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1926 : Baird demonstrates TV

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January 27 1951:

Forcefully marking the continued importance of the West in the development of nuclear weaponry,
the government detonates the first of a series of nuclear bombs at its new Nevada test site.

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January 28th, 1945 : Burma Road is reopened

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January 28 1986:

At 11:38 a.m. EST, on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida,
and Christa McAuliffe is on her way to becoming the first ordinary U.S. civilian to travel into space.
McAuliffe, a 37-year-old high school social studies teacher from New Hampshire,
won a competition that earned her a place among the seven-member crew of the Challenger.
She underwent months of shuttle training but then, beginning January 23,
was forced to wait six long days as the Challenger's launch countdown was repeatedly delayed because of weather and technical problems.
Finally, on January 28, the shuttle lifted off.

Seventy-three seconds later, hundreds on the ground, including Christa's family,
stared in disbelief as the shuttle exploded in a forking plume of smoke and fire.
Millions more watched the wrenching tragedy unfold on live television.
There were no survivors.

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1915 : German lieutenant Erwin Rommel leads daring mission in France

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January 29 1974:

The fighting continues in South Vietnam despite the cease-fire that was initiated on January 28, 1973,
under the provisions of the Paris Peace Accords.

This latest fighting was part of the ongoing battles that followed the brief lull of the cease-fire.
The Peace Accords had left an estimated 145,000 North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam when the cease-fire went into effect.
Renewed fighting broke out after the cease-fire as both sides jockeyed for control of territory throughout South Vietnam.
Each side held that military operations were justified by the other side's violations of the cease-fire,
resulting in an almost endless chain of retaliations.

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January 31 1990:

The Soviet Union's first McDonald's fast food restaurant opens in Moscow.
Throngs of people line up to pay the equivalent of several days' wages for Big Macs, shakes, and french fries.

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February 1 1921:

Carmen Fasanella of Princeton, New Jersey, obtained his cab driver's license at the tender age of 17.
Mr. Fasanella would go on to drive his taxi for the next 68 years and 243 days,
setting an unofficial record for the longest continuous career for a cabbie.
Incidentally, the term "cab" comes from "cabriolet," a single-horse carriage used by coach drivers.

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February 5 1994:

White supremacist Byron De La Beckwith is convicted in the murder of African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

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February 6 1952:

After a long illness, King George VI of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dies in his sleep at the royal estate at Sandringham.
Princess Elizabeth, the oldest of the king's two daughters and next in line to succeed him, was in Kenya at the time of her father's death;
she was crowned Queen Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953, at age 27.

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