The first minstrel show in the United States
History
6 January 1895
Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island
4 February 1555
John Rogers is burned at the stake, becoming the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.
3 February 1984
Dr John Buster and a research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the United States announce history’s first embryo transfer, from one woman to another…
1 February 2003
Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during the reentry of mission STS-107 into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
29 January 1980
The Rubik’s Cube makes its international debut at the Ideal Toy Corp. in Earl’s Court, London.
28 January 1985
Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine…