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1913 |
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The first telephone line between Berlin and New York was inaugurated.
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1976 |
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Sara Jane Moore was sentenced to life in prison for her attempt on the life of U.S. President Ford in San Francisco. |
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1978 |
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Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman, two students at Florida State University in Tallahassee, were murdered in their sorority house. Ted Bundy was later convicted of the crime and was executed. |
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1998 |
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Lance Carvin, a stalker of Howard Stern, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for threatening to kill Stern and his family. |
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1844 |
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The University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana. |
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1945 |
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CBS Radio debuted "House Party". The show was on the air for 22 years. |
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1974 |
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"Happy Days" premiered on ABC-TV. |
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1987 |
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Paramount Home Video reported that it would place a commercial at the front of one of its video releases for the first time. It was a 30-second Diet Pepsi ad at the beginning of "Top Gun." |
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1559 |
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England's Queen Elizabeth I (Elizabeth Tudor) was crowned in Westminster Abbey. |
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1953 |
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Harry S Truman became the first U.S. President to use radio and television to give his farewell as he left office. |
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1936 |
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The first, all glass, windowless building was completed in Toledo, OH. The building was the new home of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company Laboratory. |
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1973 |
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U.S. President Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam. He cited progress in peace negotiations as the reason.
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1986 |
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President Reagan signed legislation making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday to be celebrated on the third Monday of January. |
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2003 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Congress had permission to repeatedly extend copyright protection. |
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1908 |
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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority became America's first Greek-letter organization established by African-American college women.
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1777 |
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The people of New Connecticut (now the state of Vermont) declared their independence. |
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1863 |
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"The Boston Morning Journal" became the first paper in the U.S. to be published on wood pulp paper. |
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1870 |
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A cartoon by Thomas Nast titled "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" appeared in "Harper's Weekly." The cartoon used the donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party for the first time. |
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1892 |
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"Triangle" magazine in Springfield, MA, published the rules for a brand new game. The original rules involved attaching a peach baskets to a suspended board. It is now known as basketball. |
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1899 |
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1899 Edwin Markham's poem, "The Man With a Hoe," was published for the first time.
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1624 |
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Many riots occurr in Mexico when it was announced that all churches were to be closed. |
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1955 |
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The first solar-heated, radiation-cooled house was built by Raymond Bliss in Tucson, AZ. |
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1906 |
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Willie Hoppe won the billiard championship of the world in Paris, France.
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1967 |
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The first National Football League Super Bowl was played. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League. The final score was 35-10. |
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1943 |
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The Pentagon was dedicated as the world's largest office building just outside Washington, DC, in Arlington, VA. The structure covers 34 acres of land and has 17 miles of corridors. |
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