Daily Calendar for Friday, January 5, 2029
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Friday, January 5, 2029
Born
- Zebulon Montgomery Pike (Explorer and U.S. Brigadier General; was born in Lamington, New Jersey) –
- King C. Gillette (inventor) –
- Herbert Bayard Swope (journalist) –
- Yves Tanguy (artist) –
- Myrtle Alice Cook McGowan (athlete) –
- Jane Wyman (actress) –
- Sam Phillips (record company executive) –
- William Dewitt Snodgrass (poet) –
- Alvin Ailey (dancer) –
- Robert Duvall (actor) –
- Diane Keaton (actress) –
- Bradley Cooper (actor) –
- Walker Scobell (actor) –
Died
- Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (explorer) –
- Calvin Coolidge (30th U.S. president) –
- George Washington Carver (educator) –
- Charlie Mingus (musician) –
- Pistol Pete Maravich (basketball player) –
- Thomas "Tip" O'Neill (Speaker of the House) –
- Sonny Bono (actor, mayor of Palm Springs, and U.S. Congressman) –
- Tug McGraw (baseball player) –
- Jean-Paul L'Allier (Quebec City mayor) –
- Jerry Van Dyke (actor) –
Events
- First divorce granted in the American Colonies –
- New Hampshire was the first state to adopt a constitution –
- A British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burned Richmond, Virginia –
- The word hamburger first appeared in print in the Walla Walla Union, Walla Walla, Washington –
- The first successful photo of an aurora was made by physicist Martin Brendel –
- First Trans-Pacific (California to Hawaii) cable opened to public use –
- Fannie Farmer’s last lecture –
- Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming became first woman governor in American history –
- Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began in San Francisco, California –
- United Mine Workers official Joseph A. Yablonski and his wife and daughters were found slain in their Clarksville, Pennsylvania home –
- President Nixon ordered NASA to begin work on a manned space shuttle –
- Arkansas law requiring creationism to be taught in public schools struck down by Federal court –
- President Ronald Reagan submitted the first $1 trillion budget to Congress –
- Reggie Jackson elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame –
- Robert Nuranen returned a library book he had checked out for a 9th-grade assignment, along with a check for 47 year’s worth of late fees—$171.32 –
- World’s highest cable-stayed bridge opened spanning a deep ravine in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains –
- In Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, Marissa Waldrum performed a world-record-setting 51 “no hands” cartwheels in 1 minute. –
Weather
- Twenty degrees below zero F, Hanover, New Hampshire –
- Record cold morning in East: -24 degrees F in New Haven, Connecticut, and -40 degrees F in the Berkshire Hills –
- Severe Artic outbreak: Des Moines -30 degrees F, Indianapolis -25 degrees F –
- Eleven degrees F in Athens, Georgia –