January 22, 1959 (Thursday)
- Flooding in Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Indiana killed at least 1031 people, including 12 coal miners. An additional 12 Knox Mine Disaster: Water breached the River Slope Mine in Port Griffith, Pennsylvania, killing 12 miners.
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“Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days—whatever there may be for the dust—the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.”
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