After seven years of singing on the radio, Kate Smith began a new noontime talk show entitled Kate Smith Speaks, a news and gossip
radio program.

MIKE GRACIA

1836

Walter Cronkite’s last day in the anchor chair at the CBS Evening
News.

Robert "Rob" Reiner is 70 years old today.

ROSS SIMPSON

              
                Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)

                      
                              Published originally in January 1845.

The first class of baseball “Hall of Famers” was comprised of 
Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and
Walter Johnson.

SANDY KOZEL

John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005)

1968

1973

            
             Original series on ABC: January 23 – January 30, 1977

Henry Judah Heimlich (February 3, 1920 – December 17, 2016)

CINCINNATI (AP) –  The surgeon who created the life-saving Heimlich
maneuver for choking victims has died.

Dr. Henry Heimlich died early Saturday at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati. His
son, Phil, says he suffered a heart attack earlier in the week.

Heimlich was director of surgery at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati in 1974
when he devised the treatment for choking victims that made his name a
household word.

Heimlich (right) demonstrates the maneuver on Johnny Carson
on the NBC television Tonight Show in 1979.