) | |||
17 Jan 1974 | Danny Bhoy, Scottish comedian and actor | |||
17 Jan 1974 | Dean Martin's son Dino Martin was arrested after attempting to sell two AK-47 machine guns to an undercover agent. | |||
17 Jan 1974 | Styne, Comdem & Green's musical "Lorelei" premieres in New York City NY | |||
17 Jan 1974 | Sharon Marie Ferris New Zealand, yachter (Olympics-96) | |||
17 Jan 1974 | Marcus Spriggs offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills) | |||
17 Jan 1974 | Guillermo Mercedes Dominican/US baseball infielder (Texas Rangers) | |||
17 Jan 1974 | Derrick Mason wide receiver (Tennessee Oilers) | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
17 Jan 1999 | Samantha Reid, American manslaughter victim (b. 1984) | |||
17 Jan 1999 | Robert Eads, American trans man (b. 1945) | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
17 Jan 2004 | Noble Willingham, American actor (b. 1931) | |||
17 Jan 2004 | Czesław Niemen, Polish singer-songwriter (Niebiesko-Czarni) (b. 1939) | |||
17 Jan 2004 | Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and coach (b. 1914) | |||
17 Jan 2004 | Raymond Bonham Carter, English banker (b. 1929) | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
17 Jan 2009 | Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist and historian (b. 1943) | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
17 Jan 2014 | Suchitra Sen, Bangladeshi-Indian actress (b. 1931) | |||
17 Jan 2014 | Sunanda Pushkar, Indian-Canadian businesswoman (b. 1962) | |||
17 Jan 2014 | John J. McGinty III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1940) | |||
17 Jan 2014 | Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green, English businessman and politician (b. 1942) | |||
17 Jan 2014 | Francine Lalonde, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1940) | |||
17 Jan 2014 | Seizō Katō, Japanese voice actor (b. 1927) | |||
17 Jan 2014 | Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (b. 1915) | |||
17 Jan 2014 | Madonna apologised for using a racial slur to refer to her son on an Instagram post, after she uploaded a snapshot of 13-year-old Rocco Ritchie boxing with the offensive epithet used in a hashtag accompanying the photo. Madonna's comment was swiftly deleted from her Instagram account after some of her 1.1 million followers berated her for using the hashtag "#disnigga" |