January 13, 1981 (Tuesday)
- Donna Griffiths, a 12 year old girl in Pershore, Worcestershire, in the United Kingdom, began sneezing, and continued to sneeze, twice a minute, for 978 consecutive days. Eventually slowing to once every five minutes, Donna had her first day without sneezing on September 16, 1983.
- Died: Dr. Owen H. Wagensteen, 82, American surgeon and inventor who created the suction procedure used in gastrointestinal surgery.
Read more about this topic: January 1981
Famous quotes containing the word january:
“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.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)