January 16 - Out for a Walk

Out for a Walk

Family Birthdays


Great Aunt Mary's Birthday

Holidays

Martin Luther King Day


This Day In History

27 BCE

Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title 'Augustus' by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
1547
Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of Russia.

1605

The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid.
1759
British Museum opens in London.

1909

Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
1920
Prohibition began as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect.
1962
Shooting begins on "Dr. No".

1969

Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in Low Earth Orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
1973
U.S.S.R.'s Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of Moon. 
1989

  "Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 297 performances.

Famous Birthdays

1811
Samuel McIntyre, American architect and craftsman
1821

John C. Breckinridge, American lawyer and politician; 14th Vice President of the United States and Confederate general (d. 1875)

1874

Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958)
1901
Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
1908
Ethel Merman, American entertainer.
1928
John William Fozard, aircraft designer 
1933
Susan Sontag, American writer, author, filmmaker, philosopher & political activist