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On Jan 14:
1784 - The United States ratified The Treaty of Paris with England, ending the Revolutionary War. |
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On Jan 16:
1979 - Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the leader of Iran since 1941, was forced to flee the country. Two weeks later, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the spiritual leader of the Islamic revolution, returned after 15 years of exile and took control of Iran. |
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1945 : Hitler descends into his bunker http://history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=6679
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On Jan 22:
1998 - Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in California to being the Unabomber, in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole. |
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On Jan 23:
1960 - The Swiss-built Bathyscaphe Trieste, acquired by the U.S. Navy, descended to the ocean floor in the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench. The Trieste was manned by Jacques Piccard (who co-designed the submersible along with his father, Auguste Piccard) and USN Lieutenant Don Walsh. The descent took almost five hours and the two men spent barely twenty minutes on the ocean floor before undertaking the three-hour-and-fifteen-minute ascent. They measured the depth as 10,916 metres (35,813 feet). At the ocean floor they observed small sole and flounder and noted that the floor consisted of diatomaceous ooze. |
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Jan 25 1961
President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television. |
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On Jan 28:
1986 - The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members. |
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On Jan 29:
1845 - Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published; it appeared in the "New York Evening Mirror." |
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On Jan 29:1861
Kansas became the 34th state in the United States. |
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