The First AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional 
football, known retroactively as Super Bowl I and referred to as
the Super Bowl, was played on January 15, 1967 at the Los
Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The
National Football League (NFL) champion Green Bay Packers
defeated the American Football League (AFL) champion Kansas
City Chiefs by the score of 35–10.

   

Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr (15) drops
back to pass during Super Bowl I.

Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson (16) fires
a pass during Super Bowl I.

February 1, 1884: The first portion, or fascicle, of the Oxford
English Dictionary (OED), considered the most comprehensive
and accurate dictionary of the English language, was published.

Today, the OED is the definitive authority on the meaning,
pronunciation and history
of over half a million English words, past and present. 

On January 26, 1961, just about a week after his inauguration,
President John F. Kennedy appointed Janet Travell, 59 (above),
as his personal physician, making her the first woman in history
to hold the post.

Dr. Travell possessed an impressive resume that included
graduating with honors from Wellesley College, internships
in cardiology, a professorship in clinical pharmacology at
Cornell University and an established reputation as a pioneer
in the treatment of chronic myofascial pain.

Dr. Travell with President Kennedy.

Janet Graeme Travell (December 17, 1901 – August 1, 1997)

Canned beer made its debut on January 24, 1935. In partnership
with the American Can Company, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company delivered 2,000 cans of Krueger’s Finest Beer and
Krueger’s Cream Ale to faithful Krueger drinkers in Richmond,
Virginia. Ninety-one percent of the drinkers approved of the
canned beer, driving Krueger to give the green light to further production.

The purchase of cans, unlike bottles, did not require the consumer
to pay a deposit. Cans were also easier to stack, more durable
and took less time to chill. As a result, their popularity continued
to grow throughout the 1930s, and then exploded during World
War II, when U.S. brewers shipped millions of cans of beer to
soldiers overseas.

On January 5, 1933, construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge,
as workers began excavating 3.25 million cubic feet of dirt for the structure’s
huge anchorages.

Following the Gold Rush boom that began in 1849, speculators
realized the land north of San Francisco Bay would increase in
value in direct proportion to its accessibility to the city. Soon, a
plan was hatched to build a bridge that would span the Golden
Gate, a narrow, 400-foot deep strait that serves as the mouth of
the San Francisco Bay, connecting the San Francisco Peninsula
with the southern end of Marin County.

Construction underway on a pylon on the south shore of the Golden
Gate Bridge project.

Members of the Halfway to Hell Club bridge construction crew
became celebrities in the Bay Area.

Fact: The US Navy originally planned to paint the
bridge with black and yellow stripes to ensure
visibility for passing ships.