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Daily Calendar for Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Born
- Alexander Mackenzie (Canadian statesman) β
- Henry Morton Stanley (journalist & explorer) β
- Jose Marti (Cuban poet) β
- Artur Rubinstein (pianist) β
- Jackson Pollock (artist) β
- Susan Sontag (novelist) β
- Susan Howard (actress) β
- Mikhail Baryshnikov (ballet dancer) β
- Sarah McLachlan (musician) β
- Joey Fatone (singer & actor) β
- Elijah Wood (actor) β
Died
- W. B. Yeats (poet) β
- Christa McAuliffe (selected to be the first teacher in space) β
- Harold "Red" Grange (football player) β
- Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg (American-born Canadian astronomer ) β
- Astrid Lindgren (children’s author who wrote Pippi Longstocking) β
- Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch (football player) β
- Jim Capaldi (musician) β
- Cicely Tyson (actress) β
Events
- The Yale Daily News became the first daily, college newspaper in the U.S.β
- Jose Miguel Gomez was inaugurated as president of Cuba and the U.S. provisional government withdrewβ
- The U.S. Coast Guard was established by Congress, combining the Life Saving Service and the Revenue Cutter Serviceβ
- Manitoba became first province to grant women suffrageβ
- Aaron Copland’s instrumental suite, Quiet City, premiered in New Yorkβ
- Leonard Bernstein conducted the premiere of his first symphony, Jeremiah, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvaniaβ
- An African American student, Harvey Gantt, entered Clemson College in South Carolina, thus breaking the barrier in the last state to hold out against integration. Harvey later became the first African-American mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina.β
- Barnaby Jones premiered on televisionβ
- U.S. army officer, James Dozier, was rescued from his Red Brigade captors in Padua, Italyβ
- The space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after take-off, killing all seven crew members, including teacher Christa McAuliffeβ
- The Canadian Supreme Court ruled federal restrictions on abortions violate the constitutionβ
- An 8-pound 12-ounce redeye bass was caught in the Apalachicola River in Floridaβ
Weather
- Snowstorm left 36 inches in northern Virginiaβ
- Knickerbocker Storm’s 28 inches of snowfall crushed Washington theater of the same name, killing over 100 movie patronsβ
- Forty-six degrees below zero F at First Connecticut Lakeβ
- -132 degrees F windchill, in Pelly Bay, Northwest Territoriesβ