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On Dec. 27, 1979, Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan. President Hafizullah Amin, who was overthrown and executed, was replaced by Babrak Karmal.
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Also on December 27, 1971, the "Sonny & Cher Show" began airing on CBS. The show ran for four 1/2 years...
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On Dec. 28, 1981, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby, was born in Norfolk, Va.
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Also on December 28, 1975, twenty-five year old David Gelfer pointed a .44 magnum at Ted Nugent and was then brought down to the ground by members of the audience and security guards. Gelfer was charged with "intimidating with a weapon.''"
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On December 29, 1957, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme were married, and on December 29, 1975, Paul Kantner and Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane were divorced...
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On Dec. 30, 1972, the United States halted its heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
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Also on December 30, 1970, Paul McCartney sued the other three Beatles to dissolve the partnership and gain control of his interest...
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On December 31, 1970, Paul McCartney filed a suit to dissolve the Beatles; on December 31, 1971, the Beatles broke up...
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Also on Dec. 31, 1946, President Harry S. Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.
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January 1 marks the two-year anniversary of the bizarre incident at the ritzy Vail resort in Colorado that left a man hanging upside down from a chairlift. The unfortunate (and unidentified) gent, 48 at the time, is seen below in a photo snapped by another skier near Vail's Skyline Express lift...
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Also on Jan. 1, 1959, Fidel Castro led Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista.
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On January 2, 1859, Erastus Beadle published "The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette..."
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On January 3, 1825, the first engineering college in the U.S. , Rensselaer School, opened in Troy, NY. It is now known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...
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On January 4, 1884, the socialist Fabian Society was founded in London...
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Also on 4 Jan, 1896- Utah was admitted to the Union as the 45th state.
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On January 5, 1885, the Long Island Railroad Company became the first to offer piggy-back rail service which was the transportation of farm wagons on trains..
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Also on Jan. 5, 1914, Henry Ford, head of the Ford Motor Company, introduced a minimum wage scale of $5 per day.
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On January 6, 1205, Philip of Swabia was crowned as King of the Romans...
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Also on Jan. 6, 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60
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On January 7, 1782, the Bank of North America opened in Philadelphia. It was the first commercial bank in the United States...
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Also on Jan. 7, 1979, Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government.
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On January 8, 1815, he Battle of New Orleans began. The War of 1812 had officially ended on December 24, 1814, with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. The news of the signing had not reached British troops in time to prevent their attack on New Orleans...
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Also on Jan. 8, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson outlined his 14 points for peace after World War I.
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On January 9, 1902, New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public...
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Also on Jan. 9, 1968, the Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.
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On Jan. 10, 1946, the first General Assembly of the United Nations convened in London.
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Also on January 10, 1901, oil was discovered at the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont, TX...
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On January 11, 1861, Alabama seceded from the United States...
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Also on Jan. 11, 1935, aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.
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On Jan. 12, 1915, the United States House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
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On that very same day, the U.S. Congress established the Rocky Mountain National Park...
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On January 13, 1854, Anthony Faas of Philadelphia, PA, patented the accordion..
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Also on Jan. 13, 1990, Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation's first elected black governor as he took the oath of office in Richmond
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On Jan. 14, 1943, President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.
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On that same date in 1943, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office. He flew from Miami, FL, to French Morocco where he met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss World War II (see above...)
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On January 15, 1624, many riots occurred in Mexico when it was announced that all churches were to be closed...
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Also on Jan. 15, 1967, the first Super Bowl was played as the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10
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On January 16, 1961, Mickey Mantle signed a contract that made him the highest paid baseball player in the American League at $75,000 for the 1961 season...
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On January 17, 1795. the Dudingston Curling Society was organized in Edinburgh, Scotland...
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Also on Jan 17, 1950, 11 men steal more than $2 million from the Brinks Armored Car depot in Boston, Massachusetts.
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