** Jimmy Skinner, Detroit Red Wings head coach ( d. 2007 )

** Allen Vigneron, American Catholic Archbishop of Archdiocese of Detroit

** A tornado on the Detroit River kills 17.

** Martin Luther King Day Crash-Telephone service in Atlanta, St. Louis, and Detroit, including 9-1-1 service, goes down for nine hours, due to an AT & T software bug.

** At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 ( a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 ( a Boeing 727 ) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.

** The New Jersey Devils sweep the heavily favored Detroit Red Wings to win their first Stanley Cup in the lock-out shortened season.

** Tom Dempsey, who was born with a deformed right foot and right hand, set a National Football League record by kicking a 63-yard field goal to lift the New Orleans Saints to a 19-17 victory over the Detroit Lions at Tulane Stadium.

** Paced by a prodigious home run by Reggie Jackson which hits a transformer on the roof of Tiger Stadium, the American League defeats the National League 6-4 in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Detroit.

** Funeral services are held for Detroit homemaker Viola Liuzzo, who was shot dead by 4 Klansmen as she drove marchers back to Selma at night after the civil rights march.

** A Disco Demolition Night publicity stunt goes awry at Comiskey Park, forcing the Chicago White Sox to forfeit their game against the Detroit Tigers.

** Northwest Airlines Flight 255 ( a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 ) crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan just west of Detroit killing all but one ( 4-year old Cecelia Cichan ) of the 156 people on board.

** Nolan Strong, Detroit doo-wop singer with The Diablos

** Detroit – Lisa D ' Amour

** Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, 1973 – 1977

** Santa Fe Apartments, a demolished Detroit apartment complex

** Detroit Red Wings ( retired ; played from 1946 – 1971 )

** 48 – Detroit Lions, October 19, vs. Chicago Bears

** 35 points – St. Louis 35, Detroit 0 – October 8,

** 15 points – Detroit 13, Minnesota 2 – December 5,

** 0 points – Detroit Lions 14, Green Bay Packers 14 – November 1, 1971

** 1 point – Green Bay Packers 24, Detroit Lions 23 – October 16, 1972

** 3 points – Minnesota Vikings 16, Detroit Lions 13 – September 20, 1971

** " Mowgli's Song Against People " ( poem )

** People on stamps

** People magazine's first issue released.

** Darby O ' Gill and the Little People, a film based on H. T.

** The Representation of the People Act 1928 becomes law, extending the right to vote to all women in the United Kingdom.

** Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer ( Flying Purple People Eater ) ( died 2003 )

** In Ceylon, a group calling themselves the People ’ s Liberation Front begins a rebellion against the Bandaranaike government.

** People Power Revolution: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines goes into exile in Hawaii after 20 years of rule ; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president, first as an interim president.

** Kim Jong-il, Supreme Leader of the Democratic People ’ s Republic of Korea ( b. 1941 )

** Janeros ( lived in NW Chihuahua, SE Arizona and NE Sonora in the Animas Mountains, Florida Mountains, south into the Sierra San Luis, Sierra del Tigre, Sierra de Carcay, Sierra de Boca Grande, west beyond the Aros River to Bavispe, east along the Janos River and Casas Grandes River toward the Lake Guzmán in the northern part of the Guzmán Basin and traded at the presidio of Janos, likely called Dzilthdaklizhéndé-‘ Blue Mountain People ’, northern local group )

** Carrizaleños ( lived exclusively in Chihuahua, between the presidios of Janos in the west and Carrizal and Lake Santa Maria in the east, south toward Corralitos, Casas Grandes and Agua Nuevas north of Chihuahua, controlled the southern part of the Guzmán Basin, and the mountains along the Casas Grandes, Santa Maria and Carmen River, likely called Tsebekinéndé-‘ Stone House People ’ or ‘ Rock House People ’, southeastern local group )

** Christmas ( People give one another gifts, often supposedly receiving them from Santa Claus, the Christ child or Saint Nicholas.

** Feast of Saint Nicholas ( People give each other gifts, often supposedly receiving them from Saint Nicholas.

** Ace Enders and a Million Different People has a song on their debut CD, The Secret Wars called " Bring Back Love ( Year 2020 )" It is about helping the financially unstable and bringing back a general love among humans.

** Islamic Dealing with People of the Book 22 November 2003

** Inviting People of the Book 2 February 2003

** Hʉpenʉʉ ( Hois — ‘ Timber People ’)

** People Soup-Marc Merson

** Kawarakis ( derived from the Arikara language Kawarusha-‘ Horse ’ and Pawnee language Kish-‘ People ’, some Pawnee argued that the Kawarakis spoke like the Arikara living to the north, so perhaps they belonged to the refugees ( 1794 – 1795 ) from Lakota aggression, who joined their Caddo kin living south )

** People meter, for measuring audience size

** ( Sudanese Union – African Democratic Rally ) 1960-1968, ( Democratic Union of the Malian People ) 1976-1991

** ( Party of Togolese Unity ) 1962-1963, ( Rally of the Togolese People ) 1969-1991

** ( Republican People ’ s Party ) 1923-1946