Today in History for 26th January 2023

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Historical Events

1929 - Rube Goldberg's "The Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, A.K.," cartoon series first published in "Colliers Weekly"
1959 - KOKH TV channel 25 in Oklahoma City, OK (IND/PBS) begins broadcasting
1991 - Houston guard Vernon Maxwell is 4th NBAer to score 30 pts in a quarter
1997 - Super Bowl XXXI, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA: Green Bay Packers beat New England Patriots, 35-21; MVP: Desmond Howard, Green Bay KR
2003 - Australian Open Men's Tennis: Andre Agassi of the US wins his 8th and last Grand Slam title; beats Rainer Schuttler of Germany 6-2, 6-2, 6-1
2018 - Residents left without heat in -27C in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan after boiler breaks in main power station

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Famous Birthdays

1813 - Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876
1857 - Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama, born in Tibet (d. 1875)
1924 - Warren Frank Benson, American composer (The Leaves Are Falling), and educator (Eastman School, 1967-1993), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2005)
1925 - Paul Newman, American actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler), auto racer and team owner (Newman/Haas Racing) and charity food company founder (Newman's Own), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2008)
1932 - Ronald Allison, British author/broadcaster
1964 - Cathy Podewell, American actress (Cally Harper Ewing-Dallas), born in Evanston, Illinois

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Famous Deaths

1870 - Cesare Pugni, Italian composer, dies at 67
1920 - Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered
1974 - Wiktor Labunski, Polish-American composer, dies at 78
1975 - Lubov Orlova, Russian actress (Moscow Laughs; Man of Music; Tanya), dies at 74
2007 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at 77
2021 - Jozef Vengloš, Slovak soccer manager (Australia, Czechoslovakia, Malaysia, Fenerbahçe, Aston Villa, Celtic, Slovakia), dies at 84

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