On this day: January 16
"Don Quixote" is first published, Prohibition is ratified and goes into effect, Hitler moves underground, and the space shuttle Columbia takes off for the last time, all on this day.
1946: Country singer-songwriter Ronnie Milsap, one of the most successful and versatile country "crossover" singers of his time, is born in Robbinsville, N.C. Credited with six Grammys and 40 No. 1 country hits, among Milsap's biggest hits are "It Was Almost Like a Song," "Smoky Mountain Rain," "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me," "I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World," "Any Day Now" and "Stranger in My House."
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