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30th January 1649: Execution of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland outside the Banqueting House in London

Charles was executed on 30 January, having requested to wear two shirts as protection from the...

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28th January 1986: NASA Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger breaks apart 73 seconds after launch from the Kennedy Space...

At 11.39am Challenger lifted off, and seventy-three seconds later the Shuttle began to...

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27th January 1945: Soviet soldiers liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp

The advancing Soviet troops met some resistance from remaining Nazi troops in the Polish city of...

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25th January 1890: American journalist Nellie Bly arrives in New Jersey after completing a 72-day solo journey around...

With £200 in English gold and banknotes, and a single bag that was smaller than modern carry-on...

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22nd January 1905: Bloody Sunday massacre takes place in the Russian capital St. Petersburg

Why the soldiers began firing on the peaceful march is unclear. Even the number of marchers...

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20th January 1942: Senior Nazis meet at the Wannsee Conference to discuss what was referred to as the “Final...

SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich called the meeting in the Berlin suburb, in which he...

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17th January 1991: Combat phase of the Gulf War begins when Operation Desert Storm is launched

Operation Desert Storm set out to destroy Iraq’s military and civilian infrastructure through an...

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15th January 1919: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht killed by members of the Freikorps after the Spartacist Revolt

The two German socialists were joint-founders of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of...

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14th January 1943: Roosevelt and Churchill meet at the Casablanca Conference in Morocco

The Casablanca Conference saw the Combined Chiefs of Staff join American President Franklin D....

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12th January 1895: Foundation of the National Trust by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley

Describing itself as ‘a charity that works to preserve and protect historic places and spaces –...

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10th January 1920: Treaty of Versailles comes into effect and League of Nations is established

Although the Treaty had been signed in June the previous year, the terms weren’t activated until...

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8th January 1918: United States President Woodrow Wilson outlines his principles for world peace, known as the...

Keen to distance the United States from nationalistic disputes that fuelled European rivalries,...

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7th January 1979: Pol Pot of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (Cambodia) overthrown when Vietnamese forces capture...

After the Vietnamese forces captured Phnom Penh on 7 January 1979, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge forces...

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4th January 1642: Charles I of England attempts to arrest the Five Members of Parliament, prompting the English Civil...

Charles I himself entered the House of Commons chamber – an act that was a huge violation of...

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3rd January 1961: United States of America severs its diplomatic relationship with Cuba and closes its embassy in Havana

Fidel Castro's nationalisation of American-owned businesses and private property led the...

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1st January 1942: Declaration by the United Nations agreed and signed by the four major Allied nations during the...

The original signatories – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister...

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30th December 1922: Foundation of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

In 1922 the USSR consisted of just four Soviet republics – the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR,...

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27th December 537: Hagia Sophia inaugurated by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I and Patriarch Menas of Constantinople

Hagia Sophia's long history saw it serve as both a Greek Orthodox cathedral and a Roman Catholic...

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26th December 1991: Soviet Union dissolved in the final meeting of the Supreme Soviet

As it became obvious that the USSR was falling apart, on 25 December Gorbachev resigned as...

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24th December 1955: Colorado Springs Continental Air Defense Command first gives children the location Santa as he...

CONAD was replaced by NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) in 1958, and NORAD...

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