1910, Eugene Ely was the first to take-off from a ship (off a temporary platform aboard) the light cruiser USS Birmingham in a Curtiss Model D pusher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_firsts_in_aviation

1913 – First regular aerial cargo service begins in the USA with Harry M. Jones as he takes off with a Wright B to fly baked beans from Boston to New York.^[8]

1914 – The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line starts services, becoming the first airline to provide regular services, with Anthony Jannus conveying passengers in a Benoist XIV flying boat. A. C. Pheil is the first airline passenger.

1914 – First aviation weather maps = The U.S. Weather Bureau begins daily publication of a weather map of the Northern Hemisphere designed specifically as an aid to aviation.

1918 – The British government establishes an air ministry. Lord Rothermere is Secretary of State for Air. Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard is Chief of the Air Staff.

1936 – Howard Hughes (Howard Robard Hughes, Jr.) in a Northrop Gamma 2G, NR13761, which he had purchased from Jackie Cochran, sets a transcontinental speed record of 9 hours 27 minutes, averaging 417.0 kilometers per hour (259.1 miles per hour). (FAI Record File Number 13237).

1939 – Amelia Mary Earhart, noted American aviation pioneer and author, is declared legally dead after disappearance in 1937.

1939 – First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, a WWII American Twin-engine, single seat fighter aircraft. It had distinctive twin booms and a single, central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament.

1946 – First Flight of the Bell X-1. Originally designated XS-1, joint NACA-U. S. Army/USAF supersonic research project, first of the so-called X-planes.

1961 – American space mission Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2): Ham the Chimp is the first chimpanzee launched into outer space in the American space program. He flew 16 min in Mercury spacecraft No. 5.

1962 – A 707 – 320 B took over the role of U. S. government VIP and presidential transport, designated VC-137 C, better known as “Air Force One”. A second VC-137 C was delivered

1967 – The National Supersonic Transport program, formed by President John F. Kennedy for the purpose of subsidizing the design of a Concorde-fighting supersonic airliner, awards a contract to Boeing for its 2707 SST design. Despite 115 orders from 25 different airlines, the program would lose its funding in 1971, forcing Boeing to lay off 60,000 workers.

1967 – Apollo 1 launchpad fire kills three U.S. astronauts. Apollo 1 is the official name that was later given to the never-flown Apollo/Saturn 204 (AS-204) mission. Its command module, CM-012, was destroyed by fire during a test and training exercise at Pad 34 (Launch Complex 34, Cape Canaveral, then known as Cape Kennedy) atop a Saturn IB rocket. The crew aboard were the astronauts selected for the first crewed Apollo program mission: Command Pilot Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. Although the ignition source of the fire was never conclusively identified, the deaths were attributed to a wide range of lethal design hazards in the early Apollo command module. Among these were the use of a high-pressure 100 percent-oxygen atmosphere for the test, wiring and plumbing flaws, inflammable materials in the cockpit (such as Velcro), an inward-opening hatch that would not open in this kind of an emergency and the flight suits worn by the astronauts.

1975 – The F-16 Fighting Falcon is announced as the winner of the LWF (Light Weight Fighter) competition

1981 – Pan Am makes its final Boeing 707 flight

1982 – The Airbus A300 FFCC is certified, becoming the first wide body airliner with cockpit accommodations for only two to be certified.

1986 – Launch: Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51-L at 5:58:51 am PST. Mission highlights: Planned TDRS deployment, Loss of vehicle and crew, Teacher in Space Flight.

1992 – TWA files for bankruptcy

2002 – Boeing’s 737, the world’s most widely use twin jet, becomes the first jetliner in history to amass more than 100 million flying hours. The 737 was launched onto the market 1965.

2005 – Cassini – Huygens, joint NASA/ESA/ASI space probe, lands on Saturn’s moon Titan.

2006 – Launch of New Horizons, NASA robotic spacecraft mission to the dwarf planet Pluto. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix, and Hydra. NASA may also attempt flybys of one or more other Kuiper belt objects.

2024 – Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, a Boeing 737 MAX 9, had its door plug blown off from the aircraft due to a manufacturing issue. The flight performed an emergency landing at its origin, saving all 177 occupants on board with only 3 injuries.

The above is a partial list of aviation events that took place in the month of January.  A more complete listing can be found here.