SUNDAY IN HISTORY

Today is Sunday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2017. There are 357 days left in the year.

Highlight in History:

On Jan. 8, 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.

On this date:

In 1642, astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri, Italy.

In 1790, President George Washington delivered his first State of the Union address to Congress.

In 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 gotten word of the signing of a peace treaty.

In1918, PresidentWoodrow 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.

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.”

In 1982, American Telephone and Telegraph settled the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies.

In 2011, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot and critically wounded when a gunman opened fire as the congresswomanmet with constituents in Tucson; six people were killed, 12 others also wounded. (Gunman Jared Lee Loughner was sentenced in Nov. 2012 to seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years.)

Tenyears ago: AMoroccan convicted of aiding three of the four suicide pilots who had committed the Sept. 11 attacks was sentenced by a German court to the maximumof 15 years in prison for his role in the terror plot.

Five years ago: Bells rang in Tucson, Ariz., as residents paused to remember the six people killed in the shooting rampage a year earlier that left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords severely wounded.

One year ago: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the world’s most-wanted drug lord, was captured for a third time in a daringraidbyMexicanmarines.

Today’s Birthdays: Actorcomedian Larry Storch is 94. Broadcast journalist Sander Vanocur is 89. CBS newsman Charles Osgood is 84. Physicist Stephen Hawking is 75. Singer R. Kelly is 50. Actress Amber Benson is 40.

Thought for Today: “No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten customsupported by popular opinion.” — Carrie Chapman Catt, American suffrage leader (1859-1947).