Sunday, January 17, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

JANUARY 17


1945:Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis, is imprisoned by Soviet troops and never released.

1806: James Madison Randolph, Thomas Jefferson’s grandson, becomes the first child born in the White House.

1893: Hawaii’s Queen Liliuokalani is forced out by revolutionists, who petition the U.S. to annex the islands.

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