January 12
Today in America's Present Past
1723 | Cleric Samuel Langdon was born.
1792 | Thomas Pinckney was appointed the first U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain.
1876 | Novelist John Griffith Chaney, a.k.a., Jack London was born.
1915 | Civil Rights: U.S. Congress rejected a Constitutional Amendment to grant women the vote.
1932 | SCOTUS: Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes resigned.
1932 | Civil Rights: Democrat Hattie Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
1942 | WWII: Democrat President Roosevelt created the National War Labor Board.
1944 | Boxer Joe Frazier was born.
1951 | Broadcaster Rush Limbaugh was born.
1952 | Musician Ricky Van Shelton was born.
1954 | Broadcaster Howard Stern was born.
1962: Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American aerial combat mission in Vietnam.
1967 | James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved.
1971 | The “Harrisburg Seven” are indicted for attempting to kidnap Henry Kissinger.
1971 | TV: “All in the Family” debuted.
1991 | Boston Chinatown massacre occurs.
1991 | Congress: The U.S. House passed a resolution authorizing the use of military force to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait, leading to the start of Operation Desert Storm days later.
2023 | Entertainer Lisa Marie Presley died.