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The trial of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators began. They were executed on January 31. |
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1926 |
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John Baird, a Scottish inventor, demonstrated a pictorial transmission machine called television. |
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1927 |
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United Independent Broadcasters Inc. started a radio network with contracts with 16 stations. The company later became Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). |
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1931 |
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NBC radio debuted "Clara, Lu ’n’ Em" on its Blue network (later, ABC radio). |
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1957 |
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The "CBS Radio Workshop" was heard for the first time. |
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1998 |
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U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on NBC's "Today" show. She charged that the allegations against her husband were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy." |
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1996 |
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Mahamane Ousmane, the first democratically elected president of Niger, was overthrown by a military coup. Colonel Ibrahim Bare Mainassara declared himself head of state. |
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2010 |
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Appled enveiled the "iPad". |
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1967 |
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More than 60 nations signed the Outer Space Treaty which banned the orbiting of nuclear weapons and placing weapons on celestial bodies or space stations. |
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1870 |
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Kappa Alpha Theta, the first women’s sorority, was founded at Indiana Asbury University (now DePauw University) in Greencastle, IN. |
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1967 |
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At Cape Kennedy, FL, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft.
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1900 |
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In China, foreign diplomats in Peking, fearing a revolt, demanded that the imperial government discipline the Boxer rebels. |
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1944 |
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The Soviet Union announced that the two year German siege of Leningrad had come to an end. |
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1981 |
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U.S. President Reagan greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House. |
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1999 |
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The U.S. Senate blocked dismissal of the impeachment case against President Clinton and voted for new testimony from Monica Lewinsky and two other witnesses.
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1977 |
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The Vatican reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's ban on female priests. |
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1984 |
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Carl Lewis beat his own two-year-old record by 9-1/4 inches when he set a new indoor world record with a long-jump mark of 28 feet, 10-1/4 inches. |
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1984 |
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Wayne Gretzky set a National Hockey League (NHL) record for consecutive game scoring. He ended the streak at 51 games. |
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1992 |
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Former world boxing champion Mike Tyson went on trial for allegedly raping an 18-year-old contestant in the 1991 Miss Black America Contest. |
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1880 |
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Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp. |
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1997 |
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It was revealed that French national museums were holding nearly 2,000 works of art stolen from Jews by the Nazis during World War II. |
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1888 |
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The National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, DC. |
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1948 |
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Wire Recording Corporation of America announced the first magnetic tape recorder. The ‘Wireway’ machine with a built-in oscillator sold for $149.50. |
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1985 |
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The Coca-Cola Company, of Atlanta, GA, announced a plan to sell its soft drinks in the Soviet Union. |
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2003 |
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Altria Group, Inc. became the name of the parent company of Kraft Foods, Philip Morris USA, Philip Morris International and Philip Morris Capital Corporation. |
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1943 |
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During World War II, the first all American air raid against Germany took place when about 50 bombers attacked Wilhlemshaven. |
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1945 |
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Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. |
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1951 |
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In the U.S., atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats. |
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2002 |
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A series of explosions occurred at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria. More than 1,000 people were killed in the blast and in the attempt to escape. |