- 1783: The Continental Army was dissolved and George Washington made
                 his "Farewell Address to the Army."
               - 1867: The magazine "Harper's Bazaar" was published.
               - 1878: Edward Scripps and John Sweeney founded the Penny Press,
                 later renamed the Cleveland Press.
               - 1889: North and South Dakota entered the union as the 39th and 40th
                 states.
               - 1917: In World War I, the first U.S. soldiers were killed in
                 combat.
               - 1920: Warren Harding was elected the 29th president.
               - 1921: The National Birth Control League under Margaret Sanger
                 joined with the Voluntary Parenthood League under Mary Denetts and
                 formed the American Birth Control League.
               - 1926: The Air Commerce Act was passed.
               - 1931: Du Pont introduced synthetic rubber.
               - 1947: Howard Hughes flew his "Spruce Goose," a large wooden
                 airplane, on its only flight.
               - 1948: President Truman was re-elected in an upset victory over
                 Republican Thomas Dewey. The Chicago Tribune had printed a banner
                 headline "DEWEY WINS!" prematurely.
               - 1962: At the end of the Cuban missile crisis, President Kennedy
                 told the nation Russia was dismantling its missile bases in Cuba.
               - 1963: In a military coup, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem
                 was assassinated.
               - 1976: Jimmy Carter was elected president, the first candidate from
                 the Deep South since the Civil War to be elected. New Jersey
                 approved gambling for Atlantic City.
               - 1983: President Reagan established the third Monday of January as a
                 federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin
                 Luther King Jr.

               *Happy Birthday*
               ----------------
               - Said Aquita, 38, runner, won Gold and Bronze Medals at 1984
                 Olympics, 2 world records
               - Patrick Buchanan, 60, commentator/politician, "Crossfire"
               - Leon Hart, 70, former college/NFL great
               - Shere Hite, 56, author/sex therapist