Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977)

Congress sets January 7, 1789 as the date by which states are
required to choose electors for the country’s first presidential
election. A month later, on February 4, George Washington was
elected president by state electors and sworn into office on
April 30, 1789.

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.

Gerard Marsden (September 24, 1942 – January 3, 2021)

LONDON (AP) — Gerry Marsden, lead singer of the 1960s British
group Gerry and the Pacemakers that had such hits as “Ferry
Cross the Mersey” and the song that became the anthem of
Liverpool Football Club, “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” has died.

His family said that Marsden died Sunday “after a short illness
in no way connected with COVID-19”.