Thursday, January 31, 2013

1 February 1960

Four black students carry out the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

30 January 1956

American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus

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Monday, January 28, 2013

29 January 2002

In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush first uses the Axis of Evil

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

27 January 1974

The Brisbane River breaches its banks to cause the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in

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Friday, January 25, 2013

26 January 1788

The British First Fleet arrivez at Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement in

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

24 January 1943

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude meeting in Casablanca during Word War

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

23 January 1986

The first members are inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis

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Monday, January 21, 2013

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21 January 1968

One of the more controversial battles of the Vietnam War begins, the Battle of Khe

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Saturday, January 19, 2013

20 January 2009

Barack Obama is inaugurated as the first black President of the United States of

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Friday, January 18, 2013

19 January 1953

Nearly 3/4th of all television sets in the USA are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

10 January 1863

The underground railway between the London Paddington station and Farringdon station

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

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Sunday, January 6, 2013

7 January 1935

The Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian

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Saturday, January 5, 2013

6 January 1941

USA President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms

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Why the Toning Shoe Marketers Got Busted

Toning shoes are considered to be shoes that are deliberately made unstable with design features like a rocker bottom shoe. The purpose of this instability is to create a balance problem so that the muscles have to work harder to compensate. As a result it is claimed that this give and extra workout or ‘tone up’ when wearing the shoes. That is how the name ‘toning’ was applied to this class of exercise footwear. The sector of the market was originally made popular by the MBT (Masai

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Friday, January 4, 2013

Thursday, January 3, 2013

4 January 1989

Two of Libyan MiG-23 planes are shot down by two US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013