This day in history

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January 29

1845-Edgar Allen Poe publishes "The Raven"

1929-Seeing Eye Dog organization formed

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the British Guide Dogs For the Blind charity gets more in donations than the main charity for the blind which helps people directly. Everybody likes a labrador it would seem...

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January 30

1847-Yerba Buena, CA is renamed San Francisco

1933-Hitler Is Appointed Chancellor of Germany

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31st January

1606 Guy Fawkes, one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, was hanged, drawn and quartered.

1788 Death, in Rome, of Charles Edward Stuart (‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’). After his father's death, Charles was recognised as 'King Charles III' by his supporters.

1858 The Great Eastern, the five-funnelled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and John Scott Russell, was launched at Millwall. At the time, it was the world's largest ship.

1867 The four bronze lions at the base of Nelson's Column were completed.

1910 American-born murderer Dr Hawley Crippen poisoned his wife before cutting her into small pieces and burying her in the cellar of his home in London. He was later executed at Pentonville Prison.

1917 As World War One raged, Germany announced that unrestricted submarine warfare would resume the next day.

1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night led to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.

1931 Christopher Chataway, Former British athlete & conservative MP, was born.

1953 307 people were killed when the Thames estuary broke its banks, flooding large areas of Kent and Essex. A car ferry also sank in the Irish Sea, in one of the worst gales in living memory, claiming the lives of more than 130 passengers and crew.

1981 Former British MP John Stonehouse, famous for faking his own death, married his former secretary Sheila Buckley.

1983 It became compulsory in Britain to wear car seat belts.

1994 German based BMW bought Rover cars from British Aerospace for £800,000,000.

2000 Family GP Dr Harold Shipman was jailed for life for murdering 15 of his patients, making him Britain's most prolific convicted serial killer. An official inquiry concluded that Shipman may have killed as many as 250 patients over 23 years.

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February 1

1978-Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France.

2004-Janet Jackson has a "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl. Which also fucks up what can be on tv and radio in the states to this day. Thanks a lot Ms. Jackson.

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No tits on radio? Blimey, they'd have a field day at talkSPORT! haha

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Feb 4, 2008-Skylace celebrated the victory of the NY Giants!

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12th February

1554 At the tender age of 16, the "nine days queen", Lady Jane Grey and her husband Lord Guildford Dudley were beheaded; he on Tower Hill, she on Tower Green, after being implicated in the Wyatt rebellion.

1688 The conclusion of the ‘Glorious Revolution’. James II fled with his family to France, and the Prince of Orange and Princess Mary were declared King and Queen of England, France and Ireland.

1808 A mortar-fired lifeline was used for the first time to save a person from shipwreck, at Gorleston. It was invented by George William Manby who lived in the Norfolk village of Hilgay.

1809 Charles Darwin, English naturalist and author of The Origin of Species, was born.

1861 The first inter-club football match was held at Sheffield between Sheffield and Hallam. It was also the first time admission charges were made.

1932 Ramsey MacDonald's Government introduced a bill to improve youth courts, raise the age of juveniles and ban whipping of under 14s.

1943 William Morris (Lord Nuffield), the founder of Morris Motors, created the Nuffield Foundation, Britain's biggest charitable trust, with a gift of £10 million.

1954 The British Standing Advisory Committee on cancer claimed that the illness had a definite link with cigarette smoking.

1991 Government ministries and bridges in Iraq were destroyed during the Gulf War.

1993 A 2 year old boy, Jamie Bulger, was abducted from the Strand Shopping Centre, Bootle, and later killed by two 10 year old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. They were the youngest people to be charged with murder in England and Wales during the 20th century. A mere eight years later, in June 2001, the parole board ruled that the boys were no longer a threat to public safety and could be released. They were given new identities and moved to secret residence locations.

1994 One hundred people made history by walking from France to England for the first time in millions of years. Each represented charities and voluntary organisations and walked the 31 mile Channel Tunnel which took, on average, 13 hours to complete.

1996 Prime Minister John Major pledged to rebuild the Ulster Peace Process telling Sinn Fein to choose between 'the ballot or the bullet'.

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1809-Abraham Lincoln was born

1999-Bill Clinton acquitted