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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_15" title="January 15">January 15</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chilembwe" title="John Chilembwe">John Chilembwe Day</a></b> in Malawi
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1857" title="1857">1857</a> – In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Hong_Kong" title="British Hong Kong">British Hong Kong</a>, hundreds of Europeans <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esing_Bakery_incident" title="Esing Bakery incident">were non-lethally poisoned by arsenic in bread</a></b> from a locally owned bakery, leading to geopolitical tension.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934" title="1934">1934</a> – At least 10,700 people died when <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Nepal%E2%80%93India_earthquake" title="1934 Nepal–India earthquake">an earthquake</a></b> registering 8.0 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale" title="Moment magnitude scale">M<sub>w</sub></a> struck Nepal and the Indian state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihar" title="Bihar">Bihar</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974" title="1974">1974</a> – American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer" title="Serial killer">serial killer</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader" title="Dennis Rader">Dennis Rader</a></b>, also known as the "BTK killer", murdered his first four victims.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991" title="1991">1991</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross_for_Australia" title="Victoria Cross for Australia">Victoria Cross for Australia</a></b> was instituted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_patent" title="Letters patent">letters patent</a>; the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_realm" title="Commonwealth realm">Commonwealth realm</a> with a separate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross" title="Victoria Cross">Victoria Cross</a> award in its honours system.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009" title="2009">2009</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549" title="US Airways Flight 1549">US Airways Flight 1549</a></b> struck a flock of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_goose" title="Canada goose">Canada geese</a> during its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_instrument_departure" title="Standard instrument departure">climb out</a> from New York City and made an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_landing" title="Emergency landing">emergency landing</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River" title="Hudson River">Hudson River</a> <i>(featured)</i>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophylact_(son_of_Michael_I)" title="Theophylact (son of Michael I)">Theophylact</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 849); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1929); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Margareten" title="Regina Margareten">Regina Margareten</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1959); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millie_Knight" title="Millie Knight">Millie Knight</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1999)</p>
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