8 Fun Facts to Know if You are Born in January
5. Important days
While January 1 is celebrated as New Year’s Day in large parts of the world, January 11 is observed as “National Human Trafficking Awareness Day” in the U.S., and the third Monday of the month is celebrated as “Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.”
6. Historic occurrences
January indeed is a month of firsts if history is to be believed. Not only was the first Super Bowl game played in January, 1967, but it is also the month when the first heart transplant was performed just three years before that.
7. Famous birthdays
J.R.R. Tolkien, the creator of such fantasies “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” was born in this month, and so were two lady talk show hosts who have successfully infiltrated a previously male domain: Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres.
8. Some observances
While the Anglo-Saxons observed January as the “Wolf Month,” and the Czech call it the “Ice Month,” in the U.S., it is celebrated as the “National Thank You Month.”
