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 1-9, 2026 – 1976 Prognostications for 2026, (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9)
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 10, 1848 – A Letter From 1st Iowa Legislative Assembly in Iowa City
January 11, 1805 – Michigan Territory
January 11, 1860 – Iowa’s Civil War Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood
January 11, 1974 – Coralville’s Fifth Street School
January 12, 1839 – Cyrus Sanders – Johnson County’s first land surveyor
January 12, 1912 – Lowest Temperature In Iowa
January 12, 1944 – Meredith Willson’s “Iowa”
January 13, 1841 – Office of Superintendent-Public Education
January 13, 1869 – Announcing Mark Twain To Speak In Iowa City
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 14, 1997 – Irving Weber’s Salute To Jacob Everett Reizenstein
January 15, 1839 – The Naming Of Iowa City
January 15, 1869 – Mark Twain Visits Iowa City
January 15, 1989 – Roland Wehner’s Newman Catholic Student Center
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, (2), (3)
January 16, 1844 – Building Roads Across Iowa
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 17, 1884 – Capitol Dedication In Des Moines
January 18, 1896 – SUI Basketball – Close Hall, (2)
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 20, 1869 – Reviewing Mark Twain’s Performance
January 21, 1839 – A New Territorial Capital Is Chosen, (2)
January 21, 1839 – Iowa’s First Supreme Court
January 22, 1954 – United Air Lines Day in Iowa City
January 22, 2002 – Caitlin Clark, (2)
January 23, 1839 – Bloomington, Iowa, (2)
January 23, 1946 – Iowa City’s Fox Head Tavern
January 24, 1853 – Iowa City Incorporated
January 24, 1922 – The Eskimo Pie
January 24, 1953 – Iowa City Airport Terminal
January 25, 1839 – Johnson County Road, (2)
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 26, 1928 – Meredith Willson’s Westwood Church in California
January 27, 1834 – Wisconsin Territory
January 27, 1897 – An Editorial on Muddy Iowa City Streets
January 27, 1983 – Boerner-Fry Building – Iowa City
January 28, 1799 – William Steele
January 28, 1857 – The Beginnings Of SHSI In Iowa City
January 28, 1883 – Ham’s Hall – Iowa City
January 29, 1842 – Letter #1 To Laurel Summers
January 29, 1871 – Benjamin Shambaugh
January 29, 1908 – O.H. Fink’s Cigar Store
January 30, 1842 – Letter #2 To Laurel Summers
January 30, 1912 – T.A. Hanlon & His New Iowa Theatre.
January 30, 1948 – Ronald Reagan
January 31, 1870 – Iowa State Fair
January 31, 1958 – Dr. James Van Allen
January 31, 1968 – The Battle Over Old Brick
January 25, 2026 – The Locomotive – The Iowa City
January 18, 2026 – MLK Comes to Iowa City
January 11, 2026 – Meredith Willson’s New Pop Song: Iowa
January 4, 2026 – The Railroad Comes To Iowa City
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
