January 1 - Wikipedia

January 1 is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining (365 in leap years).

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1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

45 BC - Julian calendar goes into effect
404 - Last gladiator competition in Rome
1438 - Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Hungary
1502 - Rio de Janeiro discovered
1622 - In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of for example March 25 in England
1651 - Charles II crowned King of Scotland
1700 - Russia accepts Julian calendar
1707 - John V becomes King of Portugal
1788 - First edition of The Times, previously The Daily Universal Register, was published.
1801 - Legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed to form United Kingdom
1801 - Discovery of 1 Ceres, first known asteroid
1804 - End of French rule in Haiti.
1808 - Importation of slaves into the United States is banned
1863 - Abraham Lincoln delivers the Emancipation Proclamation during the second year of the American Civil War.
1863 - The first claim under the Homestead Act is made for a farm in Nebraska
1874 - New York City annexes The Bronx
1880 - Construction of the Panama Canal begins
1887 - Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India at the first Imperial Assemblage (Durbar) in Delhi.
1892 - Ellis Island opens to begin accepting immigrants to the United States
1893 - Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar
1897 - Brooklyn, New York merges with New York City
1899 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba.
1899 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City
1901 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate
1901 - Establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia (Federation).
1902 - The first Rose Bowl[?] game is played in Pasadena, California
1908 - A ball signifying New Year's Day drops in New York City's Times Square for the first time
1911 - Northern Territory is separated from South Australia
1912 - Establishment of Republic of China
1919 - Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company
1934 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison
1937 - Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua[?]
1937 - The first Cotton Bowl game is played in Dallas, Texas
1942 - World War II: The word "United Nations" is first officially used to describe the Allied pact.
1956 - End of Anglo-Egyptian Condominium in Sudan.
1959 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista overthrown by Fidel Castro.
1960 - Cameroon becomes independent
1962 - Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand
1964 - Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland dissolved
1970 - Unix epoch begins at 00:00:00 UTC.
1971 - Cigarette advertisements banned on United States television
1979 - United States and China begin diplomatic relations[?]
1981 - Palau becomes self-governing
1981 - Greece enters the European Community
1983 - The ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet
1984 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state.
1984 - AT&T is broken up into 22 independent units
1984 - Spain and Portugal enter the European Community
1986 - Aruba becomes independent of Curacao
1992 - George H. W. Bush is first President of the United States to address the Australian Parliament[?]
1993 - Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of Slovak Republic and Czech Republic
1994 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect
1995 - World Trade Organization goes into effect
1995 - Austria, Finland and Sweden enter the European Union
1996 - Curacao gains limited self-government
1998 - Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants
1999 - Euro currency introduced.
2002 - Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender.
2003 - Pascal Couchepin becomes president of Switzerland
2003 - Lu�s In�cio Lula da Silva becomes president of Brazil

Births

1431 - Pope Alexander VI (+ 1503)
1449 - Lorenzo de Medici, statesman (+ 1492)
1484 - Huldreich Zwingli, protestant leader (+ 1531)
1618 - Bartolom� Esteban Murillo, painter (+ 1682)
1735 - Paul Revere, silversmith, United States patriot (+ 1818)
1750 - Frederick Muhlenberg, first speaker of the United States House of Representatives (+ 1801)
1752 - Betsy Ross[?], seamstress (+ 1836)
1839 - Ouida, writer (+ 1908)
1857 - Wojciech Kossak[?], painter
1860 - George Washington Carver, educator, inventor, botanist (+ 1943)
1863 - Pierre de Coubertin, historian and pedagogue, initiator of modern Olympic Games (+ 1937)
1876 - Harriet Brooks[?], physicist (+ 1933)
1879 - E. M. Forster, novelist (+ 1970)
1887 - Wilhelm Canaris, admiral (+ 1945)
1890 - Anton Melik, Slovene geographer (+ 1966)
1894 - Satyendra Nath Bose, mathematician (+ 1974)
1895 - J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director (+ 1972)
1900 - Xavier Cugat[?], musician, bandleader (+ 1990)
1909 - Barry M. Goldwater, Arizona Senator (+ 1998)
1909 - John Glenn, astronaut, soldier, Senator from Ohio
1909 - Dana Andrews, actor (+ 1992)
1911 - Hank Greenberg, baseball player (+ 1986)
1912 - Kim Philby, spy (+ 1988)
1917 - Jule Gregory Charney[?], meteorologist (+ 1981)
1919 - J. D. Salinger, novelist
1922 - Rocky Graziano[?], boxer, born "Rocky Barbella" (+ 1990)
1925 - Stymie Beard[?], actor (+ 1981)
1925 - Idi Amin, dictator of Uganda
1927 - Doak Walker[?], American football star
1928 - Ernest Tidyman[?], writer (+ 1984)
1933 - Joe Orton, writer (+ 1967)
1940 - Frank Langella[?], actor
1940 - Helmut Jahn[?], architect
1942 - Country Joe McDonald[?], musician, (Country Joe and the Fish)
1943 - Don Novello, actor, comedian, writer ("Father Guido Sarducci")
1945 - Jacky Ickx, automobile racer
1958 - Grand Master Flash[?], singer
1970 - Paul Thomas Anderson[?], film director, writer, producer
1979 - Koichi Domoto, artist

Deaths

898 - Odo, Count of Paris
1817 - Martin Heinrich Klaproth[?], chemist (* 1743)
1894 - Heinrich Hertz, physicist (* 1857)
1953 - Hank Williams, country music singer
1972 - Maurice Chevalier, actor and singer
1986 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist
1992 - Grace Hopper, computer pioneer
1994 - Cesar Romero[?], actor
1997 - Townes Van Zandt[?], musician
2001 - Ray Walston, actor

Holidays and observances

Many countries around the world using Gregorian Calendar - New Year's Day; often celebrated at 0:00 with fireworks.
Vienna New Year's Concert
United States - Copyright Expiration Day[?], celebrating the expiration of the copyright of a year's worth of works of authorship into the public domain. Not celebrated from 1978 to 2018 because of repeated copyright term extensions.
Catholicism - Octave of Christmas, Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God.
Catholicism - National Migration Week[?] begins (varying official support by the office of U.S. President, not strictly religious)
Haiti Independence Day
Taiwan Founding of Republic of China.
Sudan Independence Day
Cuba Liberation Day
Slovakia: Establishment of Slovak Republic.
Last day of Kwanzaa
Pasadena, California - The Tournament of Roses[?] parade and, traditionally, the Rose Bowl[?]
World Day for Prayer for Peace[?]

See Also:

December 31 - January 2 - December 1 - February 1 -- listing of all days

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