Event of Interest
Jan 5 Mao Zedong writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"
Mao Zedong
Meeting of Interest
Jan 5 Bonnie Parker meets Clyde Barrow for the first time at Clarence Clay's house
Bonnie Parker
Clyde Barrow
- Jan 6 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
Donald Bradman
Event of Interest
Jan 9 Albert Kahn Associates architectural firm become consulting architects for all industrial construction in the Soviet Union
Albert Kahn
- Jan 10 Commencement of NZ's 1st Test, v England in Christchurch, New Zealand
- Jan 10 Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England v NZ Christchurch
- Jan 10 Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
- Jan 13 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears
- Jan 15 George Headley scores century on debut v England (made 176)
- Jan 18 -27°F (-33°C), Watts, Oklahoma (state record)
- Jan 18 Dmitri Shostakovitch's satirical opera "The Nose" premieres in Leningrad
- Jan 20 1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit)
- Jan 22 -35°F (-37°C), Mount Carroll, Illinois (state record)
- Jan 23 Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
- Jan 23 George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia established
- Jan 23 WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia SC begins radio transmissions
- Jan 24 J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, NZ v England, Wellington
- Jan 24 Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century
- Jan 25 23rd Women's Australian Championships: Daphne Akhurst Cozens beats Sylvia Lance Harper (10-8, 2-6, 7-5)
- Jan 25 23rd Men's Australian Championships: Edgar Moon beats Harry Hopman (6-3, 6-1, 6-3)
- Jan 26 Cleveland's Terminal Tower opens (52 stories)
- Jan 30 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya" premieres in Leningrad
- Jan 30 The world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR.
- Jan 31 1st US glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst, New Jersey