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1521 Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church for failing to recant parts of his Ninety-Five Theses, which started the Protestant Reformation

1777 General George Washington's Revolutionary Army defeats British forces at the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey

1852 First Chinese immigrants arrive in Hawaii

1870 Construction begins on New York's Brooklyn Bridge; completed May 24, 1883

1872 First patent list issued by the US Patent Office

1892 British author (The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings), born in Bloemfontein, South Africa

1920 Boston Red Sox baseball club owner Harry Frazee announces agreement to sell slugger Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 in cash and a $350,000 loan; start of the 84 year "Curse of the Bambino"

1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio

1939 Bobby Hull Canadian Hockey HOF left winger born in Pointe Anne, Ontario

1952 "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV (just the facts mam)

1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro


1967 Jack Ruby American nightclub owner who murdered assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies of pulmonary embolism at 55

1973 A 12-man syndicate led by Michael Burke and George Steinbrenner III buys MLB's New York Yankees from CBS for US$10 million

1977 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computer, Inc.

1983 Dallas running back Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yard rush in the Cowboys' 31-27 defeat at Minnesota Vikings

1993 "The Comeback", QB Frank Reich leads Buffalo Bills back from a 32-point deficit, to defeat the Houston Oilers 41-38 in overtime in a wild card playoff game, the greatest comeback ever in NFL history

1994 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field

1994 Steve Young of the San Francisco 49ers becomes first quarterback to win 3 straight NFL passing titles despite a 37-34 OT loss to the Philadelphia Eagles; first to lodge 3 consecutive passer ratings of 100+

1996 First clamshell flip mobile phone, the Motorola StarTAC, goes on sale; eventually, 60 million are sold

2009 The Bitcoin network is created as the first block of the digital currency is mined by a person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto

2022 Apple becomes the first US company to be worth $3 trillion in value, after tripling its price in under four years 

2024 Lowest January temperature of -43.6 C (minus 46.5 F), recorded in Sweden for 25 years in Kvikkjokk-Årrenjarka, Swedish Lapland, amid a very cold spell across Scandinavia (paging global warming)

Geronimo goes to Washington
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Turkey changed its name recently in English to something like Turkiye.

General Walther von Brauchitsch, supreme commander of the Wehrmacht land forces, ordered a number of assault tanks to be developed in 1938. Their armament would match that of existing German tanks, but they would have 80 mm of front armour, which would allow them to assault even the most powerful anti-tank defenses at the time. Over time, the heavier tank projects were cancelled as impractical, but the lighter ones flew under the radar as their weight was not excessive.
One of the projects was indexed VK 18.01. This tank would have 80 mm of front armour, but puzzlingly the armament consisting of just two machine guns remained, severely limiting its value as an assault tank.
Construction of a pilot batch was approved on December 29th, 1939, but the work was not a priority. A prototype was finished in the summer of 1940 and delivery of the pilot batch only began in 1942, by which point it was no longer clear what these tanks were supposed to do. The fortifications that the VK 18.01 was supposed to assault back in 1938 were long gone and 80 mm of armour was no longer very impressive anyway. The tanks that were completed were sent to the front line in small batches, but their only success was in fighting partisans.




Another of Nazi Germany's wastes of resources, one of which was a nearly completed aircraft carrier with no purpose at all.