01-31-2006, 06:17 AM
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January 31st
1606 ~ Guy Fawkes was executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot.
1797 ~ Birthday of Franz Schubert, Composer.
1917 ~ Germany announced that its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.
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 91 and injuring 1,400.
2001 ~ A Scottish court convicted a Libyan and acquitted another for their parts in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988.
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