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Peter Brookes: To those who serve far from home
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1493, Christopher Columbus leaves the New World, ending his first journey
• 1717, the Netherlands, England, and France sign the Triple Alliance against Spain, attempting to maintain the agreement of the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. The three states were concerned about Spain becoming a superpower in Europe. As a result of this militarisation took place, causing great havoc to civilians. This enraged Spain and other states, leading to brinkmanship. It became the Quadruple Alliance the next year with the accession of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI
• 1762, England declares war on Spain and Naples
• 1847, Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government
• 1865, the New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City
• 1885, Dr. William Grant of Davenport, Iowa, performed the first successful appendectomy
• 1893, U.S. President Benjamin Harrison granted amnesty to all people who had abstained from practicing polygamy since Nov. 1, 1890. It was part of a deal for Utah to achieve statehood
• 1936, Billboard magazine publishes its first pop music charts
• 1943, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin appeared on the cover of Time as the magazine's 1942 "Man of the Year"
• 1944, Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins
• 1951, Chinese and North Korean forces captured the South Korean capital of Seoul
• 1962, New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board
• 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address
• 1974, President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee
• 1985, Israel confirmed that 10,000 Ethiopian Jews had been flown to Israel. Ethiopia termed the operation "a gross interference" in its affairs
• 1995, the 104th Congress convened, the first entirely under Republican control since the Eisenhower era
• 2004, Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC
• 2006, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a significant stroke; his official powers were transferred to his deputy, Ehud Olmert. (Sharon remained in a coma until his death in Jan. 2014.)
• 2007, the 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history
• 2010, thousands of people attended the opening of the Burj Khalifa (Burj Dubai Tower), the world's tallest building, in the United Arab Emirates. At 2,717 feet, it's more than twice as tall as New York City's Empire State Building
• 2016, workers returned to their offices at the San Bernardino, California campus where 14 people were killed the previous month by practitioners of that "religion of peace" -- husband and wife -- in a terror attack. ALSO: The Justice Department sued Volkswagen over emissions-cheating software found in nearly 600,000 vehicles sold in the United States
Michelle Malkin: Forensic Nightmare: The Perils of Touch DNA
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Feel-Good Marketing
Garrison Keillor: That tide in the affairs of men
John Stossel: The Trump Years
L. Brent Bozell III: Can Speculation Be Defined as News?
Charles Hurt: Oblivious Obama pens farewell as world burns down around him
Rich Lowry: The bloody lesson of Chicago's 762 murders
Byron York: On Russia hacks, it's jump-to-conclusions vs. wait-and-see
Jonah Goldberg: Obama going out in a blaze of self-interest
Bob Tyrrell: Obama's coming obscurity: Neither legacy nor shadow will survive the president’s departure
Kathleen Parker: What made the losing-est loser do it?
Rich Lowry: Now's the time to rein in a failed United Nations
Walter Williams: Liberal Struggle Against Reality
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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