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This Week in History... January 2010

This Week in History... January 3-10 2010

  • 01-01-1863 - Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

  • 01-01-1908 - The ball signifying the New Year was dropped for the first time at Times Square in New York City.

  • 01-01-1914 - The world's first airline, St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, starts operation in St. Petersburg, Florida.

  • 01-01-1959 - Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries took over Cuba and toppled Fulgencio Batista's regime.

  • 01-01-1975 - John Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman were convicted of obstruction of justice in the Watergate affair.

  • 01-02-1492 - Muhammad XI, the leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain, surrendered to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.

  • 01-02-1788 - Georgia was admitted to the Union as the 4th state.

  • 01-02-1905 - The Russo-Japanese war ended.

  • 01-02-1923 - The African-American town of Rosewood, Fla., was burned by a white mob./li>

  • 01-02-1935 - The Bruno R. Hauptmann trial began for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby.

  • 01-02-1959 - The first spacecraft to fly by the Moon and also to orbit the Sun, Mechta (Luna 1) was launched by the USSR.

  • 01-02-1994 - Rudolph Giuliani is inaugurated as New York City's mayor.

  • 01-03-1521 - Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X.

  • 01-03-1777 - George Washington defeated Cornwallis's forces at the Battle of Princeton.

  • 01-03-1833 - Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands.

  • 01-03-1870 - Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began.

  • 01-03-1920 - The New York Yankees acquired Babe Ruth and so began the "curse of the Bambino" that haunted the Boston Red Sox until 2004.

  • 01-03-1947 - Congressional proceedings were televised for the first time.

  • 01-03-1959 - Alaska became the 49th state in the United States.

  • 01-03-1967 - Jack Ruby, the man who shot John Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, died.

  • 01-04-1885 - Dr. William W. Grant of Davenport, Iowa, performed what is thought to be the first appendectomy.

  • 01-04-1896 - Utah was admitted as 45th state in the United States.

  • 01-04-1904 - In Gonzales v. Williams, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that citizens of Puerto Rico are not aliens and can enter the U.S. freely.

  • 01-04-1951 - During the Korean War, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul.

  • 01-04-1965 - President Johnson outlined his "Great Society" in his State of the Union address.

  • 01-05-1914 - Henry Ford introduced the $5-a-day minimum wage.

  • 01-05-1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman governor of a state (Wyoming).

  • 01-05-1972 - President Nixon ordered the development of the space shuttle.

  • 01-06-1540 - King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves.

  • 01-06-1759 - George Washington married Martha Custis.

  • 01-06-1838 - Samuel Morse gave the first public demonstration of the telegraph.

  • 01-06-1912 - New Mexico became the 47th state in the United States.

  • 01-06-1919 - Former president Theodore Roosevelt died in Oyster Bay, N.Y.

  • 07/01/1927 - Transatlantic commercial telephone service began between New York and London.

  • 07/01/1953 - Harry Truman announced that the U.S. had developed the hydrogen bomb.

  • 07/01/1979 - Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge government.

  • 07/01/1999 - The impeachment trial of President William Clinton began in the Senate.

  • 08/01/1790 - George Washington delivers 1st state of union address (or Jan 4)

  • 08/01/1815 - Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew

  • 08/01/1853 - 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Wash

  • 08/01/1867 - Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite Pres Johnson's veto

  • 08/01/1918 - Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition)

  • 08/01/1918 - Pres Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I

  • 08/01/1925 - 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas

  • 08/01/1958 - Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana

  • 08/01/1964 - President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"

  • 08/01/1975 - Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison

  • 09/01/1349 - 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses

  • 09/01/1570 - Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod

  • 09/01/1839 - Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science

  • 09/01/1861 - Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede

  • 09/01/1861 - 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC

  • 09/01/1905 - Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops (1/22 NS)

  • 09/01/1945 - US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines

  • 10/01/1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published

  • 10/01/1811 - Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes

  • 10/01/1861 - Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US

  • 10/01/1863 - 1st underground railway opens in London

  • 10/01/1878 - US Senate proposes female suffrage

  • 10/01/1920 - League of Nations established

  • 10/01/1928 - Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky

  • 10/01/1943 - 1st US pres to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco

  • 10/01/1946 - UN General Assembly meets for 1st time (London)

  • 10/01/1966 - Julian Bond denied seat in Ga legislature for opposing Vietnam War

  • 10/01/1967 - PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network

This Week in History... January 11-17, 2010

  • 11/01/1785 - Continental Congress convenes in NYC

  • 11/01/1803 - Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy La

  • 11/01/1861 - Alabama becomes 4th state to secede

  • 11/01/1897 - M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in US (Utah)

  • 11/01/1986 - 1st black gov since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va)

  • 11/01/1991 - Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq

  • 12/01/1863 - President Davis delivers his "State of Confederacy" address

  • 12/01/1915 - House of Reps rejects proposal to give women right to vote

  • 12/01/1944 - Churchill and de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh

  • 13/01/1559 - Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey

  • 13/01/1630 - Patent to Plymouth Colony issued

  • 13/01/1733 - James Oglethorpe and 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC

  • 13/01/1794 - Congress changes US flag to 15 stars and 15 stripes

  • 13/01/1869 - Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention

  • 13/01/1888 - National Geographic Society founded (Washington, DC)

  • 13/01/1898 - Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Dreyfus

  • 14/01/1601 - Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome

  • 14/01/1699 - Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches"

  • 14/01/1784 - Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris

  • 14/01/1864 - General Sherman begins his march to the South

  • 14/01/1878 - US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional

  • 14/01/1943 - FDR and Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WW II

  • 15/01/1535 - Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church

  • 15/01/1777 - People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England

  • 15/01/1780 - Continental Congress establishes court of appeals

  • 15/01/1870 - Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly

  • 15/01/1942 - FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II

  • 15/01/1943 - World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed

  • 15/01/1950 - 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Wash DC

  • 15/01/1973 - 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court

  • 15/01/1976 - Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot Pres Ford

  • 16/01/1581 - English parliament passes laws against Catholicism

  • 16/01/1776 - Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks

  • 16/01/1777 - Vermont declares independence from NY

  • 16/01/1865 - Gen Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks)

  • 16/01/1870 - Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to US after Civil War

  • 16/01/1883 - Pendleton Act creates basis of US Civil Service system

  • 16/01/1920 - 1st assembly of League of Nations (Paris)

  • 16/01/1920 - 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933

  • 16/01/1938 - Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing

  • 16/01/1944 - Gen Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London

  • 17/01/1821 - Mexico permits Moses Austin and 300 US families to settle in Texas

  • 17/01/1874 - Armed Democrats seize Texas govt ending Radical Reconstruction

  • 17/01/1893 - Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic

  • 17/01/1911 - Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly

  • 17/01/1945 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary

  • 17/01/1945 - Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation)

  • 17/01/1945 - Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation

  • 17/01/1946 - United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting

  • 17/01/1948 - Trial of 11 US Communist party members begins in NYC

  • 17/01/1961 - Eisenhower allegedly orders assassination of Congo's Lumumba

  • 17/01/1966 - Martin Luther King Jr opens campaign in Chicago

  • 17/01/1983 - Alabama Gov George C Wallace, becomes governor for record 4th time

  • 17/01/1987 - Pres Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran

  • 17/01/1991 - Operation Desert Storm begins-US led allies vs Iraq

  • 17/01/1991 - Operation Desert Storm: 1st US pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn)

  • 17/01/1998 - Pres Clinton faces sexual harrament charges from Paula Jones

This Week in History... January 18-24, 2010

  • 18/01/1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV

  • 18/01/1671 - Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panam

  • 18/01/1778 - Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)

  • 18/01/1817 - San Mart¡n leads a revolutionary army over Andes

  • 18/01/1854 - Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW Mexico

  • 18/01/1862 - Confederate Territory of Arizona forms

  • 18/01/1871 - 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I and Bismarck

  • 18/01/1919 - WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France

  • 18/01/1943 - Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis

  • 18/01/1944 - 1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts

  • 18/01/1945 - Warsaw freed by Soviet army

  • 18/01/1991 - Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel

  • 18/01/1993 - Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time

  • 19/01/1419 - French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War

  • 19/01/1793 - French King Louis XVI sentenced to death

  • 19/01/1840 - Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim)

  • 19/01/1861 - Georgia becomes 5th state to secede

  • 19/01/1861 - MS troops take Ft Massachusetts an Ship Island

  • 19/01/1865 - Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC

  • 19/01/1871 - 1st Negro lodge of US Masons approved, New Jersey

  • 19/01/1920 - US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations

  • 19/01/1955 - 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower)

  • 19/01/1981 - US and Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages

  • 19/01/1987 - Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874

  • 19/01/1989 - Pres Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon

  • 20/01/1778 - 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass

  • 20/01/1785 - Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Is), no takers

  • 20/01/1788 - Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga

  • 20/01/1801 - John Marshall appointed US chief justice

  • 20/01/1807 - Napoleon convenes great Sanhedrin, Paris

  • 20/01/1868 - Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee

  • 20/01/1869 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before Congress

  • 20/01/1937 - 1st Inauguration day on Jan 20th, (held every 4th years there-after)

  • 20/01/1939 - Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews

  • 20/01/1945 - FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as president

  • 20/01/1949 - Pres Truman announces his point 4 program

  • 20/01/1953 - 1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower)

  • 20/01/1961 - Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration

  • 20/01/1969 - Richard M Nixon inaugurated as president

  • 20/01/1981 - 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed

  • 20/01/1981 - Ronald Reagan inaugurated as president

  • 20/01/1989 - Bush inaugurated as 41st president and Quayle becomes 44th vice pres -- Reagan becomes 1st pres elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive

  • 20/01/1993 - Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd president

  • 21/01/1789 - 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published

  • 21/01/1861 - Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign

  • 21/01/1950 - NY jury finds former State Dept official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury

  • 21/01/1953 - John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State

  • 21/01/1977 - Pres Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders

  • 22/01/1371 - King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned

  • 22/01/1814 - 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, NYC

  • 22/01/1863 - Union Gen Burnside's "Mud March"

  • 22/01/1905 - Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops

  • 22/01/1944 - During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy

  • 22/01/1945 - Heavy US air raid on Okinawa

  • 22/01/1946 - US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency

  • 22/01/1973 - Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions

  • 22/01/1973 - US, North and South Vietnam and Vietcong sign boundary accord

  • 23/01/1492 - "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed

  • 23/01/1552 - 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes manditory in England

  • 23/01/1556 - Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China

  • 23/01/1571 - Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London

  • 23/01/1793 - Humane Society of Philadelphia (1st aid society) organized

  • 23/01/1845 - Uniform US election day for president and VP authorized

  • 23/01/1849 - Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US

  • 23/01/1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator

  • 23/01/1933 - 20th amendment changes date of presidential inaugurations to 1/20

  • 23/01/1950 - Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel

  • 23/01/1961 - Supreme Court rules cities and states have right to censor films

  • 23/01/1964 - 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections

  • 23/01/1973 - Pres Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War

  • 24/01/1656 - 1st Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland

  • 24/01/1847 - 1,500 New Mexican Indians and Mexicans defeated by US Col Price

  • 24/01/1964 - 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect and states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes

This Week in History... January 25-31, 2010

  • 25/01/1327 - King Edward III accedes to British throne

  • 25/01/1533 - England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date)

  • 25/01/1554 - Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary

  • 25/01/1721 - Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy

  • 25/01/1775 - Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)

  • 25/01/1787 - Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass

  • 25/01/1851 - Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)

  • 25/01/1858 - Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia

  • 25/01/1863 - General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac

  • 25/01/1877 - Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden

  • 25/01/1882 - Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms

  • 25/01/1890 - National Afro-American League forms in Chicago

  • 25/01/1905 - Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa

  • 25/01/1907 - Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to Natl Inst of Arts and Letters

  • 25/01/1919 - Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later

  • 25/01/1961 - 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (JFK)

  • 25/01/1969 - US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris

  • 25/01/1988 - VP Bush and Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair

  • 26/01/1784 - Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol

  • 26/01/1802 - Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library

  • 26/01/1861 - Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede

  • 26/01/1862 - Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order

  • 26/01/1863 - 54th Regiment (Black) infantry forms -- War Dept authorizes Mass governor to recruit black troops

  • 26/01/1870 - Virginia rejoins US

  • 26/01/1907 - 1st federal corrupt election practices law passed

  • 26/01/1926 - Television 1st demonstrated (J L Baird, London)

  • 26/01/1939 - Filming begins on "Gone With the Wind"

  • 26/01/1942 - 1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland

  • 26/01/1948 - Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed

  • 26/01/1980 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations

  • 26/01/1998 - Pres Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"

  • 27/01/1785 - 1st US state university chartered, Athens Georgia

  • 27/01/1823 - Pres Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America

  • 27/01/1870 - After accepting 15th amendment, VA is readmitted to Union

  • 27/01/1880 - Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp

  • 27/01/1888 - National Geographic Society organizes (Wash DC)

  • 27/01/1926 - US Senate agrees to join World Court

  • 27/01/1941 - Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Jap assault on Pearl Harbor

  • 27/01/1944 - Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed

  • 27/01/1945 - Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)

  • 27/01/1973 - US and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war and milt draft -- William Rogers and Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-N Vietnam treaty

  • 27/01/1977 - Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)

  • 27/01/1977 - 1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV

  • 27/01/1988 - Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to US Supreme Court

  • 27/01/1992 - Pres candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair

  • 28/01/1547 - 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England

  • 28/01/1581 - James VI signs 2nd Confession of Faith in Scotland

  • 28/01/1858 - John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry

  • 28/01/1865 - Pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners

  • 28/01/1878 - Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper

  • 28/01/1915 - 1st US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)

  • 28/01/1915 - US Pres Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates

  • 28/01/1916 - 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson

  • 29/01/1834 - Pres Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute

  • 29/01/1850 - Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate

  • 29/01/1861 - Kansas becomes 34th state

  • 29/01/1863 - Battle at Bear River, Washington: US army vs indians

  • 29/01/1864 - Battle of Moorefield, WV (Rosser's Raid)

  • 29/01/1879 - Custer Battlefield National Monument, Mont established

  • 29/01/1916 - 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place

  • 29/01/1919 - Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment (prohibition)

  • 29/01/1944 - 285 German bombers attack London

  • 29/01/1980 - 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of Canadians

  • 29/01/1984 - Pres Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term

  • 30/01/1349 - Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred

  • 30/01/1487 - Bell chimes invented

  • 30/01/1647 - King Charles I handed over to English parliament

  • 30/01/1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland

  • 30/01/1797 - Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks

  • 30/01/1798 - Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives, after an argument

  • 30/01/1800 - US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)

  • 30/01/1815 - Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols

  • 30/01/1835 - Richard Lawrence misfires at Pres Andrew Jackson in Washington DC

  • 30/01/1913 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill

  • 30/01/1933 - Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms govt with Von Papen

  • 30/01/1939 - Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews

  • 30/01/1956 - Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed

  • 30/01/1957 - US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"

  • 30/01/1961 - JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress and Peace Corp

  • 30/01/1972 - Bloody Sunday: Brit soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die

  • 30/01/1973 - Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy and McCord guilty on all counts

  • 30/01/1976 - George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)

  • 30/01/1989 - 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor

  • 31/01/1863 - 1st black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army

  • 31/01/1865 - Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)

  • 31/01/1865 - Gen Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies

  • 31/01/1871 - Millions of birds fly over western SF, darkens sky

  • 31/01/1950 - Pres Truman OKs building of hydrogen bomb

  • 31/01/1968 - Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins


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