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Daily Calendar for Thursday, January 13, 2022

Died

  • Maria Sibylla Merian (naturalist/artist) –
  • Wyatt Earp (legendary marshal) –
  • James Joyce (author) –
  • Hubert Humphrey (vice president of the United States) –
  • Charity Adams Earley (first African American officer in the Women’s Army Corps and commander of the only unit of African American women to serve overseas in WW II) –
  • Patrick McGoohan (actor) –
  • Teddy Pendergrass (R&B singer) –
  • Blackie (thought to be the oldest male Nile hippopotamus recorded in North America at the time; he died at an estimated age 59) –
  • Alfred K. Newman (U.S. Marine Corps specialist) –

Born

  • Friedrich Muller (painter) –
  • Horatio Alger (author) –
  • Sophie Tucker (singer) –
  • Kay Francis (actress) –
  • Robert Stack (actor) –
  • Gwen Verdon (actress) –
  • Charles Nelson Reilly (actor) –
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus (actress) –
  • Patrick Dempsey (actor) –
  • Orlando Bloom (actor) –

Events

  • American troops ordered into disputed territory between the Nueces and Rio Grande River–
  • A meeting took place in Washington, D.C., to organize the National Geographic Society –
  • Opera was heard live for the first time on the radio–
  • Mickey Mouse comic strip debuted in newspapers–
  • The Wham-O Company developed the first frisbee–
  • Brazil and the U.S. signed their first extradition treaty–
  • Robert C. Weaver, the first African American ever nominated to the U.S. Cabinet, named Secretary of the new Department of Housing and Urban Development–
  • U.S. Department of the Interior approved construction of the Alaskan pipeline–
  • Hank Aaron was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame–
  • Air Florida plane crashed into a bridge in Washington, D.C., killing 78 people–
  • The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public school officials can censor student newspapers–
  • Figure skater Tonya Harding’s bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt, was arrested for his alleged role in the attack on skater Nancy Kerrigan–
  • Existence of monkey clone Tetra announced–

Weather

  • Nochian Flood of California created a vast sea in the Sacramento Valley–
  • Sixty-five degrees below zero F at Fort Keogh near Miles City, Montana–
  • Temperature rose 64 degrees in 14 hours at Radio City, South Dakota–
  • Citrus crop froze in Florida; 8 degrees F, in Tallahasee–
  • 13.5 inches of snow in San Antonio, Texas–
  • Hallock, Minnesota, suffered a cold temperature of -38 degrees F–

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