Events in History
- Jan 1 Ellis Island opens as a US immigration inspection station - it would go on to be the gateway to the US for more than 12 million people
- Jan 5 1st successful auroral photograph made
- Jan 7 Mine explosion kills 100 in Krebs, Oklahoma; blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
- Jan 11 Hawaiian Historical Society is founded
- Jan 11 William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia
- Jan 24 Battle of Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries
- Jan 29 The Coca-Cola Company is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia
- Jan 30 Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test
- Jan 30 Capt Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out
Birthdays in History
Manuel Roxas (1892-1948)
Jan 1 5th President of the Philippines (1946-48), born in Capiz, Philippines
- Jan 9 Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985)
- Jan 10 Dumas Malone, American historian (Jefferson & His Time), born in Coldwater, Mississippi (d. 1986)
- Jan 12 Mikhail Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1976)
- Jan 14 Martin Niemöller, German theologian who supported, then opposed the Nazi regime, famous for his widely quoted poem "First they came ...", born in Lippstadt, Germany (d. 1984)
- Jan 15 Rex Ingram [Reginald Hitchcock], Irish director (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1950)
- Jan 18 Paul Rostock, German surgeon, born in Kręcko, Poland (d. 1956)
- Jan 19 Ólafur Thors, Icelandic Prime Minister (5 times between 1942-63), born in Borgarnes, Iceland (d. 1964)
- Jan 22 Marcel Dassault [Bloch], French airplane engineer and manufacturer, born in Paris, France (d. 1986)
Bessie Coleman (1892-1926)
Jan 26 American aviator and 1st African-American woman and Native American to hold a pilot license, born in Atlanta, Texas [1]
- Jan 30 Grigore Gafencu, Romanian Minister of Foreign affairs (1938-39), born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 1957)
Weddings in History
Paul Gauguin
Jan 11 Painter Paul Gauguin marries Teha'amana, a 13-year-old Tahitian girl
Deaths in History
- Jan 1 Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago, dies at 86
- Jan 2 Frederick William Barber, South African frontiersman & scientist, dies at 78
- Jan 2 George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and 7th Astronomer Royal, dies at 90
- Jan 7 Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, German physician and physiologist, dies at 72
- Jan 7 Muḥammad Tawfīq Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (1879-92), dies at 39
- Jan 8 Johannes Heykamp, Dutch Old-Catholic archbishop of Utrecht (The Decalaryion of Utrecht), dies at 67
- Jan 14 Henry Edward Manning, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (Archbishop of Westminster 1865-92), dies at 83
- Jan 14 Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, British prince (b. 1864)
- Jan 16 Imakita Kosen, Zen teacher/abbot of Engagkuji monastery, dies
- Jan 18 Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
- Jan 21 John Couch Adams, English astronomer (co-discover Neptune), dies at 72
- Jan 22 Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813)
- Jan 31 Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist, dies at 57
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