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January 2

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In 1788, Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the Constitution.

In 1900, Secretary of State John hay announced the "Open Door Policy" to facillitate trade with China.

In 1921, reliqious services were broadcast for the first time as KDKA in Pittsburgh aired the regular Sunday service of the city's Calvary Episcopal Church.

In 1929, the United States and Canada reached an agreement on joint action to preserve Niagara Falls.

In 1935, Bruno hauptmann went on trial in Flemington, N.J., on charges of kidnapping and murdering the infant son of aviator Charles A. Lindbergh. Hauptmann was found guilty and executed.

In 1939, Time magazine named German chancellor Adolf Hitler its "Man of the Year."

In 1942, the Philippine capital of Manila was captured by the Japanese in the early days of the Pacific war.

In 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachussetts announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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Author Isaac Asimov  (1919)

Singer Julius LaRosa  (1929)

Singer Roger Miller  (1935)

Former television evangelist Jim Bakker  (1938)

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"We are always getting ready to live but never living."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet and philosopher (1803-1882)