This Day One Year Ago in 2023

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January 1st A New Year's Eve fireworks display had to be cancelled at the last minute to protect an Arctic walrus discovered in Scarborough.

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January 2nd. Jeremy Renner is in critical but stable condition in the hospital after becoming injured while plowing snow outside his Lake Tahoe home. The 51-year-old Marvel star was airlifted to hospital on Sunday after police were called to his rural mansion Lake Tahoe.

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January 3rd England's Michael Smith hit a nine-dart finish on his way to beating three-time champion Michael van Gerwen and winning his first PDC World Championship title.

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January 4th West Ham United joint chairman David Gold has died at the age of 86 following a short illness. A lifelong Hammers fan, Mr Gold was born in east London in 1936 and raised in a house on Green Street - directly opposite the club's former stadium, the Boleyn Ground.

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January 5th Australia helicopter crash: A recently married couple from Neston in Cheshire were killed, just days into a post-Covid visit to see family.

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January 6th. Chelsea have led the tributes to their former player and manager Gianluca Vialli after his death at the age of 58. Vialli, who joined Chelsea in 1996 and helped them win the FA Cup at the end of his first season before guiding the London club to glory in both the League Cup and Uefa Cup Winners’ Cup as player-manager the following season, had been undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer.

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January 7th : Liverpool and Wolves were forced to settle for an FA Cup third-round replay after a thrilling encounter finished level at Anfield.

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January 8th. Supporters of Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday stormed the country’s congress, presidential palace and supreme court, in protests that drew comparisons to the US Capitol invasion two years ago by fans of former President Donald Trump.

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January 9th : The first ever orbital space launch from British soil is getting ready to blast off. Monday's mission will see a repurposed 747 jumbo jet release a rocket over the Atlantic to take nine satellites high above the Earth. Newquay Airport in Cornwall is the starting point for the operation, on Monday evening after 2100 GMT.

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January 10th. Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare, printed by Clays in Suffolk, went on sale today (10 January) after stringent security operations reportedly saw it delivered to bookstores at the last minute from guarded storage sites.

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January 11th : Prince Harry has condemned press "spin" on a section of his newly released memoir 'Spare', where he discusses killing 25 Taliban fighters while on duty in Afghanistan.

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January 12th. The US attorney general, Merrick Garland, sent shockwaves through American politics on Friday when he announced the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden, the president’s son, ahead of the 2024 election.

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January 13th : A woman who released audio of her rapist's confession said she wanted to show how "manipulative" abusers can be. Ellie Wilson, 25, secretly captured Daniel McFarlane admitting to his crimes by setting her phone to record in her handbag.

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January 14th. FIFA has announced that it is launching an investigation into the actions of the Argentina side after they beat France on penalties to win the 2022 World Cup final. The global governing body has 'opened proceedings' against the Albiceleste for potentially violating several clauses of the FIFA disciplinary code during and after the showpiece event, namely clauses for fairplay and player misconduct.

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January 15th : Environment Agency warns of worsening picture after flooding. The situation is probably going to "get a little bit worse" before improving, the Environment Agency says, following flooding in the West Midlands.