The crescent honeyeater (Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus) is a bird native to southeastern Australia, in the honeyeater family. It is fairly nondescript, with dark grey plumage and paler underparts highlighted by yellow wing patches and a broad, black crescent, outlined in white, down the sides of its breast. The female is a little duller than the male. The male sings a complex and variable song from an exposed perch, and during the breeding season performs song flights. The crescent honeyeater is found in areas of dense vegetation including sclerophyll forest and alpine habitats, as well as heathland, parks and gardens. Its diet is made up of nectar and invertebrates. It forms long-term pairs, and often commits to one breeding site for several years. The female builds the nest and does most of the caring for two or three young, which become independent within 40 days of egg-laying. Although the parent birds use a range of anti-predator strategies, nestlings can be taken by snakes, kookaburras, currawongs, or cats. ( Full article...)

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 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?

U.S. President Donald Trump

• Gunmen kill six people and injure eight others in a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada.
• U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order (pictured) restricting travel and immigration 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.

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.

Riri Riza

The Citra Award for Best Director is an award given at the Indonesian Film Festival (IFF) to Indonesian film directors in recognition for their achievements. The Citra Awards, described by Screen International as "Indonesia's equivalent to the Oscars", are the country's most prestigious film awards and are intended to recognise Indonesian achievements in film and draw the public's interest to the cinema industry. The Citra Awards, then known as the Indonesian Film Festival Awards, were first given at the IFF in early 1955; that year, Lilik Sudjio won Best Director for his film Tarmina. The festival was then held intermittently, in 1960 and 1967. In 1973 the festival began to be held annually. This continued uninterrupted until after the 1992 IFF, when a sharp decline in film production led the festival to be discontinued. It was reinstated as an annual event in 2004, after receiving funds from the Indonesian government. The most recent winner is Riri Riza (pictured), who won a Citra Award at the 2016 IFF for his direction of Athirah. ( Full list...)