Today in History for 26th January 2018:
Historical Events
1891 – Oscar Wilde’s “Duchess of Padua” premieres in NYC
1934 – Nazi Germany and Poland sign 10-year non-aggression treaty
1961 – 1st woman personal physician to a US president – Janet G. Travell (to John F. Kennedy)
1970 – Pendleton, Ford and Cryer’s “Last Sweet Days of Isaac,” premieres in NYC
1995 – NJ Governor Christine Whitman, dedicates a rest stop to Howard Stern
1997 – 13th Sundance Film Festival: “Sunday” wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
Famous Birthdays
1781 – Ludwig Joachim “Achim” von Arnim, German poet (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
1901 – Ervin Major, Hungarian composer, born in Budapest (d. 1967)
1916 – Lothar Jensch, composer
1930 – A N Solomons, chairman (Singer and Friedlander)
1958 – Anita Baker, singer (Giving You the Best That I Got), born in Toledo, Ohio
1963 – Simon O’Donnell, cricketer (Deniliquin NSW ODI all-rounder 1985-90)
Famous Deaths
1824 – Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791)
1922 – Luigi Denza, Italian composer (Funiculì, Funiculà), dies at 77
1991 – Johnny van Doorn, Dutch writer/poet, dies at 46
1993 – Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (helped Anne Frank), dies at 87
1996 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1921)
2003 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian (The Last Days of Hitler), dies at 89