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The last day of the year also provides another series of occasions that extend the global turn of the year by one or the other content component. This is also the case in the case of the US-American "don't disturb" day, which our transatlantic neighbours always celebrate on 31 December.
Diablo is an action role-playing hack and slash video game developed by Blizzard North and released by Blizzard Entertainment on December 31, 1996. Set in the fictional Kingdom of Khanduras in the mortal realm, Diablo makes the player take control of a lone hero battling to rid the world of Diablo, the Lord of Terror.
I. C. Wiener is a fictional employee of Applied Cryogenics. While he worked at Panucci's Pizza, Fry is called to deliver a pizza to this person, and understands the prank call too late. Instead of making the trip a complete waste, he eats the pizza.
January 1st is celebrated in the USA as a gift of an apple day to complement the traditional New Year celebrations.
While the rest of the world primarily celebrates this date as New Year's Day, the Americans, at least according to the US American Tom Zager, celebrate the day of the letter Z.
Jawed Karim (born 28 October 1979 in Mersebur, Germany) is a German-American Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of YouTube. He was the first person to upload a video to the site. This inaugural video – titled Me at the zoo – has been viewed over 69 million times as of May 2019.
Isaac Asimov (*January 2, 1920 – ✝ April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was a prolific writer who wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards.
National Science Fiction Day is unofficially celebrated by many science fiction fans in the United States on January 2, which corresponds with the official birthdate of famed science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.
The 2nd of January should be especially popular with cats and cat lovers because this is the Cat's New Year.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (*3 January 1892 – ✝ 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
Gordon Earle Moore (born January 3, 1929) is an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Intel Corporation. He is also the author of Moore's law. As of April 2019, Moore's net worth is reported to be $10.4 billion.
Konrad Alexander Friedrich Duden (3 January 1829 – 1 August 1911) was a Gymnasium (high school) teacher who became a philologist. He founded the well-known German language dictionary bearing his name Duden, somewhat like Noah Webster in the United States.
Recognized by the National Confectioners Association and celebrated by millions of people across the country, January 3rd is National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day.
The New Year is just three days old and quite a few people might already have the feeling that they need a rest from the stressful Christmas season, the annoying kinship and the hustle and bustle of the new year. Fortunately, there is a suitable alternative. Because today 3 January is also celebrated in the USA as the so-called holiday of sleeping.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
World Braille Day is observed in order to raise awareness of the importance of braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and partially sighted people.The first official World Braille Day is celebrated on 4 January 2019.
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Hayao Miyazaki(born January 5, 1941) is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, screenwriter, author, and manga artist. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a film and animation studio, he has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and as a maker of anime feature films, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest animation filmmakers.
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson CBE (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter best known for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder and Mr. Bean.
On January 5, when the credits roll on your favorite show or movie, admire the writers on National Screenwriters Day!
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a "consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard.
Traditionally, the 6th of January stands for the Christian Epiphany. In many regions, this is also the official end of the Christmas season, when the Christmas tree is decorated and disposed of. Thus there is in the USA the national Take down the Christmas Tree Day.
Most people long for a little warmth, especially in cold winter temperatures. The 6th of January stands for the US-American day of cuddling.
Ellen Ripley was born on January 7th, 2092 at the Olympia colony on Luna. She had one daughter, Amanda Ripley-McClaren. Sometime prior to 2122, she was hired as a Warrant Officer for the Weyland-Yutani commercial hauler USCSS Nostromo.
Pope Gregory XIII (*7 January 1502 – ✝ 10 April 1585), born Ugo Boncompagni, was Pope of the Catholic Church from 13 May 1572 to his death in 1585. He is best known for commissioning and being the namesake for the Gregorian calendar, which remains the internationally accepted civil calendar to this day.
Flash Gordon is the hero of a space opera adventure comic strip created by and originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by, and created to compete with, the already established Buck Rogers adventure strip.
Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death.
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".
Marco Polo (*1254 – January 8, 1324) was an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer, born in the Republic of Venice. His travels are recorded in Livre des merveilles du monde, a book that described to Europeans the wealth and great size of China, its capital Peking, and other Asian cities and countries.
Galileo Galilei (*5 February 1564 – ✝ 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", and the "father of modern science".
Since 2011, January 8th has been the International Day of Typing. This day of action in honour of typing comes from Malaysia and aims to raise public awareness of the benefits of fast and accurate typing on the keyboard.
Joseph Weizenbaum (8 January 1923 – 5 March 2008) was a German American computer scientist and a professor at MIT. The Weizenbaum Award is named after him. He is considered one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.