January
January is: National Soup Month
| January 1 | New Year's Day Ellis Island Opened - 1892 Birthday of Paul Revere - 1735-1818 Birthday of Betsy Ross - 1752-1836 Birthday of Anthony Wayne - 1745-1796 |
| January 2 | Georgia Ratified
U.S. Constitution - 1788 Birthday of Isaac Asimov - 1920-1992 |
| January 3 | Birthday of Author
J.R.R. Tolkien - 1892-1973 Birthday of Lucretia Mott - 1793-1880 |
| January 4 | Birthday of
Louis Braille - 1809-1852 Birthday of General Tom Thumb - 1838-1883 |
| January 5 | Birthday of George
Washington Carver - 1860-1943 Birthday of Stephen Decatur - 1779-1820 |
| January 6 | Epiphany
or Tweflth Day Birthday of Joan of Arc - 1412-1431 |
| January 7 | Birthday of President Millard Fillmore - 1800-1874 |
| January 8 | Battle of New Orleans - 1815 |
| January 9 | Birthday of Richard M. Nixon - 1913-1994 |
| January 10 | Death of
"Buffalo Bill" Cody
- 1846-1917 League of Nations Established - 1920 |
| January 11 | Amelia Earhart Began Solo Flight - 1935 Birthday of Alexander Hamilton - 1755-1804 |
| January 12 | Birthday of Ira
Hamilton Hayes - 1922-1955 Birthday of Jack London - 1876-1916 |
| January 13 | Invention of the Frisbee
in 1957 Stephen Foster Memorial Day |
| January 14 | Continental Congress Ratified
Treaty of Paris - 1784 Birthday of Benedict Arnold - 1741-1801 |
| January 15 | Queen Elizabeth I Crowned 1559 Pentagon Completed - 1943 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. - 1929-1968 |
| January 16 | National Nothing Day |
| January 17 | Birthday of Benjamin Franklin - 1706-1790 |
| January 18 | James Cook Discovered Hawaiian Islands - 1778 |
| January 19 | Confederate
Memorial Day Birthday of Robert E. Lee - 1807-1870 |
| January 20 | Birthday of Richard Henry Lee - 1732-1794 |
| January 21 |
Traffic
Light Invented - 1923 Birthday of Stonewall Jackson - 1824-1863 |
| January 22 | Birthday of George Gordon Byron - 1788-1824 |
| January 23 | Birthday of Elizabeth
Blackwell - 1821-1910 Birthday of John Hancock - 1737-1793 |
| January 24 | Gold Discovered by James Marshal in California - 1848 |
| January 25 | Shay's Rebellion - 1786 |
| January 26 | Birthday Bessie Coleman - 1893-1926 |
| January 27 | Apollo I Spacecraft Fire |
| January 28 | Anniversary of the
Great Seal of the
United States - 1782 Coast Guard Created - 1915 |
| January 29 |
American Baseball League Organized - 1900 First Baseball Hall of Fame Members Selected - 1936 Birthday of President William McKinley - 1843-1901 |
| January 30 | Death of
Osceola - 1838 Assassination of Mohandas Gandhi - 1869-1948 Birthday of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 1882-1942 |
| January 31 | Birthday of Author Zane Gray - 1875-1939 |