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Back to Search22nd January 1808: Portuguese royal court relocates to Brazil
The Portuguese royal family and more than 10,000 courtiers relocated to Brazil to escape the advancing Napoleonic ...
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21st January 1968: United States B-52 bomber carrying four thermonuclear bombs crashes near Thule Air Base in Greenland
On impact, the conventional explosives in the nuclear weapons detonated, but fortunately did not trigger a nuclear explosion. Nevertheless, radioacti…
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20th January 1850: Robert McClure departs on the first expedition to transit the Northwest Passage
Robert McClure departed England with HMS Investigator to lead the first expedition to transit the Northwest ...
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19th January 1915: Two German Zeppelin airships drop bombs on the Norfolk towns of Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn in Britain’s first experience of an air raid
The four people killed in the air raids were all civilians, which served as a stark message about the changing nature of warfare in the 20th ...
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18th January 1778: Captain James Cook becomes the first known European to encounter the Hawaiian Islands
Cook anchored off Kauaʻi and later Niʻihau, making contact with the islanders over the following days and exchanged food, water, and other ...
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17th January 1991: Combat phase of the Gulf War begins when Operation Desert Storm is launched
Operation Desert Storm set out to destroy Iraq’s military and civilian infrastructure through an aerial bombing campaign in which over 2,250 coalitio…
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16th January 27 BCE: The Roman Senate grant Octavian the titles Augustus and Princeps
The title Augustus is understood to translate as ‘the illustrious one’ and, although the title did not grant Octavian him political authority, many h…
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15th January 1867: 40 people die when ice on the boating lake in Regent’s Park breaks while they are skating
Approximately 200 skaters plunged into the freezing water, all wearing heavy winter clothes that dragged them down. Many were also unable to ...
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14th January 1943: Roosevelt and Churchill meet at the Casablanca Conference in Morocco
The Casablanca Conference saw the Combined Chiefs of Staff join American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill…
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13th January 1935: The Territory of the Saar Basin voted in a plebiscite to reunite with Germany
Voter turnout in the plebiscite was 98% of all eligible voters in the Saar, and 90.8% of them chose to re-join the German ...
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