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![Coronation of William I](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/A_v_Werner_-_Kaiserproklamation_am_18_Januar_1871_%283._Fassung_1885%29.jpg/120px-A_v_Werner_-_Kaiserproklamation_am_18_Januar_1871_%283._Fassung_1885%29.jpg)
- 1701 – Frederick I is crowned King in Prussia
- 1871 – William I is crowned German Emperor in the Palace of Versailles
- 1914 – Birth of author Arno Schmidt
- 1919 – The Paris Peace Conference opens to negotiate peace in the aftermath of World War I
- 1995 – Death of biochemist Adolf Butenandt, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on sex hormones