Daily Calendar for Saturday, January 6, 2029
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Saturday, January 6, 2029
Born
- Joan of Arc (French heroine) –
- Jedediah Smith (explorer) –
- Clarence King (founder of the U.S. Geological Survey) –
- Carl Sandburg (poet) –
- Tom Mix (actor) –
- Loretta Young (actress) –
- Cary Middlecoff (golfer) –
- Earl Scruggs (musician) –
- E.L. Doctorow (writer) –
- Bonnie Franklin (actress) –
- Rowan Atkinson (actor) –
- Nigella Lawson (chef) –
Died
- Theodore Roosevelt (26th U.S. president) –
- Robert H.W. Welch, Jr. (founder of the John Birch Society) –
- Dizzy Gillespie (musician) –
- Rudolph Nureyev (ballet dancer) –
- Lou Rawls (singer) –
- Pat Harrington (actor) –
- Sidney Poitier (the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor; died in Beverly Hills, California) –
Events
- George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis –
- Albany designated the permanent capital of NY state –
- Indianapolis designated as the capital of the state of Indiana –
- S.F.B. Morse demonstrated his completed telegraph at the Speedwell Iron Works –
- James Plimpton received a patent for improved roller skates –
- Pendleton Act reformed U.S. civil service, initiating competitive examinations for placement –
- First women’s six-day bicycle race began, N.Y.C. –
- New Mexico admitted to the Union as the 47th state –
- President FDR delivered his Four Freedoms speech to the U.S. Congress, summarizing the goals Americans were ready to defend –
- First around-the-world commercial flight completed by Pan American Airways –
- George H. W. Bush and Barbara Pierce were married –
- U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched a major offensive against the Viet-Cong stronghold in the Mekong River delta, the first direct commitment of U.S. troops to combat in that area (Vietnam War) –
- Schoolhouse Rock! premiered –
- Global Television Network in Ontario began programming –
- Wheel of Fortune debuts on NBC television as a half-hour, daytime game show with host Chuck Woolery and letter-turner Susan Stafford. –
- First quadruplets to be conceived in a test tube were born to an Australian woman –
- A baby lion-tailed macaque named Bosco was born at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington. Lion-tailed macaques are among the most threatened of all macaque species. –
- Defending women’s figure skating national champion Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right kneecap in an off-ice attack by an unidentified assailant at the U.S. Olympic trials in Detroit, Michigan –
- NASA unveiled a breathtaking snapshot of the surface of Mars shot in color by its Spirit rover. The new color image was the sharpest photograph ever taken on Mars –
Weather
- Seattle, Washington, received 4 feet of snow, many barns were destroyed –
- Last day of severe Arctic outbreak in Midwest and South: -10 degrees F, Atlanta, Georgia –
- 14.9 inches of snow fell in Chicago, Illinois –
- Sixty-nine degrees F, Boston, Massachusetts –
- Temperatures in Miami, Florida, dropped to 35°F, causing iguanas to enter a state of hibernation and fall out of trees. –