CoM Moderators Posted January 15 Posted January 15 Historical Events 1945 - The Manhattan Project's G-5 Group, headed by Physicist's Donald Kerst and Seth Neddermeyer, take their first betatron pictures of a nuclear implosion at the Los Alamos Laboratory 1951 - "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000 1962 - 50th Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Rod Laver takes the 1st leg of his 1st Grand Slam; beats fellow Queenslander Roy Emerson 8-6, 0-6, 6-4, 6-4 1962 - Derveni Papyrus rediscovered - Europe's oldest surviving manuscript from c. 340 B.C., commentary on a Orphic poem, found in a tomb in Derveni, Northern Greece 1988 - 19-year-old Indian cricket leg-spinner Narenda Hirwani records best bowling figures on debut in Test history; captures 16-136 in 255 run 4th Test win v West Indies in Madras; Hirwani takes 8 wickets in each innings 2007 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq. More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1891 - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) and only MLB player to die from an injury received during a MLB game, born in Beaver Dam, Kentucky (d. 1920) 1911 - Cy Feuer, Broadway producer (Feuer and Martin-Chorus Line), born in New York City (d. 2006) 1930 - Michel Chapuis, French classical organist and pedagogue, born in Dole, France (d. 2017) 1961 - Yves P. Pelletier, Canadian comedian and film director, born in Laval, Canada 1971 - LeShon Johnson, American football running back (Arizona Cardinals), born in Haskell, Oklahoma 1979 - Martin Petrov, Bulgarian soccer winger (90 caps; Servette, VfL Wolfsburg, Atlético Madrid, Manchester City, Bolton Wanderers), born in Vratsa, Bulgaria More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1597 - Juan de Herrera, Spanish Renaissance architect and mathematician (El Escorial, Vallododid Cathedral), dies (b. c. 1530) 1781 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718) 1896 - Matthew B Brady, US photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72 1970 - Vytautas Bacevičius [Bacewicz], Lithuanian avant garde composer (Della Guerra Symphony), dies at 64 1973 - Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919) 2008 - Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, English Game Designer (Zombies Ate My Neighbors), dies of cancer (b. 1964) More Famous Deaths »
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