Historical Events
- Jan 1 Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto
- Jan 1 Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as GM
- Jan 1 President Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey"
- Jan 1 21st Rose Bowl: Alabama beats Stanford, 29-13
- Jan 1 1st Sugar Bowl: Tulane beats Temple, 20-14
- Jan 1 1st Orange Bowl: Bucknell beats Miami (FL), 26-0
Murder of Interest
Jan 2 Bruno Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby
Charles Lindbergh
Agreement of Interest
Jan 7 French Foreign minister Pierre Laval and Benito Mussolini sign the Franco-Italian Agreement
Benito Mussolini
Pierre Laval
- Jan 8 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
Event of Interest
Jan 11 Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland Ca (non-stop, of course)
Amelia Earhart
- Jan 13 Plebiscite in Saar indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany
- Jan 14 Iraq-Mediterranean oil pipeline goes into use
- Jan 14 Australian Championships Women's Tennis, Melbourne: In an all-British final Dorothy Round Little defeats Nancy Lyle 1-6, 6-1, 6-3
- Jan 14 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Home favourite Jack Crawford wins his 4th Australian title; beats Fred Perry of England 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
- Jan 15 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition
- Jan 15 Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" premieres in NYC
- Jan 19 KLM begins flight path between Curacao & Aruba
- Jan 19 Coopers Inc. sells the world's first men's briefs in Chicago, calls it the "Jockey"
- Jan 21 12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Washington (state record)
- Jan 21 WFI-AM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ)
- Jan 21 The Wilderness Society is founded by conservationists
Beer in a Can
Jan 24 1st canned beer, "Krueger's Cream Ale," is sold by American company Krueger Brewing Co.
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- Jan 28 Iceland becomes 1st western country to legalize abortion
Meeting of Interest
Jan 30 Ezra Pound meets Benito Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"
Ezra Pound
Famous Birthdays
Floyd Patterson
Jan 4 Floyd Patterson, American boxer (world heavyweight champion 1956-59, 1960-62, Olympic gold 1952), born in Waco, North Carolina (d. 2006)
Floyd Patterson
- Jan 4 Kenneth Money, Canadian astronaut (STS 42-alt)
- Jan 5 Nancy L. Johnson, American politician (Rep-R-CT, 1983- ), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Jan 6 Nino Tempo, American rock vocalist (Deep Purple), born in Niagara Falls, New York
- Jan 6 Paul Wilson, American R&B-singer (Flamingos-Lovers Never Say Goodbye)
- Jan 6 Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria, born in Madrid, Spain
- Jan 7 Noam Sheriff, composer
- Jan 7 Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 19, 36/35), (d. 2014)
- Jan 7 Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)
- Jan 7 Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006)
Elvis Presley
Jan 8 Elvis Presley, American singer and King of Rock and Roll (Blue Suede Shoes, Hounddog), born in Tupelo Mississippi (d. 1977)
Elvis Presley
- Jan 8 Jesse Garon Presley, American stillborn twin brother of Elvis Presley, born in Tupelo, Mississippi (d. 1935)
- Jan 8 Nolan Miller, American fashion & jewellery designer (Dynasty, Love Boat), born in Burkburnett, Texas (d. 2012)
- Jan 8 Ian Bargh, Scottish-born Canadian jazz pianist and composer, born in Prestwick, Scotland (d. 2012)
Bob Denver
Jan 9 Bob Denver, American actor (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island), born in New Rochelle, New York (d. 2005)
Bob Denver
- Jan 9 Richard "Dick" Enberg, American sportscaster (NBC, CBS, ESPN), born in Mt Clemens, Michigan (d. 2017)
- Jan 9 Buddy Scott, American blues guitarist, born in Goodman, Mississippi (d. 1994)
- Jan 9 Earl G. Graves, Sr., American businessman & publisher, born in Brooklyn, New York
- Jan 9 Brian Harradine, Australian politician, born in Quorn, Australia (d. 2014)
- Jan 10 Georg Katzer, German composer, born in Bystrzyca Kłodzka, Poland
- Jan 10 Sherrill Milnes, American operatic baritone, born in Downers Grove, Illinois
- Jan 10 Ronnie Hawkins, American musician, born in Huntsville, Arkansas
- Jan 10 Eddy Clearwater [Edward Harrington], American blues musician (West Side Strut), born in Macon, Mississippi (d. 2018)
- Jan 11 Chuck Barksdale, American singer (Dells-I Can Sing a Rainbow)
- Jan 11 Ghita Nørby, Danish actress
- Jan 11 Melvyn Hayes [Melvyn Hyams], English actor (Gunner "Gloria Beaumont in 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum'), born in London, England
- Jan 12 Kreskin, American mentalist, born in Montclair, New Jersey
- Jan 12 Ron Harper, American actor (Wendy & Me, Planet of the Apes), born in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania
- Jan 12 William Lee Gloden, American country music singer (Oak Ridge Boys), born in Brewton, Alabama
- Jan 13 Mauro Forghieri, Italian automotive & mechanical engineer (Scuderia Ferrari)
- Jan 14 Lucille Wheeler, Canadian alpine skier, born in Mont-Tremblant, Canada
- Jan 15 Malcolm Frager, American pianist, born in St. Louis, Missouri
- Jan 15 Robert Silverberg, American sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan's Planet)
A. J. Foyt
Jan 16 A. J. Foyt, American racing driver (Indy 500 - 1961, 64, 67 & 77), born in Houston, Texas
A. J. Foyt
- Jan 17 Paul O[sborne] Williams, American sci-fi author (Ends of the Circle)
- Jan 17 Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware
- Jan 18 Raymond Briggs, English author (Fungus the Bogeyman)
- Jan 18 Jon Stallworthy, English poet
- Jan 18 Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister (d. 2007)
- Jan 19 [Augustus] Owsley Stanley III, American audio engineer and LSD cook who worked with the Grateful Dead, born in Kentucky (d. 2011)
- Jan 20 Joan Weston, American Roller Derby Queen, born in Huntington Beach, California (d. 1997)
- Jan 21 Ann Wedgeworth, actress (Tiger's Tale, Men's Club, Bogie), born in Abilene, Texas
- Jan 22 Pierre S Du Pont IV, (gov-Del)
- Jan 22 Seymour Cassel, actor (Faces, Plain Clothes, Valentino), born in Detroit, Michigan
- Jan 24 Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (d. 2008)
- Jan 24 Bamber Gascoigne, English television presenter (University Challenge), born in London
- Jan 25 António Ramalho Eanes, 17th President of Portugal, born in Castelo Branco Municipality, Portugal
- Jan 25 Conrad Burns, American politician (Senate-R-Montana 1989-2007), born in Gallatin, Missouri (d. 2016)
- Jan 26 Bob Uecker, catcher/actor (Mr Belvedere), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Jan 26 Henry Jordan, Emporia Va, NFL defensive tackle (Cleveland, Green Bay)
- Jan 26 Peter Ronnefeld, German composer and conductor (Die Nachtausgabe), born in Dresden, Germany (d. 1965)
- Jan 26 Zbigniew Penherski, composer
- Jan 27 Gillian Beer, professor/president (Clare Hall-Cambridge)
- Jan 28 David John Lodge, British writer and literary critic (Soul & Bodies), born in London, England
- Jan 28 Leonid Grabovsky, composer
- Jan 28 Manuel dos Santos Lima, Angolian revolutionary/poet (Pele do Diabo)
- Jan 28 Nicholas Pryor, American actor (The Hunger Games), born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Jan 30 Richard Brautigan, novelist/poet (Trout Fishing in America), born in Tacoma, Washington
- Jan 30 John George Hughes, British academic and 9th bishop of Kensington (1987-1994), born in England (d. 1994)
- Jan 30 Martin Taylor, former vice-chairman, Hanson
- Jan 30 Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress (Indian Fighter), born in Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy (d. 2017)
- Jan 31 Bojidar Dimov, composer
- Jan 31 Oe Kenzaburo, Japanese novelist (Catch, Personal Matter)
- Jan 31 Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize for Literature 1994, born in Ōse, Japan
Famous Deaths
Teddy Flack
Jan 10 Teddy Flack [Edwin], Australian athlete, double Olympic gold medallist in 1896, dies at 61
Teddy Flack
- Jan 14 Heinrich Schenker, Austrian musicologist (Urlinie) know for his Schenkerian analysis of music, dies at 66
- Jan 16 Richard Wetz, German composer (Requiem Op. 50 in B minor), dies of lung cancer at 59
- Jan 16 Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
- Jan 22 Horace Rawlins, English golfer (US Open 1895), dies at 60
- Jan 28 Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer, dies at 75