January Calendar Corner

Ring out the old, ring in the new,

ring, happy bells, across the snow;

The year is going, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- from "In Memoriam"
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Monthly Celebrations
National Hobby Month
Read a New Book Month
National Blood Donors Month
National Soup Month

Weekly Celebrations
First Week: Spontaneous Celebrations Week
Second Week: Letter Writing Week
Last Week: International Forgiveness Week

Daily Celebrations
January 01: New Year's Day
January 01: Paul Revere (1735)
January 01: Betsy Ross (1752)
January 01: Emancipation Proclamation Anniversary
January 02: Good Luck Day
January 03: J.R.R. Tolkien Day
January 04: Trivia Day
January 04: Jacob Grimm (1785)
January 05: George Washington Carver (d.1943)
January 05: National Bird Day
January 06: Epiphany Day
January 07: International Programmer's Day
January 10: Peculiar People Day
January 11: Amelia Earhart is the first female pilot to cross the Pacific Ocean
January 12: Jack London (1876)
January 15: Martin Luther King Jr (1929)
January 16: Appreciate a Dragon Day
January 17: Benjamin Franklin (1706)
January 17: Kid Inventors Day
January 18: Peter Mark Roget (1779) - Thesaurus Day
January 18: A.A. Milne (1882) - Winnie the Pooh Day
January 19: Edgar Allen Poe (1809)
January 20: Penguin Awareness Day
January 21: Squirrel Appreciation Day
January 22: School Nurse Day
January 23: John Hancock (1737) - National Handwriting Day
January 24: National Complement Day
January 25: Chinese New Year
January 25: Opposite Day
January 26: Australia Day
January 27: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756)
January 27: Lewis Carroll
January 28: Data Privacy Day