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This Day in History - January

Can you guess these things that happened in the month of January?
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First submittedSeptember 27, 2012
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Date
Year
Clue
Answer
Jan 1
2002
Currency which entered circulation for the first time
Euro
Jan 2
1492
Country whose "reconquest" was completed by the capture of Granada
Spain
Jan 3
1959
State which joined the US, the 49th to do so
Alaska
Jan 4
2010
City where Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, was opened
Dubai
Jan 5
1914
Manufacturing company which doubled pay to $5 a day
Ford
Jan 6
1066
King of England who was crowned. The last Anglo-Saxon king of England,
he would die at the Battle of Hastings 10 months later.
Harold Godwinson
Jan 7
1610
Scientist who discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter
Galileo Galilei
Jan 8
1959
President of France who was inaugurated, the first of the Fifth Republic
Charles de Gaulle
Jan 9
1349
Pandemic which the population of Basel blamed on their Jewish residents,
who were rounded up and burned alive
Black Death
Jan 10
49 BC
General who crossed the Rubicon
Julius Caesar
Jan 11
1964
Activity which the U.S. Surgeon General warned may be hazardous
to one's health
Smoking
Jan 12
2010
Country struck by an earthquake which killed over 100,000 people
Haiti
Jan 13
1968
Singer who performed at Folsom State Prison
Johnny Cash
Jan 14
1953
Country where Josip Broz Tito was inaugurated as President
Yugoslavia
Jan 15
1892
Game whose rules were published by James Naismith
Basketball
Jan 16
27 BC
Title granted to Octavian by the Roman Senate, an event usually
considered to mark the start of the Roman Empire
Augustus
Jan 17
1929
Spinach-guzzling cartoon character who appeared for the first time
Popeye
Jan 18
1778
British sea captain who "discovered" Hawaii
James Cook
Jan 19
1981
Country which released U.S. hostages after 444 days
Iran
Jan 20
2009
President of the U.S. who was inaugurated
Barack Obama
Jan 21
1793
Device used to execute Louis XVI of France
Guillotine
Jan 22
1901
Queen who died after a reign of 63 years
Queen Victoria
Jan 23
1368
Dynasty which came to power in China
Ming
Jan 24
41
Depraved Roman emperor who was assassinated
Caligula
Jan 25
1533
Woman who married Henry VIII, the second of his six wives
Anne Boleyn
Jan 26
1924
City renamed Leningrad
Petrograd
Jan 27
1984
Pop singer whose hair caught fire while filming a Pepsi commercial
Michael Jackson
Jan 28
1986
Space shuttle which exploded
Challenger
Jan 29
1820
"Mad" king who died after a reign of nearly 60 years
George III
Jan 30
1969
Band which performed on the roof of Apple Records, its final concert
The Beatles
Jan 31
2010
Film which became the first to gross $2 billion worldwide
Avatar
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59 Comments
gravyfury
+3
Level 22
Sep 29, 2012
add another min please
Jealous1sEnvy
+11
Level 92
Jan 1, 2018
How slow can you be man
JackintheBox
+1
Level 82
Dec 21, 2020
I got 30/31 with 3 minutes remaining!
Sifhraven
+2
Level 76
Sep 2, 2024
6 and 8 years later respectively.... No doubt time has been added.
MitchellDavid
+2
Level 8
Oct 16, 2012
Australia Day????? Why isnt it there on the 26th of Jan
Rolo
+1
Level 15
May 28, 2013
Apparently my birthdays on Australia day.
sprig3
+2
Level 78
Mar 21, 2023
Now I just need to check for your maiden name showing up in a comment on another quiz and ... profit!
Hezzer619
+4
Level 58
Jan 1, 2021
What would you put as the clue?
Ascorbic
+1
Level 69
Jan 6, 2025
Australia day isn't a historical event?
tschutzer
+4
Level 93
Aug 14, 2013
Kings, Queens, and emperors have been very busy in January, haven't they?
CoolDood
+8
Level 19
Feb 10, 2014
By dying, yes
IsleAuHaulte
+9
Level 92
Sep 2, 2018
I guess they didn't get busy trying.
DASquarePeg
+2
Level 78
Jan 2, 2018
It's all these Presidents who do stuff in January. Anyone would think they had nothing to do the rest of the year!
kitshef
+4
Level 88
May 8, 2014
Love the quiz. The date thing isn't that critical; it's really just a general knowledge quiz. But a darn good one.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Jun 8, 2019
yea, never once looked at the month and day, but the years do matter
ecp
+4
Level 42
Jul 10, 2014
For Jan 2, 1492: it should be "Granada" (with all As). Grenada is the Caribbean nation; Granada is the Spanish city.
rodri17
+1
Level 71
Jul 20, 2014
Came here for this ;)
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Sep 1, 2014
Fixed
Tecumseh94
+2
Level 47
Jan 1, 2015
First European to discover Hawaii I think would be better.
brandybuck96
+4
Level 82
Nov 28, 2015
Why?
Findlay
+8
Level 80
Aug 24, 2016
Because presumably the people living there had discovered it previously...
brandybuck96
+4
Level 82
Sep 2, 2016
^ But the clue doesn't currently say "first person to discover Hawai'i".
cpgatbyu
+1
Level 88
Aug 13, 2020
Oxford Dictionary (emphasis added): "Discover: Be the *first* to find or observe (a place, substance, or scientific phenomenon)"
brandybuck96
+6
Level 82
Nov 19, 2020
Cambridge Dictionary: "to find information, a place or an object, especially for the first time" - i.e. not necessarily for the first time. If I were to find a nice picnic spot, I might say I discovered it, but that doesn't mean I was the first
RobNobody
+1
Level 80
Jan 1, 2021
@brandybuck - Sure, you could say that, but it doesn't mean you should get credit for it from the rest of the world.
shingen
+2
Level 86
Jan 1, 2024
This British sea captain discovers Hawaii ...

... much to the surprise of the Hawaiians already living there :)

BobSaget
+1
Level 76
Jan 1, 2015
No mention of the birth of the King on Jan. 8?
divantilya
+1
Level 36
Jul 16, 2018
BobSagat: AGREE! How dare they not have the king's b'day (1/8/35) as an answer.
martay
+7
Level 69
Jan 3, 2021
Are you speaking of Aragorn, son of Arathorn?
ander217
+1
Level 74
Jan 1, 2015
Got 'em all. What about Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday, Epiphany, or Robert Burns Day? (I always wanted to try a haggis.)
JackBeNimble
+2
Level 82
Feb 13, 2017
It's one of my favourite meals. If you ever get the chance, do try it.
blinky
+4
Level 57
Feb 27, 2017
Don't do it! It's a trap!
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 92
Sep 2, 2018
Imagine hummus (or even humus) with Crisco.
fitheach
+2
Level 58
Jan 2, 2018
What about lots of other things that happened in January? You can't have everything to make every needy person happy.
Ian1979
+2
Level 71
Jan 1, 2015
This was a fun quiz. A nice idea, well executed. Thank you.
LarryLovage
+1
Level 55
Jan 1, 2015
Winston Churchill died 24 January 1965 - 50 years ago this month in fact.
joeythelemur
+6
Level 80
Feb 13, 2017
Too Roman-Emperor-y. :-)
DonTheLamplighter
+1
Level 87
May 24, 2017
LOL!!
pkerr116
+1
Level 71
Feb 14, 2017
easy
rocamorar
+5
Level 80
Jan 3, 2018
The January 2 question is historical misleading, since Spain didn't exist as a country by the time year Granada was conquered. It was a join effort by the kingdoms of Aragon and Castile that did the conquest.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 79
Jan 4, 2018
People tend to oversimplify history and just assume that all present-day nation states, races, and ethnicities existed for all time even though they obviously did not. So... "Spain" is just shorthand for any country or kingdom or people that existed in roughly the same area as the contemporary nation-state of Spain.
manchesterutd10
+3
Level 59
Oct 1, 2018
This quiz format is directly copied from mine which I made before this one...not sure how that happened
Quizmaster
+8
Level ∞
Aug 13, 2020
This quiz was made in 2012. Your quiz was made in 2017.
comjag
+3
Level 92
Mar 16, 2023
Please organize a system where quizzes have both the original publication date and the date of any updates included.

It helps to avoid situations like this, which I have seen on a number of quizzes.

Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Mar 16, 2023
You can click more info to see the date of first creation.
cpgatbyu
+1
Level 88
Aug 13, 2020
Are you sure about the year for Tito? When I Google "January 14 Tito", the first 5 hits are all about his first inaugural in 1953.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Aug 14, 2020
Fixed. We had a different question there but replaced it.
1ProximaCentauri
+2
Level 53
Nov 20, 2020
Can you give Toowise Credit?
Baxtergrad
+3
Level 51
Jan 1, 2021
No. This was made in 2012, years before he even joined the site.

"Last updated" ≠ "First submitted"

toowise
+2
Level 81
Jan 1, 2024
Bit late with this comment, but thanks for thinking of me, it is however correct that this quiz was made before I even joined the site.

Besides, my quizzes are about each day not the month.

I'm currently updating the quizzes btw.

Asterlan
+1
Level 57
Jan 3, 2021
Never heard of Popeye before, but nice quiz!
blairjohnstone
+1
Level 33
Oct 1, 2021
the Earl of Wessex should count for Harold Godwinson
Dimby
+4
Level 83
Jan 10, 2022
After awhile on Jetpunk I've learnt to just type "Philip, Victoria, Harold, Charles, Louis, John, Henry, etc." once I've gotten everything but the royalty questions.
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Sep 27, 2023
Facts
Murphster45
+2
Level 97
Feb 22, 2022
I really thought "game" was referring to a board game not a sport smh
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Sep 27, 2023
30/31, just missed Basketball, knew I recognized the name smh
martay
+3
Level 69
Jan 1, 2024
"The guillotine was specifically designed to be the most humane way to decapitate someone in front of a jeering crowd."

- Philomena Cunk

RandomMensch
+2
Level 41
Jan 28, 2025
I feel like it would be more fitting for Jan 27th to mention the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and the international holocaust remembrance day. That feels more relevant than the current answer.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Mar 29, 2026
These events are not ranked by historical relevancy. We want a balance of subjects, including fun and irreverent ones. And we already have an atrocity against Jewish people on the quiz.

These quizzes are meant to be fun as well as educational.

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