Historical Events
- Jan 2 Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine in San Jose, California
- Jan 2 In Chicago, Illinois, a conference of 23 industrial trade unionists issues the 'Industrial Union Manifesto' calling for a convention to be held in Chicago in June, laying the groundwork for the formation of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
- Jan 2 Japanese troops capture Port Arthur from Russia, a blow to national morale and causing further discontent within Russia
- Jan 5 Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara
- Jan 5 Incorporation of the National Association of Audubon Society, a nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to conservation
- Jan 14 Raymond Hubbell, Sam Shubert & Robert Smith's musical "Fontana" opens at the Lyric Theatre, NYC; runs 298 for performances
- Jan 16 Baseball outfielder Frank Huelsman completes eighth transaction in 8 months
- Jan 16 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators rout Dawson City (Yukon), 23-2 for 2-0 series sweep; most lopsided challenge playoff game in history; Frank McGee 14 goals
- Jan 17 Punchboards patented by Charles Brewer & C G Scannell, Chicago
- Jan 18 French government of Combes falls
US Supervises Dominican Debt
Jan 20 US begins supervising the Dominican Republic's national and international debts, testing President Theodore Roosevelt's "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine
- Jan 22 Dutchman Coen de Koning wins the 1,500m, 5,000m & 10,000m at World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Groningen, Netherlands to become 2nd Dutchman to win a world title
1905 Russian Revolution
Jan 22 In St Petersburg, Russia, a large demonstration of workers led by Father Gapon, march to the Winter Palace with a petition to the Tsar; troops fire on protesters in what becomes known as 'Bloody Sunday'
Pelleas und Melissande
Jan 25 Arnold Schoenberg's symphonic poem "Pelleas und Melissande" premieres at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria
- Jan 26 Han Yong-woon [Bongwan, Manhae] (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea
World's Largest Diamond Discovered
Jan 26 World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa
- Jan 27 Maurice Rouvier forms government in France
Nicolas II's Worker Reforms
Jan 29 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia, unsettled by the rising violence and protest, enacts reforms to improve the conditions of workers; these changes will do little to stop disorder throughout Russia in ensuing months
- Jan 31 1st automobile to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), British daredevil Arthur Macdonald drive a Napier six-cylinder racing car named 'Samson' on sands of Daytona Beach, Florida, notching a top speed of 104 mph
- Jan 31 Carroll Wright appointed 1st Commissioner of Labor, USA
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 1 Charles Melvin Price, American politician (Rep-D-Illinois 1945-88), born in East St. Louis, Illinois (d. 1988)
- Jan 1 Stanisław Mazur, Polish mathematician, born in Lemberg, Western Ukraine (d. 1981)
- Jan 2 Lev Schnirelmann, Gomel, Russian Empire, mathematician (d. 1938)
- Jan 2 Michael Tippett, British conductor and composer (A Child of Our Time), born in London, England (d. 1998)
- Jan 3 Anna May Wong [Wong Liu-tsong], Chinese-American actress, 1st Asian-American movie star (Shanghai Express; Gallery of Mme Lui-Tsang), and 1st Asian-American on US currency (American Women series quarter, 2022), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1961)
- Jan 3 Dante Giacosa, Italian engineer and automobile designer (Fiat), born in Rome, Italy (d. 1996)
Ray Milland (1905-1986)
Jan 3 Welsh actor (Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945), born in Neath, Wales
- Jan 4 Sterling Holloway, American actor (The Jungle Book, Alice in Wonderland, The Aristocats, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree), born in Cedartown, Georgia (d. 1992)
- Jan 6 Eric Frank Russell, British sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space, Dark Tides), born in Sandhurst, Berkshire (d. 1978)
- Jan 8 Carl Gustav Hempel, German writer and philosopher, born in Oranienburg, Germany (d. 1997)
- Jan 8 Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer and surrealist poet, born in La Spezia, Italy (d. 1988)
- Jan 11 Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
- Jan 11 John Henry Jacques, English co-operative retailer and politician, born in Ashington, Northumberland (d. 1995)
- Jan 12 James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist, born in Atchison, Kansas (d. 1997)
- Jan 12 Marie Paxton, British stage and screen actress (Ouanga; Kind Lady), born in London, England (d. 1992)
- Jan 13 Kay Francis [Katherine E Gibbs], American actress (False Madonna), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (d. 1968)
- Jan 13 Percy Humphrey, American jazz trumpet player and bandleader, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1995)
- Jan 14 Takeo Fukuda, 67th Prime Minister of Japan, born in Gunma, Japan (d. 1995)
- Jan 15 Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese film actor (Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo), born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1985)
- Jan 15 Roosevelt Holts, American blues singer and guitarist, born in Tylertown, Mississippi (d. 1994)
- Jan 15 Torin Thatcher, British actor (Houdini, Isranbul, Lady Godiva), born in Bombay Presidency, British India (d. 1981)
- Jan 16 Ernesto Halffter, Spanish classical and film score composer (Rapsodia portuguesa; Don Quixote de la Mancha), and conductor, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1989)
- Jan 17 Franz Schmid, German climber (1st to ascend northside of Matterhorn 1931), born in Garmisch, Germany (d. 1992)
- Jan 17 Grant Withers, American actor (Rio Grande, Oklahoma, Annie), born in Pueblo, Colorado (d. 1959)
- Jan 17 Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966)
- Jan 18 Chick Chandler [Fehmer Chandler], American actor (Seven Doors to Death, One Happy Family), born in Kingston, New York (d. 1988)
- Jan 18 Joseph Bonanno, Italian-American mafioso and crime boss of the Bonanno crime family, born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Italy (d. 2002)
- Jan 19 Anne Hummert, American radio pioneer and producer of daytime radio serials during the 1930s and 1940s (Just Plain Bill, The Romance of Helen Trent), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1996)
- Jan 19 Oveta Culp Hobby, American government official (1st US Secretary of Health) and newspaper publisher (Houston Post), born in Killeen, Texas (d. 1995)
- Jan 21 "Ossie" O.S. Stevens Nock, English railway writer, born in Sutton, England (d. 1994)
Christian Dior (1905-1957)
Jan 21 French fashion designer (New Look), born in Granville, France
- Jan 21 Karl "The Great" Wallenda, German acrobat (The Flying Wallendas) (d. 1978)
- Jan 23 David Newell, American actor (Runaway Bride, White Heat, Dangerous Curves), born in Carthage, Missouri (d. 1980)
- Jan 23 Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Polish poet (Zielona Ges), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1953)
- Jan 24 Dorothy Patten, American actress, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee (d. 1975)
- Jan 24 J. Howard Marshall [James Howard Marshall II), American businessman and husband of Anna Nicole Smith, born in Germantown, Pennsylvania (d. 1995)
- Jan 25 Julia Smith, American composer (Prairie Kaleidoscope; Cynthia Parker), pianist (Orchestrette Classique), teacher, and musicologist (Aaron Copland: His Work and Contribution to American Music), born in Denton, Texas (d. 1989)
- Jan 26 Charles Lane, American actor (Homer-Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2007)
- Jan 26 John Carmel Heenan, British clergyman, Catholic Cardinal (Archbishop of Westminster, 1963-75), born in Ilford, England (d. 1975)
- Jan 26 Maria Augusta von Trapp, Austrian singer who inspired "The Sound of Music", born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1987)
- Jan 27 Howard McNear, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Anatomy of a Murder, Irma La Douce), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1969)
- Jan 27 Luther Diamond, American radio personality (d. 1994)
- Jan 28 Luther Simjian, Armenian-American Inventor (teleprompter and first self-posing portrait camera), born in Aintab, Ottoman Empire (d. 1997)
- Jan 29 Barnett Newmann, American abstract expressionist painter (Black Fire I), born in New York City (d. 1970)
Emilio G. Segrè (1905-1989)
Jan 30 Italian physicist and Nobel laureate (discovered the elements technetium, astatine and the sub-atomic antiparticle antiproton), born in Tivoli, Italy
- Jan 31 Anna Blaman [Johanna P Vrugt], Dutch writer (Wife & Friend), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1960)
- Jan 31 Eva Hart, British Titanic passenger, one of last living survivors, born in Ilford, Essex, England (d. 1996)
- Jan 31 John O'Hara, American short story writer and novelist (Appointment in Samarra; Pal Joey; BUtterfield-8), born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania (d. 1970)
Famous Weddings
John J. Pershing
Jan 26 General officer John J. Pershing (44) weds Helen Frances
Famous Deaths
- Jan 1 Mabel Cahill, Irish tennis player (US National C'ship 1891-92), dies at 41
- Jan 10 Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (Dievs, svētī Latviju! (“God bless Latvia!”), the national anthem of Latvia), dies at 69
- Jan 11 Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Warsaw, Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847)
- Jan 13 George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
- Jan 14 Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64
- Jan 19 Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
- Jan 20 Stanislaw Pilinski, French pianist and composer, dies at 65
- Jan 24 William Sellers, American engineer and inventor (US standard screw thread), dies at 80 [1]
