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Jose de Anchieta
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Tahrir Square ? February 9, 2011
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Opportunity is approaching Mars [too 'dynamic' for MainPage?]
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Artist's concept of rover on Mars
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Paulo Dias de Novais
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OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb
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Flag of Georgia
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Nellie Bly
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Battle of Mikatagahara
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Idi Amin
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SS?
Laurentic
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Burns Night
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Scottish culture
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Tatiana Day
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1348
?
A massive earthquake
struck the
Friuli
region of Italy and was felt across Europe.
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1554
?
Jesuit
missionaries
Jose de Anchieta
and
Manoel da Nobrega
established a
mission
at
Sao Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga
, which grew to become
Sao Paulo
, Brazil.
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1573
?
Sengoku period
:
Takeda Shingen
's forces defeated those of
Tokugawa Ieyasu
at the
Battle of Mikatagahara
, north of
Hamamatsu
in present-day Japan's
Mikawa Province
.
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1576
? Portuguese explorer
Paulo Dias de Novais
founded the settlement of Sao Paulo da Assumpcao de Loanda on the western coast of Africa, now known as
Luanda
.
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1755
?
Russian Empress Elizabeth
issued a decree ordering the establishment of what is now
Moscow State University
, today the largest university in Russia.
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1918
? At its
Fourth Universal
, the
Ukrainian Central Council
declared the independence of the
Ukrainian People's Republic
.
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1924
? The
first Winter Olympic Games
opened at the foot of
Mont Blanc
in
Chamonix
,
Haute-Savoie
, France, attracting more than 200 athletes from 16 nations.
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1937
?
The Guiding Light
, the longest-running program in broadcast history, was first aired on the
NBC Red
radio network.
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1949
? The
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
presented
the first
Emmy Awards
to honor excellence in the
American television industry
.
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2004
? The
Five Cross Flag
was restored to official use as the
national flag
of Georgia after a hiatus of some 500 years.
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- 1533
?
Anne Boleyn
, already pregnant with the future
Elizabeth?I
, secretly married
Henry?VIII of England
in the second of
his six marriages
.
- 1704
? English colonists from the
Province of Carolina
and their native allies began
a series of raids
against the largely peaceful population of
Apalachee
in
Spanish Florida
.
- 1890
? American journalist
Nellie Bly
completed a
circumnavigation
of the globe by land and sea in a then-record 72?days.
- 1917
? Serving as a British
armed merchant cruiser
,
Laurentic
(pictured)
was sunk by German
naval mines
off the northern coast of Ireland, resulting in 354 deaths.
- 1967
?
South Vietnamese
junta leader
Nguy?n Cao K?
fired his rival
Nguy?n H?u Co
while the latter was overseas on a diplomatic visit.
- 1990
?
Avianca Flight 52
ran out of fuel on approach to
John F. Kennedy International Airport
and crashed into the village of
Cove Neck, New York
, resulting in the deaths of 73 people.
- 1995
? A team of Norwegian and American scientists launched a
Black Brant?XII
sounding rocket,
which was mistaken by Russian forces
for a
Trident
missile.
- 1998
? The
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
detonated a truck bomb
at the sacred Buddhist
Temple of the Tooth
in
Kandy
, killing 17.
- 2004
?
Mars Exploration Rover
Opportunity
landed on
Mars
and rolled into
Eagle crater
, a small
crater
on the
Meridiani Planum
.
- 2006
? Three independent observing campaigns announced the discovery of
OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb
., a
super-Earth
extrasolar planet
21,500 ±3,300
light years
away from Earth near the center of the
Milky Way
.
- 2006
? Mexican
professional wrestler
Juana Barraza
was arrested in conjunction with the
serial killing
of at least ten elderly women.
- 2010
?
Ethiopian Airlines
Flight 409
, en route to
Addis Ababa
, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from
Beirut
, Lebanon, killing all 90 people on board.
Notes
January 25
:
Feast day
of
Saint Gregory of Nazianzus
(
Eastern Christianity
) and
Dwynwen
Protester during the 2011 Egyptian revolution