Until his death, he staunchly opposed bringing Marc Chagall's exhibition to Belarus, the famous artist's place of birth, on " anti-Zionist " grounds.

Although banned by then-President Marc Ravalomanana from 2000 to 2009, the collection of small quantities of precious timber from national parks was re-authorized in January 2009 and has dramatically intensified under the administration of current head of state Andry Rajoelina as a key source of state revenues to offset cuts in donor support following Ravalomanana's ouster.

Marc Bloch University became a constituent part of the University of Strasbourg on 1 January 2009.

* January 22 – Marc Blitzstein, American composer ( b. 1905 )

* January 29 – Marc Singer, Canadian actor

" According to the band's Ten Imaginary Years biography, between January and December of 1976, the shifting line-up for Malice featured several " other blokes ", with founding guitarist Marc Ceccagno being replaced by Porl Thompson, an early drummer known only as " Graham " replaced by Lol Tolhurst, and " Graham's brother " replaced for one show only by vocalist Martin Creasy.

In November 2009, it was announced that Marc Bolland, formerly of Morrisons, would take over as chief executive from Executive Chairman Stuart Rose in early 2010 ; Rose remained in the role of non-executive Chairman until he was replaced by Robert Swannell in January 2011.

In January 1991, Vitebsk celebrated the first Marc Chagall Festival.

Marc showed several of his works in the first Der Blaue Reiter exhibition at the Thannhauser Galleries in Munich between December 1911 and January 1912.

In January, 2011, Gallagher walked out of comedian Marc Maron's WTF podcast when Maron continued to ask Gallagher about the allegations, after Gallagher explained it was five jokes he had heard on the street, out of a 2-3 hour show.

Marc Quinn ( born 8 January 1964 ) is a British artist and one of a loose group known as the Young British Artists.

Channing's first job on stage in New York was in Marc Blitzstein's No For an Answer, starting January 5, 1941 at the Mecca Temple ( later New York's City Center ).

* January 21, 1999: Marc Aisenbrey at Musikhochschule, Stuttgart

The first successful tunnelling shield was developed by Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, and patented by him and Lord Cochrane in January 1818.

TF 58 was created on 6 January 1944 with Rear Admiral Marc Mitscher commanding, serving under the fleet command of Admiral Spruance in the Fifth Fleet.

Marc Ferrez ( December 7, 1843 — January 12, 1923 ) was a Brazilian photographer born in Rio de Janeiro.

* January 21 – René Marc Jalbert, soldier

He was the Prime Minister of Madagascar under President Marc Ravalomanana from February 2002 until January 2007.

Admiral Marc Andrew " Pete " Mitscher ( January 26, 1887 – February 3, 1947 ) was a pioneer in naval aviation who became an admiral in the United States Navy and served as commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force in the Pacific in the latter half of World War II.

During that span, in a game on January 9, Canucks head coach Marc Crawford replaced Andrew Cassels with Brendan Morrison, marking the beginning of what was considered by many to be the most effective line combination in the league for several seasons.

Näslund and Bertuzzi had already formed a duo as wingers on the Canucks ' top line for more than two seasons when head coach Marc Crawford replaced centre Andrew Cassels with Brendan Morrison during a game on 9 January 2002.

It was founded on January 1, 1984 in London, Ontario by Robert Metz and Marc Emery, as a successor to the Unparty.

Marc Mayer was named the museum's director, succeeding Pierre Théberge, on 19 January 2009.

Series Five debuted on 8 January 2009 with the return of Adrian Lester and the departure of cast members Marc Warren and Jaime Murray, and the arrival of Matt Di Angelo and Kelly Adams as their replacements.

Prominent international alumni include Pravind Jugnauth MP in the National Assembly of Mauritius, former Deputy Prime Minister, and the leader of one of Mauritius's main parties, the Militant Socialist Movement ; Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Governor of Osun State, Nigeria, racing driver Marc Gené, winner of the Le Mans 24-Hour Race in 2009 ; Tun Mohammed Hanif bin Omar ( Deputy Chairman of Genting Berhad, and Inspector-General of the Royal Malaysian Police for 20 years until January 1994 ).

Brown and Marc Henneaux had rigorously proved already in 1986, that the asymptotic symmetry of 2 + 1 dimensional gravity gives rise to a Virasoro algebra, whose corresponding quantum theory is a 2 dimensional conformal field theory .< ref >.

The game went to a shootout with a 1 – 1 tie after overtime, but Gretzky was controversially not selected by coach Marc Crawford as one of the five shooters.

* July 1 – Marc ' Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer ( b. c. 1547 )

Zawinski, with Marc Andreessen's help, worked on the early releases of Netscape Navigator, particularly the 1. 0 release of the Unix version.

Pedro Lamy scored his one and only point in Formula 1 with a 6th place in the 1995 Australian Grand Prix ; this result was followed by a long barren spell until Marc Gené finished 6th in the 1999 European Grand Prix.

* Focus Theme Articles: Business Models for Content Delivery: An Empirical Analysis of the Newspaper and Magazine Industry, Marc Fetscherin and Gerhard Knolmayer, International Journal on Media Management, Volume 6, Issue 1 & 2 September 2004, pages 4 – 11, September 2004.

The time spent at the bottom of the ladder also allowed Carlton to secure three No. 1 draft picks – Marc Murphy, Bryce Gibbs and Matthew Kreuzer – who helped the club's on-field position.

Members of the City Council are Lynne Algrant ( At-Large ; D, 2012 ), Michael D. Cohen ( Ward 2 ; D, 2013 ), Jack Drakeford ( Ward 4 ; D, 2013 ), Marc Forman ( Ward 1 ; D, 2014 ) and Eugene Skurnick ( Ward 4 ; D, 2014 ).

* Marc Andreessen co-founder of Netscape is quoted in " Mavericks at Work " ( ISBN 0060779616 ) as saying " Five great programmers can completely outperform 1, 000 mediocre programmers.

After Bruno Mégret's split, Bernard Courcelle followed him with 1, 700 men from the DPS, and Jean-Marie Le Pen named Marc Bellier to fill his place, and then Jean-Pierre Chabrut

* Brettler, Marc Z., “ The Copenhagen School: The Historiographical Issues ,” AJS Review 27 ( 2003 ): 1 – 21.

Over 5, 000 works were seized, including 1, 052 by Nolde, 759 by Heckel, 639 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and 508 by Max Beckmann, as well as smaller numbers of works by such artists as Alexander Archipenko, Marc Chagall, James Ensor, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh.

Marc Almond of the duo Soft Cell, whose cover version of " Tainted Love " reached # 1 worldwide, originally heard the song in a nightclub in Northern England.

These include: Oleta Adams " Circle of One " album ( reaching No. 1 in the UK charts 1991 ); Marc Almond " Tenement Symphony " album which included the epic tracks " Jacky " and " The Days of Pearly Spencer "; The Associates " Wild and Lonely " album ; Rick Astley " Free " album ; B * Witched " Awake and Breathe " album ; Chris Botti " Slowing Down the World " album ; Boyzone " A Different Beat " album ; Cher " It's a Man's World " album ; Petula Clark " La Vie en Rose " track ; Lloyd Cole and the Commotions " Rattlesnakes " album ; Andrea Corr " Ten Feet High " album ; Cathy Dennis " Move to This " and " Into the Skyline " albums ; Electronic " Getting Away with It " single ( reaching No. 12 in the UK charts 1990 ); Frankie Goes to Hollywood " Welcome to the Pleasuredome " album which included their 2nd and 3rd No. 1s " Two Tribes " and " The Power of Love "; Elton John " The Big Picture " album ; Martyn Joseph " Being There " album ; Kingmaker " Sleepwalking " album ; Annie Lennox " Medusa " album ( No. 1 in the UK charts 1995 ); Let Loose " Best In Me " single ; Virginia MacNaughton " The Music " album ; Paul McCartney " Press to Play " album ; Malcolm McLaren " Duck Rock " album ; The Men They Couldn't Hang " A Map Of Morocco " single ; George Michael " Careless Whisper " single ( reaching No. 1 in 25 countries ); Liza Minnelli " Results " album ( reaching No. 6 in the UK charts 1989 ); The Moody Blues " Greatest Hits " album ; Moist " Gasoline " single ; Jimmy Nail " Crocodile Shoes " album ( reaching No. 2 in the UK charts 1994 ); The Painted Word " Lovelife " album ; Pet Shop Boys " Very " album ; Pulp " Different Class " and " This Is Hardcore " albums ( both reaching No. 1 ); Rialto " Monday Morning 5: 19 " single ; Frances Ruffelle " Stranger To The Rain " single ; S Club " 7 album " ( No. 1 in the UK charts 2000 ); Scarlet " Naked " album ; Seal first 3 albums " Seal " " Seal II " " Human Being "; Siphiwo " Hope " album ( featuring Nelson Mandela on the title track ); Wendy Stark " Stark " album ; Rod Stewart " A Spanner in the Works " album and " If We Fall in Love Tonight " album and the single " Downtown Train "; Suggs " The Lone Ranger " album ; Travis " More Than Us " EP featuring Anne on the title track ; Tina Turner " Wildest Dreams " album ; Wet Wet Wet " Holding Back the River " album ( reaching No. 2 in the UK charts 1989 ); Wham!

None of his fellow players in the Slater Squad saw Henman as a potential British Number 1, with most believing Marc Moreso to be the group's brightest hope.

* District 1: Marc Basnight ( Dem )

Mark and Lard, the stage name of Mark Radcliffe ( Mark ) and Marc Riley ( Lard ), are former BBC Radio 1 disc jockeys.