Today in History for 12th January 2024

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Historical Events

1809 - British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from French (until 1814)
1918 - Montreal Canadien's center Joe Malone scores 5 goals in a 9-4 win over Ottawa to become the first 20 goal scorer in NHL history; goes on to score 44 regular season goals
1986 - 24th space shuttle (61-C) mission-Columbia 7-launched
1987 - Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training
2004 - The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
2021 - India's Supreme Court puts on hold three controversial new farm laws that ignited weeks of protests by farmers in Delhi

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Famous Birthdays

1819 - Zealous Bates Tower, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Cohasset, Massachusetts (d. 1900)
1937 - Marie Dubois, French actress (Wise Guys, Jules and Jim), born in Paris, France (d. 2014)
1941 - "Long" John Baldry, English blues vocalist ("Don't Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll"), born in East Haddon, United Kingdom (d. 2005)
1944 - Viktoria Postnikova, Russian pianist, born in Moscow, Russia
1950 - Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (d. 1992)
1975 - Jocelyn Thibault, Canadian NHL goalie (Montreal Canadiens), born in Montreal, Quebec

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Famous Deaths

1732 - John Horsley, British archaeologist (Britannia Romana) dies (b. 1685)
1909 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (work on relativity - Minkowski spacetime), dies of appendicitis at 44
1947 - Jonas Cohn, German philosopher (Wertwissenschaft), dies at 77
1999 - Leo Cherne, American economist and commentator (All Star News), dies at 86
2009 - Russ Conway, Canadian-American character actor (Richard Diamond Private Eye), dies at 95
2010 - Daniel Bensaïd, French philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France, dies of cancer caused by the side effects of drugs used to treat AIDS at 63

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