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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6" title="January 6">January 6</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Christmas" title="Little Christmas">Little Christmas</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1449" title="1449">1449</a> – Four years before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople" title="Fall of Constantinople">fall of Constantinople</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_XI_Palaiologos" title="Constantine XI Palaiologos">Constantine XI Palaiologos</a></b> assumed the throne as the last <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> emperor.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1724" title="1724">1724</a> – <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sie_werden_aus_Saba_alle_kommen,_BWV_65" title="Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen, BWV 65">Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen</a></b></i>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach_cantata" title="Bach cantata">Bach cantata</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(holiday)" title="Epiphany (holiday)">Epiphany</a>, was first performed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig" title="Leipzig">Leipzig</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912" title="1912">1912</a> – German geophysicist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener" title="Alfred Wegener">Alfred Wegener</a> presented his theory of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_drift" title="Continental drift">continental drift</a></b>, the precursor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics" title="Plate tectonics">plate tectonics</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953" title="1953">1953</a> – The inaugural <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Socialist_Conference" title="Asian Socialist Conference">Asian Socialist Conference</a></b>, an organisation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialist</a> political parties, opened in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangon" title="Yangon">Rangoon</a> with 177 delegates, observers and fraternal guests.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014" title="2014">2014</a> – The first episode of the documentary series <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefits_Street" title="Benefits Street">Benefits Street</a></b></i> aired on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a>, prompting discussion in the United Kingdom about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_dependency" title="Welfare dependency">welfare dependency</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Hidalgo_de_Cisneros" title="Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros">Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1756); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Scruggs" title="Earl Scruggs">Earl Scruggs</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1924); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babrak_Karmal" title="Babrak Karmal">Babrak Karmal</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1929); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_Plumlee" title="Sybil Plumlee">Sybil Plumlee</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2012)</p>
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