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Canadian PM Mackenzie King,
US President Franklin Roosevelt
and British PM Winston Churchill

The Quebec Agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States outlined terms for coordinated scientific development of nuclear energy. It stipulated that the US and UK would pool their resources to develop nuclear weapons, and that neither would use the weapons against another country without mutual consent, or pass information about them to other countries. The agreement merged the British Tube Alloys project with the American Manhattan Project, and created the Combined Policy Committee to control the joint project. It was signed by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt on 19 August 1943 during World War II, at the Quadrant Conference in Quebec City in Canada. Although Canada was not a signatory, the agreement provided for a Canadian representative on the Combined Policy Committee in view of the country's contribution. On 7 January 1948, the Quebec Agreement was superseded by a provisional agreement allowing for limited sharing of technical information. (Full article...)

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Bartholomew I (pictured), the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, grants independence to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the ongoing schism within Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
The China National Space Administration's Chang'e 4 becomes the first spacecraft to land on the far side of the Moon.
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January 7: Christmas (Julian calendar); Victory over Genocide Day in Cambodia

Flag of the Cispadane Republic

1782 – The Bank of North America opened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the United States' first de facto central bank.
1797 – The first official Italian tricolour (pictured) was adopted by the government of the Cispadane Republic.
1939 – The French physicist Marguerite Perey identified francium, the last element first discovered in nature, rather than by synthesis.
1979 – The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, which marked the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
1989 – Representatives of Ruhollah Khomeini delivered a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, inviting him to consider Islam as an alternative to communism, and predicting the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc.

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Hurricane Jova of 2011

From 1949 to 2018, 82 recorded Pacific hurricanes peaked at Category 3 strength on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale within the Northeast Pacific tropical cyclone basin, which is denoted as the part of the Pacific Ocean north of the equator and east of the International Date Line. This does not include storms that also attained Category 4 or 5 status on the scale. Category 3 is the third-highest classification, and categorizes tropical cyclones with one-minute maximum sustained winds between 96 knots (110 mph; 178 km/h; 49 m/s) and 112 knots (129 mph; 207 km/h; 58 m/s). Tropical cyclones that attain such winds and move over land while maintaining those winds are capable of causing severe damage to human lives and infrastructure. The development of Category 3 hurricanes in the Northeast Pacific basin is influenced by many factors. During hurricane season, from May to November, sea surface temperatures are high enough to support tropical cyclogenesis; the bulk of recorded Category 3 hurricanes developed during June to October. (Full list...)

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Christmas in Serbia is celebrated on 25 December in the Julian calendar, which currently corresponds to 7 January in the Gregorian calendar. The Serbian name for Christmas is Božić, which is the diminutive form of the word bog ("god"), and can be translated as "young god". Christmas is celebrated for three consecutive days, starting with Christmas Day, which the Serbs call the first day of Christmas. On these days, one is to greet another person by saying "Christ is Born," which should be responded to with "Truly He is Born".

This picture shows a typical Serbian Christmas meal with grilled pork, olivie salad (also called Russian salad), dzadziki salad, red wine and Bajadera sweets.

Photograph: Petar Milošević

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