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• ... that Split Rock Lighthouse State Park in Minnesota has a clifftop lighthouse (pictured) on the North Shore of Lake Superior built without roads?
• ... that the Norwegian ocean liner SS Bergensfjord was requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport in 1940 and used as a troop ship throughout the Second World War?
• ... that the oil in the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, which killed upwards of 10,000 birds and numerous other creatures along the coast of California, U.S., came from the Dos Cuadras Offshore Oil Field?
• ... that Swiss writer Dominique Caillat briefly worked as an international lawyer before turning to literature and the stage, which helped her receive a basic training in acting and directing?
• ... that Petalura hesperia dragonflies lay their eggs along stream margins because their larvae are semi-aquatic?
• ... that Slade's Case has been called a "watershed" moment in English law?
• ... that Frederick Brocklander became a Major League Baseball umpire during a 1979 strike and continued umpiring for 12 more years in the National League?
• ... that a skimmington, a custom in which victims were mocked and humiliated in a noisy public procession, occurred in England as late as 1917?
  

• The Ady Gil (pictured), a trimaran used by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, is abandoned after a collision with the Japanese whaling vessel MV Shōnan Maru 2.
• A church in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is torched following a legal dispute involving a Catholic newsweekly which used the word Allah for the Christian God.
• The Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, is confirmed by the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning to have decommissioned all of its weapons.
• A new wave of very cold weather, with temperatures dropping to as low as −40 °C (−40 °F), affects much of Europe.
• Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person officially recognized to have survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, dies of stomach cancer aged 93.
• Turkmenistan gains a new route to export its natural gas production to Iran with the opening of the Dauletabad–Sarakhs–Khangiran pipeline.

January 8

• 1790 – George Washington delivered the first ever State of the Union address in New York City, then the provisional capital of the United States.
• 1815 – American forces led by General Andrew Jackson defeated the British Army at the Battle of New Orleans (pictured) near New Orleans, two weeks after the United States and United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Ghent to end the War of 1812.
• 1956 – Five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were killed by the Huaorani in the rainforest of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
• 1979 – The oil tanker Betelgeuse exploded at the offshore jetty of the Whiddy Island Oil Terminal off Bantry Bay, Ireland, killing approximately 50 people.
• 2004 – RMS Queen Mary 2, at the time the longest, widest and tallest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

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