1773 Captain James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66° 33' S)
1912 Captain Robert Scott's expedition arrives at the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation.
1946 United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting.
1972 Seven men who were held as internees escape from the prison ship HMS Maidstone in Belfast Lough, North Ireland.
1977 Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in the Utah state prison, convicted of murder.
1991 Operation Desert Storm begins, with US-led coalition forces bombing Iraq, during the Gulf War.
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