Events in History
Theater Premiere
Jan 10 Henrik Ibsen's play "John Gabriel Borkman" premieres in Helsingfors
- Jan 10 Ukrainian bacteriologist Wademar Haffkine performs the first human trial for a vaccine for the plague on himself during the Bombay epidemic
- Jan 11 M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in US (Utah)
- Jan 14 6,960 m (22,834 ft) Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) 1st climbed by European expedition led by British mountaineer Edward FitzGerald
Event of Interest
Jan 16 John Dewey's essay "My Pedagogic Creed" appears in School Journal
- Jan 23 Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Resulting murder trial of her husband perhaps only case in US history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
- Jan 26 Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army
- Jan 27 British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana)
Birthdays in History
- Jan 8 Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)
- Jan 9 Karl Löwith, German philosopher, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1973)
- Jan 11 August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (d. 1979)
- Jan 12 Hendrik Valk, Dutch painter, cartoonist and graphic artist (d. 1986)
- Jan 14 Hasso von Manteuffel, German WWII general (5th Panzer Army) and politician, born in Potsdam, Germany (d. 1978)
- Jan 15 Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (d. 1931)
- Jan 16 Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet, born in Villahermosa, Tabasco (d. 1977)
- Jan 17 Marcel Petiot, French mass murderer (d. 1946)
- Jan 21 René Iché, French sculptor (d. 1954)
- Jan 23 Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2000)
- Jan 23 Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian politician & nationalist, born in Cuttack, British India (d. 1945)
- Jan 28 Valentin Kataev, novelist/playwright (Embezzled), born in Odessa Ukraine (d. 1986)
Deaths in History
Isaac Pitman (1813-1897)
Jan 12 English teacher and inventor of Pitman shorthand (Stenographic Soundhand), dies at 84
- Jan 29 John E. Smith, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), dies at 80
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