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1870 - Kappa Alpha Theta, the first women’s Greek letter society, or sorority, was founded at Indiana Asbury University -- now DePauw University -- in Greencastle, Indiana.1880 - Thomas Alva Edison of Menlo Park, NJ patented the electric incandescent lamp. We’ve been turning it on ever since...
1888 - The National Geographic Society was incorporated -- in Washington, DC.
1910 - Thomas Crapper, said to be the inventor and developer of the flush toilet mechanism that most of us use, died on this day.
1918 - The motion picture, Tarzan of the Apes, was released. The film was based on a series of stories written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The movie focused on 10-year-old Gordon Griffith who played Tarzan as a boy. An older Tarzan was played by Elmo Lincoln. Did you know that a famous baseball player turned down the chance to play the role of Tarzan? True! That famous player was the ‘Iron Man’ and pride of the New York Yankees, Lou Gehrig. Four Tarzans have won Olympic medals: Johnny Weissmuller, Herman Brix, Buster Crabbe and Glen Morris. It was Johnny Weissmuller who made the Tarzan yell famous (the yell is said to be a recorded combination of violin G-string, hyenas howl, dog’s growl and a camel’s bleat).
1931 - NBC radio introduced listeners to Clara, Lu ’n’ Em on its Blue network (later, ABC radio). The show became the first daytime radio serial when it was moved from its original nighttime slot. Louise Starkey appeared as Clara, Isobel Carothers as Lu, and Helen King as Em.
1944 - Casey Stengel resigned as manager of the Boston Braves, a position he had held since 1938. He became manager of the New York Yankees in 1948. Here are some famous Stengelisms: “The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day -- just two out of three.”; “The secret of managing a club is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the five guys who are undecided.”; and “You have to draft a catcher, because if you don’t have one, the ball will roll all the way back to the screen.”
1945 - The advancing Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz, the sadistic Nazi death camp. Prisoners capable of marching had been evacuated a few days earlier.
1948 - Wire Recording Corporation of America announced the first magnetic wire recorder. The ‘Wireway’ machine with a built-in oscillator sold for $149.50 -- big bucks in 1948.
1950 - Ed Wynn took home the Emmy for Most Outstanding Live Personality and his show, The Ed Wynn Show, received the award for Best Live Show. Coincidentally, this same night, Wynn’s comedian friend, Milton Berle, was awarded the Emmys for Most Outstanding Kinescope Personality for his performance on The Best Kinescope Show, The Texaco Star Theater, on NBC-TV.
1951 - Operation Ranger started atomic testing in the Nevada desert. An Air Force plane dropped a 1-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats.
1956 - The CBS Radio Workshop was heard for the first time. This first broadcast featured Aldous Huxley narrating his classic, Brave New World.
1961 - Leontyne Price made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. She sang in the role of Leonora in Il Trovatore. Price was only the seventh black singer to make a debut at the Met. Marian Anderson was the first (1955).
1967 - Tragedy struck on the launch pad of Apollo 204, scheduled to be the first Apollo manned mission. A flash fire in the command module during a preflight test killed astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee. After the disaster, the mission was officially designated Apollo 1.
1968 - The Bee Gees played their first American concert, as a group. They earned $50,000 to entertain at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. This is identical to what the Beatles were paid to perform at the Hollywood Bowl a few years earlier.
1968 - Otis Redding’s (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay was released on this day, seven weeks after the singer’s death. It became #1 on March 16, 1968 and remained at the top spot for a month. Redding began his recording career in 1960 with Johnny Jenkins and The Pinetoppers (on Confederate Records). He sang duet with Carla Thomas and had 11 chart hits. Redding of Dawson, GA was killed in a plane crash at Lake Monona near Madison, WI. Four members of the Bar-Kays were also killed in the crash. The Dock of the Bay, his only number one song, was recorded just three days before his death.
1972 - Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson died of heart failure. She was 60 years old. Jackson helped spread gospel music around the world. She sang "We Shall Overcome" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, just before Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream Speech.” She also sang at King’s funeral.
1973 - The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris, formally bringing to an end the longest foreign war in U.S. history. The agreement called for a cease-fire to begin the next day, the withdrawal of all U.S. troops and military advisers, and the release of all prisoners held by both sides. Diplomats held two separate ceremonies because South Vietnam refused to recognize the Viet Cong’s existence.
1976 - Laverne and Shirley, a spin-off from Happy Days, premiered on ABC TV. Penny Marshall starred as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams was Shirley Feeney. The show ran through May 10, 1983.
1982 - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat opened at Royale Theatre on Broadway in New York City -- for 747 performances.
1984 - Carl Lewis bettered his own two-year-old record by 9-1/4 inches when he set a new, world indoor record with a long-jump mark of 28 feet, 10-1/4 inches. The track event was held in New York City.
1984 - Michael Jackson’s hair caught on fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in Los Angeles. Pyrotechnics did not operate on cue, injuring the singer. Jackson was hospitalized for a few days and fans from around the world sent messages of concern.
1984 - ‘The Great One’, Wayne Gretzky, set a National Hockey League record for consecutive game scoring, as his streak ended at 51 games. The streak began on October 5, 1983, ending with the L.A. Kings defeating the Edmonton Oilers, 4-2. Gretzky collected 153 points (61 goals and 92 assists) during the run. Gretzky left Edmonton to play for the Kings in 1988.
1991 - Super Bowl XXV (at Tampa): New York Giants 20, Buffalo Bills 19. The Giants had the ball for 40 minutes, 33 seconds and the Bills hung on to the ball for less than 8 minutes in the second half. Talk about ball control. MVP: Giants’ RB Ottis Anderson. Tickets: $150.00.
1992 - Boxer Mike Tyson went on trial for the rape of 1991 Miss Black America contestant Desiree Washington. He was found guilty on February 10 and sentenced to three years in prison.
1993 - American Chad Rowan (Akebono) was awarded the highest rank in sumo wrestling, making him the first foreign Yokozuna. The 6-foot-9, 510-pound naturalized Japanese citizen born in Hawaii became the 64th person to hold the top rank in the Japanese sport’s 2,000-year history.
1994 - The U.S. Senate passed a resolution calling on the Clinton administration to lift the U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam. President Bill Clinton lifted the embargo a week later.
1995 - About five-thousand mourners gathered at the site of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its liberation.
1996 - France detonated its sixth and most powerful nuclear bomb. The next day, President Chirac announced that France would no longer test nuclear weapons.
1998 - In his State of the Union Address, U.S. President Clinton hailed the fact that the federal government would have a balanced budget in 1999; the first balanced U.S. budget in thirty years.
1999 - Over 100,000 people gathered at the Trans World Dome in St. Louis to see Pope John Paul II.
2000 - U.S. President Bill Clinton delivered his last State of the Union Address. His proposals included a $350-billion tax cut, big spending increases for schools and health care and photo ID licenses for handgun purchases.
2001 - Religious and political leaders joined survivors of the Holocaust, Cambodia’s killing fields and the Rwandan genocide for the first Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony in England.
2001 - Lynn Swann (Pittsburgh Steelers) and Ron Yary (Minnesota Vikings) were elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in their 14th year of eligibility. Also elected: Nick Buoniconti, Marv Levy, Mike Munchak, Jackie Slater, and Jack Youngblood.
2001 - Jennifer Capriati upset three-time winner Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-3 to win the Australian Open title and her first Grand Slam tournament championship.
2002 - The Super Bowl matchup was decided when the New England Patriots upset the Pittsburgh Steelers, 24-to-17, to win the AFC championship and the St. Louis Rams defeated the Philadelphia Eagles, 29-to-24, to win the NFC championship.
2004 - Jack Paar died in Greenwich, CT. He was 85 years old. Paar hosted the Tonight Show from 1957 through 1962 and headed his own NBC variety series (The Jack Paar Program) from 1962 to 1965. His 1960 memoir was titled I Kid You Not, which was one of his signature lines.
2004 - John Kerry won the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary with 39% of the vote. Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, John Edwards and Joe Lieberman followed with 26, 12, 12, and 9%.
2005 - Consumer-goods manufacturing giant Procter & Gamble announced a $55 billion deal to buy the Gillette Corp.
2006 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Annapolis, with James Franco, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Donnie Wahlberg, Chi McBride and Vicellous Shannon; Big Momma’s House 2, starring Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Zachary Levi, Emily Procter, Mark Moses; Bubble, with Dustin James Ashley, Katherine Beaumier, Joyce Brookhart, Daniel R. Christian, Ross Clegg, Omar Cowan, Thomas R. Davis, M. Stephen Dee, Debbie Doebereiner, Leonora K. Hornbeck, Laurie Lee, Decker Moody, Scott Smeeks, K. Smith, Madison Wilkins, Misty Dawn Wilkins and Phyllis Workman; and Nanny McPhee, starring Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Kelly Macdonald and Thomas Sangster.
2007 - The $57 million Portland Aerial Tram began operations. Two 78-passenger cabins carried commuters from the Banks of the Willamette River to the campus of the Oregon Health and Sciences University on Marquam Hill.
2007 - The Sundance Film Festival’s grand-jury prize for best U.S. drama was won by Padre Nuestro, an immigrant saga about a Mexican teen’s heartbreaking search for his father in America. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet), a profile of lives in Brazil, took the Documentary Grand Jury Prize (along with the cinematography prize).
2008 - Former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov was barred from the Russian ballot by election authorities who said tens of thousands of signatures on his nominating petitions were faked. Kasyanov denounced the Central Election Commission’s ruling as politically motivated and described the election as a farce. “I have no doubt that Putin personally made the decision not to register my candidacy,” he said.
2009 - A study led by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted that climate change was “largely irreversible” for 1,000 years even if carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could be abruptly halted.
2009 - A $29 million SPCA pet hospital in San Francisco held its grand opening. The Leanne B. Roberts Animal Care Center, was named for a former association board member and animal lover whose family donated $18 million toward its construction.
2010 - Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a tablet computer device he called the iPad. The 16, 32 and 64GB gizmo with 9.7-inch display was designed to bridge the gap between smartphones and laptops. It went on sale in March 2010 for $499-$829.
2012 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S.: The Grey, starring Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo, James Badge Dale, Joe Anderson, Nonso Anozie, Dallas Roberts and Larissa Stadnichuk; Man on a Ledge, with Elizabeth Banks, Sam Worthington, Jamie Bell, Edward Burns, Kyra Sedgwick and Ed Harris; and One for the Money, starring Katherine Heigl, Jason O’Mara, Daniel Sunjata, John Leguizamo, Sherri Shepherd and Debbie Reynolds.
2013 - Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a measure into law giving illegal immigrants permission to drive. Critics said they feared fraud and abuse, and pointed to hundreds of fraudulent cases in New Mexico, Washington and Utah after those states began giving illegal immigrants permission to drive. But sponsoring Representative Edward Acevedo (D-Chicago) said, “This bill is not just about driver’s licenses, it’s about equality for all.”
2014 - The first Geneva meeting meant to discuss the issue of a Syrian transitional government broke up less than an hour after it began. It was a tense session that one delegate described as, “a dialogue of the deaf.”
2014 - Legendary American folksinger and activist Pete Seeger died in New York City at 94 years of age. Seeger’s song Turn! Turn! Turn! was made famous by the Byrds in 1965. He also wrote Where Have All the Flowers Gone. He didn’t have a Top 40 hit on his own, but the pop charts were never an indication of his overwhelming impact. In 1948, Seeger, along with Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays and Fred Hellerman, formed the Weavers. Their version of Leadbelly’s Goodnight, Irene sold two million copies, quite a feat in 1950. The group’s repertoire also included Wimoweh. Seeger left the Weavers in 1958 after refusing to join them in a cigarette commercial. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture and environmental causes. His career and influence were heard in a big way. Dylan, Baez, Judy Collins and Peter, Paul and Mary were among the many folk and socially conscious acts of the early 1960s who idolized Pete Seeger. In his later years Seeger lived with his longtime wife Toshi at a house he built in New York’s Hudson Valley. He had helped clean up the Hudson River with his Clearwater Project, which began in the late Sixties.
2015 - Denmark announced that it had earmarked 60.9 million kroner ($9.2 million) over three years for programs to ‘de-radicalize’ Islamic extremists, including those who had fought with jihadi groups in Syria and Iraq.
2015 - CEO Tim Cook announced Apple earnings of $18 billion in its latest fiscal quarter. The company’s cash was reported to be some $178 billion.
2016 - U.S. and Oregon state officials restricted access to the state refuge being occupied by an armed group. This, after one of the occupiers was killed during a traffic stop. Eight others, including the group’s leader, Ammon Bundy, were arrested.
2016 - Denmark and Switzerland joined other European countries reporting Zika infections among travelers returning from Latin America. The mosquito-borne virus had been blamed for a surge in birth defects in Central and South America.
2017 - New movies in the U.S. included Bastards, starring J.K. Simmons, Owen Wilson and Bill Irwin; A Dog’s Purpose, with Britt Robertson, Josh Gad and Dennis Quaid; Gold, starring Matthew McConaughey, Edgar Ramírez and Bryce Dallas Howard; Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, with Ruby Rose, Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter; and I Am Michael, starring James Franco, Emma Roberts and Daryl Hannah.
2017 - Oscar-nominated British actor John Hurt, known for his roles in dozens of films, including Elephant Man and the Harry Potter film series, died in Norfolk, England after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 77 years old.
2017 - POTUS Trump ordered a 4-month ban on refugees from Muslim-majority countries. A U.S. federal law enforcement official said any non-U.S. citizen from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen was barred from entering the United States.
2018 - American comic strip artist Mort Walker died at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 94 years old. Walker is best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954. He began doing Spider, a one-panel series for The Saturday Evening Post, about a lazy, laid-back college student. When he decided he could make more money doing a multi-panel comic strip, Spider morphed into Beetle Bailey, eventually distributed by King Features Syndicate to 1,800 newspapers in more than 50 countries for a combined readership of 200 million daily.
2018 - Billionaire casino mogul Steve Wynn stepped down as finance chairman of the Republican National Committee following accusations of a years-long pattern of sexual misconduct with his casino employees.
2019 - Israel’s cabinet approved a law permitting the export of medical marijuana. The government expected the move would boost investment in local industry and agriculture. Critics were afraid the new law could lead to more recreational use of the marijuana.
2019 - Twin bombings killed 20 people attending a church service in the Philippines on the southern island of Mindanao. The blasts came six days after a referendum on autonomy for the mainly Muslim region returned an overwhelming “yes” vote. In July Indonesian police reported that a husband and wife team, members of the banned Jemaah Anshorut Daulah extremist group, had carried out the bombings.
2020 - Arizona violated the Voting Rights Act by barring voters from delivering the early ballots of neighbors, friends and others to polling places. A U.S. federal appeals court ruled that the 2016 Arizona law against so-called “ballot harvesting” disproportionately affected American Indian, Hispanic and African American voters.
2020 - A fire destroyed at least 35 vessels docked along the Tennessee River. At least eight people were killed. Boats, houseboats and pontoon vessels burned in the fire. Some were docked for recreation, but for some people, the boats were homes. The blaze was on the inland side of the dock, making rescues difficult.
2020 - The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in China rose to 106. Cases linked to people who had travelled from Wuhan were confirmed in more than 10 countries. U.S. stocks fell more than 1% after investors worried about the economic fallout of the fast-spreading virus outbreak. Those fears prompted China to extend the Lunar New Year holidays and close some businesses.
2021 - Cloris Leachman, best known for Mel Brooks movies, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Malcolm in the Middle, died at her home in Encinitas, California. She was 94 years old. Her role in The Last Picture Show (1971), won her the Oscar for best supporting actress.
2021 - The new year was off to a booming start for big business as electric carmaker Tesla reported its first profitable year, and Apple said it had surpassed $100 billion in quarterly sales.
2021 - Chile’s health regulator approved the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use among its population. This, by a unanimous vote of the Chile advisory board.
2022 - The Federal Communications Commission voted to revoke the authorization for China Unicom to operate in the United States because of serious national security concerns. The agency’s four commissioners voted unanimously to revoke the license, saying the company could access or reroute American communications and engage in spycraft. The commission also accused China Unicom, one of China’s largest mobile service providers, of trying to mislead the F.C.C -- and Congress.
2022 - Violetta Grudina, an activist ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, said she had fled Russia to avoid arrest. Grudina had been barred from standing for election in the Arctic port city of Murmansk. Two Navalny top aides said they had received letters with threats to themselves and their families.
2023 - New movies in the U.S. included: Fear, with Joseph Sikora, Ruby Modine, Iddo Goldberg and Annie Ilonzeh; and Infinity Pool, starring Mia Goth, Alexander Skarsgård and Cleopatra Coleman.
2023 - Memphis Police released the body cam footage showing the beating of Tyre Nichols by five Memphis police officers. Nichols was shown being held down by the officers who repeatedly beat him with their batons and struck him with their fists and boots. Pepper spray was also seen being used against him and he could be heard pleading for his mother. Nichols, 29, was taken to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries. Attorneys for the Nichols family called the video “absolutely appalling, alarming, and unconscionable,” and the five officers involved had been charged with murder.
2023 - A rioter who attacked U.S. Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick during the Jan 6, 2021 insurrection was sentenced to 80 months in prison. Julian Khater, a New Jersey native, used chemical spray to assault police officers during the attack on the Capitol building. Sicknick, one of the men attacked by Khater, suffered a pair of strokes and died the day after the assault. While Sicknick was determined to have died of natural causes, the medical examiner concluded, “All that transpired (on Jan 6) played a role in his condition.”
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Birthdays on This Day January 27
1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Theophilus)
composer: Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, Symphony #41, Requiem, A Little Night Music; died in 1791; died Dec 5, 17911832 - Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson)
mathematician, writer: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, The Hunting of the Snark; died Jan 14, 18981850 - Samuel Gompers
labor union leader: 1st president of the American Federation of Labor [AFL]; died Dec 13, 19241850 - Edward John Smith
Captain of the ill-fated RMS Titanic; died [went down with the Titanic] Apr 15, 19121885 - Jerome Kern
the father of the American musical: composer: Show Boat, Ol’ Man River, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Lovely to Look At, The Way You Look Tonight, The Last Time I Saw Paris; died Nov 11, 19451895 - Harry Ruby (Rubinstein)
musician: composer: Duck Soup; died Feb 23, 19741900 - Hyman Rickover
‘Father of the Nuclear Navy’: U.S. Navy Admiral: directed development of the Nautilus, the first nuclear reactor-powered submarine; died July 8, 19861901 - Art Rooney
Pro Football Hall of Fame founder, administrator: bought the Pittsburgh Pirates [1933] and changed their name to the Steelers [1940]; died Aug 25, 19881908 - William Randolph Hearst Jr.
publishing and broadcasting mogul: newspapers: San Francisco Examiner, magazines: Cosmopolitan; Hearst Broadcasting, A&E Television Networks, The History Channel; died May 14, 19931915 - Ernst Schröder
actor: Das Babylon Komplott, A Song for Europe, The Odessa File, Heidi, Die Nylonschlinge, Mein Schulfreund, Geheimaktion schwarze Kapelle; died Jul 26, 19941916 - Milt (Milton W.) Raskin
pianist, composer: Twenty Mule Train [Death Valley Days], Exotic Percussion [Kapu], Look Out Up There [w/Pete Rugolo], I Never Wanna Look Into Those Eyes [w/Johnny Mercer], Mileka; arranger: Naked City, The Fugitive, The Agony and the Ecstacy, Lawrence of Arabia; died Oct 16, 19771918 - Skitch (Lyle) Henderson
bandleader: musical director of NBC-TV’s The Tonight Show with Steve Allen, Johnny Carson; conductor: Tulsa Symphony Orchestra; died Nov 1, 20051918 - Elmore James
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame blues musician: guitar: Dust My Broom, Shake Your Money Maker, Talk to Me Baby, It Hurts Me Too, The Sky is Crying; died May 24, 19631921 - Donna Reed (Mullenger)
actress: From Here to Eternity, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Benny Goodman Story, The Donna Reed Show; died Jan 14, 19861924 - Sabu (Dastagir)
actor: A Tiger Walks, The Treasure of Bengal, The Jungle Book, Arabian Nights, The Thief of Bagdad, The Elephant Boy; died Dec 2, 19631929 - Mohamed Al-Fayed
Egyptian business magnate: business interests include/included ownership of Hotel Ritz Paris, Harrods Department Store, Knightsbridge; his eldest son, Dodi, died in car crash in Paris along with Diana, Princess of Wales Aug 31, 19971930 - Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland (Robert Calvin Brooks)
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer: singer: That’s the Way Love Is, Call on Me, Turn on Your Love Light, Ain’t Nothin’ You Can Do; original group: The Beale Streeters with Johnny Ace; died Jun 23, 20131931 - Rudi Maugeri
singer: group: The Crew Cuts: Sh-Boom, Earth Angel, Crazy ’Bout Ya Baby, I Spoke Too Soon, Oop-Shoop, Do Me Good Baby, Ko Ko Mo [I Love You So]; died May 7, 20041934 - Jerry Buss
Basketball Hall of Fame sports franchise owner: majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers pro basketball team and other pro sports franchises in Southern California; died Feb 18, 20131934 - George Follmer
auto racer: Spanish Grand Prix [3rd place: 1973]; Trans-Am season win [tied w/Hurley Haywood, Carl Shafer: 1976]1936 - Troy Donahue (Merle Johnson)
actor: Hawaiian Eye, Parrish, A Summer Place, Assault of the Party Nerds, The Godfather: Part 2, The Chilling; died Sep 2, 20011936 - Paul Mitchell
hairstylist, co-founder [John] Paul Mitchell hair products; died Apr 21, 19891939 - Mike Hill
golf champ: Doral-Eastern Open Invitational [1970], San Antonio Texas Open [1972], Ohio Kings Island Open [1977]1940 - James Cromwell
actor: The Green Mile, The Artist, The Rockford Files, Star Trek: First Contac, L.A. Confidential, The Sum of All Fears, Six Feet Under, American Horror Story: Asylum1942 - John Witherspoon
actor: Friday film series, Hollywood Shuffle, Boomerang, The Wayans Brothers, The Tracy Morgan Show, Barnaby Jones, The Boondocks, From the Old School; died Oct 29, 20191942 - Steve Wynn
Las Vegas hotel/casino developer: CEO of Wynn Resorts: refurbished or built Golden Nugget, The Mirage, Treasure Island, Bellagio; developed Wynn Las Vegas, Wynn Macau, Encore at Wynn Las Vegas, Encore at Wynn Macau; finance chair of the Republican National Committee [2017-2018]; resigned amid sexual misconduct allegations [2018]1944 - Nick Mason
musician: drums: group: Pink Floyd: Arnold Layne, Let There be More Light, Atom Heart Mother, Echoes, Wish You Were Here, Shine on You Crazy Diamond; LP: Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall1946 - Nedra Talley
singer: group: The Ronettes: Be My Baby, Baby I Love You, Do I Love You, Walking in the Rain, [The Best Part of] Breaking Up1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov
Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, actor: defected from the U.S.S.R. to Canada in 1974, then went on to the U.S.; principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre [1974-1978], worked with New York City Ballet, with George Balanchine and as a regular guest artist with the Royal Ballet; several roles were created for him, including roles Opus 19: The Dreamer [1979], by Jerome Robbins, Rhapsody [1980], by Frederick Ashton, and Other Dances with Natalia Makarova by Jerome Robbins; he returned to ABT in 1980 as dancer and artistic director for ten years; became a naturalized citizen of the U.S. [July 3, 1986]; was artistic director of the White Oak Dance Project, a touring company he co-founded with Mark Morris [1990-2002]; won the Prix Benois de la Danse for lifetime achievement [2003]; launched the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York [2005]1950 - Russell Lee
basketball: Milwaukee Bucks1951 - Brian Downey
musician: drums: group: Thin Lizzy: Still in Love with You, Killer on the Loose, Whiskey in the Jar, The Rocker, Little Girl in Bloom1951 - Seth Justman
musician: keyboard, singer, composer: group: The J. Geils Band: Give It to Me, Must Have Got Lost, One Last Kiss, Freeze-Frame, Centerfold, Angel in Blue, Land of 1000 Dances1952 - Brian Gottfried
tennis: Trinity University [Division I National Championship: 1972]; French Open [1975, 1977], Wimbledon [w/Raul Ramirez: 1976]; 25 singles titles, 54 doubles crowns; singles ranking No. 3 in world: 19771954 - Ed Schultz
liberal radio/TV political commentator: The Ed Show [MSNBC], radio’s The Ed Schultz Show; died Jul 5, 20181955 - John Roberts
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [nominated to the position by President George W Bush in 2005]1956 - Mimi Rogers
actress: Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, Full Body Massage, Monkey Trouble, Dark Horse, The Rousters, Desperate Hours, The Mighty Quinn, Someone To Watch Over Me, Blue Skies Again1958 - Susanna Thompson
actress: Little Giants, Ghosts of Mississippi, Random Hearts, Dragonfly, Once and Again, Arrow, A Shayna Maidel, The X-Files, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Unimatrix Zero, The Lake, NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service1959 - Cris Collinsworth
football: Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver: Super Bowl XVI, XXIII; TV sports analyst: Inside the NFL, NFL Thursday Night Football, NBC Sunday Night Football1961 - Gillian Gilbert
musician: keyboards: group: New Order: Shellshock, Confusion, Blue Monday1964 - Woody Austin
golf champ: PGA Rookie of the Year [1995], Buick Open [1995], Buick Championship [2004], Stanford St. Jude Championship [2007]1964 - Bridget Fonda
actress: Point of No Return, The Godfather, Part 3, Aria, 21 Jump Street; daughter of actor, Peter Fonda and actress, Susan Brewer, granddaughter of actor, Henry Fonda, niece of actress, Jane Fonda1964 - Jack Haley
basketball [forward]: UCLA; NBA: Chicago Bulls, New Jersey Nets, Los Angeles Lakers, San Antonio Spurs; FOX TV Sports college basketball analyst; died Mar 16, 20151965 - Alan Cumming
singer, writer, director, producer, author, actor: Cabaret [TV 1993], GoldenEye, X2: X-Men United, Emma, Spy Kids film series, The Anniversary Party, Sweet Land; introducer for Masterpiece Mystery! [PBS]; The Good Wife; stage: Hamlet, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Bent, The Bacchae; Broadway: The Threepenny Opera, Cabaret [Tony Award 1998], Design for Living; more1968 - Tracy Lawrence
musician: guitar, singer: Time Marches On, If the World Had a Front Porch, Texas Tornado, Stars Over Texas, Her Old Stompin’ Ground, Sticks and Stones1968 - Rusty Meacham
baseball [pitcher]: Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Royals, Seattle Mariners, Houston Astros, Tampa Bay Devil Rays1968 - Mike Patton
singer: group: Faith No More: We Care a Lot, Introduce Yourself, From Out of Nowhere, Falling to Pieces, Midlife Crisis, Small Victory1968 - Matt Stover
football [kicker]: Louisiana Tech Univ; NFL: Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens1969 - Patton Oswalt
stand-up comedian, writer, actor, voice actor: The King of Queens, Ratatouille, Robotomy, Young Adult, United States of Tara, Neighbors from Hell, Reno 911!1971 - Patrice Brisebois
hockey: Montreal Canadiens1971 - Guillermo Rodriguez
TV personality: Jimmy Kimmel Live!; began his career as the parking lot security guard at ABC’s Hollywood Blvd studios1972 - Bryant Young
football: Notre Dame Univ; NFL: San Francisco 49ers1979 - Rosamund Pike
actress: Pride & Prejudice [2005], Die Another Day, An Education, Dagenham, Barney’s Version, Johnny English Reborn, Wrath of the Titans, Jack Reacher1980 - Marat Safin
tennis pro: won two grand slam tournaments [2000 U.S. Open, 2005 Australian Open]; helped lead Russia to Davis Cup victories [2002, 2006]; reached the World #1 ranking [Nov 20, 2000]; since his retirement in 2009, he became an elected member of parliament for President Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party2000 - Bailey Zimmerman
songwriter, singer: Fall in Love, Rock and a Hard Place; LP: Religiously. The Album
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Hit Music on This Day January 27
1948Golden Earrings (facts) - Peggy Lee
How Soon (facts) - Jack Owens
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