January 

January 4 - Happy New Year

January 5, 1957 - Bozo the Clown, a live childrens' show aired for the first time

January 6, 1952 - Charles Schultz' comic strip "Peanuts" was published for the first time in the Sunday paper 

January 7, 1785 - George Washington was voted in as the first president of the United Stated in the first publicly held election 

January 8, 1833 - The Boston Academy of Music was established 

January 11, 1901 - The first great oil gusher was discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas

January 12, 1813 - The first pineapples were planted in Hawaii

January 13, 1957 - Whamo-O Company produced the first Frisbee

January 14, 1784 - The Revolutionary War ended 

January 15 - The British Museum was founded

January 18, 1919 - Bentley Motors Limited was founded

January 19,1955 - Scrabble debuted on the board game market

January 20, 1265 - The first English Parliament was called into session by Earl of Leicester

January 21, 2010 - Ridge HS Mid Terms begin!

January 22, 1938 -  Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" debuted in Princeton

January 25, 1970 - The movie M*A*S*H premiered

January 26, 1988 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" opened on Broadway at the Majestic Theater

January 27, 1880 - Thomas A. Edison received a U.S. patent for the electric incandescent light bulb

January 28, 2010 -  Second Semester begins!

January 29 1845 - Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven was first published