Events in History
- Jan 4 Sofia is emancipated from Ottoman rule.
Event of Interest
Jan 8 Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent & Henry Morton Stanley
- Jan 9 Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
- Jan 10 US Senate proposes female suffrage
- Jan 14 US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional [1]
- Jan 16 Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule
- Jan 24 Revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, Governor of Saint Petersburg
- Jan 28 George Coy, Herrick Frost, and Walter Lewis open first commercial telephone exchange, in New Haven, Connecticut [1]
- Jan 28 Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
Birthdays in History
- Jan 1 Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer (d. 1929)
- Jan 4 Alfred Edgar Coppard, English short story writer (Black Dogs & Other Stories), born in Folkestone, England (d. 1957)
- Jan 4 Augustus John, Welsh painter (d. 1961)
- Jan 6 Carl Sandburg, American poet & biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes), born in Galesburg, Illinois (d. 1967)
- Jan 9 John B. Watson, American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, born in Travelers Rest, South Carolina (d. 1958)
- Jan 11 Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general and dictator (1926), born in Salamis, Greece (d. 1952)
- Jan 12 Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian American playwright (A Pal Utrai Fiuk) and novelist (The Paul Street Boys), born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (d. 1952)
- Jan 13 Lionel Groulx, Canadian nationalist, born in Vaudreuil, Quebec, Canada (d. 1967)
- Jan 14 Victor Segalen, French naval doctor & writer, born in Brest, France (d. 1919)
- Jan 18 Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, born in Ostend, Belgium (d. 1951)
- Jan 23 Oton Zupancic, Slovenian poet (Zimzelen pod Snegom), born in Vinica, Črnomelj, Slovenia (d. 1949)
- Jan 25 Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-American television pioneer (Alexanderson alternator), born in Uppsala, Sweden (d. 1975) [1]
- Jan 30 Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (Truth and Justice), born in Vetepere, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire (d. 1940)
- Jan 31 Willem van Eysinga, Dutch jurist and diplomat (Paris Peace Conference), born in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands (d. 1961)
Deaths in History
Victor Emmanuel II (1820-1878)
Jan 9 King of Sardinia (1849-61) and Italy (1861-78), dies at 57
- Jan 18 Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist who pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena, dies at 89
- Jan 19 Henri V. Regnault, French physicist and chemist, dies at 67
- Jan 26 Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (one of the founders of experimental psychology), dies at 82
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