On This Day - January 31, A Shot Of History

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1865 — US Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America.
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_breeding_in_the_United_States#mediaviewer/File:Cotton_planter_and_pickers1908.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Hopkinsons_Plantation_Slaves_Planting_Sweet_Potatoes.jpg

1606 — Anarchist hero Guy Fawkes is hanged
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut7W0bYzgKk

1961 — Ham the chimpanzee is first primate in space
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_%28chimpanzee%29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLbCBtqTpKo

1990 — First McDonald's opens in Soviet Union. Thirty thousand people came on opening day.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-mcdonalds-opens-in-soviet-union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=newRbaPkkao

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet