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National Eye Health
^$%8onal Hobby Month
National Oatmeal Month
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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TUESDAY
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WEDNESDAY
CH AM B ER
New Year’s Day
OF C O M M E R C E
Betsy Ross born, 1752
Paul Revere bom
1735
Ellis Island Opened,
1892
Portland Observer is a proud
member of the A ACC
6 €
Secret Pal Day
Work Harder Day
Author Jack London
bom, 1876
19
Artist Paul Cezanne
bom, 1839
Popcorn Day
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)
26
Australia Day (first
settled, 1788)
27
Lewis Carroll
National Geographic
Society Founded
(1888)
Julius Lester bom,
1939
SATURDAY
3
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12
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First Woman Gover
nor Inaugurated 1925
(Nellie Ross)
George Washington
Carver Recognition
Day
THURSDAY
7
First U.S. Presidential
Election held, 1789
Old Rock Day
14
National Dress Up
Your Pet Day
The Revolutionary
War ended (1784)
21
National Hugging Day
First flight of the
Supersonic
Concorde (1976)
8
Make Your Dreams
Come True Day
Elvis Presley bom,
1935
Isaac Asimov born
1920 (Astronomer)
Crosby Bonsall bom,
1921
Drinking Straw
Patented, 1888
Festival O f Sleep Day
J.R.R. Tolkien bom ,
1892
9
10
Trivia Day
Isaac Newton born,
1643
Jakob Grimm bom,
1785
Louis Braille bom,
1809
11
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
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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.
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22
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
23 3
Brian Wildsmith bom,
1930
National Blonde
Brownie Day
Measure Your Feet
Day
National Handwriting
Day
National Pie Day
28
29
30
31
Jackson Pollock bom,
1912 (Artist)
National Kazoo Day
Baseball Hall of Fame
established (1936)
National Puzzle Day
Franklin D. Roosevelt
bom, 1882 (23rd
President)
Backwards Day
Jackie Robinson bom,
1919 (Baseball Great)