JANUARY 22nd
FAMOUS EVENTS
1368 In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
1556 Shaanxi Earthquake – deadliest ever recorded kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China
1950 Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel
1973 US President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War
1978 Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth’s ozone layer
FAMOUS BIRTHS
1737 John Hancock, American merchant, and statesman who was 1st to sign the Declaration of Independence, born in Braintree, Massachusetts (d. 1793)
1832 Edouard Manet, French impressionist painter (Olympia, The Luncheon on the Grass), born in Paris, France (d. 1883)
1891 Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher and Marxist theorist, born in Ales, Sardinia, Italy (d. 1937)
1910 Django Reinhardt, Belgium born Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer considered the most significant European Jazz musician, born in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium (d. 1953)
FAMOUS DEATHS
1806 William Pitt the Younger, British Prime Minister (Tory: 1783-1801, 1804-06), dies of a suspected peptic ulceration of his stomach or duodenum at 46
1944 Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (The Scream), dies at 80, bequeathing all of his work to the city of Oslo
1981 Samuel Barber, American composer (School for Scandal), dies of cancer at 70
1989 Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist artist (Crucifixion), dies of heart failure at 84
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