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Daily Calendar for Friday, January 15, 2027

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Friday, January 15, 2027

Born

  • Philip Livingston (patriot, and signer of the Declaration of Independence) –
  • The Earl of Derby, Lord Stanley (Canadian Governor General 1888 - 1893) –
  • Goodman Ace (radio performer) –
  • Gene Krupa (drummer) –
  • Lloyd Bridges (actor) –
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. (American civil rights leader; was born in Atlanta, Georgia) –
  • Ernest J. Gaines (novelist) –
  • André Alexis (writer) –
  • Chad Lowe (actor) –
  • Regina King (actress) –
  • Howie Day (singer) –
  • Dove Cameron (actress) –

Died

  • Mathew Brady (photographer) –
  • Ray Bolger (actor) –
  • Ruth Warrick (actress) –
  • Percy Saltzman (first meteorologist to appear on Canadian television) –

Events

  • Elizabeth I of England was crowned in Westminster Abbey –
  • Dramatist Molière was baptized –
  • Vermont declares its independence from Great Britain and the colony of New York as a republic originally called New Connecticut –
  • The University of N.C., the first state university in the US, opens –
  • E. G. Otis received a patent for an elevator safety brake –
  • Great Molasses Flood, Boston, Massachusetts –
  • Ford Foundation is incorporated to administer funds for scientific, educational and charitable purposes –
  • First U.S. all-glass windowless structure completed, in Toledo, Ohio –
  • First Pro Bowl game in NFL history is played in Los Angeles, California –
  • The Pentagon Building in Virginia was completed –
  • First nonstop trans-Canada flight completed –
  • The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl I –
  • Astronomers at Steward Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, became the first to identify an optical pulsar, which was named PSR B0531+21 and nicknamed the Crab Pulsar because of its location near the center of the Crab Nebula. –
  • Happy Days made its television debut –
  • First transpacific hot air balloon flight began, Japan to Canada –
  • With the execution of its first edit, the open-source online encyclopedia Wikipedia was launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger –
  • Stardust capsule landed in Utah, after record re-entry speed of 28,860 mph –

Weather

  • New York harbor froze over completely and was sealed for five weeks –
  • Los Angeles, California, received 2” of snow –
  • 7.8 inches of snow at Forth Worth, Texas –
  • Loma, Montana, set a record for the greatest temperature change in a 24 hour period. Temperatures went from -54 degrees F on January 14 to 49 degrees F on January 15 –
  • It was so cold in Kapuskasing, Ontario, that tires fell off the rims of cars. (it was -45F or -42.8C) –