TODAY IN HISTORY

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

On Jan. 8, 1912,

President Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points for lasting

In 1918,

peace after World War I. Also, Mississippi became the first state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which established Prohibition.

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 1998, Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In 2020, Iran struck back at the United States for killing Iran’s top military commander, firing missiles at two Iraqi military bases housing American troops.