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-- card: 31019 from stack: in.0
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January 31
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In 1606, Guy fawkes, convicted for his part in the
"Gunpowder Plot" against the English Parliament and King James I, was executed.
In 1797, composer Franz Schubert was born in Vienna, Austria.
In 1865, General Robert E. Lee was named commander in chief of the Confederate armies.
In 1917, Germany served notice it was beginning a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
In 1958, the United States entered the Space Age with its first successful launch of a satellite into orbit, Explorer 1.
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Former TV show host Garry Moore (1915)
Actress Carol Channing (1923)
Author Norman Mailer (1923)
Actress Jean Simmons (1929)
Baseball hall-of-famer Ernie Banks (1931)
Actor James Franciscus (1934)
Actress Suzanne Pleshette (1937)
Actress Jessica Walter (1944)
Baseball pitcher Nolan Ryan (1947)
Singer-drummer Phil Collins (1951)
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"Los secretos ni oirlos ni decirlos." (Don't listen to secrets - and don't tell them.)
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Spanish Proverb