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24th January 1908: Robert Baden-Powell publishes Scouting for Boys

The first instalment of Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys triggered the Boy Scout ...

23rd January 1900: British troops launch a nighttime attack on Spion Kop in the Second Boer War

The Second Boer War saw the British Empire fight against the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of the South African Republic and the Orange Free ...

22nd January 1905: Bloody Sunday massacre takes place in the Russian capital St. Petersburg

Why the soldiers began firing on the peaceful march is unclear. Even the number of marchers killed or injured is uncertain with estimates ranging from the government’s official figure of 96 dead to revolutionary claims of more than ...

21st January 1981: First DeLorean sports car produced (famous as the ‘Back to the Future’ car)

The DeLorean DMC-12 sports car was later used as the time machine in Back to the ...

20th January 1942: Senior Nazis meet at the Wannsee Conference to discuss what was referred to as the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”

SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich called the meeting in the Berlin suburb, in which he outlined the deportation of European Jews to extermination camps in Poland where they would be systematically ...

19th January 1917: 73 people killed in the Silvertown munitions factory explosion in London

The Brunner Mond chemical factory had been built in 1893 to manufacture caustic soda and soda ...

18th January 1919: The Paris Peace Conference begins

The Paris Peace Conference convened to establish the terms of the peace after the First World ...

17th January 1991: Combat phase of the Gulf War begins when Operation Desert Storm is launched

Operation Desert Storm set out to destroy Iraq’s military and civilian infrastructure through an aerial bombing campaign in which over 2,250 coalition aircraft flew in excess of 1,000 sorties a day for five ...

16th January 1412: Antipope John XXIII makes the Medici Bank the official bank to the Papacy

Antipope John XXIII made the Medici Bank the official bank of the ...

15th January 1919: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht killed by members of the Freikorps after the Spartacist Revolt

The two German socialists were joint-founders of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany, and were captured following the Spartacist uprising that began on 4 ...