Daily Calendar for Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday (observed)

Since 1986, the third Monday in January has been a federal holiday in observance of the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and civil rights leader dedicated to nonviolence. This is a day to honor King’s principles, perhaps best exemplified by his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963: “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’” Learn more about Martin Luther King Jr. Day and how to celebrate.

Born

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. (civil rights leader) – 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

Died

Mathew Brady (photographer) – 1896
Ray Bolger (actor) – 1987
Ruth Warrick (actress) – 2005
Percy Saltzman (first meteorologist to appear on Canadian television) – 2007

Events

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
Happy Days made its television debut– 1974
First transpacific hot air balloon flight began, Japan to Canada– 1991
Online encyclopedia Wikipedia launched– 2001
Stardust capsule landed in Utah, after record re-entry speed of 28,860 mph– 2006

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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

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