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Lentil Soup with Smoked Turkey Sausage and Gremolata Topping is heaven in a bowl

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On this day in . . .

• 1778, during the American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic

• 1815, New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens

• 1899, during the Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate

• 1900, the international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree

• 1922, the Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy

• 1933, the 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices, goes into effect

• 1951, the Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history

• 1959, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit. ALSO: At Cape Canaveral, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished

• 1978, the Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4 inches an hour

• 1987, broad no-smoking rules took effect for 890,000 employees in 6,800 U.S. federal buildings nationwide

• 1998, Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport

• 2002, a federal judge in Alexandria, Va., ordered John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," held without bail pending trial

• 2004, a female suicide bomber, a practitioner of that "religion of peace", detonated explosives in a suitcase during rush hour in a packed Moscow subway car killing 39 people and injuring about 200

• 2010, a raging storm with heavy snowfall left nearly 90,000 homes without power in Maryland and Virginia and forced much of the nation's capital to a standstill

• 2011, Egypt's vice president met with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and other opposition groups and offered sweeping concessions, including granting press freedom and rolling back police powers in the government's latest attempt to end two weeks of upheaval

• 2012, the United States suspended operations at its embassy in Damascus and evacuated its staff, citing the deteriorating situation across Syria

• 2014, U.S. stocks tumbled, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 320 points after reports of sluggish U.S growth added to investor worries about the global economy

• 2016, Seven GOP Republican hopefuls faced off three days before the New Hampshire primary; Marco Rubio, a first-term senator on the rise in the presidential race, faced a barrage of attacks while Sen. Ted Cruz, fresh off his victory in the Iowa caucuses, also came under withering criticism. ALSO: A magnitude-6.4 earthquake rocked Taiwan, leaving at least 117 dead and 550 people injured when several buildings collapsed

• 2018, SpaceX launched the world's most powerful rocket, the Falcon Heavy, for the first time, sending Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster -- complete with a dummy in a spacesuit listening to David Bowie's "Space Oddity" -- into space

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