Today in history

Today is Friday, January 19, the 19th day of 2018 and the 30th day of winter.

On this date in the SCV: In 1989, The Signal reported that local activists Pat Saletore and Jill Klajic had collected over 1,000 letters from concerned citizens in an effort to inform California legislators of overcrowding in SCV schools. Letters from City Council members, chamber of commerce representatives and other local leaders had poured in to Saletore and Klajic since their solicitation in November. Klajic, local activist Dick Howe and a building Industry representative planned to trek to Sacramento and use the letters to lobby for more school construction funding. Robin Ackerman, the daughter qf developer Jack Shine, whose American Beauty tracts dotted the SCV, was to accompany the local residents on the lobbying trip.

Today’s Highlights in History:

In 1915, two German zeppelins dropped

bombs on the towns of Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn in England. In 1966, Indira Gandhi was elected as

India’s first woman prime minister. In 1977, snow fell in Miami for the only

time in recorded history. In 2006, NASA launched the New Horizons space probe to study the dwarf planet Pluto.

Today’s fact: Robert E. Lee’s U.S. citizenship was posthumously reinstated by an act of Congress in 1975.

Today’s sports: In 1903, the French sports newspaper L’Auto announced the creation of a new long-distance bicycle race called the Tour de France that would begin in May of that year.

Today’s number: 71.7 – percentage of U.S. households that tuned in to watch “Lucy Goes to the Hospital,” the episode of “I Love Lucy” in which the titular character gave birth. Star Lucille Ball actually gave birth to her son, Desi Arnaz Jr., on the same day the episode aired, on this day in 1953.

Today’s moon: Between new moon (Jan. 16) and first quarter moon (Jan. 24).