January 27th, 1945. In the final months of WWII, Soviet troops liberate Nazi Germanys concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland, thats where up to a million and a half people, 90% of them Jews, perished, as part of the Nazis final solut...
You have to find the answer to that riddle somewhere else.January 26th 1998. President Bill Clinton denies having an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told a...
The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrive home in the United States reuniting with their families at last. 1971. In Los Angeles, Charles Manson and three of his female followers are convicted of murder and conspiracy in the slayings o...
January 24th 1848. Northern California James Marshall finds a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill, a discovery that sparks the Gold Rush the following year. 1965. In London, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who led his nation through the dar...
January 23rd, 1973President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Americans military role in the Vietnam War. We today have concluded an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia. More th...
January 22nd, 1973. In one of its most controversial rulings, the US Supreme Court legalizes abortion in a landmark case of Roe versus Wade. Also that same year. For in your time, we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society, and...
January 21st, 1793. In Paris, the French Revolution turns bloody as King Louis XVI condemned for treason is executed on the guillotine. 1924. Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary who founded the Soviet Union, the worlds first Communist state, di...
Jan 20th 1981. Iran releases 52 Americans taken hostage at the US embassy in Tehran after 444 days in captivity. It happened just minutes after the Ronald Reagan is sworn in as President succeeding Jimmy Carter in the White House. 1961. In Washington...
January 19th, 1809, Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.' Poet and author Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston. Among his classic dark tales, The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart. 1807, Robert E. Lee, the Confederate General who surrender spell the end of the civi...
January 18th, 1943During World War Two, the Soviet Union says it's broken the long Nazi siege of Leningrad. But another year passes before the sieges find lifted in the city, now known as St. Petersburg, Russia. 1912,British explorer Robert F. Scott...
