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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_7" title="January 7">January 7</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a></b> (Eastern Christianity); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Cambodia" title="Public holidays in Cambodia">Victory over Genocide Day</a></b> in Cambodia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979" title="1979">1979</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1797" title="1797">1797</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Italy" title="Flag of Italy">Italian tricolour</a></b> was first adopted as an official flag by the government of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cispadane_Republic" title="Cispadane Republic">Cispadane Republic</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904" title="1904">1904</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marconi_Company" title="Marconi Company">Marconi International Marine Communication Company</a> specified <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQD" title="CQD">CQD</a></b> <i>(audio featured)</i> as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distress_signal" title="Distress signal">distress signal</a> to be used by its operators.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939" title="1939">1939</a> – French physicist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Perey" title="Marguerite Perey">Marguerite Perey</a> identified <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francium" title="Francium">francium</a></b>, the last <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_chemical_element_discoveries" title="Timeline of chemical element discoveries">element to be discovered</a> in nature rather than by synthesis.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979" title="1979">1979</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Army_of_Vietnam" title="People's Army of Vietnam">People's Army of Vietnam</a> captured <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phnom_Penh" title="Phnom Penh">Phnom Penh</a>, marking the end of large-scale fighting in the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%E2%80%93Vietnamese_War" title="Cambodian–Vietnamese War">Cambodian–Vietnamese War</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020" title="2020">2020</a> – After <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Spanish_government_formation" title="2019–2020 Spanish government formation">253 days without an operational government</a></b>, a second round of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investiture" title="Investiture">investiture</a> votes produced Spain's first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_government" title="Coalition government">coalition government</a> since the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Spanish_Republic" title="Second Spanish Republic">Second Republic</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Poulenc" title="Francis Poulenc">Francis Poulenc</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1899); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melly_Goeslaw" title="Melly Goeslaw">Melly Goeslaw</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1974); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming" title="Richard Hamming">Richard Hamming</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1998); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Run_Shaw" title="Run Run Shaw">Run Run Shaw</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2014)</p>
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