Events in History
- Jan 2 30 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff and falls 400 ft in Malshej Ghat, India
Event of Interest
Jan 2 Raúl Castro gives a speech commemorating the 55th anniversary of the Cuban revolution and warns of "neo-liberal and neo-colonial thinking" entering the country
Raúl Castro
- Jan 3 Cambodian garment workers go on strike demanding a wage increase
- Jan 3 Tommy Lynn Sells is executed at Texas State Penitentiary, Huntsville, for the murder of nine-year-old Mary Perez, thought to have committed 21 more murders
- Jan 4 14 people are killed after a three-story building construction site collapses in Goa, India
Event of Interest
Jan 6 Truce begins between Free Syrian Army and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in northern Damascus
Bashar al-Assad
- Jan 7 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wins re-election in Bangladesh general election
- Jan 9 5 people are killed in a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant, Yokkaichi, Japan
- Jan 9 Taliban suicide car bomb assassinates senior police officer Chaudhry Aslam and kills three others in Pakistan, Pakistan
- Jan 13 14 people are killed and 7 are injured after an explosion in an illegal gambling hall in Kaili City, China
- Jan 14 American journalist David Satter is expelled from Russia
- Jan 17 21 people are killed in a suicide bombing in a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan
- Jan 20 Credit cards of at least 20 million South Koreans are hacked
- Jan 22 Water vapour is detected on the dwarf planet Ceres
- Jan 26 21 people are killed after a tourist boat capsizes off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Jan 28 Peter Cosgrove is named the next Governor-General of Australia
- Jan 28 DNA analysis confirms that the 6th century Plague of Justinian was caused by a variant of Yersinia pestis (the same bacteria for the Black Death)
- Jan 29 Archaeologists discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant’Omobono
- Jan 29 Scientists discover how to convert normal cells into stem cells in mice
- Jan 29 Bohuslav Sobotka becomes Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
- Jan 30 24 hostages are killed after 6 suicide bombers temporarily take over the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation in Baghdad
Weddings in History
Deaths in History
- Jan 2 Elizabeth Jane Howard, English novelist, dies at 90
- Jan 9 Dale T. Mortensen, American economist and Nobel laureate, dies at 74
- Jan 10 Larry Speakes, Acting White House Press Secretary under President Ronald Reagan, dies at 74
- Jan 11 Ariel Sharon, Israeli politician and general, Prime Minister of Israel (2001-2006), dies from heart failure at 85
- Jan 12 Michael L. Strang, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado), dies at 84
- Jan 14 Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, dies at 84
- Jan 28 Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter (The Automatistes), dies at 97
- Jan 29 Ashutosh Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader and founder of the Divine Light Awakening Mission, claims 30 million followers, dies at 68