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January 3, 1946

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Notable Births

John Paul Jones (musician)

1946John Paul Jones, English bass player, songwriter, and producer[†]

John Paul Jones is an English musician and record producer who was the bassist and keyboardist for the rock band Led Zeppelin. He was a session musician and arranger when he formed the band with Jimmy Page in 1968. Jones developed a solo career after drummer John Bonham died and Led Zeppelin disbanded in 1980. He has collaborated with musicians in a variety of genres, including the supergroup Them Crooked Vultures with Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, and Alain Johannes. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 as a member of Led Zeppelin.

Michalis Kritikopoulos

1946Michalis Kritikopoulos, Greek footballer (died 2002)[†]

Michalis Kritikopoulos was a Greek professional footballer who played as a striker.

Notable Deaths

William Joyce

1946William Joyce, American-British pro-Axis propaganda broadcaster (born 1906)[†]

William Brooke Joyce, nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born fascist and Nazi propaganda broadcaster during the Second World War. After moving from New York to Ireland and subsequently to England, Joyce became a member of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF) from 1932, before finally moving to Germany at the outset of the war where he took Nazi German citizenship in 1940.

Historical Events

Canadian Americans

1946Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf suffers a concussion during a freak racing accident; he dies from the injury the following day. The annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.[†]

Canadian Americans are American citizens whose ancestry is wholly or partly Canadian, or citizens of either country who hold dual citizenship. Today, many Canadian Americans hold both US and Canadian citizenship.