1605 = Don Quixote (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), a book written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is first published.
1773 = Captain James R. Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
1861 = Thomas Crapper patents the flush toilet. [ He must have been the "butt" of jokes! ]
1929 = Popeye The Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
1945 = The Nazis begin evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
1954 = Jacques Cousteau's first network telecast airs on CBS' "Omnibus".
1973 = Ferdinand Marcos becomes the Philippines' "President For Life".
1991 = It's the Gulf War; Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful attempt to provoke Israeli retaliation.
1995 = The Great Hanshin Earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.3, hits near Kobe, Japan, killing 6,434 people and causing extensive property damage.
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