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PONDERABLE

The real test of a person is how he reacts to minor challenges. Most people are capable of withstanding major stress, but their resolve to strive for any degree of greatness dwindles in the face of trivia, which they dismiss as insignificant. It is when dealing with such ostensibly petty matters that a person reveals his true character.

--- Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz

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[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]

• 1265, in Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting held by Simon de Beaufort in the Palace of Westminster, now also known as the "Houses of Parliament"

• 1783, the Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the Revolutionary War

• 1841, the island of Hong Kong was ceded by China to Great Britain. (It returned to Chinese control in July 1997.)

• 1885, L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster

• 1887, the United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base

• 1892, the first officially recognized basketball game was played at the YMCA gym in Springfield, Mass.

• 1937, Franklin Roosevelt is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first inauguration scheduled on January 20, following adoption of the 20th Amendment. Previous inaugurations were scheduled on March 4

• 1942, during World War II: Nazis, ym"sh, at the Wannsee conference in Berlin agree on the "final solution to the Jewish problem"

• 1945, Hungary ends its involvement in the Second World War, agreeing to an armistice with the Allies

• 1949, President Harry S. Truman was sworn in for a second term of office. In his inaugural address, Truman branded communism a "false philosophy" as he outlined his program for U.S. world leadership

• 1981, Iran releases 52 American hostages twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as U.S. President

• 1987, Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon by practitioners of that "religion of peace"

• 1990, "Black January" crackdown of Azerbaijani pro-independence demonstrations by Soviet army in Baku

• 1991, Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south

• 1995, the United States announced it was easing the trade embargo in effect against North Korea since the Korean War

• 1997, millionaire Steve Fossett landed in northern India after a record-setting bid to become the first person to circle the globe in a hot air balloon

• 1999, the China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafés

• 2001, Philippine president Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. ALSO: Just hours before leaving office, U.S. President Bill Clinton issued 176 pardons -- a number of them controversial

• 2010, senior Hamas Commander Mahmoud al-Mabbouh was assassinated in his hotel room while on a visit to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

• 2011, In a luncheon speech to American business executives in Washington, Chinese President Hu Jintao denied his country was a military threat despite its arms buildup and pressed the U.S. for closer cooperation between the global powers. ALSO: Federal authorities orchestrated one of the biggest Mafia takedowns in FBI history, charging 127 suspected mobsters and associates in the Northeast with murders, extortion and other crimes spanning decades.

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