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January 1
1953: Hank Williams Sr., the country singer died of a drug and alcohol
overdose while on his way to a concert in Canton, Ohio. He was 29. 2000:
Ray Walston, Hollywood actor, died in Beverly Hills, California, USA, at age 86.
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January 2
2001: William P.
Rogers, former Attorney General and Secretary of State, died in Bethesda,
MD. He was 87.
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Politicians who died Jan. 2
January 3
1967: Jack Ruby, who shot President John F. Kennedy's
assassin, Lee Harvey
Oswald, died in a Dallas hospital.
1992: In California, a driver was shot to death after police officers said he pointed a
shotgun at them. Highway Patrols pursued him who had killed another
motorist along Interstate 5 for more than 300 miles until his car ran out of gas
in Westminster.
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January 4
1960: Albert Camus, French author, died in an automobile
accident outskirt of Paris at age 46. 1965: T.S. Eliot,
famous poet died in London at age 76. 1987: 16 people were killed
in a train accident when a US Amtrak train bound from Washington to
Boston collided with another train,Conrail engines, approaching from a side track in Chase,
MD 1997: Harry Helmsley, Real estate mogul, died in Scottsdale,
Arizona, USA. He was 87.
2001: Les Brown, Orchestra leader known for his ``Band of Renown,'' died at age 88.
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January 5
1477: Charles le Téméraire, Duke of
Burgundy dies while besienging Nancy (France). His body, half devoured
by wolves, will be found three days later.
1589: Catherine de Medici of France died at age 69. 1933:
Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, died in
Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. He was 60. 1970: Joseph A. Yablonski, an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of
the United Mine Workers, was found murdered with his wife and daughter at their
home in Clarksville, PA., USA. 1994: Thomas P. ``Tip'' O'Neill, former speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives, died in Boston at age 81.
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January 6
1919: Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States,
died in
Oyster Bay, N.Y., USA, He was 60yeard old. 1993: Rudolf Nureyev, the ballet dancer, died in Paris,
france, at age 54 1993: Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpeter, died in Englewood, N.J.,USA, at age 75.
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January 7
1989: Hirohito, Emperor of Japan died in Tokyo at age 87; he was succeeded
by his son, Crown Prince Akihito. 1992: Serb forces shot down
a European Community helicopter in Croatia, killing five truce observers.
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January 8
1642: Galileo Galilei, astronomer, died in Arcetri, Italy. 1976:
Chinese premier Chou En-lai died in Beijing at age 78.
1997: The state of Arkansas put three men to death in the second
triple execution since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
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January 9
1964: Anti American rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone, resulting in
the deaths of 21 Panamanians and three US soldiers. 1980: Saudi Arabia beheaded 63 people for their involvement in the
November 1979 raid on the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
1997: A Comair commuter plane crashed 18 miles short of the Detroit Airport, killing all 29 people on board.
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January 10
1980: George Meany, former AFL-CIO president,
died
in Washington, D.C., USA, at age 85.
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January 11
2001: The Army acknowledged that U.S. soldiers killed an ``unknown
number'' of South Korean refugees early in the Korean War at No Gun Ri.
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Politicians who died Jan. 11
January 12 519: Roman Emperor Maximilian I died. 2001: William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co., died in Palo Alto,
Ca, USA, at age 87.
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January 13
1864: Music composer Stephen Foster died in New York. 1941:
Writer James Joyce died in Zurich, Switzerland. 1962: TV
comedian Ernie
Kovacs died in a car crash in west Los Angeles, Ca, USA. 1978: Hubert H. Humphrey,
former Vice President, died in Waverly, Minn., USA, at
age 66. 1982: Air Florida Boeing 737 airplane crashed into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street
Bridge after takeoff and fell into the Potomac River, killing 78 people.
2001: More than 840 people were killed when an earthquake measuring magnitude 7.6 struck El
Salvador.
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January 14
1742: English astronomer Edmond Halley, who observed the comet that
was named after his name, died at age 85. 1898: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as ``Alice
in Wonderland'' creator Lewis Carroll, died in Guildford, England, less than
two weeks before his 66th birthday. 1969: 25 crew members of the U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise were killed
in an explosion that ripped through the ship off Hawaii.
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January 15
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January 16
1942: Carole
Lombard, actress, her mother and about 20 other people were killed in a plane
crash near Las Vegas, Nev., USA, while returning from a war-bond promotion tour. 1989:
Three days of rioting erupted in Miami, USA, when a police officer fatally
shot a black motorcyclist, causing a crash that also claimed the life of a
passenger. 1997: Hollywood entertainer Bill
Cosby's only son, Ennis Cosby, was shot to death in Los Angeles in an apparent
roadside robbery attempt. 2001: Leonard
Woodcock, former head of the United Auto Workers union, died in Ann Arbor, Mich.,
USA, at age 89.
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January 17
1893: Rutherford B. Hayes the, 19th president of the United States, died
in Fremont, Ohio, USA, at age 70. 1945: Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat,
who saved lives of tens of
thousands of Jews, disappeared in Hungary while he was in Soviet custody.
1977: Gary Gilmore, convicted murderer, was shot by a firing squad at Utah State Prison in the first U.S. execution in a
decade. He was 36
1992: President Bush laid a wreath at the crypt of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta.
1992:
Eight Protestant laborers were killed in an IRA bombing in Northern Ireland. 1994:
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California, USA, killing at
least 61 people. 1995: A 7.2
magnitude earthquake devastated the city of Kobe, Japan, killing more than 6,000 people
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January 18
1862: John Tyler, 10th president of the United States, died in
Richmond, Va., USA, at age 71.
1936: Rudyard Kipling, British author, died in Burwash, England. 1970: Mormon president David McKay died at the age of 96.
1996: Paul Tsongas, Former Massachusetts Senator and Democratic front-runner for
presidency in 1992, who rebounded from
cancer, died
in Boston, USA, of pneumonia at age 55.
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January 19
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January 20
1666: Anne of Autriche widow of the King
of France Louis XIII died or breastcancer.
1936: Britain's King George V died; he was succeeded by Edward VIII. 1990:
Actress Barbara Stanwyck died in Santa Monica, Ca., USA, at age 82.
1992: Air France Airbus A-320 crashed near Strasbourg, killing 87
people.
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January 21
1793: During the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned
for treason, was executed on the guillotine.
1924: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian revolutionary &
spiritual leader died at age
54.
1950: George Orwell, British author of "1984", died in London.
2001: Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist convicted in
1994 after the fact for assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963, died
in Prison in Jackson, Miss., USA, at age 80.
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January 22
1901: Britain's Queen Victoria died at age 82. 1922:
Pope Benedict XV died; he was succeeded by Pius XI.. 1973:
former President Lyndon Johnson died at age 64. 1995: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy died at the Kennedy compound at Hyannis
Port, Massachusetts, USA, at age 104.
2001: One of the seven convicts who had broken out of a Texas prison
the previous month killer himself. Four were captured southwest of Denver.
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January 23
1989: Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist artist, died in Spain at age 84.
2001: One of Five Falun Gong followers who set themselves on fire
in China's
Tiananmen, died.
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January 24
1965: Winston Churchill died in London at age 90. 1989:
Theodore Bundy, confessed serial killer, was put to death in Florida's
electric chair. 1992: State of Arkansas executed convicted Police
killer Rickey Ray
Rector. Gov. Bill Clinton refused to intervene. 1993: Thurgood Marshall,
retired US Supreme Court Justice, died in Bethesda, Md., USA, at age 84.
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January 25
1947: American gangster Al Capone died in Miami Beach,
Florida, USA at age 48.
1990, Ava Gardner, world famous American actress, died in London at age 67. 1997:
Astrologer Jeane Dixon died in Washington, D.C., USA, at age 79.
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January 26
1979: Nelson A. Rockefeller, former Vice President, died in New
York at age 70.
2001: More than 13,000 people were killed when a devastating earthquake hit the Indian
subcontinent.
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January 27
1901: Opera composer Giuseppe Verdi died in Milan, Italy, at age
87.
1967: Astronauts Virgil I. ``Gus'' Grissom, Edward H. White and
Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo 1
spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Florida, USA.
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January 28
1547: England's King Henry VIII died; he was succeeded by his
9-year-old son, Edward VI.
1596: Sir Francis Drake, English navigator, died off the coast of
Panama; he was buried at sea.
1986: Challenger the space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff
from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members.
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January 29
1963: Robert Frost, American poet, died in Boston.
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January 30
1649: England's King Charles I was beheaded. 1948: Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader, was murdered by
a Hindu extremist. 1962: Two members of the ``Flying Wallendas'' high-wire act were killed
when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit. 1972: 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by
British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as ``Bloody Sunday.''
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January 31
1606: Guy Fawkes was executed in London. He was convicted for his part in the ``Gunpowder Plot'' against
the English Parliament and King James I, 2000: an Alaska Airlines jet plummeted into the Pacific Ocean, killing all
88 people aboard.
2001: Michel Navratil,
one of the last known survivors of the sinking of the Titanic, died in
Montpellier, France, at age 92.
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