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| | | | | | Noriega on drug charges by The Ovi Team On February 5, 1988, two federal grand juries in Florida announce indictments of Panama military strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega and 16 associates on drug smuggling and money laundering charges. Noriega, the de facto dictator of Panama since 1983 | | | | Germans surrender at Stalingrad by The Ovi Team February 2nd 1943; the last German troops in the Soviet city of Stalingrad surrender to the Red Army, ending one of the pivotal battles of World War II. The Battle of Stalingrad turned the tide in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. General Zhuk | | | | Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran by The Ovi Team On February 1, 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran in triumph after 15 years of exile. The shah and his family had fled the country two weeks before, and jubilant Iranian revolutionaries were eager to establish a fundamentalist Islamic government | |
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| | | Gandhi assassinated by The Ovi Team January 30th 1948; Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, is assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic. Born the son of an Indian official in 1869, Gandhi's Vaishnava mother was deeply relig | | | | Auschwitz liberated by The Ovi Team January 27th 1945; The Red Army liberated the Nazis' biggest concentration camp at Auschwitz in south-western Poland. According to reports, hundreds of thousands of Polish people, as well as Jews from a number of other European countries, have been held | | | | India becomes a republic by The Ovi Team January 26th 1950; the independent republic of India is officially born on that day, after nearly 100 years of British rule. A public holiday was declared throughout the country, and millions of people celebrated with processions and ceremonies to hoist t | | | | First Winter Olympics by The Ovi Team On January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps. Spectators were thrilled by the ski jump and bobsled as well as 12 other events involving a total of six sports. The "International Winter Sports Week," as | | | | Winston Churchill dies by The Ovi Team January 24th 1965; Sir Winston Churchill died at the age of 90 with his wife Lady Clementine Churchill and other members of the family at his bedside. He suffered a stroke 15 days before and gradually slipped into a deep sleep from which he never awakened | | | | Queen Victoria dies by The Ovi Team The death of Queen Victoria on January 22, 1901, ends an era in which most of her British subjects know no other monarch. Her 63-year reign, the longest in British history, saw the growth of an empire on which the sun never set. Victoria restored dignity | | | | Tehran frees US hostages by The Ovi Team January 21st 1981; The 52 American hostages held at the US embassy in Tehran for more than 14 months arrived in West Germany on their way home to the United States. The former diplomats and embassy staff stepped from the plane onto the tarmac at Wiesbaden | | | | next | | |
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