Associate Justice William Cushing received nomination and confirmation as Chief Justice in January 1796, but declined the office ; President Washington then nominated, and the Senate confirmed, Oliver Ellsworth, who served instead.

* January 3 – The Treaty of Tripoli ( a peace treaty between the United States and Tripoli ) is signed at Algiers ( see also 1796 ).

* January 25 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet ( d. 1796 )

* January 3 – Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier ( d. 1796 )

Nine months after the wedding, Caroline gave birth to Princess Charlotte Augusta, George's only legitimate child, at Carlton House on 7 January 1796.

It carried the following inscription ( translated from Russian ): " In the Year 1796, in the month of January, this bell was cast on the Island of Kodiak by the blessing of Archimandrite Joaseph, during the sojourn of Alexsandr Baranov.

She had been staying in Vienna with her Habsburg relatives since January 1796.

In January 1796, Napoléon Bonaparte proposed to her and they married on 9 March.

Anthony Wayne ( January 1, 1745 – December 15, 1796 ) was a United States Army general and statesman.

On January 1, 1797, the county of Bullitt-named after Thomas Bullitt's nephew and Kentucky's first Lieutenant Governor Alexander Scott Bullitt-was created from land given by Jefferson and Nelson counties through an act approved on December 13, 1796 by the Kentucky General Assembly.

Samuel Huntington ( January 5, 1796 ) was a jurist, statesman, and Patriot in the American Revolution from Connecticut.

He died while in office, at his home in Norwich on January 5, 1796.

* January 10-Joan Aulí, organist and composer ( b. 1796 )

In 1796, three days after Caroline gave birth to their daughter, Princess Charlotte of Wales, on 10 January, the Prince of Wales wrote his last will and testament, bequeathing all his “ worldly property.

His father then refused his request to return home, and he was promoted to lieutenant-general in January 1796.

* January 25 – Robert Burns, poet ( died 1796 )

Richard Gridley ( 3 January 1710 – 21 June 1796 ) was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Henry George Bohn ( January 4, 1796 – August 22, 1884 ) was a British publisher.

Remaining in Germany, he commanding a brigade of the Corps of Observation, 22 October 1796 – 12 January 1798.

Blount ordered a state constitutional convention to be held at Knoxville in January 1796, which he personally attended as part of the Knox County delegation.

He then represented Milborne Port from 1796 until he resigned his seat in 1804 by appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, and again from the 1806 election to January 1810, when he took the Chiltern Hundreds again.

Pietro Colletta ( January 23, 1775 – November 11, 1831 ) was a Neapolitan general and historian, entered the Neapolitan artillery in 1796 and took part in the campaign against the French in 1798.

William MacGillivray ( 25 January 1796 – 4 September 1852 ) was a Scottish naturalist and ornithologist.

The Treaty of Tripoli ( Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary ) was the first treaty concluded between the United States of America and Tripolitania, signed at Tripoli on November 4, 1796 and at Algiers ( for a third-party witness ) on January 3, 1797.

Washington subsequently nominated Cushing on January 26, 1796 ; the Senate unanimously confirmed the nomination.

Currently, there are three retired Associate Justices: Sandra Day O ' Connor, who assumed senior status on January 31, 2006, David H. Souter, who assumed senior status on June 29, 2009, and John Paul Stevens, who assumed senior status on June 29, 2010.

Following the publication of the Declaration the British had dispatched Commander David George Hogarth to see Hussein in January 1918 bearing the message that the " political and economic freedom " of the Palestinian population was not in question.

* David Lempert, “ Foreign Aid: Creating Conditions for the Next Civil War ,” Phnom Penh Post, 16 / 01, January 12 – 25, 2007, available on the internet.

Image: Camp David 4 p37126-25a-515h. jpg | George W. Bush meets with his advisors at Camp David on January 17, 2004, while preparing for his State of the Union address.

Media attention was renewed by the January 2005 suicide of David Berg's adopted and abused son / heir apparent Ricky Rodriguez ( who had also left the group several years earlier ) after he murdered a former member.

David Llewelyn Wark " D. W ." Griffith ( January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948 ) was a premier pioneering American film director.

David Keith Lynch ( born January 20, 1946 ) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor.

David Hilbert, ForMemRS (; January 23, 1862 –

David Robert Jones ( born 8 January 1947 ), known by his stage name David Bowie ( ), is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger.

David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in Brixton, London, on 8 January 1947.

Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO, PC ( 17 January 1871 – 11 March 1936 ) was an admiral in the Royal Navy.

* 1 January – 1 May 1919: Admiral Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

David Abelevich Kaufman () ( 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954 ) — better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov, or Vertof (, " spinning top ") — was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist.

Danny Kaye ( born David Daniel Kaminsky ; 18 January 1913 – 3 March 1987 ) was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian.

He was born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the second child of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.

David Kahanamoku, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Prince Edward, and Duke Kahanamoku, c. 1920. After his war service, and having been promoted to sub-lieutenant on 15 January 1919, Mountbatten attended Christ's College, Cambridge for two terms where he studied engineering in a programme that was specially designed for ex-servicemen.

In January 2012, Prime Minister David Cameron announced at Pinewood film studios to businesses that the government has bold ambitions for the film industry.

Hank Greenberg was born Hyman Greenberg on January 1, 1911, in Greenwich Village, New York City to Romanian-born Jewish immigrant parents David and Sarah Greenberg, who owned a successful cloth-shrinking plant in New York.

On January 6, 2012, NBC president Robert Greenblatt announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour that Harry Connick, Jr. had been cast in a four-episode arc of NBC's long-running legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as new Executive ADA, David Haden, a dedicated, straight-shooting prosecutor who is assigned a case with Detective Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ).

She and Jackie had three children: Jackie Robinson Jr. ( born November 18, 1946 ), Sharon Robinson ( born January 13, 1950 ), and David Robinson ( born May 14, 1952 ).

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

In January 2009, he directed the premiere of Joe Sutton's Complicit, with Richard Dreyfuss, David Suchet and Elizabeth McGovern.