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Titanic : On this Day... 1 January

Titanic events from today in history

The following 5 people were born

QUAYLE, Mrs Amy — 1st January 1878
HAKKARAINEN, Mr Pekka Pietari — 1st January 1884
HIPKINS, Mr William Edward — 1st January 1857
VAN MELCKEBEKE, Mr Philemon — 1st January 1889
PHILLIPS, Miss Kate Florence — 1st January 1893

The following 3 people died

STEVENSON, Mr James — 1st January 1919
POTTER, Mrs Lily Alexenia — 1st January 1954
OLSEN, Master Artur Karl — 1st January 1975

The following 12 items were published

New York Times (1904) GUGGENHEIM IN MINING CO. — 1st January 1904
Antioch News (1913) WIFE CAN'T COLLECT DAMAGES — 1st January 1913
New York Times (1913) ISMAY IS TO QUIT — 1st January 1913
New-York Tribune (1913) BRUCE ISMAY RESIGNS AS HEAD OF WHITE STAR — 1st January 1913
The Sketch (1913) MARY ELOISE SMITH — 1st January 1913
The Times (1913) MR. ISMAY AND THE WHITE STAR LINE — 1st January 1913
The Times (1916) LORD MERSEY - NEW VISCOUNT — 1st January 1916
(1940) LILY POTTER IN 1939 — 1st January 1940
New York Times (1963) MRS. J. BRUCE ISMAY — 1st January 1963
Burlington Hawk Eye (1998) SWEDE SURVIVED LINER'S SINKING DURING SEARCH FOR HIS AMERICAN DREAM — 1st January 1998
Voyage (2005) MAGGIE MADIGAN - AN IRISH IMMIGRANT'S DREAMS UNFULFILLED — 1st January 2005
Titanica! (2023) ATTUNED TO LIFE — 1st January 2023