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JANUARY is . . . Chilly Month, March of Dimes Birth Defects Prevention Month, Human Resources Month, National Eye Care Month, National Hobby Month, National Soup Month, National Volunteer Blood Donor Month, National Health Month, Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream "Show-Off" Receipe Contest Month, Prune Breakfast Month, Whale Watching Month, National Egg Month, National Wheat Bread Month, National Meat Month, National Candy Month, National Hot Tea Month, National Oatmeal Month, National Retail Bakers Month, Thyroid Disease Awareness Month, January Diet Month, National Be On-Purpose Month, National Book Blitz Month, National Yours Mine and Ours Month, Market Ability Month, Crime Stoppers Month, Business and Reference Books Month, National Prune the Fat Month, Prevention to Cruelty to Your Money Month, Careers in Cosmetology Month, Crime Stoppers Month, Human Resources Month, National Book Blitz Month, National Hobby Month |
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" Silent Record Week |
" National Bowling Week |
" International Printing Week |
" International Green Week |
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January Movable Daily Holidays |
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1st Monday |
Handsel Day |
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1st Workday |
Passport Presentation Day (Russia) |
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1st Friday |
Gals Night Out |
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1st Saturday |
Leisure Suit Saturday |
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Saturday before Plough Monday |
Straw Bear Day |
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1st Monday after 6th |
Plough Monday |
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2nd Sunday |
Volunteer Fireman's Day |
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2nd Monday |
National Clean-Off-Your-Desk Day |
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2nd Tuesday |
What You Don't Know Day |
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2nd Wednesday |
Make Your Dreams Come True Day |
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2nd Thursday |
Pharmacists Day |
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2nd Weekend @ |
Bald Eagle Appreciation Days |
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3rd Sunday |
World Religion Day |
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3rd Monday |
Martin Luther King Jr. Day observed (USA) |
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3rd Wednesday |
Maintenance Day |
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3rd Thursday |
Guys Night Out |
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3rd Weekend |
World Championship Snow Sculpture Contest (Breckenridge, Colorado) |
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3rd Saturday |
Ati-Atihan Festival begins (Philippines) |
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4th Wednesday |
National School Nurse Day |
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Last Sunday |
Super Bowl Sunday |
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Last Tuesday |
Up-Helly-Aa (Scotland) |
| January Indeterminate Holidays The holidays in this table are either based on calendars other than the Gregorian Calendar or are keyed to natural events such as seasons or cosmological phenomena |
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5th of Magha, 11th Hindu month (@ Jan/Feb) |
Basant Panchami |
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15th of Shevat, 5th Jewish month (@Jan/Feb) |
Tu Bishvat |
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23rd Day of 12th moon (@ Jan/Feb) |
Chinese Kitchen God Festival |
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Weekends in January |
Singapore Kite Festival |
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End of January/early February |
Soldag (Sun Day; Norway) |
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1st of Muharram, 1st Islamic month |
Awwal Muharram |
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10th of Muharram, 1st Islamic month |
Ashura |
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Late January to mid-February (every 4 years) |
Winter Olympics begin |
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Sometime in January |
Fancy Rat & Mouse Annual Show |
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Days vary according to community |
Iroquois Midwinter Ceremony (Aboriginal) Lasts for 8 days and each day is dedicated to an event, i.e.. Tobacco Invocation, Skin Dance. |
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(celebrated at sunset on the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice.) |
Chinese New Year |
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Date varies |
Superbowl Sunday |
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1449 Lorenzo de Medici, Renaissance merchant prince and patron of the arts (Italy; died 1492) 1735 Paul Revere, Revolutionary War patriot and silversmith (Boston, MA; died 1818) 1745 "Mad Anthony" Wayne, Revolutionary War general (Waynesboro, PA; died 1796) 1752 Betsy Ross, needleworker reputed to have created the 1st American flag (Philadelphia, PA; died 1836) 1854 Sir James George Frazier, anthropologist/classicist (Scotland; died 1941) 1863 Pierre Coubertin, sportsman who revived the Olympic Games (France; died 1937) 1879 E. M. Forster, novelist/essayist (London, England; died 1970) 1895 J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director (Washington, DC; died 1972) 1909 Barry Goldwater, Arizona senator and presidential candidate (Phoenix, AZ; died 1998) 1911 Hank Greenberg, baseball player (New York, NY; died 1986) 1919 J. D. Salinger, author (New York, NY) 1922 Milt Jackson, jazz musician (Detroit, MI; died 1999) 1940 Frank Langella, actor (Bayonne, NJ) " B. Kliban " Xavier Cugat " Yuri Grigorovich " Idi Amin |
" New Year's Day " Season of Chaos begins (Discordian) " Day of Universal Brotherhood (Brazil) " Feast of St. Odilo " Colonial Flag Day (US) " St. Basil's Day (Eastern) " Goddess Fortuna's Day " Jupiter and Juno's Day (Old Roman) " Z Day " First-Foot Day " Polar Swim Day " Daddy Frost Day (USSR) " Party Party Day " Haiti Independence Day " Circumcision of Our Lord Jesus Christ " Liberation Day (Cuba) " Coon Carnival (South Africa Mardi Gras) " St. Agatha's Day (protector from starvation, fire) " Festival of Fools " Sudan Independence Day " Kwanzaa, Day 7: Imani (Faith) " Western Samoa Independence Day " Mummers Day Parade (Philadelphia, PA) " Tournament of Roses Parade (Pasadena, CA) " Niagra Falls Festival of Lights " Kalends of January " Apple Gifting Day " St. Fulgentius' Day " St. Telemachus' Day " Polar Bear Swim Day " World Day " St. Clarus' Day (patron against myopia) " Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God |
" Big Bang (@15 billions years ago; Sagan calendar) " Julian Calendar introduced (44 BCE) " Swiss Reformation began (1519) " Gregorian Calendar introduced by German & Swiss states (1538) " British East India Company chartered (1600) " Regular mail service began between New York & Boston (1673) " Traveller's Checks 1st issued (UK; 1772) " Daily Universal Register, later The Times 1st published (UK; 1785) " 1st Asteroid discovered (Ceres; 1801) " Haiti became 1st Latin-American country to gain independence (1804) " Importing of slaves to US stopped (1808) " 1st All-metal camera for sale (Voigtlander; 1841) " Tasmania named (1858) " Emancipation Proclamation issued (1863) " Nietszche had a nervous breakdown seeing a horse whipped (1889) " 1st Seattle Ferry carried passengers (1889) " Old Age Pensions introduced (Germany; 1891) " Ellis Island opened (1892) " Manchester Ship Canal opened (Liverpool, UK; 1894) " Australia established (1901) " 1st Rose Bowl game (1902) " 1st US Radio broadcast (1902) " Trans-Siberian Railway opened (1905) " Gyroscope Compass invented (1911) " 1st Scheduled airline service began (between Tampa & St. Petersburg, Florida; 1914) " USSR proclaimed (1923) " Cuban Battista regime collapsed (1955) " Luna I became the 1st space probe to orbit the sun (1959) " British Farthing discontinued as legal tender (1961) " National Environmental Policy Act established (1970) " US and China re-established diplomatic relations (1979) " Sultan of Brunei, world's richest man, appointed himself prime minister of Brunei (1984) " Romania outlawed death penalty and disbanded secret police (1990) " NAFTA trade agreement took effect (1994) " UN World Trade Organization (WTO) established (1995) " US Calvary established " Ireland joins Great Britain to produce the United Kingdom " 1st Bowling Tournament held " Copyright Revision Law began " 1st Cheese Factory opened " Saturn discovered " 1st Oral Contraceptive used " Battle of New Orleans " US Income Tax established " 1st Parcel Post Service |
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| 1727 James Wolfe, British general in the French and Indian War (Westerham, England; died 1759) 1752 Philip Freneau, poet (New York, NY; died 1832) 1915 John Hope Franklin, historian (Rentisville, OK) 1920 Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer and author (near Smolensk, Russia; died 1992) 1936 Roger Miller, country singer/songwriter (Fort Worth, TX; died 1992) 1942 Henry Hugh Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Speed, NC) 1949 Christopher Durang, playwright and actor (Montclair, NJ) 1952 Wendy Philips, actress (Brooklyn, NY) 1966 Tia Carrere, actress (Honolulu, HI) 1968 Cuba Gooding Jr., actor (Bronx, NY) 1969 Christy Turlington, model (San Francisco, CA) " Sally Rand " Joseph Stalin |
" Berchtoldstag (Nut Festival; Switzerland) " Run It Up the Flagpole and See If Anybody Salutes It Day " Festival of Fetishes " Ancestry Day (Haiti) " David Letterman Day (North Carolina) " Kakizome (First Writing; Japan) " Festival of Four Winds and All Sky " St. Adelard's Day (patron of gardeners) " Good Luck Day (Macedonia) " Shigoto Hajime (Beginning of Work Day; Japan) " Advent of Isis " Granada Day (Spain) " Port Arthur Day " St. Macarius' Day (patron of pastry cooks) " National Science Fiction Day " Feast of the Martyrs for the Holy Scripture " St. Gregory of Nazianzus' Day " Revolution Day (Cuba) " St. Bercholt's Day (patron of Switzerland) " Nativity of Our Lady Inanna (Sumerian Goddess) " St. Basil's Day (Western; patron of hospital administrators, Russia) " Miniature Golf Day " Good Luck Day (Macedonia) " St. Seraphim of of Sarov's Day " National Cream Puff Day " St. Macarius of Alexandria's Day (patron of pastry cooks) |
" Ovid died in Rome (17 CE) " Muslims ousted from Spain (1492) " Cardinal Richelieu established the Academie Francasie (1635) " Calcutta captured by Clive (1757) " British Royal Academy of Art opened (1769) " George Washington raised the 1st US flag (1776) " Georgia became the 4th state (1788) " Free Black Community of Philadelphia petitioned Congress to abolish slavery (South Carolina buried it in committee; 1800) " 1st Photograph of the Moon taken (1839) " Drinking Straw patented (1888) " 1st Commemorative Stamp issued (1893) " Queen Victoria wrote her "we are not amused" line (1900) " 1st Electric Omnibus ran (NYC; 1900) " President Rossevelt closed a Missouri post office for refusing to employ a black woman (1903) " National Woman's Party formed (US; 1913) " Religious service 1st broadcast on radio (1921) " Trial of Bruno Hauptmann for kidnap of Lindbergh baby began (1935) " Pope Pius XII declared TV a threat to family life (1952) " 1st spacecraft from earth orbited sun (Luna 1, which missed the moon; 1959) " Indonesia quit the UN (1965) " 1st Black became President of a white university (Michigan State; 1970) " 1st No-fault divorce law passed (1971) " Cigarette ads banned from TV (1971) " 1st High School opened " Grizzly Bear declared endangered species " 1st Human Heart transplanted |
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| 1793 Lucretia Mott, women's rights leader and abolitionist (Nantucket, MA; died 1880) 1883 Clement Atlee, British prime minister (London, England; died 1967) 1892 J. R. R. Tolkien, fantasy writer and philologist (Bloemfontein, South Africa; died 1973) 1897 Marion Davies, actress (Brooklyn, NY; died 1961) 1909 Victor Borge, pianist and comedian (Copenhagen, Denmark; died 2000) 1926 Joan Walsh Anglund, children's illustrator (Hinsdale, IL) 1930 Robert Loggia, actor (New York, NY) 1932 Dabney Coleman, actor (Austin, TX) 1939 Bobby Hull, hockey player (Point Anne, Ontario, Canada) 1945 Stephen Stills, singer/songwriter/musician (Dallas, TX) 1950 Victoria Principal, actress (Fukuoka, Japan) 1956 Mel Gibson, actor/director (Peekskill, NY) 1969 Michael Schumacher, auto racer (Hurth-Hermuhlheim, Germany) " Cicero " Isiah |
" St. Genevieve's Day (patron of Paris, secretaries, actors, lawyers; against drought, fever, floods, plague) " Riddle of the Year " Festival of Sleep " Icing Morning (Fairy) " Gensh-Sai (Japan) " Hero's Day (Haiti) " Congress Assemby Day (US) " Tom Sawyer's Cat's Birthday " National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day |
" Martin Luther excommunicated (1521) " 1st Black child born in US (William Tucker; 1624) " Battle of Princeton (1777) " Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco (1847) " Emperor Meiji seized power from Tokugawa Shogun, ending 700 years of military rule (Japan; 1868) " Construction began on the Brooklyn Bridge (1870) " Margarine patented (Oleo; 1871) " Oscar Wilde declared "nothing but my genius" to US customs when entering America (1882) " Atom 1st split (1918) " Tomb of Tutankhamen discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings (1924) " Rene Magritte's work 1st shown in US (1936) " March of Dimes established (1938) " US House of Representatives 1st televised (1947) " Sir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole (1958) " Alaska became the 49th state (1959) " US severed diplomatic ties with Cuba (1961) " Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro (1962) " 450,000 public school children went on strike in New York City (1964) " Jack Ruby died in a hospital (1967) " Apple Computers incorporated (1977) " 1st Ads appeared in a Russian newspaper (1988) |
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| 1785 Jacob Grimm, folklorist and coauthor of Grimm's Fairy Tales (Hanau, Germany; died 1863) 1809 Louis Braille, inventor of touch system of reading/writing for the blind (Coupvray, France; died 1852) 1838 Gen. Tom Thumb (Charles Stratton), midget entertainer (Bridgeport, CT; died 1883) 1914 Jane Wyman, actress (St. Joseph, MO) 1930 Barbara Rush, actress (Denver, CO) Don Shula, football player and coach (Paineville, OH) 1935 Floyd Patterson, champion boxer (Waco, NC) 1937 Dyan Cannon, actress (Tacoma, WA) 1943 Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian and TV commentator (Rockville Centre, NY) 1957 Patty Loveless, actress (Pikeville, KY) 1960 Michael Stipe, singer (Decatur, GA) 1963 Dave Foley, actor (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) 1965 Julia Ormond, actress (Epsom, England) " Isaac Newton " Shun Hi-Lee " George Washington Carver " Max Eastman " Maureen Reagan " Dan Quayle |
" Trivia Day " Lichtenstein Day of Rest " Tennis Day " Feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1st US-born Saint) " Burma Independence Day " Humiliation Day " Festival of Fufluns (Etruscan God of Wine) " St.Titus' Day " Martyr's Day (Zaire) " Flower Basket Day " St. Angela of Foligno's Day " Myanmar Independence Day " Braille Day " Day to Honor Freyja (Norse) " Get Out Your Boxer Shorts Day " St. Pharaildis' Day (patron against childhood illness) " Old Christmas Frights (North Carolina) " National Spaghetti Day |
" 1st Chess Column appeared in a newspaper (1835) " 1st Appendix removed successfully (1885) " 1st Global Bicycle Trip completed (1887) " Utah became the 45th state (1896) " 1st Road Signs appeared on major roads (1901) " 1st Female Governor inaugurated (Wyoming; 1925) " Gandhi's National Congress of India declared illegal by UK (1932) " 1st Billboard Pop Chart published (1936) " Seoul, Korea captured by communist troops (Korean War; 1951) " Apprentice Barbers ended the longest-running strike, which began in 1938 (Copenhagen, Denmark; 1961) " Saint-Seans arrested for spying (hotel maid saw music score & thought it was code) " 1st Veterinary College established " Fender 1st made guitars " Whooping Crane declared extinct |
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| 1779 Zebulon Pike, Army officer and explorer (Lamberton, NJ; died 1813) 1876 Konrad Adenauer, 1st chancellor of West Germany (Cologne, Germany; died 1967) 1909 Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (Paris, France) 1928 Walter Mondale, former Minnesota senator, vice president, and presidential candidate (Ceylon, MN) 1931 Alvin Ailey, dancer/choreographer and founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Rogers, TX; died 1989) Robert Duvall, actor (San Diego, CA) 1932 Umberto Eco, author (Alessandria, Italy) 1935 Dick Enberg, sportscaster (Auburn Hills, MI) 1938 King Juan Carlos I, king of Spain (Rome, Italy) 1942 Charlie Rose, TV personality and journalist (Henderson, NC) 1946 Diane Keaton, actress (Santa Ana, CA) 1953 George Tenet, CIA director (Queens, NY) 1954 Pamela Sue Martin, actress (Westport, CT) 1969 Marilyn Manson, singer (Canton, OH) " Thomas Nuttall " Raisa Gorbachev " Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg |
" Eve of Wonder " Mungday (aka Hung Mung's Day; Discordian) " Festival of Pyrotechnics " Twelfth Night " Bird Day " Glastonbury Thorn " Night of Increase (Syria) " Night of the Magic Camel (Southern Syria) " Carnival begins (Old Bohemia) " Fair Deal Day " Nones of January " St. Simeon Stylites (patron of shepherds) " Apple Howling Day " National Whipped Cream Day " Discordian Festival of Blssed St. Hung Mung " Old Christmas Eve " Epiphany Fair (Italy) " St. John Nepomucene Neumann's Day (1st male US Saint) |
" Alexandre Dumas fought his 1st duel, in which his trousers fell down (1825) " X-Rays 1st publicly demonstrated (1896) " Munich Plumber, Anton Drexler, founded the German Workers Party, which Hitler later turned into the Nazi Party (1919) " 1st FM broadcast demonstration (1940) " 1st Woman Governor inaugurated (Wyoming; 1925) " US Airports began inspecting passengers and luggage (1973) " French became only language allowed in French ads (1976) " The state of Washington executed Westley Allan Dodd, an admitted child sex killer, in America's first legal hanging since 1965. (1993) " Captain John Smith captured by Indians " Landlord's Game patented (original Monopoly) " 1st Subway turnstiles appeared " Red Cross established " National Association of Audubon Societies founded |
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| 1412 Joan of Arc, patron saint of France and heroine of the Hundred Years' War (Domrémy, France; died 1431) 1878 Carl Sandburg, poet/biographer (Galesburg, IL; died 1967) 1880 Tom Mix, cowboy actor (Driftwood, PA; died 1940) 1883 Kahlil Gibran, writer/artist (Bsherri, Lebanon; died 1931) 1911 Joey Adams, comedian (New York, NY; died 1999) 1912 Danny Thomas, actor/comedian and philanthropist (Deerfield, MI; died 1991) 1913 Loretta Young, actress (Salt Lake City, UT; died 2000) 1931 E. L. Doctorow, novelist (New York, NY) 1937 Lou Holtz, football coach (Follansbee, WV) 1944 Bonnie Franklin, actress (Santa Monica, CA) 1950 Louis Freeh, FBI director (Jersey City, NJ) 1956 Anthony Minghella, director (Isle of Wight, England) 1955 Rowan Atkinson, comedian/actor (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England) 1957 Nancy Lopez, golfer (Torrance, CA) 1968 John Singleton, director/screenwriter (Los Angeles, CA) " Richard I " Rowan Atkinson " Alexander Scriabin " Max Bruch " Charles Addams " Alan Watts " Sun Myung Moon " Richard II (1367) |
" Twelfth Day (aka Twelfthtide) " Epiphany " Blessing of the Waters (Turkey) " Swap Day " King of the Bean (aka Bean Day) " Apple Tree Day " La Befana (Italy) " Maroon Festival (Jamaica) " Greek Cross Day " Three King's Day " Feast of Aesculapius (Greek God of Healing) " Perch Tenlauf (Austria) " Take a Poet to Lunch Day " Children's Day (Uruguay) " St. Peter Baptist's Day (patron of Japan) Army Day (Iraq) " St. Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchoir's Day (patron of travelers) " Old Christmas Day " St. Macra's Day (patron against breast disease) " National Shortbread Day |
" King Alfred defeated the Dames at the Battle of Ashdown (871 CE) " Harold II crowned King of England (1066) " Henry VIII and Anne of Cleaves married (1540) " Telegraph 1st demonstrated by Morse (1838) " 1st Underwater telephone coversation (1898) " Stanley Steamer Rocket achived speed of 127 mph (1906) " New Mexico became the 47th state (1912) " Sigmund Freud fled Vienna to London (1938) " FDR gave his Four Freedoms speech (1941) " Skater Nancy Kerrigan whacked in the knees by Tonya Harding (1994) " Iron patented " George & Martha Washington married " Zinc patented " Pizarro discovered Lima, Peru " A man fell out of an bi-plane and then fell back into it at a lower altitude |
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| 1800 Millard Fillmore, 13th president of the United States (Cayuga County, NY; died 1874) 1863 Konstantin Stanislavsky, actor/director and creator of "method acting" (Russia; died 1938) 1863 Adolph Zucker, film executive (Hungary; died 1976) 1922 Vincent Gardenia, actor (Naples, Italy; died 1992) 1922 Jean-Pierre Rampal, flautist (Marseilles, France; died 2000) 1928 William Blatty, novelist/screenwriter (New York, NY) 1930 Douglas Kiker, TV journalist (Griffin, GA) 1946 Jann Wenner, publisher (New York, NY) 1952 Erin Gray, actress (Honolulu, HI) 1957 Katie Couric, TV anchor (Washington, DC) 1964 Nicolas Cage, actor (Long Beach, CA) 1977 Dustin Diamond, actor (San Jose, CA) " Butterfly McQueen " Louis II " Paul Revere " Kenny Loggins " Carl Laemmie " Eilhard Mitscherlich " Joseph Bonaparte " Marie-Bernard Soubirous (St. Bernadette) |
" Old Rock Day " Sekhmet (Ancient Egyptian New Year's Day) " Nanakusa (7 Plants Festival; Japan) " St. Distaff's Day " Eastern Orthodox Old Christmas " National Tempura Day " Ganna (Ethiopian Christmas; aka Leddat) " Pioneers Day (Liberia) " St. Aldric's Day (patron against asthma) " Usokae (Bullfinch Exchange Day; Japan) " St. Lucian of Antioch's Day " Panama Canal Day " St. Reinhold's Day (patron of stone masons) " Celebration of the 1st Week of " Moonhopper (Fairy) " St. Cedda's Day " National Pass Gas Day " Bear Mt. Ski Festival (@) " St. Raymond of Penafort's Day (patron of medical record librarians, lawyers) |
" Glasgow University founded (1450) " French recaptured Calais from the English (1558) " Galilleo discovered the 4 moons of Jupiter (1610) " Francis Bacon became Lord Chancellor of England (1618) " 1st Commercial Bank in US opened (Philadelphia; 1782) " 1st Balloon went across the English Channel (1785) " 1st US Presidential Election held (1789) " 1st US Railroad Station opened (Baltimore; 1830) " Victor Hugo is elected to the Academie Francaise (1841) " CQD distress call introduced; replaced 2 years later by SOS (1904) " Panama Canal 1st crossed (1914) " Paul Klee's paintings 1st exhibited in US (1924) " Harlem Globetrotters established (1927) " Princess Julianna of the Netherlands married Prince Bernhard (1937) " Coldest temperature reached in a laboratory (12 millionths of a degree above absolute zero; 1988) " Typewriter patented |
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| 1824 Wilkie Collins, author (London, England; died 1889) 1910 Galina Ulanova, ballerina (St. Petersburg, Russia; died 1998) 1912 José Ferrer, actor/director (Santurce, Puerto Rico; died 1992) 1924 Ron Moody, actor (London, England) 1926 Soupy Sales, comedian (Franklinton, NC) 1933 Charles Osgood, broadcast journalist (New York, NY) 1935 Elvis Presley, singer/actor (Tupelo, MS; died 1977) 1937 Shirley Bassey, singer (Cardiff, Wales) 1938 Bob Eubanks, TV personality (Flint, MI) 1941 Yvette Mimieux, actress (Los Angeles, CA) 1942 Stephen Hawking, physicist (Oxford, England) 1947 David Bowie, singer/musician (London, England) " Robert Schumann " Gallelei Gallileo |
" World Literacy Day " Redistribution of Wealth Day " Man Watcher's Day " Justitia (Roman Goddess of Justice) " Kassada (Indonesia @) " Midwife's Day (aka Women's Day; Greece) " National Joygerm Day " Old Hickory Day " Feast of St. Gudula (patron of Brussels; against toothaches) " St. Severinus' Day " Rock 'n' Roll Day " Postal Day " Jackson Day (Louisiana) " St. Amalburga's Day (patron against bruises) " National English Toffee Day " St. Atticus' Day |
" Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island (794) " 11st US Amendment ratified (1798) " Battle of New Orleans (1815) " Norton I, Emperor of United States, died in San Francisco (1880) " Dr. Herman Hollerith patented an electrically operated computer to process data, forming a company to market it which later became IBM (1889) " Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen (1904) " London's Poetry Bookshop opened, where Robert Frost and Ezra Pound 1st met (1913) " Gallipoli evacuated (1916) " 1st All-Women state Supreme Court (1925) " Ibn Saud became King of the Hejaz, which he renamed Saudia Arabia (1926) " Fire in the Empire State Building damaged 7 floors (1963) " LBJ declared a "War on Poverty" (1964) " Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh (1979) " Spain ended its siege on Gibralter and reopened the frontier (1982) " AT&T divested ending its telephone monopoly (1982) " Thomas Paine's Common Sense published " Woodrow Wilson gave his 14 Points Speech " 1st State of the Union Address |
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| 1859 Carrie Chapman Catt, women's rights leader (Ripion, WI; died 1947) 1878 John B. Watson, behavioral psychologist (Greenville, SC; died 1958) 1901 Chic Young, cartoonist and creator of Blondie (Chicago, IL; died 1973) 1902 Sir Rudolph Bing, impresario (Vienna, Austria; died 1997) 1908 Simone de Beauvoir, novelist/essayist (France; died 1986) 1913 Richard Nixon, 37th president of the United States (Yorba Linda, CA; died 1994) 1928 Judith Krantz, novelist (New York, NY) 1934 Bart Starr, football quarterback (Montgomery, AL) 1935 Bob Denver, actor (New Rochelle, NY) 1941 Joan Baez, singer and political activist (Staten Island, NY) 1942 Susannah York, actress (London, England) 1951 Crystal Gayle, country singer (Paintsville, KY) " Soren Sorensen " Gypsy Rose Lee |
" Virgin Sacrifice Day " Play God Day " Show and Tell Day At Work Day " Feast of the Black Nazarene " St. Philip of Moscow " National Static Electricity Day " Feast of St. Julian " Martyr's Day (Panama) " St. Hadrian the African's Day " Dotty Day " Feast of All Fairies (Fairy) " Balloon Ascension Day " Stepfather's Day " National Apricot Day " Choreographers Day " St. Basilissa's Day (patron against breast-feeding problems) |
" Connecticut became the 5th state (1788) " 1st Balloon Flight in US (1793) " Income Tax 1st imposed (UK; 1799) " Admiral Nelson buried at St. Paul's Cathedral (London; 1806) " 1st Women's Golf Tournament held (1811) " Mississippi seceded from the Union (1861) " New York legislature introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public (1902) " Teddy Roosevelt declared Muir Woods a national monument (1908) " Bolsheviks defeated the last of the White Russians (1920) " Autogyro 1st flew (1923) " Columbus sights a Mantee and thinks its a mermaid " 1st Seeing Eye Dog trained " Peter Minoit set sail for New York |
| 10 January | ||
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| 1887 Robinson Jeffers, poet/playwright (Pittsburgh, PA; died 1962) 1908 Paul Henreid, actor/director (Trieste, Austria; died 1992) 1935 Sherrill Milnes, opera singer (Downers Grove, IL) 1936 Stephen Ambrose, historian (Decatur, IL) 1945 Rod Stewart, singer/musician (London, England) 1949 George Foreman, champion boxer (Marshall, TX) 1953 Pat Benatar, singer (Brooklyn, NY) 1973 Glenn Robinson, basketball player (Gary, IN) " Ray Bolger " Linda Lovelace " Maurice Sendak |
" Peculiar People Day " Iroquois Midwinter Ceremony @ " Volunteer Fireman's Day " Geraint (Wales) " Hockey Night (Letterman) " St. Agatho's Day " Foreign Agents' Day " Speck Day " League of Nations Day " St. Marcian's Day " Fairy Lunch (Fairy) " Black Scientist Day " National Bittersweet Chocolate Day |
" Criticizing her novels, Cardinal Newman states "Jane Austen has no romance" (1837) " Tea from India 1st arrived in UK (1839) " Penny Postage began (UK; 1840) " Elizabeth Barret received her 1st love letter from future husband Robert Browning (1845) " Florida seceded from the Union (1861) " London's 1st Subway opened (1863) " Women's Suffrage Amendment introduced (1878) " Single-lens film camera patented (1888) " Oil 1st discovered in Texas (1901) " White House picketed by women demanding the vote (1917) " US House of Representatives voted in favor of women's suffrage (1918) " League of Nations founded (1920) " Pioneer aviators Hood and Moncrieff lost over the Tasman Sea flying from Australia to New Zealand (1928) " UN General Assembly 1st met (London; 1946) " Vinyl Record debuted by RCA & Columbia (1949) " C5 Electric Car 1st demonstrated (1985) " Authorities found 14 Chinese stowaways with 3 men dead hidden in a cargo ship container at the Port of Seattle. Another 19 men were found the next day. A total of 203 people were caught over the last year hidden in containers in US and Canadian ports. (2000) " 1st Photo taken from an airplane " 1st Children's Library opened " Order of the Golden Fleece established " Barbed Wire patented |
| 11 January | ||
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| 1755 Alexander Hamilton, statesman and 1st treasury secretary (British West Indies; died 1804) 1815 Sir John MacDonald, 1st prime minister of Canada (Glasgow, Scotland; died 1891) 1839 Eugenio Maria Hostos, Puerto Rican patriot and scholar/author (Rio Canas, Puerto Rico; died 1903) 1842 William James, psychologist and philosopher (New York, NY; died 1910) 1885 Alice Paul, women's rights leader (Moorestown, NJ; died 1977) 1897 Bernard De Voto, historian/critic (Ogden, UT; died 1955) 1926 Grant Tinker, TV executive (Stamford, CT) 1929 Rod Taylor, actor (Sydney, Australia) 1934 Jean Chrétien, Canadian prime minister (Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada) 1942 Clarence Clemons, musician/singer (Norfolk, VA) 1946 Naomi Judd, country singer (Ashland, KY) 1952 Ben Crenshaw, golfer (Austin, TX) 1957 Darryl Dawkins, basketball player (Orlando, FL) |
" National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day " Carmentalia (Old Roman Festival to 9 Muses) " Unity Day (Nepal) " International Thank You Day " Burning of the Cavie (Tar Barrel; Burghead, Scotland) " Juturna (Prophetic Waters Festival) " Banquet of Fairies, Goblins, Pixies, and Elves (Fairy) " Use More of Your Mind Day " St. Vitalis of Gaza's Day " Giant Day " Unlucky Day " Banana Boat Day " Art Deco Festival " St. Hiliary's Day " Pharmacists Day " Kagami-Biraki (Rice Cakes Festival; Japan) " Buy Defense Stamps Day " Albania Anniversary Day " Send a Dollar to the Treasury Day " National Hot Toddy Day " Smoking May Be Hazardous To Your Health Day |
" King of Naples deserted Napoleon and joined the Allies (1813) " Wasco County, Oregon established by Territorial Legislature. It encompassed all of Oregon east of the Cascade Mountains, most of Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming. (1854) " Alabama seceded from the Union (1861) " Mexican President Benito Juarez returned to Mexico City after Maximilian's execution (1867) " Native Americans still being sold as slaves (Los Angeles; 1869) " Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (1922) " Salvador Dali lectured on surrealism at MOMA (1935) " Amelia Earhart became 1st woman to fly solo across the Pacific (1935) " Francium, Element 87, discovered (1939) " King Zog of Albania deposed (1946) " US Surgeon General 1st said "stop smoking" (1964) " 1st Sextuplets born (South Africa; 1974) " Biafran leader, General Ojukwe, fled Biafra as Nigerian troops entered Owerri (1970) " 25 Motorists publicly lashed for staging a car race in Saudia Arabia (1987) " Mt. Etna erupted |
| 12 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1588 John Winthrop, colonial governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Edwardston, England; died 1649) 1628 Charles Perrault, fairy tale writer (Paris, France; died 1703) 1729 Edmund Burke, orator, politician, and philosopher (Dublin, Ireland; died 1797) 1737 John Hancock, patriot/statesman and 1st signer of the Declaration of Independence (Braintree, MA; died 1793) 1856 John Singer Sargent, portrait painter (Florence, Italy; died 1925) 1876 Jack London, author (San Francisco, CA; died 1916) 1910 Luise Rainer, actress (Vienna, Austria) 1920 James Farmer, civil rights leader (Marshall, TX; died 1999) 1926 Ray Price, country singer (Perryville, TX) 1944 Joe Frazier, champion boxer (Beaufort, SC) 1948 Anthony Andrews, actor (London, England) 1951 Kirstie Alley, actress (Wichita, KS) 1951 Rush Limbaugh, radio personality (Cape Girardeau, MO) 1954 Howard Stern, radio/TV personality (New York, NY) 1960 Dominique Wilkins, basketball player (Paris, France) " Joe E. Lewis " Angela Davis " Henny Youngman " Glenn Yarborough " P.W. Botha |
" Compitalia (Old Roman Slave Festival to Household Gods) " Printing Ink Day " Working Woman's Appreciation Day " Festival of Sarasyati (Hindu Goddess of Wisdom) " National Pharmacist Day " Goblin Gala (Fairies not invited) " Zanzibar Revolution Day (Tanzania) " St. Ailred's Day " Ullr Festival (Mythical God of Winter) " Feast of Fabulous Wild Men " St. Allan's Day " National Marzipan Day " Lift Every Voice and Sing Day " Work Harder Day " St. Benedict Biscop's Day (patron of architects, glass workers, musicians, painters, speleologists) " Runic half-month of Eoh ends |
" 1st Public Museum opened (Charleston, SC; 1773) " Santa Clara Mission founded (1777) " Zulu-British War began (1879) " Freeland Colony founded in US (1900) " Lift Every Voice and Sing, Negro National Anthem, 1st performed (1900) " US House of Representatives rejected proposal to allow women to vote (1915) " 1st Woman elected to the US Senate (1932) " Queen of England opened the New Zealand Parliament (1954) " Sultan of Zanzibar banished (1964) " Biafran War ended (1970) " Boeing 747 made its maiden voyage (1970) " Idi Amin expelled from Zaire (1989) " 2 Earth-size planets discovered orbiting pulsar PSR1257812 (1992) " Franfurter temporarily renamed "Victory Sausage" " 1st X-Ray taken |
| 13 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1808 Salmon P. Chase, statesman, senator, and chief justice of the Supreme Court (Cornish, NH; died 1873) 1834 Horatio Alger Jr., author and clergyman (Revere, MA; died 1899) 1919 Robert Stack, actor (Los Angeles, CA) 1925 Gwen Verdon, actress/dancer (Los Angeles, CA; died 2000)) 1930 Frances Sternhagen, actress (Washington, DC) 1931 Charles Nelson Reilly, actor (New York, NY) 1933 Frank Gallo, artist/sculptor (Toledo, OH) 1943 Richard Moll, actor (Pasadena, CA) 1955 Jay McInerney, author (Hartford, CT) 1960 Kevin Anderson, actor (Gurnee, IL) 1961 Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress (New York, NY) 1964 Penelope Ann Miller, actress (Los Angeles, CA) 1966 Patrick Dempsey, actor (Lewiston, ME) " Wyatt Earp " Sam Woolworth " Sophie Tucker " Rubber Duckie (Sesame Street) |
" Old New Year's Day (Wales; Julian Calendar) " Change of Style Day " Silvesterklause (Switzerland) " Festival of the Body of Habits " Zero Birth Day " Recuperation Fortnight begins (Fairy) " Tiugunde Day (Old England) " Midvintersblot (Norse Midwinter Festival) " Liberation Day (Togo) " St. Hilary of Poitiers' Day (patron of backward children, lawyers; against insanity, snakebites) Tyvendedagen (Norway) " " Stephen Foster Memorial Day " Door-to-Door Salespeople Day " Strive and Succeed Day " Runic half-month of Peorth (womb, dice cup) begins " St. Knut's Day " Lohri (Sikh, Hindu) |
" Canadian radical William Lyon Mackenzie fled to the US (1838) " Accordian patented (1854) " Independent British Labour Party formed (1893) " Mickey Mouse comic strip began (1930) " Jonathan Swift was ordained an Anglican priest (Ireland; 1695) " 1st Ad for a radio appeared (in Scientific American; 1906) " 1st Public Radio Broadcast (1910) " 1st Black played in NBA All-Star basketball game (1953) " Capitol Records reluctantly released 1st Beatles record in US - I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1964) " 1st Woman conducted the Metropolitan Opera (1976) " NASA selcted 1st US Women Astronauts (1978) " Frisbee invented " Lohri (Sikh, Hindu) Marks the change from decrease to the increase of the sun and bonfires are lit. " St. Knut's Day (Sweden, Finland) King Knut who ruled Sweden from 1080-1086 is honoured as a saint for his virtue and generosity had declared that Christmas should be celebrated for 20 days, officially ending the season on January 13th. The days between Christmas and Saint Knut's day are filled with parties for children and adults. After this day, trees are taken down to mark the official close of the season. |
| 14 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1741 Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general and traitor (Norwich, CT; died 1801) 1875 Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, and missionary (Kayserberg, Upper Alsace; died 1965) 1892 Hal Roach, director/producer (Elmira, NY; died 1992) 1896 John Dos Passos, novelist/journalist (Chicago, IL; died 1970) 1919 Andy Rooney, TV commentator (Albany, NY) 1938 Jack Jones, singer/actor (Hollywood, CA) 1940 Julian Bond, civil rights leader (Nashville, TN) 1941 Faye Dunaway, actress (Bascom, FL) 1943 Shannon Lucid, astronaut (Shanghai, China) 1944 Nina Totenberg, TV journalist (New York, NY) 1948 Carl Weathers, actor (New Orleans, LA) 1949 Lawrence Kasdan, filmmaker (Miami Beach, FL) 1967 Emily Watson, actress (London, England) 1968 L. L. Cool J, singer (New York, NY) 1969 Jason Bateman, actor (Rye, NY) " Albert Schweitzer " Humphrey Bogart " Mehmed VI |
" Feast of Fools " Debt Day " Vinegrower's Day (Bulgaria) " Narcissus Festival " Cakes and Ale Day (UK) " Pongol (India) " Mallard Day (Oxford, UK) " St. Kentigern's Day " National Dress Up Your Pet Day " Take a Missionary to Lunch Day " St. Sava's Day (patron of Serbia) " Julian Calendar New Year " St. Felix of Nola's Day (patron against perjury) " National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day " All Souls College Mallard (Oxford) " Traitor's Day " Celebration of 2nd Week of Moonhopper (Fairy) |
" Massachusetts Bay Colony held a day of fasting in protest of wrongly convcted witches (1699) " Treaty of Paris ratified ending American Revolution (1784) " Caesarian Section 1st performed in US (1794) " Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden (1814) " Puccini's Tosca premiered (1900) " 1st US Assembly Line started (Ford; 1914) " Today Show debuted (1952) " CIA secretly held a 5-scientist meeting in Washington, DC to review UFO data, after 3 days they recommended the Gov't institute a "debunking" policy (1953) " 1st Hootennany held at the White House (1964) " 1st Human Be-In (San Francisco; 1967) " British Muslims burned copies of Rushdie's Satanic Verses (1989) " The Simpsons debuted (1990) " Celluloid invented " Euthanasia Society founded " International Dogsled Mail Service 1st established " Pongol (Hindu) A three-day rice harvest festival in South India and celebrated with a cultural evening of song and dance. |
| 15 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1899 Goodman Ace, TV/radio personality and humorist (Kansas City, MO; died 1982) 1908 Edward Teller, physicist (Budapest, Hungary) 1909 Gene Krupa, drummer/bandleader (Chicago, IL; died 1973) 1918 Gamel Abdel Nasser, Egyptian president (Egypt; died 1970) 1929 Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader (Atlanta, GA; died 1968) 1937 Margaret O'Brien, actress (San Diego, CA) 1947 Andrea Martin, actress (Portland, ME) 1951 Charo, singer/actress (Murcia, Spain) 1957 Mario Van Peebles, actor (Mexico City, Mexico) 1958 Julian Sands, actor (Yorkshire, England) 1968 Chad Lowe, actor (Dayton, OH) " Moliere " Matthew Brady " Chuck Berry " Mazo de la Roche " St. Paul the Hermit " Don Van Vliet " Lloyd Bridges " Philip Livingston |
" Ivy Day " Feast of the Abbot of Unreason " Hermit Day " Procrastinator's New Year " Feast of the Ass " Dia Del Maestro (Teacher's Day; Venezuela) " Seijin-no-hi (Adult's Day; Japan) " Humanitarian Day " Pioneer Day (Idaho) " Hat Day " St. Paul of Thebes' Day (aka Paul the Hermit; patron of weavers) " Moliere Day (France) " Coming of Age Day (Japan) " St. Maurus' Day (patron against colds) " Iroquois White Dog Feast " National Strawberry Ice Cream Day " St. Macarius of Egypt's Day " Top Junk-Food News Stories Day " Feast of Christ of Esquipulas (Black Christ Festival; Guatemala) |
" Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England (1559) |
| 16 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1853 Andre Michelin, industrialist and cofounder of Michelin Tire Co. (Paris, France; died 1931) 1876 Robert W. Service, poet (Preston, England; died 1958) 1908 Ethel Merman, singer/actress (Queens, NY; died 1984) 1911 Dizzy Dean, baseball pitcher (Lucas, AR; died 1974) 1928 William Kennedy, author (Albany, NY) 1929 Francesco Scavullo, fashion photographer (Staten Island, NY) 1930 Norman Podhoretz, author/editor (New York, NY) 1934 Marilyn Horne, opera singer (Bradford, PA) 1935 A. J. Foyt, auto racer (Houston, TX) 1944 Ronnie Milsap, singer (Robinsville, NC) 1948 John Carpenter, director (Carthage, NY) 1950 Debbie Allen, dancer/choreographer and actress (Houston, TX) 1959 Sade, singer (Ibadan, Nigeria) 1974 Kate Moss, model (London, England) |
" Religious Freedom Day " National Nothing Day " Dies Electricia (Aurora Borealis) " Concordia (Old Roman Goddess of Harmonious Relations) " Festival of All Fairies (Fairy) " Book Publishers Day " National Good Teen Day " There's No Business Like Show Business Day " National Fig Newton Day " St. Honoratus' Day " Haru-No-Yabuiri (Day of No Work for the Overworked; Japan) " Angola Independence Day " St. Priscilla's Day (patron of widows) |
" Ivan the Terrible crowned Tsar (1547) " Edmund Spenser died (1599) " Pendleton Act passed creating US Civil Service (1883) " Prohibition began (1920) " 1st Photofinish camera installed at a racetrack (1936) " BBC radio hoax of an anarchy uprising caused rioting and widespread panic in London (1926) " Battle of Burma (1942) " 1st Non-stop flight around the world (1957) " 1st Native American college in 400 years opened as Navajo Community College; (1969) " 1st US Female Astronauts selected (1978) " Pago Pago Commerce Treaty signed (Samoa) " Gulf War began (1991) " Eisenhower appointed Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe (WW 2) " Clamp-on Roller Skates patented " Scout Handbook published " 1st Monk, St. Anthony, took the pledge " France 1st recognized the US " Electric Organ patented " Hormones discovered " Sandwich Islands discovered by Europeans |
| 17 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1706 Benjamin Franklin, statesman/diplomat, author/publisher, and scientist (Boston, MA; died 1790) 1820 Anne Brontë, novelist/poet (England; died 1849) 1899 Al Capone, gangster (Naples, Italy; died 1947) 1922 Betty White, actress (Oak Park, IL) 1926 Moira Shearer, ballerina (Scotland) 1927 Eartha Kitt, singer (North, SC) 1928 Vidal Sassoon, hair stylist (London, England) 1931 James Earl Jones, actor (Tate County, MS) 1931 Don Zimmer, baseball player and manager/coach (Cincinnati, OH) 1934 Shari Lewis, puppeteer and children's entertainer (New York, NY; died 1998) 1939 Maury Povich, TV personality (Washington, DC) 1942 Muhammad Ali, champion boxer (Louisville, KY) 1947 Kenny Loggins, singer (Everett, WA) 1956 David Caruso, actor (Forest Hills, NY) 1962 Jim Carrey, actor/comedian (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) " Anton Chekov " Stanislaw II |
" Straying Toward the Path Day " World Religion Day " Business Day " National Feedback Day " Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral Day " Felcitas (Old Roman Goddess of Good Luck) " San Antonio Abad (Mexico) " National Public Employees Appreciation Day " Carnivale begins (Italy) " St. Anthony's Day (patron of basket weavers, brush makers, butchers, domestic animals, grave diggers, herdsmen, swine; against eczema, ergotism) " National Printing Ink Day " Pig Day " Thomas Crapper Day " Constitution Day (Philippines) " St. Devota's Day (patron of Corsica, Monaco) " Fire From the Sky Day " Professional Boxers Day |
" 2nd Myst date needed to raise the ship (1207) " Francois Rabelais absolved of apostasy by Pope Paul III and permitted to practice medicine (1536) " James Cook crossed the Antarctic Circle (1773) " Battle of Cowpens (1781) " 1st Baby born in the White House (Thomas Jefferson's granddaughter; 1806) " Duke of Wellington appointed Commander-in-Chief of British Army (1827) " Cable Car patented (1871) " Chang & Eng, siamese twins, died (1874) " Volstead Act and US Prohibition (18th Amendment) formally began (1920) " 1st International Exhibition of Surrealism opened in Paris (1938) " Poland liberated from the Nazis - WW2; (1945) " Eisenhower warned US people about military-industrial complex (1961) " Mid-air collision of B-52 with refueling tanker plane over " Palomares, Spain accidently drops 4 Hydrogen Bombs causing massive contamination (1966) " Gary Gillmore executed (1977) " Southern California Northridge Earthquake measuring 6.6; (1994) " Kobe earthquake, Japan measuring (7.2; (1995) " 2 Jupiter-size planets discovered orbiting sunlike stars (1996) |
| 18 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1782 Daniel Webster, statesman and orator (Salisbury, NH; died 1852) 1882 A. A. Milne, children's author (London, England; died 1956) 1892 Oliver Hardy, comedian in the duo Laurel & Hardy (Atlanta, GA; died 1957) 1904 Cary Grant, actor (Bristol, England; died 1986) 1913 Danny Kaye, comedian/actor and UN goodwill ambassador (Brooklyn, NY; died 1987) 1931 Chun Doo Hwan, South Korean president (Naechonri, Korea) 1933 John Boorman, director (Shepperton, England) 1933 Ray Dolby, inventor of the Dolby Sound System (Portland, OR) 1941 David Ruffin, singer (Meridian, MS; died 1991) 1955 Kevin Costner, actor/director (Compton, CA) 1961 Mark Messier, hockey player (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) " Peter Mark Roget " Charles de Montesquieu " Andrei Gromyko |
" Winnie the Pooh Day " Jazz Day " Wellington Day (New Zealand) " Santa Prisca Day (Taxco, Mexico) " Thesaurus Day " Four an' Twenty Day (Scotland) " Old Twelfth Day " Carrot Festival (Holtville, CA) " St. Ulfrid's Day " Revolution Day (Tunisia) " National Peking Duck Day " Tu B'Shevat (Arbor Day) - Israel |
" Houses of Lancaster & York united by marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Edward IV (1485) " Quinine 1st used to treat malaria (1538) " American William Walker declared himself President of Sonora, which consisted of 2 Mexican states; (1854) " Wilhelm of Prussia crowned 1st German Emperor (1871) " X-Ray Machine 1st exhibited (1896) " Vacuum Tube developed (1903) " 1st Launch & landing of a plane from a ship (1911) " Auschwitz Death March began (WW2; 1945) " Pulsars 1st identified (1969) " Versailles Peace Conference held " German Empire founded " Hawaii discovered by Europeans " Tu B'Shevat - Jewish New Year of the Trees, the midwinter festival day for celebration of the rebirthing of trees. |
| 19 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1807 Robert E. Lee, Confederate general (Westmoreland County, VA; died 1870) 1809 Edgar Allan Poe, poet and short-story writer (Boston, MA; died 1849) 1839 Paul Cézanne, painter (France; died 1906) 1920 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, former UN secretary general (Lima, Peru) 1923 Jean Stapleton, actress (New York, NY) 1926 Fritz Weaver, actor (Pittsburgh, PA) 1931 Robert MacNeil, TV journalist (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) 1935 Tippi Hedren, actress (New Ulm, MN) 1939 Phil Everly, singer (Chicago, IL) 1942 Michael Crawford, actor/singer (Salisbury, England) 1942 Shelley Fabares, actress (Santa Monica, CA) 1943 Janis Joplin, singer (Port Arthur, TX; died 1970) 1946 Dolly Parton, singer (Sevierville, TN) 1949 Robert Palmer, singer (Bately, England) 1953 Desi Arnaz Jr., actor/singer (Los Angeles, CA) " Copernicus |
" Archery Day " Tenderness Toward Existence Day " Artist As Outlaw Day " Healthy Weight, Healthy Look Day " Greek Cross Day " National Popcorn Day " St. Canute's Day (patron of Denmark) " St. Henry of Uppsala's Day (patron of Finland) " St. Wulfstan's Day " Capricorn zodiac sign ends " St. Fillian's Day (patron against insanity) " Timkat (Epiphany) - Ethopian " Theophany - Eastern Orthodox " Sultan (17th month) - Baha'i |
" Charles I trial for Treason began (1649) " Charles Wilkes sighted Antarctica and claimed her for US (1840) " Georgia seceded from the Union (1861) " Susan B. Anthony elected head of American Equal Rights Association (1869) " 1st Tour de France bicycle race began (1903) " Leon Trotsky went into exile (1929) " Japan invaded Burma (1942) " New Jersey Turnpike completed (1952) " Lucille Ball gave birth to "Little Ricky" on TV (1953) " President Ford pardoned "Tokyo Rose" (1977) " Halfway, Oregon, adopted the new name of Half.Com in exchange for $75,000 and 22 computers from a Pennsylvania company with the same name. (2000) " Sultan (17th month) - Baha'i. The first day of the seventeenth Baha'i month. The English translation of Sultan (Arabic) is Sovereignty. Water discovered outside our galaxy Technicolor patented 1st Neon sign lit |
| 20 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1896 George Burns, comedian (New York, NY; died 1996) 1906 Aristotle Onassis, shipping magnate and 2d husband of Jacqueline Kennedy (Greece; died 1975) 1920 Federico Fellini, director/screenwriter (Rimini, Italy; died 1993) 1920 DeForest Kelley, actor (Atlanta, GA; died 1999) 1926 Patricia Neal, actress (Packard, KY) 1929 Arte Johnson, comedian (Benton Harbor, MI) 1930 Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, astronaut (Montclair, NJ) 1946 David Lynch, director (Missoula, MT) 1948 Anatoly Shcharansky, expatriate Soviet dissident (Ukraine) 1956 Bill Maher, TV personality (Rivervale, NJ) 1958 Lorenzo Lamas, actor (Santa Monica, CA) " Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter " Charles III (1760) |
" Babin Den (Grandmother's Day; Bulgaria) " St. Sebastian's Day (patron of archers, soldiers, athletes, Rio De Janeiro) " Aquarius zodiac sign begins " Basketball Day " Heroes Day (Cape Verde) " Celtic tree month of Beth ends " Hat Day " St. Sebastian's Day (patron of Rio de Janiero, archers, athletes, hardware, lace makers, the military, pin makers, potters, police officers; against plague) " St. Fabian's Day (patron of lead founders, potters) " Heroes Day (Guinea-Bissau) " US Presidential Inauguration Day (every 4 years) " Take A Walk Outdoors Day " St. Euthymius' Day " National Buttercrunch Day " Anniversary Day - Wellington, NZ |
" British Parliament 1st met (1265) " John Marshall appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1801) " Hong Kong ceded to UK by China (1841) " UK recognized US (1873) " US Navy leased Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (1887) " Robert Frost read his poem The Gift Outright at JFK's inauguration (1961) " US Hostages in Iran released (1981) " Ronald Reagan sworn in as president of US " World's Largest Cheese made (34,591 lbs.; cheddar) " Roller Coaster patented |
| 21 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War hero (Litchfield, CT; died 1789) 1824 Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general (Clarksburg, VA; died 1863) 1884 Roger Baldwin, founder of the ACLU (Wellesley, MA; died 1981) 1905 Christian Dior, fashion designer (Granville, France; died 1957) 1922 Paul Scofield, actor (Hurst, England) 1940 Jack Nicklaus, golfer (Columbus, OH) 1941 Placido Domingo, opera singer (Madrid, Spain) 1942 Mac Davis, singer/songwriter/actor (Lubbock, TX) 1947 Jill Eikenberry, actress (New Haven, CT) 1950 Billy Ocean, musician/songwriter (Fyzabad, Trinidad) 1956 Robby Benson, actor (Dallas, TX) 1957 Geena Davis, actress (Wareham, MA) 1963 Hakeem Olajuwon, basketball player (Lagos, Nigeria) " John Charles "the Pathfinder" Fremont " Sam Peckinpah " Charles V (the Wise; 1338) " J. Carrol Nash " "Wolfman" Jack |
" Own Your Own Home Day " National Hugging Day " Winterskol " St. Agnes' Day (patron of virgins, Girl Scouts) " Feast of Jolly Roger " Celtic tree month of Luis (Rowan) begins " St. Meinrad's Day " Altagracia Day (Dominican Republic) " Quebec International Bonspiel begins (Canada) " National Granola Bar Day " Anniversary of the Elf Wars (Fairy) " Tie-Up Town USA Ice Festival " Hot and Spicy Food International Day |
" Columbus discovered St. Vincent " 1st American Novel published (The Power of Sympathy; 1789) " Guillotine 1st demonstrated (1790) " Louis XVI executed (1793) " Zulus massacred Bristish troops in Natal (1879) " New York City ordinance made public smoking for women illegal (1908) " Kiwanis Club founded (1915) " New York City declares pinball machines illegal (1942) " Atomic Bombs 1st tested in Nevada (1951) " General Motors 1st displayed a turbine-powered car (1953) " USS Nautilus, 1st nuclear submarine, launched (1954) " Vietnam War draft dodgers pardoned (1977) " US Hostages in Iran arrived safely in Algiers (1981) " Terry Waite kidnapped by Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine (1987) " Medal of Honor 1st awarded |
| 22 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1561 Sir Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, and essayist (London, England; died 1626) 1788 George Gordon, Lord Byron, poet (England; died 1824) 1849 August Strindberg, novelist/dramatist (Stockholm, Sweden; died 1912) 1875 D. W. Griffith, producer/director (LaGrange, KY; died 1948) 1890 Fred M. Vinson, chief justice of the Supreme Court (Louisa, KY; died 1953) 1897 Rosa Ponselle, opera singer (Meriden, CT; died 1981) 1904 George Balanchine, ballet choreographer and head of the NYC Ballet (St. Petersburg, Russia; died 1983) 1909 Ann Sothern, actress (Valley City, ND; died 2001) 1909 U Thant, UN secretary general (Burma; died 1974) 1932 Piper Laurie, actress (Detroit, MI) 1937 Joseph Wambaugh, author (East Pittsburgh, PA) 1940 John Hurt, actor (Chesterfield, England) 1953 Jim Jarmusch, director (Akron, OH) 1959 Linda Blair, actress (St. Louis, MO) 1967 Olivia D'Abo, actress (London, England) " Sam Cooke " Ivan III (the Great) |
" Erotic Festival Day " Festival of the Orgone " St. Vincent's Day (patron of winegrowers, schoolgirls, vinegar makers) " Dance of the 7 Veils Day " Festival of Invoking & Banishing " Answer Your Cat's Question Day " Ukranian Day " Saints Day " National Blond Brownie Day " St. Timothy's Day (Greek) " Goddess Month of Hestia ends |
" Spain ceded Falkland Islands to UK (1771) " John Martin saw a UFO fly over his Denison, Texas farm describing it as a "large saucer" (1878) " Zulus massacred British troops at Isandlwana (1879) " Asante Army massacred British troops in the Gold Coast (1824) " Atom 1st split (Columbia University; 1939) " Battle of Anzio (WW 2; 1944) " 1st Argentine Grand Prix held (1953) " Mad Bomber captured (1957) " UK, Denmark, and Irish Republic joined the EEC (1972) " Roe v. Wade abortion decision reached (1973) " Amsterdam's Schipol Airport opened a departure lounge for cattle (1988) " Queen Elizabeth granted William Byrd exclusive right to print and sell music paper " 1st Commercial 747 flew |
| 23 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1783 Stendhal (Marie Henri Beyle), novelist (Grenoble, France; died 1842) 1832 Edouard Manet, painter (Paris, France; died 1883) 1915 Potter Stewart, Supreme Court justice (Jackson, MI; died 1985) 1928 Jeanne Moreau, actress (Paris, France) 1933 Chita Rivera, dancer/actress (Washington, DC) 1943 Gil Gerard, actor (Little Rock, AR) 1944 Rutger Hauer, actor (Breukelen, Netherlands) 1950 Richard Dean Anderson, actor (Minneapolis, MN) 1957 Princess Caroline, princess of Monaco (Monte Carlo, Monaco) 1963 Gail O'Grady, actress (Detroit, MI) 1974 Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, model/actress (Long Beach, CA) " Bob Fosse |
" New Year of the Trees (Palestine) " Handwriting Day " Lichtenstein Foundation Day " National Pie Day " Goddess Month of Bridhe begins " St. Ildephonsus' Day " Grandmother's Day (Bulgaria) " Measure Your Feet Day " Birthday of the Grand Duchess (Luxembourg) " Ragwort Dance (Pixies only) " St. Emerentiana's Day (patron against stomachaches) " National Rhubarb Pie Day |
" Shanxi Earthquake killed 830,000 in China; (1556) " Royal Exchange opened (London; 1571) " Lichtenstein founded (1719) " Georgetown University founded (1789) " 1st Woman Doctor in US qualified (1849) " 1400 Varieties of European Grapevines arrived in Sonoma Valley, California (1862) " X-Rays discovered (1896) " London and India 1st linked by telegraph (1908) " British captured Tripoli (WW 2; 1943) " US Poll-taxes declared illegal by passage of 24th Amendment (1964) " The first mini-series debuted, based on Alex Haley's "Roots"(1977) " Iraq destroyed Kuwait oil fields, causing the world's largest oil spill (1991) " Envelope Making Machine patented " 1st Archery Club formed " USS Pueblo seized by North Korea |
| 24 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1670 William Congreve, dramatist (Bardsey, England; died 1729) 1862 Edith Wharton, author (New York, NY; died 1937) 1915 Mark Goodson, TV game show producer/creator (Sacramento, CA; died 1992) 1917 Ernest Borgnine, actor (Hamden, CT) 1918 Oral Roberts, evangelist and educator (near Ada, OK) 1925 Maria Tallchief, ballerina (Fairfax, OK) 1941 Neil Diamond, singer/songwriter (Brooklyn, NY) 1941 Aaron Neville, singer/songwriter (New Orleans, LA) 1946 Michael Ontkean, actor (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) 1950 John Belushi, comedian/actor (Chicago, IL; died 1982) 1960 Nastassja Kinski, actress (Berlin, West Germany) 1968 Mary Lou Retton, Olympic champion gymnast (Fairmont, WV) " Frederick the Great |
" National Peanut Butter Day " Alactis Fair begins (Aymara Indians, Bolivia) " Tricknology Day " St. Babylas' Day " Clash Day " Fairy-Four Paganalia " Paul Pitcher Day " Economic Liberation Day (Togo) " St. Francis de Sales' Day (patron of journalists, editors, writers; against deafness) |
" Caligula assassinated (41 CE) " Henry III of England married Eleanor of Provence (1236) " Cape Horn 1st rounded (Willem Schouten; 1616) " Fundamental Orders, 1st Constitution in US, adopted (Connecticut; 1639) " Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill, California (1848) " Yellow Kid, 1st Newspaper Comic Strip, appeared (1897) " 1st Boy Scout troop organized (UK; 1908) " Franz Kafka stopped working on Amerika, which he never finished (1913) " American Psychological Association stated homosexuality was not a mental illness (1975) " Apple Computers introduced the Macintosh (1984) " O.J. Simpson's murder trial began (1995) |
| 25 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1759 Robert Burns, poet (Ayrshire, Scotland; died 1796) 1874 W. Somerset Maugham, writer (Paris, France; died 1965) 1882 Virginia Woolf, novelist/critic (London, England; died 1941) 1896 Florence Mills, singer/dancer (Washington, DC; died 1927) 1918 Ernie Harwell, sportscaster (Washington, GA) 1919 Edwin Newman, TV journalist (New York, NY) 1933 Corazon Aquino, former Philippine president (Tarlac, Philippines) 1935 Dean Jones, actor (Morgan County, AL) 1945 Leigh Taylor-Young, actress (Washington, DC) 1958 Dinah Manoff, actress (New York, NY) 1962 Chris Chelios, hockey player (Chicago, IL) " Eduard Shevardnadze " Leo IV (the Khazar) |
" A Room of One's Own Day " Observe the Weather Day " Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul " Old Disting (Norse) " Festival of Constructive Energy " Dinner Party Day " Opposite Day " St. Dwyn's Day (patron of lovers, against sickness in animals) " Aukland Day (New Zealand) " National Irish Coffee Day " St. Gregory of Nazianzus' Day (Eastern) " Robert Burns' Night (Scotland, Newfoundland) " Scots Fest begins " Kitchen God Celebration (China). |
" Edward III crorwnd King of England (1327) |
| 26 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1880 Douglas MacArthur, World War II general (Little Rock, AR; died 1964) 1913 Jimmy Van Heusen, songwriter (Syracuse, NY; died 1990) 1925 Paul Newman, actor/director (Cleveland, OH) 1928 Roger Vadim, filmmaker (Paris, France; died 2000)) 1929 Jules Feiffer, cartoonist (New York, NY) 1935 Bob Uecker, baseball player and sportscaster (Milwaukee, WI) 1942 Scott Glenn, actor (Pittsburgh, PA) 1944 Angela Davis, political activist (Birmingham, AL) 1946 Gene Siskel, film critic (Chicago, IL; died 1999) 1950 David Strathairn, actor (San Francisco, CA) 1957 Eddie Van Halen, musician (Nijmegan, Netherlands) 1958 Anita Baker, singer (Toledo, OH) 1958 Ellen DeGeneres, actress (Metairie, LA) 1961 Wayne Gretzky, hockey player (Brantford, Ontario, Canada) " Philip Jose Farmer " Claude Helveticus " Charles XIV " Nicolae Ceausescu |
" Uphellyaa Day (Scotland) " Australia Day " St. Timothy's Day (patron against stomachaches) " Duarte Day (Dominican Republic) " Republic Day (India) " St. Titus' Day (patron of Crete; against freethinking) " National Popcorn Day " St. Paula's Day (patron of widows) " Gone To Croatan Festival " Smeltania (Boyne City, Michigan) " National Peanut Brittle Day " St. Polycarp's Day " Fond du Lac Winter Celebration (Lake Winebago @) " St. Xenophon's Day (Eastern) " End of the Fifth Quarter of the Ninth Dozen of the Thirteenth Set (Fairy) |
" Brazil discovered by Europeans (1500) " Peru declared independence from Chile (1827) " Michigan became the 26th state (1836) " 1st State Temperance Law passed (Tennessee 1838) " Louisiana seceded from the Union (1861) " Virginia readmitted to the Union (1870) " Khartoum fell (1885) " Internal Combustion Engine patented by Karl Benz (1886) " Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race 1st held (1925) " British Surgeon General linked smoking with cancer; 40 years before US makes same claim (1926) " 1st Convicts arrived in Australia " Hoover 1st calls for "meatless" and wheatless" days to deal with war shortages " Rocky Mountain National Park founded " Worker's Compensation established " 1st Hydrplane flew " 1st Boy Scout Troop organized |
| 27 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer (Salzburg, Austria; died 1791) 1832 Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), children's author and mathematician (Cheshire, England; died 1898) 1850 Samuel Gompers, labor leader and 1st president of the AFL (London, England; died 1924) 1859 William II (Kaiser Wilhelm), German emperor and king of Prussia (Germany; died 1941) 1885 Jerome Kern, composer (New York, NY; died 1945) 1900 Hyman Rickover, admiral known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy" (Russia; died 1986) 1918 Skitch Henderson, bandleader (Halstad, MN) 1931 Mordecai Richler, author (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) 1936 Troy Donahue, actor (New York, NY) 1956 Mimi Rogers, actress (Coral Gables, FL) 1964 Bridget Fonda, actress (Los Angeles, CA) " William Randolph Hearst |
" Punch the Clock Day " National Chocolate Cake Day " Birth of Uncanny Conjunctures " Festival of Root Vibrations " Runic half-month of Peorth ends " St. Angela Merici's Day " Thomas Crapper Day " National Activity Professionals Day " Brussels Lace Day " St. John Chrysostom's Day " Anniversary Day - Auckland, NZ " Republic Day of India |
" Dante exiled from Florence for his politics (1302) |
| 28 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1822 Alexander MacKenzie, Canadian prime minister (Logierait, Perth, Scotland; died 1892) 1841 Henry Morton Stanley, explorer and leader of the expedition to find David Livingstone (Wales; died 1904) 1853 José Julian Marti, Cuban poet and patriot (Havana, Cuba; died 1895) 1887 Arthur Rubinstein, pianist (Poland; died 1982) 1912 Jackson Pollock, painter (Cody, WY; died 1956) 1929 Claes Oldenburg, artist/sculptor (Stockholm, Sweden) 1933 Susan Sontag, author (New York, NY) 1936 Alan Alda, actor (New York, NY) 1948 Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer (Riga, Latvia) 1968 Sarah McLachlan, singer (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 1981 Elijah Wood, actor (Cedar Rapids, IA) " William Burroughs " Claes Oldenberg " Henry VII " Ernie (Sesame Street) |
" Serendipity Day " Daisy Day " National Kazoo Day " Hall of Fame Day " St. Thomas Aquinas's Day (patron of students, pencil makers, theologians) " National Spieling Day " Love Among the Nations Day " Runic half-month of Elhaz (elk) begins " St. Charlemagne's Day " Rwanda Independence Day " Bald Eagle Day " National Blueberry Pancake Day " St. Ephraem Syrus' Day " Fond du Lac Winter Celebration " St. Paulinus of Nola's Day |
" Charlemagne died (814) " 1st Streetlights turned on (London; 1807) " Stendahl's 1st book published (1814) " Trans-Panama Railroad completed (1855) " Paris captured by Prussians (Franco-Prussian War; 1871) " 1st Telephone Switchboard in service (1878) " Japanese troops took Shanghai (1932) " Nuclear Fission discovered (1939) " GM announced Saturn small-car project (1985) " We Are the World recorded (1985) " NASA's Space Shuttle "Challenger" exploded during ascent, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. (1986) " O.J. Simpson trial began (1995) " US Coast Guard established " Great Seal of the US established " 1st Emmy Awards presented " Burma Road opened |
| 29 January | ||
|---|---|---|
| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1737 Thomas Paine, Revolutionary War leader and author (Thetford, England; died 1809) 1843 William McKinley, 25th president of the United States (Niles, OH; died 1901) 1860 Anton Chekhov, playwright and short-story writer (Tapanrog, Ukraine; died 1904) 1880 W. C. Fields, comedian/actor (Philadelphia, PA; died 1946) 1916 Victor Mature, actor (Louisville, KY; died 1999) 1918 John Forsythe, actor (Penns Grove, NJ) 1923 Paddy Chayefsky, playwright/screenwriter (New York, NY; died 1981) 1939 Germaine Greer, feminist writer (Melbourne, Australia) 1945 Tom Selleck, actor (Detroit, MI) 1950 Ann Jillian, actress (Cambridge, MA) 1954 Oprah Winfrey, TV personality (Kosciusko, MS) 1960 Greg Louganis, Olympic champion diver (San Diego, CA) 1968 Edward Burns, actor/director (New York, NY) 1970 Heather Graham, actress (Milwaukee, WI) 1975 Sara Gilbert, actress (Santa Monica, CA) " Emmanuel Sweednbourg " Henry "Light Horse" Lee |
" Feast of Overdue Expectations " Carnation Day " National Puzzle Day " Holiday of the Three Hierarchs (Greece) " National Corn Chip Day " St. Gilda the Wise's Day (patron against dog bites, rabies) " Blue and Pink Day (Fairy) " Weisse Beer Day |
" Victoria Cross instituted (1856) " Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven published (1845) " Kansas became the 34th state (1861) " Internal Combustion Engine patented (1886) " Baseball's American League organized (1900) " Baseball Hall of Fame established. 1st 5 men elected were Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson (1936) " CIA established (1946) " Disney's Sleeping Beauty premiered (1959) " Emily Warner became 1st US woman airline pilot (1973) " Sweden banned use of aerosol cans (1978) " Patty Hearst released from jail after being pardoned by Jimmy Carter (1979) |
| 30 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States (near Hyde Park, NY; died 1945) 1912 Barbara Tuchman, historian/journalist (New York, NY; died 1988) 1923 Dick Martin, comedian (Detroit, MI) 1930 Gene Hackman, actor (San Bernardino, CA) 1933 Louis Rukeyser, TV journalist and financial analyst (New York, NY) 1934 Tammy Grimes, actress (Lynn, MA) 1937 Vanessa Redgrave, actress (London, England) 1937 Boris Spassky, chess champion (Leningrad, USSR) 1951 Phil Collins, singer/songwriter/musician (London, England) 1951 Charles S. Dutton, actor (Baltimore, MD) 1955 Curtis Strange, golfer (Norfolk, VA) 1957 Payne Stewart, golfer (Springfield, MO; died 1999) 1958 Brett Butler, comedian/actress (Montgomery, AL) 1961 Jody Watley, singer (Chicago, IL) 1974 Christian Bale, actor (Pembrokeshire, West Wales) " Mohammed " Georg Dionysius " Asa Gray " Boris III |
" Festival Of Peace " National Croissant Day " Escape Day " St. Martina's Day (patron of nursing mothers) " Bloody Sunday (Northern Ireland) " St. Charles' Day " Puce and Ochre Day (Fairy) " St. Adelelm's Day (patron of menservants) " Bon Soo Winter Carnival (Ontario, Canada) " St. Aldegund's Day (patron against cancer, childhood illness, fever, eye disease, sudden death, wounds) " Three Archbishops Day " St. Bathild's Day (patron of children) " Yodel For Your Neighbors Day " Season For Nonviolence (begins, ends April 4) " Greek Day of Education or Three Hierarchs Day |
" Charles I beheaded by order of Oliver Cromwell (1649) |
| 31 January | ||
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| Birthdays | Holidays | Events |
| 1797 Franz Schubert, composer (Vienna, Austria; died 1828) 1872 Zane Grey, Western novelist (Zanesville, OH; died 1939) 1919 Jackie Robinson, 1st African-American baseball player in the modern major leagues (Cairo, GA; died 1972) 1923 Carol Channing, actress (Seattle, WA) 1923 Norman Mailer, author (Long Branch, NJ) 1929 Jean Simmons, actress (London, England) 1931 Ernie Banks, baseball player (Dallas, TX) 1937 Philip Glass, composer (Baltimore, MD) 1937 Suzanne Pleshette, actress (New York, NY) 1941 Richard Gephardt, Missouri congressman and House minority leader (St. Louis, MO) 1944 Jessica Walter, actress (New York, NY) 1947 Nolan Ryan, baseball pitcher (Refugio, TX) 1956 Johnny Rotten, singer (near London, England) 1971 Minnie Driver, actress (London, England " John O'Hara " Rudolph Wurlitzer " Thomas Merton " Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands |
" Feast of Great Typos " Festival of Brigantia begins " Up Helly AA (Viking Festival) " Festival of Imbolc begins " Nauru Independence Day " Festival of Trasmission Errors " Child Labor Day " St. John Bosco's Day (patron of editors, apprentices) " Valkyries' Day (Norse) " St. Marcella's Day " Kitchen God Visits Heaven (China) " St. Tryphena's Day (patron of nursing mothers) |
" 1st VD Clinic opened (1747) |
Contents on this page gleaned from several resources:
The Weekly Multicultural Calendar Bulletin
The United Nations Calendar
Timelines of History
The Daily Globe archives
The World Almanac for Kids Online
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