January 14

It's January 14th

It's Sidereal winter solstice celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; marking the transition of the Sun to Capricorn, and the first day of the six months Uttarayana period

It's World Logic Day

On this day in 1967 - The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.



In 1977 David Bowie releases "Low"



Birthdays:

David Grohl

"Buzzo calls out Dave Grohl"

L.L. Cool J


Zakk Wylde


Nadia Maftouni

Slick Rick



Jemma Redgrave

Steven Soderbergh


Geoff Tate




Anchee Min
"Becoming Madame Mao"

Arthur Byron Cover

Lamar Williams


Lawrence Kasdan



T Bone Burnett


(Burnett (as J. Henry Burnett) produced and played drums on "Paralyzed", the novelty hit by the Legendary Stardust Cowboy.)



Holland Taylor

Barry Jenner


Allen Toussaint


Caterina Valente



Kenny Wheeler


Johnny Grande


Garry Winogrand



Zuzana Růžičková


Warren Mitchell
as Pepe Valiente in "The Curse of the Werewolf"

as Mr. Fishfingers in"Jabberwocky"


Frank Aletter
as Mr. Cromwell in "Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter"

Unfortunately NOT STREAMING anywhere online. Here is the VHS for sale on Ebay

Guy Williams
as the Radar Operator in "The Day the Earth Stood Still"
as Officer Chris Stanley in "I Was a Teenage Werewolf


Richard Briers
as Grandfather in "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein


Tillie Olsen
"Tell Me a Riddle"

William Bendix
in "The Life of Riley"

Ross Columbo


Joseph Losey


Brenda Forbes


Cecil Beaton


Bebe Daniels


Hal Roach

Richard F. Outcault

Berthe Morisot
"Winter" aka "Girl with a Muff"


Henri Fantin-Latour
"Danae"


Jean-Baptiste van Loo
"The Triumph of Galatea"


Luca Longhi
"The Lady and the Unicorn"


Gottfried Silbermann
Silbermann Organ in Freiberg Cathedral

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