Today in History highlights key events across centuries
On January 15 2009 Chesley Sullenberger ditched an Airbus 320 in the Hudson River after a bird strike disabling both engines. all 155 aboard survived. Other notes span 1777 Vermont formation from New Connecticut leaders, 1844 Notre Dame charter, 1929 MLK Jr birth, 1943 Pentagon completion, and 1967 NFL AFL NFL World Championship known as Super Bowl I.
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Hudson River
England
Elizabeth I
Westminster Abbey
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University of Notre Dame
Indiana
Martin Luther King Jr
Atlanta
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U.S. Department of War
Defense
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National Football League
Kansas City Chiefs
American Football League
World in Brief Health care tax deal nears final form
Union leaders backed White House demand for a new tax on high cost health insurance plans as negotiations push the landmark health care bill toward a compromise. President Obama hailed progress on Thursday as lawmakers aimed for an informal timetable to finish the package and enable action on related issues and concessions from drug makers and nursing homes.
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White House
Barack Obama
Obama
House
Senate
Arizona plans massive shutdown of state parks
Arizona jeopardizes more than half of its state parks to trim the budget causing potential closures of landmarks like Tombstone Courthouse and Yuma Territorial Prison along with popular Red Rock State Park in Sedona. Park board head Reese Woodling says closures are necessary and a staff recommendation targets 13 parks by June 3 after last year’s closings.
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Arizona
Tombstone
Yuma Territorial Prison
Red Rock
Sedona
Reese Woodling
Arizona Parks Board
Pentagon probe targets Fort Hood officers in Hasan case
A Pentagon inquiry faults five to eight supervisors over the Nidal Hasan shootings at Fort Hood. Defense Secretary Gates will refer findings to the Army for possible punishment of up to eight officers. Hasan killed 13 at the Texas base on November 5.
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Fort Hood
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Robert Gates
Army
Nidal Hasan
Hasan
Texas Army
Doomsday Clock Moves Back One Minute
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock back from 11:55 to 11:54 reflecting a more hopeful state of world affairs. Forty policymakers scientists and Nobel laureates on the board voted after debates about current science and politics.
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Humanity
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
New York Academy of Sciences
Bulletin
White House slams Robertson Haiti curse remark
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs condemned Pat Robertson after he said Haiti is cursed for a historical pact with the devil. The remarks followed a magnitude 7 earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday, spurring bipartisan backlash and renewed debate over relief responses.
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White House
Pat Robertson
Haiti
Robert Gibbs
Robertson
Obama proposes tax on largest financial firms
President Obama unveiled the Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee to recover losses from bailouts. The plan would levy a 0.15 percent annual charge on liabilities of about 50 firms with at least 50 billion in assets, starting June 30, potentially raising 9 billion annually for 10 years to offset roughly 117 billion in TARP losses.
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Washington
Barack Obama
Obama
White House
Wall Street
Bush
Congress
Bank of America
Citigroup
Goldman Sachs Group
Jpmorgan Chase & Co
Morgan Stanley
Treasury Department
General Motors Co
Chrysler Group
Steve Bartlett
Financial Services Roundtable
Cadmium fears prompt parents to discard cheap jewelry
Parents across the United States warn about cadmium in cheap children’s jewelry after tests found cadmium in items imported from China. Emma Sanders and Julia Seaver’s mothers plan to throw away trinkets and choose gold or silver pieces. Some shoppers express anger at repeated government warnings amid ongoing concerns about products from China.
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Associated Press
China
Emma
Corfu
N.Y
Chicago
Jennifer Seaver
Julia
Seaver
Michigan Avenue
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Inez Tenenbaum
Journal-World contact and staff directory notice
Local readers are invited to send story ideas via email and phone. The notice lists departments with direct lines, the newsroom contacts for Dennis Anderson Caroline Trowbridge Ann Gardner Tom Keegan Jon Niccum and Jonathan Kealing with their extensions and emails.
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Agardner
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Jworld
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Jniccum
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Cody Howard Leads 6News and Mediaphormedia Contacts
Cody Howard, 6News director, 832-6321, howard sun flowerbroadband.com. Mediaphormedia president Dan Cox, 832-7275, dcox Ijworld.com.
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Mediaphormedia
Dan Cox
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Ijworld
Chris Bell
Cbell
Tony Berg
Ljworld
Ljworld.com
Residents weigh retirement plans in Lawrence poll
A Thursday poll shows 55 percent say no to living in Lawrence after retirement, 28 percent yes, and 16 percent unsure. Readers urged to visit LJWorld.com to view more responses and cast their vote.
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Lawrence
Ljworld.com
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