Mamta Bansal
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History of 7 January
History of 8 January
1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that authorized $1.5 billion in loans for the bail out of Chrysler...
History of 6 January
1994 - Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg by an assailant at Cobo Arena in Detroit, MI. Four men were later...
History of 5 January
1993 - The state of Washington executed Westley Allan Dodd. It was America's first legal hanging since 1965. Dodd was an admitted child sex...
History of 4 January
History of 4 January
1928 - NBC Radio debuted "The Dodge Victory Hour" which starred Will Rogers, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra and singer...
History of 3 January
1991 - The British government announced that seven Iraqi diplomats, another embassy staff member and 67 other Iraqis were being expelled from Britain.
1993 - U.S....
History of 2 January
1991 - Sharon Pratt Dixon was sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC. She was the first black woman to head a city of that...
History of 1 January
1992 - The ESPN Radio Network was officially launched.
1992 - In Kuala, Lumpur, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Petronas Towers took place.
1993 - Czechoslovakia...
History of 31 December
1990 - Titleholder Gary Kasparov of the U.S.S.R. won the world chess championship match against his countryman Anatoly Karpov.1996 - NCR Corp. became an...
History of 29 December
1996 - The Guatemalan government and leaders of the leftist Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union signed a peace accord in Guatemala City, ending a civil...
History of 28 December
1991 - Nine people died in a rush to get into a basketball game at City College in New York.
1995 - Pressure from German...
History of 27 December
1992 - The U.S. shot down an Iraqi fighter jet during what the Pentagon described as a confrontation between a pair of Iraqi warplanes and U.S. F-16 jets...
History of 26 December
1990 - Garry Kasparov beat Anatoly Karpov to retain the chess championship.
1991 - The Soviet Union's parliament formally voted the country out of existence.
1995...
