Janurary 15, 2023
QUOTE
What song is it you want to hear?
--Ronnie Van Zant
BIRTHDAYS
1870 – Pierre S. du Pont, American businessman and philanthropist
1913 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor
1929 – Earl Hooker, American guitarist
1929 – Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
1948 – Ronnie Van Zant, American singer-songwriter
IN MEMORY
1896 – Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist
1994 – Harry Nilsson, American singer-songwriter
2008 – Brad Renfro, American actor
2014 – Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor
2019 – Carol Channing, American actress
IN ON THIS DAY
1782 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris addresses the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
1910 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 feet.
1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
1973 – Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 ditches safely in the Hudson River after the plane collides with birds less than two minutes after take-off. This becomes known as “The Miracle on the Hudson” as all 155 people on board were rescued.