Daniel Pearl(Wall Street Journal reporter who disappeared and was later killed)–
Nell Carter(singer & actress)–
Helmut Newton(fashion photographer)–
Bob Keeshan(Captain Kangaroo)–
Johnny Carson(comedian who dominated late-night television for 30 years as the host of The Tonight Show)–
Events
Deadliest earthquake on record killed 830,000 in China –
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to receive an M.D. degree –
Envelope machine patented –
California vintner Agoston Haraszthy received 100,000 European grape vine cuttings. –
Charles Curtis first of Native American descent to be elected as U.S. senator –
Leonard Thompson received the world’s first successful insulin injection –
The movie Casablanca was copyrighted –
Duke Ellington played at New York City’s Carnegie Hall for the first time –
Fire devastated streetcar barns in Regina, Saskatchewan –
Bathyscaphe Trieste dove a record-breaking 35,800 feet –
Eldfell volcano began to form, Heimaey Island, Iceland
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Willie Mays elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame –
China’s giant pandas were added to the endangered species list –
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted its first members: Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, and Little Richard –
International Polar Bear Conservation Centre opened in Winnipeg, Manitoba –
At 12:31 am, a 7.9 earthquake struck the Gulf of Alaska, about 181 miles southeast of Kodiak, prompting a tsunami warning for coastal Alaska and British Columbia, and a tsunami watch for the rest of the U.S. West Coast. This was cancelled after several hours; a minor tsunami, less than a foot, was reported in Alaska. –
Weather
In Iroquois Falls, Ontario, the temperature reached -73°F. –
Eighty degrees below zero F at Prospect Creek, Alaska –
13.4 inches of snow fell on Boston, the most snow the city had received in a single day since the National Weather Service began keeping records in 1892. This was from a powerful blizzard which started on January 22 and ended on the 23rd. –
