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U.S. federal judge halts Trump's ban on refugees, people from Muslim countries entering U.S.

By Dennis Bratland - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

At 9:00 p.m. U.S. east coast time on Saturday (0200 Sunday UTC), a U.S. federal judge in Brooklyn issued an emergency ruling halting deportation of individuals from the U.S. under the ban on individuals from seven majority-Muslim countries entering the United States that president Donald Trump had initiated by executive order on Friday. Another judge in Virginia issued a similar ruling shortly afterward.

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Donald Trump A gunman kills six people and injures eight others in a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada. President Donald Trump signs an executive order(pictured) restricting travel and immigration to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries, leading to protests and court rulings ordering its partial suspension. Scientists at Harvard University report the first creation of metallic hydrogen in a laboratory, using a diamond anvil cell. In sumo, Kisenosato Yutaka is promoted as the 72nd yokozuna, becoming the first Japanese wrestler to earn the title in 19 years.

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Risqué stereoview of writer Ella Wheeler Wilcox ... that Mormon photographer Charles Ellis Johnson made artistic nudes and risqué stereoviews (example pictured)? ... that Francis Poulenc placed an ode to liberty at the end of his Figure humaine, a cantata for a twelve-part choir, composed in occupied France and premiered by the BBC? ... that Dwain Worrell's debut screenplay The Wall is also Amazon Studios' first original spec script? ... that after the Bugis prince Arung Palakka supported the Dutch East India Company in the Makassar War, he became the most powerful man in South Sulawesi? ... that in 2015, the Irish Guards GAA became the first British Army Gaelic games club to join the Gaelic Athletic Association? ... that the Contingency Fund for Foreign Intercourse, a U.S. government program established in 1790 to finance foreign covert operations, had by 1793 grown to consume 12 percent of the government's budget? ... that in 2015, Alison Hughes was part of the first all-female officiating team in a Fed Cup final? ... that Emany Mata Likambe, Zaire's former ambassador to Poland, was discovered homeless and living on the streets of Warsaw in 1994 after his government had failed to pay him for over two years?

On this day...

January 30: Martyrs' Day in India San Francisco in 1847 1661 – Two years after his death, Oliver Cromwell's remains were exhumed for a posthumous execution and his head was placed on a spike above Westminster Hall in London, where it remained until 1685. 1847 – The town of Yerba Buena in Mexican California was renamed San Francisco(pictured). 1945 – World War II: Allied forces liberated over 500 prisoners of war from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. 1972 – On Bloody Sunday, members of the British Parachute Regiment shot twenty-six civil rights protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing at least thirteen people. 2013 – The Korea Aerospace Research Institute launched Naro-1, South Korea's first carrier rocket and their first launch vehicle to achieve Earth orbit. More anniversaries: January 29 January 30 January 31