Almanac for January 24th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for January 24th: https://ko-fi.com/post/January-24-Wharton-G2G619775E

Happy birthday, Edith Wharton.

Bummer January 24th

January 24, 1925: 28-year-old Swedish ice hockey player Ejnar Olsson, who competed in the 1924 Olympics, drowns when an unusually warm Swedish winter causes him to fall through the ice into the lake on which he’s playing hockey.

January 24, 1939: The worst earthquake in the history of Chile strikes at approximately 11:30 p.m., devastating the regional capital city of Chillán. The 8.3 surface wave magnitude earthquake kills an estimated 28,000 people. In addition to the collapse of about half of the buildings in Chillán and almost all the buildings in the city of Concepción, the massive earthquake causes numerous fires and renders the local water supply undrinkable.