Daily Calendar for Sunday, January 22, 2023
Born
- Ivan III (Ivan The Great) β
- Sir Francis Bacon (writer, philosopher) β
- Richard Upjohn (architect) β
- August Strindberg (playwright) β
- D. W. Griffith (film director) β
- Ann Sothern (actress) β
- U Thant (United Nations Secretary General) β
- Sam Cooke (singer) β
- Piper Laurie (actress) β
- Bill Bixby (actor & director) β
- Joseph Wambaugh (writer) β
- Steve Perry (singer) β
- Linda Blair (actress) β
- Diane Lane (actress) β
- Guy Fieri (celebrity chef) β
- Balthazar Getty (actor) β
- Christopher Masterson (actor) β
- Beverley Mitchell (actress) β
- Caitlin Clark (basketball player) β
Died
- Queen Victoria (Great Britain, died after the longest reign of any British monarch and was succeeded by her son, Edward VII) β
- Lyndon B. Johnson (36th U.S. president) β
- Telly Savalas (actor) β
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (matriarch of the Kennedy family) β
- Stanley Marcus (chairman of department store Neiman-Marcus) β
- Jack Shea (gold medal-winning speedskater and patriarch of family of Olympic finalists, including grandson who won gold medal at 2002 games) β
- Ann Miller (dancer & actress) β
- Patsy Rowlands (actress) β
- Heath Ledger (actor) β
- Jean Simmons (English actress who later also became an American citizen) β
- James Mitchell (actor & dancer) β
- Hank Aaron (baseball player) β
Events
- Uranium atom was first split by cyclotron β
- Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In debuted on TV β
- George Foreman knocks out Joe Frazier for world heavyweight boxing title β
- Macintosh computer commercial ran during Super Bowl XVIII β
- Politician R. Budd Dwyer committed suicide on national television β
- Roberta Bondar became first Canadian woman in space β
- Madeleine Albright became the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the U.S. Senate β
Weather
- In Spearfish, South Dakota, the temperature rose from -4F to 45F in 2 minutes, due to chinook β
- Meteorologists said that 75 percent of North America was covered by snow β
- Mountain Lake, Virginia, recorded a low temperature of -30 degrees F β
- Snow fell in Jordan β
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