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1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.[19]
1956 – The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.[20]
1958 – Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.[21]
1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.[22]
1972 – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, UK.[23]
1976 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen would shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.[24]
1987 – The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people.[25]
1989 – Second Gulf of Sidra incident: A pair of Libyan MiG-23 “Floggers” are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.[26]
1990 – In Pakistan’s deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.[27]
1998 – A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.[28]
1999 – Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota, United States.[29]
2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.[30]
2004 – Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.[31]
2006 – Ehud Olmert becomes acting Prime Minister of Israel after the incumbent, Ariel Sharon, suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke.[32]
2007 – The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.[33]
2010 – The Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the world, officially opens in Dubai.[34]
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