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Today's featured article Caitlin Clark (born January 22, 2002) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). In her college freshman season with the Iowa Hawkeyes, she earned All-American honors; as a sophomore, Clark was again first-team All-American and in her junior and senior seasons, she was the national player of the year. She became the Division I women's career and single-season leader in points and is regarded as one of the greatest collegiate players of all time. Clark was selected first overall by Indiana Fever in the 2024 WNBA draft. In her first season, she won the WNBA Rookie of the Year award, made the All-WNBA First Team and WNBA All-Star Game. At youth international level, Clark won three gold medals with the United States, including two at the FIBA Under-19 Women's World Cup. Since her college career, she has helped to popularize women's basketball, a trend known as the "Caitlin Clark effect". (Full article...) Recently featured: Ada Wong Andrew Jackson Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh On this day... January 22: Little New Year in northern China (2025); Day of Unity of Ukraine Cetshwayo 565 – Eutychius of Constantinople was arrested after he refused Byzantine emperor Justinian I's order to adopt the tenets of the Aphthartodocetae, a sect of non-Chalcedonian Christians. 1273 – Muhammad II became Sultan of Granada after his father's death in a riding accident. 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: The Zulu forces of King Cetshwayo (pictured) achieved a decisive victory at the Battle of Isandlwana. 1973 – The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade struck down laws restricting abortion during the first two trimesters of pregnancy. 2006 – Evo Morales was inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president. 2012 – Croatia held a referendum in which it voted to become a member of the European Union. Christian Ramsay (d. 1839) Vito Cascio Ferro (b. 1862) S. Vithiananthan (d. 1989) Ursula K. Le Guin (d. 2018) More anniversaries: January 21 January 22 January 23

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