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It’s 2023! The new year has begun, and the past three years have been marked historic events - a pandemic, a war, major global developments, technological innovations and more. But even a hundred years ago, equally ‘historic’ events were taking place. Here are some of them, as listed in a report by Historic Newspapers: The Soviet Union is founded on January 1, 1917. Britain’s railways are divided into four sections on January 1: the Great Western Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, the London North Eastern Railway, and the Southern Railway. India’s Swaraj party is founded on January 9....