01-04-2011, 08:09 PM
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January 5th
1914 ~ Ford Motor Company announced a $10,000,000 employee give away, and the eight-hour workday.
1929 ~ Birthday of Walter Mondale, American Politician
1933 ~ Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began in San Francisco Bay.
1952 ~ PM Churchill began his last visit to the U.S.
1968 ~ The "Prague Spring" began in Czechoslovakia when Alexander Dubček came to power.
1972 ~ President Nixon funded the Space Shuttle program development .
1981 ~ Death of Harold C. Urey, American chemist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934. He played a significant role in the development of the atom bomb, but may be most prominent for his contribution to theories on the development of organic life from non-living matter.
1997 ~ Withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya.
2003 ~ Death of Roy Jenkins, British Politician.
2005 ~ Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, was discovered using images taken in 2003.
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