404 Historic Events for January 7
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| 1932 |
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1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Mich
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| 1933 |
Birth |
Elliot Kastner, NYC, producer (Bobo, Big Sleep, Ffolkes)
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| 1933 |
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1st edition of People and Fatherland published in Netherlands
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| 1934 |
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Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld
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| 1934 |
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"Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
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| 1934 |
Birth |
Charles Lamont Jenkins, NYC, 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1956)
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| 1935 |
Event |
Z”e Akins' "Old Maid," premieres in NYC
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| 1935 |
Birth |
Noam Sheriff, composer
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| 1935 |
Birth |
Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 19, 36/35)
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| 1936 |
Event |
Tennis champs Helen Moody and Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)
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| 1936 |
Death |
Howard Francis, cricketer (2 Tests S Af v Eng 1898-99, 39 runs), dies
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| 1936 |
Birth |
Eldee Young, US bassist (Young Holt Unlimited-Hang on Sloopy)
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| 1938 |
Birth |
Jasperina de Jong, Dutch cabaret performer (Jan Rao en z'n Maat)
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| 1939 |
Birth |
Tom Kierman, British(?) rugby player
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| 1939 |
Birth |
David Buchan, ethno-musicologist
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| 1939 |
Event |
US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)
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| 1940 |
Birth |
William Elgin Swinton, child psychiatrist
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| 1941 |
Birth |
Frederick Drew Gregory, Wash DC, Col USAF/astro (STS 51-B, 33, 44)
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| 1941 |
Birth |
Ann Susan Hills, freelance journalist
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| 1941 |
Birth |
Robert Hicks, rocker (Paul Butterfield Blues Band)
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| 1942 |
Event |
WW II siege of Bataan starts
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| 1942 |
Death |
Henry, Count of Baillet-Latour, pres of IOC (1925-42), dies at 63
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| 1942 |
Birth |
Paul Revere, rock keyoardist (Good Thing)
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| 1942 |
Birth |
Vasili Alexeyev, USSR, weightlifer (Olympic-gold-72, 76)
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| 1943 |
Birth |
Jim Lefebvre, Hawthorne Calif, baseball manager (Seattle Mariners)
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