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2 days ago · 2016 (Sunday) 2015 (Saturday) January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ; 355 days remain until the end of the year (356 in leap years ).
1 day ago · The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the Eucharist.
- Gift-giving, family and other social gatherings, symbolic decoration, feasting etc.
- Church services
- Christians, many non-Christians
- Commemoration of the nativity of Jesus
23 hours ago · Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 13 January 2024 as part of the 2024 general elections. [1] [2] Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the incumbent president of the Republic of China, was ineligible for reelection due to term limits. As such, the DPP nominated Vice President Lai Ching-te, who had secured the party ...
- Lai Ching-te
- 5,586,019
- DPP
- Hsiao Bi-khim
2 days ago · January 22, 1919 (Wednesday) An agreement was signed between the Ukrainian People's Republic and West Ukrainian People's Republic in Kiev , symbolically uniting them as one Ukraine even though both nations retained separate governments and armed forces.
1 day ago · February 22 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sentences three Bosnian Serb soldiers to prison for wartime sexual violence, recognizing it as a war crime for the first time.
2 days ago · September: Erneuter Putschversuch in der Elfenbeinküste. 22. September: Bundestagswahl 2002. SPD und Grüne können ihre Regierungsmehrheit knapp behaupten, SPD = 251 Mandate, CDU/CSU = 248, Grüne = 55, FDP = 47. Die PDS scheitert an der Fünf-Prozent-Klausel, erringt aber in Berlin zwei Direktmandate. 24.
1 day ago · 17. januar – Rebecca Brüel, dansk sanger (født 1952). 20. januar – Norman Jewison, canadisk filminstruktør og filmproducent (født 1926). 22. januar – Luigi "Gigi" Riva, italiensk fodboldspiller (født 1944). 22. januar – Arno Allan Penzias, tyskfødt amerikansk fysiker og nobelprismodtager (født 1933).
