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1							1 The World Trade Organization was established in 1995.
2	2 Isaac Asimov, acclaimed science fact and fiction writer, was born in 1920.	3 Potter Josiah Wedgwood died in 1795.	4 Monster.com went live in 1998.	5 George Washington Carver died in 1943.	6 The Blizzard of 1996 hit the East Coast.	7 The closing day of the 7th Annual Conference of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) occurred in 2003.	8 Marco Polo died in 1324.
3	9 President Richard M. Nixon was born in 1913.	10 The phrase Where's the Beef? was uttered for the first time on a television commercial for Wendy's in 1984.	11 Painter Charles E. Burchfield died in 1967.	12 John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in 1737.	13 Andrew Jackson wrote a letter to Martin van Buren regarding the Nullification Crisis in 1833.	14 Matthew Fontaine Maury, a pioneer in oceanography and hydrography, was born in 1806.	15 New York's William Strong appointed Colonel George E. Waring as Commissioner of Street Cleaning in 1895, January 15th is the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
4	16 Ellen Russell Emerson, American ethnologist, was born in 1837.	17 A 6.9 magnitude earthquake destroyed over one hundred thousand buildings in Kobe, Japan, in 1995.	18 Daniel Webster was born in 1782.	19 The National Institutes of Health director announced in 1999 that the NIH would fund research using master cells.	20 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died in 1924.	21 George Orwell died of tuberculosis in 1950.	22 The Chinese Telephone Exchange, in San Francisco's Chinatown, was closed in 1949.
5	23 The Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1964.	24 In 1916, the Supreme Court upheld the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ruling that the federal government had the authority to collect taxes on income.	25 Nellie Bly completed a journey - around the world in less than 80 days - in 1890.	26 Today is Republic Day in India.	27 Lewis Carroll was born in 1832.	28 In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded, 73 seconds into flight.	29 John Beckley was appointed the first Librarian of Congress in 1802.
6	30 The Yogi Bear Show premiered in 1961.	31 Zane Grey, American author of Old West stories, was born on this day in 1872.

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