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Looking Back At January 13
Looking Back At January 13
The Nika riots broke out during the racing season at the Hippodrome
Dr. William Brydon reached the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad as a sole survivor of the British East India Company Army
The Treaty of Cahuenga ended the Mexican–American War in California.
The National Geographic Society was founded
The Thai Ministry of Public Health confirmed the first case of COVID-19 outside China.
Today in History: October 5
:Today in History: October 5: In 1983, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize; In 1892, the Dalton Gang was practically wiped out; In 1947, President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised White House address; In 2011, Steve Jobs, the Apple founder, died.
Today in History: October 2
oday in History: October 2: In 1944, German troops crushed the 2-month-old Warsaw Uprising; In 1967, Thurgood Marshall joined the U.S. Supreme Court; In 2006, an armed milk truck driver took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania; In 2016, Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster Vin Scully signed off for the last time; In 2018, journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed by Saudi Arabian officials