Tuesday, January 31st, 2023
Truman announces development of H-bomb
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Americans secure Guadalcanal
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, February 9th, 2023
Satchel Paige nominated to Baseball Hall of Fame
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, February 10th, 2023
World chess champion Garry Kasparov loses game to computer
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, February 11th, 2023
Nelson Mandela released from prison
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, February 12th, 2023
Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial for war crimes
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, February 13th, 2023
Firebombing of Dresden
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St. Valentine beheaded
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The USS Maine explodes in Cuba's Havana Harbor
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Archaeologist opens tomb of King Tut
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Madame Butterfly” premieres
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Mark Twain publishes “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
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Donner Party rescued from the Sierra Nevada Mountains
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, February 20th, 2023
Ireland allows sale of contraceptives
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, February 21st, 2023
Malcolm X assassinated
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U.S. hockey team beats the Soviets in the "Miracle on Ice"
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U.S. flag raised on Iwo Jima
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Alamo defenders call for help
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, February 25th, 2023
Young Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston for first world title
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, February 26th, 2023
Florida teen Trayvon Martin is shot and killed
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, February 27th, 2023
New Orleanians take to the streets for Mardi Gras
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, February 28th, 2023
Chemical structure of DNA discovered
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, March 1st, 2023
Lindbergh baby kidnapped
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, March 2nd, 2023
Dr. Seuss Born
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, March 3rd, 2023
Helen Keller meets Anne Sullivan
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, March 4th, 2023
FDR Inaugurated
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, March 7th, 2023
Civil Rights protesters beaten in "Bloody Sunday" attack
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, March 8th, 2023
February Revolution begins, leading to the end of czarist rule in Russia
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, March 9th, 2023
Barbie Doll Makes it Debut
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, March 10th, 2023
Tibetans revolt against Chinese occupation
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, March 11th, 2023
Fukushima nuclear disaster
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, March 12th, 2023
FDR broadcasts first "fireside chat" during the Great Depression
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, March 13th, 2023
Czar Alexander II assassinated in St. Petersburg
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, March 14th, 2023
Albert Einstein born
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, March 15th, 2023
LBJ calls for equal voting rights
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, March 16th, 2023
U.S. Military Academy established
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, March 17th, 2023
St. Patrick dies
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, March 18th, 2023
Wells and Fargo start shipping and banking company
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, March 19th, 2023
War in Iraq begins
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, March 20th, 2023
LBJ sends federal troops to Alabama to protect a civil rights march
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, March 22nd, 2023
Stamp Act imposed on American colonies
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, March 23rd, 2023
"OK" enters national vernacular
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, March 24th, 2023
Exon Valdez Crash
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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Dr. Jonas Salk announces polio vaccine
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, March 27th, 2023
1912 Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, March 28th, 2023
Nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, March 29th, 2023
U.S. withdraws from Vietnam
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President Reagan Shot
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Eiffel Tower Opens
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, April 1st, 2023
April Fools’ tradition popularized
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, April 2nd, 2023
Pope John Paul II dies
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, April 3rd, 2023
Pony Express debuts
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, April 4th, 2023
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, April 5th, 2023
Grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain dies by suicide
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, April 6th, 2023
The United States officially enters World War I
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, April 7th, 2023
Violence erupts in Rwanda, foreshadowing genocide
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, April 8th, 2023
Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record
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Robert E. Lee surrenders
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, April 10th, 2023
ASPCA is founded
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, April 11th, 2023
Napoleon abdicates the throne and is exiled to Elba
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, April 12th, 2023
Civil War begins as Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter
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Tiger Woods wins the Masters Tournament for the first time
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, April 14th, 2023
John Wilkes Booth shoots Abraham Lincoln
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Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, April 16th, 2023
Virginia Tech shooting leaves 32 dead
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, April 17th, 2023
Apollo 13 returns to Earth
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, April 18th, 2023
The Great San Francisco Earthquake topples buildings, killing thousands
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, April 19th, 2023
American Revolution begins at Battle of Lexington
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Teen gunmen kill 13 at Columbine High School
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, April 21st, 2023
Legendary musician and megawatt star Prince dies at 57
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, April 22nd, 2023
The first Earth Day
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William Shakespeare born
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, April 24th, 2023
Easter Rebellion begins
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Soviet leader Yuri Andropov writes letter to U.S. fifth-grader Samantha Smith
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, April 27th, 2023
Universe is created, according to Kepler
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Benito Mussolini executed
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World War II monument opens in Washington, D.C.
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, April 30th, 2023
Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, May 1st, 2023
Empire State Building Dedicated
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, May 2nd, 2023
Loch Ness "Monster" sighted for the first time, igniting the modern legend
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, May 3rd, 2023
Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli born
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, May 4th, 2023
National Guard kills four students in Kent State shootings
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Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, May 6th, 2023
English Channel tunnel opens
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, May 7th, 2023
Edvard Munch’s "The Scream" recovered after theft
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, May 8th, 2023
V-E Day is Celebrated
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, May 9th, 2023
FDA approves "the pill"
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, May 10th, 2023
Transcontinental railroad completed, unifying United States
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, May 11th, 2023
Dust storm sweeps from Great Plains across Eastern states
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, May 12th, 2023
Kidnapped Lindbergh baby found dead
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, May 13th, 2023
U.S. Congress declares war on Mexico
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Lewis and Clark depart to explore the Northwest
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, May 15th, 2023
Madeleine Albright, America's first female secretary of state, is born
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, May 16th, 2023
First Academy Awards ceremony
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, May 17th, 2023
Brown v. Board of Ed is decided
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Pope John Paul II born
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Lawrence of Arabia dies
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Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, May 21st, 2023
American Red Cross founded
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, May 22nd, 2023
A thousand pioneers head West as part of the Great Emigration
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, May 23rd, 2023
Police kill famous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, May 24th, 2023
Brooklyn Bridge opens
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Constitutional Convention begins
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"Dracula" goes on sale in London
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Ship carrying 937 Jewish refugees, fleeing Nazi Germany, is turned away in Cuba
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, May 28th, 2023
Appeal for Amnesty campaign launches
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, May 29th, 2023
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach Everest summit
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Joan of Arc is burned at the stake for heresy
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, May 31st, 2023
Tulsa Race Massacre begins
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, July 1st, 2023
Hong Kong returned to China
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, July 2nd, 2023
President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, July 3rd, 2023
Battle of Gettysburg ends
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Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence
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Bikini introduced
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Althea Gibson is first African American to win Wimbledon
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, July 7th, 2023
Building of Hoover Dam begins
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Liberty Bell tolls to announce Declaration of Independence
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, July 9th, 2023
Wimbledon tournament begins
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, July 10th, 2023
Scopes Monkey Trial begins
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, July 11th, 2023
Aaron Burr slays Alexander Hamilton in duel
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, July 12th, 2023
Geraldine Ferraro named vice presidential candidate
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, July 13th, 2023
The hashtag #BlackLivesMatter first appears, sparking a movement
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, July 14th, 2023
French revolutionaries storm the Bastille
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Twitter Launches
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The first atomic bomb test is successfully exploded
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Disneyland Opens
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FDR nominated for unprecedented third term
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, July 19th, 2023
Rosetta Stone found
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Neil Armstrong walks on moon
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, July 21st, 2023
The First Battle of Bull Run
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Jessica Lynch gets hero's welcome
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, July 23rd, 2023
Former president Ulysses S. Grant dies
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, July 24th, 2023
American archeologist encounters Machu Picchu ruins
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, July 25th, 2023
World’s first "test tube" baby born
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U.S. postal system established
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House begins impeachment of Nixon
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14th Amendment adopted
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NASA Created
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President Johnson signs Medicare into law
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, July 31st, 2023
Labor leader Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, September 1st, 2023
Bobby Fischer becomes the first American to win the World Chess Championship
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, September 2nd, 2023
Japan surrenders, bringing an end to WWII
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, September 3rd, 2023
Treaty of Paris signed
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Geronimo surrenders
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Sam Houston elected as president of Texas
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First tank produced
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United States nicknamed Uncle Sam
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, September 8th, 2023
Ford Pardons Nixon
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Elvis Presley makes first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show”
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First Drunk Driving Arrest
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Attack on the United States
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Lascaux cave paintings discovered
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Israel-Palestine peace accord signed
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, September 14th, 2023
Francis Scott Key pens “The Star-Spangled Banner”
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, September 15th, 2023
Muhammad Ali wins world heavyweight championship
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, September 16th, 2023
Gandhi begins fast in protest of caste separation
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Battle of Antietam breaks out
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George Washington lays the Capitol cornerstone
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Nevada is site of first-ever underground nuclear explosion
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Billie Jean King triumphs in “Battle of the Sexes"
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, September 21st, 2023
Benedict Arnold commits treason
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Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
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Billy the Kid arrested for first time
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The first Supreme Court is established
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Little Rock Nine begin first full day of classes
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Kennedy and Nixon square off in first televised presidential debate
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, September 27th, 2023
John Adams appointed to negotiate peace terms with British
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Ted Williams becomes last MLB player to hit .400
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, September 29th, 2023
Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills seven
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USS Nautilus—world’s first nuclear submarine—is commissioned
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, November 1st, 2023
Sistine Chapel ceiling opens to public
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Howard Hughes’s “Spruce Goose” flies
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Saturday, November 4th, 2023
Entrance to King Tut’s tomb discovered
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The order is given Bomb Pearl Harbor
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UN condemns apartheid in South Africa
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, November 7th, 2023
FDR wins unprecedented fourth term
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German scientist discovers X-rays
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Nazis launch Kristallnacht
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“Sesame Street” debuts
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Armistice Day: World War I ends
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Ellis Island closes
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated
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Herman Melville publishes “Moby-Dick”
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First stock ticker debuts
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Francisco Pizarro traps Incan emperor Atahualpa
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Elizabethan Age begins
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Mass suicide at Jonestown
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President Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address
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Nuremberg trials begin
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Millions tune in to find out who shot J.R.
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, November 22nd, 2023
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated
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First issue of “Life” is published
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"Origin of Species" is published
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"The Mousetrap" opens in London
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FDR establishes modern Thanksgiving holiday
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, November 27th, 2023
Pope Urban II orders first Crusade
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Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific
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U.N. votes for partition of Palestine
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Folies Bergère stages first revue
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, January 1st, 2024
Batista forced out by Castro-led revolution
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U.S.-Russia detente ends
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Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega surrenders to U.S.
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, January 4th, 2024
L.B.J. envisions a Great Society in his State of the Union address
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Samuel Morse unveils the telegraph, revolutionizing communication
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First U.S. presidential election
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Crazy Horse fights last battle
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Columbus mistakes manatees for mermaids
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, January 10th, 2024
Gusher signals new era of U.S. oil industry
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U.S. Surgeon General announces definitive link between smoking and cancer
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Massive earthquake strikes Haiti
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Pope recognizes Knights Templar
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Monday, January 15th, 2024
Martin Luther King Jr. born
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Prohibition is ratified by the states
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Boston thieves pull off historic Brink's robbery
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Post-World War I peace conference begins in Paris
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Edgar Allan Poe is born
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Iran Hostage Crisis ends
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President Carter pardons draft dodgers
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Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty to bombings
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Toy company Wham-O produces first Frisbees
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
World’s largest diamond found
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British settlement begins in Australia
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Auschwitz is liberated
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The space shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, January 29th, 2024
U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects first members
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