Happy birthday and many happy returns Magdalena Kowalska-Rybak and Hang Nguyen. Born on the same day, across the years, along with 1432 – Afonso V of Portugal (d. 1481) 1622 – Molière, French playwright and actor (d. 1673) 1671 – Abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian (d. 1704) 1674 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French poet (d. 1762) 1747 – John Aikin, English doctor (d. 1822) 1754 – Richard Martin, Irish politician, co-founded the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1834) 1824 – Marie Duplessis, French courtier (d. 1847) 1842 – Mary MacKillop, Australian saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (d. 1909) 1870 – Pierre S. du Pont, American businessman (d. 1954) 1878 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (d. 1941) 1929 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American minster and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968) 1925 – Robert Silverberg, American science fiction author 1996 – Dove Cameron, American actress January 15: John Chilembwe Day in Malawi; Korean Alphabet Day in North Korea USS President 1815 – War of 1812: American frigate USS President (pictured), commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, was captured by a squadron of four British frigates. 1865 – American Civil War: The Union Army captured Fort Fisher, the last seaport of the Confederacy. 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican forces both withdrew after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road. 1975 – Portugal signed the Alvor Agreement with UNITA, the MPLA, and the FNLA, ending the Angolan War of Independence. 1991 – Elizabeth II, as Queen of Australia, signed letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system. Our frigate has done us proud. We have the sea. Civil war is a waste. We are independent. We have honour. Lets party.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:21:25 +0000
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