Hyman Rickover 1900
- 1606 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators began. They were executed on January 31.
- 1880 - Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp.
- 1926 - John Baird, a Scottish inventor, demonstrated a pictorial transmission machine called television.
- 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.
- 1984 - Carl Lewis beat his own two-year-old record by 9-1/4 inches when he set a new indoor world record with a long-jump mark of 28 feet, 10-1/4 inches.
- 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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