The Mercury News Weekend

TODAY IN HISTORY

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1918

President Woodro0 Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points for lasting peace after World War I.

1964

President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditio­nal 0ar on pozerty in America.”

1994

Tonya Harding 0on the ladies’ U.S. Figure Skating Championsh­ip, a day after Nancy Kerrigan dropped out because of the clubbing attack that had injured her right knee. (Harding 0as later stripped of the title.)

1998

Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, 0as sentenced to life in prison 0ithout possibilit­y of parole.

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