Happy Monday!
Regular contributor Mike Massullo sent in today’s featured image, taken after a hike up to Bro’s Bluff in the qathet region backcountry on January 10.
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On this day:
In 27 BCE, Caesar Augustus, also known as Octavian, was declared the first emperor of the Roman Empire by its senate.
In 1793, French King Louis XVI was sentenced to death by the National Convention during the French Revolution.
In 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini took power in Iran and proclaimed it as the Islamic Republic after the Shah of Iran fled the country.
In 2022, the number-one ranked men’s tennis player in the world at the time, Novak Djokovic was deported from Australia for being unvaccinated against COVID-19. As a result, he could not defend the title he had won in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Today’s weather:
Showers are expected on Monday, January 16, as is a high of seven degrees Celsius during the day, dropping to five degrees during the evening. For the full 12-hour and seven-day qathet region weather forecast, go to our weather page.
In case you missed it…
Real estate sales in the qathet region were lower in the number of units sold in 2022 but housing prices were substantially higher compared to 2021.
Meanwhile…
On January 3, qathet General Hospital recorded its first birth of 2023, when parents Hanna Madden and Garrett Huber welcomed a baby boy into the world.
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