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Post by ARENA on Jan 23, 2019 10:30:00 GMT
23rd Jan 1922
Fourteen-year-old Leonard Thompson is injected with insulin, a new drug that saves diabetics' lives. A Nobel Prize will go to the Canadian scientists Frederick Banting and J.J.R. Macleod, the researchers who developed the drug.
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Post by themanwhoknewnothing on Jan 24, 2019 8:23:03 GMT
On January 24, 1908, the Boy Scouts movement begins in England with the publication of the first installment of Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys. The name Baden-Powell was already well known to many English boys, and thousands of them eagerly bought up the handbook. By the end of April, the serialization of Scouting for Boys was completed, and scores of impromptu Boy Scout troops had sprung up across Britain.
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Post by ARENA on Jan 25, 2019 7:50:36 GMT
On January 25, 1905, at the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa, a 3,106-carat diamond is discovered during a routine inspection by the mine’s superintendent. Weighing 1.33 pounds, and christened the “Cullinan,” it was the largest diamond ever found.
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Post by ARENA on Jan 26, 2019 7:13:26 GMT
On Jan. 26, 1998,Bill Clinton famously told the nation, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
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Post by althea on Jan 26, 2019 18:34:50 GMT
On Jan 26th,I gave birth to my eldest daughter.
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Post by ARENA on Jan 27, 2019 7:29:51 GMT
On January 27, 1888, the National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C., for “the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge.”
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2019 18:26:17 GMT
January 27th, 1924 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 10:38:22 GMT
1953 19-year old Derek Bentley is hanged in Wandsworth Prison, London, controversially convicted of the murder of a police officer. He was pardoned on 30th July 1998.
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Post by ARENA on Jan 30, 2019 8:21:29 GMT
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948 in the compound of Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti), a large mansion in central New Delhi.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2019 10:14:25 GMT
Guy Fawkes was hung drawn and quartered on this day in 1570
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