january
1st
New Year’s Day
1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in the Confederate states
1953 - The Bantu Education Act (later renamed the Black Education Act) commenced
2nd
1884-Oscar Micheaux, an African-American filmmaker whose films were a challenge to segregation, was born
1960 - Senator John F Kennedy announced his candidacy for the US Presidency
3rd
1921 Amelia Earhart began flying lessons.
1624 – Birthday of William Tucker, 1st Black child born in America
4th
1935-Birthday of African-American boxer, Floyd Patterson, youngest heavyweight champion in history and the first heavyweight to regain his title following a loss
Feast day of Elizabeth Ann Seton
5th
Guru Gobindh Singh’s Birthday
1957 - Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to NY Giants
6th
Epiphany
1941 - President Franklin Roosevelt's "4 Freedoms" speech (freedom from speech, worship, want, and fear) during US State of Union address
7th
1999 - Impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins in the US Senate.
1955 - Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at Met (NYC)
8th
1877 - Crazy Horse (Tashunca-uitco) and his warriors fought their final battle against the U.S. Cavalry in Montana.
1964 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declared a "War on Poverty.
9th
1942 - US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
1894 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
10th
1878 - US Senate proposes female suffrage
1949 - 1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS
11th
1961 - Racial riot at University of Georgia
1957 - The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
12th
1915 - House of Reps rejects proposal to give women right to vote
1932 - Hattie W Caraway elected 1st woman senator (D-Ark)
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast
13th
Magahi (Sikh), observed to honor the heroic battle of the Forty Liberated Ones who laid their lives to save Guru Gobind Singh
Eid Milad UnNabi (Islam), commemoration of the birthday of the Holy Prophet (pbuh). The Shia Muslims celebrate this day five days later.
14th
1914 - Henry Ford introduces an assembly line for Model T
1979 - Pres Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday
15th
1950 - 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Wash DC
Martin Luther King’s Birthday-(Civil Rights Activist)
16th
1941 - US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor
1890 - Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, TN
17th
1706 Ben Franklin’s Birthday
1920 - First day Prohibition comes into effect in the US as a result of the 18th amendment
18th
1944 - 1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts
1993 - Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time
19th
World Religion Day is observed by the Baha’i’ is to enhance and commemorate interfaith harmony and understanding
Timkat (Orthodox Christian)
20th
1869 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before US Congress
1986 - 1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr
21st
1908 - NYC regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
1987 - B.B. King, an African American musician, is inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"
22nd
Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
*1946 - US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
23rd
Chinese Spring Festival
1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator
24th
1950 - Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history
1962 - Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1964 - 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes
25th
1890 - National Afro-American League forms in Chicago
1915 - Alexander Graham Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF
1959 - Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council
26th
1863 - American Civil War: Massachusetts Governor receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent (54th Massachusetts Regiment)
1881 - Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl
27th
1825 - U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
1986 - 13th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis & C Gayle
28th
1916 - 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson
1986- Challenger Remembrance Day (Space Shuttle Exploded 53 Seconds after take off)
29th
1920 - Walt Disney starts work as an artist with KC Slide Co for $40 a week
1963 – Monica Horan, American actress birthday
30th
Franklin Delanor Roosevelt birthday
1946 - 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Nathuram Godse
31st
1876 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
Birthday of Guru Har Rai (Sikh), was the seventh Sikh guru
Chinese New Year (Confucian/Daoism/Buddhist), based on the lunar calendar 2014 marks the “Year of the Horse”