Sigourney Weaver, who played Dana Barrett

Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The comedy film stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as a trio of eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. It also stars Sigourney Weaver (pictured) and Rick Moranis, and features Annie Potts, William Atherton, and Ernie Hudson in supporting roles. Ghostbusters was released on June 8, 1984, to critical acclaim, with Murray's performance often praised, and became a cultural phenomenon. The film earned $282.2 million during its initial run, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 1984 in the United States and Canada, and the then–highest-grossing comedy ever. In 2015, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. With a dedicated fan following, the film's success launched a multi-billion dollar multimedia franchise, including sequels, television series, video games, and a reboot of the original. (Full article...)

Terras Bridge, Cornwall

• ... that vehicles crossing Terras Bridge (pictured) pass over a tidal river, an ungated level crossing, and the remains of a canal?
• ... that record-setting airplane spinner Catherine Cavagnaro is also a professional mathematician?
• ... that Canadian doctor James Maskalyk's book Six Months in Sudan was based on his blog?
• ... that after George Alexander Albrecht collapsed when conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony during a New Year's concert, he returned to composing and began hospice work?
• ... that during the 1979 Boston University strike, some striking professors carried picket signs with quotes from Paul the Apostle, William Shakespeare, and Voltaire?
• ... that the sea slug Aglaja tricolorata wraps its egg string around its body, forming a tangled skein?
• ... that Anne Emerman refused to allow Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity to convert a building in the Bronx into a homeless shelter without installing an elevator?
• ... that some nuisance ordinances include the forced eviction of tenants if they call for emergency services?

Hunga Tonga eruption

• The Hunga Tonga volcano erupts (satellite animation shown), causing damage in Tonga and tsunamis across the Pacific Ocean.
• An apartment fire in the Bronx, New York City, kills 17 people.
• A rockfall at Furnas Lake in Capitólio, Brazil, kills 10 people.
• Sidney Poitier, the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, dies at the age of 94.

January 16: World Religion Day (2022)

Frank McGee

• 1537 – Sir Francis Bigod began an armed rebellion of English Catholics against King Henry VIII and the English Parliament.
• 1780 – Anglo-Spanish War: The Royal Navy gained their first major naval victory over their European enemies in the war when they defeated a Spanish squadron in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
• 1905 – Despite being blind in one eye, ice hockey player Frank McGee (pictured) set the record for most goals in a Stanley Cup game when he scored 14 against the Dawson City Nuggets.
• 1942 – TWA Flight 3 crashed into Potosi Mountain in Nevada, killing actress Carole Lombard and all of the other 21 people on board.
• 2016 – After gunmen took hostages the previous night at a restaurant in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, government commandos stormed the premises to bring the situation to an end.