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Fill-In | January Events in History
Directions: Can you fill in the blanks in these 31 summaries of famous historical events that took place in the month of January?
You can use your own words and phrases, or look at the bottom of the post to choose from a scrambled list of the words and phrases that were removed.
To read the original Times article about each event, click the date to visit the related On This Day page.
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January 1
In 1959, _________ led Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista.
January 2
In 1905, Japanese Gen. Nogi received from Russian Gen. Stoessel at 9 o'clock P.M. a letter formally offering to surrender, ending the _________ War.
January 3
In 1959, President Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting _________ to the Union as the 49th state.
January 4
In 1965, President _________ outlined the goals of his "Great Society" in his State of the Union address.
January 5
In 1914, _________, head of the Ford Motor Company, introduced a minimum wage scale of $5 per day.
January 6
In 1919, the 26th president of the United States, _________, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60.
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Sue Guthridge
January 7
In 1979, Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the _________ government.
January 8
In 1918, President _________ outlined his 14 points for peace after World War I.
January 9
In 1968, the Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the _________, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.
January 10
In 1946, the first General Assembly of the _________ convened in London.
January 11In 1935, aviator _________ began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.
January 12
In 1915, the United States House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to _________.
January 13
In 1990, Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation's first elected _________ governor as he took the oath of office in Richmond.
January 14
In 1943, President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister _________ opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.
January 15
In 1967, the first _________ was played as the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10.
January 16
In 1991, the White House announced the start of Operation _________ to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
January 17
In 1893, _________'s monarchy was overthrown as a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate.
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Randy Stapilus
January 18
In 1912, English explorer Robert F. Scott and his expedition reached the _________, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there first.
January 19
In 1937, millionaire _________ set a transcontinental air record by flying his monoplane from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
January 20
In 1981, _________ released 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.
January 21
In 1924, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich _________ died at age 54.
January 22
In 1973, in its _________ decision, the Supreme Court legalized abortions, using a trimester approach.
January 23In 1973, President Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the _________ War.
January 24In 1965, Winston Churchill who twice served as Britain's _________, died in London at age 90.
January 25
In 1915, the inventor of the telephone, _________, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
January 26
In 1950, _________ officially proclaimed itself a republic as Rajendra Prasad took the oath of office as president.
January 27
In 1967, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their _________ spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla.
January 28
In 1986, the space shuttle _________ exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members: flight commander Francis R. "Dick" Scobee; pilot Michael J. Smith; Ronald E. McNair; Ellison S. Onizuka; Judith A. Resnik; Gregory B. Jarvis; and schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.
January 29
In 1963, poet _________, author of "Stopping By Woods" and "The Road Not Taken," died in Boston.
January 30
In 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader _________ was murdered by a Hindu extremist.
January 31
In 1865, the House of Representatives passed a constitutional amendment to abolish _________.
- Desert Storm
- Alaska
- moon
- Fidel Castro
- Woodrow Wilson
- Howard Hughes
- Khmer Rouge
- Amelia Earhart
- Winston Churchill
- India
- United Nations
- Lenin
- black
- prime minister
- Iran
- Apollo
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Vietnam
- Johnson
- Hawaii
- vote
- Russo-Japanese
- Challenger
- Roe vs. Wade
- Henry Ford
- South Pole
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Robert Frost
- Mahatma Gandhi
- slavery
- Super Bowl
For Answers, go to the On This Day index page and scroll down to the summaries for the month of December.
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- bankruptcy
- 39
- defense
- actions
- mice
- junk
- filling
- calories
- capsule
- first
- Twinkies
- decline
- villain
- Dongs
- accessory
- genome
- rocks
- edible
- Howdy Doody
- eaten
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