January
01 Jan 2002
Euro banknotes and coins were first introduced to the Euro Zone as everyday currency. 10 years.
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02 January 1462
Birth of Piero di Cosimo. Florentine painter who assisted with painting the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, begun in 1481. 550 years.
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04 January 1912
Boy Scout Association granted a Royal Charter, establishing it throughout the British Empire. 110 years.
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05 January 1922
Death of the Irish-born British Antarctic explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton. 90 years.
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06 Jan 1412
Birth of Joan of Arc, French martyr, saint and national heroine. 600 years.
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06 January 1912
New Mexico becomes a 47th state of America. 100 years.
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17 January 1912
Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, 35 days after Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. 100 years.
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20 January 1837
Death of Sir John Soane R.A., English architect and prominent art collector. 175 years.
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24 January 1712
Birth of King Fredrick II of Prussia. 300 years.
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25 January 1947
Death of Al Capone, famous American gangster. 65 years.
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28 January 1912
Birth of American artist Jackson Pollock, chief pioneer of Abstract Expressionism. 100 years.
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29 January 1862
Birth of English composer Frederick Delius. Widely known for his operatic masterpiece, A Village Romeo and Juliet, 1901 and his pastoral miniatures. 150 years.
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