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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6" title="January 6">January 6</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Christmas" title="Little Christmas">Little Christmas</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066" title="1066">1066</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Godwinson" title="Harold Godwinson">Harold Godwinson</a></b>, the last <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" title="Anglo-Saxons">Anglo-Saxon</a> monarch before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Conquest" title="Norman Conquest">Norman Conquest</a>, was crowned <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_monarchs" title="List of English monarchs">King of England</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1322" title="1322">1322</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_De%C4%8Danski" title="Stefan Dečanski">Stefan Dečanski</a></b> was crowned <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Serbian_monarchs" title="List of Serbian monarchs">King of Serbia</a>, succeeding his half-brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Konstantin" title="Stefan Konstantin">Stefan Konstantin</a>, whom he later defeated in battle.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1839" title="1839">1839</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Big_Wind" title="Night of the Big Wind">The worst storm to impact Ireland in 300 years</a></b> damaged or destroyed more than 20 per cent of houses in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a> with 100-knot (190 km/h) winds.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907" title="1907">1907</a> – Italian educator <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Montessori" title="Maria Montessori">Maria Montessori</a></b> opened her first school and day-care centre for working-class children in Rome, employing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education" title="Montessori education">a philosophy of education that now bears her name</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994" title="1994">1994</a> – Two-time American Olympic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_skating" title="Figure skating">figure-skating</a> medalist <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Kerrigan" title="Nancy Kerrigan">Nancy Kerrigan</a></b> was <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_of_Nancy_Kerrigan" title="Assault of Nancy Kerrigan">hit on the leg with a police baton</a></b> by an assailant hired by the ex-husband of her rival <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonya_Harding" title="Tonya Harding">Tonya Harding</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_de_Guzm%C3%A1n,_Count-Duke_of_Olivares" title="Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares">Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1587); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Smith" title="Jedediah Smith">Jedediah Smith</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1799); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wiggins" title="Alan Wiggins">Alan Wiggins</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1991)</p>
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