Daily Calendar for Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Queen Victoria (Great Britain, died after the longest reign of any British monarch and was succeeded by her son, Edward VII) – 1901
Lyndon B. Johnson (36th U.S. president) – 1973
Telly Savalas (actor) – 1994
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (matriarch of the Kennedy family) – 1995
Stanley Marcus (chairman of department store Neiman-Marcus) – 2002
Jack Shea (gold medal-winning speedskater and patriarch of family of Olympic finalists, including grandson who won gold medal at 2002 games) – 2002
Ann Miller (dancer & actress) – 2004
Patsy Rowlands (actress) – 2005
Heath Ledger (actor) – 2008
Jean Simmons (English actress who later also became an American citizen) – 2010
James Mitchell (actor & dancer) – 2010
Hank Aaron (baseball player) – 2021

Uranium atom was first split by cyclotron– 1939
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In debuted on TV– 1968
George Foreman knocks out Joe Frazier for world heavyweight boxing title– 1973
Macintosh computer commercial ran during Super Bowl XVIII– 1984
Politician R. Budd Dwyer committed suicide on national television– 1987
Roberta Bondar became first Canadian woman in space– 1992
Madeleine Albright became the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the U.S. Senate– 1997

In Spearfish, South Dakota, the temperature rose from -4F to 45F in 2 minutes, due to chinook– 1943
Meteorologists said that 75 percent of North America was covered by snow– 1982
Mountain Lake, Virginia, recorded a low temperature of -30 degrees F– 1985
Snow fell in Jordan– 2008

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