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100 years anniversary | ||||
31 Jan 1925 | Benjamin Hooks: Civil rights leader | |||
31 Jan 1925 | Charles Aidman: Frankfort, Indiana -- Narrator (New Twilight Zone) | |||
31 Jan 1925 | Fred Catherwood: MP | |||
31 Jan 1925 | Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes President of Angola | |||
31 Jan 1925 | Benjamin Hooks, American minister, lawyer, and activist (d. 2010) | |||
31 Jan 1925 | Benjamin Hooks civil rights leader | |||
31 Jan 1925 | Charles Aidman Frankfort IN, narrator (New Twilight Zone) | |||
31 Jan 1925 | Fred Catherwood MP | |||
31 Jan 1925 | Premier Ahmed Zogu (Zogu I) becomes President of Albania | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
31 Jan 1950 | President Truman OKs building of hydrogen bomb | |||
31 Jan 1950 | United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb. | |||
31 Jan 1950 | Janice Rebibo, American-Israeli author and poet (d. 2015) | |||
31 Jan 1950 | Alexander Korzhakov, Russian general and bodyguard | |||
31 Jan 1950 | Denise Fleming, American author and illustrator | |||
31 Jan 1950 | President Truman reveals that he ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to develop the hydrogen bomb | |||
31 Jan 1950 |
U.S. H-bomb In 1950, President Harry S. Truman announced a program to develop the American hydrogen bomb. "I have directed ... work on all forms of atomic weapons, including the so called hydrogen or superbomb. Like all other work in the field of atomic weapons, it is being and will be carried forward on a basis consistent with the overall objectives of our program for peace and security ... until a satisfactory plan for international control of atomic energy is achieved. We shall also continue to examine all those factors that affect our program for peace and this country, security." This response followed his earlier announcement, on 23 Sep 1949, that had shocked America, "We have evidence that within recent weeks an atomic explosion occurred in the USSR." |
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50 years anniversary | ||||
31 Jan 1975 | Kenard Lang: Defensive end (Washington Redskins) | |||
31 Jan 1975 | John Lennon releases "#9 Dream" | |||
31 Jan 1975 | UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship | |||
31 Jan 1975 | Preity Zinta, Indian actress | |||
31 Jan 1975 | Jackie O, Australian radio and television host | |||
31 Jan 1975 | Fred Coleman, American football player and coach | |||
31 Jan 1975 | Kenard Lang defensive end (Washington Redskins) | |||
31 Jan 1975 | John Lennon's "#9 Dream" is released | |||
31 Jan 1975 | Barry Manilow's "Mandy" goes gold | |||
31 Jan 1975 | UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
31 Jan 2000 | Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard. | |||
31 Jan 2000 | Gil Kane, Latvian-American author and illustrator (b. 1926) | |||
31 Jan 2000 | The Strokes played their first ever UK show when they appeared at The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth. | |||
31 Jan 2000
English |
English (medicine) English doctor Harold Shipman is found guilty of killing fifteen of his elderly patients by lethal injections of diamorphine, the only British physician ever convicted of murdering his patients; he is actually considered to have killed at least 215. |
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15 years anniversary | ||||
31 Jan 2010 | Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide. | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
31 Jan 2015 | Richard von Weizsäcker, German politician; 6th President of Germany (b. 1920) | |||
31 Jan 2015 | Lizabeth Scott, American actress (b. 1922) | |||
31 Jan 2015 | William Klinger, Croatian historian and author (b. 1972) | |||
31 Jan 2015 | Vic Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929) | |||
31 Jan 2015 | Tomás Bulat, Argentinian economist, journalist, and academic (b. 1964) |