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On this day in . . .

• 1626, Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci

• 1801, Washington, DC is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress

• 1812, poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire

• 1860, Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that was largely responsible for his election to the Presidency

• 1922, a challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett

• 1933, Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, was gutted by fire. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, blaming the Communists, used the fire as justification for suspending civil liberties

• 1940, Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14, used extensively as the basis of the radiocarbon dating method to date archaeological, geological, and hydrogeological samples

• 1951, the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified

• 1964, the government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over

• 1986, the United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis

• 1990, the Soviet Parliament approved creation of a U.S.-style presidential system that gave Mikhail Gorbachev broad powers and established direct popular elections for the post

• 1991, President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated."

• 1998, with the approval of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's House of Lords agreed to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son. ALSO: The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record of 8,545.72, the first time it closed at more than 8,500

• 1999, Nigeria's transition to civilian rule was nearly completed with the election of Olusegun Obasanjo, a former military leader, as president

• 2002, U.S. officials announced a $5 million reward for information in the kidnap-murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. ALSO: A mob of practitioners of that "religion f peace" set fire to a train carrying hundreds of Hindu nationalists in Godhra, India; some 60 people died

• 2004, a bombing of a superferry by practitioners of that "religion of peace" in the Philippines results in the murder of 116, becoming the worst act of terrorism in that country's history

• 2007, a suicide bomber -- a practitioner of that "religion of peace" -- struck Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, who was rushed to a bomb shelter. (Twenty-three people were killed; Cheney was unhurt.).) ALSO: The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 416.02 points, the worst drop since the 2001 terrorist attacks

• 2009, revised data indicated the U.S. gross domestic product, the measure of a nation's total economic activity, contracted 6.2 percent during October-December 2008, biggest drop since 1982

• 2011, lawmakers in Arizona, Texas and several other states considered proposals to allow guns in the classroom. Only Utah permitted firearms on school campuses at the time

• 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans for a major revamp of the nutrition labels on 700,000 food products, changing out-of-date serving sizes, highlighting calories and providing more information on "added sugars." Officials said the information on the new labels would make healthy eating easier

• 2016, Hillary Clinton overwhelmed Bernie Sanders in the South Carolina primary. ALSO: A cease-fire brokered by the United States and Russia went into effect across Syria. AND: A violent altercation between Ku Klux Klan members and counter-protesters in Anaheim, California, left three people stabbed

• 2018, a five-hour truce ordered by Syria's Russian allies to let civilians flee a besieged rebel-held enclave near Damascus failed to result in aid deliveries or medical evacuations, as deadly airstrikes and shelling continued. ALSO: The Anti-Defamation League reported a 57 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States during 2017

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