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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" title="January 1">January 1</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain_Day" title="Public Domain Day">Public Domain Day</a></b>; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solemnity_of_Mary,_Mother_of_God" title="Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God">Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Rite" title="Roman Rite">Roman Rite Catholicism</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1739" title="1739">1739</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouvet_Island" title="Bouvet Island">Bouvet Island</a></b> in the South Atlantic Ocean, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremes_on_Earth" title="Extremes on Earth">the most remote island in the world</a>, was discovered by French explorer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Charles_Bouvet_de_Lozier" title="Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier">Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1773" title="1773">1773</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymn" title="Hymn">hymn</a> "<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Grace" title="Amazing Grace">Amazing Grace</a></b>" was probably first used in a prayer meeting in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olney,_Buckinghamshire" title="Olney, Buckinghamshire">Olney</a>, England, without the music familiar to modern listeners.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892" title="1892">1892</a> – The immigration station on <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Island" title="Ellis Island">Ellis Island</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Harbor" title="New York Harbor">New York Harbor</a> opened, and would process almost 12 million <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Immigration to the United States">immigrants to the United States</a> over the course of its existence.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928" title="1928">1928</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>'s personal secretary, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Bazhanov" title="Boris Bazhanov">Boris Bazhanov</a></b>, crossed the Iranian border and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emigration_from_the_Eastern_Bloc" title="Emigration from the Eastern Bloc">defected from the Soviet Union</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998" title="1998">1998</a> – Argentinian physicist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Maldacena" title="Juan Maldacena">Juan Maldacena</a> published a landmark paper initiating the study of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS/CFT_correspondence" title="AdS/CFT correspondence">AdS/CFT correspondence</a></b>, which links <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory" title="String theory">string theory</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity" title="Quantum gravity">quantum gravity</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_de%27_Medici" title="Lorenzo de' Medici">Lorenzo de' Medici</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1449); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne-Anatole_Demar%C3%A7ay" title="Eugène-Anatole Demarçay">Eugène-Anatole Demarçay</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1852); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm" title="Shirley Chisholm">Shirley Chisholm</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2005)</p>