A bit of January 31st history…
1863 - 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina volunteers, mustered into US army
1865 - US Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery
1876 - US orders all Native Americans to move into reservations
1950 - US President Truman publicly announces support for development of a hydrogen bomb (pictured)
1985 - South African President PW Botha offers to free Nelson Mandela if he denounces violence
2019 - Colonization of the Americas in the late 1500′s killed so many people it cooled the planet and led to a “little ice age”, according to a scientific report published in “Quarternary Science Review”
2020 - UK finally withdraws from the European Union (Brexit)
A bit of January 31st history… 1863 - 1st black Civil War...
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