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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Famous quotes containing the word january:
“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)