January 1 Quiz

20 historical events, births, deaths, and celebrations, for the 1st of January. Can you get them all?

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Year	Clue
–	On the 1st of the year New Year's Day is celebrated, a public holiday in the USA and other countries
45 BC	The Julian calendar is introduced. 1 Jan in the Gregorian calendar is 19 Dec in this calendar
1001	Stephen I becomes the first king of Hungary
1449	Famous figure of Florence, Lorenzo de' Medici, is born into a famous family
1515	The 1498–1515 king of France, Louis XII, dies of gout
1773	Christian hymn Amazing Grace is first performed, by John Newton
1804	Caribbean nation Haiti becomes independent from France
1877	Victoria gains the colonial title Empress of India
1894	Indian mathematician and Einstein collaborator Satyendra Nath Bose is born
1895	Posthumously controversial long-term FBI director J. Edgar Hoover is born
1898	Five cities combine to form the world city New York
1919	'Catcher in the Rye' author J. D. Salinger is born
1934	Alcatraz, found in San Francisco Bay, became an island prison
1959	In the country of Cuba, Fidel overthrows Fulgencio
1962	The independence of Samoa – then known as Western Samoa – from New Zealand comes into effect
1981	Corfu's country, Greece, rejoins the European Economic Community
1990	David Dinkins is elected as Mayor of New York
1995	In the North Sea, a 25.6m rogue wave is recorded, intriguing scientists and damaging an oil platform
1999	The euro currency is introduced
2005	New Yorker Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman in the United States Congress, dies

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