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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on January 31st.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On January 31, 1747, the London Lock Hospital opened as the first clinic specifically for the treatment of venereal diseases! On January 31, 1846, the result of the Milwaukee Bridge War was the formation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On January 31, 1915, the German Army, in violation of the 1899 Hague Declaration Concerning Asphyxiating Gases, launched 18,000 artillery shells containing xylyl bromide tear gas…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on January 30th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On January 30, 1661, Oliver Cromwell, former Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was removed from his grave and “executed” two years after his death! On January 30, 1703, 47 Japanese samurai avenged the forced suicide of their feudal lord. On January 30, 1835, for the first time in American History an assassination attempt was made on the…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on January 29th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On January 29, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, the Baltimore writer of such classics as “The Telltale Heart,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Goldbug,” published his famous poem, “The Raven,” certainly one of if not the most renowned poem in American literature, and ranks among the most famous of poems. On January 29, 1886, Karl Benz, a German engineer, became the…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on January 28th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On January 28, 1547, the 9-year-old son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward VI, became King of England. On January 28, 1887, Fort Keogh, Montana was the scene of what was probably the most bizarre snow storm in recorded history. On January 28, 1915, an Act of Congress created the United States Coast Guard out of the combination of The Revenue Cutter Service and the…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on January 27th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On January 27, 98 AD, Trajan became Emperor of Rome, succeeding his (adoptive) father Nerva as Emperor. On January 27, 1880, Thomas Edison patented the incandescent light bulb, the first truly commercially viable electric light bulb, but certainly not the first light bulb! On January 27, 1939, one of the great American fighter planes of World War II, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, made its…