Daily Calendar for Sunday, January 12, 2025

Marie-Antoine Carême (French haute cuisine founder) – 1833
Shep (loyal dog) – 1942
Agatha Christie (author) – 1976
Cyrus Vance (Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter) – 2002
Maurice Gibb (with his brothers built the Bee Gees into a disco sensation with hits like Stayin’ Alive” and “More Than a Woman”“) – 2003

First public museum in America, Charleston Museum, organized in Charleston, South Carolina – 1773
Mission Santa Clara de Asis in California established– 1777
Forward pass legalized in football– 1906
A couple from China became the youngest parents in history. The dad was 9 years old and the mom was 8– 1910
Ford Motor Co. raised minimum daily wage from $2.30 to $5.00– 1914
Hattie Caraway was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. She was appointed in 1931 to fill the Arkansas seat left vacant by the death of her husband, and then elected in 1932 and re-elected in 1938– 1932
U.S. State Department denied passports to American Communist Party members– 1962
Batman made its television debut– 1966
Boeing 747 landed at Heathrow Airport in London after its first trans-atlantic proving flight from NY– 1970
All in the Family made its television debut– 1971
Swimmer Melvin Stewart set world record in 200-meter butterfly– 1991
Fictional Hal 9000 computer in film 2001: A Space Odyssey became operational– 1992
Launch of Deep Impact spacecraft to study comet Tempel 1– 2005
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake shook Haiti approximately 16 miles from the capital city of Port-au-Prince– 2010

Coldsnap that froze Columbia River on January 9th spawned Great Plains blizzard, 200 lives lost– 1888
Schoolchildren’s Blizzard in Great Plains killed 235 people– 1888
Record high of 57 degrees F in Helena, Montana– 1959
-35 degrees F in Chester, Massachusetts– 1981
Snowstorm of the century in southern Texas. San Antonio recorded more snow in 24 hours (nine inches) than was received during any entire winter in the previous 100 years. Total snowfall for the storm was 13.5 inches.– 1985