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Misc. History
Misc. History
1790 - In the United States, George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address.
1918 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points as the basis for peace upon the end of World War I.
1957 - Jackie Robinson announced his retirement from major league baseball in an article that appeared in LOOK magazine.
1964 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declared a "War on Poverty."
1973 - A trial opened in Washington of seven men accused of bugging Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, DC.
1992 - U.S. President George Bush collapsed during a state dinner in Tokyo. White House officials said Bush was suffering from stomach flu.
1997 - Mister Rogers received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
| Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. - Marshall McLuhan |
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