January is:
- Financial Wellness month;
- International Creativity month;
- International Life Balance month;
- Jump Out of Bed month;
- Learn Spanish month;
- National Get Organized month;
- National Hot Tea month;
- National Mentoring month;
- National Personal Self-defense Awareness month; and
- Oatmeal month.
Special dates in January:
01/03 National Write to Congress day
(1990) Panama’s General Noriega surrenders to United States troops to face drug trafficking charges
01/06 Fruitcake Toss Day
01/07 (1789) The first presidential election is held in America
01/08 National Clean Off Your Desk Day
(1877) Chief Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their final battle
01/10 (1901) An abundance of crude oil is discovered in America, igniting the oil industry
01/11 (1908) President Theodore Roosevelt declares the Grand Canyon a national monument
01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
(1919) The first Super Bowl is played between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs
01/16 (1919) The Prohibition Amendment is ratified in the United States Constitution
01/19 (1809) Birth of Edgar Allen Poe
01/20 Islamic New Year
(1981) The Iran hostage crisis at the US Embassy in Tehran, Iran ends after 444 days
01/22 (1973) The Supreme Court rules in Roe v. Wade that expectant mothers may legally terminate a pregnancy within the first two terms
01/23 (1957) Toy manufacturer, Wham-o produces the first Frisbees
01/25 (1905) The world’s largest diamond, the “Cullinan”, is found in Pretoria, South Africa
01/26 Fun at Work Day
01/27 Holocaust Memorial Day
(1888) National Geographic Society is founded
01/28 (1986) The Challenger space shuttle explodes
01/30 (1948) A Hindu fanatic assassinates Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi
For more information on the month of January, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January
