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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_18" title="January 18">January 18</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laba_Festival" title="Laba Festival">Laba Festival</a></b> in China (2024)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1871" title="1871">1871</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Germany" title="Unification of Germany">A number of previously independent states united</a> to form the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">German Empire</a>, with <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I,_German_Emperor" title="William I, German Emperor">Wilhelm I</a></b> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Emperor" title="German Emperor">emperor</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951" title="1951">1951</a> – Construction began on the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Memorial_Cemetery" title="United Nations Memorial Cemetery">United Nations Military Cemetery</a></b>, the only <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> cemetery in the world, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busan" title="Busan">Busan</a>, South Korea.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956" title="1956">1956</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navvab_Safavi" title="Navvab Safavi">Navvab Safavi</a></b>, an Iranian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shia</a> cleric and the founder of the fundamentalist group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fada%27iyan-e_Islam" title="Fada'iyan-e Islam"><span class="nowrap">Fada'iyan-e</span> Islam</a>, was executed with three of his followers for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Ala%27" title="Hossein Ala'">Hossein Ala'</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969" title="1969">1969</a> – Thousands of Japanese police stormed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Tokyo" title="University of Tokyo">University of Tokyo</a> after six months of nationwide <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%E2%80%931969_Japanese_university_protests" title="1968–1969 Japanese university protests">leftist university student protests and occupation</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983" title="1983">1983</a> – Thirty years after his death, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Olympic_Committee" title="International Olympic Committee">International Olympic Committee</a> presented commemorative medals to the family of American athlete <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe" title="Jim Thorpe">Jim Thorpe</a></b>, who had been stripped of his gold medals for playing semi-professional baseball before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_Summer_Olympics" title="1912 Summer Olympics">1912 Summer Olympics</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Jagiellon" title="Isabella Jagiellon">Isabella Jagiellon</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1519); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Arizmendi_Mej%C3%ADa" title="Elena Arizmendi Mejía">Elena Arizmendi Mejía</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1884); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Starck" title="Philippe Starck">Philippe Starck</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1949); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Chatwin" title="Bruce Chatwin">Bruce Chatwin</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1989)</p>
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