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1647 King Charles I handed over to English parliament.
1649 Deaths: Charles I King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded by order of Parliament for treason.
1798 The first fight to break out on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives began when one congressman spat in another’s face.
1800 US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%).
1815 Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson’s 6500 volumes.
1820 Edward Bransfield discovers Antarctica (UK claim).
1826 The Menai Suspension Bridge was opened.
1835 A gunman fired twice on President Andrew Jackson, the first attempt on the life of a U.S. president. Jackson wasn’t injured.
1862 US Navy’s 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched.
1882 Birthdays: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd United States President (1933-1945).
1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit. Birthdays: Boris III Czar of Bulgaria (1918-43).
1912 Birthdays: Barbara Tuchman, Historian.
1922 Birthdays: Dick Martin Detroit, Michigan, Actor/Comedian (Laugh-In).
1925 Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople.
1927 Birthdays: Olof Palme Stockholm, Prime Minister of Sweden (1969-76, 1982-86), assassinated in 1986.
1928 Birthdays: Theatrical producer Hal Prince.
1931 Birthdays: Gene Hackman, California, Actor (Bonnie and Clyde, Under Fire, Superman).
1933 Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms govt with Von Papen. ‘Lone Ranger’ begins a 21-year run on ABC radio.
1937 Birthdays: Vanessa Redgrave, Actress; Boris Spassky, Chess champion.
1941 Birthdays: Dick Cheney, United States Vice President; Gregory Benford, Author.
1942 Birthdays: Marty Balin, Rock ‘n roll Hall of Fame member (Jefferson Airplane).
1943 The British air force bombed Berlin in a daylight raid timed to coincide with a speech by Joseph Goebbels in honor of Hitler’s 10th year in power. Birthdays: Davy Johnson, Baseball Manager (New York Mets).
1946 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime.
1947 Birthdays: Steve Marriott, Rock ‘n roll Hall of Fame member (Small Faces).
1948 Deaths: Orville Wright, US aviation pioneer, died at 76. Mohandes Ghandi, Indian religious and political leader, assassinated in New Delhi. His killer was a Hindu extremist.
1951 Birthdays: Phil Collins, Rock ‘n roll Hall of Fame member (Genesis); Charles S. Dutton, Actor. Deaths: Ferdinand Porsche German car inventor (Porsche), died at 75.
1955 Birthdays: Curtis Strange, Golfer.
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1957 Birthdays: Payne Stewart, Golfer.
1958 Birthdays: Brett Butler, Actress/Comedian. Chart Toppers: The Story of My Life by Marty Robbins; Stood Up/Waitin’ in School by Ricky Nelson; Don’t/I Beg of You by Elvis Presley; At the Hop by Danny and The Juniors.
1959 Birthdays: Jody Watley, Singer.
1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill.
1966 Chart Toppers: We Can Work It Out by The Beatles; No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach’s In) by The T-Bones; Giddyup Go by Red Sovine; Barbara Ann by The Beach Boys.
1968 After calling for a cease-fire during the Tet holiday celebrations, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong attacked the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, temporarily occupying the U.S. Embassy.
1969 The Beatles staged an impromptu concert on the roof of Apple Records in London. The event, which became part of the documentary film Let It Be, was the last public appearance by the Beatles. Deaths: Allan Welsh Dulles, US Diplomat/Director (CIA 1953-61), died at 75.
1972 In what became known as Bloody Sunday, British soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilian demonstrators in the Bogside, Londonderry, Ireland, 13 people lay dead and 17 wounded, one of whom died later. One man who was photographed being arrested and taken into a British army Saracen was later found shot dead. The march, which was called to protest internment, was ‘illegal’ according to British government authorities. Internment without trial was introduced by the British government on August 9, 1971. The British government-appointed Widgery Tribunal found soldiers were not guilty of killing the 13 marchers.
1973 Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy and McCord guilty on all counts.
1974 Birthdays: Christian Bale, Actor. Chart Toppers: You’re Sixteen by Ringo Starr; The Way We Were by Barbra Streisand; Love’s Theme by Love Unlimited Orchestra; I Love by Tom T. Hall.
1976 George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977).
1979 The Iranian government announced it would let Shiite Muslim leader Ayatollah Khomeini return from exile. Washington responded by ordering the evacuation of all U.S. dependents from Iran.
1980 Birthdays: Wilmer Valderrama, Actor (That 70’s Show). Deaths: Professor Longhair, King of New Orleans music, died at 61.
1982 Chart Toppers: The Sweetest Thing (I’ve Ever Known) by Juice Newton; I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do) by Daryl Hall and John Oates; Harden My Heart by Quarterflash; Centerfold by The J. Geils Band.
1990 Birthdays: Jake Thomas, Actor. Chart Toppers: Nobody’s Home by Clint Black; Just to Make It Right by Seduction; How Am I Supposed to Live Without You by Michael Bolton; Downtown Train by Rod Stewart.
1991 Iraqi armored forces charged out of Kuwait and engaged allied forces in Khafji, Saudi Arabia. Twelve U.S. Marines were killed in the heaviest ground fighting of the Gulf War.
1993 Parents donated portions of their own lungs to their daughter with cystic fibrosis in pioneering transplant surgery in Los Angeles.
1995 42 people were killed when a car bomb exploded in Algiers, Algeria. The U.N. Security Council authorized deployment of 6,000 peacekeepers to Haiti.
1999 NATO ambassadors gave the organization authority to attack military targets in Serbia if Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic continued to violate the 1998 cease-fire negotiated with the rebels in Kosovo.
2003 A U.S. judge sentenced Richard Reid to life in prison for trying to set off plastic explosives in his shoes on a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001. AOL Time Warner said it was writing down the value of AOL by $35 billion and of its cable division $10 billion, bringing a total loss of assets since the 2001 merger of AOL and Time Warner to nearly $100 billion.
2005 Despite widespread violence, about 60 percent of Iraqi voters cast ballots in the country’s first free election in half a century. At least 22 people died in Election Day violence.
2008 The U.S. Federal Reserve cut short-term interest rates by one half of a percentage point to help the sagging economy while the U.S. Senate sought passage of the $161 billion economic stimulus package.
2009 U.S. stock exchanges reported their weakest January in more than a century with the Dow Jones industrial average showing a one-month decline of 8.8 percent, closing at 8,000.86. The January unemployment rate jumped to 7.6 percent.
2010 The United Nations reported that at least 84 U.N. employees died in the Haitian earthquake and another 15 were missing.
2011 International aid groups said red tape and corruption in Haiti were withholding a massive array of supplies one year after a major earthquake ravaged the country.
2012 At least 11 people were killed in a string of crashes on a stretch of I-75 near Gainesville, Fla., engulfed in brush fire smoke. Police said at least 12 passenger cars and about seven tractor-trailers were involved.