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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_11" title="January 11">January 11</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prithvi_Jayanti" title="Prithvi Jayanti">Prithvi Jayanti</a></b> in Nepal
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1654" title="1654">1654</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arauco_War" title="Arauco War">Arauco War</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huilliche_people" title="Huilliche people">Mapuche-Huilliche</a> of southern Chile defeated a slave-hunting Spanish army at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_R%C3%ADo_Bueno_(1654)" title="Battle of Río Bueno (1654)">Battle of Río Bueno</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1693" title="1693">1693</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1693_Sicily_earthquake" title="1693 Sicily earthquake">The most powerful earthquake recorded in Italy</a></b>, registering 7.4 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale" title="Moment magnitude scale">M<sub>w</sub></a>, struck the island of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1914" title="1914">1914</a> – The <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Karluk" title="HMCS Karluk">Karluk</a></i>, the flagship of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Arctic_Expedition,_1913%E2%80%931916" title="Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–1916">Canadian Arctic Expedition</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_voyage_of_the_Karluk" title="Last voyage of the Karluk">sank after being crushed by ice</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964" title="1964">1964</a> – In <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_and_Health" title="Smoking and Health">a landmark report</a></b>, U.S. surgeon general <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Terry" title="Luther Terry">Luther Terry</a> issued a warning that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoking" title="Tobacco smoking">tobacco smoking</a> may be hazardous to health, concluding that it has a causative role in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_cancer" title="Lung cancer">lung cancer</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronchitis" title="Bronchitis">chronic bronchitis</a>, and other illnesses.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003" title="2003">2003</a> – After Chicago police detective <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Burge" title="Jon Burge">Jon Burge</a></b> was discovered to have <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_confession" title="Forced confession">forced confessions</a> from more than 200 suspects, the governor of Illinois <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutation_(law)" title="Commutation (law)">commuted</a> the death sentences of 167 prisoners and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon" title="Pardon">pardoned</a> four others.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min_Bin" title="Min Bin">Min Bin</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1554); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates_Nelson" title="Socrates Nelson">Socrates Nelson</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1814); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Le_Gallienne" title="Eva Le Gallienne">Eva Le Gallienne</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1899); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Tanguay" title="Eva Tanguay">Eva Tanguay</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1947)</p>
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