Today is Wednesday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2011. There are 353 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight:
On Jan. 12, 2010, Haiti was struck by a magnitude-7 earthquake, killing as many as 300,000 residents and leaving over 1.5 million people homeless.
On this date:
In 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected, 204-174, a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.
In 1932, Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, after serving out the remainder of the term of her late husband, Thaddeus.
In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there was ended.
In 1971, the groundbreaking situation comedy “All in the Family” premiered on CBS television.
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In 1969, the New York Jets of the American Football League upset the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League 16-7 in Super Bowl III, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami.
In 1986, the shuttle Columbia blasted off with a crew that included the first Hispanic-American in space, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer.
Ten years ago: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights concluded a two-day hearing on Florida’s 2000 presidential election, with members accusing Secretary of State Katherine Harris of presiding over a “disaster” and trying to shift blame to others. William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co., died in Palo Alto, Calif., at age 87.
Five years ago: Mehmet Ali Agca (MEH’-met AH’-lee AH’-juh), the Turkish gunman who’d shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, was released from an Istanbul prison after serving more than 25 years in Italy and Turkey for the plot against the pontiff and the slaying of a Turkish journalist. A stampede broke out during the Islamic hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, killing 363 people. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito completed four days of testimony at his Senate confirmation hearing.
One year ago: U.S. and Mexican authorities announced the capture of alleged drug kingpin Teodoro Garcia Simental, known as “El Teo.”
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