February 6, 1934. Far-right leagues rally in Paris, creating a crisis that threatens to plunge France into a fascist revolution.

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February 5, 1994. Byron De La Beckwith is found guilty of murder, 31 years after civil rights leader Medgar Evers was killed.

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On today's Saturday Matinee, we take an in-depth look at the day President Kennedy was assassinated, and the seemingly unconnected events that led to the tragedy.

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February 2, 1709. British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a Pacific island for more than four years, an ordeal that will inspire the novel Robinson Crusoe.

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February 1, 2009. Icelandic politician Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is sworn in as the country's prime minister, becoming the first woman to hold that post in Iceland and the world's first openly gay head of government. This episode originally aired in 2022.

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January 31, 1928. Leon Trotsky, one of the architects of the Russian Revolution, is exiled to Kazakhstan by his longtime rival, Joseph Stalin. This episode originally aired in 2023.

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January 30, 1835. House painter Richard Lawrence shoots twice at Andrew Jackson, becoming the first person to attempt to assassinate a US president.

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January 29, 1959. Disney's Sleeping Beauty bombs at the box office, leading the studio not to make another animated princess movie for 30 years

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