On this day ......

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16 January 1547 – Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Tzar of Russia.

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

 

[JayHawk]

In 1991, the White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.

Picture courtesy of Jody Harmon at http://www.jodyharmon.com/militaryart/modernus.html

 

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17 January 1991 – Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.

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

 

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19 January 1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to King Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.

 

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21 January 1793 – After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.

 

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22 January 1901 – Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.

 

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23 January 1806 – Death of William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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

 

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24 January 1679 – King Charles II of England dissolves the Cavalier Parliament.

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

 

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25 January 1759 - Birth of Robert Burns making 25 January Burns Night.

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

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

 

[dynk]

25 January, 1951 I was born

 

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30 January 1649 – King Charles I of England is beheaded.

 

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31 January 1606 – Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and King James I of England.

 

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2 February 1461 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross is fought in Herefordshire, England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mortimer's_Cross

 

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4 February 211 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians. He leaves the empire in the control of his two quarrelling sons.

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

 

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7 February 1301 – Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.

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

 

[dynk]

7 February, 1978 - Boston had it's worst Blizzard in history and it shut down the City for 7 days. 27 - 30 inches of very heavy and wet snow in 24 hours.

 

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8 February 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

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

 

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9 February 1825 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.

 

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10 February 1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

 

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11 February 1531 – King Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.