Socialist Workers, Jon Corzine, Cigarette Ads

On this day: January 1

Spanish rule ends in Cuba (1899)

National Socialist German Workers' Party passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" (1934)

Cigarette advertisements are banned on U.S. TV (1971)

b: Omar al-Bashir (1944), Jon Corzine (1947); d: Thomas Hobson (1631), Sergei Kourdakov (1973), Shirley Chisholm (2005), Claiborne Pell (2009), Nizar Rayan (2009)

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