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2018-01-15

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Dolores O'Riordan
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Dolores O'Riordan

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Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan was an Irish musician and singer-songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead vocalist of the rock band the Cranberries. O'Riordan was the principal songwriter of the band and also played acoustic and electric guitars. She became one of the most recognisable voices in alternative…

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2001
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The first edit to the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia was made.
1991
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The Victoria Cross for Australia was instituted, making Australia the first Commonwealth realm with a separate Victoria Cross award in its honours system.
1981
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The American serial police-procedural television show Hill Street Blues aired its pilot episode, "Hill Street Station".
1975
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Portugal and the nationalist factions UNITA, the MPLA and the FNLA signed the Alvor Agreement, ending the Angolan War of Independence.
1974
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American serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as the "BTK killer", murdered his first four victims.
1970
Biafra
The Republic of Biafra surrendered following a failed attempt at secession from Nigeria, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
1967
Green_Bay_Packers
The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I.
1962
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The Derveni papyrus (fragment pictured), the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, was discovered in Macedonia in northern Greece.
1951
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Ilse Koch, wife of Karl-Otto Koch, the Nazi commander of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.

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