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125 years ago today, Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. (en.wikipedia.org)

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150 years ago today, Albert Schweitzer, a German and French polymath from Alsace, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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53 years ago today, Margrethe II becomes queen of Denmark, ruling in her own right until she announced her abdication (also on this day) in 2024. (files.catbox.moe)

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(14th January 1972)

She was the first regnant queen of Denmark since Margrethe 1 in 1375–1412

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30 years ago today, Natalia Dyer, an American actress, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://www.onthisday.com/people/natalia-dyer

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185 years ago today, en route from New York City to Boston, the casing around the steamship Lexington's smokestack caught fire, igniting nearly 150 bales of cotton. (upload.wikimedia.org)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexington_(steamship)

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25 years ago today, Steve Ballmer replaced Bill Gates as the chief executive officer of Microsoft. (en.wikipedia.org)

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90 years ago today, a referendum on territorial status was held in the Territory of the Saar Basin. Over 90% of voters opted for reunification with Germany. (en.wikipedia.org)

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35 years ago today, a seven-day pogrom broke out against the Armenian civilian population in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, during which Armenians were beaten, murdered, and expelled from the city. (en.wikipedia.org)

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25 years ago today, in a lawsuit brought up by Tanja Kreil, the European Court of Justice issued a ruling allowing women to serve in the armed forces of Germany in more roles than previously allowed. (eur-lex.europa.eu)

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140 years ago today, Alice Paul, an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/january-11/#alice-paul

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545 years ago today, Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, was born. She was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1507 to 1515 and again from 1519 until her death in 1530. (upload.wikimedia.org)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Austria,_Duchess_of_Savoy

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550 years ago today, Stephen III of Moldavia defeated the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui. (en.wikipedia.org)

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20 years ago today, Mahmoud Abbas was elected to serve as President of the Palestinian National Authority. (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas

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50 years ago today, the Great Storm spawned the first of 45 tornadoes over a three-day period in the Southeastern United States. (en.wikipedia.org)

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210 years ago today, the Battle of New Orleans was fought between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham and the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson. (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-battle-of-new-orleans

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90 years ago today, Elvis Presley, an American singer and actor, was born. (upload.wikimedia.org)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley

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100 years ago today, Helmuth Hübener was born. He was executed at age 17 by beheading for his opposition to the Nazi regime. (en.wikipedia.org)

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70 years ago today, the curtain at the Metropolitan Opera in New York rose to reveal Marian Anderson, the first African American to perform with the Met. (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/marian-anderson-first-african-american-performance-met-opera

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45 years ago today, Zoe Salmon, a television presenter from Northern Ireland, was born. She hosted the children's television programme Blue Peter from 23 December 2004 to 25 June 2008. (upload.wikimedia.org)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe_Salmon

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5 years ago today, after 253 days without an operational government, a second round of investiture votes produced Spain's first coalition government since the Second Republic. (en.wikipedia.org)

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10 years ago today, in Paris, France, the employees of the French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo were targeted in a terrorist shooting attack by two French-born Algerian Muslim brothers. (en.wikipedia.org)

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20 years ago today, Oury Jalloh, an asylum seeker, died in a fire in a police cell in Dessau, Germany. (en.wikipedia.org)

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50 years ago today, Wheel of Fortune, one of the the longest-running syndicated game shows in American television, premiered on NBC. (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wheel-of-fortune-premieres-nbc

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115 years ago today, Kid Chocolate, a Cuban boxer, was born. He enjoyed great success both in the boxing ring and outside it during the 1930s. (upload.wikimedia.org)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Chocolate

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300 years ago today, J. S. Bach led the first performance of Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, a chorale cantata for Epiphany. (en.wikipedia.org)

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