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| January 1st, 2008 (January 01 2008) | Event | A New Hampshire law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples comes into effect. | |
| January 1st, 2008 (January 01 2008) | Event | Malta and Cyprus officially adopt the Euro currency. | |
| January 1st, 2008 (January 01 2008) | Death | Salvatore Bonanno, son of Joseph Bonnano (born in 1932) | |
| January 1st, 2008 (January 01 2008) | Death | Peter Caffrey, Irish actor (born in 1949) | |
| January 1st, 2008 (January 01 2008) | Death | Pratap Chandra Chunder, union minister of India (born in 1919) | |
| January 1st, 2008 (January 01 2008) | Death | Harold Corsini, American photographer (born in 1919) | |
| January 1st, 1998 (January 01 1998) | Event | Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence. | |
| January 1st, 1998 (January 01 1998) | Event | The European Central Bank is established. | |
| January 1st, 1998 (January 01 1998) | Birth | Marlene Lawston, American child actress | |
| January 1st, 1998 (January 01 1998) | Death | Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (born in 1905) | |
| January 1st, 1988 (January 01 1988) | Event | The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States. | |
| January 1st, 1978 (January 01 1978) | Event | Air India Flight 855 Boeing 747 crashes into the sea, due to instrument failure and pilot disorientation, off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. | |
| January 1st, 1978 (January 01 1978) | Event | The Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands becomes effective. | |
| January 1st, 1978 (January 01 1978) | Birth | Vidya Balan, Indian actress | |
| January 1st, 1978 (January 01 1978) | Birth | Nina Bott, German actress | |
| January 1st, 1978 (January 01 1978) | Birth | Jensen Ackles, American actor | |
| January 1st, 1978 (January 01 1978) | Birth | Phillip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer | |
| January 1st, 1978 (January 01 1978) | Birth | Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda, Indian spiritualist | |
| January 1st, 1978 (January 01 1978) | Birth | Tarik O Regan, British composer | |
| January 1st, 1968 (January 01 1968) | Birth | Joey Stefano, American adult actor (died in 1994) | |
| January 1st, 1968 (January 01 1968) | Birth | Miki Higashino, Japanese composer | |
| January 1st, 1968 (January 01 1968) | Birth | Davor Suker, Croatian footballer | |
| January 1st, 1958 (January 01 1958) | Event | The European Community is established. | |
| January 1st, 1958 (January 01 1958) | Birth | Grandmaster Flash, Barbadian musician | |
| January 1st, 1958 (January 01 1958) | Death | Edward Weston, American photographer (born in 1886) | |
| January 1st, 1948 (January 01 1948) | Event | British railways are nationalised to form British Rail. | |
| January 1st, 1948 (January 01 1948) | Event | After partition, India declines to pay the agreed share of Rs.550 million in cash balances to Pakistan. | |
| January 1st, 1948 (January 01 1948) | Event | The Constitution of Italy comes into force. | |
| January 1st, 1948 (January 01 1948) | Birth | Pavel Grachev, Russian general | |
| January 1st, 1938 (January 01 1938) | Birth | Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (died in 2005) | |
| January 1st, 1938 (January 01 1938) | Birth | Clay Cole, American television host and producer | |
| January 1st, 1928 (January 01 1928) | Birth | Ernest Tidyman, American writer (died in 1984) | |
| January 1st, 1918 (January 01 1918) | Birth | Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient (died in 2000) | |
| January 1st, 1908 (January 01 1908) | Event | For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York City s Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight. | |
| January 1st, 1898 (January 01 1898) | Event | New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs. | |
| January 1st, 1888 (January 01 1888) | Birth | John Garand, American inventor (died in 1974) | |
| January 1st, 1878 (January 01 1878) | Birth | Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer (died in 1929) | |
| January 1st, 1868 (January 01 1868) | Birth | Snitz Edwards, American actor (died in 1937) | |
| January 1st, 1848 (January 01 1848) | Birth | John Goff, Irish lawyer (died in 1924) | |
| January 1st, 1808 (January 01 1808) | Event | The importation of slaves into the United States is banned. | |
| January 1st, 1788 (January 01 1788) | Event | First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published. | |
| January 1st, 1748 (January 01 1748) | Death | Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (born in 1667) | |
| January 1st, 1648 (January 01 1648) | Birth | Elkanah Settle, English writer (died in 1724) | |
| January 1st, 1638 (January 01 1638) | Birth | Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (died in 1685) | |
| January 1st, 1618 (January 01 1618) | Birth | baptised Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (died in 1682) | |
| January 1st, 1438 (January 01 1438) | Event | Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary. | |
| January 1st, 0898 (January 01 0898) | Death | Odo, Count of Paris (born in 860) | |
