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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_5" title="January 5">January 5</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Night_(holiday)" title="Twelfth Night (holiday)">Twelfth Night</a></b> (Western Christianity)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1757" title="1757">1757</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XV" title="Louis XV">King Louis XV</a> survived an assassination attempt by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert-Fran%C3%A7ois_Damiens" title="Robert-François Damiens">Robert-François Damiens</a></b>, who later became the last person in France to be executed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismemberment#Torn_apart_by_four_horses" title="Dismemberment">drawing and quartering</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1869" title="1869">1869</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Kooti%27s_War" title="Te Kooti's War">Te Kooti's War</a>: After surviving <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ngatapa" title="Siege of Ngatapa">a five-day siege</a></b> in the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81" title="Pā">pā</a></i> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C4%81tapa" title="Ngātapa">Ngātapa</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_people" title="Māori people">Māori</a> leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Kooti" title="Te Kooti">Te Kooti</a> escaped from New Zealand's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Defence_Force" title="New Zealand Defence Force">Armed Constabulary</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919" title="1919">1919</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Workers%27_Party" title="German Workers' Party">German Workers' Party</a></b>, the precursor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party" title="Nazi Party">Nazi Party</a>, was founded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Drexler" title="Anton Drexler">Anton Drexler</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949" title="1949">1949</a> – In his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Union" title="State of the Union">State of the Union</a> speech, U.S. president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" title="Harry S. Truman">Harry S. Truman</a> announced: "Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Deal" title="Fair Deal">fair deal</a></b>."</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003" title="2003">2003</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Police" title="Metropolitan Police">Metropolitan Police</a> arrested six people in conjunction with <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_Green_ricin_plot" title="Wood Green ricin plot">an alleged terrorist plot</a></b> to release <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricin" title="Ricin">ricin</a> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground">London Underground</a>, although no toxin was found.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mu%27tasim" title="Al-Mu'tasim">Al-Mu'tasim</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 842); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Erlanger" title="Joseph Erlanger">Joseph Erlanger</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1874); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Herring" title="Edmund Herring">Edmund Herring</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1982); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Boulez" title="Pierre Boulez">Pierre Boulez</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2016)</p>
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