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• ... that the carol "We Three Kings" (Magi pictured) was the first American Christmas carol to be featured in the "prestigious" and "influential" British collection Christmas Carols Old and New?
• ... that the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 allows extra U.S. federal government spending in 2014 and 2015, but limits it in 2022 and 2023?
• ... that
  Saint Bridget of Sweden
  , who also had some of her first religious visions there?
• ... that historian John Vincent called the New Social Alliance a "poor man's Young England"?
• ... that Rachmat Kartolo, son of actors Roekiah and Kartolo, initially did not want to enter the film industry but ultimately completed more than 40 movies?
• ... that the number 1 sex advertising site in Hong Kong was shut down by police in December 2013?
• ... that a 240-million-year-old animal latrine was dubbed "the oldest communal toilet"?

• The
  captures the city of Fallujah
  .
• Latvia becomes the 18th EU member state to adopt the euro.
• More than 100 people are killed when anti-government forces attack key buildings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• On its maiden flight, a Russian Soyuz-2-1v rocket launches Aist 1 and two radar calibration satellites.
• Two suicide bombings kill more than 30 people in Volgograd, Russia (Volgograd-1 railway station pictured).
• Amidst
  fears of civil war, the United Nations Security Council agrees to send more UNMISS soldiers to South Sudan
  .

January 6: Epiphany (Gregorian calendar)

• Byzantine-Roman Emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos, was crowned, four years before the Fall of Constantinople
  .
• 1839 – The most damaging storm in 300 years swept across Ireland, with 100-knot winds damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
• 1907 – Italian educator Maria Montessori opened her first school and day care center for working class children in Rome, employing the philosophy of education that now bears her name.
• freedoms
  humans everywhere in the world ought to enjoy.
• 1994 – Two-time American Olympic figure skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan (pictured) was clubbed on the right leg by an assailant hired by Jeff Gillooly, the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding.

More anniversaries: January 5 – January 6 – January 7

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