Today's Highlight in History:
On January sixth, 1912, New Mexico became the 47th state.

On this date:
In 1412, according to tradition, Joan of Arc was born in Domremy.

In 1540, England's King Henry the Eighth married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. (The marriage lasted about six months.)

In 1759, George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married.

In 1838, Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated his telegraph, in Morristown, New Jersey¹.

In 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster² Bay, New York at age 60.

In 1942, the Pan American Airways³ "Pacific Clipper" arrived in New York after making the first round-the-world trip by a commercial airplane.

In 1945, George Herbert Walker Bush married Barbara Pierce in Rye, New York.

In 1950, Britain recognized the Communist共产主义的 government of China.

In 1967, US Marines海军陆战队 and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation "Deckhouse舱面室，甲板室 Five (V)," an offensive in the Mekong River delta三角洲.

In 1993, ballet芭蕾 dancer Rudolf Nureyev died in Paris at age 54; jazz trumpeter鼓手，号手 Dizzy Gillespie died in Englewood, New Jersey, at age 75.

Ten years ago: Defense⁵ Secretary Dick Cheney told CNN the US invasion of Panama should not be viewed as heralding通报，预示……来临 a new "Bush doctrine⁶" under which the United States would be inclined to倾向于，有意 intervene干涉，调停 militarily in countries where democratic elections had been subverted推翻，颠覆.

Five years ago: Over the protests of refugee advocates拥护者，提倡者, the US military began sending Haitians housed at Guantanamo Bay Naval⁷ Base in Cuba home against their will.

One year ago: The 106th Congress convened⁸集合，召唤 with Dennis Hastert taking over as the new House speaker. Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Edward, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth the Second, would marry his longtime girlfriend, public relations executive Sophie Rhys-Jones, later in the year.