Historical Events
- Jan 1 Belgian Mining law introduces 9½ hour work day
- Jan 1 South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government
- Jan 3 The Government of India announces that emigration to Natal, Southern Africa, is prohibited with effect from 1 July
- Jan 3 The Russian Turkestan city of Almaty is destroyed by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake
Siege of Sidney Street
Jan 3 The Siege of Sidney Street: fire fight breaks out in London's East End between Latvian gang and Police, who request army back-up. First Siege caught on camera by Pathé News with Winston Churchill observing [1]
- Jan 3 US postal savings bank inaugurated
- Jan 5 San Francisco has its first air meet
- Jan 7 Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
- Jan 10 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
- Jan 10 Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
- Jan 10 Trumper scored double cricket ton v South Africa, goes on to get 214
- Jan 12 The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
"Die Ratten"
Jan 13 Gerhart Hauptmann's play "Die Ratten" (The Rats) premieres in Berlin
Amundsen at Walvis Bay
Jan 13 Roald Amundsen anchors at Walvis Bay, southwestern Africa
- Jan 13 South Africa cricket team's 1st win over Australia, at Adelaide
- Jan 14 Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition lands on the Ross Ice Shelf
- Jan 15 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives at San Francisco
- Jan 16 Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east
Attempt on French PM
Jan 17 Failed assassination attempt on French Prime Minister Aristide Briand in the French Assembly
Die Rosenkavalier
Jan 26 Richard Strauss's opera "Der Rosenkavalier" (Knight of the Rose) premieres at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden, Germany
Famous Birthdays
Hank Greenberg (1911-1986)
Jan 1 American Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman (5 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1935, 45; AL MVP 1935, 40; Detroit Tigers), born in New York City
- Jan 3 John Sturges, American film director (Old Man & Sea, Magnificent 7), born in Oak Park, Illinois (d. 1992)
- Jan 5 Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (Lili, Cat & Mouse, Happy Hooker), born in Paris, France (d. 2001)
- Jan 6 Billy Sands, American actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), born in Bergen, New York (d. 1984)
- Jan 6 Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean political leader (President 1964-70), born in Santiago, Chile (d. 1982)
- Jan 6 Ivan Barrow, Jamaican cricket wicketkeeper (11 Tests; first West Indian Test century-maker in England), born in Morant Bay, Jamaica (d. 1979)
- Jan 6 Joey Adams [Joseph Abramowitz], American comedian, actor and columnist (ABC's Back That Fact), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1999)
- Jan 6 Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, Soviet film actor (Telegram, Town People), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1994)
- Jan 6 Yannis Papaioannou, Greek composer and teacher, born in Kavala, Greece (d. 1989)
- Jan 7 (Thelma) "Butterfly" McQueen, American actress (Gone With The Wind; Flame of Barbary Coast), born in Tampa, Florida (d. 1995)
- Jan 7 Mervyn Waite, Australian cricketer (S Australian all-rounder) and footballer, born in Kent Town, Australia (d. 1985)
- Jan 8 "Gypsy" Rose Lee [Hovick], American burlesque actress (Gypsy), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1970)
- Jan 8 Andrej Očenáš, Slovak composer, born in Selce, Austria-Hungary (d. 1995)
- Jan 9 Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, British professor of occupational health, born in Kessingland, Suffolk (d. 1997)
- Jan 9 Stafford William Somerfield, British newspaper editor, born in Barnstaple, Somerfield (d. 1995)
- Jan 10 Tjalie Robinson [Jan Boon], Dutch East Indies writer and journalist (Tong Tong), born in Nijmegen, Netherlands (d. 1974)
- Jan 11 Nora Heysen, Australian artist (d. 2003)
- Jan 11 Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
- Jan 13 Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland (1968-87), born in Dannevirke, New Zealand (d. 2005)
- Jan 14 Anatoly Rybakov, Russian writer, born in Chernihiv, Ukraine (d. 1998)
- Jan 14 Djuanda Kartawidjaja, Indonesian teacher, engineer, and politician (11th and final Prime Minister of Indonesia, 1957-59), born in Tasikmalaya, West Java, Dutch East Indies (d. 1963)
- Jan 14 George Amadee Tremblay, Canadian pianist and composer, born in Ottawa, Ontario (d. 1982)
- Jan 14 Helmut Degen, German composer, born in Aglasterhausen, Germany (d. 1995)
- Jan 14 J. Skelly Wright, American judge (anti-segregationist), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1988)
- Jan 15 Cy Feuer, Broadway producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line), born in New York City (d. 2006)
- Jan 15 Wim Kan, Dutch cabaret artist, born in South Holland, Netherlands (d. 1983)
- Jan 16 Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar (Professor of French) and wartime resister (d. 1995)
- Jan 16 Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996)
- Jan 17 Hermann Pfrogner, Austrian musicologist (Zerrissene Orpheus), and educator (Munich Music College, 1958-74), born in Graz, Austria-Hungary (d. 1988)
- Jan 18 Charles Delaunay, French writer, magazine publisher (Le Jazz Hot), jazz musiclogist (Hot Discography), record label founder, and music promoter, born in Vineuil-Saint-Firmin, France (d. 1988)
- Jan 18 Danny Kaye [David Daniel Kaminski], American comedian and actor (Danny Kaye Show, White Christmas), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1987)
- Jan 18 Gabor Darvas, Hungarian composer, born in Satu Mare, Romania (d. 1985)
- Jan 22 Bruno Kreisky, Austrian politician (Chancellor, 1970-83; Foreign Minister, 1959-66), born in Margareten, Vienna, Austria (d. 1990)
- Jan 22 Roberto Garcia Morillo, Argentine composer and music critic, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 2003)
- Jan 22 Suzanne Danco, Belgian operatic soprano singer, born in Brussels (d. 2000)
- Jan 23 Dan J. Smith, English harmonica player and gospel singer-songwriter, born in London. England (d. 1994)
- Jan 24 C. L. Moore, American science fiction & fantasy writer (Judgment Night), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1987)
- Jan 26 Norbert Schultze, German composer, primarily of film scores, born in Brunswick, Saxony, Germany (d. 2002)
- Jan 26 Polykarp Kusch, American nuclear physicist (1955 Nobel Prize for Physics - for determining the magnetic moment of the electron), born in Blankenburg, Germany (d. 1993)
- Jan 27 Benay Venuta [Benvenuta Rose Crooke], American actress, singer and dancer (Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1995)
- Jan 28 Johan van Hulst, Dutch teacher who helped save 600 children from the Nazis, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 2018)
- Jan 29 Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
- Jan 30 Alexander George Ogston, British biochemist, and educator (professor at Australian National University, 1959-70; president of Trinity College - Oxford, 1970-78), born in Bombay, British India (d. 1996)
- Jan 30 Hugh Marlowe [Hipple], American actor (All About Eve; Ellery Queen), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1982)
- Jan 30 Roy Eldridge, American jazz trumpet player (Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1989)
- Jan 31 Christina Foyle, English book seller (Foyles), born in London, England (d. 1999) [1]
- Jan 31 Eddie Byrne, British actor (Star Wars, Island of Terror), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1981)
Famous Weddings
Neville Chamberlain
Jan 5 British PM Neville Chamberlain (41) weds Anne de Vere Cole
Mary Pickford
Jan 7 Actress Mary Pickford (19) weds actor Owen Moore (25)
Hattie McDaniel
Jan 11 American actress Hattie McDaniel (16) weds pianist Howard Hickman (30) in Denver, Colorado
Famous Deaths
- Jan 3 Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (The Murderess), dies at 59
- Jan 9 Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
- Jan 9 Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (Song of our Saviour), dies at 57
- Jan 15 Wilhelm Berger, German composer, pianist and conductor, dies at 49
- Jan 17 Francis Galton, British anthropologist and geneticist (eugenics), dies at 88
- Jan 24 Carl Eilhardt, German composer and conductor, dies at 67
- Jan 24 David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
- Jan 25 Kanno Sugako, Japanese anarcho-feminist journalist, hanged for her role in the plot to assassinate Emperor Meiji, dies at 29
- Jan 26 Charles Dilke, British statesman and Radical politician, dies at 67
