TODAY IN HISTORY

SUNDAY JAN 8, 2023 1964

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

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 received word of the signing of a peace treaty.

1867

The U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in overriding President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the District of Columbia Suffrage Bill, giving Black men in the nation’s capital the right to vote.

1912

The African National Congress was founded in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

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.

1923

Actor-comedian Larry Storch was born.

1935

Rock-and-roll legend Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi.

1982

American Telephone and Telegraph settled the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22Bell System companies.

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.

1998

Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was sentenced in New York to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton powered to victory in New Hampshire’s 2008 Democratic primary in a startling upset, defeating Sen. Barack Obama and resurrecting her bid for the White House; Sen. John Mccain defeated his Republican rivals to move back into contention for the GOP nomination.

2011

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-ariz., was shot and critically wounded when a gunman opened fire as the congresswoman met with constituents in Tucson; six people were killed, 12 others also injured. was sentenced in Nov. 2012 to seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years.)