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On this day in . . .

• 1784, in a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin expressed unhappiness over the choice of the eagle as the symbol of America, and stated his own preference: the turkey

• 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip guides a fleet of 11 British ships carrying convicts to the colony of New South Wales, effectively founding Australia. After overcoming a period of hardship, the fledgling colony began to celebrate the anniversary of this date with great fanfare

• 1838, the first Prohibition law in the history of the United States is passed in Tennessee, making it a misdemeanor to sell alcoholic beverages in taverns and stores

• 1841, Britain formally occupied Hong Kong, which the Chinese had ceded to the British

• 1861, Louisiana seceded from the Union

• 1870, Virginia rejoined the Union

• 1875, the electric dental drill was patented by George Green of Kalamazoo, Mich.

• 1907, Congress passed the Tillman Act, which prohibited corporations from making direct campaign contributions to federal election candidates

• 1918, to promote food conservation during World War I, the U.S. government called for one meatless day, two wheatless days and two porkless days each week

• 1924, Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad

• 1942, the first American expeditionary force to go to Europe during World War II went ashore in Northern Ireland

• 1945, Soviet troops enter Auschwitz, Poland, freeing the survivors of the network of concentration camps-and finally revealing to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there

• 1949, the 200-inch Hal Telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California has first-light exposure

• 1950, India ceased to be a British dominion and became the Republic of India, most populous democracy in the world

• 1962, the United States launched Ranger 3 to land scientific instruments on the moon --- but the probe missed its target by some 22,000 miles

• 1972, Radio Hanoi announces North Vietnam's rejection of the latest U.S. peace proposal. Revealing more details of the secret Paris peace talks, Henry Kissinger responds publicly, condemning the North Vietnamese announcement and criticizing Hanoi's nine-point counter-proposal, which had been submitted during the secret talks

• 1980, Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations. ALSO: At the request of President Jimmy Carter, the U.S. Olympic Committee votes to ask the International Olympic Committee to cancel or move the upcoming Moscow Olympics. The action was in response to the Soviet military invasion of Afghanistan the previous month. AND: Six Americans hidden for three months in the Canadian Embassy in Tehran were smuggled out of Iran by Canadian diplomats

• 1991, Iraq fired Scuds at Israel and Saudi Arabia but most were intercepted by Patriot missiles

• 1996, the U.S. Senate ratified SALT II. President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin had signed the arms reduction agreement three years before

• 1997, the Green Bay Packers beat the New England Patriots 35-21 to win their first Super Bowl in 29 years

• 1998, in response to allegations that he had an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, U.S. President Bill Clinton declared, "I did not have [xxx] relations with that woman."

• 2001, a devastating earthquake hit the Indian subcontinent, killing some 20,000 people. Joseph Kabila was sworn in as Congo's president, following the assassination of his father, Laurent Kabila

• 2006, Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador from Denmark to protest caricatures of Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper. (Protests spread across the Muslim world for weeks, and dozens of people were killed by practitioners of that "religion of peace")

• 2007, the White House said President George W. Bush had authorized U.S. forces in Iraq to take whatever actions were necessary to counter Iranian agents deemed a threat to American troops or the public at large. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a news conference that a congressional resolution opposing President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq undercut U.S. commanders and emboldened the enemy

• 2009, a 33-year-old single California mom gave birth to eight babies, reported to be only the second set of octuplets ever to be born alive in the United States. The six boys and two girls ranged in weight from 1 1/2 pounds to just more than 3 pounds. Nadya Suleman earlier had six other children. All 14 of her children were conceived through in vitro fertilization

• 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a TV interview he would rather "be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president."

• 2017, tensions flared between President Donald Trump and Mexico, with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto scrapping a planned visit to Washington and the White House threatening a 20 percent tax on imports to pay for Trump's proposed wall along the southern borde

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