Daily Calendar for Monday, December 18, 2028
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Monday, December 18, 2028
Born
- Edward MacDowell (composer) –
- Ty Cobb (baseball player) –
- Betty Grable (actress) –
- Steven Spielberg (director) –
- Ray Liotta (actor ) –
- Brad Pitt (actor) –
- Sia (singer) –
- Katie Holmes (actress) –
- Christina Aguilera (singer) –
- Billie Eilish (Musician; born in Los Angeles, California) –
Died
- Chris Farley (actor) –
- Joe Barbera (half of the Hanna-Barbera animation team that made cartoon characters such as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, and the Flintstones) –
- Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (actress and producer) –
- Connie Hines (actress) –
- Zsa Zsa Gabor (actress and socialite) –
Events
- The Great Comet reached perihelion –
- New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution –
- John William Draper took the first photo of the Moon –
- The 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting slavery, went into effect –
- National Anti-Saloon League was founded –
- U.S. President Woodrow Wilson married Edith B. Galt, a descendent of Pocahontas –
- Civil rights activist Rosa McCauley married Raymond Parks –
- Giant panda, Basi, celebrated her 25th birthday at China’s Fuzhou Zoo. (She far surpassed the normal panda life expectancy of 12 years!) –
Weather
- Central Park in New York City experienced a record low temperature of 10 degrees below zero F –
- A sudden gale of wind of almost cyclonic force blew through Howe, Indiana, and caused snowballs to form spontaneously and roll along the ground like tumbleweeds –
- Freezing rain in the Memphis, Tennessee, area caused 170 evening auto accidents –