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Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
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On this day in . . .

• 1759, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated

• 1785, the Continental Congress convened in New York City

• 1787, William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus

• 1805, Michigan Territory is created

• 1861, Alabama secedes from the United States

• 1880, a total solar eclipse blackens the sky of San Francisco one day after the funeral of Emperor Norton

• 1902, Popular Mechanics magazine is published for the first time

• 1908, the Grand Canyon National Monument was created with a proclamation by President Theodore Roosevelt. (It became a national park in 1919.)

• 1913, the first sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, went on display at the 13th Automobile Show in New York

• 1922, first use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient

• 1935, Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California

• 1943, the United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China

• 1949, first recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.

• 1962, an avalanche on Huascaran in Peru causes 4,000 deaths

• 1964, the United States Surgeon General Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health. It is the first such statement ever made by the U.S. government

• 1972, East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh

• 1974, the world's first surviving set of sextuplets are born to Susan Rosenkowitz in Cape Town, South Africa

• 1977, France set off an international uproar by releasing Abu Daoud, a PLO official and practitioner of that "religion of peace" who was behind the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics

• 2001, the Federal Trade Commission approves the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner

• 2002, the first planeload of al-Qaida prisoners from Afghanistan arrived at a U.S. military detention camp in Guantanamo, Cuba

• 2003, calling the death penalty process "arbitrary and capricious, and therefore immoral," Illinois Gov. George Ryan commuted the sentences of 167 condemned inmates, clearing his state's death row two days before leaving office

• 2006, a Georgian court convicted a man of trying to assassinate President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili with a grenade in Tbilisi on May 10, 2005, and sentenced him to life in prison

• 2007, President Bush's plan for a surge of American troops to Iraq ran into a wall of criticism on Capitol Hill as administration officials drew confrontational challenges from both Democrats and Republicans

• 2010, Mark McGwire admitted to The Associated Press that he'd used steroids when he broke baseball's home run record in 1998. ALSO: 78 percent of U.S. air travelers say they support using full body airport scanners, a Gallup poll indicated

• 2011, a downpour of 10 inches of rain in Brazil in a 24-hour period triggered floods and mudslides that killed more than 900 people and left an estimated 25,000 others homeless. Severe weather ranging from flooding to snow and ice hit many other areas hard, including much of the United States and Australia's Brisbane area

• 2012, Iran blamed the United States and Israel for the bombing death of nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, the fourth such attack in two months. The White House denied responsibility

• 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama said the war in Afghanistan "will come to a responsible end" by the end of 2014.

• 2014, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon died at age 85. He had been in a coma for eight years following a massive stroke

• 2015, more than a million people surged through the boulevards of Paris behind dozens of world leaders walking arm-in-arm in a rally for unity against three days of terror that killed 17 people and changed France

• 2018, President Donald Trump stirred controversy when he used a vulgar term to describe Haiti, El Salvador and African nations during a bipartisan meeting on an immigration deal. ALSO: Walmart announced that it was boosting its starting salary for U.S. workers and handing out bonuses, on the same day the company confirmed it was closing dozens of Sam's Club warehouse stores

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Suzanne Fields: When a Woman's Vulgarity Is Neither Brave Nor Bold

Megan McArdle: What if we paid people to donate their kidneys to strangers?

L. Brent Bozell III: Cheney Haters Flop at the Golden Globes

Paul Waldman: Why Dems' old contributions will haunt them in 2020

Marc A. Thiessen: Dems were for a wall it before they were against it

• HUMANITY: A couple divorced. Then she gave him her kidney

• FACTS, NOT PREDICTIONS: What the near-off end of conventionasl cars will mean for our cities, lives

• Trump administration lays groundwork to declare national emergency to build wall

Mona Charen: Don't Ask Government for Love, Tucker

John Kass: Donald, Nancy and Chuck prove to be lousy sausage-makers

Henry Olsen: Trump may well win his trade war with China

Deroy Murdock: Yes, Virginia, we HAVE nabbed terrorists on the southern border

Rich Lowry: Declaring an emergency won't get Trump the wall he wants

David Limbaugh: Hold Tight on the Wall, President Trump

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