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1/12/2015
« on: January 12, 2015, 12:00:13 AM »

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Re: 1/12/2015
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2015, 02:13:23 AM »

Good morning guys.
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Re: 1/12/2015
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2015, 02:16:46 AM »

Today is Monday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2015. There are 353 days left in the year.
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Re: 1/12/2015
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2015, 02:17:53 AM »

Today's Highlights in History:

On Jan. 12, 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected, 204-174, a proposed constitutional amendment to give women nationwide the right to vote. The silent film drama "A Fool There Was," which propelled Theda Bara to stardom with her portrayal of a predatory vamp, premiered in New York.
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Re: 1/12/2015
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2015, 02:18:39 AM »

On this date:

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Re: 1/12/2015
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2015, 02:19:06 AM »

In 1519, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.
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Re: 1/12/2015
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2015, 02:19:37 AM »

In 1773, the first public museum in America was organized in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Re: 1/12/2015
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2015, 02:20:22 AM »

In 1828, the United States and Mexico signed a Treaty of Limits defining the boundary between the two countries to be the same as the one established by an 1819 treaty between the U.S. and Spain.
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Re: 1/12/2015
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2015, 02:21:06 AM »

In 1912, textile workers at the Everett Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, most of them immigrant women, walked off the job to protest wage cuts.
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« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2015, 02:21:43 AM »

In 1932, Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate after initially being appointed to serve out the remainder of the term of her late husband, Thaddeus.
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Re: 1/12/2015
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2015, 02:22:35 AM »

In 1945, during World War II, Soviet forces began a major, successful offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe. Aircraft from U.S. Task Force 38 sank about 40 Japanese ships off Indochina.
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Re: 1/12/2015
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2015, 02:23:16 AM »

In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records (originally Tamla Records) in Detroit.
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Re: 1/12/2015
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2015, 02:24:01 AM »

In 1965, the music variety show "Hullabaloo" premiered on NBC-TV with host-of-the-week Jack Jones; guests included Joey Heatherton, the New Christy Minstrels and Woody Allen. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry ("A Raisin in the Sun") died in New York at age 34.
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Re: 1/12/2015
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2015, 02:24:40 AM »

In 1975, the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Minnesota Vikings 16-6 to win Super Bowl IX at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans.
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Re: 1/12/2015
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2015, 02:25:13 AM »

In 1986, the shuttle Columbia blasted off with a crew that included the first Hispanic-American in space, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
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