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Macarius of Egypt ( Western Christianity) Maurus and Placidus ( Order of Saint Benedict) Paul the Hermit. January 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Earliest day on which Martin Luther King Jr. Day can fall (the 15th being his birthday), while January 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday in January.
Twelve Days of Christmas: 25 December–6 January. Saint Stephen's Day: 26 December – In Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Ireland a holiday celebrated as Second Day of Christmas. Saint John the Evangelist 's Day: 27 December. Holy Innocents ' Day: 28 December. Saint Sylvester's Day: 31 December.
v. t. e. Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. [ 6][ 17][ 18] Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge ...
2016 (Tuesday) 2015 (Monday) January 5 is the fifth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 360 days remain until the end of the year (361 in leap years ).
1908 – Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African American college women, was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by nine students. 1919 – Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two prominent socialists in Germany, were tortured and murdered by the Freikorps .
Rita R. Colwell, American environmental microbiologist who studied the ecology of cholera, former director of the National Science Foundation and president of the American Society for Microbiology. Wayne Nicholson, American biologist based on microbiology and cell biology. Yossef Av-Gay (born 1961), Israeli microbiologist and researcher.
Dido, b. 1971. English singer Dido was born on Dec. 25, but like many other Christmas babies whose parents want them to have a proper birthday, she celebrates the occasion on June 25. She rose to ...
763 – Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa. [1]1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.