Daily Calendar for Saturday, January 13, 2029

Name: Daily Almanac Features
Start: 2029-01-13T00:00:00
End: 2029-01-13T23:59:59

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Maria Sibylla Merian (naturalist/artist) – 1717
Wyatt Earp (legendary marshal) – 1929
James Joyce (author) – 1941
Hubert Humphrey (vice president of the United States) – 1978
Charity Adams Earley (first African American officer in the Women’s Army Corps and commander of the only unit of African American women to serve overseas in WW II) – 2002
Patrick McGoohan (actor) – 2009
Teddy Pendergrass (R&B singer) – 2010
Blackie (thought to be the oldest male Nile hippopotamus recorded in North America at the time; he died at an estimated age 59) – 2014
Alfred K. Newman (U.S. Marine Corps specialist) – 2019

American troops ordered into disputed territory between the Nueces and Rio Grande River – 1846
A meeting took place in Washington, D.C., to organize the National Geographic Society – 1888
Opera was heard live for the first time on the radio – 1910
Mickey Mouse comic strip debuted in newspapers – 1930
The Wham-O Company developed the first frisbee – 1957
Brazil and the U.S. signed their first extradition treaty – 1961
Robert C. Weaver, the first African American ever nominated to the U.S. Cabinet, named Secretary of the new Department of Housing and Urban Development – 1966
U.S. Department of the Interior approved construction of the Alaskan pipeline – 1971
Air Florida plane crashed into a bridge in Washington, D.C., killing 78 people – 1982
Hank Aaron was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame – 1982
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public school officials can censor student newspapers – 1988
Figure skater Tonya Harding’s bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt, was arrested for his alleged role in the attack on skater Nancy Kerrigan – 1994
Existence of monkey clone Tetra announced – 2000
The discovery of 45,500-year-old paintings in Indonesia’s Sulawesi cave is announced. – 2021