Happy Birthday D!

You share a birthday with such actors as: Orlando Bloom, Patrick Dempsey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and umm, Richard Moll (remember him? He was in Night Court). Those are the ones I know, and maybe that guy from Match Game? Also, such famous persons as Emily Carr, Michael Bond, Antonio Porchia, Joseph Howe, Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholzan, Charles Perrault, Johann Christoph Graupner, and even Antoinette Bourignon (she was a Flemish mystic/French religious fanatic). Among others but those are the ones that I thought were neat. On a sadder note this is the death day for such notable people as Vine Deloria, Jr., James Joyce, Wyatt Earp, Camille Pissarro, George Fox, and Aethelwolf (King of Wessex).

Other important things on this day in history:

January 13, 1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song

January 13, 1978 NASA selects its first U.S. women astronauts

January 13, 1976 Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at New York's Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata"

January 13, 1972 Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball to be allowed to umpire

January 13, 1969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
January 13, 1968 Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam

January 13, 1967 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show

January 13, 1966 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

January 13, 1966 Ottawa starts skills program for unemployed; announced at federal-provincial conference on manpower training

January 13, 1965 Avalanche kills 7 people at Ocean Falls, BC.

January 13, 1962 Wilt Chamberlain of Warriors scores then NBA-record 73 pts vs Chicago

January 13, 1961 The third federal-provincial conference on the Constitution of Canada reaches a general agreement on the need to amend the BNA Act
January 13, 1959 De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts

January 13, 1958 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition United Nations for nuclear test ban

January 13, 1957 Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee

January 13, 1953 Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14

January 13, 1949 Prince Edward Island bans sale and manufacture of margarine, to protect dairy industry. January 13, 1948 1st country music TV show, Midwestern Hayride, premieres on WLW Cin

January 13, 1945 The Soviet 'Red' army occupies the Hungarian city of Budapest

January 13, 1943 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca

January 13, 1943 Hitler declares "Total War"

January 13, 1943 Russian offensive at Don under general Golikov

January 13, 1943 US infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal

January 13, 1943 First use of an airplane ejection seat
January 13, 1943 Royal Canadian Navy Corvette Ville de Québec sinks a U-boat in the Mediterranean; RCN's first U-boat kill.

January 13, 1942 Allied Conference for war trials

January 13, 1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on U.S. east coast

January 13, 1942 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies

January 13, 1930 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears

January 13, 1915 Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800

January 13, 1908 Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown Pa, killing 170

January 13, 1908 French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly a complete circuit roundtrip of 1km January 13, 1908 Montreal Wanderers sweep Ottawa Victorias in 2 games for the Stanley Cup.

January 13, 1906 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile January 13, 1894 Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops

January 13, 1893 British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)
January 13, 1888 National Geographic Society founded in Washington, D.C.

January 13, 1883 Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430

January 13, 1874 Battle between jobless and police in New York City, 100s injuried January 13, 1863 Thomas Crapper (hee hee) pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet

January 13, 1854 Anthony Foss patents accordion

January 13, 1849 Hudson's Bay Company signs lease with the British government for monopoly of trade on Vancouver Island for ten more years for a fee of seven shillings per year

January 13, 1838 William Lyon Mackenzie evacuates Navy Island and goes to Buffalo, NY

January 13, 1837 Fire devastates business district of Saint John, New Brunswick.
January 13, 1830 Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves

January 13, 1733 James Oglethorpe and 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC

January 13, 1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued

January 13, 1621 Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sets sail to Moluccas (from Jacarta)

January 13, 1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter

January 13, 1559 Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey

January 13, 1547 Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death

January 13, 1099 Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria

January 13, 888 Duke Odo becomes king of West-France