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🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Epiphany (AT,CH,DE,ES,FI,GR,IT,PL,SE,VE) · Epifania (IT) · Epifanía del Señor (ES) · Heilige Drei Könige (AT) · Loppiainen (FI) · New Year holiday (RU) · Święto Trzech Króli (PL) · Trettondedag jul (SE) · Θεοφάνεια (GR) · Новогодние каникулы (RU)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Christian: Epiphany major
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2017 — 5 people are killed and 6 others injured in a mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida. ↗
- 2012 — Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus. ↗
- 2005 — American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. ↗
- 2005 — A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas. ↗
- 2001 — Congress certifies George W. Bush winner of 2000 elections. ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1999 — Elena Radionova, Russian figure skater
- 1995 — Will Butcher, American hockey player
- 1994 — Jameis Winston, American football player
- 1989 — Andy Carroll, English footballer
- 1989 — Derrick Morgan, American football player
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