Jill Valentine is a fictional character in Resident Evil, a survival horror video game series created by the Japanese company Capcom. Appearing in the original Resident Evil (1996), she featured as the protagonist in several later games in the series. From 2002 onward, she was drawn to resemble Canadian model and actor Julia Voth(pictured). Valentine also appears in the Resident Evil film series, portrayed by actor Sienna Guillory, and in several other game franchises, including Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom and Project X Zone. Video game publications praised Valentine as the most likable and consistent Resident Evil character. Several publications praised the series for making Valentine as competent and skilled as her male counterparts and for avoiding sexual objectification; others criticized her costumes as overtly sexual, and argued that her role as a heroine was weakened by her unrealistic features. (Full article...)

• ... that Japanese rolled omelettes are made with rectangular pans(examples pictured)?
• ... that the uncle–nephew conflict between Liu Xianshi and Wang Wenhua in the Guizhou clique involved student organizations, an attempted assassination, and a violent coup?
• ... that in order to bypass political changes demanded by Germany at the 1940 Salzburg Conference, Slovakia adopted the Führer principle?
• ... that after a car accident left him unable to play brass instruments, Native American musician R. Carlos Nakai began playing a traditional cedar flute, and went on to receive eleven Grammy nominations?
• ... that Pope Alexander VI granted a plenary indulgence to those willing to work on the demolition of the Meta Romuli?
• ... that British aviation businessman Christopher Harborne donated £5 million to the Brexit Party in 2019?
• ... that forests on the Massif des Maures experience frequent fires, but the thick bark of the cork oak helps it to survive?
• ... that Irish neuroscientist Sabina Brennan was a soap actress in the television series Fair City before she started investigating dementia?

• Scientists announce that presolar stardust grains in the Murchison meteorite(fragment pictured) formed five to seven billion years ago, and are the oldest solid material found on Earth to date.
• In American football, the LSU Tigers defeat the Clemson Tigers to win the College Football National Championship.
• Robert Abela replaces Joseph Muscat as Prime Minister of Malta in the wake of protests over the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.

January 19: World Religion Day (2020)

• 649 – Conquest of the Western Turks: Kuchean forces surrendered after a siege, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in what is now Xinjiang, China.
• 1795 – The Batavian Republic was established, a day after Prince William V(portrait shown) fled the Dutch Republic as a result of the Batavian Revolution in Amsterdam.
• 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union was founded by the directors of the National Civil Liberties Bureau.
• 1930 – In Watsonville, California, tensions between nativists and Filipino Americansescalated into riots that later spread to other cities in the state.
• 1975 – An earthquake registering 6.8 M_s struck northern Himachal Pradesh in India, causing extensive damage to the region.

Giuseppe Millico (b. 1737) ·Edgar Allan Poe (b. 1809) ·K. Sello Duiker (d. 2005)