Today is Thursday, January 12, the 12th day of 2023. There are 353 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. founded in Detroit by Motown Records (originally Tamla Records).
In 1828, the United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Limitations, which defined the boundary between the two countries to be the same as that established by the 1819 treaty between the US and Spain.
In 1910, at a White House dinner hosted by President William Howard Taft, Baroness Rosen, the wife of the Russian ambassador, caused a stir by asking for a cigarette and smoking it—apparently the first time a woman had smoked openly in public. function in the executive headquarters. (Some of the other women present, who had brought their own cigarettes, gradually began to light them.)
In 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 204-174 to reject a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would have given women the right to vote nationwide.
In 1932, Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate after she was originally appointed to serve out the remainder of her late husband Thaddeus’ term.
In 1945, during World War II, Soviet forces launched a major, successful offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe. US Task Force 38 aircraft sink about 40 Japanese ships off Indochina.
In 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma that state law schools could not discriminate against applicants based on race.
In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the U.S. military should remain in Vietnam until communist aggression there was stopped. The TV series “Batman” starring Adam West and Burt Ward as the Dynamic Duo premiered on ABC.
In 1969, the New York Jets of the American Football League upset the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League 16-7 in Super Bowl III, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami.
In 1971, the groundbreaking sitcom “All in the Family” premiered on CBS.
In 2000, in a 5-4 decision in Illinois v. Wardlow, the U.S. Supreme Court gave police broad authority to stop and question people who flee at the sight of an officer.
In 2010, a magnitude 7 earthquake struck Haiti; the Haitian government said 316,000 people were killed, while a report prepared for the United States Agency for International Development suggested the death toll may have been between 46,000 and 85,000.
In 2016, Iran detained 10 US sailors and their two small Navy boats after the boats entered Iranian waters; the sailors and their vessels were released the following day.
Ten years ago: The NHL’s four-month lockout ended for good when the league and the players’ association completed signing the required memorandum of understanding. Gary Stevens won the first race at Santa Anita, giving the Hall of Fame jockey his first North American victory since 2005, when he began a seven-year retirement that recently ended. (Stevens rode Branding to a 5-1 victory by 2 1/2 lengths on January 6, 2013, in his third race since his comeback start.)
Five years ago: President Donald Trump’s White House physician, Dr. Ronny Jackson, declared him in “excellent health” after the president made his first visit at Walter Reed Military Hospital. Sportscaster Keith Jackson, best known as the homegrown voice of college football, has died; he was 89. John Tunney, whose successful campaign for a California seat in the US Senate was the basis for the Robert Redford film “The Candidate”, died in Los Angeles at the age of 83.
One year ago: The House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol uprising requested an interview and records from House Leader Kevin McCarthy as it continued to seek first-hand details from members of Congress about former President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 actions; McCarthy issued a statement saying he would refuse to cooperate and accused the panel of “abuse of power”. Inflation jumped to 7% in December at the fastest annual rate in nearly four decades, the government said. Ronnie Spector, who sang 1960s hits including “Be My Baby” as the leader of the girl group The Ronettes, has died aged 78 after a short battle with cancer.
Birthdays Today: The Amazing Kreskin is 88. Country singer William Lee Golden (The Oak Ridge Boys) is 84. Actor Anthony Andrews is 75. Film director Wayne Wang is 74. Legal blogger Ann Althouse is 72. Writer Walter Mosley is 71 .Country singer Ricky Van Shelton is 71. Radio and television personality Howard Stern is 69. Writer-producer-director John Lasseter is 66. Journalist Christiane Amanpour is 65. Actor Oliver Platt is 63. Basketball Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins is 63. Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos is 59. Rock singer Rob Zombie is 58. Actor Olivier Martinez is 57. Model Vendele is 56. Actor Rachael Harris is 55. Rock singer Zack de la Rocha is 53. Rapper Raekwon (Wu Tang Clan) is 53. Actor Zabryn Guevara is 51. Singer Dan Haseltine (Jars of Clay) is 50. Singer Melanie Chisholm (Spice Girls) is 49. Contemporary Christian singer Jeremy Camp is 45. Actress Cynthia Addai-Robinson is 43. Singing R&B girl Amerie is 43. Actor Issa Rae is 38. Actor Will Rothhaar is 36. Actor Andrew Lawrence is 35. Rock singer ZAYN is 30. Pop/soul singer Elle Henderson (TV: “The X Factor”) is 27.