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Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a world-class museum collection item preserved at Musée du Louvre.
Eugène Delacroix (Oil on canvas)
Famous Pioneer Born on 1/19
Born under Capricorn (♑ Capricorn), possessing unique vision and inspiration.
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
—— Capricorn Pioneer
Historical Milestone of 1/19
On this day in history (1/19), significant global milestones and breakthroughs were recorded across science, culture, and human society.
A tank barge and a tug grounded on a beach in Rhode Island, causing a spill of an estimated 828,000 U.S. gallons (3.13 million litres) of home heating oil.
A barge is typically a flat-bottomed boat which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion. Their original use was on inland waterways, while modern use is on both inland and marine water environments. The first modern barges were pulled by tugs, but on inland waterways, most are pushed by pusher boats, or other vessels. The term barge has a rich history, and therefore there are many types of barges.
Emre_Guler Born
Emre Guler is a Turkey international rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for the St George Illawarra Dragons in the National Rugby League (NRL).
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Jonathan_Taylor Born
Jonathan Taylor is an American professional football player who is a running back for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL).
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Donyell_Malen Born
Donyell Malen is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a winger or striker for Serie A club Roma and the Netherlands national team.
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Felix_Afena-Gyan Born
Felix Afena Ohene-Gyan is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie B club Cremonese. He also plays for the Ghana national team.
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In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an Antonov An-24 operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in northern Hungary, killing 42 of the 43 people on board.
The Antonov An-24 is a 50-seat twin turboprop regional airliner designed in 1957 in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau. Later variants saw other uses, such as military transport and aerial cartography. The aircraft was manufactured by the Kyiv, Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude Aviation Factories. It is still license-produced in China as the Xi'an Y-7.
Turkish-Armenian journalist and human-rights activist Hrant Dink was assassinated by a Turkish nationalist in Istanbul.
Hrant Dink was a Turkish-Armenian journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of Agos. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, Dink was a prominent member of the Armenian minority in Turkey best known for advocating Turkish–Armenian reconciliation and human and minority rights in Turkey. He was often critical of both Turkey's denial of the Armenian genocide and of the Armenian diaspora's campaign for its international recognition. Dink was prosecuted three times for "insulting Turkishness", while receiving numerous death threats from Turkish nationalists.
A four-man team, using only skis and kites, completed a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, the first people to get there since 1967, and the first to do so on foot.
Snowkiting is an outdoor winter sport in which a skier or snowboarder uses the power generated by a kite to propel them over snow or sometimes ice. With proper wind and terrain conditions, the kite can be used for jumps as well. The kite handling is similar to water-based kiteboarding. The kites used in snowboarding are identical or similar to the ones used on water, with a slight preference for foil kites, especially single skin foil kites. Since 2013, newly developed racing foil kites dominate speed races and expedition races, like Red Bull Ragnarok and the Vake mini-expedition race. Snowkiting differs from other alpine sports in that it is possible for the snowkiter to travel uphill and downhill with any wind direction. Like kiteboarding, snowkiting can be very hazardous and should be learned and practiced with care. Snowkiting has become more popular in places often associated with skiing and snowboarding, such as Russia, Canada, Iceland, France, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Northern and Central United States. The sport has become more diverse as adventurers use kites to travel great distances and sports enthusiasts push the boundaries of freestyle, big air, speed and backcountry exploration.
The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI.
File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia, documents or electronic books. Common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include removable media, centralized servers on computer networks, Internet-based hyperlinked documents, and the use of distributed peer-to-peer networking.
Bytedance and sister companies are banned from the United States for "security concerns".
ByteDance is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing. Its associated variable-interest entity, ByteDance Ltd, is incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
ByteDance
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