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JANUARY 20 - IN THE HISTORY Calender Search
 
2007
George Smathers (b.1913), former 3-term US Senator from Florida, died. He helped pass bills to create Medicare, the Small Business Administration and Everglades National Park. He also pushed for federal holidays to be moved to Mondays and ardently supported the war in Vietnam.
2007
Richard Vollenweider (1922-2007), Swiss scientist, died. He developed methods for quantifying the eutrophication of freshwater. His methods were used to save Lake Erie and helped form the basis of the 1972 Great Lakes Water Quality Act.
2007
The Taliban's governing body said it has decided to open schools in the areas controlled by the militants in Afghanistan.
2007
Anselmo Oliveira Magalhaes (32), a man accused of helping steal more than $70 million in cash from a branch of Brazil's central bank in 2005, was found dead with a broken neck and his hands and feet tied inside a 75-foot well at a ranch in Santa Izabel. The bodies of two other men were found in the well, but it wasn't immediately clear whether they had any connection to the bank heist.
2007
The London Times said police had tracked down the man, who was introduced to former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko and his associates as "Vladislav", using details that the ex-agent recounted on his deathbed.
2007
The UN’s food agency said some 800,000 Burundians face a serious food crisis after devastating floods ravaged several regions of the tiny central African nation.
2007
Czech PM Mirek Topolanek said the US wants to build a radar base in the Czech Republic as part of its global missile defense system. Poland was also mentioned as a potential site. Russia in response warned of an arms race.
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