1st » Germany known as German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Cameroon known as Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.
9th » World War I: The Gallipoli Campaign called Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
10th » World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russian Empire called Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
24th » In 'Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad', the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
29th » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
Famous Birthdays on January in 1916
2nd » Zypora Spaisman, Polish-American actress and producer (d. 2002)
3rd » Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 1995)
3rd » Betty Furness, American actress (d. 1994)
3rd » Warren King (cartoonist) or Warren King, American cartoonist (d. 1978)
4th » Slim Gaillard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Slim & Slam) (d. 1991)
4th » Lionel Newman, American composer (d. 1989)
4th » Robert Parrish, American director (d. 1995)
6th » Eugene Thomas Maleska, American journalist (d. 1993)
6th » Vincent Serventy, Australian ornithologist, and author (d. 2007)
7th » W. L. Jeyasingham, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (d. 1989)