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On January 11, 2007, at about 5:28 pm EST, China destroyed one of its aging weather satellites, Feng Yun FY-1C, with a ground-based, modified medium-range missile. It is the first known satellite-killing test in space in more than 20 years. The weather satellite hit by the kinetic weapon had circl ... |
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About 2000 American opponents of a war with Iraq march in downtown Los Angeles carrying signs and chanting "Stop Bush now!" Actor Martin Sheen and Bradley Whitford speak at an associated rally.
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Prisoners captured in the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks begin to arrive at Guantanamo Bay. |
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Gerstner announces that the Y2K transition has gone far better than they had hoped or expected. |
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Jacques Cousteau’s famous ship, The Calypso, accidentally sinks in Singapore Harbour. |
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Outgoing President Ronald Reagan delivers a televised farewell address from the White House Oval Office. |
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Strategic Air Command receives the first two Air-Launched Cruise Missiles. |
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France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes. |
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President Guillermo Lara leaves Ecuador after a military coup. |
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The trial of the Watergate "burglars" begins in Washington, DC.
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Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt pleads guilty to all six charges against him concerning conspiracy to break into Democratic National Headquarters. |
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The USS Pueblo departs Sasebo Japan with specific orders to intercept and conduct surveillance of Soviet naval activity in the Tsushima Straits and to gather signal and electronic intelligence. |
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Panama halts diplomatic relations with the United States.
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Nelson Mandela leaves South Africa on a tour to Ethiopia, Algeria & England.
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Chad declares its independence from France. |
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Peruvian volcano Huascaran erupts killing 4000 people. |
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The Nevada Proving Ground, a deserted terrain 65 miles north of Las Vegas is established for the testing of nuclear weapons. |
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Albania is proclaimed a People's Republic. |
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Hitler announces that Germany will send a force to North Africa to bail out the retreating Italian army. The Afrika Corps is created with Erwin Rommel in command of its Third Panzer Division. |
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Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California. |
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French and Belgian troops occupy Ruhr in order to collect reparations. |
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In the opening moves of the Ango-Zulu War, British forces assembled at Fort Pearson cross the Tugela River into Zululand under the command of Col. Pearson. |
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Gaill Borden Jr., the inventor of condensed and evaporated milk, dies in Borden, Texas on January 11, 1874. |
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The USS Hatteras and the CSS Alabama engage off the coast of Galveston, TX. |
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Alabama secedes from the Union. |
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Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East-Prussia.
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