Thomas Crapper Day (death anniversary)
Birth anniversaries of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
1606 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators began. They were executed on January 31.
1870 - Kappa Alpha Theta, the first women’s sorority, was founded at Indiana Asbury University (now DePauw University) in Greencastle, IN.
1880 - Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp.
1926 - John Baird, a Scottish inventor, demonstrated a pictorial transmission machine called television.
1944 - the Siege of Leningrad, USSR, ended after 880 days (started Sept 4, 1941). More than half the city's population died during the winter of 1942.
1945 - Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. 
1967 - At Cape Kennedy, FL, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft.
1973 - The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.
1992 - Former world boxing champion Mike Tyson went on trial for allegedly raping an 18-year-old contestant in the 1991 Miss Black America Contest.
1998 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on NBC's "Today" show. She charged that the allegations against her husband were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy.
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