January 9, 1959 (Friday)
- At 12:30 in the morning, the village of Ribadelago, Spain, was destroyed when a dam at the lake Lago de Sanabria burst, and 144 people were drowned as 230 million cubic feet of water swept through the town in minutes.
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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)