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On this day in . . .

• 1419, during the Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy

• 1840, Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States

• 1861, Georgia seceded from the Union

• 1883, the first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey

• 1899, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed

• 1915, Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising

• 1920, the United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations

• 1935, Jockey, then known as Coopers Inc., sells the world's first briefs

• 1937, millionaire Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record by flying his monoplane from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in seven hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds

• 1944, the federal government relinquished control of the nation's railroads following settlement of a wage dispute

• 1945, during World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Lodz ghetto. Out of 230,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazis, ym"sh

• 1946, Gen. Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals

• 1949, Cuba recognizes Israel

• 1950, the People's Republic of China bestows diplomatic recognition upon the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Communist China's official recognition of Ho Chi Minh's communist regime resulted in much needed financial and military assistance in Ho's battle against the French in Vietnam, and also pushed the United States to take a more intensive and active role in the conflict in Southeast Asia

• 1953, episode #56, "Lucy Goes to the Hospital," of hit 1950s sitcom I Love Lucy airs for the first time. The episode, in which Lucy Ricardo, famously played by Lucille Ball, gives birth to a son, was one of the most popular in television history. Forty-four million viewers, a full 72 percent of all U.S. homes with a television, tuned in; only 29 million viewers had watched President Dwight D. Eisenhower's televised inauguration the previous night

• 1955, a presidential news conference was filmed for television for the first time, with the permission of President Eisenhower

• 1969, student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest

• 1975, China published a new constitution that adopted the precepts and policies of Mao Zedong

• 1977, in one of his last acts of office, President Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose"), an American who'd made wartime broadcasts for Japan. ALSO: Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred. It also fell in the Bahamas

• 1978, the last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003

• 1979, former Attorney General John N. Mitchell was released on parole after serving 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama

• 1981, the United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity

• 1983, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, ym"sh, is arrested in Bolivia. ALSO: The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced

• 1993, IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history

• 1994, ice skater Tonya Harding's former husband, Jeff Gillooly, was arrested and charged with conspiracy in the attack two weeks earlier on Harding rival Nancy Kerrigan

• 1995, Russian forces captured the presidential palace in the rebel republic of Chechnya

• 1997, Yasser Arafat, ym"sh, returned to Hebron for the first time in more than 30 years, joining 60,000 Palestinians in celebrating the handover of Judaism's second holiest city, and the last West Bank town, from Israeli control

• 1999, President Bill Clinton delivered his State of the Union address, in which he proposed to protect Social Security by using huge budget surpluses and announced the government would sue the tobacco industry for smokers' health costs. Hours earlier, at the president's impeachment trial in the Senate, White House Counsel Charles Ruff opened the defense with ringing statements of Clinton's innocence

• 2001, in a deal sparing himself possible indictment, President Bill Clinton acknowledged for the first time making false statements under oath about Monica Lewinsky; he also surrendered his law license for five years. ALSO: The American twin girls at the center of an internet adoption scandal are seized from a hotel in north Wales and taken into care

• 2002, Israeli troops set off a powerful explosion that gutted the official Palestinian broadcasting building, dealing a blow to Yasser Arafat, ym"sh, and the Palestinian Authority. The move followed yet another suicide bomber practicing his "religion of peace"

• 2010, in a major upset, Republican Scott Brown captured the U.S. Senate seat held by liberal champion Edward Kennedy for nearly half a century as he defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in a special election. ALSO: Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was slain at a posh airport hotel in Dubai (officials in Dubai have accused Israel of carrying out the killing)

• 2011, Chinese President Hu Jintao, visiting the White House, declared "a lot still needs to be done" to improve his country's record on human rights; the exchange with President Barack Obama over human rights was balanced by U.S. delight over newly announced Chinese business deals expected to generate about $45 billion in new export sales for the U.S. ALSO: Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill to repeal healthcare reform legislation enacted during the last Congress. The Senate, however, blocked the proposal

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