On this day: January 12Soviets bombs cities in Finland (1940)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board (1942)
President Lyndon B. Johnson states that the U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended (1966)
Malcolm X's daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, is arrested for conspiring to kill Louis Farrakhan (1995)
President Barack Obama holds a campaign rally at a memorial service in Tuscon, Arizona (2011)
b: Jack London (1876), Alfred Rosenberg (1893), Bernardine Dohrn (1942), Khalid Abdul Muhammad (1948); d: Cornelius Shea (1929), Cyrus Vance (2002)
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