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Daily Calendar for Thursday, January 16, 2025

Born

  • Robert Service (poet) –
  • Ethel Merman (singer & actress) –
  • William Kennedy (American writer) –
  • Marilyn Horne (opera singer) –
  • Ronnie Milsap (singer) –
  • Debbie Allen (actress, dancer, & choreographer) –
  • Sade (singer) –
  • Kate Moss (supermodel) –
  • Aaliyah (singer) –

Died

  • Carole Lombard (actress) –
  • Ted Cassidy (actor) –
  • Leland Stowe (journalist) –
  • Andrew Wyeth (artist) –
  • Carl Milton Smith (American country music singer) –
  • Pauline Friedman Phillips, pen name Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby advice columnist) –
  • Russell Johnson (actor) –

Events

  • Ivan the Terrible crowned as first Russian czar–
  • Prohibition went into effect in the U.S.–
  • US Department of State issues a ban on travel to Cuba–
  • Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians became the first tribe in the U.S. to issue tribal license plates–
  • Operation Desert Storm launched–
  • 121.5-pound blue catfish caught, Lake Texoma, Texas–

Weather

  • Last day of “The Great Snowstorm” raged from Georgia to Maine: 30+ inches in New York, New Jersey, and New England, with unusually high tides–
  • Avalanche in northern Idaho–
  • -40 degrees F in Coggon, Iowa–
  • An arctic blast dropped temperatures across the Midwest and Northeast: -50 degrees F at Big Black River, Maine; -46 degrees F at Embarrass, Minnesota; -39 F at Berlin, New Hampshire; and -38 F at Monticello, Iowa–