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01/16/1936
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Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president
Type: Event
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01/16/1936
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Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular
Type: Event
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01/16/1936
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Michael White, theater/film producer (From Russia With Love)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1937
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Bob Bogle, Portland, rock bassist/guitarist (Ventures-Batman Theme)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1937
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Conny Vandenbos, Dutch singer (My rose, my little rose)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1938
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Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing
Type: Event
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01/16/1938
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Michael Pataki, Youngstown Ohio, actor (Get Christie Love)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1939
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Comic strip "Superman" debuts
Type: Event
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01/16/1939
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Cliff Thorburn, English snookers player
Type: Birth
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01/16/1939
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Albert Fish, mass murderer, executed
Type: Death
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01/16/1941
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US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor
Type: Event
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01/16/1941
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War Dept forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
Type: Event
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01/16/1941
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Christine Janes, tennis player
Type: Birth
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01/16/1941
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Richard Bohringer, Paris France, actor (Diva, I Married a Shadow)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1941
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T˜men G J "Tim" Beekman, actor (Nosferatu)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1942
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William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in US army
Type: Event
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01/16/1942
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Barbara Lynn, rocker
Type: Birth
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01/16/1942
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Bill Francis Mobile Al, rocker (Dr Hook)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1942
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Tony P Hall, (Rep-D-OH, 1979- )
Type: Birth
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01/16/1942
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William Francis, rocker
Type: Birth
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01/16/1942
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Barbara Lynn, [Ozen], US singer (You'll Lose a Good Thing), dies
Type: Death
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01/16/1942
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Carole Lombard, actress, (Bolero), and mom killed in plane crash at 32
Type: Death
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01/16/1943
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-60øF (-51øC), Island Park Dam, Idaho (state record)
Type: Event
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01/16/1943
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1st US air raid on Ambon
Type: Event
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01/16/1943
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German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow
Type: Event
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01/16/1943
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Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad
Type: Event
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01/16/1943
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Brian Ferneyhough, composer
Type: Birth
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01/16/1943
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Gavin Bryars, composer
Type: Birth
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01/16/1943
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Franz Courtens, Flemish painter (Sunny Lane), dies at 88
Type: Death
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01/16/1944
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Gen Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London
Type: Event
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01/16/1944
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Chris de Marigny, painter/designer
Type: Birth
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01/16/1944
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Jim Stafford, Eloise Fla, singer (Spiders and Snakes, My Girl Bill)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1944
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Ronnie Milsap, Robbinsville NC, country singer (Legend in My Time)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1945
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Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg
Type: Event
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01/16/1945
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US 1st and 3rd army meet at Houffalise
Type: Event
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01/16/1945
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Kabir Bedi, actor (Thief of Baghdad, Terminal Entry)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1945
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Dennis Donnini, Brit rifleman (Victoria Cross), dies in battle at 19
Type: Death
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01/16/1946
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Michael L Coats, Sacramento Ca, Capt USN/astr (STS 41-D, 29, 39)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1946
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Johanna HC Albregt, actress/wife of Henri Dons (Paradise), dies at 71
Type: Death
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01/16/1947
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Vincent Aurial elected president of France
Type: Event
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01/16/1947
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Georgette Mosbacher, CEO (La Prairie cosmetics)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1947
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Juliet Berto, Grenoble France, actress (Le Sex Shop)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1948
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35 Haganah members are ambushed and killed in Gush Etzyon
Type: Event
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01/16/1948
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Anatoli Yakovlevich Solovyov, Riga, cosmonaut (TM-5,9,15,26, STS 71)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1948
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Christopher Moran, English financier/multi-millionaire
Type: Birth
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01/16/1948
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Cliff Thorburn, Victoria, BC, champion snooker player
Type: Birth
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01/16/1948
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John Carpenter, Carthage NY, director (Halloween, The Thing)
Type: Birth
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01/16/1949
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"Rape of Lucretia" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 23 perfs
Type: Event
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01/16/1949
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KNBH (now KNBC) TV channel 4 in Los Angeles, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
Type: Event
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01/16/1949
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WTOP (now WUSA) TV channel 9 in Washington, DC (CBS) 1st broadcast
Type: Event
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