January 1

January 1 is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining (365 in leap years).

Events:

• 1801 - Legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed
• 1863 - Abraham Lincoln delivers the Emancipation Proclamation during the second year of the American Civil War.
• 1892 - Ellis Island opens to begin accepting immigrants to the United States.
• 1901 - Establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia (Federation)
• 1970 - Unix epoch begins at 00:00:00 UTC.
• 1984 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state

Births:

• 1431 - Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI)
• 1735 - [Paul Revere]?, silversmith, United States patriot
• 1752 - [Betsy Ross]?, seamstress
• 1879 - [E. M. Forster]?, novelist
• 1895 - J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director
• 1909 - Barry M. Goldwater, Arizona Senator
• 1911 - Hank Greenberg, baseball player
• 1919 - J. D. Salinger, novelist
• 1921 - [Rocky Graziano]?, boxer, born "Rocky Barbella"
• 1940 - [Frank Langella]?, actor
• 1942 - [Country Joe McDonald]? (of [Country Joe and the Fish]? fame)

Deaths:

• 2001 - [Ray Walston]?, 86, actor best known as the star of TV's My Favorite Martian, and later as a judge on Picket Fences.

Holidays and observances:

• United States - New Year's Day
• United States - Copyright Expiration Day, celebrating the expiration of the copyright of a year's worth of works of authorship into the public domain. Not celebrated from 1978 to 2018 because of repeated copyright term extensions.

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See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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