Almanac - Friday 1/8/21
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Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 70. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 46. Calm wind. High temperatures are expected to rise into the upper 70s over the course of the week. Courtesy of HistoryNet: 1786 Birth of Nicholas Biddle, head of the first United States bank. 1815 A rag-tag army under Andrew Jackson defeats the British on the fields of Chalmette in the Battle of New Orleans. 1862 Birth of Frank Nelson Doubleday, founder of Doubleday publishing house. 1892 A coal mine explosion kills 100 in McAlister, Oklahoma. 190...
Almanacs are full of lists of global and national historic events. But “This Day in History” feature invites you to not just peruse a list, but to take a trip back in time to see how a significant event originally was reported in the Chicago Tribune.
TODAY IN HISTORY Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 8, 1998, Ramzi Yousef (RAHM’-zee YOO’-sef), the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was sentenced in New York to life in prison without the possibility of parole. On this date: In 1815, the last major engagement of the War of 1812 came to an end as U.S. forces defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, not having gotten word of the signing of a peace treaty. In 1935, rock-and-roll legend Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, decl...
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