On this day …
January 31, 2015
- In 1606, Guy Fawkes was executed for his role in the “Gunpowder Plot” against Parliament.
- In 1801, John Marshall was appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- In 1915, Germany was the first country to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare at the Battle of Bolimow.
- In 1929, the Soviet Union exiled Leon Trotsky.
- In 1930, 3M began marketing Scotch Tape.
- In 1945, Eddie Slovik became the first U.S. Army soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War.
- In 1950, President Harry Truman announced a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
- In 1958, James Van Allen discovered the radiation belt that would bear his name.
- In 1990, the first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union opened in Moscow.
- In 1995, President Bill Clinton authorized a $20 billion loan to Mexico.
- In 2010, Avatar became the first film to gross more than $2 billion worldwide.
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