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Hitler's speech in the Reichstag

Hitler's prophecy was a statement first made by Adolf Hitler in a speech (pictured) at the Reichstag on 30 January 1939: "If international finance Jewry inside and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, the result will be not the Bolshevization of the earth and thereby the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe". Hitler continued to invoke the prophecy throughout the war and referenced it in his last will and testament, such that the prophecy became a leitmotif of the Final Solution and is the best-known phrase from Hitler's speeches. The historical significance of the prophecy is debated: intentionalists view it as proof of Hitler's previously developed master plan to systematically murder the European Jews, while functionalists argue that "annihilation" was not meant or understood to mean mass murder, at least initially. It is also cited as evidence that Germans were aware that Jews were being exterminated. (Full article...)

Pallas's cat

• ... that the Pallas's cat (example pictured) has up to 9,000 hairs per cm² (58,000/in²) of fur?
• ... that after quarterback Joe Montana invested in Crowd Cow, PETA sent him a letter filled with football puns imploring him not to invest in a company that facilitates the slaughtering of animals?
• ... that "I Did Something Bad" is the first song in which Taylor Swift uses profanity?
• ... that Mahadevi Varma chose to live an ascetic life despite being married?
• ... that the treatise Zabân-e Pâk, written by Ahmad Kasravi, was one of the first works that sought to suggest refinements to the Persian language?
• ... that Anna Martina Gottschick wrote the hymn "Herr, mach uns stark" because a composer wanted to make Ralph Vaughan Williams's 1906 melody of "For All the Saints" available for German church singing?
• ... that Tomoki Suzuki won the men's wheelchair race at the 2020 Tokyo Marathon by over eight minutes?
• ... that
  1987 FA Cup Final was an own goal scored in extra time off Gary Mabbutt
  's knee?

Kaja Kallas

• A coordinated short squeeze targeting American hedge funds causes GameStop's stock price to spike.
• Kaja Kallas (pictured) becomes the first female prime minister of Estonia, following the resignation of Jüri Ratas.
• In Russia, protests against the arrest of Alexei Navalny occur in more than 120 towns and cities.

January 30: Martyrs' Day in India

Naro-1

• German–Polish War ended with the signing of the Peace of Bautzen between Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Bolesław I, the Piast
  ruler of Poland.
• 1661 – Two years after his death, Oliver Cromwell's remains were exhumed for a posthumous execution and his head was placed on a spike above Westminster Hall in London, where it remained until 1685.
• 1972 – The Troubles: On Bloody Sunday, members of the British Parachute Regiment shot 26 civil-rights protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing at least thirteen people.
• 2013 – The Korea Aerospace Research Institute launched Naro-1 (pictured), South Korea's first carrier rocket and their first launch vehicle to achieve Earth orbit.