births:
1875 D[avid] W Griffith movie producer/director (Birth of a Nation)
1893 Conrad Veidt Potsdam Germany, actor (Cabinet of Dr Caligari)
and events:
1939 Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University
January 23rd
births:
1898 Sergei Eisenstein Russia, film maker (Battleship Potemkin)
1898 Randolph Scott actor (Last of the Mohicans, Western Union)
1899 Humphrey Bogart actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny, African Queen)
and events:
1265 1st English Parliament formally convened (some authorities)
1579 Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic
1897 Start of Sherlock Holmes “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange” (BG)
January 24th
births:
0076 Publius A Hadrianus 14th Roman Emperor (117-138)
1888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel German inventor (1st rocket-powered aircraft)
and deaths:
0041 Caligula [G C Germanicus], Roman emperor (37-41), assassinated at 28
0661 Ali ibn Abu Talib kalief of Islam (656-61), murdered
1965 Winston Churchill PM of Britain (C) (1940-45, 51-55), dies at 90
1983 George Cukor director, dies of stroke & heart attack at 83
1988 Charles Glenn King biochemist (discovered vitamin C), dies at 91
and events:
1639 Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders
1679 King Charles II disbands English parliament
1839 Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society
1848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter’s Mill in Coloma CA
1875 Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Danse Macabre” premieres
1936 Benny Goodman & orchestra record “Stompin’ at the Savoy” on Victor Records
1958 After warming to 100,000,000º, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion
1975 Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England
1986 Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons
January 25th
births:
1627 Robert Boyle Ireland, physicist/chemist/author (experiments with color)
and deaths:
1978 Tango Duke dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse
and events:
1533 England’s King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date)
1775 Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
1787 Shays’ Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Captain Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield MA
1799 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
1802 Napoleon elected President of the Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
1817 Rossini’s opera “La Cenerentola” premieres in Rome
1825 1st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy NY
1835 Vincenzo Bellini’s opera “I Puritani” premieres in Paris
1955 Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
1961 Walt Disney’s “101 Dalmations” released
