352 Historic Events for January 24
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| 1902 |
Birth |
Walter Keirnan, New Havens Ct, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret)
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| 1903 |
Birth |
Robert Gwathmey, artist (Arts and Letters)
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| 1904 |
Death |
Franz Coenen, composer, dies at 77
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| 1906 |
Birth |
Norman Cook, museum curator
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| 1907 |
Birth |
Alfonse Vranckx, Belgian lawyer/politician
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| 1907 |
Birth |
Maurice Couve de Murville, France premier (1968-69)
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| 1908 |
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Gen Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts
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| 1909 |
Birth |
Tiny Winters, musician
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| 1909 |
Birth |
Ann Todd, Hartford England, actress (Paradine Case, 7th Veil)
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| 1911 |
Death |
Carl Eilhardt, composer, dies at 67
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| 1911 |
Birth |
C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, US, sci-fi author (Judgment Night)
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Ken Weekes, cricketer (WI batsman v England 1939, 137 at The Oval)
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Mark Goodson, TV game-show proudcer (Goodson-Toddman)
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Norman Dello Joio, [Dello Ioio], NYC, composer
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| 1913 |
Event |
Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished
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| 1913 |
Death |
Gustav Luders, composer, dies at 47
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| 1914 |
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Opera "Madeleine," premieres in NYC
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| 1915 |
Birth |
Vitezslava Kapralova, composer
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| 1915 |
Birth |
Ernest Borgnine, Hamden Ct, actor (Ice Station Zebra, McHale, Marty)
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| 1915 |
Birth |
Robert B Motherwell, US, painter (Elegies to the Spanish Republic)
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| 1915 |
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German-British sea battle at Doggersbank and Helgoland
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| 1916 |
Birth |
John Corner, scientist
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| 1916 |
Birth |
Vic Stollmeyer, cricketer (bro of Jeff Scored 96 in only Test innings)
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| 1918 |
Birth |
John McLiam, Alberta, actor (Parker-Men From Shiloh)
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| 1918 |
Birth |
Oral Roberts, Televangelist; needs $8,000,000 (Oral Roberts College)
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