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[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 69, Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but only rules for three months before committing suicide
• 1759, the British Museum opens
• 1777, the people of New Connecticut declared their independence. (The tiny republic later became the state of Vermont.)
• 1870, a political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly)
• 1885, Wilson Bentley takes the first photograph of a snowflake
• 1892, James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball
• 1936, the first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company)
• 1943, the world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia
• 1967, in the first ever Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
• 1970, Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya
• 1973, during the Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam
• 1976, President Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison
• 1989, NATO, the Warsaw Pact and 12 other European countries adopted a human rights and security agreement in Vienna, Austria
• 1991, the United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm
• 1999, House prosecutors prodded senators at President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial to summon Monica Lewinsky and others for testimony and "invite the president" to appear as well
• 2000, masked gunmen opened fire in a hotel lobby in Belgrade, killing Serbian warlord Zeljko Raznatovic, better known as Arkan, who had been indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for alleged atrocities in Bosnia and Croatia
• 2003, Mickey Mouse and The Walt Disney Co. scored a big victory as the Supreme Court upheld longer copyright protections for cartoon characters, songs, books and other creations worth billions of dollars
• 2005, an intense solar flare blasts X rays across the solar system. ALSO: ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon. AND: Wilbert Rideau, an award-winning black journalist who'd spent nearly 44 years in Louisiana prisons for the 1961 death of a white bank teller, Julia Ferguson, was found guilty of manslaughter in a fourth trial by a racially mixed jury and set free
• 2007, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq
• 2009, in a farewell address to the nation, President George W. Bush said while his policies were unpopular, there could be little debate about the results: "America has gone more than seven years without another terrorist attack on our soil." ALSO: Congress cleared the release of the final $350 billion in bailout funds for the financial industry. ALSO: US Airways Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger ditched his Airbus 320 in the Hudson River after a flock of birds disabled both engines; all 155 people aboard survived
• 2013, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved what supporters said would be the nation's toughest gun-control law. "You can overpower the extremists with intelligence and with reason and with common sense," Cuomo said before signing the measure.
• 2015, Elon Musk announced that he would be building a Hyperloop test track for companies and student teams to test out their transportation pods. It was initially claimed that the track would be built in Texas, though it appears now that it will be built next to SpaceX's Hawthorne facility. ALSO: Police in Belgium conducted raids across the country, killing two suspected Islamist terorists
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Dave Weinbaum: Preparing your children to conquer the world
Sonny Bunch: With '13 Hours,' Hollywood is finally acknowledging conservative audiences
Suzanne Fields: What Do Women Want This Year?
The Fact Checker: The Truth Behind the Rhetoric: Debaters put forth some claims that are head-scratchers or downright wrong
Chris Cillizza: Winners and losers from the sixth Republican presidential debate
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David Limbaugh: Obama's SOTU Versus Reality
David Ignatius: A new year of turmoil for China
Michael Barone: With '13 Hours,' Hollywood is finally acknowledging conservative audiences
Jonah Goldberg: The bogeymen of the 'billionaire class'
Rich Lowry: Why Obama is oblivious to yet another American humiliation
Dick Morris: Women are leaving Hillary
Greg Crosby: Obama-ed Out
Charles Krauthammer: The state of the presidency: spent
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