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Daily Calendar for Friday, January 22, 2016

Born

  • Ivan III (Ivan The Great) –
  • Sir Francis Bacon (writer, philosopher) –
  • Richard Upjohn (architect) –
  • August Strindberg (playwright) –
  • D. W. Griffith (film director) –
  • Ann Sothern (actress) –
  • U Thant (United Nations Secretary General) –
  • Sam Cooke (singer) –
  • Piper Laurie (actress) –
  • Bill Bixby (actor & director) –
  • Joseph Wambaugh (writer) –
  • Steve Perry (singer) –
  • Linda Blair (actress) –
  • Diane Lane (actress) –
  • Guy Fieri (celebrity chef) –
  • Balthazar Getty (actor) –
  • Christopher Masterson (actor) –
  • Beverley Mitchell (actress) –

Died

  • Queen Victoria (Great Britain, died after the longest reign of any British monarch and was succeeded by her son, Edward VII) –
  • Lyndon B. Johnson (36th U.S. president) –
  • Telly Savalas (actor) –
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (matriarch of the Kennedy family) –
  • Stanley Marcus (chairman of department store Neiman-Marcus) –
  • Jack Shea (gold medal-winning speedskater and patriarch of family of Olympic finalists, including grandson who won gold medal at 2002 games) –
  • Ann Miller (dancer & actress) –
  • Patsy Rowlands (actress) –
  • Heath Ledger (actor) –
  • Jean Simmons (English actress who later also became an American citizen) –
  • James Mitchell (actor & dancer) –
  • Hank Aaron (baseball player) –

Events

  • Uranium atom was first split by cyclotron–
  • Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In debuted on TV–
  • George Foreman knocks out Joe Frazier for world heavyweight boxing title–
  • Macintosh computer commercial ran during Super Bowl XVIII–
  • Politician R. Budd Dwyer committed suicide on national television–
  • Roberta Bondar became first Canadian woman in space–
  • Madeleine Albright became the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the U.S. Senate–

Weather

  • In Spearfish, South Dakota, the temperature rose from -4F to 45F in 2 minutes, due to chinook–
  • Meteorologists said that 75 percent of North America was covered by snow–
  • Mountain Lake, Virginia, recorded a low temperature of -30 degrees F–
  • Snow fell in Jordan–

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