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1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason in which famous former prison ?
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1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off what ?
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt aircraft carrier
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Boeing B-29 Superfortress
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49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses which river, signalling the start of civil war.
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1812 – The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from which city ?
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2015 – A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and a passenger coach near which Asian city kills at least 62 people ?
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1810 – William Haines, English-Australian politician is born on this day in London, he would eventually become the 1st Premier of which Australian state ?
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1954 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into which sea, killing 35 people ?
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1943 - The 1st US President to visit a foreign country in wartime - Franklin D Roosevelt leaves for which city ?
Cape Town, South Africa
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1949 - RCA introduces what speed of record ?
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1945 – Rod Stewart, English singer-songwriter, is born in which British city ?
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Where is the 10th of January known as "Margaret Thatcher Day" ?
United Kingdom as a whole
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1971 - Irish Republican Army (IRA) carry out a 'punishment attack', tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal activities in which Northern Irish city ?
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1870 Deputy sheriff Wyatt Earp weds Urilla Sutherland in which small Texas town ?
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2016 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor, dies on this day in New York City. On which island were his ashes scattered ?
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2015 - 72 people are killed & 169 hospitalized after a mass poisoning of beer with crocodile bile at a funeral in which African country ?