Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day we remember and honor the 6 million Jews who were eliminated, murdered, killed by the German Third Reich.
On this day in 1785, 237 years ago, the University of Georgia was chartered.
Also on this day in 1940, at CCC Camp F-16 near Chatsworth, in Murray County, Georgia, recorded a temperature of -17°F, the lowest temperature ever recorded in the great state of Georgia.
Born on this day in 1965 in Perthshire, Scotland, Scottish actor Alan Cumming.