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01/15/1927
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Norm Crosby, Boston MA, comedian (Young at Heart Comedians)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1929
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Martin Luther King Jr, Atlanta, dreamer (Nobel 1964)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1929
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"Queen Ida" Guillory, Ziadaco music
Type: Birth
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01/15/1929
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Eva Badura-Skoda, composer
Type: Birth
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01/15/1930
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George Headley scores century on debut v England (made 176)
Type: Event
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01/15/1931
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Thomas Hoving, NYC, news correspondent (20/20)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1931
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Murad Kazhlayev, composer
Type: Birth
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01/15/1931
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Derek Meddings, special effects technician
Type: Birth
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01/15/1932
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Georg Kerschensteiner, German educationalist, dies at 77
Type: Death
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01/15/1932
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Enrique Raxach, composer
Type: Birth
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01/15/1932
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Louis Woodard Jones, New Rochelle NY, 4X400m relayer (Oly-gold-56)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1932
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Dean Smith, US actor/relay runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1934
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8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die
Type: Event
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01/15/1934
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Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)
Type: Event
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01/15/1934
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Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70
Type: Death
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01/15/1934
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Patrick O'Malley, US policeman, killed by John Dillinger
Type: Death
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01/15/1935
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300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition
Type: Event
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01/15/1935
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Robert Silverberg, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan's Planet)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1935
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Malcolm Frager, St Louis, Missouri, pianist
Type: Birth
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01/15/1935
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Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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01/15/1936
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Henry Forster, cricket (Hants and Oxford U, Gov-Gen of Australia), dies
Type: Death
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01/15/1936
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Horace Stoneham elected president of NY Giants
Type: Event
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01/15/1936
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1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio
Type: Event
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01/15/1936
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Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates
Type: Event
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01/15/1937
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Margaret O'Brien, San Diego, actress (Jane Eyre, Meet Me in St Louis)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1939
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Charles Christopher Steel, composer
Type: Birth
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01/15/1939
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Municipal Railway and Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
Type: Event
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01/15/1939
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1st NFL pro bowl, NY Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field
Type: Event
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01/15/1940
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German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
Type: Event
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01/15/1941
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Captain Beefheart, [Don Van Vliet], rocker (Bongo Fury, Shiny Beast)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1942
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Melvin Winfield Sheppard, runner (Olympic-gold-08, 12), dies at 58
Type: Death
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01/15/1942
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Edward "Sonny" Bivins, US singer (Manhattans-Kiss and Say Goodbye)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1942
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Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II
Type: Event
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01/15/1942
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FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II
Type: Event
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01/15/1943
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1,000 workers complete air conditioning system for Pentagon
Type: Event
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01/15/1943
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Mike Marshall, MLB pitcher (1974 Cy Young Award)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1943
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1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught
Type: Event
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01/15/1943
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World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
Type: Event
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01/15/1944
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European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany
Type: Event
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01/15/1944
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General Eisenhower arrives in England
Type: Event
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01/15/1944
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Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die
Type: Event
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01/15/1945
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Marie-Christine AHI von Leibnitz, (German?)/British princess
Type: Birth
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01/15/1945
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Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
Type: Event
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01/15/1945
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Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets
Type: Event
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01/15/1945
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"Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 429 perfs
Type: Event
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01/15/1947
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Andrea Martin, Portland ME, comediene (SCTV, Club Paradise)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1947
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Pete Waterman, rocker (Stock Aitken and Waterman-Road Block)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1948
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Tommy Nolan, Montreal Canada, actor (Jody-Buckskin)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1948
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Ronnie Van Zant, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Type: Birth
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01/15/1948
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Dini Petty, Canadian talk show host (CITY-TV)
Type: Birth
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