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Daily Calendar for Saturday, January 5, 2019

Born

  • Zebulon Montgomery Pike (explorer) –
  • King C. Gillette (inventor) –
  • Herbert Bayard Swope (journalist) –
  • Yves Tanguy (artist) –
  • Myrtle Alice Cook McGowan (athlete) –
  • Jane Wyman (actress) –
  • Sam Phillips (record company executive) –
  • William Dewitt Snodgrass (poet) –
  • Alvin Ailey (dancer) –
  • Robert Duvall (actor) –
  • Diane Keaton (actress) –
  • Bradley Cooper (actor) –

Died

  • Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (explorer) –
  • Calvin Coolidge (30th U.S. president) –
  • George Washington Carver (educator) –
  • Charlie Mingus (musician) –
  • Pistol Pete Maravich (basketball player) –
  • Thomas "Tip" O'Neill (Speaker of the House) –
  • Sonny Bono (actor, mayor of Palm Springs, and U.S. Congressman) –
  • Tug McGraw (baseball player) –
  • Jean-Paul L'Allier (Quebec City mayor) –
  • Jerry Van Dyke (actor) –

Events

  • First divorce granted in the American Colonies–
  • New Hampshire was the first state to adopt a constitution–
  • A British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burned Richmond, Virginia–
  • The word hamburger first appeared in print in the Walla Walla Union, Walla Walla, Washington–
  • The first successful photo of an aurora was made by physicist Martin Brendel–
  • First Trans-Pacific (California to Hawaii) cable opened to public use–
  • Fannie Farmer’s last lecture–
  • Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming became first woman governor in American history–
  • Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began in San Francisco, California–
  • United Mine Workers official Joseph A. Yablonski and his wife and daughters were found slain in their Clarksville, Pennsylvania home–
  • President Nixon ordered NASA to begin work on a manned space shuttle–
  • Arkansas law requiring creationism to be taught in public schools struck down by Federal court–
  • President Ronald Reagan submitted the first $1 trillion budget to Congress–
  • Reggie Jackson elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame –
  • Robert Nuranen returned a library book he had checked out for a 9th-grade assignment, along with a check for 47 year’s worth of late fees—$171.32–
  • World’s highest cable-stayed bridge opened spanning a deep ravine in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains–

Weather

  • Twenty degrees below zero F, Hanover, New Hampshire–
  • Record cold morning in East: -24 degrees F in New Haven, Connecticut, and -40 degrees F in the Berkshire Hills–
  • Severe Artic outbreak: Des Moines -30 degrees F, Indianapolis -25 degrees F–
  • Eleven degrees F in Athens, Georgia–

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