On this day …
January 12, 2015
- In 1908, a long-distance radio message was sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
- In 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
- In 1921, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was appointed Major League Baseball’s first commissioner.
- In 1932, Hattie Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
- In 1962, Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the Vietnam War, took place.
- In 1967, Dr. James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically preserved with the intention of future resuscitation.
- In 1969, the New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III.
- In 1971, the landmark situation comedy All in the Family premiered on CBS.
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