Date Name Location / Topic
Friday, Jan 1

New Year's Day

Friday, Jan 1

Liberation Day

Friday, Jan 1

Republic Day/New Year's Day

Friday, Jan 1

New Year's Day/Independence Day

Friday, Jan 1

Republic Day

Friday, Jan 1

Restoration of the Czech Independence Day

Friday, Jan 1

Independence Day

Friday, Jan 1

Independence Day

Friday, Jan 1

Polar Bear Plunge Day

Friday, Jan 1

National Hangover Day

Friday, Jan 1

National Bloody Mary Day

Friday, Jan 1

Diet Resolution Week

Friday, Jan 1

National Silent Record Week

Friday, Jan 1

Celebration Of Life Week

Friday, Jan 1

New Year’s Resolutions Week

Friday, Jan 1

January 1 Bank Holiday

Friday, Jan 1

National Mentoring Month

Friday, Jan 1

National CBD Month

Friday, Jan 1

National Bath Safety Month

Friday, Jan 1

National Black Diamond Month

Friday, Jan 1

National Blood Donor Month

Friday, Jan 1

National Braille Literacy Month

Friday, Jan 1

National Hobby Month

Friday, Jan 1

National Hot Tea Month

Friday, Jan 1

National Oatmeal Month

Friday, Jan 1

National Slavery And Human Trafficking Prevention Month

Friday, Jan 1

National Slow Cooking Month

Friday, Jan 1

National Soup Month

Friday, Jan 1

National Sunday Supper Month

Friday, Jan 1

Global Family Day

Friday, Jan 1

Public Domain Day

Friday, Jan 1

National First Foot Day

Friday, Jan 1

Apple Gifting Day

Friday, Jan 1

Z Day

Friday, Jan 1

Ring A Bell Day

Friday, Jan 1

Copyright Law Day

Friday, Jan 1

Euro Day

Friday, Jan 1

Commitment Day

Friday, Jan 1

National Menudo Month

Friday, Jan 1

Universal Hour Of Peace

Friday, Jan 1

Ginuary

Historical Events on January 1

  • 1707: John V becomes Portugal’s King.
  • 1739: French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.discovers what would become known as Bouvet Island.
  • 1773: “1 Chronicles 17: 16-17” is performed for the first time following a sermon given by John Newton in Olney, Buckinghamshire in England. This hymn would later become known as Amazing Grace.
  • 1776: After intense fighting by Royal Navy and Continental Army forces, the city of Norfolk in Virginia catches on fire during the American Revolutionary War.
  • 1781: During the American Revolutionary War, fifteen hundred soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment rebel against the Continental Army’s winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey. This would become known as the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.
  • 1801: The largest known object to date in the Asteroid Belt – a minor planet known as Ceres – is discovered on this day by Giuseppe Piazzi.
  • 1808: Importing slaves into the U.S is outlawed on this day, although slavery remains legal.
  • 1847: The Sisters of Mercy establish the first hospital in the U.S with the name “Mercy” in it. “Mercy” would eventually go on to grace over thirty hospitals all over the world.
  • 1892: Ellis Island opens on this day and begins processing immigrants into the U.S.
  • 1908: At midnight, for the first time in American history, a ball is dropped in New York’s Times Square to announce the start of New Year.
  • 1927: In Mexico, the Cristero War starts.

Famous Birthdays on January 1

  • American silversmith and patriot, Paul Revere is born in 1735.
  • American general Anthony Wayne is born in 1745.
  • American seamstress Betsy Ross is born in 1752.
  • British science writer Jane Marcet is born in 1769.
  • English author and playwright, E.M. Forster is born in 1879.
  • American actor Charles Bickford is born in 1889.
  • Slovenian geographer Anton Melik is born in 1890.
  • American law enforcement official and 1st Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover is born in 1895.
  • American novelist J.D. Salinger is born in 1919.
  • English general John Strawson is born in 1921.
  • American illustrator Jerry Robinson is born in 1922.