Today In U.S. History – 01/15/21

January 15, 2021 *Blogs / Pages, Mornings
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January 15th

  • 1831 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
  • 1844 University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana
  • 1863 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
  • 1870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper’s Weekly
  • 1934 While robbing the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indianapolis, Dillinger is shot several times by officer William O’Malley, but survives because he is wearing a bullet proof vest. (see the movie Public Enemy starring Johnny Depp)
  • 1943 World’s largest office building, the Pentagon is completed to house the US military
  • 1945 The Manhattan Project’s G-5 Group, headed by Physicist’s Donald Kerst and Seth Neddermeyer, take their first betatron pictures of a nuclear implosion at the Los Alamos Laboratory
  • 1973 US President Richard Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam
  • 1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for an assasination attempt on President Gerald Ford

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