1649 |
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Charles I of England is beheaded at Whitehall by the executioner Richard Brandon. |
1844 |
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Richard Theodore Greener becomes the first African American to graduate from Harvard University. |
1862 |
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The USS Monitor is launched at Greenpoint, Long Island. |
1901 |
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Women Prohibitionists smash 12 saloons in Kansas. |
1912 |
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The British House of Lords opposes the House of Commons by rejecting home rule for Ireland. |
1931 |
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The United States awards civil government to the Virgin Islands. |
1933 |
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Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor by President Paul Hindenburg. |
1936 |
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Governor Harold Hoffman orders a new inquiry into the Lindbergh kidnapping. |
1943 |
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Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus surrenders himself and his staff to Red Army troops in Stalingrad. |
1945 |
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The Allies launch a drive on the Siegfried line in Germany. |
1949 |
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In India, 100,000 people pray at the site of Gandhi's assassination on the first anniversary of his death. |
1953 |
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President Dwight Eisenhower announces that
he will pull the Seventh Fleet out of Formosa to permit the
Nationalists to attack Communist China. |
1964 |
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The Ranger spacecraft, equipped with six TV cameras, is launched to the moon from Cape Canaveral. |
1972 |
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British troops shoot dead 14 Irish civilians in Derry, Ireland. The day is forever remembered in Ireland as 'Bloody Sunday.' |
1976 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court bans spending limits in campaigns, equating funds with freedom of speech. |
1980 |
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The first-ever Chinese Olympic team arrives in New York for the Winter Games at Lake Placid. |
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