* January 5-The Ice Storm of 1998, caused by El Niño, strikes southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to forests, and a number of deaths.

* January 5-The Journal des sçavans begins publication in France, the first scientific journal.

* January 5-The pathology of Cushing's syndrome is first described by Harvey Cushing.

* January 5-The Festiniog Railway in North Wales officially opens to passengers, the first narrow gauge railway in the British Isles to do so.

In the 1970s, the " Polish Prince " continued to hit the Top 40, notably with " Ev ' ry Day of My Life ", produced by Jimmy " The Wiz " Wizner and CBS recording engineer Jim Reeves, which peaked at # 24 in January, and " Sealed With a Kiss " hitting # 19 in June, 1972.

In January 1975, she played the role of Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West in the all-black cast of the Broadway musical The Wiz.

In January 2008, he merged his company with music business veteran, Danny Goldberg's, to form Gold Village / Wiz Kid Management.

Currently ( January 2007 ) he is in The Wiz, where he is playing the role of the Wiz and alternating the role of the Scarecrow.

The plantation was sold in January, 1845, and Palfrey thought the new owner ought to pay his people two months' wages.

The new promotion manager has been employed by the company since January, 1946, as a commercial artist in the advertising department.

The gathering of ormers is now restricted to a number of ' ormering tides ', from January 1 to April 30, which occur on the full or new moon and two days following.

On January 19, 1879, Alcott and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn wrote a prospectus for a new school which they distributed to potentially interested people throughout the country.

The Jewish holiday Tu Bishvat, the new year for trees, is on the 15th day of the month of Shvat, which usually falls in January or February.

On January 23, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coach and former linebackers coach for the 2000 Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens Mike Smith was named the Falcons ' new head coach.

* January 23, 2011: The pedestrian zone Akihabara's Chūōdōri High Street is reopened 2 1 / 2 years after the massacre with a memorial service and new rules.

In the January 1997 State of the Union address, Clinton proposed a new initiative to provide coverage to up to five million children.

Bulletins on BBC One moved into a new set in January 2003 although retained the previous ivory Lambie-Nairn titles until February 2004.

In January 2010, he stated in an interview that his new film project is called Bruce vs. Frankenstein.

Frustrated with their lack of concern for quality, Chaplin joined forces with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D. W. Griffith to form a new distribution company — United Artists, established in January 1919.

A new constitution in January 1976 established Democratic Kampuchea as a Communist People's Republic, and a 250-member Assembly of the Representatives of the People of Kampuchea ( PRA ) was selected in March to choose the collective leadership of a State Presidium, the chairman of which became the head of state.

On January 10, 1979, after the Vietnamese army and the KUFNS invaded Cambodia, the new People's Republic of Kampuchea ( PRK ) was established with Heng Samrin as head of state.

Cyprus ratified the new world trade agreement ( General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, GATT ) in 1995 and began implementing it fully on 1 January 1996.

On 1 January 2005, the old schools were replaced by new departments:

On January 29, 2012, for the first time since the team's inception, the Carolina Panthers unveiled a new refined logo and logotype.

In January 2007, the group publicly announced their reformation and on 23 February, after 20 days of auditions, former Beck drummer Matt Sherrod joined Finn, Seymour and Mark Hart to complete the new line up.

To maintain the momentum of the perceived commercial interest in this new investment opportunity, in 1983, the Government itself granted eleven interim franchises for new broadband systems each covering a community of up to around 100, 000 homes, but the competitive franchising process was otherwise left to the new regulatory body, the Cable Authority, which took on its powers from January 1, 1985.

At COCU's 18th plenary meeting in St. Louis, Missouri ( January 1999 ), CUIC was proposed as a new relationship among the nine member communions.

On January 6, 2011, Parton announced her new album would be titled, Better Day.

Although not released until 1984, the filming sessions in January 1969 led to unexpected success when Bowie told the producers, " That film of yours — I've got a new song for it.

He was approaching two years on half pay ( which would trigger automatic retirement from the navy ) when on January 8, 1912 his career was saved by the new First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill.

Hsieh and his cabinet resigned en masse on January 24 to make way for Su and his new cabinet.

Wiener Staatsoper added it to its repertoire in January 2012 in a production by Jérome Deschamps conducted by Ingo Metzmacher starring Christopher Ventris as Jimmy and Angelika Kirchschlager as Jenny, notably casting young mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Kulman as Begbick, breaking the tradition of having a veteran soprano ( like Varnay or Jones ) or musical theater singer ( like Patti LuPone ) perform the role.

The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts produced a limited-run revival of the musical from January 11 to 27, 2008.

Bob Dunn of Milton Brown's Musical Brownies introduced the electric Hawaiian guitar to Western Swing with his January 1935 Decca recordings, departing almost entirely from Hawaiian musical influence and heading towards Jazz and Blues.

A full-length stage musical, titled " Garfield Live ", was planned to kick off its US tour in September 2010, but got moved to January 18, 2011, where it premiered in Muncie, IN.

Jerome David Kern ( January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945 ) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.

The band broke up in January 1998 as Ballew quit to spend more time with his young family and explore other musical terrain.

Upon moving to Vienna in January 1925, Adorno immersed himself in the musical culture which had grown up around Schoenberg: in addition to his twice-weekly sessions with Berg, Adorno continued his studies on piano with Eduard Steuermann and befriended the violinist Rudolf Kolisch.

* January 27 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments ( b. 1655 )

Since the early stages of the nineties, Simon was fully involved on The Capeman, a musical that finally opened on January 29, 1998.

In January 2008, the Teatro São Luiz, in Lisbon, Portugal, premiered Evil Machines – a musical play, written by Jones ( based on his book ) and with original music by Portuguese composer Luis Tinoco.

This same book was also the basis for Jimmy a stage musical about Walker that had a brief Broadway run from October 1969 to January 1970, starring Frank Gorshin as Walker and Anita Gillette as Betty Compton.

Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach ( August 18, 1873 – January 24, 1963 ) was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies.

H. G. Wells wrote enthusiastically about the musical, and Cohan's performance as Roosevelt, in an article " The Fall in America 1937 ", published in Collier's on 28 January 1938 and reprinted in his World Brain ( 1938 ).

Gwenyth Evelyn “ Gwen ” Verdon ( January 13, 1925 – October 18, 2000 ) was an actress and dancer who won four Tony awards for her musical comedy performances and served as uncredited choreographers assistant and specialty dance coach for both theater and film.

On 23 January 1973, he released The Six Wives of Henry VIII, an instrumental concept album based on his interpretations of the musical characteristics of the wives of Henry VIII, using keyboard instruments.

A heavily-revised revival of the musical opened on January 19, 2006 at the West End Theatre in New York City.

On January 2, 1969, Cassidy made his professional debut in the Broadway musical The Fig Leaves Are Falling.

The musical previewed in the U. S. with a 1962 national tour and premiered on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on January 6, 1963.

In January 1963, Guy Lombardo's Port O ' Call Resort had its grand opening, where Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Liberace, Mel Tormé, and many other musical and theatrical stars would later perform.

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (, Milij Alekseevič Balakirev, ) ( 2 January 1837 < small >< nowiki > 21 December 1836 </ small > – ), was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian composers, notably Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Also, during 2006, Pryce returned to the Broadway stage replacing John Lithgow, from January to July, as Lawrence Jameson in the musical version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Despite retaining their strong fan base, Living Colour disbanded in January 1995, after failing to settle on a common musical goal during sessions for their fourth studio album.

Ray's a Laugh ran from 1949 until January 1961, eventually dropping the musical items.

Sir Joseph Barnby, caricature by " Leslie Ward | Spy " Sir Joseph Barnby ( 12 August 1838 – 28 January 1896 ), English musical composer and conductor, son of Thomas Barnby, an organist, was born at York.