TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Jan. 5, 1957

President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed assistance to countries to help them resist Communist aggression in what became known as the Eisenhower Doctrine.

ON THIS DATE 1896

An Austrian newspaper, Wiener Presse, reported the discovery by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen of a type of radiation that came to be known as X-rays.

1914

Auto industrialist Henry Ford announced he was going to pay workers $5 for an 8-hour day, as opposed to $2.34 for a 9-hour day.

1972

President Richard Nixon announced that he had ordered development of the space shuttle.