Jan 7 - Hot Air Ballooning Day. In France, on January 7, 1745, Jacques Etienne Montgolfier was born. He grew up to be both a merchant and an nventor; and with his older brother, Joseph Michel, he conducted experiments with paper and fabric bags filled with smoke and hot air.

Jan 14 - Lewis Carroll Day author of Alice in Wonderland this is the anniversary of the death of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.

Jan 18 - Whiny the Pooh Day. It was on this day, 'way back in 1882, that Alan Alexander Milne was born at London, England

Jan 19 - Tin Can Day. It was January 19, 1825, when Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett obtained a patent for a process for storing food in tin cans.

Jan 25 - Robbie Burns Day the Scottish Poet was born in 1759