About the Month of January
January is the 1st month of the year and has 31 days.
Season (Northern Hemisphere): Winter
Special Days and Holidays
First Week
January 1 New Years Day
January 2 National Science Fiction Day
January 4 Trivia Day
January 5 National Bird Day
January 6 Sherlock Holmes’ Birthday
January 7 Old Rock Day
Second Week
January 9 National Static Electricity Day
January 9 Word Nerd Day
January 10 Peculiar People Day
January 12 Museum Day
January 13 Make Your Dream Come True Day
January 14 Ratification Day (Treaty of Paris)
Third Week
January 17 Benjamin Franklin’s Birthday
January 17 Kid Inventors day
JDaary 18 Thesaurus Day
January 18 Martin Luther King Day
January 19 Metric System Day
January 19 International Flower Day
January 20 Camcorder Day
January 21 National Hugging Day
Fourth Week
January 23 National Handwriting Day
January 24 National Compliment Day
January 28 National Kazoo Day
January 29 Thomas Paine Day
January 29 National Puzzle Day
January 31 Backwards Day
Symbols of January:
Birthstone: Garnet
Flower: Carnation
Zodiac signs: Capricorn and Aquarius
History:
January was named after the Roman god Janus. Janus is also the Roman word for door. The god Janus had two faces which allowed him to look forwards into the coming year and backwards into the past year. The original Roman calendar only had 10 months. January and February were not included, but were added later.
January in Other Languages
Chinese (Mandarin) – yiyu�
Danish – januar
Italian – gennaio
Latin – Ianuarius
French – janvier
Spanish – enero
Historical Names:
Roman: Januarius
Saxon: Giuli
Germanic: Schnee-mond (Snow month)
Fun Facts about January
On average, it is the coldest month of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It is the second month of winter. In the Southern Hemisphere January is a summer month the equivalent of July. Sometimes the Saxons called January the wolf month because hungry wolves would come into their towns searching for food this time of year. For a long period of European history, the start of the New Year occurred in March.
These are some on the activities that went down this January. Some of which we had no idea existed. Well, we hope you enjoyed reading this. We wish you a pleasant February ahead
