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This is a list of selected January 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Blurb Reason
New Year's Day (Gregorian calendar); refimprove section
Independence Day in Brunei (1984), Haiti (1804), Samoa (1962), and Sudan (1956) Brunei: refimprove section, Haiti: needs expansion; Samoa: lots of CN tags in one section (Economy); Sudan: missing information
45 BC – The Roman Republic adopted the Julian calendar. refimprove section
1801 – Pursuant to the Acts of Union 1800, Great Britain and Ireland merged to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Too much uncited
1810Lachlan Macquarie became Governor of New South Wales, eventually playing a major role in the shaping of the social, economic and architectural development of the colony in Australia. refimprove sections
1818Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a novel by the British author Mary Shelley, was first published anonymously in London. Too much uncited
1890 – The Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, was first held, eventually becoming an annual event that is currently watched on television by millions in more than 200 countries and territories. refimprove section; blurb could be rewritten to feature Rose Bowl Game, but that article is also ineligible
1901 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia federated as the Commonwealth of Australia. refimprove
1948British Railways came into existence when the "Big Four" railway companies were nationalised. unreferenced section
1959 – Cuban president Fulgencio Batista fled to the Dominican Republic as forces under Fidel Castro took control of Havana, marking the end of the Cuban Revolution. multiple issues
1970 – Although not defined as such until later, the Unix epoch took place at 00:00:00 UTC, forming the basis of much of computer timekeeping. Several, including disputed section and several citation needed tags (5)
1983 – The ARPANET changed its core networking protocols from NCP to TCP/IP, marking the beginning of the Internet as we know it today. globalize
1994 – The revolutionary leftist Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiated twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas. expansion
1995 – The World Trade Organization, the international organization designed to supervise and liberalize international trade, came into being, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. appears on April 15
2009A nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand, killed 66 patrons celebrating the New Year. Uncited aftermath section
J. D. Salinger |b|1919| Unreferenced sections
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati |d|1937 unreferenced section

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January 1: Public Domain Day; Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (Roman Rite Catholicism)

"Am I not a man and a brother", emblem used by abolitionists
"Am I not a man and a brother", emblem used by abolitionists
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