Tuesday, January 19, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

JANUARY 19


1966:Indira Gandhi, the daughter of India’s first prime minister, is elected India’s first female prime minister just four days after entering the race.

1955: President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s press conference is filmed for TV for the first time.

1997: Yasser Arafat arrives in Hebron for the first time in over 30 years to join thousands of Palestinians celebrating the end of the West Bank city’s Israeli occupation.

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