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Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem

... that Queen Melisende (pictured) was so incensed by the rumours of her alleged infidelity that neither her husband nor his friends felt safe in her presence?
... that the questionnaire prepared after the Jewish Ethnographic Expedition had 2,087 questions and was called "a modern epic"?
... that during World War II, US Army casualty telegrams were sent out in the name of Major General James Alexander Ulio?
... that to raise funds for the Council of District Dumas, its chairman led an armed squad to storm the Moscow headquarters of the State Bank?
... that the Boldy James and Sterling Toles collaborative album Manger on McNichols took over a decade to make?
... that Renildo José dos Santos, a Brazilian councilman, was murdered in 1993 after publicly coming out as bisexual?
... that a Kansas City TV station was under contract to be sold within a week of its first regular broadcast?
... that Her Story was described as China's answer to Barbie?
... that football player Jahkeem Stewart was 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and 340 pounds (150 kg) in sixth grade?

On this day

January 7: Christmas (Eastern Christianity; Julian calendar); Victory over Genocide Day in Cambodia; Laba Festival in China (2025)

1797 – The Italian tricolour was first adopted as an official flag by the government of the Cispadane Republic.
1904 – The Marconi International Marine Communication Company specified CQD (audio featured) as the distress signal to be used by its operators.
1939 – French physicist Marguerite Perey identified francium, the last element to be discovered in nature rather than by synthesis.
1979 – The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, marking the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
2020 – After 253 days without an operational government, a second round of investiture votes produced Spain's first coalition government since the Second Republic.

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