January 7, 1981 (Wednesday)
- After investment analyst Joseph Granville sent an overnight telegram to his customers with two words— "Sell everything!"— the New York Stock Exchange had its biggest trading day up to that time, with 92,890,000 shares changing hands.
- Died: Clair Farrand, 85, American inventor with over 1,000 electronics patents, including the radio loudspeaker
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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)