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1181 - ★Siege of Nara. Temples in Nara including the Kofuku-ji and Todai-ji are destroyed.
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1874 - ★The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is founded.
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1909 - ◆The revival of the religion of Taejonggyo is proclaimed (Korean religion).
The day is the 5,000th day anniversary of the entry of force of the Treaty of Shimonoseki (May 8, 1895).
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1918 - ◇(birth) Joao Figueiredo, President of Brazil.
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1929 - ◆(birth) Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader.
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1946 - ★(birth) Yoshito Sengoku, a Japanese politician, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister.
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1949 - ◆The first Coming-of-Age Day is celebrated in Japan. (Timeline)
It is held in order to congratulate and encourage all those who have reached the age of majority (20 years old) over the past year, and to help them realize that they have become adults.
Coming of age ceremonies have been celebrated in Japan since at least 714 AD, when a young prince donned new robes and a hairstyle to mark his passage into adulthood. The holiday is first established on July 20, 1948, to be held every year on January 15. In 2000, as a result of the Happy Monday System, Coming of Age Day is changed to the second Monday in January.
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But to tell the truth, the day is the 20th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr (January 15, 1929). And in the light of coincidences between his history and the Japanese history, it is obvious that the Japanese government created the holiday just to celebrate King's coming-of-age day.
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