Historical Events
- Jan 1 DW Griffith shows "Clansman" at a sneak preview
- Jan 1 Jews of Laibach Austria expelled
- Jan 4 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho
- Jan 4 Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops
- Jan 9 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated in San Francisco
- Jan 11 Jacob Ruppert and Colonel Tillinghast Huston purchase the New York Yankees for $460,000, Ruppert pays his portion in cash
- Jan 12 US House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women right to vote
- Jan 13 Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800
- Jan 13 Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, presents plan for assault on Dardanelles
- Jan 15 Japan claims economic control of China
- Jan 15 Sydney, Kern & Smith's musical "Love o' Mike" premieres in NYC
- Jan 16 Congress authorizes $1 & $50 Panama-Pacific Intl Expo gold coin
- Jan 17 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's Hospital in Amsterdam opens
- Jan 17 Russia occupies Bukovina & Western Ukraine
Victory in Battle
Jan 17 Battle of Sarikamish ends with a Russian victory over Ottoman forces led by Enver Pasha with loss of over 30,000 men of the Turkish Third Army during Caucasus Campaign
Enver Pasha
- Jan 18 Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die
- Jan 18 Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
- Jan 19 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die
- Jan 19 Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude
- Jan 21 Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
- Jan 24 German-British sea battle at Dogger Bank & Helgoland
Event of Interest
Jan 25 Alexander Graham Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco
Alexander Graham Bell
- Jan 25 Giordano, Sardou & Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gêne" premieres in NYC
- Jan 25 Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (NY to San Francisco)
- Jan 26 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, is established
- Jan 27 US Marines occupy Haiti
- Jan 28 1st US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)
- Jan 28 The United States Coast Guard is created by merging the US Life Saving Service & the US Revenue Cutter Service
Event of Interest
Jan 28 US President Woodrow Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates
Woodrow Wilson
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 1 Francois Bondy, writer
- Jan 1 Lewis Bingham Keeble, town planner
- Jan 2 John Hope Franklin, historian
- Jan 3 Jack Levine, American social realist painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2015),
- Jan 5 Mabel Leigh, British potter (Shorter and Son), born in Coatesville, Indiana (d. 1971)
- Jan 5 Uta Graf, singer/teacher
- Jan 5 Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian-born cartographer, born in Montreal, Canada (d. 2004)
- Jan 6 Alan Watts, British-American philosopher (Book on the Taboo), born in Chislehurst, United Kingdom (d. 1973)
- Jan 6 Don Edwards, American politician and civil rights champion (Rep-D-CA, 1963-94), born in San Jose, California (d. 2015)
- Jan 6 John C. Lilly, U.S. psychoanalyst & writer, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 2001)
- Jan 7 Herman Musaph, Dutch psychiatrist/sexologist/founder (NVSH)
- Jan 8 Walker Cooper, American baseball player, born in Atherton, Missouri (d. 1991)
- Jan 9 Anita Louise, American actress (The Little Princess, Gorilla, My Friend Flicka), born in NYC, New York (d. 1970)
- Jan 9 Fernando Lamas, Argentine American actor and director (Lost World, You look marvelous), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1982)
- Jan 10 Dean Dixon, American conductor, born in Harlem, New York (d. 1975)
- Jan 11 Veda Ann Borg, American model and actress (Kid Galahad, Avalanche, Accomplice), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1973)
- Jan 11 Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier, co-founder Special Air Service (d. 1955)
- Jan 12 Ernest Armstrong, British politician (L) & teacher, born in Stanley, County Durham (d. 1996)
- Jan 12 Frank Annunzio, American politician (Rep-D-IL, 1965- ), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2001)
- Jan 12 Roy Ralston, British pilot, born in Moss Side, Manchester
- Jan 12 Martin Agronsky, American journalist (1952 Peabody, 1961 DuPont-Columbia), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1999)
- Jan 12 Paul Jarrico, American writer, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1997)
- Jan 12 Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Catholic archbishop of Ottawa, born in Saint-François-de-Madawaska, Canada (d. 2013)
- Jan 13 Edward Frederick Weston Goodman, property developer
- Jan 14 Andre Frossard, Catholic columnist, born in Saint-Maurice-Colombier, France (d. 1995)
- Jan 14 Mark Goodson, American game show producer, born in Sacramento, California (d. 1992)
- Jan 18 Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
- Jan 19 Alvy West, American orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Jan 20 C. W. Ceram, German/ journalist & author (March of Archaeology), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1972)
- Jan 20 Joe Hitchcock, darts player (leader of St Dunstan's Four)
- Jan 20 Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan, born in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (d. 2006)
- Jan 21 Alan Hewitt, American actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian), born in NYC, New York (d. 1986)
- Jan 22 Tom Burtt, cricketer (slow left-armer took 33 wickets for NZ)
- Jan 23 Herma Bauma, Austrian javelin thrower (Olympic gold 1948), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2003)
- Jan 23 Potter Stewart, United States Supreme Court justice (1958-81), born in Jackson, Michigan (d. 1985)
- Jan 24 Robert B Motherwell, American painter (Elegies to the Spanish Republic)
- Jan 24 Vitezslava Kapralova, composer
- Jan 25 Michael Duane, British progressive educationalist & author, born in Galway, Ireland (d. 1997)
- Jan 25 Ewan MacColl, Scottish folk singer-songwriter (The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face), born in Broughton, United Kingdom (d. 1989)
- Jan 26 William Hopper, American actor (Perry Mason, The Bad Seed, Rebel Without a Cause), born in NYC, New York (d. 1970)
- Jan 27 Jack Brymer, clarinetist
- Jan 29 Frederic Ramsey Jr, folklorist/author
- Jan 29 Halfdan Rasmussen, Danish poet/WWII resistance fighter (Skoven)
- Jan 29 John Serry, Sr., American musician and arranger (d. 2003)
- Jan 30 Dorothy Dell [Goff], American child actress (Little Miss Marker, Wharf Angel), born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi (d. 1934)
- Jan 30 Pierre Wissmer, Swiss composer/theory (Capitaine Bruno)
- Jan 30 John Profumo, British cabinet minister (Profumo scandal), born in London, England (d. 2006)
- Jan 30 Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976, by assassination)
- Jan 31 Bobby Hackett, American jazz cornetist and orchestra leader (Air time '57), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 1976)
- Jan 31 Garry Moore, [Thomas Garrison Morfit], Balt, host (I've Got a Secret)
Thomas Merton
Jan 31 Thomas Merton, French-American Catholic writer and Trappist monk (7 Story Mountain), born in Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
Thomas Merton
Famous Deaths
- Jan 2 Karl Goldmark, Austria-Hungarian composer (Queen of Saba), dies at 84
- Jan 3 James E Flecker, British diplomat/novelist (Hassan), dies at 30
- Jan 6 Reginald Wood, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1886), dies
- Jan 13 Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
- Jan 14 Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
- Jan 15 Guillaume Couture, composer, dies at 63
- Jan 15 Fannie Farmer, American culinary pioneer who revolutionised modern cooking through the introduction of precise measurements (Boston Cooking-School Cook Book), dies of complications of a stroke at 57
- Jan 28 Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist and mathematician known for discovering the Umov-Poynting vector and Umov effect, dies at 68