Daily Calendar for Tuesday, January 21, 2025

First American novel, The Power of Sympathy, published in Boston.– 1789
Louis XVI of France was beheaded– 1793
New York City’s Sullivan Ordinance made it illegal for women to smoke in public places– 1908
Kiwanis International founded– 1915
Song Over the Rainbow, by Arlen and Harburg, copyrighted– 1939
First commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater began, in Freeport, Texas– 1941
U.S.S. Nautilus, world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, was launched– 1954
President Jimmy Carter issued a pardon for Vietnam War draft evaders– 1977
Pittsburgh Steelers won their third Super Bowl– 1979
Aretha Franklin became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame– 1987

Sacramento, California, had a high of only 19 degrees F– 1854
Deadly avalanche occurred at Twin Lakes in Colorado– 1962
Caesars Head, South Carolina, experienced a cold temperature of -19 degrees F– 1985
As much as 3.5 inches of snow fell in Tokyo, Japan– 2006
A 3-day, 81-tornado outbreak in the Southeast United States began– 2017