Daily Calendar for Thursday, January 15, 2026

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Philip Livingston (patriot, and signer of the Declaration of Independence) – 1716
The Earl of Derby, Lord Stanley (Canadian Governor General 1888 - 1893) – 1841
Goodman Ace (radio performer) – 1899
Gene Krupa (drummer) – 1909
Lloyd Bridges (actor) – 1913
Martin Luther King, Jr. (American civil rights leader; was born in Atlanta, Georgia) – 1929
Ernest J. Gaines (novelist) – 1933
André Alexis (writer) – 1957
Chad Lowe (actor) – 1968
Regina King (actress) – 1971
Howie Day (singer) – 1981
Dove Cameron (actress) – 1996

Elizabeth I of England was crowned in Westminster Abbey – 1559
Dramatist Molière was baptized – 1622
Vermont declares its independence from Great Britain and the colony of New York as a republic originally called New Connecticut – 1777
The University of N.C., the first state university in the US, opens – 1795
E. G. Otis received a patent for an elevator safety brake – 1861
Great Molasses Flood, Boston, Massachusetts – 1919
Ford Foundation is incorporated to administer funds for scientific, educational and charitable purposes – 1936
First U.S. all-glass windowless structure completed, in Toledo, Ohio – 1936
First Pro Bowl game in NFL history is played in Los Angeles, California – 1939
The Pentagon Building in Virginia was completed – 1943
First nonstop trans-Canada flight completed – 1949
The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl I – 1967
Astronomers at Steward Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, became the first to identify an optical pulsar, which was named PSR B0531+21 and nicknamed the Crab Pulsar because of its location near the center of the Crab Nebula. – 1969
Happy Days made its television debut – 1974
First transpacific hot air balloon flight began, Japan to Canada – 1991
With the execution of its first edit, the open-source online encyclopedia Wikipedia was launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger – 2001
Stardust capsule landed in Utah, after record re-entry speed of 28,860 mph – 2006

New York harbor froze over completely and was sealed for five weeks – 1780
Los Angeles, California, received 2” of snow – 1932
7.8 inches of snow at Forth Worth, Texas – 1964
Loma, Montana, set a record for the greatest temperature change in a 24 hour period. Temperatures went from -54 degrees F on January 14 to 49 degrees F on January 15 – 1972
It was so cold in Kapuskasing, Ontario, that tires fell off the rims of cars. (it was -45F or -42.8C) – 1994