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• 619 - Boniface V becomes Pope
• 1620 - Construction of Plymouth Colony begins
• 1823 - A Visit From St. Nicholas, attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, is first published
• 1909 - Albert I of Belgium becomes King
• 1913 - The Federal Reserve Act becomes law
• 1916 - World War IWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of: In the Battle of MagdhabaThe Battle of Magdhaba took place near the tiny Egyptian outpost of Magdhaba in the Sinai desert, some 22 miles from El Arish on the Mediterranean coast. In late 1916 the Turkish forces in the Sinai that had been menacing the British-controlled Suez Canal, Allied forces capture a TurkishTurkey (officially the Republic of Turkey Turkish Turkiye is a country located in Southwest Asia with a small part in southeastern Europe. Until 1922 the country was the center of the Ottoman Empire. The Anatolian peninsula, between the Black Sea and the garrison on the Sinai peninsula
• 1947Events January January 1 British mines nationalized January 1 Nigeria gains limited autonomy January 1 The Canadian Citizenship Act went into effect January 3 Proceedings of the United States Congress are televised for the first time. January 10 United Na - The transistorThe transistor is the key active component in practically all modern electronics. The transistor is a solid state semiconductor device used for amplification and switching. In essence, it has three terminals. A current or voltage applied through/across tw is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories
• 19721972 is a leap year starting on Saturday (click link for calendar). Events January events January 2 the Pierre Hotel Heist Six men rob the safety deposit boxes of the Pierre Hotel in New York City. Loot is at least $4 million January 5 President of the Un - Terry Bradshaw throws the Immaculate Reception pass "to" Franco Harris
• 1973 - A Sobelair Caravelle passenger jet crashes in Morocco, killing 106
• 1979 - Soviet military units occupy Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan
• 1982 - The Environmental Protection Agency recommends the evacuation of Times Beach, Missouri due to dangerous levels of dioxin contamination
• 1990 - Republic of Slovenia votes to secede from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
• 2012 - The Mayan calendar comes to an end (may also be December 21).