New Year's Day

Betsy Ross's Birthday (1752)

Ellis Island Opened for Immigration (1892)

Paul Revere's Birthday (1735)

Georgia Ratification Day (1788)

Moon First Photographed (1839)

Nat'l Science Fiction Day

Alaska Named 49th State (1959)

J.R.R. Tolkien's Birthday (1892)

Jakob Grimm's Birthday (1785)

Louis Braille's Birthday (1809)

Nat'l Trivia Day

Utah Admission Day (1896)

Nat'l Bird Day

X-Ray Discovered (1896)

Apple Tree Day

New Mexico Ratified (1912)

Telegraph First Demonstrated (1838)

Jan 6-12
Letter Writing Week

Jupiter's Moons Discovered (1610)

U.S. Hydrogen Bomb Revealed (1953)

Elvis Presley's Birthday (1935)

Last Battle of War of 1812 (1815)

Connecticut Ratification Day (1788)

Nat'l Static Electricity Day

Richard Nixon's Birthday (1913)

Oil Discovered in Texas (1901)

Volunteer Fireman's Day

Amelia Earhart Flew Solo Across Pacific (1935)

First Public Museum Opened in SC (1773)

First Woman Elected to Senate (1932)

John Hancock's Birthday (1737)

James Joyce Died (1941)

Michael Jordan Retired Again (1999)

Clean Off Your Desk Day

Revolutionary War Ended (1784)

The Simpsons Premiered (1993)

Hat Day

Martin Luther King's Birthday (1929)

Operation Desert Storm Announced (1991)

World Religions Day

Ben Franklin's Birthday (1706)

First Baby Born in White House (1806)

A.A. Milne's Birthday (1882)

First Polar Bear Exhibited in U.S. (1733)

Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday (1809)

Int'l Sing-Out Day

Nat'l Penguin Awareness Day

Basketball Day

MLK Jr. Day Celebrated as Federal Holiday (1986)

Nazis Formulated "Final Solution" (1942)

Reagan Became Oldest President (1981)

Martin Luther King Day

First Atomic Submarine Launched (1954)

Vietnam Draft Evaders Pardoned (1977)

500 Russians Killed on "Bloody Sunday" (1905)

Abortion Legalized in Roe v. Wade (1973)

Nat'l Popcorn Day

Earthquake Killed 830,000 in China (1556)

First Female Physician in the U.S. (1849)

Nat'l Handwriting Day

California Gold Rush (1848)

Edith Wharton's Birthday (1862)

Thurgood Marshall Died (1993)

First Transcontinental Phone Call (1915)

First Winter Olympics (1924)

Australia Day

Earthquake in India Killed 20,000 (2001)

Michigan Admission Day (1837)

Auschwitz Concentration Camp Liberated (1945)

Lewis Carroll's Birthday (1832)

Mozart's Birthday (1756)

Vietnam War Peace Accords Signed (1973)

Challenger Shuttle Exploded (1986)

First Jewish Associate Justice Appointed to Supreme Court (1916)

Jackson Pollock's Birthday (1912)

Kansas Admission Day (1861)

Nat'l Puzzle Day

Poe's "The Raven" Published (1845)

Robert Frost Died (1963)

Adolf Hitler Named German Chancellor (1933)

"Blue Suede Shoes" Recorded (1956)

Jackie Robinson's Birthday (1919)

Thirteenth Amendment Abolished Slavery (1865)