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Major Events: Battle of Rorke’s Drift, Supreme Court discovers a constitutional right to abortion Notable Events: Battle of Basing, Swiss Guards, CIA, Apple’s Superbowl commercial, Beit Lid Massacre, Evo Morales, Born: Ibn Taymiyyah, Ivan the Great, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Donne, William Kidd, Lord Byron, D.W. Griffith, Irving Kristol,
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Major Events: French Revolution & Execution of Louis XVI Notable Events: USS Nautilus, Miss Sam, Khe Sanh, Thule Air Base Nuclear Incident, New Gingrich Ethics Ciolations, Pussy Hat March Born: Antonio Molinari, Adriaen van der Werff, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Peter De Wint, Moritz von Schwind, Stonewall Jackson, Felix Hoffmann, Jack Nicklaus
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Holiday & Observances: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Major Events: Montfort’s Parliament & Representative Democracy Notable Events: Pope St. Fabian, Charles I tried for treason, tyranny, Hong Kong Island, motion pictures, Wannsee Conference, Harry Truman’s foreign aid, Angus Deaton, Sudan, Sharia Law, Born: Richard Henry Lee, Clarice Cliff Died: David
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Holidays: Toast to Edgar Allan Poe Major Events: John Wilkes, ACLU, Iranian Hostage Crisis Notable Events: Faust, Il Trovatore, Thomas Edison, League of Nations, You Nazty Spy!, I Love Lucy, Klaus Barbie, Born: James Watt, Robert E. Lee, Lysander Spooner, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cezanne, Ish Kabibble, Bernard Dunstan, Janis
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Holidays & Observances: Royal Thai Armed Forces Day, Amy Carmichael Major Events: War of the Roses, 1st Jewish Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto Notable Events: Pope Pius IV, Henry Morgan takes Panama, Frederick I crowned King of Prussia, James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands, Britain’s Penal transportation, Boston Strangler, Marion
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Holidays & Observances: Feast of Anthony the Great Major Events: The Battle of Cowpens Notable Events: Menorca, St. Marcellus’ flood, Avignon Popes, Huguenots, Mahdist War, Monte Cassino, Raoul Wallenberg, Palomares Incident, Born: Antonio del Pollaiolo, Benjamin Franklin, Anne Brontë, Al Capone, Betty White, James Earl Jones, Muhammad Ali, Died: Theodosius
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The Roman Empire, Ivan the Terrible, Council of Nablus, Medici Bank, Don Quixote, Act of Union, Midnight Battle, Civil Service, Samoa, Iran Major Events on January 16 27 B.C. – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the end of the Roman Republic
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Elizabeth I crowned Queen, Robert Morris asks Congress to adopt coinage and a national mint, British Museum, War of 1812, Civil War, Donkeys & the Democrat Party, Coca-Cola, Spartacist Uprising, Spanish Civil War, Pope John Paul II & Lech Walesa Major Events on January 15 1559 – Elizabeth I is
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Feast of the Ass, Ratification of the Treaty of Paris, Hippie Movement and the Human Be-In, Spain annexes Cuba, Treaty of Kiel, Greek War of Independence, Casablanca Conference, Elvis Presley Holidays and Observances on January 14 Feast of the Ass: This is a now antiquated celebration that may have arisen
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Feast of St. Hilary of Poitiers, Afghanistan becomes the Graveyard of Empires, California in the Mexican-American War, Doctor’s Plot, Spanish slavery, NatGeo, Independent Labour Party, Hawaii and the Bayonet Constitution Holidays and Observances on January 13 Feast of St. Hilary of Poitiers is a memorial on the General Roman Calendar
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Feast of St. Benedict Biscop, Congress authorized the AUMF for the Persian Gulf War, LBJ’s 1966 SOTU, Super Bowl III, Nigerian Civil War, Hajj Stampede Holidays and Observances on January 12 Feast of St. Benedict Biscop (ca. 628-690), one of the more notable of the Anglo Saxon clerics. Over his
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Memorial of Mary Mitchell Slessor, First use of Insulin on a human patient, Nika Riots, Muhammed takes Mecca, Kingsland Munition Factroy, Occupation of the Ruhr, Designated-Hitter Rule Holidays and Observances Presbyterian Memorial of Mary Mitchell Slessor a 19th century Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria who very successfully spread Christianity “while
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Feast of Archbishop Laud, Margaret Thatcher Day, Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, Caesar crosses the Rubicon, Norman invasion of Muslim Sicily, Standard Oil Co., Treaty of Versailles, United Nations, and more. Holidays and Observances on January 10 William Laud The Anglican Church celebrates a feast for Archbishop of Canterbury, William
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Feast of Adrian of Canterbury, Massacre of Jews in Basel, Switzerland, Britain introduces the income tax, Joan of Arc, Horatio Nelson, Daguerreotype photography, Star of the West incident, Battle of Gallipoli, iPhone Holidays and Observances on January 9 Feast of Adrian of Canterbury (memorial). Adrian of Canterbury was born about
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Feast of the Epiphany, South Sea Bubble, FDR’s Four Freedom’s Speech, Harold Godwinson Reconquista, wives of Henry VIII, Continental drift, settled science, Mother Teresa, Trump confirmed as President, and more. Holidays and Observances on January 6 Today is the Feast of the Epiphany. As with Christmas, the Feast of the
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