On this day ......

[MassRuss]

January 18, 1871 - Wilhelm I is proclaimed 1st German Emperor (Kaiser) @ Versailles @ the end of the Franco Prussian War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I,_German_Emperor

 

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22 January 1901 – Death of Queen Victoria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria

 

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24 January 1895 – Death of Lord Randolph Churchill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Randolph_Churchill

 

[MassRuss]

January 24, 1712 - Birth of Frederick the Great of Prussia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_the_Great

 

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24 January 1965 – Death of Sir Winston Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

 

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25 January 1874 – Birth of W Somerset Maugham

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham

 

[MassRuss]

January 25, 1640 - Birth of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cavendish,_1st_Duke_of_Devonshire

 

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25 January 1882 – Birth of Virginia Woolf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf

 

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26 January 1979 – Death of Nelson Rockefeller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller

 

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27 January 1945 – World War II: The Red Army liberates the remained inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp built by the Nazi Germans on the territory of Poland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp

 

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28 January 1547 – Death of King Henry VIII of England

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England

 

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29 January 1880 – Birth of W C Fields

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._C._Fields

 

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31 January 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes

 

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1 February 1691 – Death of Pope Alexander VIII

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_VIII

 

[Pickwick]

February 2 1769 death of pope Clement XIII http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/ClementXIII.jpeg

 

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2 February 1882 – Birth of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Andrew_of_Greece_and_Denmark

 

[MassRuss]

February 2, 1141 - Battle of Lincoln - King Stephen is defeated & captured by Empress Matilda's troops.
She rules England for a short while

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lincoln_(1141)

 

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2 February 1969 – Death of Boris Karloff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Karloff

 

[MassRuss]

February 10, 1567 - Death of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, 2nd husband of Mary Queen of Scots

 

[MassRuss]

February 10, 1567 - Death of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, 2nd husband of Mary Queen of Scots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Stuart,_Lord_Darnley