Today in History for 15th January 2018:
Historical Events
1831 – 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
1915 – Japan claims economic control of China
1981 – Pope John Paul II receives Lech Wa??sa and Solidarity delegation at the Vatican
1984 – Schonbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44)
1990 – NY Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106
1997 – Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
Famous Birthdays
1879 – Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (d. 1961)
1897 – Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (d. 1931)
1903 – Paul A. Dever, 58th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
1945 – Vince Foster, American lawyer (d. 1993), born in Hope, Arkansas
1974 – Ray King, American baseball player
1979 – Ken Chu, Taiwanese singer-actor and taichi champ
Famous Deaths
1683 – Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
1876 – Eliza Johnson, U.S. First Lady (b. 1810)
1893 – Frances Anne “Fanny” Kemble, British Shakespearian actress (Juliet) and author, dies at 83
1919 – Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-German Marxist revolutionary and founder of the Spartacus League, murdered by the Freikorps at 47
1995 – Sollie McElroy, singer, dies at 61
1996 – Richard Cobb, British historian, dies at 78