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The 2009 International Bowl was a postseason American college football bowl game between the Connecticut Huskies and the Buffalo Bulls played in Canada at the Rogers Centre (pictured) in Toronto on January 3, 2009. Connecticut represented the Big East Conference; Buffalo was the Mid-American Conference champion. At the pregame luncheon, members of the 1958 Buffalo Bulls were honored. The 1958 team was the first from the university to be invited to a bowl game, the Tangerine Bowl, where they would have faced Florida State. Because that stadium prohibited integrated football games, the team's African-American players—starting running back Willie Evans and backup defensive end Mike Wilson—were not allowed to play. The players unanimously voted to reject the bowl bid, and Buffalo would not play in a bowl until the 2009 game, which ended in a 38–20 victory for Connecticut. (Full article...)

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The CNSA's Chang'e 4 becomes the first spacecraft to land on the far side of the Moon.
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NASA's New Horizons space probe performs a successful flyby of trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule.
The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, the third largest free-trade area in the world, comes into effect for Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore.

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January 3

James Lick telescope

1749 – The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, was published.
1888 – The 36-inch (91 cm) refracting telescope (pictured) at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, the largest in the world until 1897, was used for the first time.
1919 – Emir Faisal of Iraq signed an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
1961 – Twenty-five people died in Finland's worst civilian air accident when Aero Flight 311 crashed near Kvevlax.
2009 – The bitcoin cryptocurrency network was created when Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first block of the chain.

Savitribai Phule (b. 1831) · Anna May Wong (b. 1905) · Joy Adamson (d. 1980)

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Médée is a French language opera by the composer Luigi Cherubini. Set in the ancient city of Corinth, Greece, it features a libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman and is based on Euripides's tragic play Medea and Pierre Corneille's play Médée. The opera premiered in 1797 at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris. The long-lost final aria, which Cherubini appears to have deleted from his original manuscript, was discovered by researchers from the University of Manchester and Stanford University by employing X-ray techniques to reveal areas that the composer had blackened out.

This picture shows the title page for a vocal score of the 1909 hybrid version of Médée.

Graphic: Giuseppe Palanti

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