1820- George III, the longest-lived and longest-reigning King of England, died at Winsor aged 81.
1845 – “The Raven” is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
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1856 – Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest military decoration.
1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
1900 – The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with eight founding teams.
1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
1924 – The first machine for rolling ice cream cones was patented by Carl Rutherford Taylor of Cleveland.
1960 – Following an insurrection in Algeria, by French colonialists protesting independence for the country which is being considered by the French Government, French president Charles de Gaule in a televised broadcast, reaffirms his decision to allow Algerians to determine their future.
1985 – Oxford University dons refused to grant Margaret Thatcher an honorary degree.
1991 – Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
2002 – In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush described “regimes that sponsor terror” as an Axis of Evil, which includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
2009 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is convicted of several corruption charges, including the alleged solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate, as a replacement for the then U.S. president-elect, Barack Obama.
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Germaine Greer, 85 years
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Tony Blackburn 81 years
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Oprah Winfrey, 69
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Ashley Lilley, 38
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