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• ... that the French satirical cartoonist Charb (pictured), a victim of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris in January, had been on Al-Qaeda's "most wanted list" since 2013?
• ... that there is an ongoing proposal within the UK to restrict encryption?
• ... that as head of the rabbinical court in Tripoli, Libya, Abraham Hayyim Adadi levied a 5 percent tax on local merchants to pay for teachers for poor children?
• ... that the tail of the ornate shrew is bicolored?
• ... that football player
  NFL Pro Bowler Matt Stover
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• ... that The Legend of Lucky Pie was called the Chinese "knock-off" of Adventure Time?
• ... that
  Manhattan District
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• ... that in Roger Scruton's musical vision of the eccentric love-life of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, a leading lady is sung by a baritone?

• In American football, the New England Patriots defeat the Seattle Seahawks to win the Super Bowl.
• The
  men's singles
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• Sergio Mattarella (pictured) is elected President of Italy.
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  the final
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• Attacks by Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, kill 32 people.
• Syriza (Coalition of the Radical Left) wins a plurality of seats in the Greek legislative election and forms a coalition government with the Independent Greeks
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Ongoing:

• 960 – Emperor Taizu began his reign in China, initiating the Song dynasty period that would eventually last for more than three centuries.
• 1169 – A strong earthquake struck the eastern coast of Sicily, causing an estimated 15,000 deaths.
• 1899 – The Philippine–American War opened when an American soldier, under orders to keep insurgents away from his unit's encampment, fired upon a Filipino soldier in Manila.
• 1969 – Yasser Arafat (pictured) was elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea, was shot and killed by four New York City Police Department plain-clothed officers, prompting outrage both within and outside New York City
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More anniversaries: February 3 – February 4 – February 5