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[Today in History] 6 February 1989 – Round Table Talks Begin in Poland

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[Today in History] 5 February 1997 – Swiss Banks Create Fund for Holocaust Survivors

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[Today in History] 4 February 2004 – Founding of Facebook

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[Today in History] 3 February 1989 – Military Coup Overthrows Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay

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[Today in History] 2 February 1987 – Philippines Enacts New Constitution

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[Today in History] 1 February 1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini Returns to Iran from Exile

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[Today in History] 31 January 2020 – Brexit: UK Officially Leaves the European Union

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[Today in History] 30 January 1933 – Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany

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[Today in History] 29 January 2001 – Indonesian Students Storm Parliament

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[Today in History] 28 January 1985 – USA for Africa Records "We Are the World"

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[Today in History] 27 January 1996 – Germany Observes First International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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[Today in History] 26 January 2009 – Birth of the World's First Surviving Octuplets

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[Today in History] 25 January 1980 – Mother Teresa Receives the Bharat Ratna

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[Today in History] 24 January 1972 – Japanese Soldier Found Hiding in Guam Jungle

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[Today in History] 23 January 2018 – Start of the China-United States Trade War

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[Today in History] 22 January 1971 – Issuance of the Singapore Declaration

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[Today in History] 21 January 2017 – Global Women's March on Trump's First Day

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[Today in History] 20 January 2009 – Inauguration of Barack Obama as 44th U.S. President

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[Today in History] 19 January 1915 – Georges Claude Patents the Neon Discharge Tube

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[Today in History] 18 January 2002 – End of the Sierra Leone Civil War

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[Today in History] 17 January 2007 – Doomsday Clock Set to Five Minutes to Midnight

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[Today in History] 16 January 2006 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Becomes President of Liberia

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[Today in History] 15 January 2001 – Launch of Wikipedia

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[Today in History] 14 January 1957 – Kripalu Maharaj Named Fifth Jagadguru

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[Today in History] 13 January 1942 – Henry Ford Patents the Soybean Car

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[Today in History] 12 January 1998 – European Nations Agree to Ban Human Cloning

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[Today in History] 11 January 1964 – Surgeon General's Landmark Report on Smoking and Health

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[Today in History] 10 January 1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Returns as President of Bangladesh

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[Today in History] 9 January 1960 – Construction of the Aswan Dam Begins

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[Today in History] 8 January 1981 – UFO Sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France

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[Today in History] 7 January 1894 – Thomas Edison’s Sneezing Film & Patent for Motion Picture Film

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[Today in History] 6 January 2000 – Extinction of the Pyrenean Ibex

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[Today in History] 5 January 1985 – The First Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival

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[Today in History] 4 January 2010 – Burj Khalifa Officially Opens in Dubai

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[Today in History] 3 January 2019 – Chang'e 4 Lands on the Far Side of the Moon

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[Today in History] 2 January 1976 – The Gale of January 1976 Causes Devastation

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[Today in History] 1 January 1995 – Establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)

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[Today in History] 31 December 1999 – The Velvet Divorce: Peaceful Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

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[Today in History] 30 December 2009 – Lanzhou-Zhengzhou-Changsha Pipeline Rupture in China

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[Today in History] 29 December 2003 – Extinction of the Akkala Sami Language

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[Today in History] 28 December 1973 – Endangered Species Act Signed into Law

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[Today in History] 27 December 1945 – Creation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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[Today in History] 26 December 1941 – Thanksgiving Day Established by Law

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[Today in History] 25 December 1914 – The Christmas Truce During World War I

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[Today in History] 24 December 1939 – Pope Pius XII Appeals for Peace During World War II

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[Today in History] 23 December 1888 – Vincent van Gogh Cuts Off Part of His Ear

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[Today in History] 22 December 2016 – First Proven Ebola Vaccine Shows 70-100% Effectiveness

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[Today in History] 21 December 1941 – Thai-Japanese Pact of Alliance Signed During World War II

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[Today in History] 20 December 1999 – Macau Handed Over to China by Portugal

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[Today in History] 19 December 2006 – UAE Holds Its First-Ever Elections

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[Today in History] 18 December 1865 – The 13th Amendment Abolishes Slavery in the U.S.

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[Today in History] 17 December 1903 – First Successful Powered Flight by the Wright Brothers

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[Today in History] 16 December 1773 – The Boston Tea Party

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[Today in History] 15 December 2001 – Reopening of the Leaning Tower of Pisa

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[Today in History] 14 December 2004 – Inauguration of the Millau Viaduct

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[Today in History] 13 December 1988 – Yasser Arafat's UN Speech in Geneva

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[Today in History] 12 December 1963 – Kenya Gains Independence from the United Kingdom

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[Today in History] 11 December 1946 – Founding of UNICEF

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[Today in History] 10 December 2017 – ISIL Defeated in Iraq

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[Today in History] 9 December 1979 – Eradication of Smallpox Certified