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, 1915
Day of Week 12th » The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of United States Congress called U.S. Congress.
12th » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the suffrage e.g right to vote.
Day of Week 13th » An 1915 Avezzano earthquake e.g earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
Day of Week 19th » Georges Claude patents the neon Neon lighting known as discharge tube for use in advertising.
Day of Week 21st » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
Day of Week 22nd » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train Guadalajara train disaster known as plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
Day of Week 25th » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas A. Watson or Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
Day of Week 26th » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
Day of Week 28th » An act of the Congress of the United States called U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
Day of Week 31st » World War I: German Empire Germany is the first to make large-scale use of Chemical weapons in World War I poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russian Empire Russia.