01-31-2005, 03:24 AM
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January 31st
1606 ~ Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes was executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
1797 ~ Birthday of Franz Schubert, Composer.
1915 ~ World War I: Germany used poison gas against Russians.
1929 ~ The Soviet Union exiled Leon Trotsky.
1950 ~ President Harry S. Truman announced a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
1956 ~ Death of A. A. Milne, author (Winnie the Pooh).
1958 ~ James Van Allen discovered the Van Allen radiation belt.
1968 ~ Viet Cong attacked the United States embassy in Saigon.
1996 ~ An explosives-filled truck rammed into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
2001 ~ In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicted a Libyan and acquitted another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
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