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 MONDAY, JANUARY 3     ON THIS DAY IN...
                                        
 1959 Alaska became the 49th of the     
 United States of America.              
                                        
 1958 Everest pioneer Sir Edmund Hillary
 reached the South Pole.                
                                        
 BORN ON THIS DAY: Novelist ERR Tolkien 
 (1892-1973) — hj wrote "The Hobbit"    
 and the "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy.   
                                        
 HAPPY BIRTHDAY to: Germany's double    
 Formula One World Champion Michael     
 Schumacher (31), and Inspector Morse   
 star John Thaw (58).                   
                                        
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