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1539 - Spain annexes Cuba.
1907 - Kingston earthquake; Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
1911 - Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
1938 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
1969 - USSR launch spaceships "Soyuz-4" and "Soyuz-5" and for the first time in history formed an experimental space station and the astronauts accomplished the transition from one to another spaceship.
2005 - Landing of the Huygens (spacecraft) on Saturn's moon Titan.
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1610 - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
1912 - -40°F (-40°C), Oakland, Maryland (state record)
1915 - Avezzano earthquake 1915; in Italy kills 29,800.
1938 - The Church of England accepts the theory of evolution.
2001 - Earthquake measuring magnitude 7.6 strikes El Salvador, killing more than 840 people
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1583 - Holland begins use of Gregorian calendar (yesterday was 1/1/1583)
1915 - Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of the United States Congress.
1959 - The Caves of Nerja are rediscovered in Spain.
1995 - Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan
2007 - Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches perihelion (apsis) becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
2010 - Earthquake occurs in Haiti killing 230,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince
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1693 - Mt Etna in Sicily erupts; killed 80 000.
1908 - The Grand Canyon National Park is created.
1962 - An earthquake induced rock and snow avalanche on Mount Huascaran, Peru causing 4,000 deaths.
1996 - Space Shuttle Endeavour (Mission STS-72); NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour, marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
2008 – Die Edmund Hillary - the first conqueror of Mount Everest.
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1963 - The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
1946 - US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ
1962 - Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500
1975 - Was released in traffic three kilometers long tunnel under the river Elbe or loose, which merged highways in Central Europe with those in Denmark and Sweden.
1994 - Government of the Republic of Macedonia decided for the accession to the Convention on International Carriage by Rail 1980