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Valencia Theatre
- ... that New York City's Valencia Theatre (pictured) was sold to a church in 1977 for $1?
- ... that the murder of skier Corinne Rey-Bellet led to a change in Swiss gun-control regulations?
- ... that Home and Beauty has been described as both a "little masterpiece of polite merriment" and a "misogynist comedy dipped in vitriol"?
- ... that Bea Hines, the first African-American woman to become a reporter at the Miami Herald, was sent to report on a riot on her first day at work?
- ... that terracotta cones found at al-Moghraqa in Palestine are unique in the region, but resemble artefacts from ancient Egypt?
- ... that Yvonne Francis-Gibson, before improving women's rights as a legislator in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, led a Women's Desk that was "unable to take a firm stand on behalf of women's issues"?
- ... that Aquilegia moorcroftiana is named after a mountaineer and is found at the highest elevation of any species of columbine?
- ... that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was just one center until 1980?
- ... that Yuki Waga created the "earworm" for "Shikairo Days" by walking around his house repeating "shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan"?
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Justin Trudeau
- Justin Trudeau (pictured) announces his intention to resign as prime minister of Canada.
- Luke Littler wins the PDC World Darts Championship.
- A spree shooter in Cetinje, Montenegro, kills 12 people and injures 4 others.
- Romania and Bulgaria become full members of the Schengen Area.
On this day...
Constantine XI Palaiologos
- 1449 – Four years before the fall of Constantinople, Constantine XI Palaiologos (pictured) assumed the throne as the last Byzantine emperor.
- 1725 – J. S. Bach led the first performance of Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, a chorale cantata for Epiphany.
- 1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener presented his theory of continental drift, the precursor of plate tectonics, to the German Geological Society.
- 1953 – The inaugural Asian Socialist Conference, an organisation of socialist political parties, opened in Rangoon with 177 delegates, observers and fraternal guests.
- 2014 – The first episode of the documentary series Benefits Street aired on Channel 4, prompting discussion in the United Kingdom about welfare dependency.
- Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros (b. 1756)
- Earl Scruggs (b. 1924)
- Babrak Karmal (b. 1929)
- Sybil Plumlee (d. 2012)
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