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On this day in . . .


• 1595, William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed

• 1814, France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne

• 1820, Britain's King George III died at Windsor Castle, ending a reign that had seen both the American and French revolutions

• 1845, "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe is published in the New York Evening Mirror

• 1886, Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven car

• 1936, the first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, are announced

• 1944, USS Missouri, the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy, is launched

• 1963, first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced

• 1978, Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban

• 1979, President Jimmy Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations

• 1989, Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making them the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so

• 1995, Super Bowl XXIX: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 and become the first NFL team to win five Super Bowl titles

• 1999, the Senate delivered subpoenas for Monica Lewinsky and two of President Bill Clinton's advisers, summoning them for private, videotaped testimony in the impeachment trial. Attorney General Janet Reno rejected a special prosecutor investigation of former White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes

• 2002, in his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an "Axis of Evil", in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea

• 2004, a practitioner of that "religion of peace" blew himself up in a bus in Jerusalem, killing 10 Israelis

• 2005, the first direct commercial flights from the mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines carrier landed in Beijing.

• 2007, a practitioner of that "religion of peace" blew himself up and killed three Israelis at a bakery in Eilat in the first such attack inside Israel in nine months

• 2009, the Illinois Senate voted, 59-0, to convict Gov. Rod Blagojevich of abuse of power and throw him out of office, nearly two months after his arrest on charges of trying to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat

• 2013, BP PLC closed the book on the Justice Department's criminal probe of its role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Gulf of Mexico oil spill, with a U.S. judge agreeing to let the London-based oil giant plead guilty to manslaughter charges for the deaths of 11 rig workers and pay a record $4 billion in penalties

• 2014, the U.S. Federal Reserve, indicating optimism in the country's economic growth, announced a $10 billion cut in its monthly bond purchases

• 2015, President Barack Obama called for a surge in government spending and asked Congress to throw out the sweeping spending cuts both parties agreed to four years earlier when deficits were spiraling out of control. Obama proposed $74 billion in added spending to be split about evenly between domestic and defense programs. ALSO: nine Democrats joined 53 Republicans in passing a Senate bill to construct the Keystone XL oil pipeline in defiance of a presidential veto threat

• 2017, the White House vigorously defended President Donald Trump’s immigration restrictions, as protests against the order banning travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries spread throughout the country


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