Today's Highlight in History:
On January 12th, 1948, the Supreme¹ Court ruled that states could not discriminate歧视，排斥 against law-school applicants³ because of race.

On this date:
In 1519, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian the First died.

In 1773, the first public museum in America was established, in Charleston, South Carolina.

In 1915, the US 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 US Senate.

In 1942, President Roosevelt created the National War Labor⁴ Board全国战时劳工委员会.

In 1945, during World War Two, Soviet⁵ forces began a huge offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe.

In 1964, leftist rebels in Zanzibar began their successful revolt against反感，厌恶 the government.

In 1966, President Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the U-S should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression⁶ there was ended.

In 1969, the New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts 16-to-7 in Super Bowl Three, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami.

In 1971, the situation comedy "All in the Family" premiered on CBS television.

Ten years ago: The astronauts aboard the space shuttle "Columbia" retrieved⁷恢复，补偿 an eleven-ton floating science laboratory in a rescue mission that kept the satellite from plunging⁸ to Earth.

Five years ago: In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, an American soldier was killed, another wounded, during a shootout枪战，射门 with a former Haitian army officer who was also killed. Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, was arrested in Minneapolis on charges she'd tried to hire a hitman职业杀手 to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan (the charges were later dropped in a settlement with the government).

One year ago: The Supreme Court limited state regulation规则，管理 of voter initiatives, striking down several methods used by Colorado to police such measures. Mark McGwire's 70th home run全垒打 ball was sold at auction⁹ in New York for $3 million to an anonymous匿名的，无名的 bidder¹¹.