Daily Calendar for Sunday, January 19, 2025

Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart (Canadian religious sister ) – 1902
William O. Douglas (Supreme Court Justice) – 1980
James Dickey (writer/poet) – 1997
Carl Perkins (musician) – 1998
Wilson Pickett (singer) – 2006
Denny Doherty (one of the founding members of the musical group The Mamas & The Papas) – 2007
Suzanne Pleshette (actress) – 2008
Stan "The Man" Musial (baseball player) – 2013

Tin can patented– 1825
Explorer Charles Wilkes claimed discovery of Antarctica– 1840
First Brown vs. Harvard ice hockey game took place– 1898
Law raised salary of U.S. president to $100,000– 1949
U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized first space satellite communications link between the United States and Europe on an experimental basis.– 1961
The last old-style, German-made Volkswagen Beetle left the plant in Emden, Germany– 1978
Astronaut Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman to be selected for a space mission– 1990

Twenty-four degrees below zero F in Hartford, Connecticut– 1786
Temperature dropped 50 degrees in Portsmouth, New Hampshire– 1810
The temperature rose 43 degrees in 15 minutes at Fort Assiniboine, near Havre, Montana.– 1892
Lake Erie froze from bank to bank for the first time in modern history– 1977
Snow fell in Miami, Florida– 1977
A record-low barometer reading of 29.25 inches occurred due to a West Coast storm– 1988
Temperature dipped to -36 degrees F, New Whiteland, Indiana– 1994