This Week in History
HISTORY, 26 Jan 2015
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service
January 26–February 1
Quote of the Week
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” — Peace Pilgrim (Source: http://www.quotes-inspirational.com/quotes/peace/ ) For information on Peace Pilgrim, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Pilgrim ; http://www.peacepilgrim.org/book/ebooks/PeacePilgrimBook.pdf and/or http://www.peacepilgrim.org/ .
January 26
2009 Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.
2005 Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post. For Condoleezza Rice, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice ; and/or http://www.biography.com/people/condoleezza-rice-9456857 . For social status of African American women, visit, for instance, http://diverseeducation.com/article/10797/ .
2004 President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
2001 Earthquake kills 20,000 in Bhuj, India. For this earthquake (Gujarat Earthquake), visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Gujarat_earthquake .
1992 Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
1991 Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
1986 The Ugandan government of Tito Okello is overthrown by the National Resistance Army, led by Yoweri Museveni.
1980 Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
1965 Hindi becomes the official language of India.
1952 Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo‘s central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
1950 The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.
1949 The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
1939 Spanish Civil War – Catalonia Offensive: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
1934 German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
1924 Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
1918 Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers’ Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
1911 Richard Strauss‘ opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1911 Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
1885 Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
1856 First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
1855 Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.
1841 The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China later formally cedes.
January 27
2011 Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana’a.
2010 The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
2002 An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
1996 Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
1996 In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
1983 The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world’s longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
1980 Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
1973 The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict’s last recorded American combat casualty.
1967 The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
1951 Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
1945 Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands).
1945 Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland). For Auschwitz – Birkenau Concentration Camp, visit, among others, http://en.auschwitz.org/m/ ; http://www.remember.org/camps/birkenau/bir-introduction.html ; http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/auschbirk.html ; and/or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp .
1943 World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany of the war.
1926 U.S. Senate agrees to join World Court (= the Permanent Court of International Justice until replaced by the International Court of Justice of the UN, in 1946). Visit http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1363.html ; and http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/world-court.cfm . For the Permanent Court of International Justice, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Court_of_International_Justice ; and http://www.icj-cij.org/pcij/index.php?p1=9 .
1918 “Tarzan of the Apes,” 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater. For Tarzan movie list, visit http://www.listal.com/list/tarzan-movies . For Tarzan, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan .
1915 US Marines (USS Montana as the first invasion forces) occupy Haiti. Visit http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/historyofthecaribbean/p/08haiti1915.htm ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_occupation_of_Haiti .
1908 Pasiphae, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Philibert Jacques Melotte. Visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasiphae_(moon) .
1825 The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears“.
January 28
2013 ‘Hareetz‘, Israel’s oldest daily newspaper, publishes a story in which Israel admits it has administered birth-control injections to Ethiopian Jewish immigrants, without fully educating recipients of its effects. Visit http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/why-is-the-birth-rate-in-israel-s-ethiopian-community-declining.premium-1.483494 ; http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-admits-ethiopian-women-were-given-birth-control-shots.premium-1.496519 ; and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/ethiopian-women-israel-birth-control-shots_n_2567016.html .
2012 Death toll from coordinated bombing attacks in Kano, Nigeria, reaches 185. For more related information, visit, for instance, http://www.freshinitiative.net/world/news/17075-death-toll-from-coordinated-attacks-gun-battles-in-nigeria-city-climbs-to-162 ; http://eddyogunbor.blogspot.com/2012/12/occupied-in-nigeria-displaced-in-new.html ; and http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/04/21/nigeria-attack-extremists/2101855/ .
2011 Hundreds of thousands of protesters fill the Egyptian’s streets against the Mubarak regime in demonstrations referred to as the “Friday of Anger”. Visit, for instance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_2011 ; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/03/day-of-departure-feb-4_n_818398.html ; http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/world/middleeast/04journalists.html?hp&_r=0#h[] ; and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8305608/Egypt-protests-day-11-of-the-protests-as-it-happened.html .
1985 Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
1951 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. For the Nevada Test Site, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site .
1949 UN Security council convicts Dutch aggression in Indonesia. Visit, among others, http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/RES/67(1949) ; http://www.indonesia-digest.net/3060bersiap.htm ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution ; and http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/indonesia/pro-history.htm .
1942 German troops occupy Benghazi Libya. For history of Benghazi, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Benghazi . For the situation of Beghazi in 1941 and 1942, visit http://gallimafry.blogspot.com/2011/12/nazi-forces-in-libya-1941.html ; and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYc0tSoeyKk .
1941 Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
1935 Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
1933 The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movementseeking independence.
1932 Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
1918 Finnish Civil War: Rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
1909 United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
1902 The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
1871 Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
1846 The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
1820 A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
1099 1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria. For the Crusades chronology, visit http://fussichen.com/oftheday/otdcru.htm . For the Crusades, visit, for instance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades ; http://www.lordsandladies.org/the-crusades.htm ; http://www.thearma.org/essays/Crusades.htm#.VLJQFyvF-wU ; and http://www.history.com/topics/crusades .
January 29
2011 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appoints Omar Suleiman Vice President, the first office existing under the President in 30 years. Visit http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-egypt-crisis-mubarak-names-new-vice-president-prime-minister-1500556 ; and http://www.thestreet.com/story/10989257/1/egypts-mubarak-appoints-new-staff.html . For the background of this appointment, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_2011 .
2005 The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
2002 In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush describes “regimes that sponsor terror” as an Axis of evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
1996 President Jacques Chirac announces a “definitive end” to French nuclear weapons testing.
1991 Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
1989 Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.
1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan, USSR.
1944 In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
1944 World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.
1918 Ukrainian–Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.
1918 Ukrainian–Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
1916 World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
1891 Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
1863 Bear River Massacre.
1856 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
1815 France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
January 30
2011 Over half a million people participate in the world’s largest wildlife survey after extreme cold drives exotic birds into Britain’s back gardens. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2011_January_30 ) For this issue, visit http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jan/30/rspb-big-garden-birdwatch .
2005 Parliamentary elections in Iraq, the first since 1958. Visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Iraq .
2003 Same-sex marriage is officially recognized in the Kingdom of Belgium.
1989 Closure of the American embassy in Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
1982 Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called “Elk Cloner“.
1968 Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
1965 Some 1 million people attend former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill‘s funeral, the biggest in the United Kingdom up to that point.
1964 In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh‘s military junta in South Vietnam.
1960 CIA allows Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart) lookout Mr. Powers.
1956 African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1948 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (aka Mahatma Gandhi) known for his non-violent freedom struggle, is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
1945 World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan — 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp.
1945 World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, s inks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people in what is the deadliest known maritime disaster.
1944 World War II: American troops land on Majuro, Marshall Islands.
1944 World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
1943 Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: German Gestapo commence mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp were ordered to undress and were shot with machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7,000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv. For history of Letychiv and the background of this event, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letychiv .
1933 Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
1925 The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
1908 Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (aka Mahatma Gandhi) is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to 2 months in jail earlier in the month.
1902 The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
1862 The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
1820 Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
1806 Prussia takes possession of Hanover.
1648 Eighty Years’ War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
January 31
2014 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder authorizes federal prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. For Boston Marathon Bombings, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombings . For the death penalty deal, visit http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/01/06/why-the-death-penalty-is-so-crucial-to-the-boston-marathon-bombing-trial/ .
2012 China tightens its control of monasteries following deadly protests in Tibet. On this issue, visit, for instance, http://www.tibetoday.com/China-steps-up-surveillance-of-Tibetan-monasteries.htm ; http://tibet.net/2012/01/31/china-tibet-protests-prompt-heightened-security/ http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/03/16/china-tibetan-monasteries-placed-under-direct-rule ; and http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/10/12/china-end-crackdown-tibetan-monasteries .
2012 Following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the Cabinet of Japan approves a bill placing a 40-year cap on the life of nuclear reactors. Visit http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2012/01/fukushima_31.html . For the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster .
2001 In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 overLockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
1996 An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1971 The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit, Michigan.
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1968 Nauru gains independence from Australia.
1968 Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
1964 US report “Smoking and Health” connects smoking to lung cancer. Regarding this issue, visit http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/NN/Views/Exhibit/narrative/smoking.html ; http://healthwiseblog.com/64-us-report-ties-smoking-cancer/?redirect=1 ; and https://uk.celebrity.yahoo.com/news/ap-39-64-us-report-ties-smoking-cancer-214318166.html;_ylt=A0LEVxj.7bJUZzQATD1XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzcm9uY2k1BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNQRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1NNRTkxOV8x.
1961 USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights. For Samos, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samos_(satellite) . For the spy satellite in general, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconnaissance_satellite ; http://www.space.com/12996-secret-spy-satellites-declassified-nro.html ; http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2011/09/19/declassified-us-spy-satellites-reveal-rare-look-at-secret-cold-war-space/.
1958 James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
1958 Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
1953 A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
1950 President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
1946 Yugoslavia‘s new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro,Serbia and Slovenia).
1945 World War II: the end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula.
1945 World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
1944 World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby’s Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
1944 World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
1943 World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war’s fiercest battles.
1942 World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
1929 The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
1919 The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
1917 World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
1915 World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
1900 Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
1891 History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
1867 Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Bey Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria.
1865 American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
1865 American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
1849 Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846.
February 1
2005 King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d’état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
2003 Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-107 disintegrates during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
2002 Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
1991 South African President, F. W. de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws. For F. W. de Klerk, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._de_Klerk . For apartheid and its legislation, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid_legislation ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid ; http://africanhistory.about.com/library/bl/blsalaws.htm ; and http://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/multimedia.php?id=65-2`59-3 . For history of apartheid, visit http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html ; http://www.sahistory.org.za/politics-and-society/apartheid-legislation-1850s-1970s ; and http://www.south-africa-tours-and-travel.com/apartheid.html .
1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test.
1982 Senegal and the Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
1979 The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
1968 Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is videotaped and photographed byEddie Adams. This image helped build opposition to the Vietnam War.
1951 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1950 USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes. For Hirohito, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito . For arguments about his war responsibility, visit, for instance, http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/22/world/post-hirohito-japan-debates-his-war-role.html ; http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/opinion/norihiro-kato-daring-to-ask-hirohito-about-his-role-in-WW2.html?_r=0 ; http://japanfocus.org/-Herbert_P_-Bix/2741 ; and http://www.willamette.edu/~rloftus/warrespons.html .
1948 Palestine Post newspaper building in Jerusalem bombed. See “Case 219” of http://www.iamthewitness.com/doc/Bunche.Report.on.Zionist.Terrorism.in.the.Near.East.htm ) Also see the report on this incident, published by Palestine Post newspaper on February 2, 1948, issue: http://zionism-israel.com/his/Palestine_Post_Bombing.htm .
1946 The Parliament of Hungary abolishes the monarchy after nine centuries, and proclaims the Hungarian Republic.
1946 Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier.
1943 Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Netherlands).
1942 Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
1940 Russia begins new offensive against Finland.
1933 German Parliament disolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe. For the time line of this event and relevant events, visit http://propagander3.tripod.com/nur02.html . For its background information, visit, for instance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party#Rise_to_power:_1925.E2.80.931933 .
1924 The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR.
1908 King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe, are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
1897 Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
1895 Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
1884 The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1865 President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1835 Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
1793 French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
1662 The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
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Satoshi Ashikaga is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment, originally from Japan.
Sources and references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_26 to February_1; http://www.brainyhistory.com/days/january_26.html to february_1.html; http://www.historyorb.com/events/january/26 to february/1; http://www.datesinhistory.com/jan26.php to feb1.php ; http://worldhistoryproject.org/what-happened-on/1/26 to 2/1; and other relevant websites and/or documents, mentioned above.)
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SATOSHI, do you do this every week?
MY LORD THIS IS AMAZING!
I am getting in touch with you on your mail from december anyhow ;-). Wow, what an incredible list Satoshii…