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Thursday, 18 January 2007 |
- Eugene Ely landed an aircraft on a ship, the first time in history [used a tail hook] (1911)
- The Paris Peace Conference opened in Versailles (1919)
- Leningrad was liberated by Soviet forces ending 3-year Nazi siege of Leningrad (1944)
- Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Russian Army (1945)
- A cease fire pact with Israel and Egypt hastened end to Yom Kippur War (1974)
- The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Caves were discovered in France containing paintings and engravings 17,000 to 20,000 years-old (1995)
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Wednesday, 17 January 2007 |
- Statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston (1706)
- James Cook became the first to cross the Antarctic Circle (1773)
- Simón Bolívar proclaimed the Republic of Colombia (1819)
- The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the private use of home VCR's to tape TV programs did not violate federal copyright laws (1984)
- Israel handed over its military headquarters in the West Bank city of Hebron to the Palestinians, ending 30 years of occupation there (1997)
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Tuesday, 16 January 2007 |
 Book One of Don Quixote (El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha) by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid (1605)- El Salvador signed a pact in Mexico City with rebel leaders ending 12 years of civil war that had killed at 75,000 people (1992)
- Buckminster Fuller awarded the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects (1970)
- Adriana Iliescu gave birth at age 66 the oldest woman ever (2005)
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was sworn in as Liberia's new president becoming Africa's first female elected head of state (2006)
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