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Porlock Stone Circle, on Exmoor in the south-western English county of Somerset, is part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age between 3,300 and 900 BCE. The purpose of such monuments is unknown, although archaeologists speculate that the stones represented supernatural entities for the circles' builders. Many monuments were built in Exmoor during the Bronze Age, but the only other surviving stone circle in the area is the one near Withypool. The circle near Porlock is about 24 metres (79 feet) in diameter and has thirteen green micaceous sandstone rocks. Directly to the north-east of the ring is a cairn apparently connected to a linear stone row. A small lead wheel inside the circle suggests that the site was visited during the Romano-British period. The site was rediscovered in the 1920s. (Full article...)

Historic buildings on South Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee

• ... that the site of the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. later became part of the South Main Street Historic District (pictured)?
• ... that The Doctor and Student by Christopher St. Germain was used as a primer by English law students for over two centuries?
• ... that Izaac Hindom, a Papuan himself, actively promoted the assimilation of Javanese and Papuans, describing the latter as backward and self-centered?
• ... that the first Cincinnati Marine Hospital was taken by the Department of War, and the second by environmental health scientists?
• ... that in their 1962 postal history of the Cayman Islands, Philip Saunders and Everard Aguilar were unable to find any surviving mail from the islands before 1889 in private collections, and very little in archives?
• ... that prior to becoming the highest-grossing film of 1965, The Sound of Music was initially criticized for its romanticism and sentimentality?
• ... that Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League three seasons after winning the 1992 Football League Second Division play-off Final?
• ... that John Clark Mayden's images of African Americans were extolled by James Baldwin as capturing the "majesty of black life" by portraying people who are "weary but not cast down"?

Yoweri Museveni

• Yoweri Museveni (pictured) is re-elected as President of Uganda.
• Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte and his cabinet resign as a result of a child welfare fraud scandal.
• An earthquake on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi kills at least 84 people and injures more than 800 others.
• Donald Trump becomes the first U.S. president to be impeached twice after the House of Representatives charges him with incitement of insurrection.

January 18: Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States (2021)

Wilhelm I of Germany

• 1535 – Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes (present-day Lima, Peru) as the capital of the lands conquered for the Spanish crown.
• 1871 – Wilhelm I (pictured) became the first emperor, as a number of previously independent German states unified to form the German Empire.
• 1915 – Japanese prime minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to China in a bid to increase Japan's power in East Asia.
• 1943 – World War II: In Operation Iskra, the Red Army established a narrow land corridor to Leningrad, partially easing the protracted German siege.