January 1st
- 1735: Paul Revere Is Born
- 1863: The Emancipation Proclamation Is Issued
- 1885: Potlatch Ban Goes Into Effect In Canada
- 1888: Randolph McCoy's Cabin Is Attacked By Hatfields
- 1892: Ellis Island Opens
- 1919: J.D. Salinger, Author Of Catcher In The Rye, Is Born
- 1923: The Rosewood Massacre Begins
- 1959: Fidel Castro Seizes Power
January 2nd
- 1832: Jules Brunet, "The Last Samurai" Is Born In France
- 1839: Louis Daguerre Takes The First Known Photo Of The Moon
- 1939: TIME Names Adolf Hitler "Man of the Year
- 1942: All 33 Members Of The Duquesne Spy Ring Are Sentenced
- 1981: The "Yorkshire Ripper" Is Arrested
January 3rd
- 1521: Martin Luther Is Excommunicated From The Catholic Church
- 1892: J.R.R. Tolkien Is Born
- 1924: King Tutankhamun's Sarcophagus Is Discovered
- 1942: The Sullivan Brothers Enlist In The Navy
- 1972: John Wayne Gacy Murders His First Victim
- 2019: A Chinese Spacecraft Lands On The Far Side Of The Moon
January 4th
- 1643: Isaac Newton Is Born
- 1838: Charles Stratton Is Born
- 1853: Solomon Northup Gains His Freedom
- 1971: Juliane Koepcke Is Rescued From The Peruvian Jungle
- 1974: Ted Bundy Attacks His First Victim
- 2010: The Burj Khalifa Opens In Dubai
January 5th
- 1531: Pope Clement VII Tells Henry VIII He May Not Remarry
- 1757: Robert-François Damiens Attempts to Assassinate King Louis XV
- 1930: Bonnie And Clyde Meet
- 1933: Construction Begins On The Golden Gate Bridge
- 1939: Amelia Earhart Is Legally Declared Dead
- 2006: Police Search Joyce Vincent's Apartment In London
January 6th
- 1412: Joan of Arc Is Born
- 1540: Henry VIII Marries His Fourth Wife, Anne Of Cleves
- 1919: Former President Theodore Roosevelt Dies
- 1929: Mother Teresa Arrives In Kolkata, India
- 1946: Ho Chi Minh Wins Vietnam's First-Ever General Election
- 1994: Nancy Kerrigan Is Attacked
- 2021: Protestors Storm The U.S. Capitol
January 7th
- 1610: Galileo Discovers Jupiter's Moons
- 1811: The First 'Discovery' Of Bigfoot
- 1865: Asa-Harmon McCoy Is Killed
- 1891: Writer Zora Neale Hurston Is Born
- 1943: Inventor Nikola Tesla Dies In New York City
- 1979: Vietnamese Troops Overthrow Pol Pot And Khmer Rouge
- 1999: President Bill Clinton's Senate Impeachment Trial Begins
- 2005: Rosemary Kennedy Dies
- 2015: Two Gunmen Attack The Charlie Hebdo Office In Paris
January 8th
- 1642: Italian Astronomer Galileo Galilei Dies
- 1811: The German Coast Slave Uprising Begins
- 1935: Elvis Presley Is Born
- 1940: Britain Announces First World War II Food Rations
- 1973: The Watergate Trial Begins
- 2016: El Chapo Is Recaptured After A Prison Escape
January 9th
- 1431: Joan Of Arc's Trial Begins
- 1500: Diane De Poitiers, Mistress of Henry II Of France, Is Born
- 1913: President Richard Nixon Is Born
- 1929: Dorothea Puente Is Born
- 1991: 'Monster' Murderer Aileen Wuornos Arrested
- 2007: Steve Jobs Introduces The First iPhone
January 10th
- 49 B.C.E: Julius Caesar Crosses The Rubicon
- 1776: Thomas Paine Publishes 'Common Sense'
- 1863: The London Underground Begins Operations
- 1870: John D. Rockefeller Founds Standard Oil Company
- 1920: The Treaty Of Versailles Takes Effect
- 1971: Fashion Icon Coco Chanel Dies
January 11th
- 1755/57: Alexander Hamilton Is Born
- 1843: Francis Scott Key Dies
- 1908: Theodore Roosevelt Declares Grand Canyon A National Monument
- 1971: The Perron Family Moves Into The Conjuring House
- 2003: Illinois Governor Commutes 167 Death Row Prisoners' Sentences
January 12th
- 1737: John Hancock Is Born
- 1879: Anglo-Zulu War Begins
- 1910: Bass Reeves Dies
- 1919: Big Four Leaders Meet In Paris
- 1995: Christa Pike Murders Colleen Slemmer
- 2010: A Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Hits Haiti
January 13th
- 1898: Émile Zola Exposes The Drefyus Affair
- 1968: Johnny Cash Performs At Folsom State Prison
- 1996: Amber Hagerman Is Kidnapped
- 2004: Serial Killer Harold Shipman Is Found Dead In Prison
- 2012: The Costa Concordia Sinks Off Italian Coast
January 14th
- 83 B.C.E: Mark Antony Is Born
- 1236: Henry III marries Eleanor of Provence
- 1898: Lewis Carroll Dies
- 1948: Ans Van Dijk Is Executed
- 1967: The Human 'Be-In' Launches The Summer Of Love
- 1981: Mary Jane Rathbun Is Arrested
- 2018: Jordan Turpin Escapes House Of Horrors
January 15th
- 1559: Elizabeth I Is Crowned Queen Of England
- 1876: The First Afrikaans Newspaper Is Published In South Africa
- 1919: The Boston Molasses Flood Takes Place
- 1929: Martin Luther King Jr. Is Born
- 1947: The "Black Dahlia" Is Found Dead
- 1974: The 'BTK Killer' Murders His First Victims
- 2009: The 'Miracle On The Hudson' Takes Place
January 16th
- 27 B.C.E: Augustus Becomes The First Emperor Of The Roman Empire
- 1547: Ivan The Terrible Becomes Czar Of Russia
- 1936: Albert Fish Is Executed
- 1991: Operation Desert Storm Begins
- 1992: El Salvadorian Civil War Ends
January 17th
- 1377: The Papacy Returns To Italy
- 1706: Benjamin Franklin Is Born
- 1874: Conjoined Twins Chang and Eng Bunker Die
- 1893: Queen Liliuokalani Of Hawaii Is Overthrown
- 1920: Prohibition Goes Into Effect
- 1922: Betty White Is Born
- 1961: Patrice Lumumba Is Assassinated
- 1998: The Monica Lewinsky Scandal Breaks
January 18th
- 1486: Henry VII Marries Elizabeth Of York
- 1879: Anna Haining Bates Gives Birth To World's Largest Baby
- 1882: A.A. Milne Is Born
- 1915: The Endurance Gets Trapped In Ice
- 1958: The Battle Of Hayes Takes Place
- 1967: The 'Boston Strangler' Is Sentenced To Life In Prison
- 2002: The Sierra Leone Civil War Ends
January 19th
- 1419: Henry V Captures Normandy
- 1547: Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey, Is Executed
- 1809: Edgar Allan Poe Is Born
- 1903: L'Auto Announces The First Tour De France
- 1966: The First Reported Sighting Of A Crop Circle In Tully, Australia
- 1993: Anthony Casso Is Arrested
January 20th
- 1327: King Edward II Is Deposed
- 1936: King George V Dies
- 1942: Nazi Leaders Discuss 'Final Solution' At Wannsee Conference
- 1961: John F. Kennedy Is Inaugurated
- 1993: Audrey Hepburn Dies
January 21st
- 1793: Louis XVI Is Executed
- 1924: Vladimir Lenin Dies
- 1958: Charles Starkweather Murders His Girlfriend's Family
- 1959: Actor Carl Switzer Is Fatally Shot
- 1968: The Battle Of Khe Sanh Begins
- 1976: First Commercial Concorde Flight Takes Off
January 22nd
- 1506: The First Swiss Guards Arrive In Vatican City
- 1782: Philip Hamilton Is Born
- 1901: Queen Victoria Dies
- 1905: The Bloody Sunday Massacre Takes Place
- 1984: Apple Starts Selling Macintosh
- 1987: Budd Dwyer Dies By Suicide On Live TV
- 2008: Heath Ledger Is Found Dead In His New York Apartment
January 23rd
- 1516: King Ferdinand II Dies
- 1556: The Deadliest Earthquake In History Strikes Shaanxi Province In China
- 1719: The Principality Of Liechtenstein Is Founded
- 1950: Jerusalem Becomes The Capital Of Israel
- 1960: Humans Explores Deepest Point Of Ocean
January 24th
- 41 C.E.: Roman Emperor Caligula Is Assassinated
- 1848: Gold Is Discovered In California
- 1925: Maria Tallchief Is Born
- 1965: Winston Churchill Dies
- 1989: Ted Bundy Is Executed
January 25th
- 41 A.D.: Claudius Is Declared Emperor Of Rome
- 1533: Henry VIII Marries Anne Boleyn
- 1865: The Simpsonville Massacre Takes Place
- 1890: Nellie Bly Completes Her Journey Around The World
- 1924: The First Winter Olympic Games Begin
- 1947: Al Capone Dies
- 1998: Tom And Eileen Lonergan Are Lost At Sea
January 26th
- 1788: The First English Prisoners Arrive In Australia
- 1892: Bessie Coleman Is Born
- 1905: The World's Largest Diamond Is Found
- 1924: Petrograd Is Renamed Leningrad
- 1966: The Beaumont Children Disappear In Australia
- 1998: President Bill Clinton Denies Extramarital Affair
January 27th
- 1756: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Is Born
- 1820: The First Documented Discovery Of Antarctica
- 1850: Captain Edward Smith Is Born
- 1924: Vladimir Lenin's Body Is Put On Display
- 1945: The Red Army Liberates Auschwitz
January 28th
- 814 C.E.: Charlemagne Dies
- 1547: King Henry VIII Dies
- 1881: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Dies In St. Petersburg
- 1932: The Shanghai Incident Takes Places
- 1986: The Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes
January 29th
- 1737: Thomas Paine Is Born
- 1863: The Bear River Massacre Takes Place
- 1891: Liliʻuokalani Is Crowned Queen Of Hawaii
- 1942: Claudine Longet Is Born
- 1979: Brenda Ann Spencer Commits A Mass Shooting At An Elementary School
January 30th
- 1649: Charles I Is Beheaded
- 1835: The First Presidential Assassination Attempt Takes Place
- 1882: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Is Born
- 1933: Adolf Hitler Is Named Chancellor Of Germany
- 1948: Mahatma Gandhi Is Assassinated
- 1956: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Home Is Bombed
- 1972: Bloody Sunday Takes Place In Northern Ireland
January 31st
- 1606: Guy Fawkes Is Executed
- 1788: Charles Edward Stuart Dies
- 1865: The 13th Amendment Is Passed
- 1919: Jackie Robinson Is Born
- 1921: Carroll A. Deering Is Found Abandoned
- 1968: The Battle Of Hue Begins
- 2001: Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi Is Convicted For The Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing
