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• ... that
  Dravida and Buddhist architectural
  styles?
• ... that an
  American court case hinges on whether the Communications Decency Act
  immunizes web-based service providers against civil claims brought by users for harm caused by other users?
• ... that sea fans such as Leptogorgia sarmentosa and Eunicella singularis are sometimes overgrown by false coral?
• ... that the creation of the pro-Russian Donbass Association was viewed by many as an act of Russian involvement in Sweden, causing one commentator to proclaim that "the shadow of Moscow reaches Scania"?
• ... that
  Tamil film to be produced by Sivaji Films
  ?
• ... that
  eight children were killed in a suburban home of Cairns
  , Australia, in December 2014?
• ... that
  Dawpool
  had "served its purpose in keeping [her husband] amused for fifteen years"?

• Lithuania becomes the 19th member of the Eurozone.
• At least 36 people are killed as a result of a stampede at a New Year's Eve celebration in Shanghai.
• Authorities confirm the discovery of debris and bodies from Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 (aircraft pictured), which crashed en route to Singapore with 162 people on board.
• At least 83 people are killed in clashes between the Cameroonian military and Boko Haram militants.
• Italian ferry Norman Atlantic catches fire in the Adriatic Sea with 466 passengers and crew on board, killing at least 11 people.
• A militant attack on tribal people and subsequent retaliations in Assam, India, result in at least 85 deaths.
• Tunisian presidential election
  .

Ongoing:

January 5

• Louis XV of France survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who later became the last person to be executed in the country by drawing and quartering
  .
• 1919 – The German Workers' Party, the forerunner to the Nazi Party, was founded by Anton Drexler.
• 1968 – Alexander Dubček came to power in Czechoslovakia, beginning a period of political liberalization known as the Prague Spring that ended with a military intervention by the Warsaw Pact nations to halt reform.
• 1996 – Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash was assassinated by a bomb-laden cell phone, planted by Israel's Shin Bet.
• decisively re-elected as President of Georgia
  in "the first genuinely competitive presidential election" in the history of the country.

More anniversaries: January 4 – January 5 – January 6

Human characters on Sesame Street, a children's television program, appear together with the program's Muppet characters despite the advice that the producers received prior to the 1969 premiere from child psychologists who were concerned that children would be confused by human-Muppet interactions. The producers defied the recommendations of their advisers because researchers found that, although children's attention was high during the Muppet segments, their interest wavered when there were only humans on screen. The original cast, chosen by producer Jon Stone, consisted of four human actors—Matt Robinson, who played Gordon; Loretta Long, who played Gordon's wife, Susan; Will Lee, who played Mr. Hooper; and Bob McGrath (pictured), who played Bob. Unlike most children's television programs at the time, the producers of Sesame Street decided against using a single host and cast a group of ethnically diverse actors. Most of the initial cast and crew found jobs on Sesame Street through personal relationships with Stone and the other producers. (Full list...)