• Cold Sunday was a specific meteorological event which took place on January 17, 1982, when unprecedentedly cold air swept down from Canada, sending temperatures in the United States far below existing all-time record lows?

Facts on topics related to January 17

January 1

• a new free trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership between Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore will come into effect on 1 January 2006?
• before 1 January 2008, milk with a fat content of 1 or 2% could not be labelled as milk in the United Kingdom?
• in the history of transportation in Los Angeles, the first California freeway "traffic jam" occurred on January 1, 1940?
• many Russians celebrate the new year twice: once on the January 1 New Year of the Gregorian calendar and again on the Julian calendar Old New Year in mid-January?

March 4

• on March 4, 1839, William F. Harnden became the first person to send an express freight shipment by rail?
  

January 22

• after the Mendiola massacre on January 22, 1987, the Filipino Government banned all public demonstrations on Mendiola Street in Manila?

January 6

• East Perth Cemeteries' first recorded burial was of Private John Mitchell from the 63rd regiment who died on 6 January 1830?

March 18

• Andreas Joseph Hofmann proclaimed the first republican state in Germany on March 18, 1793?

May 1

• on every May 1, the hamlet of Ickwell celebrates May Day with dancing around a Maypole (pictured) and with the crowning of a May Queen?