Daily Calendar for Monday, January 1, 2029

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Monday, January 1, 2029

Born

Paul Revere (patriot) – 1735
Betsy Ross (patriot) – 1752
E.M. Forster (novelist) – 1879
J. Edgar Hoover (director of U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation) – 1895
Hank Greenberg (baseball player) – 1911
J.D. Salinger (author) – 1919
Carole Landis (actress) – 1919
Terry Moore (actress) – 1932
Don Novello (actor) – 1943
Kathleen Casey-Kirschling (official first baby boomer in United States) – 1946
Nancy Lopez (golfer) – 1957

Died

Johann Christian Bach (composer) – 1782
Maurice Chevalier – 1972
Ray Walston (actor) – 2001
Julia Phillips (first female producer to win an Oscar Award for Best Picture [for The Sting]) – 2002
Shirley Chisholm (an advocate for minority rights who became the first black woman elected to Congress) – 2005
Patti Page (singer) – 2013
Donna Douglas (actress) – 2015

Events

First U.S. flag, The Grand Union, was displayed by George Washington; it became the unofficial national flag, preceding the 13-star, 13 stripe version – 1776
Legislative Union of Great Britain with Ireland under the name of United Kingdom became effective – 1801
President John Adams held the first New Year’s reception in the White House – 1801
Importation of enslaved people into the U.S. officially banned – 1808
First recorded ten-pin bowling match played at Knickerbocker Alleys, NYC – 1840
The Emancipation Proclamation became law, marking the end of legalized slavery in the U.S. – 1863
State of New York introduced the electric chair for capital punishment – 1889
The U.S. government opened an immigrant processing station at Ellis Island, New York – 1892
First Rose Bowl football game played at Pasadena, California – 1902
U.S. Parcel Post service began – 1913
The British battleship Formidable was sunk in the English Channel by a German submarine with the loss of 600 lives (WW I) – 1915
Fiorello La Guardia is inaugurated as mayor of New York – 1934
The U.S. Navy commissioned its first woman doctor, Mary Sproul – 1950
Kurt Waldheim inaugurated as Secretary General of the United Nations – 1972
John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, and John Mitchell were found guilty of obstructing justice in the Watergate Incident – 1975
Episcopal Church of the U.S. ordained its first woman priest – 1977
American Telephone & Telegraph Co. officially divested itself of 22 Bell System subsidiaries – 1984
First U.S. electronic highway toll collection, in Oklahoma – 1991
The Coney Island Polar Bear Club observed its 100th anniversary the same way it celebrated the previous 99—with a New Year’s Day plunge in the Atlantic Ocean – 2003
A strong earthquake rocked Mexico City and Acapulco – 2004
New England Patriots quarterback Doug Flutie converted the first successful drop kick in an NFL game since 1941 – 2006
Twelve-year-old Aidan Murray Medley caught a 551-pound bull shark just north of Palm Beach Inlet, Florida – 2008

Weather

Twenty-four degrees below zero F in Northfield, Vermont – 1918
Bethlehem, New Hampshire, recorded a temperature of -20 degrees F – 1918
VanBuren, Maine, recorded a temperature of -32 degrees F – 1918
Six day Great Plains and N. Rockies blizzard began, most adverse conditions in history of west – 1949
Maybell, Colorado, set a record low temperature of -60 degrees F – 1979