This Day in History......

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Jan. 22
1987 Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.

 

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On January 23, 1957, machines at the Wham-O toy company roll out the first batch of their aerodynamic plastic discs—now known to millions of fans all over the world as Frisbees.

 

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Larry Nassar, a former doctor at Michigan State and for USA Gymnastics, is sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for sexual assault on January 24, 2018.

 

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On January 25, 1905, at the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa, a 3,106-carat diamond is discovered during a routine inspection by the mine’s superintendent. Weighing 1.33 pounds, and christened the “Cullinan,” it was the largest diamond ever found.

 

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On January 26, 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip guides a fleet of 11 British ships carrying convicts to the colony of New South Wales, effectively founding Australia.

 

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On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops enter Auschwitz, Poland, freeing the survivors of the network of concentration camps—and finally revealing to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there.

 

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Jan. 28,
1985 Charity single "We Are the World" is recorded by supergroup USA for Africa (Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie and other pop stars).

 

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On January 29, 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects its first members in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson.

 

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Jan 30,
1948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse.

 

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Jan. 31
1950 US President Harry Truman publicly announces support for the development of a hydrogen bomb.

 

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‎February‎ ‎1‎, ‎1884 - 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published.

 

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Feb. 2
1653 New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York)

 

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On February 3, 2005, Alberto Gonzales wins Senate confirmation as the nation’s first Hispanic attorney general despite protests over his record on torture.

 

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On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old granddaughter of newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California, by three armed strangers.

 

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On February 5, 1994, white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith is convicted in the murder of African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers, over 30 years after the crime occurred.

 

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On February 6, 1952, after a long illness, King George VI of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dies in his sleep at the royal estate at Sandringham. Princess Elizabeth, the oldest of the king’s two daughters and next in line to succeed him, was in Kenya at the time of her father’s death; she was crowned Queen Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953, at age 27.

 

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Nearly 30 inches of snow fell in Boston 42 years ago during infamous Blizzard of ’78

 

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On January 21, 1977, U.S. President Jimmy Carter grants an unconditional pardon to hundreds of thousands of men who evaded the draft during the Vietnam War.

I have mixed feelings about this

 

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not this day but 100 years ago in 1920 the constitution of the united states was amended to allow women the right to vote.

the beginning of the end.....

 

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I have mixed feelings about this

Abraham Lincoln did the same thing to help heal the nation after the Civil War. I consider him our greatest president but he was maybe the most hated ( and loved ) president of the united states.