TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Saturday, January 12, the 12th day of 2019. There are 353 days left in the year.
Today in History:
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 US and Spain.
1915: The US House of Representatives rejected, 204-174, a proposed constitutional amendment to give women nationwide the right to vote.
1932: Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the US Senate after initially being appointed to serve out the remainder of the term of her late husband, Thaddeus.
1945: During World War II, Soviet forces began a major, successful offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe. Aircraft from US Task Force 38 sank about 40 Japanese ships off Indochina.
1948: The US Supreme Court, in Sipuel v Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma, unanimously ruled that state law schools could not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race.
1965: The music variety show Hullabaloo premiered on NBC-TV with host-of-theweek Jack Jones; guests included Joey Heatherton, the New Christy Minstrels and Woody Allen.
1966: President Lyndon B. Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the US military should stay in Vietnam until Communist aggression there was stopped. The TV series Batman, starring Adam West and Burt Ward as the Dynamic Duo, premiered on ABC, airing twice a week on consecutive nights.
1971: The groundbreaking situation comedy All in the Family premiered on CBS television.
1986: The shuttle Columbia blasted off with a crew that included the first HispanicAmerican in space, Dr Franklin R. ChangDiaz.
1998: Linda Tripp provided Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2000: In a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court, in Illinois v Wardlow, gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer.
2006: Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, was released from an Istanbul prison after serving more than 25 years in Italy and Turkey for the plot against the pontiff and the slaying of a Turkish journalist.
Ten years ago: Senate Democrats announced they would accept former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris as President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate successor. Acting at Barack Obama’s behest, President George W. Bush agreed to ask Congress for the final $350 billion in the financial bailout fund. In the final news conference of his presidency, Bush vigorously defended his record but also offered an extraordinary listing of his mistakes — including his optimistic Iraq speech in 2003. Rickey Henderson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on the first ballot, and Jim Rice made it in on his 15th and final try. French movie actorwriter-director Claude Berri died in Paris at age 74.
Five years ago: Officials announced that Iran had agreed to limit uranium enrichment and to open its nuclear programme to daily inspection by international experts. At the Golden Globes, 12 Years a Slave won for best motion picture drama while American Hustle was named best musical or comedy. One year ago: President Donald Trump’s White House physician, Dr Ronny Jackson, declared him in “excellent health” after the president received his first checkup at Walter Reed military hospital. John
Tunney, whose successful campaign for a California seat in the US Senate was the basis for the Robert Redford film The Candidate, died in Los Angeles 83.