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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_24" title="January 24">January 24</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Unification_of_the_Romanian_Principalities" title="Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities">Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1859" title="1859">1859</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/914" title="914">914</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate" title="Fatimid Caliphate">Fatimid Caliphate</a> began their <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimid_invasion_of_Egypt_(914%E2%80%93915)" title="Fatimid invasion of Egypt (914–915)">first invasion of Egypt</a></b>, against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasids</a>, which eventually ended in failure.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1536" title="1536">1536</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII" title="Henry VIII">King Henry VIII of England</a></b> suffered a serious accident while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jousting" title="Jousting">jousting</a>, receiving injuries which may have caused his later obesity and erratic personality.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1848" title="1848">1848</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Marshall" title="James W. Marshall">James W. Marshall</a> discovered gold at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutter%27s_Mill" title="Sutter's Mill">Sutter's Mill</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloma,_California" title="Coloma, California">Coloma, California</a>, leading to the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gold_rush" title="California gold rush">California gold rush</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972" title="1972">1972</a> – Japanese soldier <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoichi_Yokoi" title="Shoichi Yokoi">Shoichi Yokoi</a></b> was found in the jungles of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a>, where he had been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_holdout" title="Japanese holdout">hiding since the end of World <span class="nowrap">War II</span></a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977" title="1977">1977</a> – During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_transition_to_democracy" title="Spanish transition to democracy">Spanish transition to democracy</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-fascism" title="Neo-fascism">neo-fascists</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Atocha_massacre" title="1977 Atocha massacre">attacked</a></b> an office in Madrid, killing five people and injuring four others.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Stephen_IV" title="Pope Stephen IV">Pope <span class="nowrap">Stephen IV</span></a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 817); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_James_Fox" title="Charles James Fox">Charles James Fox</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1749); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Su%C3%A1rez" title="Luis Suárez">Luis Suárez</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1987); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Bryant_Mariner" title="Rosemary Bryant Mariner">Rosemary Bryant Mariner</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2019)</p>
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