* January 1-The FAA will have been implementing a new system of GPS called NextGen that will be fully functional by this year

* January 1-The newest music video channel, VH-1, begins broadcasting on American cable.

* January 1-The Georgian theatre company gives its first performance, under the direction of Giorgi Eristavi.

* January 1-The King's Men perform Cymbeline at the court of King Charles I of England.

* January 1-The King's Men act Henry IV, Part 1 at Whitehall Palace.

* January 1-The King's Men act Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Court on the evening of January 1 ;

* January 1-The Children of Paul's perform at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England, probably acting Lyly's Gallathea.

* January 1-The Afghan Northern Alliance captured the Ghalmin district in Ghor province, Afghanistan.

** January 1-The city of Sanjō is founded.

* January 1-The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled.

* January 1-The building of Fredericton City Hall is completed

* January 1-The Department of National Defence comes into being

* January 1-The cities Fort William and Port Arthur are merged to create Thunder Bay, Ontario

* January 1-The metric system of weights and measures is officially adopted by the federal government although Imperial units are still used.

* January 1-The Goods and Services Tax comes into effect

* January 1-The magnitude 5. 2 Kipawa earthquake occurs in Ontario and Quebec, Canada

* January 1-The Ontario cities of Ottawa, Hamilton and Sudbury officially merge with their suburban municipalities to create new " megacities ".

* January 1-The Canadian Stock Exchange merges with the Montreal Stock Exchange

* January 1-The Nautical Almanac, published by the Royal Greenwich Observatory for the first time gives mariners the means to find their longitude while at sea, using tables of lunar distances.

* January 1-The United States Air Force reestablishes the Air Defense Command.

* January 1-The United States conducts a 48-hour standdown of air operations over Vietnam for the New Year holiday.

* January 1-The Northern Ireland Fair Employment Act becomes law.

* January 1-The Central Bank of Ireland becomes the banker of the Government of Ireland in succession to the Bank of Ireland in accordance with the Central Bank Act 1971, completing its transition from a currency board to a fully operating central bank.

* January 1 – The Covington – Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world.

Jones County, formed out parts of Covington and Wayne counties, was established on January 24, 1826 and was named for John Paul Jones.

Covington County was established on January 5, 1819, less than two years after Mississippi earned statehood into the Union.

In recent years, average temperatures in the county seat of Covington have ranged from a low of in January to a high of in July, although a record low of was recorded in January 1994 and a record high of was recorded in August 1988.

* January 1 — The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky is formally opened.

Stuart Eizenstat ( born January 15, 1943 ) is a partner at Washington, D. C. law firm, Covington & Burling and senior strategist at APCO Worldwide.

* January 10-The Illinois Central, Columbus and Indianapolis and Richmond and Covington railroads sign an agreement for joint operation as the Great Central Line between Columbus, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Indiana, headed by the Indiana Central Railway.

He died in Covington, Kentucky on January 26, 1878.

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

Words primarily used in Austria are Jänner ( January ) rather than Januar, heuer ( this year ) rather than dieses Jahr, Stiege ( stairs ) instead of Treppe, Rauchfang ( chimney ) instead of Schornstein, many administrative, legal and political terms – and a whole series of foods and vegetables such as: Erdäpfel ( potatoes ) German Kartoffeln ( but Dutch Aardappel ), Schlagobers ( whipped cream ) German Schlagsahne, Faschiertes ( ground beef ) German Hackfleisch, Fisolen ( green beans ) German Gartenbohne ( but Czech fazole and Italian fagioli ), Karfiol ( cauliflower ) German Blumenkohl ( but Italian cavolfiore ), Kohlsprossen ( Brussels sprouts ) German Rosenkohl, Marillen ( apricots ) German Aprikosen but Slovak marhuľa, Paradeiser ( tomatoes ) German Tomaten, Palatschinken ( pancakes ) German Pfannkuchen ( but Czech palačinky ), Topfen ( a semi-sweet cottage cheese ) German Quark and Kren ( horseradish ) German Meerrettich ( but Czech křen ).

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

Albert Camus (; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960 ) was an algerian born author, journalist, and philosopher.

Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.

* Colonel Shahin Musayev ( January – February 1992 )

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

Armenia's agricultural output dropped by 17. 9 percent in the period of January – September 2010.

During January – February 2007, Armenia ’ s trade with the European Union totaled $ 200 million.

During January – February 2007, Armenia ’ s trade with Russia and other former Soviet republics was $ 205. 6 million ( double the amount from the same period the previous year ), making them the country ’ s number one trading partner.

The volume of Chinese-Armenian trade soared by 55 percent to $ 390 million in January – November 2010.

From January – September 2010, bilateral trade with the United States measured approximately $ 150 million, on track for about a 30 percent increase over 2009.

According to official Armenian statistics, it rose by 11 percent to $ 91. 6 million in January – November 2010.

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

Chris Tremlett bowls Michael Beer ( cricketer ) | Michael Beer to complete England's 3 – 1 Ashes victory on 7 January 2011

Abner Doubleday ( June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893 ) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War.

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

A number of tour boats, ranging from large motorized vessels to small sailing yachts, visit the Antarctic Peninsula during the summer months ( January – March ).

" The Annales and the History of Technology ," Technology and Culture, Volume 46, Number 1, January 2005, pp. 177 – 186 in Project Muse

André-Marie Ampère ( 20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836 ) was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as " electrodynamics ".

Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS ( 8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913 ) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California ( although the rush started in January ).