As this is a Federal holiday, not only will schools and libraries be
closed, but most federal and state offices will be closed and there
will be no mail deliveries.
Martin Luther King Jr.
(born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)
Con Edison security camera captures U.S. Airways flight
1549 landing on the Hudson River.
On January 15, 2009, a potential disaster turned into a heroic
display of skill and composure when Captain Chesley Burnett Sullenberger III safely landed the plane he was piloting on New
York City’s Hudson River after a bird strike caused its engines
to fail. David Paterson, governor of New York at the time, dubbed
the incident the “miracle on the Hudson.”
Sullenberger, a former Air Force fighter pilot with decades of
flying experience, received a slew of honors for his actions,
including an invitation to Barack Obama’s presidential
inauguration and resolutions of praise from the U.S.
Congress.
Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III, pilot of US Airways Flight
1549.
On January 14, 1784, the Continental Congress ratified the Treaty
of Paris (above), ending the War for Independence.
In the document, which was known as the Second Treaty of Paris because the Treaty of Paris was also the name of the agreement
that had ended the Seven Years’ War in 1763, Britain officially
agreed to recognize the independence of its 13 former colonies
as the new United States of America.
In addition, the treaty settled the boundaries between the United
States and what remained of British North America.
