time travel

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1861 Flush toilet patented by Mr Thomas Crapper (Honest!)

1912 Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen

1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary

1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation

1946 United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting

1969 Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US

1987 Pres Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran  - and Iran Contra follows

1991 Operation Desert Storm begins-US led allies vs Iraq

1998 President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil suit when he answered questions from lawyers for Paula Jones, who had accused Clinton of sexual harassment.