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January 1, 1863 – Freedom’s Eve – The Emancipation Proclamation

January 1, 1923 – Dixie Lee Boyer Boller, (2)

January 1, 1957 – Iowa’s First Rose Bowl

January 2, 1812 – Iowa’s First U.S. Senator

January 2, 1888 – Iowa City’s Palace Hotel

January 3, 1856 – M&M Railroad & The Grand Railroad Festival, (2)

January 4, 1839 – The Great Seal of Iowa Territory

January 4, 1858 – The Post Office of Bon Accord, Iowa

January 5, 1846 – Incorporating Dubuque

January 5, 1980 – KXIC’s Gene Claussen & UI Sports Arena

January 6, 1855 – State Geological Survey

January 6, 1869 – Mark Twain Comes To Iowa City

January 7, 1845 – The Drive to Iowa Statehood

January 7, 1976 – Old Capitol – A National Landmark

January 8, 1838 – Johnson Cty 1st Business Meeting

January 8, 1840 – Iowa City Ferry Licenses

January 9, 1854 – Judge Curtis Bates

January 9, 1975 – Clara Mae Stover & Russell Stover Candies

January 10, 1833 – First Pioneer Birth In Iowa

January 10, 1839 – The Controversial Iowa/Missouri Border

January 11, 1805 – Michigan Territory

January 11, 1974 – Coralville’s Fifth Street School

January 12, 1912 – Lowest Temperature In Iowa

January 12, 1944 – Meredith Willson’s “Iowa”

January 13, 1841 – Office of Superintendent-Public Education

January 13, 1876 – Governor Kirkwood’s Second Term

January 14, 1859 – Iowa Slavery Debate

January 14, 1951 – Meredith Willson’s ‘Till There Was You’

January 15, 1869 – Mark Twain Visits Iowa City

January 15, 1989 – Roland Wehner’s Newman Catholic Student Center

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, (2)

January 16, 1891 – Albert M. Lea Death

January 16, 1941 – Herky Creator Dick Spencer III

January 17, 1846 – Drafting A State Constitution

January 17, 1853 – Rock Island Bridge Co.

January 18, 1896 – SUI Basketball – Close Hall

January 18, 1949 – Beer Tunnels Of Iowa City

January 19, 1857 – Iowa Constitutional Convention

January 19, 1911 – The Beginning Of Iowa City’s Black Angel

January 20, 1830 – George H. Yewell

January 21, 1839 – A New Territorial Capital Is Chosen, (2)

January 22, 2002 – Caitlin Clark, (2)

January 23, 1839 – Bloomington, Iowa, (2)

January 24, 1922 – The Eskimo Pie

January 24, 1953 – Iowa City Airport Terminal

January 25, 1839 – Johnson County Road

January 25, 1839 – Iowa’s Territorial Prison

January 26, 1856 – M&M Railroad’s Locomotive – The Iowa City

January 26, 1858 – Senator James W. Grimes

January 27, 1834 – Wisconsin Territory

January 27, 1983 – Boerner-Fry Building – Iowa City

January 28, 1799 – William Steele

January 28, 1883 – Ham’s Hall – Iowa City

January 29, 1842 – Letter #1 To Laurel Summers

January 29, 1871 – Benjamin Shambaugh

January 30, 1842 – Letter #2 To Laurel Summers

January 30, 1948 – Ronald Reagan

January 31, 1870 – Iowa State Fair

January 31, 1958 – Dr. James Van Allen

Below is a list of our weekly Pictures of the Week – posted in January…

January 26, 2025 – The Locomotive – The Iowa City

January 19, 2025 – MLK Comes To Iowa City

January 12, 2025 – First Automobile In Iowa City

January 5, 2025 – The Pentacrest in the Winter of 1948.

January 28, 2024 – Old Setters – Johnson County

January 21, 2024 – We Select The Capital Site

January 14, 2024 – Old Capitol and Old Man Winter

January 7, 2024 – Greer Grocery Store – Iowa City

January 29, 2023 – Chauncey Swan

January 22, 2023 – Old Capitol

From 2020 through 2023, we used this Did You Know? (DYK) theme throughout our website. As you browse through our web pages, this little icon will link you to corresponding DYK posts from the past.