Important Dates: January 2017

Days

1^st New Years Day

3^rd Festival of Sleep Day  Link

4^th World Braille Day  Link

5^th Twelfth Night  Link

14^th STIQ Day link

16^th Martin Luther King Day  Link

16^th Blue Monday  Link

18^th Winnie the Pooh Day  Link

21^st Employee Motivation Day  Link

24^th Global Belly Laugh Day link

25^th Burns Night   Link

25^th World Religion Day  Link

27^th Holocaust Memorial Day link

29^th World Leprosy Day link

31^st Bug Busting Day link

Weeks

3^rd–17^th Feb  Big Schools Birdwatch link

21st–29^th SOS Radio Week link

24^th-30^th Cervical Cancer Prevention Week link

24^th-30^th Breakfast Week  Link

30^th-6^thFeb National Storytelling Week  link

January Religious Days

1^st  Gantan-sai (Shinto )

1^st  Festival of St Basil the Great (Christian )

5^th  Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh )

5^th  Twelfth Night (Christian)

6^th  Epiphany (Christian )

6^th  Christmas Day (Armenian Orthodox) (Christian )

8^th  Baptism of the Lord (Christian )

12^th-15^th Mahayana New Year (Buddhist)

13^th  St Hilary’s Day (Christian )

13^th  Maghi(Sikh )

15^th  World Religion Day

17^th Blessing of the Animals (Hispanic Catholic Christian)

19^th–25^th Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (start) (Christian )

19^th  Timkat (Ethiopian Orthodox Christian)

25^th  Conversion of St Paul (Christian)

28^th Chinese New Year (Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist)

January National Days

1^st   Cuba
1^st   Haiti (from France in 1804)

1^st   Sudan (Independence from UK and Egyptian Republic 1956)
4^th  Myanmar (from the UK in 1948)
26^th Australia Day

26^th India (Republic Day)

31^st Nauru (Independence from Australia,NZ and UK)

This Day in History

1^st Britain joins EEC (1973)

1^st United Kingdom created after Act of Union (1801)

3^rd Britain seizes control of Falkland islands (1833)

4^th Sir Edmund Hillary arrives at the South Pole (1958)

6^th Samuel Morse demonstrates electric telegraph (1838)

8^th Indira Gandhi becomes first woman prime minister in India (1966)

8^th Britain introduces food rationing (1940)

9^th William Pitt introduces Income Tax (1799)

12^th National Trust set up (1895)

15^th Queen Elizabeth 1st crowned (1559)

16^th Prohibition introduced in USA (1920)

17^th Sir Robert Scott reached the South Pole in 1912

17^th Operation Desert Storm begins in Iraq in 1991

21^st Louis XVI executed by guillotine (1793)

22^nd Queen Victoria died in 1901

23^rd Ramsey MacDonald becomes first Labour PM (1924)

25^th Robert Burns born (1759)

26^th John Logie Baird demonstrates first TV (1926)

27^th Ceasefire between USA and Vietnam (1973)

28^th Shuttle Challenger explodes (1986)

30^th Bloody Sunday (Londonderry 1972)

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Mike Hutchins is the founder of Good Morning Children, an on-line company that provides engaging and mentally stimulating resources for primary school children of all ages. Mike started Good Morning Children in 2006 with the aim of the company being to help children develop key thinking and reasoning skills. His qualifications include B.Sc (Engineering) and a PGCE in primary education.

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