Page 7: Historical Events In January - 02

1960  inaugural redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax)   

1960  John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4950000000 years   

1960  Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony premieres   

1960  Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for President   

1960  Cees [Cornelis J] Laseur, Dutch actor/dir (Hague Comedy), dies at 60.   

1961  Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14ºF recorded atop Haleakale   

1961  Bob Catterall, cricketer (1555 runs/24 Tests for S Afr 1922-31), dies.   

1962  Nighttime version of "Password" with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS   

1963  Dick Powell, actor/director (Dick Powell Theater), dies at 58.   

1964  Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan.   

1964  Failed assassination attempt on President Nkrumah of Ghana.   

1965  Martin Luther King Jr begins a drive to register black voters.   

1965  Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day   

1965  University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath signs with the New York Jets football team for a reported $400000   

1965  Staf Gustaf Frans Nees, composer, dies at 63.   

1968  Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant   

1968  Cuba Gooding Jr, American actor is born   

1968  The worlds inaugural heart transplant is carried out   

1968  Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies.   

1969  "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy.   

1969  FLQ bombs are discovered in Ottawa.   

1969  Georges Renevant, actor (Cornered), dies after long illness at 74.   

1970  Dutch premiere of musical "Hair" in Amsterdam.   

1970  US population is 293200000; Black population 22600000 (11.1%)   

1970  Piotr Rytel, composer, dies at 85   

1971  A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66   

1972  Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars   

1974  U.S. President Nixon signs into law a national highway speed limit of 55 miles per hour   

1974  Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres.   

1974  Tex Ritter, country singer (5 Star Jubilee), dies at 67   

1975  US Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species   

1977  Erroll Garner, jazz pianist (Misty), dies at 53.   

1978  In this year, Rhino Records releases their inaugural album "Wildmania"   

1979  Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spingen begins.   

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1642  Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey) was born on January - 02.   

1647  On January - 02 birth of nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676)   

1699  Osman III, sultan (Turkey) was born on this day in history.   

1713  On this day in history birth of marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)   

1719  On January - 02 birth of jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)   

1727  On January - 02 birth of james Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec)   

1728  Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium was born on January - 02.   

1732  On this day in history birth of franz Xaver Brixi, composer   

0017  On this day in history publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies   

1512  Death of Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460) on January - 02.   

1514  On this day in history death of william Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)   

1557  Death of Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494) on January - 02.   

1685  On this day in history death of harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)   

1694  On this day in history death of henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)   

1726  On January - 02 domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37   

1740  On this day in history johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63