361 Historic Events for January 16
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| 1936 |
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1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Fla
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| 1936 |
Birth |
Michael White, theater/film producer (From Russia With Love)
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| 1936 |
Event |
Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president
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| 1937 |
Birth |
Bob Bogle, Portland, rock bassist/guitarist (Ventures-Batman Theme)
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| 1937 |
Birth |
Conny Vandenbos, Dutch singer (My rose, my little rose)
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| 1938 |
Birth |
Michael Pataki, Youngstown Ohio, actor (Get Christie Love)
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| 1938 |
Event |
Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing
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| 1939 |
Death |
Albert Fish, mass murderer, executed
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| 1939 |
Birth |
Cliff Thorburn, English snookers player
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| 1939 |
Event |
Comic strip "Superman" debuts
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| 1941 |
Birth |
T˜men G J "Tim" Beekman, actor (Nosferatu)
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| 1941 |
Birth |
Christine Janes, tennis player
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| 1941 |
Birth |
Richard Bohringer, Paris France, actor (Diva, I Married a Shadow)
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| 1941 |
Event |
US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor
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| 1941 |
Event |
War Dept forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
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| 1942 |
Birth |
Bill Francis Mobile Al, rocker (Dr Hook)
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| 1942 |
Death |
Barbara Lynn, [Ozen], US singer (You'll Lose a Good Thing), dies
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| 1942 |
Birth |
Tony P Hall, (Rep-D-OH, 1979- )
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| 1942 |
Death |
Carole Lombard, actress, (Bolero), and mom killed in plane crash at 32
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| 1942 |
Birth |
William Francis, rocker
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| 1942 |
Event |
William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in US army
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| 1942 |
Birth |
Barbara Lynn, rocker
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| 1943 |
Event |
German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow
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| 1943 |
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1st US air raid on Ambon
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| 1943 |
Event |
Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad
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