January 1: New Year's Day (Gregorian calendar); Independence Day in Brunei (1984) and Samoa (1962)
Ceres
- 1773 – The hymn "Amazing Grace" was probably first used in a prayer meeting in Olney, England, without the music familiar to modern listeners.
- 1801 – Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres (pictured), naming it after the Roman goddess of growing plants and of motherly love.
- 1928 – Personal secretary to Josef Stalin Boris Bazhanov crossed the border to Iran to defect from the Soviet Union.
- 1959 – Cuban President Fulgencio Batista fled to the Dominican Republic as forces under Fidel Castro took control of Havana, marking the end of the Cuban Revolution.
- 2010 – A suicide bomber killed 105 spectators at a volleyball game in the Lakki Marwat District of Pakistan.
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