^B{^#!16!9 January^N! Feast day of Saints Julian and Basilissa, St Berhtwald of Canterbury, St Peter of Sebastea, St Waningus or Vaneng, and St Marciana of Rusuccur.
^B{1799^B} British prime minister William Pitt the Younger introduced income tax, at two shillings (10p) in the pound, to raise funds for the Napoleonic Wars. ^B{1902^B} New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public. ^B{1969^B} The supersonic airplane Concorde made its first trial flight, at Bristol. ^B{1972^B} The ocean liner ^I{Queen Elizabeth^I} was destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor. ^B{1972^B} British miners went on strike for the first time since 1926. ^B{1991^B} US secretary of state Baker and Iraqi foreign minister Aziz met for 61<bf>1/2<ef> hours in Geneva, but failed to reach any agreement that would forestall war in the Persian Gulf.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Gracie Fields, English singer, ^B{1898^B}; George Balanchine, US choreographer, ^B{1904^B}; Simone de Beauvoir, French novelist and critic, ^B{1908^B}; Richard Nixon, 37th US president, ^B{1913^B}; Gypsy Rose Lee, US striptease artist and actress, ^B{1914^B}; Joan Baez, US singer, ^B{1941^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Caroline Lucretia Herschel, English astronomer, ^B{1848^B}; Napoleon III, French emperor, ^B{1873^B}; Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer, ^B{1923^B}; Tommy Handley, English radio comedian, ^B{1949^B}; Frederick Gibberd, British architect, ^B{1984^B}; Robert Mayer, British philanthropist, ^B{1985^B}; Peter Cook, English comedian, ^B{1995^B}.
