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Robert Anthony Salvatore (born January 20, 1959) is an American author best known for The DemonWars Saga, his Forgotten Realms novels, for which he created the popular character Drizzt Do'Urden, and Vector Prime, the first novel in the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series.
Buzz Aldrin (January 20, 1930) is an American engineer and a former astronaut and fighter pilot. As the Apollo Lunar Module pilot on the Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two humans to land on the Moon.
André-Marie Ampère (20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics".
Breaking Bad is an American neo-Western crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The show originally aired on AMC for five seasons, from January 20, 2008 to September 29, 2013.
Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American business magnate, investor, researcher, humanitarian, and philanthropist. He co-founded Microsoft alongside Bill Gates in 1975, which helped spark the microcomputer revolution and later became the world's largest PC software company.
January 21 stands for the US-American day of honor of the squirrel.
Specifically, the idea and initiative for this action day goes to the four Austrians, more precisely to Grazer, Alexander Painsi, Matthias Strohmeier, Matthias Geisriegler and Martin Riesel, whose school class came to school on 21 January 2009 at carnival completely in jogging trousers. The campaign was so well received that it was decided to make it a tradition.
Give me a hug. January 21st is all about human warmth. At least according to the two Americans Kevin Zaborney and Adam Olis, who originally declared this date National Hugging Day in 1986.
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.
The 22nd of January is again under the sign of cats. Because this date is celebrated in the USA as the so-called answers-the-questions-your-cat-day.
Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign beginning in late 1992. NCSA released the browser in 1993, and officially discontinued development and support on January 7, 1997.
The A-Team is an American action-adventure television series that ran on NBC from 1983 to 1987 about former members of a fictitious United States Army Special Forces unit. The members, after being court-martialed "for a crime they didn't commit", escaped from military prison and, while still on the run, worked as soldiers of fortune.
ThunderCats is an American animated television series. It follows the adventures of a group of catlike humanoid aliens.
Michio Kaku (born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science (science communicator). He is a professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku has written several books about physics and related topics, has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film, and writes online blogs and articles.
January 24 celebrates one of the country's most popular spreads in the culinary calendar of the USA. This date is celebrated in the United States as the National Peanut Butter Day.
Sizzle. Canned beer fans celebrate 24 January as the US-American day of honour for the beer can.
The 25th of January stands among other things also for an occasion, which should not actually give it at all. At least if it goes according to our transatlantic neighbours in the USA, this date as national opposite day.
Opportunity, also known as MER-B or MER-1, and nicknamed "Oppy", is a robotic rover that was active on Mars from 2004 until the middle of 2018. Launched on July 7, 2003, as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover program, it landed in Meridiani Planum on January 25, 2004, three weeks after its twin Spirit (MER-A) touched down on the other side of the planet.
Robert Cailliau (born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer, computer scientist and author who proposed the first (pre-www) hypertext system for CERN in 1987 and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on www from before it got its name.
Since December 2015, the 26th of January in the culinary calendar of the USA has been dominated by a drink that is considered to be particularly healthy. In concrete terms, this date is also celebrated in the United States as the National Green Juice Day.
Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. It was first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR). The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast (now a subsidiary of Hasbro) since 1997.
E-Day celebrates the mathematical constant “e” (2.7182818) on February 7 (2/7) in the month/day date format or January 27 (27/1) in the day/month format.
Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor, film producer, and DJ. He is known for portraying Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012).
Community Manager Appreciation Day takes place every 4th Monday of January as a way to recognize and celebrate the efforts of community managers around the world using social media and other tools to improve customer experiences.
Data Privacy Day (known in Europe as Data Protection Day) is an international holiday that occurs every 28 January
Fans of coloured plastic blocks and building blocks should definitely remember 28 January. This date stands for International LEGO Day.
Happy birthday W.C.Fields. In honour of the US-American entertainer the 29th of January is celebrated in the United States as Griesgram Day.
"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore.