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| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Event | Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Also, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages. | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Event | Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board. | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | A. I. Bezzerides, American novelist and screenwriter (born in 1908) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Ernie Koy, American baseball player (born in 1909) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Tillie Olsen, American writer (born in 1912) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Leon Davidson, American scientist known for studying UFOs (born in 1922) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Julius Hegyi, American conductor (born in 1923) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Del Reeves, American country singer (born in 1932) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist (born in 1943) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Leonard Fraser, Australian serial killer (born in 1951) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Tad Jones, American jazz music historian (born in 1952) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Darrent Williams, American football player (born in 1982) | |
| January 1st, 1997 (January 01 1997) | Event | The Republic of Zaire officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Zaire. | |
| January 1st, 1997 (January 01 1997) | Event | Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan is appointed Secretary General of the United Nations. | |
| January 1st, 1997 (January 01 1997) | Death | Hagood Hardy, Canadian composer and musician (born in 1937) | |
| January 1st, 1997 (January 01 1997) | Death | Townes Van Zandt, American musician (born in 1944) | |
| January 1st, 1987 (January 01 1987) | Birth | Gilbert Brule, Canadian professional hockey player | |
| January 1st, 1987 (January 01 1987) | Birth | Meryl Davis, American ice dancer | |
| January 1st, 1987 (January 01 1987) | Birth | Devin Setoguchi, Canadian professional hockey player | |
| January 1st, 1977 (January 01 1977) | Birth | Keeley Hawes, British actress | |
| January 1st, 1977 (January 01 1977) | Birth | Hasan Salihamidzic, Bosnian footballer | |
| January 1st, 1967 (January 01 1967) | Birth | Derrick Thomas, American football player (died in 2000) | |
| January 1st, 1967 (January 01 1967) | Birth | Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Spanish film director | |
| January 1st, 1967 (January 01 1967) | Birth | John Digweed, English DJ | |
| January 1st, 1967 (January 01 1967) | Birth | Tim Dog, American rapper | |
| January 1st, 1957 (January 01 1957) | Event | George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. | |
| January 1st, 1957 (January 01 1957) | Event | An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks in one of the most famous incidents of the IRA s Operation Harvest. | |
| January 1st, 1957 (January 01 1957) | Birth | Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress | |
| January 1st, 1957 (January 01 1957) | Birth | Evangelos Venizelos, Greek lawyer, professor and politician | |
| January 1st, 1957 (January 01 1957) | Death | Sean South and Fergal O Hanlon are killed in the Brookeborough Raid. | |
| January 1st, 1947 (January 01 1947) | Event | The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after the World War II, merge to form the Bizone, that later became the Federal Republic of Germany. | |
| January 1st, 1947 (January 01 1947) | Birth | Jon Corzine, American politician | |
| January 1st, 1947 (January 01 1947) | Birth | Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer | |
| January 1st, 1937 (January 01 1937) | Event | Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in Great Britain. | |
| January 1st, 1937 (January 01 1937) | Event | Public Order Act is passed in Great Britain | |
| January 1st, 1937 (January 01 1937) | Birth | Adam Wisniewski-Snerg, Polish author (died in 1995) | |
| January 1st, 1927 (January 01 1927) | Event | Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian). | Julian Quotes |
| January 1st, 1927 (January 01 1927) | Birth | Doak Walker, American football star (died in 1998) | |
| January 1st, 1927 (January 01 1927) | Birth | Calum MacKay, Canadian hockey player (died in 2001) | |
| January 1st, 1927 (January 01 1927) | Birth | Maurice Bejart, French choreographer (died in 2007) | |
| January 1st, 1927 (January 01 1927) | Birth | Pat Heywood, Scottish actress | |
| January 1st, 1927 (January 01 1927) | Birth | Vernon L. Smith, American economist, winner | |
| January 1st, 1917 (January 01 1917) | Birth | Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (died in 1981) | |
| January 1st, 1917 (January 01 1917) | Birth | Albert Mol, Dutch actor (died in 2004) | |
| January 1st, 1887 (January 01 1887) | Birth | Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (died in 1945) | Wilhelm Canaris Quotes |
| January 1st, 1877 (January 01 1877) | Event | Queen Victoria of Britain is proclaimed Empress of India. | |
| January 1st, 1817 (January 01 1817) | Death | Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (born in 1743) | |
| January 1st, 1797 (January 01 1797) | Event | Albany replaces Kingston as the capital of New York State. | |
| January 1st, 1767 (January 01 1767) | Birth | Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist (died in 1849) | |
| January 1st, 1707 (January 01 1707) | Event | John V is crowned King of Portugal. | |
| January 1st, 1697 (January 01 1697) | Death | Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (born in 1624) | |
| January 1st, 1617 (January 01 1617) | Death | Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (born in 1558) | |
| January 1st, 1557 (January 01 1557) | Birth | Istvan Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (died in 1606) | |
| January 1st, 1527 (January 01 1527) | Event | Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of Austria as king of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin. | |
| January 1st, 1467 (January 01 1467) | Birth | Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (died in 1548) | |
| January 1st, 1387 (January 01 1387) | Death | King Charles II of Navarre (born in 1332) | |
