1993

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday in the United States observed on the third Monday of January each year. King was the chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the civil rights movement, which protested legalized racial discrimination in federal and state law and civil society. The movement led to several groundbreaking legislative reforms in the United States.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day

1999

Birth of Karan Brar

Karan Brar, American actor

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Karan Brar

1999

Birth of Tee Higgins

Tee Higgins, American football player

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Tee Higgins

1999

Birth of Djorkaeff Reasco

Djorkaeff Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer

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Djorkaeff Reasco

2002

Sierra Leone Civil War

The Sierra Leonean Civil War (1991–2002) was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), with support from the special forces of Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), intervened in Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow the Joseph Momoh government. The resulting civil war lasted almost 11 years, and had over 50,000, up to 70,000, casualties in total; an estimated 2.5 million people were displaced during the conflict, and widespread atrocities occurred.

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Sierra Leone Civil War

2002

Birth of Anastasia Zakharova

Anastasia Vladimirovna Zakharova is a Russian tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 74 in singles, achieved on 16 March 2026, and No. 93 in doubles. Zakharova has won sixteen singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

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Anastasia Zakharova

2002

Birth of Ki-Jana Hoever

Ki-Jana Delano Hoever is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a right-back or right wing-back for EFL Championship club Sheffield United, on loan from EFL Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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Ki-Jana Hoever

2002

Birth of Karim Adeyemi

Karim Adeyemi, German footballer

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Karim Adeyemi

2003

2003 Canberra bushfires

The 2003 Canberra bushfires caused severe damage to the suburbs and outer areas of Canberra, the capital city of Australia, during 18–22 January 2003. Almost 70% of the Australian Capital Territory's (ACT) pastures, pine plantations, and nature parks were severely damaged, and most of the Mount Stromlo Observatory was destroyed. After burning for a week around the edges of the ACT, the fires entered the suburbs of Canberra on 18 January 2003. Over the next ten hours, four people died, over 490 were injured, and more than 500 homes were destroyed or severely damaged, requiring a significant relief and reconstruction effort.

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2003 Canberra bushfires

2003

Birth of Wendy Shongwe

Wendy Shongwe is a South African sprinter and soccer player who plays as a forward for SAFA Women's League club Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies and the South Africa women's national team.

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Wendy Shongwe

2005

Airbus A380

The Airbus A380 is a large wide-body airliner, developed and produced by Airbus from 2003 to 2021. It is the world's largest passenger airliner and the only full-length double-deck jet airliner.

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Airbus A380

2007

1999

1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1999th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 999th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1990s decade.

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1999

2008

Euphronios Krater

The Euphronios Krater is an ancient Greek terra cotta calyx-krater, a bowl used for mixing wine with water. Created around 515 BC, it is the only complete example of the 27 vases painted by the renowned Euphronios and is considered one of the finest Ancient Greek vases in existence.

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Euphronios Krater

2010

Birth of Sophia Reid-Gantzert

Sophia Reid-Gantzert is a Canadian actress and dancer. She began dancing at age two and won a competition in Austria at age six. In 2017, she made her acting debut in the television film The Sweetest Christmas. Reid-Gantzert received critical praise for her performance as Karen Brewer in Netflix's The Baby-Sitters Club (2020–2021). She later played lead roles in the comedy series Scaredy Cats (2021) and the coming-of-age film Popular Theory (2024).

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Sophia Reid-Gantzert

2012

Protests against SOPA and PIPA

On January 18, 2012, a series of coordinated protests occurred against two proposed laws in the United States Congress—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). These followed smaller protests in late 2011. Protests were based on concerns that the bills, intended to provide more robust responses to copyright infringement arising outside the United States, contained measures that could possibly infringe online freedom of speech, websites, and Internet communities. Protesters also argued that there were insufficient safeguards in place to protect sites based upon user-generated content.

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Protests against SOPA and PIPA