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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

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On this day in . . .

• 1297, Francois Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco

• 1790, President George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York

• 1815, the War of 1812: During the Battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British

• 1835, the United States national debt is zero for the only time

• 1889, Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' --- his punched card calculator

• 1918, President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I

• 1940, during World War II: Britain introduces food rationing

• 1963, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

• 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States

• 1973, The Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins

• 1975, Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband

• 1982, AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions

• 1993, thousands gathered at Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion in Memphis to purchase the first issue of a stamp honoring the "King of Rock 'n' Roll" on what would have been his 58th birthday

• 2002, President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act

• 2004 , the RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II

• 2007, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced he would nationalize the nation's telecommunications and electric power industries controlled by U.S. companies

• 2011, the attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner is subsequently arrested, kills six people and wounds 13, including Giffords

• 2016, Mexican authorities capture Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Sinaloa drug cartel kingpin who led police on a monthslong manhunt after escaping from prison

• 2017, a "Palestinian" practitioner of that "religion of peace" committed murder with a truck when at least four Israelis were killed in one of the deadliest attacks of a year and half-long wave of violence. (The murderer was shot dead)

• 2019 in a somber televised address, President Donald Trump urged congressional Dems to fund his border wall and end the stalemate that had shut down much of the government for 18 days. ALSO: Mayor Bill de Blasio said New York City would spend up to $100 million per year to expand health care coverage to people without health insurance, including liens in the country illegally

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