January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years ). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year.
Events
Up to 1800 1801–1900 1901–1950 1951–2000 1953 – A short-lasting republic is declared in the Maldives . 1956 – Sudan becomes independent. 1956 – Panic and a stampede at a New Year event at Yahiko Shrine , Yahiko, Niigata , Japan , kill at least 124 people. 1958 – Treaties creating the European Economic Community take effect. 1959 – Fidel Castro takes control in Cuba , as Fulgencio Batista flees Havana . 1960 – Cameroon becomes independent. 1962 – Western Samoa becomes independent. 1964 – Top of the Pops is first shown on the BBC . Its last show is in 2006 . 1966 – The Australian dollar replaces the pound sterling as the official currency of Australia . 1966 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa becomes president of the Central African Republic . 1968 – Floods in Bahia , Brazil kill 200 people. 1971 – Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television . 1972 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations . 1973 – The UK , Republic of Ireland and Denmark join the European Economic Community . 1978 – The Northern Mariana Islands ' constitution becomes effective. 1978 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 , crashes into the sea near Bombay , killing 213 people. 1979 – Diplomatic relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China begin. 1980 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden becomes heir to the Swedish throne, as succession laws are changed. 1981 – Palau becomes self-governed. 1981 – Greece joins the European Economic Community . 1982 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations . 1984 – Brunei becomes independent. 1985 – Greenland leaves the European Community. 1986 – Spain and Portugal join the European Economic Community . 1986 – Aruba separates from Curaçao . 1990 – David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City . 1992 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations . 1993 – Czechoslovakia splits into Slovakia and the Czech Republic . 1994 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) takes effect. 1995 – Kiribati becomes the first country to enter the New Year , after the International Date Line is shifted to its east, skipping December 31 , 1994 . 1995 – Austria , Finland and Sweden join the European Union . 1995 – The World Trade Organisation is started. 1995 – The Draupner wave is detected in the North Sea off Norway , proving the existence of freak waves. 1997 – Kofi Annan becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations . 2000 – Start of the 3rd millennium . From 2001 2002 – The euro currency starts being used in 12 European Union member states. 2002 – Michael Bloomberg becomes Mayor of New York City . 2003 – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva becomes President of Brazil . 2007 – Ban Ki-moon becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations . 2007 – Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union . Bulgarian , Romanian , and Irish become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages. 2007 – Slovenia starts to use the euro . 2007 – Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia . It is later known to have crashed with 102 people on board. 2008 – Cyprus and Malta start to use the euro . 2009 – 66 people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok . 2009 – Same-sex marriage officially becomes legal in Norway . 2009 – Slovakia starts to use the euro . 2010 – A suicide bombing at a volleyball game in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan , kills 105 people. 2011 – Estonia starts to use the euro . 2011 – Dilma Rousseff becomes President of Brazil . 2013 – A crush after a New Year celebration in Abidjan , Ivory Coast , kills over 60 people. 2014 – Latvia starts using the euro . 2014 – Bill de Blasio becomes Mayor of New York City . 2015 – Lithuania starts using the euro . 2015 – The Eurasian Economic Union enters into force. Its members are Russia , Belarus , Armenia , Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan . 2015 – Same-sex marriage officially becomes legal in Luxembourg . 2016 – The number of official regions in France (not including overseas territories) is cut from 22 down to 13. 2017 – 39 people are killed in a terrorist attack on a nightclub in Istanbul , Turkey . 2017 – Antonio Guterres becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations . 2017 – A prison riot in Manaus , Brazil , leaves at least 60 inmates dead. 2018 – California legalises cannabis for recreational use. 2024 – 2024 Sea of Japan earthquake in Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture , Japan happans. Births
Up to 1800 871 – Zwertibold, King of Lotharingia (d. 900 ) 1431 – Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503 ) 1449 – Lorenzo de' Medici (d. 1492 ) 1467 – King Sigismund I the Old, of Poland (d. 1548 ) 1484 – Huldrych Zwingli , Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531 ) 1516 – Margaret Leijonhufvud, Queen of Sweden (d. 1551 ) 1557 – Stephen Bocskay, Romanian prince (d. 1606 ) 1614 – John Wilkins, English clergyman , natural philosopher and writer (d. 1672 ) 1618 – Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (d. 1682 ) 1628 – Christoph Bernhard, German composer (d. 1692 ) 1638 – Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685 ) 1655 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist and philosopher (d. 1728 ) 1714 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1780 ) 1714 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, Italian singer and writer (d. 1800 ) 1735 – Paul Revere , American patriot (d. 1818 ) 1745 – Anthony Wayne, American general and politician (d. 1796 ) 1750 – Frederick Muhlenberg , American politician and statesman (d. 1801 ) 1752 – Betsy Ross , American seamstress, allegedly sewed the first Flag of the United States (d. 1836 ) 1768 – Maria Edgeworth , British writer (d. 1849 ) 1801–1900 1803 – Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician (d. 1869 ) 1823 – Sandor Petofi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1849 ) 1839 – Ouida , British writer (d. 1908 ) 1854 – James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (d. 1941 ) 1859 – Thibaw Min, King of Burma (d. 1916 ) 1863 – Heinrich Clam Martinic, Austro-Hungarian politician (d. 1932 ) 1863 – Pierre de Coubertin , French organizer of the Olympic Games (d. 1937 ) 1864 – Qi Baishi , Chinese painter (d. 1957 ) 1864 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946 ) 1873 – Leon Czolgosz , assassin of US President William McKinley (d. 1901 ) 1874 – Gustave Whitehead, German inventor (d. 1927 ) 1876 – Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933 ) 1878 – Agner Krarup-Erlang, Danish mathematician and statistician (d. 1929 ) 1879 – E. M. Forster , British novelist (d. 1970 ) 1879 – William Fox, Hungarian-American movie producer (d. 1952 ) 1881 – Vajiravudh , King of Siam (d. 1925 ) 1886 – Garegin Njdeh , Armenian statesman (d. 1955 ) 1887 – Wilhelm Canaris, German general and resistance activist (d. 1945 ) 1888 – John Garand, American inventor (d. 1974 ) 1890 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966 ) 1891 – Sampurnanand, Indian politician (d. 1969 ) 1891 – Charles Bickford, American actor (d. 1967 ) 1892 – Mahidol Adulyadej, Siamese royal (d. 1929 ) 1892 – Artur Rodzinski, Croatian conductor (d. 1958 ) 1892 – Manuel Roxas , Filipino statesman (d. 1948 ) 1894 – Satyendranath Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1974 ) 1895 – J. Edgar Hoover , American, founding director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (d. 1972 ) 1896 – Estelle Yancey , American blues singer (d. 1986 ) 1900 – Xavier Cugat, Catalan -born musician and bandleader (d. 1990 ) 1900 – Chiune Sugihara , Japanese diplomat (d. 1986 ) 1901–1950 1902 – Hans von Dohnanyi, Austrian-born jurist and activist (d. 1945 ) 1904 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry , Pakistani politician (d. 1982 ) 1906 – Giovanni D'Anzi , Italian songwriter (d. 1974 ) 1908 – Bill Tapia , American musician (d. 2011 ) 1909 – Barry Goldwater , American senator (d. 1998 ) 1909 – Dana Andrews , American actor (d. 1992 ) 1909 – Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist (d. 1959 ) 1911 – Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (d. 1986 ) 1911 – Roman Totenberg, Polish-American violinist (d. 2012 ) 1912 – Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician (d. 1995 ) 1912 – Kim Philby , British spy (d. 1988 ) 1914 – Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and agent (d. 1944 ) 1917 – Albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004 ) 1918 – Willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer (d. 1997 ) 1919 – Daniil Granin , Russian writer (d. 2017 ) 1919 – J. D. Salinger , American novelist (d. 2010 ) 1919 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer (d. 1990 ) 1919 – Carole Landis , American actress (d. 1948 ) 1921 – Alain Mimoun, French long-distance runner (d. 2013 ) 1922 – Ernest Hollings , 106th Governor of South Carolina (d. 2019 ) 1922 – Jerry Robinson , American comic book artist (d. 2011 ) 1923 – Valentina Cortese , Italian actress 1923 – Milt Jackson, American jazz musician (d. 1999 ) 1924 – Arthur Danto, American philosopher (d. 2013 ) 1924 – Jacques Le Goff , French historian (d. 2014 ) 1924 – Charles Munger, American businessman and philanthropist 1925 – Mario Merz, Italian artist (d. 2003 ) 1925 – Raymond Pellegrin, French actor (d. 2007 ) 1926 – Zena Marshall, British actress (d. 2009 ) 1926 – Claudio Villa, Italian singer (d. 1987 ) 1927 – Maurice Béjart, French ballet choreographer (d. 2007 ) 1927 – Vernon L. Smith , American economist 1930 – Gaafar Nimeiry , President of Sudan (d. 2009 ) 1930 – Adunis, Syrian-Lebanese writer 1933 – Joe Orton, British dramatist (d. 1967 ) 1934 – Lakhdar Brahimi , Algerian diplomat 1935 – Brian G. Hutton , American actor and director (d. 2014 ) 1935 – Mustapha Maarof , Malaysian actor (d. 2014 ) 1936 – James Sinegal, American businessman 1938 – Frank Langella , American actor 1939 – Michèle Mercier, French actress 1939 – Phil Read , British motorcycle racer 1941 – Barry Goldberg, American musician 1941 – Martin Evans , British geneticist 1941 – Asrani, Indian actor and producer 1941 – Younoussi Touré, Malian politician 1942 – Alassane Ouattara , President of Ivory Coast 1942 – Country Joe McDonald , American singer-songwriter 1942 – Dennis Archer, American politician, 67th Mayor of Detroit 1942 – Gennadi Sarafanov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2005 ) 1943 – Tony Knowles , former Governor of Alaska 1944 – Teresa Toranska, Polish journalist and writer (d. 2013 ) 1944 – Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir , President of Sudan 1944 – Abdul Hamid , 20th President of Bangladesh 1944 – Zafarullah Khan Jamali , Pakistani politician 1945 – Jacky Ickx , Belgian racing driver 1945 – Zoltan Varga, Hungarian footballer (d. 2010 ) 1945 – Pietro Grasso , Italian politician, former Interim President of Italy 1946 – Roberto Rivelino , Brazilian footballer 1947 – Jon Corzine , American politician 1948 – Pavel Grachev, Russian general (d. 2012 ) 1950 – Morgan Fisher, English musician 1951–1975 1951 – Luc Ferry, French politician 1951 – Hans-Joachim Stuck, German racing driver 1952 – Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani , former Emir of Qatar 1953 – Zoran Jankovic, Slovenian politician 1953 – Gary Johnson , American politician 1953 – Alpha Blondy, Ivorian musician 1953 – Philippe Douste-Blazy, French politician 1954 – Richard Gibson, British actor 1954 – Richard Edson, American actor and musician 1954 – Robert Menendez , American politician 1954 – Dave Valentin , American jazz flute player 1955 – Mary Beard, British historian 1955 – Abbas Bahri , Tunisian mathematician (d. 2016 ) 1956 – Christine Lagarde , French Head of the International Monetary Fund 1956 – Sergei Avdeyev, Soviet cosmonaut 1957 – Ramaz Shengelia, Soviet -Georgian footballer (d. 2012 ) 1957 – Evangelos Venizelos , Greek lawyer and politician 1958 – Grandmaster Flash, Barbadian musician 1959 – Azali Assoumani , Comorian politician, President of the Comoros 1959 – Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Afghan cosmonaut 1959 – Michel Onfray, French philosopher 1961 – Fiona Phillips, English journalist 1961 – Mark Wingett, English actor 1965 – Lisa Roberts Gillan , American actress 1966 – Anna Burke, Australian politician 1966 – Ivica Dacic, 95th Prime Minister of Serbia 1967 – Spencer Tunick , American artist 1967 – Sharon Small, Scottish actress 1968 – Davor Suker, Croatian footballer 1969 – Morris Chestnut, American actor 1969 – Paul Lawrie, Scottish golfer 1969 – Verne Troyer , American actor 1970 – Sergei Kiriakov, Russian footballer 1970 – Fredro Starr, American actor and rapper 1970 – Stephen Kinnock, Welsh politician 1971 – Conn Iggulden, English writer 1972 – Lilian Thuram , French footballer 1975 – Sonali Bendre , Indian actress and model From 1976 1979 – Vidya Balan , Indian actress 1980 – Elin Nordegren , Swedish model 1980 – Richie Faulkner , British guitarist and songwriter (Judas Priest ) 1981 – Jonas Armstrong, British actor 1981 – Mladen Petric, Croatian footballer 1981 – Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian racing driver 1981 – Moumouni Dagano, Burkina Faso footballer 1982 – David Nalbandian, Argentine tennis player 1983 – Calum Davenport , English footballer 1983 – Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (d. 2009 ) 1985 – Jeff Carter, Canadian ice hockey player 1985 – Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer 1986 – Colin Morgan, Northern Irish actor 1986 – Sungmin, South Korean singer 1986 – Pablo Cuevas, Uruguayan tennis player 1987 – Meryl Davis , American ice dancer 1987 – Gia Coppola, American movie director , screenwriter and actress 1988 – Nelufar Hedayat, Afghan-born British television presenter 1988 – Grzegorz Panfil, Polish tennis player 1992 – Jack Wilshere , English footballer 1992 – He Kexin, Chinese artistic gymnast 1993 – Michael Olaitan, Nigerian footballer 1996 – Mahmoud Dahoud, Syrian-German footballer 1998 – Lara Robinson, Australian actress 2000 – Ice Spice , American rapper Deaths
Up to 1900 138 – Aelius Caesar, adoptive son of Roman Emperor Hadrian 898 – Odo of France (b. 860 ) 962 – Baldwin III, Count of Flanders (b. 940 ) 1204 – King Haakon III of Norway (b. 1170 ) 1387 – King Charles II of Navarre (b. 1332 ) 1515 – King Louis XII of France (b. 1462 ) 1554 – Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500 ) 1559 – King Christian III of Denmark and Norway (b. 1503 ) 1713 – Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, Italian cardinal (b. 1649 ) 1748 – Johann Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician (b. 1667 ) 1766 – James Francis Edward Stuart , pretender to the British throne (b. 1688 ) 1780 – Johann Ludwig Krebs , German composer (b. 1713 ) 1782 – Johann Christian Bach , German composer (b. 1735 ) 1793 – Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter (b. 1712 ) 1796 – Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (b. 1735 ) 1817 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (b. 1743 ) 1829 – Pedro Blanco Soto, President of Bolivia (b. 1795 ) 1853 – Gregory Blaxland , Australian farmer and explorer (b. 1778 ) 1862 – Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801 ) 1892 – Roswell B. Mason , 25th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805 ) 1894 – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz , German physicist (b. 1857 ) 1901–2000 1906 – Hugh Nelson, Scottish-born Australian politician , 11th Premier of Queensland (b. 1835 ) 1921 – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg , Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856 ) 1928 – Loie Fuller , American dancer (b. 1862 ) 1936 – Roger Allin, Governor of North Dakota (b. 1848 ) 1937 – Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Indian religious leader (b. 1874 ) 1942 – Otto Liiv, Estonian historian and activist (b. 1905 ) 1944 – Edwin Lutyens, British architect (b. 1869 ) 1951 – Jan Valtin, German writer (b. 1905 ) 1953 – Hank Williams , American country music singer (b. 1923 ) 1960 – Margaret Sullavan , American actress and screenwriter (b. 1909 ) 1963 – Robert S. Kerr , Governor of Oklahoma (b. 1896 ) 1964 – Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (b. 1890 ) 1966 – Vincent Auriol , French politician (b. 1884 ) 1968 – Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, American publisher (DC Comics ) (b. 1890 ) 1969 – Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902 ) 1972 – Maurice Chevalier , French entertainer (b. 1888 ) 1973 – Sergei Kourdakov, Soviet intelligence agent (b. 1951 ) 1980 – Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (b. 1891 ) 1984 – Alexis Korner, French-British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928 ) 1986 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902 ) 1987 – Lloyd Haynes, American actor (b. 1934 ) 1992 – Grace Hopper , American computer scientist (b. 1906 ) 1994 – Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900 ) 1994 – Cesar Romero , American actor (b. 1907 ) 1995 – Eugene Wigner , Hungarian physicist (b. 1902 ) 1995 – Fred West , British serial killer (b. 1941 ) 1996 – Arleigh Burke, American admiral (b. 1901 ) 1996 – Arthur Rudolph, German engineer (b. 1906 ) 1997 – Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1945 ) 1997 – Townes Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter (b. 1944 ) 1998 – Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (b. 1902 ) From 2001 2001 – Ray Walston , American actor (b. 1914 ) 2003 – Joe Foss, 20th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1915 ) 2005 – Shirley Chisholm , American politician (b. 1924 ) 2007 – Del Reeves, American country music singer (b. 1932 ) 2009 – Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (b. 1924 ) 2009 – Helen Suzman, South African political activist (b. 1917 ) 2009 – Aarne Arvonen, Finnish supercentenarian (b. 1897 ) 2009 – Nizar Rayan, Palestinian military commander (b. 1959 ) 2010 – Lhasa de Sela , Mexican-American singer-songwriter (b. 1972 ) 2011 – Flemming Jorgensen, Danish musician (b. 1947 ) 2012 – Carlos Soria , Argentine politician (b. 1949 ) 2012 – Bob Anderson , British fencer and sword fight choreographer (b. 1922 ) 2012 – Kiro Gligorov , President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1917 ) 2012 – Gary Ablett , English footballer (b. 1965 ) 2013 – Christopher Martin-Jenkins , English cricket journalist (b. 1945 ) 2013 – Patti Page , American singer (b. 1927 ) 2013 – Lloyd Hartman Elliott , American academic (b. 1918 ) 2013 – Barbara Werle , American actress (b. 1928 ) 2014 – Higashifushimi Kunihide, Japanese Buddhist monk and uncle of Emperor Akihito (b. 1910 ) 2014 – Herman Pieter de Boer , Dutch writer (b. 1928 ) 2014 – Juanita Moore , American actress (b. 1914 ) 2014 – Billy McColl , Scottish actor (b. 1951 ) 2015 – Omar Karami , Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1934 ) 2015 – Mario Cuomo , American politician , 52nd Governor of New York (b. 1932 ) 2015 – Ulrich Beck , German sociologist (b. 1944 ) 2015 – Staryl C. Austin , American air force general (b. 1920 ) 2015 – Boris Morukov , Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (b. 1950 ) 2015 – Jeff Golub , American guitarist (b. 1955 ) 2015 – Mrunalini Devi Puar , Indian educator (b. 1931 ) 2015 – Eric Cunningham , Canadian politician (b. 1949 ) 2015 – Miller Williams , American poet (b. 1930 ) 2015 – Donna Douglas , American actress (b. 1933 ) 2015 – Géry Leuliet , French bishop (b. 1910 ) 2016 – Fazu Aliyeva , Russian poet and journalist (b. 1932 ) 2016 – Lennie Bluett , American actor (b. 1919 ) 2016 – Antonio Carrizo , Argentine broadcaster (b. 1926 ) 2016 – Mike Oxley , American politician (b. 1944 ) 2016 – Brian Johns , Australian businessman (b. 1936 ) 2016 – Dale Bumpers , American politician, 38th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1925 ) 2016 – Gilbert Kaplan , American conductor and businessman (b. 1941 ) 2016 – Ian Pieris , Sri Lankan cricketer (b. 1933 ) 2016 – Jim Ross , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926 ) 2016 – Vilmos Zsigmond , Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1930 ) 2017 – Tony Atkinson , English economist (b. 1944 ) 2017 – Hilarion Capucci , Syrian theologian , bishop and activist (b. 1922 ) 2017 – Mel Lopez , Filipino politician (b. 1935 ) 2017 – Memo Morales , Venezuelan singer (b. 1937 ) 2017 – Yaakov Neeman , Israeli lawyer and politician (b. 1939 ) 2017 – Emmanuel Niyonkuru , Burundian politician (b. 1962 ) 2017 – Derek Parfit , English philosopher (b. 1942 ) 2017 – Alfonso Wong , Hong Kong cartoonist (b. 1924 ) 2017 – Aleksander Jackowski , Polish anthropologist (b. 1920 ) 2017 – Jeremy Stone , American scientist and arms control activist (b. 1935 ) 2018 – Jahn Otto Johansen , Norwegian editor (b. 1934 ) 2018 – Robert Mann , American violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1920 ) 2018 – Ebrahim Nafae , Egyptian journalist (b. 1934 ) 2018 – Manuel Olivencia , Spanish lawyer and economist (b. 1929 ) 2018 – Mauro Staccioli , Italian sculptor (b. 1937 ) 2018 – Tim Sweeney , Irish hurler (b. 1929 ) 2020 – János Aczél , Hungarian-Canadian mathematician and journalist (b. 1924 ) 2020 – Don Larsen , American baseball pitcher (b. 1929 ) 2020 – David Stern , NBA commissioner (b. 1942 ) 2021 – Carlos do Carmo , Portuguese singer (b. 1939 ) 2022 – Dan Reeves , American football player and coach (b. 1944 ) Observances
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