1846 - Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
1944 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
1944 - Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
1946 - The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
1973 - King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
Famous Birthdays
86 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor
1377 - Albert IV, Duke of Austria
1551 - King Henry III of France
1803 - Maria Anna of Savoy, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia
1898 - Giuseppe Saragat, President of Italy
1927 - Rosemary Harris, actress
1944 - Edmund Joensen, 9th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1964 - Trisha Yearwood, singer
1982 - Shaun Barker, footballer
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