On this day, Jan. 11 .
1989: Nine days before leaving the White House, President Ronald Reagan bids the nation farewell in a primetime address, saying of his eight years in office: We meant to change a nation and instead we changed a world.
Also on this day:
1861: Alabama becomes the fourth state to withdraw from the Union.
1908: President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims the Grand Canyon National Monument. (It would become a national park in 1919.)
1913: The first enclosed sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, goes on display at the 13th National Automobile Show in New York.
1935: Aviator Amelia Earhart begins an 18-hour trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., that would make her the first person to fly solo across any part of the Pacific Ocean.
January 5, 2021
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Today is Wednesday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2021. There are 359 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 6, 2001, with Vice President Al Gore presiding in his capacity as president of the Senate, Congress formally certified George W. Bush the winner of the bitterly contested 2000 presidential election.
On this date:
In 1412, tradition holds that Joan of Arc was born this day in Domremy.
In 1540, England’s King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. (The marriage lasted about six months.)
In 1912, New Mexico became the 47th state.
In 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, New York, at age 60.
Today:
Mostly sunny, with a high near 72. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly sunny skies and highs remaining in low 70s are expected for the coming week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
1811 Birth of Charles Sumner, anti-slavery senator from Massachusetts.
1861 The Governor of Maryland, Thomas Hicks, announces his opposition to the state’s possible secession from the Union.
1878 Birth of Carl Sandburg, U.S. journalist, poet and biographer.
1882 Birth of Sam Rayburn, U.S. Congressman from Texas & Speaker of the House (1940-46, 1949-53).
1912 New Mexico becomes the 47th U.S. state of the Union.
1912 Birth of Danny Thomas, actor, producer, philanthropist; founder of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.