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16036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Peel | John Peel | John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.
Peel was one of the f... |
16037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus%20on%20Jesus | Josephus on Jesus | The extant manuscripts of the book Antiquities of the Jews, written by the first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus around 93–94 AD, contain two references to Jesus of Nazareth and one reference to John the Baptist.
The first and most extensive reference to Jesus in the Antiquities, found in Book 18, states tha... |
16040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%2028 | July 28 |
Events
Pre-1600
1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
1571 – La Laguna encomienda, known today ... |
16043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem | Jerusalem | Jerusalem (; ; ) is a city in Western Asia. Situated on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, it is one of the oldest cities in the world, and is considered holy for the three major Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The city straddles the Green Line betwee... |
16044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Edgar%20Hoover | J. Edgar Hoover | John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States for nearly 48 years. He was appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation – the FBI's predecessor – in 1924 and was instr... |
16045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Thurber | James Thurber | James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist and playwright. He was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker and collected in his numerous books.
Thurber was one of the most popular humorists of his time and... |
16046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Cagney | James Cagney | James Francis Cagney Jr. (; July 17, 1899March 30, 1986) was an American actor and dancer. On stage and in film, Cagney was known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing. He won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances. He is remembered for playi... |
16053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Richman | Jonathan Richman | Jonathan Michael Richman (born May 16, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970, he founded the Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band. Since the mid-1970s, Richman has worked either solo or with low-key acoustic and electric backing. He now plays only acoustic to protect his hearing. He is... |
16060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese | Japanese | Japanese may refer to:
Something from or related to Japan, an archipelago country in East Asia
Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through language, culture and ancestry
Japanese nationals, persons who hold the Japanese nationality
Foreign-born J... |
16061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Bayer | Johann Bayer | Johann Bayer (1572 – 7 March 1625) was a German lawyer and uranographer (celestial cartographer). He was born in Rain, Lower Bavaria, in 1572. At twenty, in 1592 he began his study of philosophy and law at the University of Ingolstadt, after which he moved to Augsburg to begin work as a lawyer, becoming legal adviser t... |
16069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Demme | Jonathan Demme | Robert Jonathan Demme ( ; February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American filmmaker. Beginning his career under B-movie producer Roger Corman, Demme made his directorial debut with the 1974 women-in-prison film Caged Heat, before becoming known for his casually humanist films such as Melvin and Howard (1980), Swing... |
16073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Gris | Juan Gris | José Victoriano (Carmelo Carlos) González-Pérez (23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927), better known as Juan Gris (; ), was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinctiv... |
16074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Whale | James Whale | James Whale (22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957) was an English film director, theatre director and actor, who spent the greater part of his career in Hollywood. He is best remembered for several horror films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935), all conside... |
16075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%209 | January 9 |
Events
Pre-1600
681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song dynasty of China, and ... |
16076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%2010 | January 10 |
Events
Pre-1600
49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the Xin dynasty.
69 – Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed b... |
16077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hagelin | John Hagelin | John Samuel Hagelin (born June 9, 1954) is the leader of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement in the United States. He is president of the Maharishi University of Management (MUM) in Fairfield, Iowa, and honorary chair of its board of trustees. The university was established in 1973 by the TM movement's founder,... |
16078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin%20throw | Javelin throw | The javelin throw is a track and field event where the javelin, a spear about in length, is thrown. The javelin thrower gains momentum by running within a predetermined area. Javelin throwing is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon.
History
The javelin throw was added to the Ancient Olympi... |
16079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Madison%20University | James Madison University | James Madison University (also known as JMU, Madison, or James Madison) is a public research university in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the institution was renamed Madison College in 1938 in honor of President James Madison and then James M... |
16082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho | Jericho | Jericho ( ; ; ) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank. It is located in the Jordan Valley, with the Jordan River to the east and Jerusalem to the west. It is the administrative seat of the Jericho Governorate and is governed by the Palestinian National Authority. In 2007, it had a population of 18,346.
With the en... |
16083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Jesus | Society of Jesus | The Society of Jesus (; abbreviated SJ), also known as the Jesuits (; ), is a religious order of the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome. It was founded by Ignatius of Loyola and six companions with the approval of Pope Paul III in 1540. The society is engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 nations. ... |
16088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%2015 | July 15 |
Events
Pre-1600
484 BC – Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome
70 – First Jewish–Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. (17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).
756 – An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor... |
16089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%2017 | July 17 |
Events
Pre-1600
180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
1048 – Damasus II is elected pope, and dies 23 days later.
1203 – The Fourth Crusade assaults Constantin... |
16090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%2018 | July 18 |
Events
Pre-1600
477 BC – Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman–Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army.
387 BC – Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
362 – Roman–Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at An... |
16091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%2019 | July 19 |
Events
Pre-1600
AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.
484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.
711 – Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle o... |
16092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Karon | Jan Karon | Jan Karon is an American novelist who writes for both adults and young readers. She is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Mitford novels, featuring Father Timothy Kavanagh, an Episcopal priest, and the fictional village of Mitford. Her most recent Mitford novel, To Be Where You Are, was released in September ... |
16094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Haydn | Joseph Haydn | Franz Joseph Haydn (; ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led him to be called "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet".
... |
16095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi%20Hendrix | Jimi Hendrix | James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942September 18, 1970) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of th... |
16097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Elert%20Bode | Johann Elert Bode | Johann Elert Bode (; 19 January 1747 – 23 November 1826) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name.
Life and career
Bode was born in Hamburg. As a youth, he suffered from a serious eye disease tha... |
16099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet%20Reno | Janet Reno | Janet Wood Reno (July 21, 1938 – November 7, 2016) was an American lawyer who served as the Attorney General of the United States from 1993 until 2001. President Bill Clinton nominated Reno on February 11, 1993, and the Senate confirmed her the following month. She was the first woman to serve as Attorney General and ... |
16103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Wayne | John Wayne | Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed The Duke, was an American actor and filmmaker who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films made during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies. His career flourished from the sil... |
16110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Haynes | Johnny Haynes | John Norman Haynes (17 October 1934 – 18 October 2005) was an English association footballer who played as an inside forward. He made 56 appearances for his country including 22 as captain. He was selected for three World Cup finals squads playing in the latter two of those. Nicknamed "the Maestro", his attacking play ... |
16111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Sayles | John Sayles | John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, for Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996). His film Men with Guns (1997) was nominated for the Golden Globe... |
16112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%2012 | January 12 |
Events
Pre-1600
475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already reigned since his election in June 1523.
1554 – Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the large... |
16113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Digweed | John Digweed | Thomas John Digweed (born 1 January 1967) is a British DJ and record producer.<ref>IMO Records. "John Digweed Biography", IMO Records' Retrieved on 29 February 2011. </ref> DJ Magazine voted him World No 1 DJ in 2001. As well as achieving success as a solo act, he has collaborated with Sasha as Sasha & John Digweed, an... |
16115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Spader | James Spader | James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960) is an American actor and producer. He has portrayed eccentric characters in films such as the drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), the action science fiction film Stargate (1994), the controversial psychological thriller Crash (1996), the erotic romance Secretary (2002) and S... |
16117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20%28disambiguation%29 | Joseph (disambiguation) | Joseph is a masculine given name.
Joseph may also refer to:
Religion
Joseph (Genesis), an important figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis
Joseph in Islam, an important figure in Islam mentioned in the Qur'an
Saint Joseph, a figure in the gospels who was married to Mary, Jesus' mother, and was Jesus' legal father
... |
16118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob | Jacob | Jacob (; ; ; ), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jacob first appears in the Book of Genesis, where he is described as the son of Isaac and Rebecca, and the grandson of Abraham, Sarah and... |
16119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehoshaphat | Jehoshaphat | Jehoshaphat (; alternatively spelled Jehosaphat, Josaphat, or Yehoshafat; ; ; ), according to 1 Kings 15:24, was the son of Asa, and the fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah, in succession to his father. His children included Jehoram, who succeeded him as king. His mother was Azubah. Historically, his name has sometimes... |
16120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehu | Jehu | Jehu ( Yēhū’, meaning "Yahu is He"; Ya'úa [ia-ú-a]; ) was the tenth king of the northern Kingdom of Israel since Jeroboam I, noted for exterminating the house of Ahab. He was the son of Jehoshaphat, grandson of Nimshi, and possibly great-grandson of Omri, although the latter notion is not supported by the biblical tex... |
16121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua | Joshua | Joshua () or Yehoshua ( Yəhōšūaʿ) functioned as Moses' assistant in the books of Exodus and Numbers, and later succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelite tribes in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Joshua. His name was Hoshea ( Hōšēaʿ) the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him "Yehoshua" (translated as "Jo... |
16122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah%20%28disambiguation%29 | Jeremiah (disambiguation) | Jeremiah (c. 655–586 BCE) is one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible.
Jeremiah or Jeremias may also refer to:
Book of Jeremiah, in Judeo-Christian scripture, including links to individual chapters
People
Jeremiah (given name)
Jeremiah (surname)
Jeremiah (I), a first-generation Amora sage of the Land of Isr... |
16123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeroboam | Jeroboam | Jeroboam I (; Hebrew: Yārŏḇ‘ām; ) was the first king of the northern Kingdom of Israel. The Hebrew Bible describes the reign of Jeroboam to have commenced following a revolt of the ten northern Israelite tribes against Rehoboam that put an end to the United Monarchy.
Jeroboam reigned for 22 years. William F. Albrigh... |
16125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20the%20Baptist | John the Baptist | John the Baptist ( – ) was an itinerant preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early 1st century AD. He is also known as John the Forerunner in Christianity, John the Immerser in some Baptist Christian traditions, and Prophet Yahya in Islam. He is sometimes alternatively referred to as John the Baptizer... |
16126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehoram | Jehoram | Jehoram (meaning "Jehovah is exalted" in Biblical Hebrew) was the name of several individuals in the Tanakh. The female version of this name is Athaliah.
The son of Toi, King of Hamath who was sent by his father to congratulate David on the occasion of his victory over Hadadezer (2 Samuel 8:10)
Jehoram of Israel or Jo... |
16129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Brunner%20%28novelist%29 | John Brunner (novelist) | John Kilian Houston Brunner (24 September 1934 – 25 August 1995) was a British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel, and the BSFA award the same year. The Jagged Orbit won the BSFA award in 19... |
16130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Butler%20Yeats | Jack Butler Yeats | Jack Butler Yeats RHA (29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957) was an Irish artist and Olympic medalist. W. B. Yeats was his brother.
Butler's early style was that of an illustrator; he only began to work regularly in oils in 1906. His early pictures are simple lyrical depictions of landscapes and figures, predominantly from ... |
16132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Yoakum | Joseph Yoakum | Joseph Elmer Yoakum (c. February 22, 1891 – December 25, 1972) was an American self-taught painter. He was of African-American and possibly of Native American–descent, and was known for his landscape paintings in the outsider art-style. He was age 76 when he started to record his memories in the form of imaginary lands... |
16134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%20Davis | Jefferson Davis | Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives before the American Civil War. He previous... |
16135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Meades | Jonathan Meades | Jonathan Turner Meades (born 21 January 1947) is an English writer and film-maker, primarily on the subjects of place, culture, architecture and food. His work spans journalism, fiction, essays, memoir and over fifty highly idiosyncratic television films, and has been described as "brainy, scabrous, mischievous," "icon... |
16139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Pass | Joe Pass | Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua; January 13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist. Pass worked often with pianist Oscar Peterson and vocalist Ella Fitzgerald.
Early life
Pass was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on January 13, 1929. Joe Pass(alaqua) was born from an italian family: h... |
16141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz%20guitar | Jazz guitar | The term jazz guitar may refer to either a type of electric guitar or to the variety of guitar playing styles used in the various genres which are commonly termed "jazz". The jazz-type guitar was born as a result of using electric amplification to increase the volume of conventional acoustic guitars.
Conceived in the ... |
16142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Watt | James Watt | James Watt (; 30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Gr... |
16143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Locke | John Locke | John Locke (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism". Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, Lock... |
16147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20holidays | Jewish holidays | Jewish holidays, also known as Jewish festivals or Yamim Tovim (, or singular , in transliterated Hebrew []), are holidays observed in Judaism and by Jews throughout the Hebrew calendar. They include religious, cultural and national elements, derived from three sources: biblical mitzvot ("commandments"), rabbinic mand... |
16148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Engler | John Engler | John Mathias Engler (born October 12, 1948) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 46th Governor of Michigan from 1991 to 2003. A member of the Republican Party, he later worked for Business Roundtable, where The Hill called him one of the country's top lobbyists.
Engler has spent most of his adul... |
16153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Lacan | Jacques Lacan | Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, , ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan’s work has marked the French and international intellectual landscape, having m... |
16154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%20Ace | Jupiter Ace | The Jupiter Ace by Jupiter Cantab was a British home computer of the early 1980s. The Ace differed from other microcomputers of the time in that its programming environment used Forth instead of the more popular BASIC.
After Jupiter Cantab ceased trading, the brand was acquired by Boldfield Computing Ltd in 1984, bef... |
16156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonville%20Jaguars | Jacksonville Jaguars | The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida. The Jaguars compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) South division. The team plays its home games at TIAA Bank Field. Founded alongside the Carolina Panther... |
16158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutes | Jutes | The Jutes (), Iuti, or Iutæ (, , ) were one of the Germanic tribes who settled in Great Britain after the departure of the Romans. According to Bede, they were one of the three most powerful Germanic nations, along with the Angles and the Saxons.
The Jutes are believed to have originated from the eponymous Jutland Pen... |
16161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20prayer | Jewish prayer | Jewish prayer (, ; plural ; , plural ; Yinglish: davening from Yiddish 'pray') is the prayer recitation that forms part of the observance of Rabbinic Judaism. These prayers, often with instructions and commentary, are found in the Siddur, the traditional Jewish prayer book.
Prayer, as a "service of the heart"... |
16162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20eschatology | Jewish eschatology | Jewish eschatology is the area of Jewish theology concerned with events that will happen in the end of days and related concepts. This includes the ingathering of the exiled diaspora, the coming of a Jewish Messiah, afterlife, and the revival of the dead. In Judaism, the end times are usually called the "end of days" (... |
16163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah | Judah | Judah or Yehuda is the name of a biblical patriarch, Judah (son of Jacob). It may also refer to:
Historical ethnic, political and geographic terms
Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Judaea
Judea, the name of part of the Land of Israel
Kingdom of Judah, an Iro... |
16164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Macleod%20%28physiologist%29 | John Macleod (physiologist) | John James Rickard Macleod (6 September 1876 – 16 March 1935) was a British biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry, but was chiefly interested in carbohydrate metabolism. He is noted for his role in the discovery and isolation of insulin during his tenure as... |
16167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson%2C%20Mississippi | Jackson, Mississippi | Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. State of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County, along with Raymond, Mississippi. The city of Jackson also includes around 3,000 acres (12.1 km2) comprising Jackson-Medgar Evers International Airport in Rank... |
16168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson%20County%2C%20Michigan | Jackson County, Michigan | Jackson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. Its population was 160,366 as of the 2020 Census. The county seat is Jackson. The county was set off in 1829 and organized in 1832. It is named for U.S. President Andrew Jackson and considered to be one of Michigan's "Cabinet counties", named for members... |
16175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Lopez | Jennifer Lopez | Jennifer Lynn "J.Lo" Lopez (born July 24, 1969) is an American singer, actress, and dancer. In 1991, she began appearing as a Fly Girl dancer on In Living Color, where she remained a regular until she decided to pursue an acting career in 1993. For her first leading role in the 1997 Selena biopic of the same name, she ... |
16179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%2021 | July 21 |
Events
Pre-1600
356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
230 – Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope.
285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
365 – The 365 Crete earthquake affected the Greek island of Crete with a ma... |
16181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%2023 | July 23 |
Events
Pre-1600
811 – Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.
1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
1601–1900
1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
16... |
16182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock%20Taylor | Jock Taylor | Jock Taylor (9 March 1954 – 15 August 1982) was a Scottish World Champion motorcycle sidecar racer.
John Robert (Jock) Taylor was born in Pencaitland, East Lothian, and entered his first sidecar race at the age of 19, as the passenger to Kenny Andrews (1974). The following year he took part in his first race as a driv... |
16186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20views%20on%20homosexuality | Jewish views on homosexuality | The subject of homosexuality and Judaism dates back to the Torah. The book of Vayikra (Leviticus) is traditionally regarded as classifying sexual intercourse between males as a to'eivah (something abhorred or detested) that can be subject to capital punishment by the currently non-existent Sanhedrin under halakha (Jewi... |
16187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Dewey | John Dewey | John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
The overriding theme of Dewey's works was h... |
16188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackal | Jackal | Jackals are medium-sized omnivorous mammals of the subtribe Canina, which also includes wolves and the domestic dog, among other species. While the word "jackal" has historically been used for many small canines, in modern use it most commonly refers to three species: the closely related black-backed jackal (Lupulella ... |
16190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping%20the%20broom | Jumping the broom | Jumping the broom (or jumping the besom) is a phrase and custom relating to a wedding ceremony where the couple jumps over a broom.
It has been suggested that the custom is based on an 18th-century idiomatic expression for "sham marriage", "marriage of doubtful validity"; it was popularized in the context of the intro... |
16191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%2013 | January 13 |
Events
Pre-1600
27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing season at the Hippodrome in Constantinople, as a result of discontent with the rule of th... |
16192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%2014 | January 14 |
Events
Pre-1600
1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1601–1900
1639 – The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.
1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is ... |
16193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie%20Robinson | Jackie Robinson | Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. When... |
16194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG%20Network%20Graphics | JPEG Network Graphics | JPEG Network Graphics (JNG, ) is a JPEG-based graphics file format which is closely related to PNG: it uses the PNG file structure (with a different signature) as a container format to wrap JPEG-encoded image data.
JNG was created as an adjunct to the MNG animation format, but may be used as a stand-alone format. JNG ... |
16196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Shore | Jane Shore | Elizabeth "Jane" Shore (née Lambert) (c. 1445 – c. 1527) was one of the many mistresses of King Edward IV of England. She became the best-known to history through being later accused of conspiracy by the future King Richard III, and compelled to do public penance. She was also a sometime mistress of other noblemen, inc... |
16200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Kemp | Jack Kemp | Jack French Kemp (July 13, 1935 – May 2, 2009) was an American politician and a professional gridiron football player. A member of the Republican Party from New York, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms in the United ... |
16202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%2018 | January 18 |
Events
Pre-1600
474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
1486 – King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth o... |
16203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad | Jihad | Jihad (; ) is an Arabic word which literally means "striving" or "struggling", especially with a praiseworthy aim. In an Islamic context, it can refer to almost any effort to make personal and social life conform with God's guidance, such as struggle against one's evil inclinations, proselytizing, or efforts toward th... |
16205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin%20%28politics%29 | Jacobin (politics) | A Jacobin (; ) was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement that was the most famous political club during the French Revolution (1789–1799).
The club got its name from meeting at the Dominican rue Saint-Honoré Monastery of the Jacobins. The Dominicans in France were called Jacobins (, corres... |
16206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Tobias%20Krebs | Johann Tobias Krebs | Johann Tobias Krebs (7 July 1690 – 11 February 1762) was a German organist and composer, today best remembered as the father of Johann Ludwig Krebs, one of Bach's most accomplished pupils.
Krebs was born in Heichelheim and went to school in the nearby Weimar. Nothing is known about his early musical training, but at a... |
16207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Gurney%20Cannon | Joseph Gurney Cannon | Joseph Gurney Cannon (May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926) was an American politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party. Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and many consider him to be the most dominant speaker in United States history, with such control... |
16208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20G.%20Blaine | James G. Blaine | James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830January 27, 1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881.
... |
16209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian%20I | Justinian I | Justinian I (; ; ; 48214 November 565), also known as Justinian the Great, was the Byzantine emperor from 527 to 565.
His reign is marked by the ambitious but only partly realized renovatio imperii, or "restoration of the Empire". This ambition was expressed by the partial recovery of the territories of the defunct W... |
16211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Martyn | John Martyn | Iain David McGeachy (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), known professionally as John Martyn, was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a 40-year career, he released 23 studio albums, and received frequent critical acclaim. The Times described him as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurre... |
16215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Milton | John Milton | John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667... |
16216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joris%20Ivens | Joris Ivens | Georg Henri Anton "Joris" Ivens (18 November 1898 – 28 June 1989) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker. Among the notable films he directed or co-directed are A Tale of the Wind, The Spanish Earth, Rain, ...A Valparaiso, Misère au Borinage (Borinage), 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War, The Seine Meets Paris, Far from Vietnam,... |
16217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar | Jaguar | The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large cat species and the only living member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas. With a body length of up to and a weight of up to , it is the largest cat species in the Americas and the third largest in the world. Its distinctively marked coat features pale yellow to tan colo... |
16218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Dahmer | Jeffrey Dahmer | Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (; May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who committed the murder and dismemberment of seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Many of his later murders involved necrophilia, cannibalis... |
16219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Cotten | Joseph Cotten | Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair.
He first gained worldwide fame in three Orson Welles films: Citizen Kane (... |
16223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel | Joel | Joel or Yoel is a name meaning "Yahweh Is God" and may refer to:
Joel (given name), origin of the name including a list of people with the first name. in hebrew is : יואל
Joel (surname), a surname
Joel (prophet), a prophet of ancient Israel
Book of Joel, a book in the Jewish Tanakh, and in the Christian Bible, asc... |
16224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah | Jonah | Jonah or Jonas, son of Amittai, is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran, from Gath-hepher of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BCE. Jonah is the central figure of the Book of Jonah, which details his reluctance in delivering God's judgement on the city of Nineveh, and then his subsequent, a... |
16225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard%20machine | Jacquard machine | The Jacquard machine () is a device fitted to a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelassé. The resulting ensemble of the loom and Jacquard machine is then called a Jacquard loom. The machine was invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1804, based... |
16226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUnit | JUnit | JUnit is a unit testing framework for the Java programming language. JUnit has been important in the development of test-driven development, and is one of a family of unit testing frameworks which is collectively known as xUnit that originated with SUnit.
JUnit is linked as a JAR at compile-time. The latest version of... |
16227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%20Kern | Jerome Kern | Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lov... |
16228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Henson | Jim Henson | James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, actor, inventor, composer, and screenwriter, who achieved worldwide notice as the creator of The Muppets characters and Fraggle Rock (1983–1987); and as the director of The Dark Crystal (1982) and Labyrinth (1986). H... |
16229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joystick | Joystick | A joystick is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling. A joystick, also known as the control column, is the principal control device in the cockpit of many civilian and military aircraft, either as a centre stick or side-stick. It of... |
16232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Fern%C3%A1ndez%20Islands | Juan Fernández Islands | The Juan Fernández Islands () are a sparsely inhabited island group in the South Pacific Ocean reliant on tourism and fishing. Situated off the coast of Chile, they are composed of three main volcanic islands: Robinson Crusoe, Alejandro Selkirk and Santa Clara. The group is part of Insular Chile.
The islands are prim... |
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