FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS

The 1966 season saw the Packers led to the first-ever Super Bowl by MVP quarterback Bart Starr. The team went 12–2, and as time wound down in the NFL Championship against the Dallas Cowboys, the Packers clung to a 34–27 lead. Dallas had the ball on the Packers’ two-yard line, threatening to tie the ballgame. But on fourth down the Packers’ Tom Brown intercepted Don Meredith‘s pass in the end zone to seal the win. The team crowned its season by rolling over the AFL champion Kansas City Chiefs 35–10 in Super Bowl I.

TODAY’S ALMANAC

Question of the Day

Why were butter churns made out of mountain ash?

To repel witches. Many farmers believed that the wood of the mountain ash, or wiggin,” would keep their farms safe from witches’ mischief.”

Advice of the Day

Fog in January brings a wet spring.

Home Hint of the Day

If you are going to both refinish and recane a chair, the job will be much easier if you do the refinishing first.

Word of the Day

Boondoggle

Work of little or no value done merely to look busy.

Puzzle of the Day

How does the transposition of the parts of a word express the difference between a welcome and a wish for your departure?

Wel-fare and fare-well.

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

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

Weather

• 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

COURTESY www.almanac.com