1713 – Netherlands and Britain sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier [OS=Jan 31]
1859 – General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude and Nana Sahib in Indian Mutiny
1933 – Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co NYC)
1960 – Charles Ives’ “Lincoln, the Great Commoner” premieres
1961 – Walter Piston’s 7th Symphony, commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra premieres under direction of Eugene Ormandy; wins 1961 Pulitzer Prize
1970 – Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel at Val d’Isere, France, killing 40 Belgian, French, and German youths
1977 – Jonathan Netanyahu Lane in the Bronx, New York, named in honor of the Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid in Uganda in 1976
1981 – 8 killed and 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton
1984 – Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins a career 4th Olympic gold medal when he takes out the 30k event in Sarajevo; 3 gold in Lake Placid 1980
1989 – Miami Vice’s 100th episode seen on TV