361 Historic Events for January 16
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| 1924 |
Birth |
Katy Jurado, M‚xico, actress (High Noon, Trapeze, Barabbas, AKA Pablo)
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| 1925 |
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Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council
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| 1925 |
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Gen M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense
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| 1926 |
Birth |
John "Jack" Layden, local politician
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| 1928 |
Birth |
Ezra Sims, composer
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| 1928 |
Birth |
John William Fozard, aircraft designer
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| 1928 |
Birth |
William Kennedy, US writer
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| 1929 |
Birth |
Francesco Scavullo, Staten Island NY, celebrity photographer
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| 1929 |
Birth |
Tage Nielsen, composer
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| 1929 |
Birth |
Allard Lowenstein, radical (Students for Democratic Action)
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| 1930 |
Birth |
Norman Podhoretz, Brooklyn NY, author/editor (NY Post)
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| 1931 |
Event |
Bradman scores 223 Australia v WI, 297 mins, 26 fours
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| 1931 |
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Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist
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| 1932 |
Birth |
Jim Berry, cartoonist (Berry's World)
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| 1932 |
Birth |
Dian Fossey, zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist)
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| 1933 |
Birth |
Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A, 27, T-3)
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| 1933 |
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Bert Oldfield flattened by Larwood delivery in Adelaide Test
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| 1933 |
Birth |
Susan Sonntag, writer
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| 1934 |
Death |
Annie Patterson, composer, dies at 65
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| 1934 |
Birth |
Richard Wernick, Boston Mass, composer
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| 1934 |
Birth |
Bill Alexander, (Rep-D-AR, 1969- )
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| 1934 |
Birth |
Marilyn Horne, Bradford, Pa, mezzo-soprano
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| 1935 |
Death |
Richard Wetz, composer, dies at 59
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| 1935 |
Birth |
A J Foyt, Houston, auto race driver (Indy 500 1961, 64, 67, 77)
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| 1936 |
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Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular
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