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Posted: Jan 28, 2014 - 7:45am
Red_Dragon wrote: 1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board. It was odd that it was one day short of exactly 19 years from the Apollo 1 tragedy. In '86, a co-worker told me they had just heard about it on their radio while driving in.

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Posted: Jan 28, 2014 - 7:44am
Antigone wrote: I was working in the bookstore in Northern Virginia. A customer came in and told us. I accused them of lying. we were in Science class, watching it on TV.

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Posted: Jan 28, 2014 - 7:38am
Red_Dragon wrote: 1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board. I was working in the bookstore in Northern Virginia. A customer came in and told us. I accused them of lying.

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Posted: Jan 28, 2014 - 6:06am
1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.

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Posted: Jan 28, 2014 - 6:05am
1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.

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Posted: Jan 28, 2014 - 6:04am
1935 – Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.

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Posted: Jan 28, 2014 - 6:03am
1887 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.

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Posted: Jan 28, 2014 - 6:03am
1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.

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Posted: Jan 28, 2014 - 6:02am
1813 – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.

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Posted: Jan 28, 2014 - 6:02am
1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.

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Posted: Jan 27, 2014 - 1:02pm
Red_Dragon wrote: 1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States. That's a frequent point of contention at UNC Chapel Hill and William & Mary.

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Posted: Jan 27, 2014 - 1:00pm
1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

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Posted: Jan 27, 2014 - 1:00pm
1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.

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Posted: Jan 27, 2014 - 12:59pm
1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.

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Posted: Jan 27, 2014 - 12:59pm
1825 – The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".

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Posted: Jan 27, 2014 - 12:58pm
1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.

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Posted: Jan 26, 2014 - 6:00am
1992 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.

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Posted: Jan 26, 2014 - 5:59am
1962 – Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).

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Posted: Jan 26, 2014 - 5:57am
1911 – Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.

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