Jan 05 British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia

Jan 14 The birth of Faye Dunaway, American film actress

Jan 31 Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

Jan 03 Canada &US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 year lease)

Jan 10 Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace," premieres in New York City NY

Jan 08 British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns

Jan 01 Netherlands begins taxing wages

Jan 01 Formal opening of CBC News Service in canada

Jan 01 Russian General Zhukov appointed chief of General staff

Jan 09 The birth of Joan Baez, American peace activist

Jan 31 Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands

Jan 09 Joan Baez singer: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down; political activist was born

Jan 21 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned

Jan 05 British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia

Jan 13 Novelist James Joyce dies during an eye operation in Zurich, Switzerland at age 58.

Jan 03 Italian counter offensive in Albania

Jan 21 Anti-Jewish riots take place in Rumania. Gangs of Rumanian Legionnaires hunt for Jews, loot and beat Jews in the street, desecrate 25 synagogues, destroy hundreds of homes and shops, and butcher hundreds of Jews.

Jan 16 War Department forms first Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets

Jan 03 Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" premieres in Philadelphia

Jan 03 Canada &US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 year lease)

Jan 22 Tobruk, North Africa, is captured by Australian troops

Jan 03 Italian counter offensive in Albania

Jan 23 German prisoner of war Franz von Werra escapes from a train and makes it back to Germany, only to die in action a year later; the only German POW to make a successful escape in Canada.

Jan 24 British troops march into Abyssinia

Jan 09 Maiden flight of Canadian built Avro Lancaster military bomber at Downsview

Jan 10 Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews

Jan 23 Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center

Jan 30 Australian troops conquer Derna Libya

Jan 09 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania

Jan 21 The first commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport TX

Jan 09 Joan Baez singer The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down; political activist was born

Jan 24 The birth of Neil Diamond, American singer/songwriter

Jan 27 Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreibér warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor

Jan 03 Australian troops capture Bardia, Libya, from the Italians

Jan 06 FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want &from fear)

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