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A Little January History Lesson - part two

15th      Martin Luther King, Jr., was born 1929
16th      United States Prohibition began, 1920
17th      The Beatles UK album Yellow Submarine was released, 1969
18th      The British digital television channel e4 (TV) was launched, 2001
19th      New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced, 1903
20th      Iran released 52 American hostages, 1981 
21st      England and France place the supersonic jetliner Concorde into
                  regular service, 1976
22nd     Vietnam peace agreement signed by United States, North and
                  South Vietnam, and the Vietcong, 1973
             United States Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision, 1973
23rd      USS Pueblo seized by North Koreans, 1968
24th      Caligula, Emperor of Rome, died, A.D. 41
25th      Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental
                 Telephone Company, 1881
26th      First American expeditionary force to go to Europe during WWII
                 went ashore in Northern Ireland, 1942
27th      Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent
                    lamp, 1880
28th      Henry VIII died, 1547
29th      Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" was published, 1845
30th      Adolf Hitler becomes the chancellor of Germany, 1933
             Mohandas Gandhi assassinated, 1948 
             Vietnam War "TET Offensive," began, 1968
31st      13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing
                  slavery was submitted, 1865

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