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Today in History

Today is Saturday, Jan. 1, the first day of 2022. There are 364 days left in the year.

The Department of Justice claims to be the world's biggest law office, but it does everything from operating prisons to conducting counterespionage operations.

Tom, a little flashback to the past. “Any time you get somebody marching in the streets, it’s catering to revolution.” — Martha Mitchell Martha Mitchell was the wife of John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General under President Richard Nixon. She became a controversial figure with her outspoken comments about the government at the time of the Watergate scandal. She was known as “The Mouth of the South” and contacted reporters about her husband’s a...

Before the freedom of the individual automobile replaced railroad passenger service and the variety and convenience of Walmart subjugated Main Street department stores, downtown Pine Bluff was a center of commerce and the major metropolitan destination for all of southeast Arkansas.

Sean Penn wants all cast, crew members of Gaslit Watergate Series to be vaccinated ANI | Updated: Jul 23, 2021 09:37 IST Washington [US], July 23 (ANI): Hollywood star Sean Penn has refused to return to work on Starzs Watergate series Gaslit until all cast and crew on the production have had the COVID-19 vaccine. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actors firm position on mandatory vaccinations comes on the heels of a big spike in virus cases as the hi...

Milton Moses Ginsberg, who directed two ambitious but eccentric films before falling into obscurity, one about the meltdown of a psychiatrist and the

His movies about a psychiatrist’s disintegration and a werewolf working in the White House bombed. But they both drew favorable attention many years later.

G. Gordon Liddy, Mastermind Behind Watergate Burglary, Dies at 90 Unlike other defendants in the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon, Mr. Liddy refused to testify and drew the longest prison term. G. Gordon Liddy, a cloak-and-dagger lawyer who masterminded dirty tricks for the White House and concocted the bungled burglary that led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974, died on Tuesday in Mount Vernon, Va. He was 90. His death, at the home of his...

Associated Press Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 20, 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, upheld, 7-2, compulsory vaccination laws intended to protect the public’s health. On this date: In 1839, Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia. In 1933, Congress proposed the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to repeal Prohibition. In 1942, Lt. Edward “Butch” O’Hare became the U.S. Navy’s first flying ace of World War II by shooting down f...