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• ...that Indianapolis's Scottish Rite Cathedral (pictured) is the largest building dedicated to Freemasonry in the United States, and features many measurements in multiples of 33?
• ...that many streets in Coconut Grove, Northern Territory, Australia are named after victims of the shipwreck of SS Gothenburg off the coast of Queensland in 1875?
• ...that the German Agricultural Society sets the assessment scale for the German wine classification system?
• ...that due to a lack of freight crossings of the Hudson River, trains must take a 280-mile (450 km) detour, the Selkirk hurdle, to cross into New York City from the south or west?

• ...that the Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse, a cyclo-cross race held in Overijse, Belgium, was won 11 consecutive times in the 1980s by former four-time world champion Roland Liboton?

• ...that the sources of William Shakespeare's Hamlet lie in legends which may trace to an Indo-European origin?
• ...that Nigerian John Ezzidio, who was freed from a slave ship and landed in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1827, became the city's mayor eighteen years later, in 1845?
  

• The 2008 Dakar Rally is cancelled for security concerns following the death of four French tourists in Mauritania.
• The price of oil reaches a record high of US$100 per barrel.
• Cyprus and Malta become the 14th and 15th countries to adopt the euro currency, replacing the Cypriot pound and the Maltese lira.
• Violence erupts in Kenya after Mwai Kibaki (pictured) is declared the winner of the Kenyan presidential election amidst allegations of fraud.
• In American football, the New England Patriots become the first NFL team to have an undefeated regular season since 1972.
• Former Guantanamo Bay inmate and convicted Al-Qaeda supporter David Hicks is released from Yatala Labour Prison in South Australia.

January 6: Epiphany in Western Christianity.

• 1661 – Thomas Venner and the Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempted to seize control of London from the newly restored government of Charles II.
• 1781 – At the Battle of Jersey, British forces stopped France's last attempt to militarily invade Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel.
• 1838 – Samuel Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail successfully tested the electrical telegraph for the first time at Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey, USA.
• 1907 – Italian educator Maria Montessori (pictured) opened her first school and day care center for working class children in Rome.
• 1995 – A suspicious fire in a Manila flat led to the foiling of the Bojinka Plot, a precursor to the September 11, 2001 attacks.

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