Anaïs Nin (; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977 ) was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories.

Eric Arthur Blair ( 25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 ), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist.

His gravestone bears the simple epitaph: " Here lies Eric Arthur Blair, born 25 June 1903, died 21 January 1950 "; no mention is made on the gravestone of his more famous pen-name.

Harold Eugene " Doc " Edgerton ( April 6, 1903 – January 4, 1990 ) was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sir John Carew Eccles, AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS ( 27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997 ) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse.

This stage version, the first to use the shortened title " The Wizard of Oz ", opened in Chicago in 1902, then ran on Broadway for 293 stage nights from January to October 1903.

* January 23 – Toots Shor, New York restaurateur ( b. 1903 )

* January 21 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player ( b. 1903 )

* January 16 – Vernon Duke, Russian-American songwriter ( b. 1903 )

* January 23 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer ( b. 1903 )

* January 9 – Countee Cullen, American poet ( b. 1903 )

* January 5 – Amy Johnson, English aviator ( b. 1903 )

* January 12 – Hiram Bingham IV, American diplomat ( b. 1903 )

* January 17 – King Olav V of Norway ( b. 1903 )

* January 28 – Red Grange, American football player ( b. 1903 )

* January 19 – Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor ( b. 1903 )

* January 11 – Jiro Horikoshi, Japanese aircraft designer ( b. 1903 )

* January 2 – Una Merkel, American actress ( b. 1903 )

* January 23 – Gotse Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary ( d. 1903 )

* January 29 – Hans Hedtoft, Prime Minister of Denmark ( b. 1903 )

* January 28 – Edward Merritt Hughes, U. S. Navy officer ( d. 1903 )

The first radio telegraph transmission from America to England was sent from this station on January 18, 1903, a ceremonial telegram from President Theodore Roosevelt to King Edward VII.

His weight diminished from 200 to 135 pounds by January 1903.

However, his talents lay more in salesmanship and motoring pioneering than practical engineering ; in January 1903, with the help of £ 6, 600 provided by his father, he started one of Britain's first car dealerships, C. S. Rolls & Co. based in Fulham, to import and sell French Peugeot and Belgian Minerva vehicles.

Jean Moulin, the deputy of Charles de Gaulle, the leader of the Free France resistance movement, was parachuted into Eygalières, in the Bouches-du-Rhône on 2 January 1942 to unite the diverse resistance movements in all of France against the Germans.

His operations were so successful that the Germans instituted a special manhunt to get him and his team and on 13 January 1944 the Gestapo arrested him and agent Yolande Beekman in the Café Moulin Brulé in Saint-Quentin.

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

In January 1861, as more Southern states were seceding from the Union, Sherman was required to accept receipt of arms surrendered to the State Militia by the U. S. Arsenal at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

In January 2008, it was reported that Marr had taken part in a week-long songwriting session at Moolah Rouge recording studio in Stockport with Wakefield indie group The Cribs.

During the Civil War, David Pierson, a young attorney, was elected to represent the parish at the Secession Convention called in January 1861 in Baton Rouge by Governor Thomas Overton Moore.

On January 25, 200 armed Square Dealers took over the courthouse of East Baton Rouge Parish.

On January 11, 1861, Bragg led a group of 500 volunteers to Baton Rouge, where they persuaded the commander of the federal arsenal there to surrender.

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the ten-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967-68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

By the time the Khmer Rouge initiated their dry-season offensive to capture the beleaguered Cambodian capital on 1 January 1975, the Republic was in chaos.

As the Vietnamese army advanced in January 1979, the region regained its position and became one of the first areas of Cambodia liberated from the Khmer Rouge.

In January 2011, Roemer told Baton Rouge television station WAFB that he was considering a bid for the U. S. presidency in 2012.

In January 1979, Vietnam invaded Cambodia and drove the Khmer Rouge from power.

On 28 January 1850, he became the first governor inaugurated in the new state capital at Baton Rouge.

Madhouse is working on the first film in the Hunter × Hunter franchise, Hunter × Hunter: Phantom Rouge, due out in January 2013.

Thomas Joseph Lonergan and Eileen Cassidy ( née Hains ) Lonergan, born 1964 and 1969, respectively, were a married couple from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, who were mistakenly stranded in the Coral Sea on January 25, 1998, while scuba diving with a group of divers off of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

The Khmer Rouge communists initiated their dry-season offensive to capture the beleaguered Cambodian capital on January 1, 1975.

In January 1863, the federal troop again seized Baton Rouge and the school, using the building for hospital purposes again.

The rise of the Khmer Rouge made it obvious that Cambodia would be unable to participate in such an organization for the foreseeable future so in April 1977 the other three riparians agreed to the Declaration Concerning the Interim Mekong Committee, which resulted in the establishment of the Interim Mekong Committee in January 1978.

Warrick De ' Mon Dunn ( born January 5, 1975 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana ) is a former American football running back, and current minority owner of the Atlanta Falcons.