-Business and reference Books Month
-Careers in Cosmetology Month
-Crime Stoppers Month
-January Diet Month
-March of Dimes Birth Defects Prevention Month
-National Book Blitz Month
-National Eye Care Month
-National Hobby Month
-National Oatmeal Month
-National Soup Month
-Volunteer Blood Donor Month

FIRST WEEK:
-National Law Enforcement Training Week
-Universal Letter-Writing Week

SECOND WEEK:
-Man Watchers' Appreciation Week
-National Pizza Week

THIRD WEEK:
-International Printing Week, celebrating printing trade
National Book Week

FOURTH WEEK:
-Celebrity Read a Book Week (last full week in January)
-Glaucoma Awareness Week
-National Meat Week
-Health Awareness Week (the week with the fourth Wednesday in January)
-National Handwriting Analysis Week (the week that includes the 23rd, birthday of John Hancock)
-National Book Week

January 1
Emancipation Proclamanation issued (1863)
Imani - Faith Day - Seventh day of Kwanzaa
National Environmental Policy Act (1970)
North American Free Trade Agreement took effect (1994)
Party Party Day
January 4
Appendectomy Day
Braille Day, birthday of Louis Braille. Day of honoring the blind.
Elizabeth Ann Seton Feast Day, the first American-born saint
January 6
First round-the-world commercial air flight (1942)
January 7
First presidential election, 1782
Transatlantic telephone service began, 1927
January 8
First all-woman state supreme court, 1925
Rock 'n' Roll Day, Elvis' birthday, 1935
War on Poverty declared, 1964
January 9
Aviation in America Day
First income tax imposed, 1799
National Clean Off Your Desk Day
January 10
First subway passenger train, 1863
Where's the Beef Day, first time Wendy's Clara Peller commercial aired, 1984
January 11
First American discotheque opened, 1963, Whiskey a Go-Go, in LA
Smoking May Be Hazardous to your Health Day
January 12
All in the Family Premiered, 1971
Family Communications Day
First woman elected to U.S. Senate, Hattie Caraway, 1932
Work Harder Day
January 13
Blame Someone Else Day
First ad for a radio, 1906, in Scientific American magazine
First radio broadcast, 1910, by Lee DeForest, in NYC. Featured Caruso and other Met oepra singers.
Stephen Foster Memorial Day (wrote "Oh Susana" and "Camptown Races." Death 1864.
January 14
Bald Eagle Appreciation Days
First constitution in America, 1639
First moving assembly line, 1913, Henry Ford
Revolutionary War ended, 1784
Simpsons premiered, 1990
Today show premiered, 1952
January 15
Basketball invented
First Superbowl game, 1967, Green Bay Packers defeated Kansas City Chiefs
Humanitarian Day
Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday
World Religion Day
January 16
Book Publishers Day
First non-stop, around-the-world commercial airplane flight, 1957
Gulf Wwar began, 1991
Human Relations Day, celebrated the same as observed for Martin Luther King's birthday holiday
January 17
Saint Anthony Feast Day, patron saint of domestic animals and diggers
January 18
First aircraft landing on a ship
First Black cabinet member, 1966, Robert Weaver
Pooh Day, birthday of A.A. Milne, 1882
January 19
Maintenance Day - honors all janitors and building maintenance
January 20
Inauguration Day
Hat Day
January 21
First American novel published, 1789, "The Power of Sympathy."
First wide body jet flew commercially, 1970
Hot and Spicy Food International Day
National Hugging Day
Learn to Ski Day (third Saturday in January)
January 22
Answer Your Cat's Question Day
First nude beach opened in the U.S. in 1952
Roe vs Wade Anniversary, 1972, Supreme Court decision legalized women's right to abortions.
January 23
Barney Miller premiered, 1975
First woman to receive a medical degree in America, Elizabeth Blackwell, 1849
National Handwriting Day
National Pie Day
January 24
California Gold Disvery Day, Sutter's Mill, 1848
First beer in cans sold, 1935
First boy scout troop, 1908
First heart transplant, 1964
First ice cream bar patented, 1922
TV Game Show Day, birthday of Mark Goodson, 1915.
January 25
Elvis Presley's First No. 1 hit released, "Heartbreak Hotel," 1956
First Emmy Awards, 1949
First televised presidential news conference, 1961
First transcontinental commercial jet flight, 1959
First transcontinental phone call, 1915, NY to San Francisco.
National School Nurse Day
January 26
Electric dental dirll aptented, 1875
First prohibition law in the U.S., Tennessee, 1838
National Clashing Clothes Day (fourth Thursday)
January 27
Backwards Day
Electric Light patented, 1880
Mozart's Birthday, 1756
Spuse's Day
Thomas Crapper Day, primary inventor of flush toilet, 1837. Died in 1910.
Vietnam War ended, 1973
January 28
Challenger exploded, 1986
Coast Guard esetablished, 1915
First commercial raido stastion to air a CD, WDHA, Dover, NJ, 1983.
First commercial telephone switchboard, 1878
First Jewish Supreme Court Judge, 1916, Louis Brandeis
National Kazoo Day
We are the World Recorded, 1985
January 29
National Popcorn Day
National Puzzle Day
Superbowl Sunday (moveable)
January 30
American Music Awards Ceremony (moveable)
Chinese New Year (celebrated at sunset on the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice.)
Gandhi assassinated, 1948
January 31
First daytime TV soap opera, 1949
First McDonalds in the Soviet Union, 1990
First successful U.S. satellite launch, 1958
Twist-off bottle cap invented, 1956