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Robert Nimmo (1893–1966) was a senior Australian Army officer and the chief military observer (CMO) of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) from 1950 until his death. Nimmo graduated early from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, to serve in World War I with the Australian Light Horse. He remained in Australia in training and staff roles early in World War II. He then administered command of Northern Territory Force before commanding the logistics effort for the Bougainville campaign, and served as a senior staff officer on First Australian Army headquarters in New Guinea. He commanded a brigade of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, then returned to Australia to lead Northern Command. In 1950, he was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire, retired from the army, and was appointed as CMO of UNMOGIP, where he remained until he died on 4 January 1966. Nimmo was the first Australian to command a multinational peacekeeping force. (Full article...)
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In the news
- At least 84 people are killed in bombings in Kerman, Iran, during a ceremony commemorating the assassination of Qasem Soleimani.
- Japan Airlines Flight 516 (wreckage pictured) collides with a Japan Coast Guard airplane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, killing five aboard the latter aircraft.
- Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the South Korean opposition, is hospitalized following a stabbing attack in Busan.
- An earthquake strikes the Noto Peninsula in Japan, leaving at least 84 people dead and 179 others missing.
- In Nigeria, bandits kill at least 200 people in Plateau State.
On this day
January 4: Colonial Repression Martyrs' Day in Angola (1961)
- 1698 – Most of London's Palace of Whitehall, the main residence of English monarchs since 1530, was destroyed by fire.
- 1798 – After his appointment as Prince of Wallachia, Constantine Hangerli arrived in Bucharest to assume the throne.
- 1936 – Billboard published its first music hit parade.
- 1989 – Two American F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan MiG-23 Floggers that appeared to be attempting to engage them over the Gulf of Sidra.
- 2004 – Spirit (artist's impression depicted), the first of two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, successfully landed on Mars.
- Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (b. 1334)
- Josef Suk (b. 1874)
- Nellie Cashman (d. 1925)
- Arthur Rose Eldred (d. 1951)
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Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist, one of several prominent mathematicians of the Bernoulli family from Basel. He is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics. His name is commemorated in Bernoulli's principle, a particular example of the conservation of energy, and which describes the mathematics of the mechanism underlying the operation of two important technologies of the 20th century: the carburetor and the airplane wing. This oil-on-canvas portrait of Bernoulli, painted by an unknown artist, now hangs in the Basel Historical Museum. Painting credit: unknown
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