02-16-2005, 06:02 AM
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January 23rd
1923 ~ Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
1935 ~ Birthday of Sonny Bono, singer, music producer, television producer, Congressman.
1937 ~ Wallace H. Carothers received a patent for nylon.
1942 ~ Birthday of Kim Jong Il, North Korean leader.
1959 ~ Fidel Castro became Premier of Cuba after President Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
1978 ~ The first computer bulletin board system, CBBS, was created in Chicago, Illinois.
1986 ~ The Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov ran aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
1989 ~ Pan Am flight 103: Investigators announced that the cause of the crash was a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player.
1999 ~ Across Europe, Kurdish rebels took over embassies and held hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
2005 ~ The Kyoto Protocol comes into effect.
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