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January 1: Public Domain Day; Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (Roman Rite Catholicism)

Ellis Island
- 1068 – Having been pardoned by Eudokia Makrembolitissa, the regent of the Byzantine Empire, for attempting to usurp the throne, Romanos IV Diogenes married her to become Byzantine emperor.
- 1818 – Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a novel by the British author Mary Shelley, was first published anonymously in London.
- 1892 – The immigration station on Ellis Island (pictured) in New York Harbor opened, and would process almost 12 million immigrants to the United States over the course of its existence.
- 1957 – The revised Thai criminal code came into force, strengthening the law on lèse-majesté in Thailand to include insult, and treating it as a crime against national security.
- 2011 – A suicide bombing took place outside a Coptic Orthodox church in Alexandria, Egypt, following a New Year service, killing 23 people.
January 2: Feast day of Saint Gregory of Nazianzus (Roman Rite Catholicism, Anglicanism)

Llandaff Cathedral
January 3
January 4: Colonial Martyrs Repression Day in Angola (1961)

Constantine Hangerli
January 5: Twelfth Night (Western Christianity)

Australian troops at the Battle of Bardia
January 6: Little Christmas

Maria Montessori
January 7: Christmas (Eastern Christianity; Julian calendar); Victory over Genocide Day in Cambodia (1979)

Jerry Rawlings
January 8

Covent Garden Theatre
January 9

Ernest Shackleton and his team with the British flag
January 10

Lucas gusher at the Spindletop oil field
January 11: Coming of Age Day in Japan (2021)

Gateway Bridge
January 12

St Mary's Church, Reculver
January 13: Saint Knut's Day in Finland and Sweden

Johnny Cash
January 14: Ratification Day in the United States (1784)

Kingston after the earthquake
January 15: John Chilembwe Day in Malawi

Regent's Park skating disaster
January 16

Jose Calugas
- 1862 – A pumping engine at a colliery in New Hartley, England, broke and fell down the shaft, trapping miners below and resulting in 204 deaths.
- 1942 – World War II: During the Battle of Bataan, U.S. Army sergeant Jose Calugas (pictured) organized a squad of volunteers to man an artillery position under heavy fire, which later earned him the Medal of Honor.
- 1964 – The musical Hello, Dolly! opened at the St. James Theatre on Broadway, and went on to win ten Tony Awards, a record that stood for 37 years.
- 2018 – In Mrauk U, Myanmar, police fired into a crowd protesting the ban of an event to mark the anniversary of the end of the Kingdom of Mrauk U, resulting in seven deaths and twelve injuries.
January 17: World Religion Day (2021)

United Nations Security Council chamber
January 18: Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States (2021)

Wilhelm I of Germany
January 19

William V, Prince of Orange
January 20: Day of Nationwide Sorrow in Azerbaijan (1990)

Icelandic financial crisis protesters
January 21

DMC DeLorean
Anna Morandi Manzolini (b. 1714) · Joseph Wolf (b. 1820) · Cecil B. DeMille (d. 1959)
January 22: Day of Unity of Ukraine (1919)

Evo Morales
- 565 – Eutychius, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, was arrested after he refused Byzantine emperor Justinian I's order to adopt the tenets of the Aphthartodocetae, a sect of non-Chalcedonian Christians.
- 1689 – The Convention Parliament met to decide the fate of the English throne after James II, the last Catholic monarch, had fled to France as a result of the Glorious Revolution.
- 1905 – Russian Revolution: Unarmed demonstrators, led by Russian Orthodox priest Georgy Gapon, were massacred by the Imperial Guard outside the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg.
- 1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first wide-body commercial airliner, entered service for Pan Am on the New York–London route.
- 2006 – Evo Morales (pictured) was inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first democratically elected indigenous leader.
Wang Zhi (d. 1560) · Noah Phelps (b. 1740) · Ngô Quang Trưởng (d. 2007)
January 23

Artist's depiction of the Tottenham tram chase
Mary Ward (b. 1585) · Johann Wilhelm Ritter (d. 1810) · Guida Maria (b. 1950)
January 24

James W. Marshall
Richard de Bury (b. 1287) · Signe Rink (b. 1836) · Elie Hobeika (d. 2002)
January 25: Feast day of Gregory of Nazianzus (Eastern Orthodoxy); Tatiana Day in Russia

Battle of Mikatagahara
Ma Xiguang (d. 951) · Robert Burton (b. 1577) · Xavi (b. 1980)
January 26: Australia Day (1788); Republic Day in India (1950)

Audie Murphy
Henry Briggs (d. 1630) · Bessie Coleman (b. 1892) · Khorloogiin Choibalsan (d. 1952)
January 27

Entrance to Auschwitz I
Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (b. 1701) · Giuseppe Verdi (d. 1901) · Yang Chuan-kwang (d. 2007)
January 28: Tu BiShvat (Judaism, 2021)
George S. Boutwell (b. 1818) · Kathleen Lonsdale (b. 1903) · Paul Henderson (b. 1943)
January 29

Queen Liliʻuokalani
Albert Gallatin (b. 1761) · Teresa Teng (b. 1953) · Hélio Gracie (d. 2009)
January 30: Martyrs' Day in India

Attempted assassination of Andrew Jackson
Rudolf Caracciola (b. 1901) · Patrick Heron (b. 1920) · Professor Longhair (d. 1980)
January 31: Independence Day in Nauru (1968)

Sirius A (center) and
Sirius B (bottom left)
John Francis Regis (b. 1597) · Manuel Alberti (d. 1811) · Preity Zinta (b. 1975)
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