Thursday, January 21, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

JANUARY 21


1954:First lady Mamie Eisenhower helps launch the first atomic-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus.

1861: Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, the future president of the Confederacy, joins four other Southerners in resigning from the U.S. Senate.

1977: Almost all Vietnam War draft dodgers receive a presidential pardon from Jimmy Carter.

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