Daily Calendar for Wednesday, January 19, 2028
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Wednesday, January 19, 2028
Born
- James Watt (inventor) –
- Robert E. Lee (Confederate general) –
- Edgar Allen Poe (author) –
- Paul Cézanne (painter) –
- Jean Stapleton (American actress ) –
- Patsy Rowlands (actress) –
- Janis Joplin (singer ) –
- Dolly Parton (Singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur, born in Pittman Center, Tennessee) –
- Paula Deen (chef) –
- Desi Arnaz, Jr. (actor, son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz) –
- Drea de Matteo (actress) –
Died
- Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart (Canadian religious sister ) –
- William O. Douglas (Supreme Court Justice) –
- James Dickey (writer/poet) –
- Carl Perkins (musician) –
- Wilson Pickett (singer) –
- Denny Doherty (one of the founding members of the musical group The Mamas & The Papas) –
- Suzanne Pleshette (actress) –
- Stan "The Man" Musial (baseball player) –
Events
- Tin can patented –
- Explorer Charles Wilkes claimed discovery of Antarctica –
- First Brown vs. Harvard ice hockey game took place –
- Law raised salary of U.S. president to $100,000 –
- U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized first space satellite communications link between the United States and Europe on an experimental basis. –
- The last old-style, German-made Volkswagen Beetle left the plant in Emden, Germany –
- Astronaut Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman to be selected for a space mission –
Weather
- Twenty-four degrees below zero F in Hartford, Connecticut –
- Temperature dropped 50 degrees in Portsmouth, New Hampshire –
- The temperature rose 43 degrees in 15 minutes at Fort Assiniboine, near Havre, Montana. –
- Lake Erie froze from bank to bank for the first time in modern history –
- Snow fell in Miami, Florida –
- A record-low barometer reading of 29.25 inches occurred due to a West Coast storm –
- Temperature dipped to -36 degrees F, New Whiteland, Indiana –