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• On  January 31, 1950,  President Harry S. Truman announced he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb.
• On  Feburary 1, 2003,  the space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry,  killing all seven of its crew members.
• On  Feburary 2, 1897,  fire destroyed the Pennsylvaniaa state capitol in Harrisburg.  A new statehouse was dedicated on the same site in 1906.
• On  Feburary 3, 1943,  during World War 2, the U.S. transport ship Dorchester, which was carrying troops to Greenland, sank after being hit by a German torpedo; 230 survived.
• On  Feburary 4, 1783,  Britain's King George 3rd proclaimed a formal cessation of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War.
• On Feb. 5, 1989,  the Soviet Union announced that all but a small rear-guard contingent of its troops had left Afghanistan.