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🗃️ On January 12, 2016, President Barack Obama delivered his final State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.
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On January 13, 1990, Douglas Wilder was sworn in as the governor of Virginia, becoming the first Black American to be popularly elected governor in the United States.
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On January 13, 2021, the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time.
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On January 13, 1966, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Robert Weaver to serve as the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The Senate would approve his nomination days later, making Weaver the first Black American to serve in a presidential cabinet.
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🗃️ On January 12, 2017, President Barack Obama awarded Vice President Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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🗃️ On January 12, 1973, just 10 days before his death, former President Lyndon Johnson sat for an interview with CBS’ Walter Cronkite at his ranch in Texas. Johnson died of a heart attack on January 22 at the age of 64.
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On January 12, 1971, All in the Family debuted on CBS, starring Carroll O’Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers, and Rob Reiner.
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On January 12, 1932, Hattie Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the United States Senate, winning a special election to serve the remainder of her late husband’s term.
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🗃️ In his farewell address on January 11, 1989, President Ronald Reagan spoke of a “shining city on a hill,” saying America serves as a beacon and magnet “for all who must have freedom.”
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On this day in either 1755 or 1757 (the exact year is uncertain), Alexander Hamilton was born on the island of Nevis in the British West Indies.
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Roosevelt concluded that “unless there is security here at home, there cannot be lasting peace in the world.”
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🗃️ In his 1944 State of the Union address, delivered via radio, President Franklin Roosevelt called for a “Second Bill of Rights” to include universal access to a job, a living wage, fair competition for businesses, housing, health care, retirement, and education.
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On January 11, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt issued a proclamation declaring the Grand Canyon a national monument.
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On January 10, 1961, President‑elect John F. Kennedy met with former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in New York City just ahead of his inauguration.
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🗃️ In a campaign ad for his 1976 presidential campaign, Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter said the American people needed a “government as good as our people are.”
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On January 7, 1971, President Richard Nixon appointed Kansas Senator Bob Dole as Republican Party chairman. Dole would go on to serve in the role for two years, earning the title of GOP “hatchet man” from his critics and commentators. He was succeeded by George H. W. Bush.
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🗃️ On January 10, 1957, in a joint address to Congress, President Dwight Eisenhower warned that America “alone and isolated cannot assure even its own security,” calling for alliances with countries that have “proved themselves dependable defenders of freedom.”
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On January 10, 1984, the United States reestablished formal diplomatic ties with the Vatican after a 117-year break.
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“A military man and a man of peace.” In a 1980 campaign ad, President Jimmy Carter pledged to maintain the peace if reelected, backed by “American military strength and American moral strength.”
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On January 9, 1990, President George H. W. Bush hosted NAACP head Benjamin Hooks in the Oval Office.
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