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01-28-2011, 10:16 PM
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January 29th
1845 ~ Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.
1856 ~ Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross.
1880 ~ Birthday of W.C. Fields, Actor.
1933 ~ Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.
1936 ~ The first members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.
1956 ~ Death of H. L. Mencken, Journalist.
1962 ~ Death of Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist.
1963 ~ Death of Robert Frost, Poet.
1996 ~ France ended nuclear testing.
2002 ~ In his State of the Union Address, President Bush coined the term "Axis of Evil".
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01-29-2011, 10:13 PM
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January 30th
1649 ~ King Charles I of England was beheaded.
1862 ~ The first Union ironclad warship, the USS Monitor was launched.
1933 ~ The first episode of the ''Lone Ranger'' radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit.
1948 ~ Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated.
1968 ~ Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese soldiers launched the Tet offensive.
1972 ~ Thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday”.
1991 ~ The first major ground battle of the Gulf War was fought at the frontier port of Al Khafji in Saudi Arabia.
1994 ~ Péter Lékó became the youngest chess Grand Master.
1995 ~ Death of Gerald Durrell, Naturalist, Author, & Zookeeper.
2003 ~ Richard Reid, the "Shoe bomber" jailed for life.
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01-30-2011, 07:55 PM
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01-30-2011, 08:50 PM
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"1606 ~ Eddie Slovik was executed."
Wasn't that 1945, jseal?
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01-31-2011, 03:30 AM
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How lucky is that? Discovering something already named for you.
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01-31-2011, 04:30 AM
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What are the odds?
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01-31-2011, 05:42 PM
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Must be Eddie Slovik SR.
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01-31-2011, 06:05 PM
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Runs in the family?
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01-31-2011, 07:24 PM
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01-31-2011, 07:30 PM
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Quote:
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"1606 ~ Eddie Slovik was executed."
Wasn't that 1945, jseal?
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Yeah, 1606 was Guy Fawkes. Sorry 'bout that.
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02-01-2011, 08:28 PM
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02-02-2011, 09:32 PM
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02-03-2011, 08:51 PM
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February 4th
1789 ~ George Washington was unanimously elected by the Electoral College to be the first President of the United States.
1861 ~ In Montgomery, Alabama the Confederate States of America was formed by delegates from six break-away United States.
1902 ~ Birthday of Charles Lindbergh, U.S. aviator.
1928 ~ Death of Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
1974 ~ The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
1974 ~ Death of Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist. He is honoured as the namesake of the boson.
1987 ~ Death of Liberace, "Mr. Showmanship".
1997 ~ O. J. Simpson was found to be civilly liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
1998 ~ A magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit northeast Afghanistan, killing an estimated 5,000 people.
2006 ~ Death of Betty Friedan, American Feminist.
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