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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 Resource File
	b. 1-1-1735 - John Lamb, patriot		John Lamb Resource File
	b. 1-1-1735 - Paul Revere, patriot		Paul Revere Resource File
	b. 1-1-1745 - Anthony Wayne, Revolutionary War		Anthony Wayne Resource File
	b. 1-1-1752 - Betsy Ross, seamtress		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...” Abraham Lincoln posters		Emancipation Proclamation
	b. 1-1-1879 - E. M. Forster, author		E. M. Forster Resource File
	b. 1-1-1919 - J. D. Salinger, author		J. D. Salinger Resource File

	1-2-1788 - Georgia Ratification, 4th State		Georgia Facts
	b. 1-2-1886 - Florence Lawrence, America's First Movie Star		Florence Lawrence Resource File
	b. 1-2-1902 - Tallulah Bankhead, actress		Tallulah Bankhead Resource File
	b. 1-2-1917 - Vera Zorina, ballerina		Vera Zorina Resource File
	b. 1-2-1920 - Isaac Asimov, author		Isaac Asimov Resource File
	b. 1-2-1927 - Yuri Grigorovich, ballet dancer		Yuri Grigorovich Resource File

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

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

	b. 1-5-1779 - Zebulon Pike, explorer		Zebulon Pike Resource File
	b. 1-5-1931 - Alvin Ailey, dancer & choreographer		Alvin Ailey Resource File

	b. 1-6-1628 - Charles Perrault, author		Charles Perrault Resource File
	b. 1-6-1798 - Marie Dorval, actress		Marie Dorval Resource File
	b. 1-6-1832 - Gustave Dore, artist		Gustave Dore Resource File
	1-6-1838 - Telegraph First Demonstrated		Samuel F. B. Morse
	b. 1-6-1838 - Max Bruch, composer		Max Bruch Resource File
	b. 1-6-1878 - Carl Sandburg, poet		Carl Sandburg Resource File
	b. 1-6-1883 - Khalil Gibran, author		Khalil Gibran Resource File
	b. 1-6-1925 - Kim Dae-jung, Nobel Peace Prize		Kim Dae-jung Resource File
	b. 1-6-1957 - Nancy Lopez, athlete		Nancy Lopez Resource File
	b. 1-6-1960 - Nigella Lawson, food author & chef		Nigella Lawson Resource File

	b. 1-7-1718 - Israel Putnam, Revolutionary War		Israel Putnam Resource File
	b. 1-7-1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th US President		White House Bio - Fillmore
	b. 1-7-1839 - Marie Louise de la Ramee, “Ouida”, author		Marie Louise de la Ramee Resource File
	b. 1-7-1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, author		CP Links for Learning - Hurston
	b. 1-7-1910 - Galina Ulanova, ballerina		Galina Ulanova Resource File

	b. 1-8-1868 - Frank Watson Dyson, astronomer		Frank Watson Dyson Resource File
	b. 1-8-1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, ballerina		Bronislava Nijinska Resource File
	b. 1-8-1935 - Elvis Presley, musician		Elvis Presley Resource File

	1-9-1788 - Connecticut Ratification, 5th State		About Connecticut
	1-9-1793 - 1st US Balloon Ascention, Philadelphia		U. S. Centennial of Flight Commission
	1-9-1799 - 1st “Income Tax”		U. S. Treasury Department
	b. 1-9-1859 - Carrie Chapman Catt, activist		Carrie Chapman Catt Resource File
	d. 1-9-1901 - Edward Mitchell Bannister, artist		Edward Mitchell Bannister Resource File
	b. 1-9-1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist		Simone de Beauvoir Resource File
	b. 1-9-1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th US President		Richard Nixon Resource File
	b. 1-9-1922 - Har Gobind Khorana, biologist		Har Gobind Khorana Resource File

	b. 1-10-1738 - Ethan Allen, patriot		Ethan Allen Resource File
	b. 1-10-1853 - Jessie Bond, actress & singer		Jessie Bond Resource File
	b. 1-10-1864 - George Washington Carver, botanist		CP Links for Learning - Carver
	b. 1-12-1904 - Ray Bolger, dancer & actor		Ray Bolger Resource File

	b. 1-11-1755 - Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary War		Alexander Hamilton Resource File
	1-11-1912 - Lawrence, MA- Bread and Roses textile strike begins		Textile Strike Resource File

	b. 1-12-1577 - Jan Baptista Van Helmont, chemist		Jan Baptista Van Helmont Resource File
	b. 1-12-1729 - Edmund Burke, philosopher		Edmund Burke Resource File
	b. 1-12-1856 - John Singer Sargent, artist		John Singer Sargent Bio
	b. 1-12-1876 - Jack London, author		Jack London Resource File
	b. 1-12-1910 - Luise Rainer, actress		Luise Rainer Resource File
	b. 1-12-1964 - Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com		Jeff Bezos Resource File

	b. 1-13-1598 - Francois Mansart, architect		Francois Mansart Resource File
	d. 1-13-1599 - Edmund Spenser, poet		Edmund Spenser Resource File
	b. 1-13-1808 - Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice		Salmon Portland Chase Resource File

	b. 1-14-1741 - Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War		Benedict Arnold Resource File
	b. 1-14-1841 - Berthe Morisot, artist		Berthe Morisot Resource File
	b. 1-14-1844 - William Forsell Kirby, entomologist		William Forsell Kirby Resource File
	b. 1-14-1875 - Albert Schweitzer, humanitarian		Albert Schweitzer Resource File
	b. 1-14-1886 - John Dos Passos, author		John Dos Passos Resource File
	b. 1-14-1901 - Bebe Daniels, actress		Bebe Daniels Resource File

	d. 1-15-1151 - Abbot Suger, historian		Abbot Suger Resource File
	b. 1-15-1622 - Moliere (Jean-Baptist Poquelin), playwright		Moliere Resource File
	b. 1-15-1798 - Auguste Comte, philosopher		Auguste Comte Resource File
	b. 1-15-1862 - Loie Fuller, dancer		Loie Fuller Resource File
	b. 1-15-1890 - Palmer Hayden, artist		Palmer Hayden Resource File
	b. 1-15-1895 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, biologist		Artturi Ilmari Virtanen Resource File
	b. 1-15-1900 - Paulette Duval, dancer & actress		Paulette Duval Resource File
	b. 1-15-1929 - Martin Luther King, Jr. celebrated 3rd Monday in January.		CP Links for Learning - King

	b. 1-16-1741 - Hester Trale, diarist		Hester Thrale Resource File
	b. 1-16-1908 - Ethel Merman, actress & singer		Ethel Merman Resource File
	b. 1-16-1932 - Dian Fossey, zoologist		Dian Fossey Resource File
	b. 1-16-1934 - Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano opera singer		Marilyn Horne Resource File

	b. 1-17-1501 - Leonhart Fuchs, botanist		Leonhart Fuchs Resource File
	b. 1-17-1600 - Pedro Calderon de la Barca, author		Pedro Calderon de la Barca Resource File
	b. 1-17-1706 - Benjamin Franklin, Boston, MA		CP Links for Learning - Franklin
	d. 1-17-1795 - Samuel Wallis, explorer		Samuel Wallis Resource File
	b. 1-17-1820 - Anne Bronte, author		Bronte Links for Learning
	b. 1-17-1933 - Eartha Kitt, singer & actress		Eartha Kitt Resource File
	b. 1-17-1933 - Shari Lewis, puppeteer		Shari Lewis Resource File
	b. 1-17-1942 - Muhammad Ali, athlete		CP Links for Learning - Ali

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

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

	b. 1-20-1732 - Richard Henry Lee, Revolutionary War		Richard Henry Lee Resource File
	b. 1-20-1775 - Andre-Marie Ampere, physicist		Andre-Marie Ampere Resource File
	b. 1-20-1855 - Amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer		Ernest Chausson Resource File
	b. 1-20-1865 - Yvette Guilbert, cabaret singer		Yvette Guilbert Resource File
	b. 1-20-1872 - Julia Morgan, architect		Julia Morgan Resource File
	b. 1-20-1876 - Josef Hofmann, pianist		Josef Hofmann Resource File

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

	b. 1-22-1561 - Sir Francis Bacon, philosopher		Francis Bacon Resource File
	b. 1-22-1788 - Lord Byron, poet		Selected Poetry of Lord Byron
	b. 1-22-1849 - Johan August Strindberg, author		Johan August Strindberg Resource File
	b. 1-22-1878 - Constance Collier, actress		Constance Collier Resource File
	b. 1-22-1897 - Rosa Ponselle, opera singer		Rosa Ponselle Resource File
	b. 1-22-1904 - George Balanchine, choreographer		George Balanchine Resource File
	b. 1-22-1904 - William Warfield, bass-baritone opera singer		William Warfield Resource File
	1-22-1973, Roe v Wade 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.		Background on Roe v Wade

	b. 1-23-1737 - John Hancock, Revolutionary War		John Hancock Resource File
	b. 1-23-1752 - Muzio Clementi, pianist & composer		Muzio Clementi Resource File
	b. 1-23-1832 - Edouard Manet, artist		Edouard Manet Resource File
	b. 1-23-1918 - Gertrude Elion, biologist		Gertrude Elion Resource File
	b. 1-23-1933 - Chita Rivera, dancer		Chita Rivera Resource File

	b. 1-24-1712 - Friedrich II (The Great)		Friedrich II Resource File
	b. 1-24-1732 - Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, author		Pierre Beaumarchais Resource File
	b. 1-24-1776 - E. T. A. Hoffman, artist		E. T. A. Hoffman Resource File
	b. 1-24-1795 - Farinelli - opera singer		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 Resource File
	b. 1-24-1864 - Marguerite Durand, author		Marguerite Durand Resource File
	b. 1-24-1915 - Robert Motherwell, artist		Robert Motherwell Resource File
	b. 1-24-1925 - Maria Tallchief, ballet dancer		Maria Tallchief Resource File
	b. 1-24-1954 - Oprah Winfrey, TV host, actress		Oprah Winfrey (Biography) at Amazon.com

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

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

	b. 1-27-1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer		The Mozart Project Biography
	b. 1-27-1832 - Lewis Carroll, author		CP Links for Learning - Lewis Carroll
	b. 1-27-1832 - Edouard Lalo, composer		Edouard Lalo Resource File
	b. 1-27-1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer		Mikhail Baryshnikov Resource File
	1-27-1973 - Vietnam War Peace Accords		Vietnam War - Wikipedia

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

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

	b. 1-30-1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd US President		White House Bio - FDR
	b. 1-30-1912 - Barbara Tuchman, historian		Barbara Tuchman Resource File

	b. 1-31-1734 - Robert Morris, patriot		Robert Morris Resource File
	b. 1-31-1797 - Franz Schubert, composer		Franz Schubert Resource File
	b. 1-31-1881 - Anna Palova, ballerina		Anna Palova Resource File
	b. 1-31-1895 - Justine Johnstone, actress and physician		Justine Johnstone Resource File
	b. 1-31-1915 - Thomas Merton, author		Thomas Merton Resource File
	b. 1-31-1919 - Jackie Robinson, baseball player		CP Links for Learning - Robinson
	b. 1-31-1921 - Mario Lanza, opera singer		Mario Lanza Resource File
	b. 1-31-1923 - Norman Mailer, author		Norman Mailer Resource File
	b. 1-31-1937 - Philip Glass, composer		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 1/31/10

JANUARY HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES