Page 5: Historical Events In January - 23

1907  Charles Curtis of Kansas is recorded as becoming inaugural Native American US senator   

1907  Charles Curtis, the inaugural Native American to become a U.S. senator, begins serving his term. (Twenty-two years later, Curtis resigned to become Vice President of the U.S. with President Herbert Hoover's administration.).   

1907  Charles Curtis of Kansas is recorded as becoming 1st Native American US senator   

1907  Dan Duryea, White Plains NY, actor (Pride of the Yankees).   

1908  US and Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo   

1908  Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist   

1908  Edward Alexander MacDowell, US composer (Indian Suite), dies at 47.   

1909  The inaugural radio rescue at sea   

1909  1st radio rescue at sea   

1909  Norman Fulton, composer.   

1910  Django Reinhardt, Belgium, Gypsy jazz guitarist.   

1911  Dan Smith, harmonica/gospel singer   

1912  The Aermore Manufacturing Company, a Chicago concern, received a patent for the Aermore Exhaust Horn, a multiple-pipe horn powered by engine exhaust that played a chord like a church organ   

1912  The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.   

1912  Ank van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy).   

1913  Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated   

1914  Napoleon L Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne.   

1915  Herma Bauma, Austria, javelin thrower (Oly-gold-1948).   

1916  Temp falls from 44ºF (7ºC) to -56ºF (49ºC) night of 23-24, Browning MT   

1916  Temp falls from 44°F (7°C) to -56°F (49°C) night of 23-24, Browning MT.   

1918  Stellarton, Nova Scotia a coal gas explosion results in the deaths of eighty-eight men in the Allan Shaft at Stellarton   

1918  Gertrude Belle Elion, NYC, biochemist/drug researcher (Nobel 1988).   

1919  Bob Paisley, English soccer player/trainer/manager of FC Liverpool.   

1920  Dutch government refuses to turn over ex-Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to the allies   

1920  Dutch refuse to turn over ex-kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to allies.   

1920  Erbet Pawel, biographer (Kafka).   

1921  Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer, dies at 83   

1922  At Toronto General Hospital, 14-year-old Canadian Leonard Thompson became the inaugural person to receive an insulin injection as treatment for diabetes.   

1923  Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th).   

1923  Florence Halop, Queens, actress (Florence-Night Court, St Elsewhere)   

1924  Ramsey MacDonald forms inaugural Labour government in Britain   

1924  Ramsey MacDonald forms 1st Labour govt in Britain   

1924  Frank R Lautenberg, (Sen-D-NJ, 1983- )   

1925  Marty Paich, Oakland Calif, orch leader (Sonny and Cher, Glenn Campbell)   

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1350  Vincent ferrer: Spanish missionary and saint   

1574  Lucas i franchoys: Belgian painter   

1582  John barclay: Scottish satirist/latin poet (argenis)   

1688  Queen ulrika eleonora of sweden: Queen ulrika eleonora of sweden (d. 1741)   

1719  John landen: English mathematician   

1730  Joseph hewes: Us merchant (declaration of independence signer)   

1745  William jessop: English canal engineer   

1752  Muzio clementi: Italian composer   

1002  Otto iii: German king/emperor 983/996-1002,   

1199  Death of Yaqub: Almohad caliph (b. 1160)   

1356  Margaretha of bavaria: Emperess of germany,   

1516  Death of Ferdinand ii: King of aragon/sicily,   

1548  Bernardo pisano: Composer,   

1549  Johannes honter: Transylvanian saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498)   

1567  Death of Jiajing: Emperor of china (b. 1507)   

1622  William baffin: British explorer,