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Summary of “Today In History January 30″

A typical day: it has been raining all day today. The football game last night was great! An intereing article from digtriad.com.

  • In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
  • In 1972, 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”.
  • In 1979, the civilian government of Iran announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who’d been living in exile in France, to return.
  • Ten years ago: Elian Gonzalez’s grandmothers returned home to a hero’s welcome in Cuba, vowing to continue the struggle to wrest the six-year-old shipwreck survivor from relatives in Miami.
  • President Barack Obama signed a series of executive orders that he said should “level the playing field” for labor unions in their struggles with management.
  • Ingemar Johansson, who stunned the boxing world by knocking out Floyd Patterson to win the heavyweight title in 1959, died in Kungsbacka, Sweden at age 76.

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Fan, friends connected with Ochocinco — ESPN.com

Too much work to do. It looks like a good day today. Not much news today really. An interesting article:

  • Stivers sat on the couch of his mother’s home in Beavercreek, Ohio, opened his laptop and logged on to Twitter.
  • That night, nearly 60 miles away, Ochocinco was in Cincinnati on the eve of the Bengals’ game against the Browns.
  • After John and Sherry divorced in 1999, they remained friends, and even into Chris’s adult life, John, Sherry and Chris would attend games together.
  • Kernich attended Fairborn High, where he participated in sports.
  • Both of the Bengals jerseys Kernich ordered had No.
  • He used the handle “the_man_CK.” Friends and family saw the name as typical of Kernich’s confidence and sense of humor, saying he was more self-deprecating than self-absorbed.

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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

The weather is pretty bad today. A typical day: it has been raining all day today. Another friend was laid off todayI haven’t read Danbury News

  • A fierce gun battle broke out between security forces and a team of Taliban fighters targeting U.N.
  • and government buildings on Friday in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah.
  • The fighting came nearly two weeks after a similar assault in the Afghan capital of Kabul, once again showing the ability of insurgents to penetrate heavily secured areas.
  • and government buildings on Friday in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah.
  • Photo: Matt Dunham / AP Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is seen on television displays as he gives evidence to the Iraq Inquiry, at a department store in London, Friday, Jan.

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