01-30-2006, 06:17 AM
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January 30th
1649 ~ King Charles I of England was beheaded.
1862 ~ The first Union ironclad warship, the USS Monitor was launched.
1937 ~ Birthday of Boris Spassky, World Chess Champion.
1948 ~ Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated.
1968 ~ Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese soldiers launched the Tet offensive.
1969 ~ Last performance by The Beatles at the Top of the Apple Building.
1979 ~ The Iranian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return.
1991 ~ Iraqi troops seized control of Al Khafji.
2003 ~ Richard Reid, the 'Shoe bomber' jailed.
2005 ~ Iraq holds an election for its National Assembly, the country's first free election since 1953.
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