Daisy Bacon (1898–1986) was an American pulp fiction magazine editor and writer, best known as the editor of Love Story Magazine from 1928 to 1947. She was hired in 1926 to assist with "Friends in Need", an advice column in the magazine, by Street & Smith, a major pulp magazine publisher. Two years later she was promoted to editor. Love Story was one of the most successful pulp magazines, and Bacon was frequently interviewed about her role and her opinions of modern romance. Street & Smith gave Bacon other magazines to edit, including Ainslee's in the mid-1930s and Pocket Love in the late 1930s. From 1940 to 1947 she took over as editor of Romantic Range, which featured love stories set in the American West, and in 1941 she was also given the editorship of Detective Story. In late 1948 she became the editor of both The Shadow and Doc Savage, but Street & Smith shut down all their pulps the following April. (Full article...)

Nancy Nash

• ... that Nancy Nash (pictured) had to convince her parents to let her not attend the University of Texas to instead become an actress in 1926?
• ... that a letter to the American people allegedly written by Osama bin Laden has been cited as an example of online youth radicalization?
• ... that "Hare Hare Yukai" is credited with originating the genre of cover dance videos, in which individuals attempt to replicate dance choreography on video-sharing websites?
• ... that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the short stories "The Jelly-Bean" and "May Day" at the Allerton 39th Street House?
• ... that Lachlan Murdoch was forced to resign as a director of Prime Media Group because the company owned a radio station on Queensland's Sunshine Coast?
• ... that small-business leaders such as Guillermo Torrez sympathized with the Movement for Socialism despite its anti-capitalist rhetoric?
• ... that Olivia Rodrigo can write ballads about homeschooled girls as well as about songbirds and snakes?
• ... that when her husband was captured by the Turks, Queen Morphia hired a band of secretly armed fake monks and merchants to infiltrate the prison and rescue him – only for him to be captured again?

Luke Humphries

• In darts, Luke Humphries (pictured) wins the PDC World Championship.
• In Kerman, Iran, at least 91 people are killed by Islamic State bombings during a ceremony commemorating the assassination of Qasem Soleimani.
• Japan Airlines Flight 516 collides with a Japan Coast Guard airplane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, killing five aboard the latter aircraft.
• Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the South Korean opposition, is hospitalized following a stabbing attack in Busan.

January 7: Christmas (Eastern Christianity); Victory over Genocide Day in Cambodia (1979)

• 1797 – The Italian tricolour was first adopted as an official flag by the government of the Cispadane Republic.
• 1904 – The Marconi International Marine Communication Company specified CQD (audio featured) as the distress signal to be used by its operators.
• 1939 – French physicist Marguerite Perey identified francium, the last element to be discovered in nature rather than by synthesis.
• 1979 – The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, marking the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
• 2020 – After 253 days without an operational government, a second round of investiture votes produced Spain's first coalition government since the Second Republic.