Historic Event
Jan 23 Eugene O'Neill's "Great God Brown" premieres in NYC
Film & TV History
Jan 26 John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of television in his laboratory in London
- Jan 27 US Senate agrees to join World Court
Historic Publication
Jan 27 Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his theory of wave mechanics and presents what becomes known as the Schrödinger equation in quantum mechanics