Daily Calendar for Saturday, December 30, 2023

Born

  • Rudyard Kipling (author) –
  • Bert Parks (television personality) –
  • Bo Diddley (guitarist) –
  • Del Shannon (singer) –
  • Mike Nesmith (musician, member of The Monkees) –
  • Davy Jones (musician; member of The Monkees) –
  • Matt Lauer (journalist) –
  • Tiger Woods (golfer) –
  • Eliza Dushku (actress) –
  • Kristin Kreuk (actress) –
  • LeBron James (basketball player) –

Died

  • Amelia Bloomer (social reformer who introduced BLOOMERS) –
  • Richard Rodgers (composer) –
  • Artie Shaw (jazz clarinetist and bandleader) –
  • Barbara Walters (broadcast journalist ) –
  • Tom Wilkinson ( actor) –

Events

  • Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft were married–
  • U.S. president Rutherford B. Hayes married Lucy Webb–
  • U.S. and Mexico signed the Gadsden Purchase Treaty–
  • First photo of Earth’s curvature exhibited, in Cleveland, Ohio–
  • The Arroyo Seco Parkway, California’s first freeway, officially opened. It connected Los Angeles and Pasadena–
  • The Roy Rogers Show made its TV debut–
  • Figure skater David Pelletier wed skating partner Jamie Salé–
  • Samoa skipped this day in order to move from the eastern to the western side of the International Date Line–

Weather

  • Great Cold Wave hit the East : -13 degrees F, New York City; -15 degrees F, Boston, Massachusetts; and -43 degrees F, New Hampshire–
  • The temperature in Lewisburg, West Virginia, dropped to -37F.–
  • Bloomfield, Vermont, set a record low temperature for New England with -50 degrees F–
  • Forty-eight degrees below zero F in Mazama and Winthrop, Washington–
  • Las Vegas was blanketed with 1.3 inches of snow–

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