This is what we're celebrating or observing This Week
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January 14, 2018
Donna Reed (American Academy Award-winning film and television actress) dies from pancreatic cancer in Beverly Hills, CA (1986) - Jan. 14
Dress Up Your Pet Day - Jan. 14
Humphrey Bogart (American actor and cultural icon) dies from Esophogeal Cancer after falling into a coma (1957) - Jan. 14
Makar Sankranti (Hindu holiday honoring the movement of the earth from Sagittarius to capricorn in the northern hemisphere) - Jan. 14
Pongal (Thai Harvest Festival) - Jan. 14
Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne to his eldest son, Louis I (1724) - Jan. 14
Queen Margrethe of Denmark ascends to the throne as the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 (1972) - Jan. 14
Ray Kroc (owner of the San Diego Padres and McDonalds) dies of a heart ailment in San Diego, CA at the age of 81 (1984) - Jan. 14
Shelley Winters (Oscar-winning American actress) died from heart failure in Beverly Hills, CA (2006) - Jan. 14
Anais Nin (Cuban-French author famous for her published journals and erotica) dies in Los Angeles, CA (1977) - Jan. 14
Doomsday Clock is set from five to six minutes to midnight in response to worldwide cooperation to reduce nuclear arsenals and limit effect of climate change (2010) - Jan. 14
Ricardo Montalban (Mexican-born, American radio, TV, theatre and film actor) dies in his CA home from congestive heart failure at age 88 (2009) - Jan. 14
January 15, 2018
British Museum opens in the converted 17th century mansion, Montagu House (1759) - Jan. 15
Elizabeth I of England is crowned Queen at Westminster Abbey (1559) - Jan. 15
Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia) is found brutally murdered in Los Angeles, CA. Her murder remains unsolved (1947) - Jan. 15
National Hat Day - 1/15
Martin Luther King, Jr. (African-American clergyman and activist) is born in Atlanta, GA (1929) - Jan. 15
Elementary School Teachers Day
Super Bowl I is played between Kansas city Chiefs and the Green Bay Packers. Packers won 35-10 (1967) - Jan. 15
Wikipedia (a free Wiki content encyclopedia) goes on line (2001) - Jan. 15
Molasses Flood (Boston, MA) a large molasses tank burst and waves of molasses rushed through the streets killing 21 and injuring 150 (1919) - Jan. 15
Get to Know Your Customers Day - 1/15
The Living Seas opens at Epcot Center in Walter Disney World in Orlando, FL (1986) - 1/15
US Airways Flight 1549 loses both engines after a bird strike and lands successfully in the Hudson River 2 mins after take off from LGA (2009) - 1/15
The longest annular solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurs (2010) - Jan. 15
Women in Blue Jeans Day - Jan. 15
Strawberry Ice Cream Day - Jan. 15
Civil Rights Day - 3rd Monday of January in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2017) - 1/16
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (2018) - Jan. 15
January 16, 2018
Appreciate A Dragon Day - Jan. 16
Ivan IV of Russia (Ivan the Terrible) is crowned as Tsar (1547) - Jan. 16
National Religious Freedom Day - Jan. 16
Scottish Parliament ratifies the Acts of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain (1707) - Jan. 16
STS-107 The Space Shuttle Columbia launches on what would be its final mission (2003) - Jan. 16
The Jessica (A fuel supply tanker to the Galapagos Islands) runs aground off the island of San Cristobal (2001) - Jan. 16
January 17, 2018
Ben Franklin Day commemorates the birth of Benjamin Franklin (A US founding father) in (1706) - Jan. 17
Delta II Rocket with a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad (1997) - 1/17
Ditch Your New Year's Resolution Day - Jan. 17
Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing (2007) - Jan. 17 (On Jan. 14, 2010 it was set to 6 mins to midnight due to Worldwide Cooperation)
Gary Gilmore (American spree killer) is executed by firing squad thus ending a 10 year moritorium on capital punishment in the US (1977) - Jan. 17
Great Brink's Robbery (armed robbery of the Brinks Building in Boston, MA) occurs resulting in the theft of over 1.2 million in cash (1950) - Jan. 17
Great Hanshin Earthquake (aka Kobe earthquake) occurs at a magnitued of 6.8 killing over 6,000 people (1995) - Jan. 17
Northridge, CA experiences an earthquake of 6.7 magnitude that kills 72 and injures more than 9,000 (1994) - Jan. 17
Saint Anthony the Great's Feast Day (Eastern Orthodox Church) - Jan. 17
Peter I of Cyprus is murdered in his bed by three of his own knights (1369) - Jan. 17
Mt. Nyiragongo (Africa) erupts nearly destroying the village of GOMA in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2002) - Jan. 17
T.H. White (British author best known for his novel The Once and Future King) dies aboard ship in Piraeus, Greece of a heart ailment (1964) - 1/17
Customer Service Day - 1/17
Erich Segal (American author best known for his novel "Love Story) suffering from Parkinson's disease dies from a heart attack at age 72 (2010) - Jan. 17
Don Quixote (novel by Miguel de Cervantes) is first published (1605) - Jan. 17
January 18, 2018
Albert de Salvo (The Boston Strangler) is sentenced to life imprisonment. He was found stabbed to death in prison 6 years later (1967) - Jan. 18
Bentley Motors Limited (English manufacturer of automobiles that is now owned by Volkswagen) is founded by Walter Owen Bentley (1919) - Jan. 18
Henry Morgan (Welsh Privateer) sacks Panama City and violates a peace treaty between England and Spain (1671) - Jan. 18
Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy with over 18,000 employees losing their jobs and pensions in one day (1991) - Jan. 18
Henry VII (a Lancastrian and the 1st Tudor) marries Elizabeth of York (mother of Henry VIII) three years after he'd promised to do so (1486) - Jan. 18
Eugene Ely (American aviation pioneer) makes the first successful fixed-wing aircraft landing on a warship (1911) - Jan. 18
Granville Railway disaster occurs in Granville Australia - 83 people died, 210 badly injured and over 1,300 were affected (1977) - Jan. 18
Hurricane Kyrill (an unusually violent windstorm) causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe (2007) - Jan. 18
The SOPA and PIPA Acts regarding online piracy and IP protection are opposed online on the Internet by a Blackout (2012) - Jan. 18
Tagish Lake Meteorite (containing granules believed to be from the stellar cloud that createad our solar system) impacts the Earth (2000) - Jan. 18
Thesaurus Day (marks the birth of Peter Mark Roget, best known for publishing the world's first thesaurus - 1779) - Jan. 18
Winnie the Pooh Day (marks the birth of Winnie the Pooh creator, A.A. Milne - 1882) - Jan. 18
January 19, 2018
The Apple Lisa is introduced to the general as the first commercial personal computer to have a GUI and a mouse. Price tag $9,995 (1983) - Jan. 19
Brew a Potion Day - 1/19
New Horizons (NASA robotic spacecraft) is launched on its mission to fly by and study Pluto and its moons with an expected arrival date of July 14, 2015 (2006) - Jan. 19
Coopers, Inc. (later named Jockey) sells the first world's first briefs at Marshall Field's in Chicago (1935) - 1/19
Hrant Dink (Turkish-Armenian journalist) is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by a 17 year-old Turkish ultranationalist (2007) - Jan. 19
I Love Lucy (American TV sitcom) the "Lucy Goes to the Hospital" episode first airs and is watched by 68% of all American TV viewers (1953) - Jan. 19
Indira Ghandi is elected Prime Minister of India, being India's first woman Prime Minister (1966) - Jan. 19
Jan Palach (Czech student) dies 3-days after setting himself on fire in Wenceslas Square in Prague as protest against Soviet invasion (1969) - Jan. 19
Klaus Barbie (convicted Nazi Gestapo agent aka the "Butcher of Lyon") is caught and arrested by the Klarsfelds in Bolivia (1983) - Jan. 19
National Popcorn Day - Jan. 19
Suzanne Pleshette (American stage and screen actress best known for playing Emily Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show) dies at age 70 (2007) - 1/19
Whisper "I Love You" Day - Jan. 19
Hot and Spicy Food Day
Timkat (Ethiopian celebration of the Epiphany) celebrates the Baptism of Jesus (held 18/19th or 19/20th on Leap Year) - 1/19
Tin Can Day - Jan. 19
January 20, 2018
Al Hirschfeld (Jewish American caricaturist best known for his satirical portraits) dies at age 99 in his home in Manhattan, NY (2003) - Jan. 20
Audrey Hepburn (Oscar-winning actress of Anglo-Dutch ancestry) dies from colorectal cancer in Switzerland (1993) - Jan. 20
Charles I of England goes on trial for high treason and "other high crimes" (1649) - 1/20
George V of the United Kingdom dies and his son succeeds him as Edward VIII (1936) - Jan. 20
Edward de Balliol (short-lived King of Scotland) abdicates his throne to Edward III of England (1356) - 1/20
The first pulsar (highly magnetized rotating neutron star) is discovered in the Crab Nebula (1969) - Jan. 20
JFK is sworn in as the 35th President of the US as the youngest ever elected to hold the office (1961) - Jan. 20
National Day of Renewal and Recognition is declared by President Barack Obama as his first official act (2009) - Jan. 20
Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the US making him the first African-American and native of Hawaii to hold the office (2009) - Jan. 20
National Buttercrunch Day - Jan. 20
Penguin Awarness Day - Jan. 20
Rid the world of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day - Jan. 20
January 21, 2018
Frilled Shark (rare breed of shark believed to be extinct since pre-historic times) is found alive off the coast of Japan (2007) - Jan. 21
George Orwell (English author best known for his novels Animal Farm and 1984) dies in London at age 46 (1950) - Jan. 21
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian revolutionary and communist politician) dies, aged 53, at his estate in Gorki Leninskiye (1924) - Jan. 21
Louis XVI of France is guillotined (1793) - Jan. 21
Squirrel Appreciation Day - Jan. 21
Tehran frees US hostages after 444 days (1981) - 1/21
National Hugging Day - Jan. 21
Maori Wars (Tauranga Campaign during the New Zealand Land Wars) begins and lasts for six months (1864) - Jan. 21
Yang Xin (22-year-old Chinese graduate student) is decapitated by fellow student Zhu Haiyang (age 25) in a cafe at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (2009) - Jan. 21
Triodion (Orthodox liturgical book that begins on the fourth Sunday before the Great Lent) date varies (2018) - Jan. 21
SAG (Screen Actors' Guild) Awards (2018) - Jan. 21
World Religion Day - observed 3rd Sunday in January (2018) - 1/21
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