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Events

• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: US flying ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
• 1949 (77 years ago) The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
• 1961 (65 years ago) Cold War: After a series of economic retaliations against one another, the United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
• 1987 (39 years ago) Varig Flight 797 crashes near Akouré in the Ivory Coast, resulting in 50 deaths.
• 1990 (36 years ago) United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.
• 2004 (22 years ago) Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history.
• 2015 (11 years ago) Boko Haram militants destroy the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, starting the Baga massacre and killing as many as 2,000 people.
• 2026 The United States conducts airstrikes across northern Venezuela, including the capital Caracas and captures Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores.

Births

• 106 BC Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, and politician (died 43 BC)
• 1883 (143 years ago) Clement Attlee, English soldier, lawyer, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1967)
• 1892 (134 years ago) J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer, poet, and philologist (died 1973)
• 1901 (125 years ago) Ngô Đình Diệm, Vietnamese lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (died 1963)
• 1929 (97 years ago) Sergio Leone, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1989)
• 1956 (70 years ago) Mel Gibson, American-Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 (57 years ago) Michael Schumacher, German racing driver
• 2003 (23 years ago) Greta Thunberg, Swedish environmental activist

Deaths

• 236 (1790 years ago) Anterus, pope of the Catholic Church
• 1322 (704 years ago) Philip V, king of France (born 1292)
• 1501 (525 years ago) Ali-Shir Nava'i, Turkic poet, linguist, and mystic (born 1441)
• 1903 (123 years ago) Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (born 1837)
• 1923 (103 years ago) Jaroslav Hašek, Czech journalist and author (born 1883)
• 1931 (95 years ago) Joseph Joffre, French general (born 1852)
• 1956 (70 years ago) Joseph Wirth, German educator and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1879)
• 2020 (6 years ago) Qasem Soleimani, Iranian major general, commander of the Iranian Quds Force (born 1957)

All 368 events, births and deaths of January 3