* January 11 – Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada

Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien ( born January 11, 1934 ), known commonly as Jean Chrétien () was the 20th Prime Minister of Canada.

Chrétien was born on January 11, 1934, in Shawinigan, Quebec, as the 18th of 19 children ( 10 of whom did not survive infancy ) to Wellie Chrétien and Marie ( née Boisvert ).

* January 11-Jean Chrétien, politician and 20th Prime Minister of Canada

* January 15-Jean Chrétien shuffles the cabinet mostly to remove the scandal-tainted Alfonso Gagliano

He was parliamentary secretary to former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien from January 13, 2003 to December 11, 2003.

He was appointed as Speaker by Chrétien in January 2001.

In 1964, an act of Parliament proposed by Jean Chrétien changed the name of Trans-Canada Air Lines to " Air Canada ", which was already in use as the airline's French-language name, effective 1 January 1965.

Re-elected in the renamed riding of Saint-Laurent — Cartierville during the 1993 election that brought the Liberals to power under Jean Chrétien, she served as Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole from January 1994 to February 1996, with one of her roles being assistant deputy Speaker of the House of Commons.

She served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources Development in the government of prime minister Jean Chrétien from January 13 until December 11, 2003, and as Deputy Government Whip under Chrétien's successor Paul Martin from February 2, 2004, until she left office.

* January 4-Jagex Games Studios launches RuneScape

* January 15 – Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, launches on the Internet.

* January 5 – The Soviet Union launches Venera 5 toward Venus.

* January 15 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5, which docked with Soyuz 4 for a transfer of crew.

* January 21 – WWII: Erwin Rommel launches his new offensive in Cyrenaica.

* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments.

* In the BBC mockumentary Time Trumpet, British retail chain Tesco launches an invasion of Denmark on January 21 of this year.

* LME launches and investigation in primary aluminium trading, London Metal Exchange advice to members 15 January 1999, reproduced at aluNET International

On January 12, 2011, Space Adventures and the Russian Federal Space Agency announced that orbital space tourism would resume in 2013 with the increase of manned Soyuz launches to the ISS from four to five per year.

In January 1966, it had been transported to Adelaide, Australia, for launches later that year.

* January 3 – Sam Phillips launches Sun Records at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee.

* January 19 – CBS launches Operation 100, an all-out campaign to discredit NBC and all it stands for, using the slogan " The man can't bust our network.

* 1930, January 30-Pavel Molchanov invents and launches the first radiosonde.

* January 15 – Wikipedia launches on the internet.

Distinctively packaged in yellow with aggressive black print, under a brand name (" YelLOW PRICE Packs ") invented in January 1980 by the Collett Dickenson Pearce advertising agency, Yellow Packs, unlike previous generic grocery launches in North America and Europe, were positioned, next to a modestly successful own-label range, as the cheapest version of the product concerned available in Britain.

* January 15-The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.

* 11 January – Sonia Gandhi launches her election campaign at Sriperumbudur, where her husband was assassinated.

* January 10 – India launches four satellites at a time with their PSLV-C7 rocket, including the SRE-1 test article, which will return to Earth in a test for a future Indian manned spaceflight program.

* January 7 – Aeroflot launches its service from Moscow to Havana ( Cuba ), using Tu-114 turboprop aircraft.

Other launches in the 1960s included six high-altitude releases of vaporized barium from 2-stage Nike Iroquois sounding rockets in January 1967 to measure wind speeds and directions in the upper atmosphere, conducted under the auspices of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory ( AFCRL ) in conjunction with the Space Systems Branch of the Aircraft and Missile Test Division, Air Proving Ground Center, Eglin AFB.

In January 2014, Max and Miriya join their friends in the Battle of New Macross as Khyron launches an assault in his repowered warship to destroy the SDF-1.

In January 2014, in the final battle against Khyron, who launches a suicide run against the SDF-1, Claudia, Admiral Gloval, Lt. Vanessa Leeds, Lt. Sammie Porter and Lt. Kim Young, die at their post ( although in the original Macross, she does not die ).

* 11 January – The United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid launches the International Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa

* January 21: The United States launches the world's first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus.

The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

In 2008, effective January 1, 2009, the ADAAA broadened the interpretations and added to the ADA examples of " major life activities " including, but not limited to, " caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working " as well as the operation of several specified " major bodily functions ".

In January 1926 having been promoted to major in 1925, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at the Staff College, Camberley in the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel, a position he held until January 1929 by which time he had been made a ( brevet lieutenant-colonel ).

Daytime readings in Moundou, the major city in the southwest, range from in the middle of the cool season in January to about in the hot months of March, April, and May.

Kane made her West End debut in January 2011 in a major revival of Lillian Hellman's drama The Children's Hour, at London's Comedy Theatre.

On January 24, 1932, there was a major disturbance at the prison.

Alfred Henry ( Freddy ) Heineken ( November 4, 1923, Amsterdam, Netherlands – January 3, 2002, Noordwijk, Netherlands ) was a Dutch major stock holder and president of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam.

In order to gain weapons and to secure a major power base in the Vaasa-Seinäjoki area the Whites continued disarmament of Russian garrisons, initiated locally in western and eastern Finland during 21 – 23 January, followed by a major operation in Ostrobothnia during the early hours of 28 January.

The Helsinki Guard, the strongest Red unit with its crucial strategic position in the capital of Finland had already become active on 23 – 25 January, aiming to secure a major power base for the Reds.

From November 2011 to January 2012 all three major credit rating agencies downgraded Hungarian debt to a non-investment speculative grade, commonly called " junk status ".

" On January 23, 1861, Pettus made Davis a major general of the Army of Mississippi.

Paul Jackson Pollock ( January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956 ), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.

From January 1976 to August 1979, Jones served in the Officer Assignments Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. During this assignment, he was promoted to major in July 1977.

The work went without major notice until John Bowring reviewed Coleridge's Poetical Works for the January 1830 Westminster Review.

In January 1964, UNIP won the next major elections, defeating their ANC rivals and securing Kaunda's position as prime minister.

By January 1970, Zambia had acquired majority holding in the Zambian operations of the two major foreign mining interests, the Anglo American Corporation and the Rhodesia Selection Trust ( RST ); the two became the Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines ( NCCM ) and Roan Consolidated Mines ( RCM ), respectively.

In January 1976, the Arab Socialist Union's National Congress attempted to promote Gaddafi to major general.

A major retrospective exhibition of Lyonel Feininger's work, initially at the Whitney Museum of American Art during June 30-October 16, 2011, was subsequently due to run at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts during January 20 – May 13, 2012.

Rabaul, the capital of the Territory was overwhelmed on 22 – 23 January and was established as a major Japanese base from whence they landed on mainland New Guinea and advanced towards Port Moresby and Australia.

Pope Sixtus V named him major penitentiary in January 1586 and in 1588 sent him as legate in Poland.