Tues. January 7

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2015—Two brothers, Wahhabi extremists, kill 12 and wound 11 at Charlie Hebdo’s offices in Paris.

1999—The U.S. Senate puts President Bill Clinton on trial for lying about his canoodling with a young intern. Chief prosecutor: Rep. (and adulterer) Henry Hyde [R-Ill].

1998The Washington Post reports that George Herbert [Hoover] Walker Bush’s repeated denials notwithstanding, the Veep was in fact present at meetings about arms sales to Iran.

1980—San Francisco honors the 100th anniversary of the death of Emperor Norton I with a party.

1969Look magazine calls Jimi Hendrix a “menace to public health.”

1945U.S.S. Hovey, named for Portsmouth-born Ensign Charles Emerson Hovey, is sunk by kamikazi and torpedo attack off Luzon.

1943—Nicola Tesla, electrical genius, dies in obscurity in New York City.

1920—Five socialists are expelled from the New York Assembly.

1861—Mayor Fernando Wood, a Democrat, proposes that New York City secede from the Union.

1851—“That a war of extermination will continue to be waged … until the Indian race becomes extinct,” Gov. Peter H. Burnett informs the California legislature, “must be expected.”

1806—Cherokees in Tennessee and Alabama cede 7,000 square miles of land to whites, in return for which gesture they are not killed.

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