Jan 27 The first US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)

Jan 14 Alex Smart (Montreal) is first NHLer to score hat trick in his first game

Jan 24 Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Jan 17 Tin Can Drive Day

Jan 03 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa

Jan 17 Tin Can Drive Day

Jan 20 Lead SD, temp is 52ºF, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood SD records -16ºF

Jan 29 New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Japanese sub I-1 at Guadalcanal

Jan 16 -60ºF (-51ºC), Island Park Dam ID (state record)

Jan 02 Canadian government brings in newsprint rationing.

Jan 16 German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow

Jan 30 Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing

Jan 01 Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel

Jan 31 General Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad

Jan 04 Head SS office writes to all concentration camp commanders, requesting them to forward human hair for processing at the firm of Alex Zink, Filzfabrik A.G. near Nuremberg. A half-mark would be received by the Commandant for each kilo of human hair.

Jan 16 The first US air raid on Ambon

Jan 09 Japanese government in Java limits sale & use of motorcars

Jan 04 Head SS office writes to all concentration camp commanders, requesting them to forward human hair for processing at the firm of Alex Zink, Filzfabrik A.G. near Nuremberg. A half-mark would be received by the Commandant for each kilo of human hair.

Jan 21 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad

Jan 03 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa

Jan 15 Japanese driven off Guadalcanal

Jan 31 Chile breaks contact with Germany &Japan

Jan 05 Teams agrees to start season later due to WWII

Jan 14 FDR & Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WWII

Jan 10 Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad

Jan 15 1,000 workers complete the air conditioning system for the Pentagon

Jan 02 Canadian government brings in newsprint rationing.

Jan 16 Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad

Jan 30 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin

Jan 05 Scientist/educator George Washington Carver dies in Tuskegee, Alabama, at age 81.

Jan 18 Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts

Jan 22 American and Australian troops took New Guinea in the first land victory over the Japanese in World War II.

Jan 18 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis

Jan 23 British forces capture the city of Tripoli, Libya, from the Germans

Jan 04 Tom Wilkinson football player; CFL QB, Edmonton Eskimos, was born

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