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Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Federal US holiday honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., observed on the third Monday of January near his Jan 15 birthday. Signed into law by Reagan in 1983, first observed 1986; not adopted by all states until 2000.

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The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI.

2025Bytedance and sister companies are banned from the United States for "security concerns".
2024The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's probe lands on the moon, making Japan the 5th country to land a spacecraft on the moon.
2014A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 Pakistani soldiers and injures 38 others.