Today in History
Listings for Sunday, January 16, 2022.
Birthdays:
- 1853 Andr‚ Michelin, French industrialist, tire manufacturer
- 1909 Ethel Merman
- 1911 Dizzy Dean
- 1934 Marilyn Horne in Pennsylvania
- 1935 A.J. Foyt
- 1944 Ronnie Milsap
- 1948 John Carpenter
- 1950 Debbie Allen
- 1959 Sade
- 1974 Kate Moss
Events:
- National Hat Day
- National Nothing Day
- 1883 Pendleton Act creates basis of federal civil service system
- 1887 Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo of gunpowder on the schooner "Parallel" explodes nearby.
- 1920 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933
- 1969 Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
- 1973 USSR's Lunakhod begins radio-controlled exploration of moon
- 1979 Iranian revolution overthrows shah.
- 1988 Intel 80836SX uses 16-bit bus.
- 1991 US led air forces begin raids on Iraq in response to Iraq's August 1990 takeover of Kuwait.
That's all for today.
