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01/16/1910
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David McCampbell, US pilot/capt (WW II-Pacific-downed 34 Jap planes)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1911
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Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar
Type: Birth
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01/16/1911
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Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east
Type: Event
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01/16/1911
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Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, HOF baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1912
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Franz Tumler, Austria, author/novelist (Cloak, Aufruf)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1912
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Georg Heym, writer, dies at 24
Type: Death
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01/16/1913
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British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland
Type: Event
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01/16/1914
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Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia
Type: Event
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01/16/1914
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Roger Aubert, Belgium, church historian (Le Pontificat de Pie IX)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1915
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Congress authorizes $1 and $50 Panama-Pacific Intl Expo gold coin
Type: Event
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01/16/1916
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Frederick Stewart, British geologist
Type: Birth
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01/16/1916
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Arnold Aletrino, Dut physician-criminologist (From Death), dies at 57
Type: Death
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01/16/1917
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Buddy Lester, Chicago Ill, actor (Nick-Phil Silvers Show)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1918
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Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter
Type: Birth
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01/16/1919
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Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of states; Nebraska is 36th
Type: Event
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01/16/1919
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Bob Boucher, Kent Ohio, orch leader (Music on Ice)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1919
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Jaroslav Jeremias, composer, dies at 19
Type: Death
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01/16/1920
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Elliot Reid, NYC, actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1920
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18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933
Type: Event
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01/16/1920
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Georgia declares independence
Type: Event
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01/16/1920
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1st assembly of League of Nations (Paris)
Type: Event
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01/16/1920
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Reginald De Koven, composer, dies at 60
Type: Death
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01/16/1923
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Martin Stokken, Norway, nordic relay (Olympic-silver-1952)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1923
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Roy Lanham, rocker (Sons of the Pioneers)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1923
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Willem Aantjes, Dutch politicial leader (CDA)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1924
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Katy Jurado, M‚xico, actress (High Noon, Trapeze, Barabbas, AKA Pablo)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1925
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Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council
Type: Event
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01/16/1925
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Gen M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense
Type: Event
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01/16/1926
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John "Jack" Layden, local politician
Type: Birth
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01/16/1928
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Ezra Sims, composer
Type: Birth
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01/16/1928
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John William Fozard, aircraft designer
Type: Birth
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01/16/1928
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William Kennedy, US writer
Type: Birth
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01/16/1929
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Francesco Scavullo, Staten Island NY, celebrity photographer
Type: Birth
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01/16/1929
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Tage Nielsen, composer
Type: Birth
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01/16/1929
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Allard Lowenstein, radical (Students for Democratic Action)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1930
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Norman Podhoretz, Brooklyn NY, author/editor (NY Post)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1931
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Bradman scores 223 Australia v WI, 297 mins, 26 fours
Type: Event
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01/16/1931
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Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist
Type: Birth
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01/16/1932
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Jim Berry, cartoonist (Berry's World)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1932
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Dian Fossey, zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1933
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Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A, 27, T-3)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1933
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Bert Oldfield flattened by Larwood delivery in Adelaide Test
Type: Event
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01/16/1933
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Susan Sonntag, writer
Type: Birth
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01/16/1934
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Annie Patterson, composer, dies at 65
Type: Death
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01/16/1934
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Richard Wernick, Boston Mass, composer
Type: Birth
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01/16/1934
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Bill Alexander, (Rep-D-AR, 1969- )
Type: Birth
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01/16/1934
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Marilyn Horne, Bradford, Pa, mezzo-soprano
Type: Birth
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01/16/1935
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Richard Wetz, composer, dies at 59
Type: Death
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01/16/1935
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A J Foyt, Houston, auto race driver (Indy 500 1961, 64, 67, 77)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1936
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Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular
Type: Event
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