On this day

In 1991, massive air raids against Bagdad mark the beginning of Operation Desert Storm.

Originally posted by @handyandy
You posted it. Why should we have to look it up?

January 17
1601 The Treaty of Lyons ends a short war between France and Savoy.

1746 Charles Edward Stuart, the young pretender, defeats the government forces at the battle of Falkirk in Scotland.

1773 Captain James Cook becomes the first person to cross the Antarctic Circle.

1819 Simon Bolivar the "liberator" proclaims Columbia a republic.

1893 Queen Liliuokalani, the Hawaiian monarch, is overthrown by a group of American sugar planters led by Sanford Ballard Dole.

1852 At the Sand River Convention, the British recognize the independence of the Transvaal Board.

1912 Robert Scott reaches the South Pole only a month after Roald Amundsen.

1939 The Reich issues an order forbidding Jews to practice as dentists, veterinarians and chemists.

1945 The Red army occupies Warsaw.

1963 Soviet leader Khrushchev visits the Berlin Wall.

1985 A jury in New Jersey rules that terminally ill patients have the right to starve themselves.

Dates included for Handy Andy! 😉

On this day 200 years ago.

General José de San Martín and 5,000 men cross
the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and Peru.

On this day 100 years ago.

Finnish Civil War began.

On this day 50 years ago

Tet Offensive launched by North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam and allies.

On this year, 80 years ago, princess Beatrix of Orange-Nassau and the Netherlands was born.

Happy birthday, Trix!

On this date in 1606, Englishman Guy Fawkes, convicted for high treason for his part
in the "Gunpowder Plot," was set to be hanged, drawn and quartered, but broke his neck
after falling or jumping from the scaffold.

In 1968, as part of the Tet Offensive, a squad of Viet Cong guerillas attacked the U.S. embassy in Saigon.

Originally posted by @handyandy
On this date in 1606, Englishman Guy Fawkes, convicted for high treason for his part
in the "Gunpowder Plot," was set to be hanged, drawn and quartered, but broke his neck
after falling or jumping from the scaffold.

What happened in history on this day: January 31?
On January 31 in ...
1901 - Winnipeg Victorias sweep Montréal Shamrocks in two for the Stanley Cup of hockey.

Originally posted by @very-rusty
This Day In History: 01/31/1968- Viet Cong Attack US Embassy. On this day in 1968, as part of the Tet Offensive, a squad of Viet Cong guerillas attacks the U.S. embassy in Saigon.

Ooops GBS beat me to it!

Originally posted by @wolfgang59
Guy Fawkes ... the only honest man to enter Parliament.

Originally posted by @wolfgang59
On this day 100 years ago.

Finnish Civil War began.

Originally posted by @mghrn55
Who won the hockey game ???? 😀