January 1874 Day Of The Week - 1874 January Calendar Month View

About Month of January Calendar

January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).

January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

1st » Frank Knox, American publisher and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)
1st » Gustave Whitehead, German-American engineer (d. 1927)
3rd » Francis Newton, American golfer (d. 1946)
4th » Josef Suk (composer) e.g Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1935)
5th » Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
6th » Fred Niblo, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1948)
12th » Laura Adams Armer, American author and photographer (d. 1963)
12th » James Juvenal, American rower (d. 1942)
13th » Alexandros Hatzikyriakos, Greek admiral and politician (d. 1958)
16th » Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958)
19th » Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Makuuchi Yokozuna called Yokozuna (d. 1922)
22nd » Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
22nd » Jay Hughes, American baseball player (d. 1924)
25th » W. Somerset Maugham, French-English author and playwright (d. 1965)
29th » John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1960)

4th » Thomas Gregson, English-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1798)
8th » Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French historian and archaeologist (b. 1814)
17th » Chang and Eng Bunker, Thai conjoined twins (b. 1811)
19th » August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and scholar (b. 1798)