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1827 Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander.

1912 Captain Robert Scott's expedition arrives at the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.

1929 Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater"

1944 British corvette HMS Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean.(other sources state 19th)

1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation.

1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by Soviet secret police in Hungary.

1951 China refuses ceases-fire in Korea.

1955 US Submarine Nautilus begins first nuclear-powered test voyage.

1961 Eisenhower allegedly orders assassination of Congo's Patrice Lumumba.

1991 Operation Desert Storm begins, with US-led coalition forces bombing Iraq, during the Gulf War.

2007 Doomsday Clock set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's first nuclear test.