CoM Moderators Posted Friday at 05:03 AM Posted Friday at 05:03 AM 1820 - British explorer Edward Bransfield aboard Williams sights Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica, claiming it for Britain 1933 - After Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, his former WWI colleague General Erich Ludendorff sends a letter to him stating "this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery" 1944 - World War II: United States troops land on Majuro, Marshall Islands 1954 - Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR 1956 - Home of Martin Luther King Jr. is bombed 1969 - US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere 1993 - Australian Open Women's Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 for her 3rd consecutive Australian singles crown 1995 - Norway's Statoil announces a newly formed consortium that will supply Norwegian natural gas to the European continent More Historical Events »
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