January

January is the first month of the year having 31 days. Name comes from the Latin (mensis) Januarius, the month of the Roman goddess Janus. January's birthstone is garnet and its flower is carnation.

1

AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984
The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970)
Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba
Castro expells Cuban President Batista, 1959
Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947
First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902
Independence Day in Haiti, Sudan
Universal Fraternity Day in Mozambique
Country Joe McDonald is born in El Monte, California, 1942

2

Ancestry Day in Haiti
St. Berchtold's Day in Switzerland

3

Apple Computer founded, 1977
New Year's Holiday in Scotland
Revolution Day in Upper Volta
Steven Stills is born in Dallas, 1945

4

Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
Independence Day in Burma
Martyrs' Day in Zaire
Jazz great Charlie Mingus dies at 57 in Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1979

5

The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
Twelfth Night

6

Epiphany
Millard Fillmore's birthday
Children's Day in Uruguay
Three Kings' Day in Puerto Rico

7

Christmas in Ethiopia
Pioneer's Day in Liberia

8

American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982
Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889
U.S. Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982
Battle of New Orleans, 1812
David Bowie (then David Robert Jones) is born in London, 1947

9

Plough Monday
Day of the Martyrs in Panama
James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin) is born in Middlesex, England, 1945

10

First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960
First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946
Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776
Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf dies in Chicago, 1976
Jim Croce is born in Philadelphia, 1943
Pat Benatar is born on Long Island, 1952
Rod Stewart is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1945

11

Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania
De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico
Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878
Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
U.S. Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963
Armed Forces Day in Liberia

12

Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania

13

National Liberation Day in Togo
Eric Clapton plays the "Rainbow Concert" in London, 1973

14

The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967

15

Adults' Day in Japan
Arbor Day in Jordan

16

Set uid bit patent issued to Dennis Ritchie, 1979
Prohibition begins in United States, 1920
Martyrs' Day in Benin

17

Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it 01.08.82)
Led Zeppelin's first album is released, 1969

18

Grey whale migration, California
Revolution Day in Tunisia

19

Confederate Heroes' Day in Texas
Ethopian Epiphany in Ethiopia
Nameday of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus
Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, 1943

20

St. Agnes Eve
Army Day in Mali
National Heroes Day in Guinea-Bissau

21

Our Lady of Altagracia in Dominican Republic

22

Sam Cooke is born in Chicago, 1935

23

Feast of St. Ildefonsus
National Handwriting Day

24

DG Nova introduced, 1969
Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848
Economic Liberation Day in Togo
Warren Zevon is born, 1947

25

First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958
Bob Dylan plays the second "Hurricane" benefit, in the Astrodome, 1978

26

EDVAC demonstrated, 1952
Sydney, Australia settled, 1778
Republic Day in India

27

Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967
Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Bland) is born in Tennessee, 1930
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in Salzburg, 1756

28

First ski tow, Woodstock Vermont, 1914
Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 74 seconds after liftoff killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka, and McAuliffe, 1986
Jimi Hendrix headlines Madison Square Garden, 1970

29

Oprah Winfrey is born, 1954

30

Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948
Tet Offensive, 1968
Australia Day in Australia
Lightnin' Hopkins, the most-recorded blues artist ever, dies, 1982

31

Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
"Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961
Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered
Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp
The Grateful Dead are busted in New Orleans, 1970

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