January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Day of death January 31, 1968
The temperature on January 31, 1968 was between 5.6 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by naval forces of North Korea.
January 31 » Nauru gains independence from Australia.
February 24 » Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
April 4 » Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
April 20 » English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
August 21 » Cold War: Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
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