January 1st Daily Holiday List
Here is a collection of today’s holidays! Look down the list, click on them and see if there is anything you would like to celebrate or observe today!
- Apple Gifting Day
- Commitment Day
- Copyright Law Day
- Ellis Island Day
- Euro Day
- Global Family Day
- National Bloody Mary Day
- National First Foot Day
- National Hangover Day
- New Year’s Day
- World Day of Peace
- Z Day
January 1st Horoscope Sign is Capricorn

Element: Earth
Quality: Cardinal
Ruling planet: Saturn
Symbol: Sea-Goat
Sign ruler: Saturn, Uranus
Birthstone: Garnet
Lucky Numbers: 4, 8, 13, 22
Personality Traits: Responsible, leaders, disciplined, independent, loyal, stubborn, bossy, condescending.
Famous Capricorns: Tiger Woods, Stephen Hawking, Bradley Cooper, Jim Carrey, Elvis Presley, Isaac Newton, Muhammed Ali, Mel Gibson, Katie Couric, Rand Paul, Nicholas Cage.
January 1st Trivia
- 1438 – Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary.
- 1651 – Charles II is crowned King of Scotland.
- 1772 – US founding father Thomas Jefferson marries Martha Wayles Skelton.
- 1808 – The United States bans the importation of slaves.
- 1898 – J. Edgar Hoover, Former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was born in Washington DC.
- 1902 – The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
- 1919 – J. D. Salinger, American writer was born in Manhattan, New York City, NY.
- 1932 – The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington’s birth.
- 1953 – Hank Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist passed away after having
a heart attack from a mixture of alcohol, morphine and chloral hydrate in the back of his chauffer’s car.
- 1956 – Actor Gene Hackman weds Fay Maltese.
- 1969 – Verne Troyer, American actor was born in Sturgis, MI.
- 1971 – Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
- 1980 – The #1 movie was, “Kramer vs Kramer.”
- 1989 – Star Trek’s Actor Leonard Nimoy marries actress Susan Bay.
- 2011 – Country Singer-songwriter Shania Twain marries Swiss business executive Frederic Thiebaud in Rincon, Puerto Rico.
- 2013 – Patti Page, American singer and actress passed away from heart and lung disease at age 85 at the Seacrest Village Retirement Community in Encinitas, California.
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