Today is Jan. 12. On this date:
1773
The first public museum in America was organized in Charleston, South Carolina.
1828
The United States and Mexico signed a Treaty of Limits defining the boundary between the two countries to be the same as the one established by an 1819 treaty between the U.S. and Spain.
1910
At a White House dinner hosted by President William Howard Taft of Cincinnati, Baroness Rosen, wife of the Russian ambassador, caused a stir by requesting and smoking a cigarette. It was, apparently, the first time a woman had smoked openly during a public function in the executive mansion. (Some of the other women present who had brought their own cigarettes began lighting up in turn.)
1915
The U.S. House of Representatives rejected, 204-174, a proposed constitutional amendment to give women nationwide the right to vote.
1932
Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate after initially being appointed to serve out the remainder of the term of her late husband, Thaddeus.
1945
During World War II, Soviet forces began a major, successful offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe.
1955
A TWA airliner collided midair with a privately owned DC-3 that entered restricted airspace above Greater Cincinnati Airport (CVG); there were 15 dead and no survivors.
1959
Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records (originally Tamla Records) in Detroit.
1966
The TV series “Batman,” starring Adam West and Burt Ward as the Dynamic Duo, premiered on ABC, airing twice a week on consecutive nights.
1971
The groundbreaking situation comedy “All in the Family” premiered on CBS television.
1986
The space shuttle Columbia blasted off with a crew that included the first Hispanic-American in space, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
2010
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck southern Haiti, destroying more than 100,000 buildings with thousands of deaths (the Haitian government's official toll is more than 300,000 deaths, while other estimates are much smaller).
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