January Holidays
January 12 marks the beginning of a week celebrating what food that comes in different styles, such as deep dish, Detroit, margherita, or thin crust?
Pizza
January 15, 1929: The most famous American civil rights leader in history.
Martin Luther King Jr.
January 31, 1943: German troops begin to surrender at Stalingrad to the Soviet Union, marking the end of a six month battle in what war, the deadliest in history?
World War II
January 8 celebrates what action we encourage y'all to do rather than take the elevator?
Taking the stairs
January 9, 1960: Construction on the Aswan High Dam, bridging the Nile, begins in what African country, capital Cairo?
Egypt
January 2 celebrates what type of cheese that's full of holes?
Swiss cheese
January 3, 1959: What place becomes the 49th state of the USA, and its largest (larger than California, Texas, Montana, and Utah combined)?
Alaska (also larger than the smallest 20 states combined)
January 4 celebrates what state that borders Illinois to the west, across the Mississippi River from us (capital: Jefferson City)?
Missouri
January 27, 1756: One of the most famous composers of classical music in history, an Austrian child prodigy who first composed at the age of 5.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
January 24, 1961: A B-52 bomber plane crashes in North Carolina, with multiples of what type of highly destructive bomb on board, one of which was only one failsafe away from potentially detonating?
Atomic bomb (nuclear bomb acceptable)
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Backwards Day
January 1, 2000: A female rapper known for songs like Much, Barbie World, Karma, and Bikini Bottom.
Ice Spice
January 1, 1863: Abraham Lincoln puts into effect what Civil War document, freeing slaves in the states rebelling against the Union?
Emancipation Proclamation