1975 – Yuji Ide, Japanese racing driver 1976 – Amanda Little, Miss USA-texas (1997, top 6) 1976 – Emma Lee Bunton, “Baby Spice”, Finchley london, vocalist (Spice Girls) 1976 – Lynn Thomas, Newport News VA, playmate (May 1997) 1977 – Al Baxter, Australian rugby union footballer 1977 – Phil Neville, English footballer 1977 – Rick Ross, American rapper 1978 – Faris al-Sultan, German-Iraqi triathlete 1978 – Tamir “Nokio” Ruffin, American Singer 1978 – Phil Stacey, American Idol finalist 1978 – Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player 1979 – Kelly Gaudet, Miss florida Teen USA (1996) 1979 – Byung-Hyun Kim, Korean baseball player 1979 – Spider Loc, American rapper, member of G-Unit 1979 – Brian O’Driscoll, Irish rugby union footballer
1941 – Ivan Putski, Polish-born American professional wrestler 1942 – Mac Davis, Lubbock Tx, singer/actor (Mac Davis Show, north Dallas 40) 1942 – Mac Davis, American musician 1944 – John Kenneth Tavener, composer 1944 – Neely Bruce, composer 1945 – Andrew Stein, pres of NYC council (D) 1945 – Chris Britton, rocker (Troggs-Rock & Roll Goldmine) 1946 – Vincent Placoly, Martinique, writer (L’eau-de-mort guildive) 1947 – Jill Eikenberry, new Haven Ct, (Ann Kelsey-LA law, Manhattan Project) 1947 – Jimmy Ibbotson, Penn, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) 1947 – Pye Hastings, English singer and musician (Caravan) 1947 – Michel Jonasz, French singer and composer 1950 – Billy Ocean, [Leslie S Charles], Trinidad, singer (Caribbean Queen) 1950 – Joseph R Tanner, Danville Ill, astronaut (STS 66, 82, sk: 97) 1950 – Richie Ranno, rocker 1952 – Marco Camenisch, Swiss environmental activist 1952 – Louis Menand, American writer and critic 1953 – Fausto Bara, mexico, actor (Gaucho-Renegades) 1953 – Paul Allen, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft 1955 – Peter Fleming, NJ, tennis player (US Open Doubles 1979, 81, 83) 1955 – Robby Benson, Dallas Tx, actor (One on One, Running Brave, Chosen) 1955 – Jeff Koons, American artist 1956 – Bob Brill, NYC, drummer (Berlin-You Take My Breath Away) 1957 – Geena [virginia] Davis, Wareham Mass, actress (Beetlejuice, Fly) 1957 – Jacob Green, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawk) 1957 – Shaukat Dukanwala, cricketer (Baroda off-spinner, UAE World Cup 1996) 1958 – Miguel Alejandro, NYC, actor (Popi) 1959 – Alex McLeish, Scottish footballer and manager 1961 – Sherry Ramsay, Stauton Va, actress (Trish Mason-As the World Turns) 1962 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003) 1962 – Tyler Cowen, American economist 1963 – Cindy Schreyer, Forest Park GA, LPGA golfer (1993 Sun-Times Challenge) 1963 – Detlef Schrempf, Germany, NBA forward (Mavericks, Pacers, Supersonics) 1963 – Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon, Nigeria, NBA center (Rockets, Oly-gold-96) 1963 – Jessie Hester, NFL player (St Louis Rams) 1965 – Brian Bradley, Kitchener, NHL center (Tampa Bay Lightning) 1965 – Cordell Crockett, rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad)
1855 – John M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer 1859 – Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer 1860 – Karl Staaff, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915) 1867 – James Marcus, new york, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail) 1867 – Maxime Weygard, French general/gov-gen (Algeria) 1867 – Willem C Royaards, Dutch theater director (Summer Games) 1867 – Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921) 1872 – Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister 1872 – Jonkhr Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister 1875 – John Lindworsky, German jesuit/psychologist (Der Wille) 1875 – Paul E Kahle, Germany, professor of oriental studies 1878 – Egon Friedell, Austria, journalist/actor/writer (Der Partylowe) 1882 – Pavel Florensky, Russian mathematician (d. 1937) 1883 – Olav Aukrust, Norway, poet 1883 – Amang Rodriguez, Filipino politician (d. 1964) 1884 – Katie Sandwina, Germany, legendary woman weight-lifter 1884 – Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (American Civil Liberties Union) 1885 – Huddie Ledbetter, “Leadbelly”, blues singer [or 12/1/89, 1/29/89] 1885 – Umberto Nobile, Italian general
1908 – new york City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor. 1911 – The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place. 1915 – Kiwanis international is founded in Detroit, michigan. 1919 – Meeting of the First Dil ireann in the Mansion house Dublin. Sinn Fin adopts Ireland’s first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary. 1925 – Albania declares itself a republic. 1931 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. 1948 – The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Quebec Flag Day. 1950 – Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury. 1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United states. 1958 – The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashes, killing the pilot and winch-operator. 1960 – Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops island, virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board. 1960 – Avianca Flight 671 crashes and burns upon landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica, killing 37. It is the worst air disaster in Jamaica’s history and the first for Avianca. 1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz’s mother in Zrich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. 1643 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to reach Tonga. 1720 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm. 1749 – The Verona Philharmonic Theatre is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754. 1789 – The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts. 1793 – After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine. 1840 – Jules Dumont d’Urville discovers Adlie Land, Antarctica. 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United states Senate. 1864 – The Tauranga Campaign begins during the Maori Wars. 1887 – 465 millimetres (18.3 in) of rain falls in Brisbane, a record for any Australian capital city. 1893 – The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana. 1899 – Opel manufactures its first automobile. 1908 – new york City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor. 1911 – The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place. 1915 – Kiwanis international is founded in Detroit, michigan. 1919 – Meeting of the First Dil ireann in the Mansion house Dublin. Sinn Fin adopts Ireland’s first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary. 1925 – Albania declares itself a republic. 1931 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. 1948 – The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Quebec Flag Day. 1950 – Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury. 1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United states. 1958 – The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashes, killing the pilot and winch-operator. 1960 – Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops island, virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board. 1960 – Avianca Flight 671 crashes and burns upon landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica, killing 37. It is the worst air disaster in Jamaica’s history and the first for Avianca. 1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
2000 – Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutierrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad. 2003 – A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless. 2004 – NASA’s MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6. 2005 – In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government’s new taxes erupts into riots. 2008 – Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 11 September 2001, and Asian stocks drop as much as 14%.
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