January 1
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January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar. A calendar year means the order in which we list the months, January to December. Starting in the 1200s, January 1 was called New Year's Day. It is a holiday.
There are 364 days in the year after January 1 (365 in leap years).
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[change] Births
- 1431 - Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503)
- 1449 - Lorenzo de' Medici (d. 1492)
- 1467 - King Sigismund I the Old, of Poland (d. 1548)
- 1484 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531)
- 1516 - Margaret Leijonhufvud, Queen of Sweden (d. 1551)
- 1614 - John Wilkins, English clergyman, natural philosopher and author (d. 1672)
- 1618 - Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (d. 1682)
- 1638 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
- 1714 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1780)
- 1735 - Paul Revere, American patriot (d. 1818)
- 1750 - Frederick Muhlenberg, American politician and statesman (d. 1801)
- 1752 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress, allegedly sewed the first Flag of the United States (d. 1836)
- 1823 - Sandor Petofi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1849)
- 1859 - Thibaw Min, King of Burma (d. 1916)
- 1863 – Pierre de Coubertin, French organizer of the Olympic Games (d. 1937)
- 1864 - Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (d. 1957)
- 1864 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946)
- 1873 - Leon Czolgosz, assassin of US President William McKinley (d. 1901)
- 1881 - Vajiravudh, King of Siam (d. 1925)
- 1890 - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966)
- 1892 - Mahidol Adulyadej, Siamese royal (d. 1929)
- 1894 - Satyendranath Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1974)
- 1895 – J. Edgar Hoover, American, founding director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (d. 1972)
- 1900 – Xavier Cugat, Catalan-born musician, bandleader (d. 1990)
- 1900 - Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (d. 1986)
- 1904 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982)
- 1908 - Bill Tapia, American musician (d. 2011)
- 1909 – Barry Goldwater, American senator (d. 1998)
- 1909 - Dana Andrews, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1909 - Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist (d. 1959)
- 1911 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (d. 1986)
- 1911 - Roman Totenberg, Polish-American violinist
- 1912 - Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1988)
- 1914 - Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and agent (d. 1944)
- 1919 – J. D. Salinger, American novelist[1] (d. 2010)
- 1919 - Rocky Graziano, American boxer (d. 1990)
- 1922 - Jerry Robinson, American comic book artist (d. 2011)
- 1926 - Claudio Villa, Italian singer (d. 1987)
- 1927 - Vernon L. Smith, American economist
- 1930 - Gaafar Nimeiry, President of Sudan (d. 2009)
- 1938 - Frank Langella, American actor
- 1939 - Michele Mercier, French actress
- 1941 - Barry Goldberg, American musician
- 1942 - Alassane Ouattara, President of Ivory Coast
- 1943 - Tony Knowles, former Governor of Alaska
- 1944 - Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, President of Sudan
- 1944 – Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician
- 1946 - Roberto Rivelino, Brazilian footballer
- 1947 – Jon Corzine, American politician
- 1953 - Zoran Jankovic, Slovenian politician
- 1953 - Gary Johnson, American politician
- 1956 - Christine Lagarde, French Head of the International Monetary Fund
- 1957 - Evangelos Venizelos, Greek lawyer and politician
- 1958 - Grandmaster Flash, Barbadian musician
- 1959 – Azali Assoumani, Comorian politician
- 1968 – Davor Suker, Croatian footballer
- 1969 – Sophie Okonedo, British actress
- 1969 - Paul Lawrie, Scottish golfer
- 1969 - Verne Troyer, American actor
- 1970 - Fredro Starr, American actor and rapper
- 1972 - Lilian Thuram, French footballer
- 1976 - Just Jack, English singer
- 1980 - Elin Nordegren, Swedish model
- 1981 - Jonas Armstrong, British actor
- 1981 - Mladen Petric, Croatian footballer
- 1982 - David Nalbandian, Argentine tennis player
- 1983 - Calum Davenport, English footballer
- 1985 – Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
- 1987 – Meryl Davis, American ice dancer
- 1992 - Jack Wilshere, English footballer
[change] Deaths
- 1204 - King Haakon III of Norway (b. 1170)
- 1387 - King Charles II of Navarre (b. 1332)
- 1515 - King Louis XII of France (b. 1462)
- 1554 - Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500)
- 1559 - King Christian III of Denmark and Norway (b. 1503)
- 1748 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
- 1766 - James Francis Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (b. 1688)
- 1782 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)
- 1817 - Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (b. 1743)
- 1894 – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)
- 1921 - Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
- 1953 – Hank Williams, American country music singer (b. 1923)
- 1964 - Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (b. 1890)
- 1966 - Vincent Auriol, French politician (b. 1884)
- 1969 – Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902)
- 1972 – Maurice Chevalier, French entertainer (b. 1888)
- 1992 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist (b. 1906)
- 1994 - Arthur Porritt, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900)
- 1994 - Cesar Romero, American actor (b. 1907)
- 1995 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist (b. 1902)
- 1995 – Fred West, British serial killer (b. 1941)
- 1998 – Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (b. 1902)
- 2001 - Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914)
- 2007 - Del Reeves, American country music singer (b. 1932)
- 2009 – Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (b. 1924)
- 2009 – Helen Suzman, South African political activist (b. 1917)
- 2009 - Aarne Arvonen, Finnish supercentenarian (b. 1897)
- 2009 - Nizar Rayan, Palestinian military commander (b. 1959)
- 2010 – Lhasa de Sela, Mexican-American singer-songwriter (b. 1972)
- 2011 - Flemming Jorgensen, Danish musician (b. 1947)
- 2012 - Carlos Soria, Argentine politician (b. 1949)
- 2012 - Bob Anderson, British fencer and sword fight choreographer (b. 1922)
- 2012 - Kiro Gligorov, President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1917)
[change] Events
[change] Before 1900
- 153 BC - Roman consuls begin their year in office.
- 45 BC - The Julian calendar takes effect.
- 1502 – The place where Rio de Janeiro is now is explored, and is named because its bay was mistakened for a river; The name means "River of January".
- 1600 - Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of March 25.
- 1651 – Charles II becomes King of Scotland.
- 1660 - Samuel Pepys writes the first entry in his famous diary.
- 1700 – Russia first starts using Western numbers for its calendar.
- 1707 – John V becomes King of Portugal.
- 1739 - Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean is discovered by Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
- 1801 – The Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland join to make the United Kingdom.
- 1801 - Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres, which lies in the Solar System's Asteroid belt.
- 1804 – France stops ruling Haiti, which becomes independent as a result.
- 1808 – The United States makes a law to stop people bringing slaves from other countries.
- 1810 - Lachlan Macquarie becomes Governor of New South Wales.
- 1833 - The United Kingdom claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
- 1860 – Floods in Araluen and Braidwood, New South Wales kill 24 people.
- 1863 – Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation during the second year of the American Civil War.
- 1873 - Japan starts using the Gregorian calendar.
- 1874 – The Bronx becomes part of New York City.
- 1877 - Queen Victoria is given the title of Empress of India.
- 1880 – Workers start to make the Panama Canal.
- 1892 – Ellis Island starts to take people moving to live in the United States.
- 1897 – Brooklyn, New York joins with New York City.
- 1898 – New York City and places around it join to make the City of Greater New York.
- 1899 – Spanish rule in Cuba ends.
- 1899 – Queens and Staten Island join with New York City.
[change] After 1900
- 1901 – Australia is granted self-government.
- 1901 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
- 1912 - The Republic of China is established, under Sun Yat-sen.
- 1927 - Turkey starts to use the Gregorian calendar.
- 1934 – Alcatraz becomes a federal prison.
- 1947 - The Canadian Citizenship Act enters effect, with Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King becoming the first official Canadian citizen.
- 1948 - The Constitution of Italy enters effect.
- 1956 – Sudan became independent.
- 1959 – Fidel Castro takes control in Cuba, as Fulgencio Batista flees Havana.
- 1960 – Cameroon becomes independent.
- 1962 – Western Samoa becomes independent.
- 1964 – Top of the Pops is first shown on the BBC. Its last show is in 2006.
- 1972 - Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the UN.
- 1973 – The UK, Republic of Ireland and Denmark join the European Economic Community.
- 1978 - Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Sea near Bombay, killing 213 people.
- 1980 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden becomes heir to the Swedish throne, as succession laws are changed.
- 1981 - Palau is granted self-government.
- 1981 – Greece joins the European Economic Community.
- 1982 - Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes Secretary-General of the UN.
- 1984 – Brunei becomes independent.
- 1986 – Spain and Portugal join the European Economic Community.
- 1986 - Aruba separates from Curacao.
- 1990 - David Dinkins becomes the first African American Mayor of New York City.
- 1992 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali becomes Secretary-General of the UN.
- 1993 – Czechoslovakia splits into Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
- 1994 – NAFTA enters effect.
- 1995 – Austria, Finland and Sweden join the EU.
- 1995 - The World Trade Organisation takes effect.
- 1997 - Kofi Annan becomes Secretary-General of the UN.
- 2000 – Around the world, millions of people celebrate the 3rd Millennium, although it actually starts a year later.
- 2001 – Actual start of the 3rd Millennium
- 2001 – A big black rock that was nine feet tall was found in Seattle's Magnuson Park, by an artist because this happened in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- 2002 – The Euro currency enters circulation in 12 EU member states.
- 2003 - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva becomes President of Brazil.
- 2007 - Ban Ki-moon becomes Secretary-General of the UN.
- 2007 – Romania and Bulgaria join the EU.
- 2007 – Slovenia starts to use the Euro.
- 2007 - Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia. It is later known to have crashed with 102 people on board.
- 2008 – Cyprus and Malta start to use the Euro.
- 2009 - 66 people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok.
- 2009 – Slovakia starts to use the Euro.
- 2011 - Estonia starts to use the Euro.
- 2011 - Dilma Rousseff becomes President of Brazil.
[change] Observances
- New Year's Day
- Founding Day (Republic of China)
- Independence Day (Brunei, Haiti, Sudan)
- End of Kwanzaa (United States)
- Triumph of the Revolution (Cuba)
[change] References
- ↑ Italie, Hillel. "'Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger dies". http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/ap_on_en_ot/us_obit_salinger;_ylt=AqV_9m6_MkLpq8NRkt0guZwEtbAF;_ylu=X3oDMTJtZTg5cWFpBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMTI4L3VzX29iaXRfc2FsaW5nZXIEcG9zAzEEc2VjA3luX3BhZ2luYXRlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDY2F0Y2hlcmludGhl. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
