Important Dates: JANUARY 2019

Days

1^st New Year’s Day

3^rd Festival of Sleep Day  Link

4^th World Braille Day Link

5^th Twelfth Night Link

11^th Paget’s Awareness Day Link

14^th STIQ Day Link

18^th Winnie the Pooh Day

20^th World Religion Day Link

21^st Blue Monday Link

21^st Martin Luther King Jr Day Link

24^th Global Belly Laugh Day Link

25^th Burns Night Link

27^th Holocaust Memorial Day Link

29^th World Leprosy Day Link

31^st Bug Busting Day Link

Weeks

21^st-25^th Breakfast Week Link

21^st-27^th Cervical Cancer Prevention Week Link

27^th-3^rd Feb National Storytelling Week Link

Months

2^nd – 22^nd Feb Big Schools Birdwatch Link

Relgious Dates

1^st Gantan-Sal (Shinto)

5^th Twelfth Night (Christian)

5^th Birthday of Guru Gobindh Singh (Sikh)

6^th Epiphany (Christian)

13^th Maghi (Sikh)

13^th Baptism of Jesus (Christian)

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

18^th-25^th Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (Christian)

19^th Tinkat (Ethiopian Orthodox Christian)

20^th World Religion Day (Baha’i)

20^th Tu BiShavat (Jewish)

21^st-23^rd Mahayana New Year (Buddhist)

25^th Conversion of St Paul (Christian)

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

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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