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JANUARY HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES		Holiday posters index \| December \| January \| February \| search site
January Observances		poster links	resource links
	Birth Defects Prevention Month	pregnancy posters	March of Dimes
	National Volunteer Blood Donor Month	circulatory system posters	American Assoc of Blood Banks
	National Cervical Cancer Awareness Month	disease- cancer posters	National Cervical Cancer Coalition
	Glaucoma Awareness Month Eye Health Care Month	eye disorders posters	Prevent Blindness Org
	Hot Tea Month	beverages posters	Tea & Health
	Oatmeal Month	grains posters	Sunshine Granola Recipe
	Poverty Awareness Month	Migrant Mother poster	Catholic Campaign to End Poverty
	Stamp Collecting Month		American Philatelic Society
	National School Board Month	famous educators posters	National School Boards Association
	Thyroid Disease Awareness Month	lymphatic system posters	America Assoc of Clinical Endocrinologists

	First Week of January
	Diet Resolution Week

	Second Week of January

	Third Week of January
	Special Education Week		National Education Assoc

	Fourth Week of January
	Catholic Schools Week		National Catholic Education Assoc

January Holidays
	1-1, New Year's Day	New Year's posters
	1-1, Last Day of Kwanzaa	Kwanzaa posters
	12-7-2010 - Muharram Islamic New Year	Islamic posters	• Islam- Resource & Information • Muslin New Year
	1-13, Lohri - Bonfire Festival	India posters	Lohrifestival.org
	3rd Sunday in January, World Religion Day	theology posters	Bahå'î
	3rd Monday January, MLKing Day	Martin Luther King, Jr. posters	CP Links for Learning - King

January Notable Dates

	b. 1-1-1631 - Katherine “Orinda” Philips, author	Katherine Philips print	Katherine Philips Resource File
	b. 1-1-1735 - Paul Revere, Boston	Paul Revere print	The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere text
	b. 1-1-1752 - Betsy Ross, seamtress	Betsy Ross print	Betsy Ross House
	b. 1-1-1863 - Emancipation Proclamation - “... on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...”	Lincoln posters	Emancipation Proclamation
	b. 1-1-1879 - E. M. Forster, author	E. M. Forster photo print	E. M. Forster Resource File
	b. 1-1-1919 - J. D. Salinger, author	J. D. Salinger poster	J. D. Salinger Resource File

	1-2-1788 - Georgia Ratification, 4th State	Georgia posters	Georgia Facts
	b. 1-2-1902 - Tallulah Bankhead, actress	Tallulah Bankhead photo	Tallulah Bankhead Resource File
	b. 1-2-1920 - Isaac Asimov, author	I, Robot cover	Isaac Asimov Resource File

	b. 1-3-106 BC - Cicero	Cicero print	Cicero Resource File
	d. 1-3-1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks, astronomer	Jeremiah Horrocks print	Jeremiah Horrocks Resource File
	b. 1-3-1733 - Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor	water spinning frame	Sir Richard Arkwright Resource File
	b. 1-3-1793 - Lucretia Mott, feminist & suffragette	Lucretia Mott portrait	Lucretia Mott Resource File
	b. 1-3-1806 - Henriette Sontag, opera singer	Henriette Sontag print	Henriette Sontag Resource File
	b. 1-3-1887 - August Macke, artist	Expressionist prints	August Macke Resource File
	b. 1-3-1897 - Marion Davies, actress	Marion Davies photo	Marion Davies Resource File
	b. 1-3-1905 - Anna May Wong, actress	Anna May Wong photo	Anna May Wong Resource File
	b. 1-3-1909 - Victor Borge, pianist & comedian	Victor Borge photo	Victor Borge Resource File
	1-3-1959 - Alaska Admission, 49th State		Alaska Facts & Information

	1-4-1643 - Issac Newton, scientist	Isaac Newton posters	CP Isaac Newton Links for Learning
	b. 1-4-1809 - Louis Braille, teacher	braille poster	Louis Braille bio

	b. 1-5-1779 - Zebulon Pike, explorer	Zebulon Pike print	Zebulon Pike Resource File

	b. 1-6-1628 - Charles Perrault, author	Charles Perrault portrait	Charles Perrault Resource File
	b. 1-6-1798 - Marie Dorval, actress	Marie Dorval print	Marie Dorval Resource File
	b. 1-6-1832 - Gustave Dore, artist	Dore print	Gustave Dore Resource File
	1-6-1838 - Telegraph First Demonstrated	inventions posters	Samuel F. B. Morse
	b. 1-6-1838 - Max Bruch, composer	Max Bruch print	Max Bruch Resource File
	b. 1-6-1878 - Carl Sandburg, poet	Carl Sandburg, Images of Labor poster	Carl Sandburg Resource File
	b. 1-6-1925 - Kim Dae-jung, Nobel Peace Prize	Kim Dae-jung TIME Magazine	Kim Dae-jung Resource File
	b. 1-6-1957 - Nancy Lopez, athlete	Nancy Lopez poster	Nancy Lopez Resource File

	b. 1-7-1800 - Millard Fillmore, US President	Millard Fillmore print	White House Bio - Fillmore
	b. 1-7-1839 - Marie Louise de la Ramee, “Ouida”, author	Marie Louise de la Ramee print	Marie Louise de la Ramee Resource File
	b. 1-7-1891, Zora Neale Hurston, author	Zora Neale Hurston posters	CP Links for Learning - Hurston

	b. 1-8-1868 - Frank Watson Dyson, astronomer	Frank Watson Dyson photo	Frank Watson Dyson Resource File
	b. 1-8-1935 - Elvis Presley, musician	Elvis Reading the Newspaper art print	Elvis Presley Resource File

	1-9-1788 - Connecticut Ratification, 5th State	Connecticut posters	About Connecticut
	1-9-1793 - 1st US Balloon Ascention, Philadelphia	aviation posters	U. S. Centennial of Flight Commission
	1-9-1799 - 1st “Income Tax”		U. S. Treasury Department
	d. 1-9-1901 - Edward Mitchell Bannister, artist	Edward Mitchell Bannister poster	Edward Mitchell Bannister Resource File
	b. 1-9-1913 - Richard Nixon, US President	Richard Nixon photo	Richard Nixon Resource File
	b. 1-9-1922 - Har Gobind Khorana, biologist	Har Gobind Khorana print	Har Gobind Khorana Resource File

	b. 1-10-1738 - Ethan Allen, patriot	Ethan Allen print	Ethan Allen Resource File
	b. 1-10-1853 - Jessie Bond, actress & singer	Jessie Bond print	Jessie Bond Resource File
	b. 1-10-1864 - George Washington Carver, botanist	George Washington Carver posters	CP Links for Learning - Carver

	1-11-1912 - Lawrence, MA- Bread and Roses textile strike begins	Images of Labor posters	Textile Strike Resource File

	b. 1-12-1577 - Jan Baptista Van Helmont, chemist	Jan Baptista Van Helmont print	Jan Baptista Van Helmont Resource File
	b. 1-12-1729 - Edmund Burke, philosopher	Edmund Burke portrait	Edmund Burke Resource File
	b. 1-12-1737 - John Hancock, patriot	Declaration of Independence print	America's Story, John Hancock National Archives
	b. 1-12-1856 - John Singer Sargent, artist	John Singer Sargent prints	John Singer Sargent Bio
	b. 1-12-1876 - Jack London, author	Jack London poster	Jack London Resource File
	b. 1-12-1964 - Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com	Jeff Bezos TIME Magazine cover	Jeff Bezos Resource File

	b. 1-13-1598 - Francois Mansart, architect	Chateau de Maisons-Lafitte print	Francois Mansart Resource File
	d. 1-13-1599 - Edmund Spenser, poet	The Faerie Queene print	Edmund Spenser Resource File

	b. 1-14-1841 - Berthe Morisot, artist	Berthe Morisot poster	Berthe Morisot Resource File
	b. 1-14-1875; Albert Schweitzer, humanitarian	Schweitzer poster	Albert Schweitzer Resource File
	b. 1-14-1886 - John Dos Passos, author	John Dos Passos photo print	John Dos Passos Resource File
	b. 1-14-1901 - Bebe Daniels, actress	Bebe Daniels photo	Bebe Daniels Resource File

	d. 1-15-1151 - Abbot Suger, historian	Abbot Suger print	Abbot Suger Resource File
	b. 1-15-1622 - Moliere (Jean-Baptist Poquelin), playwright	Moliere print	Moliere Resource File
	b. 1-15-1798 - Auguste Comte, philosopher	Auguste Comte print	Auguste Comte Resource File
	b. 1-15-1862 - Loie Fuller, dancer	Loie Fuller print	Loie Fuller Resource File
	b. 1-15-1895 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, biologist	Artturi Ilmari Virtanen print	Artturi Ilmari Virtanen Resource File
	b. 1-15-1929 - Martin Luther King, Jr. celebrated 3rd Monday in January	Martin Luther King, Jr. posters	CP Links for Learning - King

	b. 1-16-1908 - Ethel Merman, actress & singer	Ethel Merman TIME cover	Ethel Merman Resource File
	b. 1-16-1932 - Dian Fossey, zoologist	Dian Fossey poster	Dian Fossey Resource File

	b. 1-17-1501 - Leonhart Fuchs, botanist	Leonhart Fuchs print	Leonhart Fuchs Resource File
	b. 1-17-1600 - Pedro Calderon de la Barca, author	de la Barca print	Pedro Calderon de la Barca Resource File
	b. 1-17-1706 - Benjamin Franklin, Boston, MA	Benjamin Franklin posters	CP Links for Learning - Franklin
	b. 1-17-1820 - Anne Bronte, author	Anne Bronte poster	Bronte Links for Learning
	b. 1-17-1933 - Eartha Kitt, singer & actress	Eartha Kitt photo	Eartha Kitt Resource File
	b. 1-17-1933 - Shari Lewis, puppeteer	Shari Lewis print	Shari Lewis Resource File
	b. 1-17-1942 - Muhammad Ali, athlete	Muhammad Ali posters	CP Links for Learning - Ali

	b. 1-18-1782 - Daniel Webster, statesman	Daniel Webster poster	Daniel Webster Bio
	b. 1-18-1882 - A. A. Milne, author	A. A. Milne photo	Pooh's Library at Amazon

	b. 1-19-1736 - James Watts, scientist & inventor	James Watts Steam Engine poster	James Watts Resource File
	b. 1-19-1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, author	Edgar Allan Poe posters	CP Edgar Allan Poe Links for Learning
	b. 1-19-1839 - Paul Cezanne, artist	Paul Cezanne print	Paul Cezanne Resource File

	b. 1-20-1775 - Andre-Marie Ampere, physicist	Andre-Marie Ampere print	Andre-Marie Ampere Resource File
	b. 1-20-1855 - Amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer	Ernest Chausson print	Ernest Chausson Resource File
	b. 1-20-1865 - Yvette Guilbert, cabaret singer	Yvette Guilbert print	Yvette Guilbert Resource File

	d. 1-21-1519 - Vasco Nunez de Balboa, explorer	Vasco Nunez de Balboa print	Vasco Nunez de Balboa Resource File
	b. 1-21-1813 - John C. Fremont, explorer	John C. Fremont print	John C. Fremont Resource File
	b. 1-21-1912 - Konrad E. Bloch, biologist	Konrad E. Bloch print	Konrad E. Bloch Resource File

	b. 1-22-1561 - Sir Francis Bacon, philosopher	Francis Bacon print	Francis Bacon Resource File
	b. 1-22-1788 - Lord Byron, poet	Lord Byron print	Selected Poetry of Lord Byron
	b. 1-22-1849 - Johan August Strindberg	Johan August Strindberg print	Johan August Strindberg Resource File
	b. 1-22-1878 - Constance Collier, actress	Constance Collier print	Constance Collier Resource File
	b. 1-22-1897 - Rosa Ponselle, opera singer	Rosa Ponselle TIME	Rosa Ponselle Resource File
	1-22-1973, U. S. Supreme Court decision which established that laws against abortion violate a constitutional right to privacy, overturning more than 100 years of judicial precedent and all 50 of the state laws outlawing or restricting abortion.	Landmark Supreme Court Decisions posters	Background on Roe v Wade

	b. 1-23-1752 - Muzio Clementi, pianist	Muzio Clementi print	Muzio Clementi Resource File
	b. 1-23-1832 - Edouard Manet, artist	Edouard Manet print	Edouard Manet Resource File
	b. 1-23-1918 - Gertrude Elion, biologist	Gertrude Elion poster	Gertrude Elion Resource File
	b. 1-23-1933 - Chita Rivera, dancer	Chita Rivera poster	Chita Rivera Resource File

	b. 1-24-1712 - Friedrich II (The Great)	Friedrich II print	Friedrich II Resource File
	b. 1-24-1732 - Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, author	Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais portrait	Pierre Beaumarchais Resource File
	b. 1-24-1776 - E. T. A. Hoffman, artist	Illustration from "The Nutcracker"	E. T. A. Hoffman Resource File
	b. 1-24-1795 - Farinelli - opera singer	Farinelli print	Farinelli Resource File
	1-24-1848 - Gold Discovered at Sutter's Mill, CA		The Discovery of Gold in California by Gen. John A. Sutter
	b. 1-24-1862 - Edith Wharton, author	Edith Wharton Print	Edith Wharton Resource File
	b. 1-24-1864 - Marguerite Durand, author	Marguerite Durand print	Marguerite Durand Resource File
	b. 1-24-1915 - Robert Motherwell, artist	Robert Motherwell art print	Robert Motherwell Resource File
	b. 1-24-1925 - Maria Tallchief, ballet dancer	Maria Tallchief poster	Maria Tallchief DVD
	b. 1-24-1954 - Oprah Winfrey, TV host, actress	Oprah Winfrey quotation poster	Oprah Winfrey (Biography) at Amazon.com

	b. 1-25-1627 - Robert Boyle, scientist	Robert Boyle print	Robert Boyle Resource File
	b. 1-25-1759 - Robert Burns, poet	Robert Burns print	Robert Burns Resource File
	b. 1-25-1882 - Virginia Woolf, author	Virginia Woolf print	International Virginia Woolf Society
	b. 1-25-1874 - W. Somerset Maugham, author	W. Somerset Maugham print	W. Somerset Maugham Resource File

	b. 1-26-1850 - Samuel Gompers, labor leader	Samuel Gompers TIME Magazine Cover	Samuel Gompers Resource File
	b. 1-26-1880 - General Douglas MacArthur, military	Douglas MacArthur print	MacArthur Memorial, Norfolk, VA
	b. 1-26-1884 - Roy Chapman Andrews, explorer	Roy Chapman Andrews TIME	Roy Chapman Andrews Resource File

	b. 1-27-1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer	Mozart posters	The Mozart Project Biography
	b. 1-27-1832 - Lewis Carroll, author	Lewis Carroll prints	CP Links for Learning - Lewis Carroll
	b. 1-27-1832 - Edouard Lalo, composer	Edouard Lalo print	Edouard Lalo Resource File
	1-27-1973 - Vietnam War Peace Accords	Vietnam War posters	Vietnam War - Wikipedia

	d. 1-28-1596 - Sir Francis Drake, explorer	Sir Francis Drake print	Sir Francis Drake Resource File
	b. 1-28-1611 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer	Johannes Hevelius print	Johannes Hevelius Resource File
	b. 1-28-1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, explorer	Livingstone & Stanley print	Henry Morton Stanley Resource File
	b. 1-28-1853 - Jose Marti, author	Jose Marti poster	Jose Marti Resource File
	1-28-1861 - Kansas Admitted, 34th state	Kansas posters	Kansas Facts & History
	b. 1-28-1873 - Colette, author	Colette print	Colette Resource File
	b. 1-28-1878 - Ruth St. Denis, dancer	Ruth St. Denis print	Ruth St. Denis Resource File
	b. 1-28-1912 - Jackson Pollock, artist	Jackson Pollock art print	Jackson Pollock Resource File
	1-28-1986 - Challenger Space Shuttle Tragedy	space exploration posters	NASA History Division

	b. 1-29-1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, theologian	Emanuel Swedenborg	Emanuel Swedenborg Resource File
	b. 1-29-1737 - Thomas Paine, England	Thomas Paine print	Thomas Paine Resource File
	b. 1-29-1782 - Daniel François Esprit Auber, composer	Daniel Auber print	Daniel Auber Resoure File
	b. 1-29-1843 - William McKinley, 25th president	presidents posters	White House Bio - McKinley
	b. 1-29-1860 - Anton Chekov, author	Anton Chekov print	Anton Chekov Resource File
	b. 1-29-1866 - Romain Rolland, author	Romain Rolland print	Romain Rolland Resource File
	b. 1-29-1905 - Barnett Newman, artist	Barnett Newman art print	Barnett Newman Resource File
	b. 1-29-1923 - Paddy Chayefsky, dramatist	Paddy Chayefsky photo	Paddy Chayefsky Resource File

	b. 1-30-1882 - FDR, 32nd President	presidents posters	White House Bio - FDR
	b. 1-30-1912 - Barbara Tuchman, historian	Barbara Tuchman quote poster	Barbara Tuchman Resource File

	b. 1-31-1734 - Robert Morris, patriot	Robert Morris print	Robert Morris Resource File
	b. 1-31-1797 - Franz Schubert, composer	Franz Schubert posters	Franz Schubert Resource File
	b. 1-31-1881 - Anna Palova, ballet dancer	Anna Palova print	Anna Palova Resource File
	b. 1-31-1919 - Jackie Robinson, baseball player	Jackie Robinson posters	CP Links for Learning - Robinson
	b. 1-31-1921 - Mario Lanza, opera singer	Mario Lanza TIME Magazin print	Mario Lanza Resource File
	b. 1-31-1923 - Norman Mailer, author	Norman Mailer photo	Norman Mailer Resource File
	b. 1-31-1937 - Philip Glass, composer	Philip Glass photo	Philip Glass Resource File


January Facts & Tidbits
	January, first month of the year, is named for Janus, the Roman god of doors, gates, beginnings, and and endings, hence his two faces for looking forward and backwards. Janus is the root of the word describing the caretaker of doors and halls (passage ways), a janitor. The original Roman calendar consisted of 10 months (304 days) as they considered winter a monthless period. Circa 700 BCE the months of January and February were separated so the calendar would match a standard lunar year, plus one day, to equal 355 days, and thus avoiding the Roman superstition of even numbers.
	January Astrological Signs		Astrology Resource File
	• Capricorn: Dec 22 - Jan 19	• Capricorn poster • Capricorn, the Archer Ecard	cardinal, earth, universal; "I build," ambitiou, cautious, authoritative, cunning, competent, stable, saturnine, knees/skeleton; prudent, cautious, suspicious.
	• Aquarius: Jan 20 - Feb 18	• Aquarius poster • Aquarius, the Water Carrier Ecard	fixed, air, universal; "I know," friendships, cause-oriented, the group, society, progressive, eccentric, aloof, calves/ankles; democratical, unconventional, detached.
	January Birthstones
	• Garnets signify light heart, loyalty, affection. The name "garnet" comes from Latin granatus ("grain"), possibly a reference to Punica granatum ("pomegranate"), a fruit with red seeds similar in shape, size, and color to some garnet crystals.		• Birthstone (U of Washington) • Garnets Resource File
	January Flowers
	• Carnation - love, fascination, and distinction • Snowdrop - first bulbs to bloom in spring.	• flower posters	• Carnation Resource File • Snowdrop Resource File

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last updated 5/21/09

JANUARY HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES