January 17, 1806: James Madison Randolph (Thomas Jefferson's grandson) is born in the White House. Only one other presidential descendent will ever be born there, Esther Cleveland in 1893.
January 18, 1892: Birth of Norvell Hardy, better known by his stage name Oliver.
January 19, 1983: Apple releases the Lisa, the first commercially available computer with a Graphical User Interface. It flops, but its successor, the Macintosh, will deeply influence computing. Picture Credit: Apple Lisa Computer by Rama & Musée Bolo. Creative Commons-Licensed 2011. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Lisa2-IMG_1517.jpg
January 20, 1885: LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents the roller coaster.
January 21, 1793: King Louis XVI of France is executed by the new, supposedly painless method of guillotining. Picture Credit: Execution of Louis XVI, by Isidore-Stanislas Helman, Antoine-Jean Duclos & Charles Monnet, 1794. Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Execution_of_Louis_XVI.jpg
January 22, 1927: A week after he commentates on the first ever sports match to be broadcast (a rugby match), Teddy Wakelam gives the first ever live football (soccer) match on radio.
January 23, 1897: Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Her husband's conviction of her murder is based at least partly on testimony supplied by Zona's ghost.
January 24, 1624: Father Alfonso Mendes, a Portuguese Jesuit priest appointed Patriarch of Ethiopia either by Pope Urban VIII or by Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia (depending on who you ask), arrives at the Port of Massawa. For about a decade, Catholicism will be the state religion of Ethiopia.
January 25, 1890: Nellie Bly arrives back in New York after having circumnavigated the globe in 72 days, beating Jules Verne's fictitious record of 80 days.
January 26, 1808: The Rum Rebellion in New South Wales marks the second mutiny against William Bligh, and the only time in Australian history that a legitimate government was taken over by force.
January 27, 1832: Birth of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland.
January 28, 1911: Glenn H Curtiss flies the first seaplane ever flown in the United States. In June of that year, he receives US Pilot's License #1. The motorcycle speed record he set in 1907 would stand until 1930, they year of his death. Picture Credit: Glenn Curtiss' pilot license. Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_pilot%27s_license.JPG
January 29, 1845: Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven, his first publication under his own name.
January 30, 1948: Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" Gandhi is assassinated.
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