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General events not linked to a date
National Hot Tea Month
National Oatmeal Month
National Slow Cooking Month
National Soup Month
National Baking Month
National Fat-Free Living Month
1 January
National Bloody Mary Day
National Black Eyed Pea Day
1735 Paul Revere’s Birthday (1735 – 1818)
1752 Betsy Ross’s Birthday (1752 – 1836)
1892 Ellis Island Begins As Immigration gateway
1901 The Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed
1912 The Republic of China ( Taiwan ) created
1935 First Orange Bowl Game
1937 Federal Old Age Pensions Started
1942 United Nations Established
1947 Great Britain nationalises Coal mines
1947 Great Britain nationalises Railways
1962 The Beatles turned down by Decca Records
1966 Subway Strike Starts In New York
1973 UK Joins The EEC
1984 AT&T Broken Up
1991Canada introduces the national sales tax
1998 European Central Bank Created
2 January
National Buffet Day
National Cream Puff Day
Cape Town Minstrel Carnival
1929 Influenza Epidemic death toll over 200,000
1971 Ibrox Park stadium Disaster in Glasgow, Scotland
1974 New 55 MPH Speed Limit U.S Wide
2006 Sago Mine Disaster West Virginia
3 January
National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day
1892 J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973)
1926 Pontiac Introduced
1938 March of Dimes Foundation Created
1959 Alaska became the 49th state of the United States of America
1977 Apple Computer is incorporated
2018 Bra Willie, SA poet and political activist, died
4 January
National Spaghetti Day
Perihelion Day
National Trivia Day (U.S.A)
1643 Isaac Newton (1643 – 1727)
1785 Jacob Grimm (1785 – 1863)
1809 Louis Braille (1809 – 1852)
1923 Rosewood Massacre By KKK
1954 Elvis Presley Records First Demo Record
1981 Truck driver Peter Sutcliffe admitted to being the “Yorkshire Ripper,”
2007 Nancy Pelosi is elected as the first female Speaker of the United States Congress
2010 The worlds tallest building Burj Khalifa 2,716ft high with 160 floors opens in Dubai
5 January
National Whipped Cream Day
1896 X-ray Discovered
1914 Henry Ford introduces $5.00 per day wages for all his Ford workers.
1933 Work is started on The Golden Gate Bridge across the San Francisco Bay.
2009 Europe Gas Supplies Affected By Russia – Ukraine Dispute
6 January
National Shortbread Day
National Bean Day
Dia De Reyes / Epiphany / Three Kings Day
1412 Joan of Arc (1412 – 1431
1854 Sherlock Holmes Birthday
1920 The Yankees bought Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox
1994 Skater Nancy Kerrigan was about to speak to reporters in Detroit, Michigan when she was suddenly attacked
7 January
National Tempura Day
1953 President Harry Truman announced the U.S. has developed a hydrogen bomb (H-Bomb)
8 January
National English Toffee Day
National Bubble Bath Day
1935 Elvis Presley (1935 – 1977)
1941 Great Britain introduces Food Rationing using ration books
1942 Stephen Hawkins (1942)
1945 West Germany Handover by the Soviet Union
1961 Algeria Gains Independence From France
1964 President Lyndon Johnson Declares “War On Poverty”
2002 President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act
9 January
National Apricot Day
Coming of Age Day in Japan
Clean Off Your Desk Day
1913 Nixon’s Birthday (1913 – 1994 )
1958 Toyota and Datsun first appearances in the United States
1972 British miners first national strike for almost 50 years.
2007 Apple introduces the 4.5 inch X 2.4 inch Apple iPhone
10 January
National Bittersweet Chocolate Day
1944 GI Bill Signed Into Law
1946 The first General Assembly of the United Nations Meeting
1964 “Introducing the Beatles,” the first Beatles Album is released in the US
1985 Sinclair C5 electric tricycle Goes On Sale in Britain
11 January
National Hot Toddy Day
National Milk Day
1903 Alan Paton, author of Cry the Beloved Country, was born
1922 First Diabetic Treated with Insulin
12 January
National Marzipan Day
National Curried Chicken Day
National Glazed Doughnut Day
1737 John Hancock (1737 – 1793)
2010 Haiti hit by massive magnitude 7.0 earthquake
13 January
National Gluten-Free Day
National Peach Melba Day
1935 Amelia Earhart flew solo across the Pacific
1957 P Wham-O Company Begins Making the Pluto Platter / Frisbee
1968 Johnny Cash performs live for the second time at Folsom Prison “Johnny Cash at At Folsom Prison Album”
14 January
National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day
1934 Loch Ness Monster Spotted
1942 President Roosevelt signed the War Department’s blanket Executive Order 9066
1952 “Today” Program Begins on NBC
1954 Marilyn Monroe marries Joe DeMaggio
1981 IRAN / U.S. Hostage Crisis Ends
15 January
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day
National Strawberry Ice Cream Day
Hat Day (in the U.S.A.)
1909 Automobile hearse was used first time in a funeral procession
1929 Martin Luther King Jr birthday (1929 – 1968)
1936 Henry Ford established the Ford Foundation
1943 The Pentagon headquarters of the Department of Defense Completed
1967 In the first Super Bowl The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in Los Angeles
1997 Princess Diana angers defence ministers around the world after calling for an immediate international ban on landmines
2009 Flight 1549 Crashes In Hudson River
2018 Dolores O’Riordan, lead singer of The Cranberries, died at age 46
16 January
National Fig Newton Day
International Hot and Spicy Food Day
National Nothing Day in the U.S.A
Poetry Break Day
1932 Dian Fossey (1932 – 1985)
1991 Operation Desert Storm Begins Against Iraq Occupation of Kuwait
2003 Space Shuttle Columbia was launched on its final mission
2009 Bank Of America Bail Out BY US Government
17 January
National Hot Buttered Rum Day
1706 Benjamin Franklin’s Birthday (1706 – 1790)
1949 First Volkswagen Beetle in the U.S. arrived from Germany
1950 The Great Brinks Robbery
1983 Breakfast TV Launched IN UK
18 January
National Gourmet Coffee Day
Peking Duck Day
Thesaurus Day (U.S.A.)
1882: A.A. Milne’s Birthday (1882 – 1956)
1910 Scott reaches the South Pole (1910)
1967 The Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo was sentenced to life in prison
1991 Iraq attacks Tel Aviv, and Haifa, with Scud missiles
2010 Death Toll Raised to 200,000 Following Haiti Earthquake
19 January
National Popcorn Day
1839 Paul Cezanne’s Birthday (1839 – 1906)
1920 Palmer Raids round up 4,000 Radical Leftists in the United States
1966 Indira Gandhi becomes head of the Congress Party and prime minister of India
1983 Klaus Barbie ( the Butcher of Lyon ) is arrested in Bolivia and extradited to France
1983 Apple announces “The Apple Lisa” the first commercial personal computer to have a graphical user interface GUI and a computer mouse
20 January
National Buttercrunch Day
National Cheese Lover’s Day
National Cheese Day (U.S.A)
Penguin Appreciation Day
1930 Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin’s Birthday (1930)
1920 Prohibition takes effect stopping the sale and consumption of alcohol when the 18th Amendment went into effect
1961 John F. Kennedy, took the oath of office
1981 Iran released 52 weary American hostages, who were held for 444 days
21 January
National Granola Bar Day
National New England Clam Chowder Day
1954 US launched the world’s first atomic submarine, Nautilus
1976 The First Concordes with commercial passengers take off From London’s Heathrow Airport and Paris Orly Airport
2008 Black Monday in worldwide stock markets
2010 Toyota recalls 2.3 million cars in the United States
22 January
National Blonde Brownie Day
National Southern Food Day
1901 Queen Victoria passed away in the Osborne House on the Isle of Wight
1920 New “Dry Bill” (Alcohol Prohibition) being Introduced to Congress
1970 The Boeing 747 makes its first commercial passenger trip to London
1984 New Apple Macintosh computer was first displayed during the Super Bowl.
2002 Kmart Corp files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
2010 The stock market lost nearly 3.0% in 2 days and banking sector drops up to 5.0%
23 January
National Pie Day
National Rhubarb Pie Day
Chinese New Year
National Hand Writing Day (U.S.A.)
1922 Insulin First Used
1933 The 20th Amendment to the US Constitution Is Ratified
1961 Luxury Portuguese cruise liner Santa Maria is hijacked by terrorists
1964 The 24th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is Ratified
1973 US president, Richard Nixon, appears on national television to announce “peace with honour” in Vietnam.
1977 The Alex Haley book “Roots” is turned into a TV mini-series
24 January
National Peanut Butter Day
Lobster Thermidor Day
1935 First Canned Beer Sold
1989 The serial killer Ted Bundy was electrocuted
2003 United States Department of Homeland Security officially began operating
25 January
National Irish Coffee Day
1759 Robert Burns Birthday (1759-1796)
1924 first Winter Olympics games took place in the French Alps
1933 New Hourly Wage Rate set at 35 cents per hour
1960 Payola Scandal Comes To Light
1964 The Beatles get their first number one with “I Want To Hold Your Hand” on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
2005 Mandher Devi Temple Stampede
26 January
National Peanut Brittle Day
Australia Day
1939 Nationalists enters Barcelona Spanish Civil War
1945 Soviet troops enter Auschwitz, Poland,
1950 India Formally becomes a republic
1998 President Bill Clinton appears on American Television and denies having “sexual relations” with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky
2005 Condoleezza Rice appointed to the post of secretary of state
2009 Iceland Banking System Collapses
27 January
Holocaust Memorial Day
National Chocolate Cake Day
1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
1832 Lewis Carroll’s birthday (1832 – 1898)
1926 John Logie Baird, gives the first public demonstration of a television system in London
1938 Honeymoon Bridge across Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada collapses
1944 Siege of Leningrad Broken after 872 days
1974 The Brisbane River Floods causing much of the city to flood
28 January
National Blueberry Pancake Day
1912 Jackson Pollock (1912 – 1956)
1978 First Episode of Fantasy Island Aired on Television
1986 The space shuttle Challenger explodes just after liftoff
29 January
National Corn Chip Day
Puzzle Day
1886 patent was given to Karl Benz for the motorized wagon with an internal combustion engine
1959 Disney releases the animated film Sleeping Beauty to theatres
30 January
National Croissant Day
1882 Theodore Roosevelt (1882 – 1945)
1931 Banks Go Bust by the thousands following losses during the Wall Street Crash
1948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
1968 The Viet Cong launched the Tet Offensive
1969 The Beatles make their last public performance giving an impromptu concert on the roof of the London recording studio.
1977 The Roots Part VIII finale episode is aired on ABC
31 January
National Hot Chocolate Day
Backwards Day
1797 Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
1919 Jackie Robinson (1919 – 1972)
1953 The Great Storm Strikes Netherlands England and Belgium
