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President Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points for lasting peace after World War I.
In 1918,
In 1935,
rock ’n’ roll legend Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi.
In 1964,
President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.”
In 1968,
the Otis Redding single “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” was released almost a month after the singer’s death in a plane crash in Madison, Wisconsin.
In 1973,
the Paris peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam resumed.
In 1982,
American Telephone and Telegraph settled the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies.
In 1994,
Tonya Harding won the ladies’ U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Detroit, a day after Nancy Kerrigan dropped out because of the clubbing attack that had injured her right knee. (The U.S. Figure Skating Association later stripped Harding of the title.)
In 1998,
Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, was critically wounded when a gunman opened fire as the congresswoman met with constituents in Tucson; six people were killed, 12 others also injured. (Gunman Jared Lee Loughner was sentenced in Nov. 2012 to seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years.)
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the world’s most-wanted drug lord, was captured for a third time in a raid by Mexican marines, six months after walking through a tunnel to freedom in a prison escape that embarrassed the government and strained ties with the United States.
Iran struck back at the United States for killing Iran’s top military commander, firing missiles at two Iraqi military bases housing American troops; more than 100 U.S. service members were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after the attack. As Iran braced for a counterattack, the country’s Revolutionary Guard shot down a Ukrainian jetliner after apparently mistaking it for a missile; all 176 people on board were killed.
Associated Press