TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Jan. 1, 1892

The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opened.

ON THIS DATE 1954

NBC broadcast the first coast-to-coast color TV program as it presented live coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California.

1975

A jury in Washington found Nixon administration officials John N. Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Robert C. Mardian guilty of charges related to the Watergate cover-up.

1984

The breakup of AT&T took place as the telecommunications giant was divested of its 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement.

1985

The music cable channel VH-1 made its debut with a video of Marvin Gaye performing “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

2014

The nation’s first legal recreational pot shops opened in Colorado at 8 a.m. Mountain time.