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1927 - Commercial transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated between New York and London. 1942 - The World War II siege of Bataan began. 1953 - President Harry S. Truman announced in his State of the Union address that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb. 1955 - Singer Marian Anderson made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. 1959 - The United States recognized Fidel Castro's new government in Cuba. 1972 - Lewis F. Powell Jr. and William H. Rehnquist were sworn in as the 99th and 100th members of the Supreme Court. 1979 - Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government. 1989 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan died at age 87. 1996 - A major blizzard paralyzed the eastern United States, claiming more than 100 lives. 1997 - Newt Gingrich became the first Republican re-elected House speaker in 68 years. 1998 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signed an affidavit denying she had an affair with President Bill Clinton. 1999 - President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial began in the Senate. 2000 - The 17th Karmapa, a 14-year-old Tibetan Buddhist leader, fled Chinese-ruled Tibet for India, becoming the most significant defector since his predecessor, the current Dalai Lama, in 1959. |