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January 8. 2014
National Soup Month
National Staying Healthy Month
National Thank You Month
Prune Breakfast Month
Universal Letter Writing Week (Jan. 8th - 14th)
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1 Betsy Ross bom, 1752
I Paul Revere bom
1735
1 Ellis
Island Opened,
J 1892
New Year's Day
P o rtla n d O b se rv e r is a p ro u d
m e m b e r of the A A C C
6
12
Secret Pal Day
Work Harder Day
Author Jack London
bom, 1876
19
Artist Paul Cezanne
bom, 1839
Popcorn Day
26
Australia Day (first
settled, 1788)
Poet Carl Sandburg
bom, 1878
Epiphany (Christian
Holiday)
Sherlock Holmes
bom, 1854
13
Poetry Break Day
Rubber Duckie's
Birthday (Sesame
Street Character)
20
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day Born
in 1929 (Observed
Third Monday in
January)
27
Lewis Carroll
National Geographic
Society Founded
(1888)
Julius Lester bom,
1939 ..........................
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1
A F R 1 C A
A M E R fE A N
C H A M B E R OF C O M M E R C E
First Woman Gover
nor Inaugurated 1925
(Nellie Ross)
George Washington
Carver Recognition
Day
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
7
First U.S. Presidential
Election held, 1789
Old Rock Day
14
National Dress Up
Your Pet Day
The Revolutionary
W ar ended (1784)
21
National Hugging Day
First flight of the
Supersonic
Concorde (1976)
8
Crosby Bonsall bom,
1921
Drinking Straw
Patented, 1888
Festival O f Sleep Day
J.R.R. Tolkien born,
1892
Trivia Day
Isaac Newton bom,
1643
Jakob Grimm bom,
1785
Louis Braille bom,
1809
9
10
First iPhone intro
duced in 2007
1 st U.S. Balloon Flight
(1793)
National Static
Electricity Day
Remy Charlip bom,
1929
First Meeting of
United Nations
General Assembly in
London, 1946
Milk Day Milk
delivered in bottles
for the first time, 1878
Amelia Earhart flew
solo across the
Pacific Ocean, 1935
15
16
17
18
First Super Bowl
Played in 1967. Green
Bay (35) defeated
Kansas City (10).
Hat Day The first top
hat was worn (1797)
Prohibition began in
1920
National Nothing Day
Muhammad Ali
(Cassius Clay) bom,
1942
Benjamin Franklin
bom, 1706
Shari Lewis bom, 1934
Raymond Briggs bom
1934
Marks the beginning
of the Lewis & Clark
Bicentennial.
Make Your Dreams
Come True Day
Elvis Presley bom,
1935
o
22
23
Brian Wildsmith bom,
1930
National Blonde
Brownie Day
Measure Your Feet
Day
National Handwriting
Day
National Pie Day
28
Jackson Pollock bom,
1912 (Artist)
National Kazoo Day
Isaac Asimov born
1920 (Astronomer)
10
Baseball Hall of Fame
established (1936)
National Puzzle Day
Franklin D. Roosevelt
bom, 1882 (23rd
President)
a
11
24
25
Eskimo Pie Patented
by Christian Nelson
in 1922.
Gold Discovered in
California At Sutter's
Mill in 1848
Opposite Day
First W inter Olympics
held, 1924
31
Backwards Day
Jackie Robinson bom,
1919 (Baseball Great)