Today is Tuesday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2016. There are 354 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlights in History:
On Jan. 12, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the U.S. military should stay in Vietnam until Communist aggression there was stopped. The TV series “Batman,” inspired by the comic book and starring Adam West and Burt Ward as the Dynamic Duo, premiered on ABC, airing twice a week on consecutive nights.
On this date:
In 1912, textile workers at the Everett Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, most of them immigrant women, walked off the job to protest wage cuts.
In 1932, Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
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