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18 hours ago · 1847 in music – "Oh! Susanna" by Stephen Foster published; Death of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, German composer. 1846 in music – Adolphe Sax invents the saxophone. 1845 in music – Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner premières in Dresden; The Violin Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn; Birth of Ángela Peralta.
18 hours ago · Clockwise from top left: U.S. President Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office following the Watergate scandal in 1974; The United States was still involved in the Vietnam War in the early decade. The New York Times leaked information regarding the nation's involvement in the war.
18 hours ago · '39* Otis Pike (Princeton)—Democratic US Congressman from New York 1961–79, decorated USMC World War II pilot, known for work on environment, Pike Committee investigations of Richard Nixon's intelligence abuses, Otis G. Pike Wilderness Area (Long Island, New York) (attended 1927–29)
18 hours ago · The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2023 . Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
18 hours ago · If more than one boat is provided they are sometimes stationed in separate buildings at different locations in the same town. Current RNLI boats fall into three broad groups: All weather lifeboats (ALBs): Mersey, Severn, Shannon, Tamar, and Trent. Inshore lifeboats (ILBs): D-class (IB1), Atlantic 85 and E-class. Hovercraft: H-class.
