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1/8/2016
« on: January 08, 2016, 12:00:04 AM »
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Re: 1/8/2016
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2016, 02:12:53 AM »
Good morning guys.
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Re: 1/8/2016
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2016, 02:32:15 AM »
Today is Friday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2016. There are 358 days left in the year.
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Re: 1/8/2016
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2016, 02:33:11 AM »
Today's Highlights in History:

On Jan. 8, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points for lasting peace after World War I. Mississippi became the first state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which established Prohibition.
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Re: 1/8/2016
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2016, 02:33:45 AM »
On this date:
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Re: 1/8/2016
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2016, 02:34:08 AM »
In 1642, astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri, Italy.
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Re: 1/8/2016
« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2016, 02:34:31 AM »
In 1790, President George Washington delivered his first State of the Union address to Congress in New York.
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Re: 1/8/2016
« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2016, 02:35:27 AM »
In 1815, the last major engagement of the War of 1812 came to an end as U.S. forces defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, not having gotten word of the signing of a peace treaty.
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Re: 1/8/2016
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2016, 02:35:54 AM »
In 1863, America's First Transcontinental Railroad had its beginnings as California Gov. Leland Stanford broke ground for the Central Pacific Railroad in Sacramento. (The transcontinental railroad was completed in Promontory, Utah, in May 1869.)
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Re: 1/8/2016
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2016, 02:36:27 AM »
In 1912, the African National Congress was founded in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
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Re: 1/8/2016
« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2016, 02:36:53 AM »
In 1935, rock-and-roll legend Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi.
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Re: 1/8/2016
« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2016, 02:37:19 AM »
In 1959, Charles de Gaulle was inaugurated as president of France's Fifth Republic.
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Re: 1/8/2016
« Reply #12 on: January 08, 2016, 02:37:56 AM »
In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an "unconditional war on poverty in America."
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Re: 1/8/2016
« Reply #13 on: January 08, 2016, 02:38:21 AM »
In 1975, Judge John J. Sirica ordered the early release from prison of Watergate figures John W. Dean III, Herbert W. Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder. Democrat Ella Grasso was sworn in as Connecticut's first female governor. Opera singer Richard Tucker, 61, died in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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Re: 1/8/2016
« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2016, 02:38:46 AM »
In 1976, Chinese premier Zhou Enlai, 77, died in Beijing.
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