In 1773, the first public museum in America was established, in Charleston, S.C.
In 1915, the House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
In 1932, Mrs. Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the Senate.
In 1944, British Prime Ministerr Winston Churchill and French General Charles de Gaulle began a two-day wartime conference in Marrakesh, Morocco.
In 1945, during World War II, German forces in Belgium retreated in the Battle of the Bulge.
In 1945, aircraft from U.S. Task Force 38 sank about 40 Japanese ships off Indochina.
In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression there ended.
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Journalist Martin Agronsky (1914)
Singer Ray Price (1925)
The "Amazing Kreskin" (1934)
Actress Kirstie Alley (1954)
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"Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give."