Jan 04 Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly to Florida

Jan 29 Peru &Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determination)

Jan 10 Elizabeth Monk and Suzanne Filion admitted to the Quebec Bar Quebec's first female lawyers

Jan 19 Japanese forces invade Burma during World War 2

Jan 15 FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WWII

Jan 23 Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army

Jan 19 Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers

Jan 30 Japanese troops land on Ambon

Jan 27 -19ºF (-27.4ºC), Netherlands' coldest day since 1850

Jan 23 Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain

Jan 20 Nazi officials decide on their "final solution" that calls for the extermination of Jews.

Jan 24 In Ottawa Wartime Prices and Trade Board rations sugar to 3/4 lb per person per week; cut to 1/2 lb

Jan 26 The first US force in Europe during WWII goes ashore in Northern Ireland

Jan 16 Screen star Carole Lombard, her mother and 20 other people were killed in a commercial airliner crash near Las Vegas, Nev. Lombard was the wife of actor Clark Gable.

Jan 20 Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on "final solution" calling for extermination of Europe's Jews

Jan 14 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo

Jan 30 Hitler speaks at the Sports Palace in Berlin, "The war will end with the complete annihilation of the Jews."

Jan 02 German troops in Bardia surrender

Jan 21 Unified partisan organization is established in the Vilna ghetto. Resistance organization set upon Kovno ghetto.

Jan 24 Battle of Makassar Strait, destroyer attack on Japanese convoy in first surface action in the Pacific during World War II

Jan 20 Japanese invade Burma

Jan 12 Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender

Jan 02 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace

Jan 09 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

Jan 21 Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal

Jan 27 HMS THANET, sunk south east Malaya in South China Sea - by gunfire of Japanese 5.5in cruiser 'Sendai' and destroyers while attacking Japanese troop transports

Jan 19 Japanese forces invade Burma

Jan 07 WWII siege of Bataan starts

Jan 06 The first around world flight by a Pan Am flying boat the "Pacific Clipper"

Jan 26 Wartime Prices and Trade Board brings in sugar rationing; 12 ounces per person per week

Jan 26 U.S. troops land in Northern Ireland to support the Allied effort during WWII.

Jan 01 US & 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis

Jan 20 Wannsee Conference Details of plan to murder 11,000,000 European Jews are drafted.

Jan 11 -23ºF (-31ºC), Kingston RI (state record)

Jan 06 The first around world flight by a Pan Am flying boat the "Pacific Clipper"

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