Events in History
- Jan 3 WPG-AM in Atlantic City NJ consolidates with WBIL & WOV as "new" WOV
- Jan 5 FCC hears the 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal
- Jan 5 Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia
- Jan 6 Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznań, Warthegau.
- Jan 7 Winter War: The Finish 9th Division defeats the Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road despite being significantly outnumbered
- Jan 8 Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar)
- Jan 9 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
- Jan 12 World War II: Soviets bombs cities in Finland.
- Jan 15 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch merchant ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
- Jan 21 Foreign correspondents in Netherlands subjected to censorship
- Jan 25 Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland
- Jan 26 Nazis forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains
- Jan 27 -17°F (-27°C), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record)
- Jan 30 Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race
- Jan 30 Hassett's second 122 of the game for Vic can't stop a NSW win
- Jan 31 C Turney & J Horwin's "My Dear Children" premieres in NYC
Birthdays in History
- Jan 2 S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
- Jan 4 Brian Josephson, Welsh physicist (Nobel Prize, 1973), born in Cardiff, Wales
- Jan 4 Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French novelist and dramatist, Nobel laureate, years), born in Ganzhou, China
- Jan 4 Helmut Jahn, German-American architect who designed the O'Hare United Airlines Terminal and the Thompson Center in Chicago and One Liberty Place in Philadelphia, born in Nuremberg, Germany (d. 2021) [1] [2]
- Jan 5 Michael Rose, British army officer, born in British India
- Jan 5 Yuri Ershov, Russian mathematician, born in Novosibirsk, Russia
- Jan 6 Ed Zschau, American politician (Rep-R-CA, 1983- ), born in Omaha, Nebraska
- Jan 6 Penny Lernoux, American journalist, born in California (d. 1989)
- Jan 9 Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician (President of Switzerland, 1999; Vice-President of Switzerland, 1998), born in St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Jan 10 Guy Chevrette, Quebec politician, born in Québec, Canada
- Jan 10 Ntare VI of Ankole, Omugabe of Nkole
- Jan 13 Edmund White, American author
- Jan 14 Julian Bond, American civil rights leader & politician (D-Ga), born in Nashville Tennessee (d. 2015)
- Jan 17 Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, South African poet (Fireflames)
- Jan 17 Tabaré Vázquez, Uruguayan politician and physician, President of Uruguay (2005-10, 2015-20), born in Montevideo, Uruguay (d. 2020) [1]
- Jan 19 Barend J du Plessis, South African minister of Finance (1984- )
- Jan 19 Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
- Jan 21 Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford, English peer (Woburn Abbey, Country House TV series), born at the Ritz, London (d. 2003)
- Jan 27 Brian T O'Leary, astronaut, born in Boston, Massachusetts
Carlos Slim (83 years old)
Jan 28 Mexican business magnate (América Móvil) once ranked as the richest person in the world, born in Mexico City, Mexico
Weddings in History
Harold Wilson
Jan 1 68th Prime Minister of UK Harold Wilson (23) weds poet Mary Baldwin (23) in the chapel of Mansfield College, Oxford
- Jan 2 Archibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer, linguist and academic and outspoken critic of the South African National Party government's Bantu Education policy, marries Priscilla Phyllis Ntantla.
Deaths in History
- Jan 1 Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer & essayist, dies at 74
- Jan 4 Conrad Weiss, German writer and poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59
- Jan 5 Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (b. 1885)
- Jan 5 Tina Modotti, Italian artist and activist, dies at 45
- Jan 12 Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetiek), dies at 56
- Jan 18 Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer and poet (Young Poland), dies at 74
- Jan 19 William E. Borah, American lawyer and politician (Republican U.S. Senator from Idaho), dies at 74
- Jan 20 Omar Bundy, U.S. Army general (Spanish–American War in Cuba), dies at 78
- Jan 25 Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899)
- Jan 27 Isaak Babel, Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), executed at 46
- Jan 31 René "Sascha" Schickele, German writer (Erbe am Rhein), dies at 56
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