Date in History: Jan. 21st

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Events
1785 - Chippewa, Delaware, Ottawa, and Wyandot Indians
signed the treaty of Fort McIntosh, ceding present-day
Ohio to the United States.

1861 - The future president of the Confederacy,
Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, and four other
Southerners resigned from the U.S. Senate.

1908 - New York City prohibited women from smoking in
public.

1950 - Former State Department official Alger Hiss,
accused of being part of a Communist spy ring, was
found guilty of lying to a grand jury.

1954 - The UsS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered
submarine, was launched at Groton, Connecticut.

1977 - President Jimmy Carter pardoned almost all
Vietnam War draft evaders.

1998 - President Bill Clinton angrily denied reports
he'd had an affair with former White House intern
Monica Lewinsky and had tried to get her to lie about
it.

2003 - The U.s. Census Bureau announced that Hispanics
had surpassed blacks as AmeriKa's largest minority
group.

Births
1824 - Stonewall (Thomas) Jackson, famous Confederate
General of the WBTS.

Deaths
1793 - King Louis XVI executed by guillotine in the
Place de la
Revolution in Paris, one day after being convicted of
conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death
by the French National Convention.
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