2014
This Week in History: 1-12
Kelly Landers / 0 Comments /On January 14, 2009, An airliner taking off from New York hits a flock of geese, disabling both engines. Pilot Chesley Sullenberger ditches the plane in the Hudson River, and all aboard survive.
On January 15, 1919, A molasses tank in Boston bursts, and two million gallons of molasses sweeps through the streets, killing 21, testing the cliche “slow as molasses in January.”
On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born.
On January 16, 1920, Prohibition began.
On January 17, 1977, “Let’s do it, ” states Gary Gilmore, before being executed by a Utah firing squad
Quote: Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
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