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[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1606, the Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending in their execution on January 31
• 1785, the University of Georgia, the first public university in the United States, is founded
• 1880, Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp
• 1910, Thomas Crapper, often described as the prime developer of the flush toilet mechanism as it is known today, died in England
• 1926, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird launched a revolution in communication and entertainment with the first public demonstration of a true television system in London
• 1943, during World War II: some 50 bombers struck Wilhelmshaven in the first all-American air raid against Germany
• 1944, during World War II: The 900-days Siege of Leningrad is lifted
• 1945, during World War II: The Red Army arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland
• 1951, an era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flat
• 1967, more than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space
• 1973, the United States and North Vietnam signed a cease-fire agreement. The same day, the United States announced an end to the military draft. Colonel William Nolde falls, becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty
• 1981, President Ronald Reagan greeted the 52 former American hostages just released by Iran at the White House
• 1996, Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day
• 1991, U.S. planes bombed the pipelines to Kuwaiti oil fields to cut off the flow of oil into the Persian Gulf
• 1998, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, on NBC's "Today" show, charged the sexual misconduct allegations against her husband, President Bill Clinton, were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
• 1999, the Republican-controlled Senate blocked dismissal of the impeachment case against President Bill Clinton and then voted for new testimony from Monica Lewinsky and two other witnesses --- but by margins well short of the two-thirds needed to oust the president
• 2004, a jury in New York heard opening arguments in the trial of Martha Stewart, who was accused of lying about a stock sale. (She was convicted in March 2004 and sentenced to five months in prison.)
• 2006, Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services
• 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad tablet computer during a presentation in San Francisco
• 2011, tens of thousands of Yemenis demanded their president step down; taking inspiration from Tunisians' revolt, they vowed to continue until their U.S.-backed government fell. ALSO: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that color-coded terror alerts would be phased out by late April 201. AND: An unyielding nor'easter left U.S. East Coast cities crippled, airports and schools closed, travelers stranded, up to 2 feet of snow and 1.5 million customers without power. It was the sixth major U.S. storm in six weeks
• 2016, the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department agreed to overhaul its policies, training and practices as part of a sweeping deal with the Justice Department following the 2014 fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown
Wesley Pruden: A nation derided for doing the right thing
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Great, ahem 'art'!
L. Brent Bozell III: HBO's Supervillainous 'Young Pope'
Greg Crosby: Moaning in America
Julie Zauzmer: 'Pro-life' falls out of favor with anti-abortion activists
David Limbaugh: Pot-Kettle Media Call Trump Insecure
Suzanne Fields: Telling the Post-Truth With Alternative Facts
Kelly Riddell: Reporters resort to begging federal employees to leak dirt on Trump
Valerie Strauss: Dems reject her, but they helped pave the road to education nominee DeVos
Rich Lowry: Trump Week One: The return of the nation-state
Mona Charen: Fences and Neighbors
Jonah Goldberg: Humiliating Mexico over border wall would be a big mistake
Dick Morris: Sessions Should Order Study on Voter Fraud
Charles Krauthammer: Trump's foreign policy revolution
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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