📜 January 15: On This Day in History |  | Encyclopedic flight knowledge |  Image: DONUT/OpenAI | Each of the following events happened on January 15. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger performs the “Miracle on the Hudson,” safely landing a passenger plane he was piloting on NYC’s Hudson River after a bird strike caused its engines to fail. All 155 passengers and crew members survived the crash landing and were evacuated to safety.
- B) The American television series Happy Days, a nostalgic comedy set during the 1950s and '60s, premieres on ABC. The show gives birth to one of TV’s most beloved characters, Arthur Fonzarelli (aka “Fonzie” or “The Fonz”).
- C) Wikipedia, the exhaustive online encyclopedia, first comes online. The launch by developers Jimmy Wales and Lawrence Sanger comes less than a year after their first failed attempt at an online encyclopedia, called Nupedia.
- D) Fiery hot molasses floods the streets of Boston, killing 21 people and injuring scores of others. The molasses burst from a huge tank at the United States Industrial Alcohol Company building at the heart of the city.
Hint: Sully was the last person to exit the plane after safely landing. |
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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game | | Domino effect | The structure of Conjoiner is today’s hint, each word solved leads to the next being solved! Can you topple the first domino and watch the rest fall? The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Linked sequence of events, each one caused by the event before it”... |
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🧩 Puzzle Corner | | MiniYou're going to have to mount up for today’s mini. Can you solve it before getting bucked off? SudokuTake it slow, enjoy the view. This little puzzle’s calling you. |
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🐐 GOATWars: A Data-Driven Process to Determine the Best | | What’s the GOAT drive-thru menu item? | 
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🏆 Tuesday's GOATWars Results: The Data Is Now In | | 🏋🏻 THE GREATEST FITNESS TREND OF ALL TIME - Home workouts
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Explore the full list. Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change. |
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📜 Answers | | D, B, C, A - D) 1919 – Hot molasses floods the streets of Boston. The huge quantity of molasses then flowed into the street and literally knocked over the local firehouse and then pushed over the support beams for the elevated train line.
- B) 1974 – Happy Days premieres. It goes on to propel Henry Winkler (The Fonz) to stardom, while actor Robin Williams also made his screen debut during Season 5 (as "Mork").
- C) 2001 – Wikipedia is launched. As of January 2024, Wikipedia contained ~6.8 million articles translated into 300+ languages.
- A) 2009 – Captain “Sully” Sullenberger performs the Miracle on the Hudson.
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