January 8th, 2009

Today in History

1989:
beginning of Japanese Heisei era

1982:
AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.

1918:
President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.

1900:
United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.

1867:
African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.