Month January 1886 Calendar

About Month of January Calendar

• January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).
  
  January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

Historical Events for January, 1886

• Day of Week 29th » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1886

• 2nd » Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English explorer (d. 1959)
• 2nd » Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)
• 3rd » John Gould Fletcher, American poet and author (d. 1950)
• 3rd » Josephine Hull, American actress (d. 1957)
• 5th » Markus Reiner, Israeli scientist (d. 1976)
• 8th » Thomas January, American soccer player (d. 1957)
• 9th » Lloyd Loar, American sound engineer and instrument designer (d. 1943)
• 11th » Chester Conklin, American comedian and actor (d. 1971)
• 13th » Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1964)
• 14th » Hugh Lofting, English author and poet, created 'Doctor Dolittle' (d. 1947)
• 16th » John Hamilton (actor) named John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)
• 17th » Ronald Firbank, English author (d. 1926)
• 17th » Glenn L. Martin, American pilot, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company (d. 1955)
• 20th » Claude Jameson, American soccer player (d. 1943)
• 22nd » John J. Becker, American composer (d. 1961)
• 24th » Henry King (director) e.g Henry King, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1982)
• 25th » Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer (d. 1954)
• 27th » Radhabinod Pal, Indian jurist (d. 1967)
• 27th » Balthasar van der Pol, Dutch physicist (d. 1959)
• 28th » Marthe Bibesco, Romanian-French author (d. 1973)
• 28th » Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer (d. 1976)

Famous Deaths for January 1886

• 16th » Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (b. 1834)
• 18th » Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
• 26th » David Rice Atchison, American general and politician (b. 1807)

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