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• ... that Adrien Nunez (pictured), despite limited playing time, was more highly paid than a projected NBA draft lottery pick while in college?
• ... that specimens of Aquilegia daingolica were collected in 1906 and 1909, but it was first described as a new species in 2013?
• ... that Yanou Collart helped Rock Hudson get medical treatment when Nancy Reagan would not?
• ... that when Alexander McQueen, following years of criticism for over-reliance on runway spectacles, presented The Man Who Knew Too Much, it was criticised for its lack of theatrics?
• ... that Lars Chemnitz was one of the first recipients of Nersornaat, the highest honor in Greenland?
• ... that the principal songwriter of a song on Always Happy to Explode asked listeners to "love it for me, for I cannot"?
• ... that Daniel Hermann wrote poems on the inclusion of a lizard and a frog in a piece of amber, the eagle in the coat of arms of Poland, and a child suffering from Fraser syndrome?
• ... that the harsh treatment of Allied prisoners of war in Japan is well known in the West but mostly ignored or glossed over in Japan itself?
• ... that a cable TV channel in the UK was still broadcasting primarily in black and white as late as 1979?

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• Joseph Aoun (pictured) is elected president of Lebanon after a two-year vacancy.
• An attack on the presidential palace in N'Djamena, Chad, results in 20 deaths.
• A series of wildfires in Southern California, United States, leaves at least 16 people dead and forces the evacuation of nearly 180,000 others.
• A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hits Tingri County in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, leaving at least 126 people dead.

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January 12: Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania (1964)

• 1659 – The fort at Allahabad was surrendered to the forces of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.
• 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Natal Native Contingent and British troops defeated Zulu forces in the Action at Sihayo's Kraal.
• 1899 – During a storm, the crew of Lynmouth Lifeboat Station transported their 10-ton lifeboat 15 mi (24 km) overland in order to rescue a damaged schooner.
• 1967 – Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
• 2007 – Comet McNaught (pictured) reached perihelion, becoming the brightest comet in over 40 years, with an apparent magnitude of −5.5.

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