This date in history

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January 12, 1991 - The U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive out Iraqi forces from Kuwait.

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1559 - Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.

1842 - Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for (reputedly) being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.

1915 - Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, presents plan for assault on Dardanelles.

1942 - German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast.

1942 - World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

1993 - French, British, and US fighter jets launch bombing raids in southern Iraq.

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1914 - Henry Ford introduces an assembly line for Model T.

1960 - US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant.

1966 - David Bowie releases his 1st record (Can't Help Thinking About Me).

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1940 - German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch merchant ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church).

1943 - 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught.

1944 - European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany.

1944 - General Eisenhower arrives in England.

1944 - Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die.

1945 - Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp.

1955 - USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic.

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1918 - Austria and Germany are disrupted by strikes as people express impatience with leaders continuing the war.

1941 - US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor.

1944 - Gen Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London.

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1944 - British corvette HMS Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean.

1945 - Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation.

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2002 - The Sierra Leone Civil War ends.

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1788 - The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony.

1943 - The first Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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1957: A trio of B-52 bombers completes the first non-stop around the world flight by jet aircraft landing at March Air Force Base CA after more than 45 hours in the aloft.

Though Old called the flight "a routine training mission," the Air Force emphasized that the mission demonstrated its "capability to drop a hydrogen bomb anywhere in the world

What a message to send out BBY! And 59 years later we can still send the same message

[Kaye T. Bai]

1862 - American forces defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Mill Springs in Kentucky, giving the U.S. its first major victory and handing the Confederacy its first significant defeat in the American Civil War.


American forces chasing away the Confederates in the Battle of Mill Springs, January 19, 1862.

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1915 - 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die.

1939 - Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 sec.

2012 - FBI shuts down Megaupload.com for alleged copyright infringement, hacker group Anonymous responds by attacking government and entertainment industry websites.

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1841 - China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the 1st Opium War.

1942 - Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin to organise the "final solution", the extermination of Europe's Jews.

1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President.

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1976 - The Concorde supersonic jetliner entered service. It would serve until 2003.

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1919 - Irish militant nationalist party Sinn Fein creates its own parliament in Dublin and declares Ireland independent of Great Britain, sparking the Irish War of Independence.

1943 - Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Royal Navy, promoted to Admiral of the Fleet.

1944 - 447 German bombers attack London.

1944 - 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg.

2008 - Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%.

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1793: Louis XVI by all accounts the bookish, amateur locksmith met his end bravely. Irony: he had proposed 'beveling' the blade on the new humane execution machine, the Guillotine...only to become one of the first and most celebrated of its victims! A smooth shave-they didn't call it the 'National Razor' fer nuthin