On This Day And In Previous Years (Brief Events In History)

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23rd January 1668 - England, Holland and Sweden signed Triple Alliance against the French

23rd January 1930 - George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia established

23rd January 1943 - British 8th army marched into Tripoli

23rd January 1973 - US President Richard Nixon announced an accord, reached to end the Vietnam War

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24th January 1916 - The Military Service Bill, called for conscription of men for war services, passed in the British House of Commons

24th January 1984 - Apple Computer Inc unveiled its revolutionary Macintosh personal computer

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25th January 1799 - the first US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont

25th January 1840 - American naval expedition under Charles Wilkes was the first to identify Antarctica as a new continent

25th January 1875 - the Anti Slavery Society was formed in New York

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26th January 1788 - Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists hoist Union Flag at Sydney Cove, NS Wales

26th January 1841 - Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain

26th January 1907 - the Lee-Enfield Mk III rifle officially introduced into the British Military Service

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27th January 1825 - US Congress approved Indian Territory, clearing the way for the forced relocation of the Eastern Indian tribes

27th January 1888 - The National Geographic Society founded in Washington, DC

27th January 1951 - US began 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site

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28th January 1807 - London's Pall Mall is the first street to be lit by gaslight

28th January 1813 - Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is published by Thomas Egerton in the United Kingdom

28th January 1878 - the first telephone exchange (New Haven, Connecticut)

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29th January 1595 - William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" is thought to have been first performed

29th January 1856 - Victoria Cross established to acknowledge valour in the face of the enemy

29th January 1886 - Karl Benz patents the "Benz Patent-Motorwagen" in Karlsruhe, Germany, the world's first automobile with a burning motor

29th January 1892 - The Coca-Cola Company is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia

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30th January 1661 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England ritually executed after having been dead for two years

30th January 1933 - President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor of Germany who formed a government with Franz von Papen

30th January 1945 - American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberated over 500 Allied POWs from Japanese at Cabanatuan

30th January 1948 - Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse

30th January 1965 - State Funeral of Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London

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1st February 1587 - Queen Elizabeth I of England signed death warrant for her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots

11st February 1884 - the first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary published

1st February 1959 - Texas Instruments requested patent for Integrated Circuit

1st February 2003 - the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated killing all seven astronauts aboard

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3rd February 1807 - a British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captured the city of Montevideo in the Battle of Montevideo

3rd February 1870 - US state of Iowa ratified the 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution allowing suffrage for all races and colour

3rd February 1944 - World War II: US troops captured the Marshall Islands

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4th February 1789 - the first US electoral college chose George Washington as President and John Adams as Vice-President

4th February 1847 - the first US telegraph company established in Maryland

4th February 1865 - Robert E. Lee named general in chief of the Confederate forces

4th February 1941 - British tanks occupied Maus, Libya

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6th February 1685 - the Duke of York became King James II of England and VII of Scotland upon the death of his brother Charles II

6th February 1778 - Britain declared war on France

6th February 1862 - Ulysses S. Grant began military campaign in Mississippi

6th February 1918 - Great Britain granted women 30 and over the vote

6th February 1922 - US, UK, France, Italy and Japan signed Washington naval arms limitation

6th February 1952 - Queen Elizabeth II succeeded King George VI to the British throne and proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms including Canada, Australia and New Zealand

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8th February 1672 - Isaac Newton read first optics paper before the Royal Society in London

8th February 1861 - Confederate States of America organized in Montgomery, Alabama (US Civil War)

8th February 1912 - the first eastbound US transcontinental flight landed in Jacksonville, Florida

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9th February 1916 - Britain's military service act enforced conscription

9th February 1943 - Japanese troops evacuated Guadalcanal, ends epic WWII battle on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific

9th February 1966 - UK Government announced the construction of a nuclear reactor on the North coast of Scotland

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11th February 1953 - President Eisenhower refused clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple

11th February 1990 - Nelson Mandela released after 27 years imprisonment in South Africa

11th February 1956 - British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean denied working as spies

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12th February 1554 - Queen of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is executed for treason

12th February 1938 - the first 'Kindertransport' carrying Jewish refugee children from Nazi Germany arrived in Britain

12th February 1942 - German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen escaped from Brest to Germany

12th February 1999 - US President Bill Clinton acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial

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17th February 1461 - the Wars of the Roses, the second battle of St Albans, Lancastrian army defeated Yorkists and recaptured King Henry VI

17th February 1691 - Thomas Neale granted English patent for American postal service

17th February 1913 - the first minimum wage law in US took effect in Oregon

17th February 1947 - the Voice of America began broadcasting to USSR

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18th February 1678 - John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published in Holborn, London, by Nathaniel Ponder

18th February 1876 - direct telegraph link established between Britain and New Zealand

18th February 1885 - Mark Twain published the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the US

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20th February 1547 - King Edward VI of England crowned following the death of his father Henry VIII

20th February 1768 - the first American chartered fire insurance company opened in Pennsylvania

20th February 1792 - the US postal service created

20th February 1938 - UK Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigned stating Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had appeased Nazi Germany

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22nd February 1632 - Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" is published

22nd February 1774 - British House of Lords ruled authors do not have perpetual copyright

22nd February 1881 - "Cleopatra's Needle", a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in Central Park, New York

22nd February 1889 - US President Cleveland signed bill to admit Dakotas, Montana and Washington state to the union

22nd February 1933 - Malcolm Campbell set world land speed record speed of 272.46 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car at Daytona Beach, Florida

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