World Religion Day
Started by the Bahá'í community in 1950 to push the idea that all faiths share a common origin. Always lands on the third Sunday of January — close enough.
- Category
- Awareness
- Observed in
United States
Also on this day
Full history →Notable · 2012
The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI.- 2025Bytedance and sister companies are banned from the United States for "security concerns".
- 2024The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's probe lands on the moon, making Japan the 5th country to land a spacecraft on the moon.
- 2014A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 Pakistani soldiers and injures 38 others.