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1297 – Monaco gains independence

1790 – President Washington delivers first State of the Union address

1815 – Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson victorious

1835 – United States National Debt is ZERO for first and only time

1867 – Black men gain vote in Washington, DC

1877 – Crazy Horse fights last battle with US Cavalry at Wolf Mountain in the Montana Territory

1900 – President McKinley places Alaska under military rule

1916 – Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli

1918 – President Wilson announces “Fourteen Points” for aftermath of WWI

1940 – Food rationing begins in Great Britain

1964 – President Johnson declares war on poverty

1973 – Trial of 7 men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Headquarters at the Watergate begins

1975 – Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut: first female Governor who did not succeed her husband

2002 – President George W. Bush signs “No Child Left Behind” into law

Things Princess Caroline of Kennedy is celebrating today:

1499 – Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany

1926 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes King of Hejaz, renaming it Saudi Arabia

1962 – Mona Lisa is exhibited in the US for the first time, thanks to the efforts of Jackie Kennedy (NOTE: Vanity Fair ran a wonderful article a few months ago on Jackie’s persuasive campaign to bring the Mona Lisa to America, despite great resistance from the French public, all under clouds of Cold War propaganda. If Princess Caroline was more of her mother’s daughter, she’d have great accomplishments like this to talk about right now…instead of that quiet sound of crickets that accompanies her resume)

2004 – RMS Queen Mary 2 christened by Queen Elizabeth II, granddaughter of the ship’s royal namesake (“I want a big ship too, to carry all of my jewelry in, and I’ll name it Macaroni, after my pony who died. I can Senator all by myself” – Caroline Kennedy, overheard at Bergdorf’s yesterday)