Catherine O’Hara 1954 - Actress
- 1826 - The first railroad in the U.S. was chartered. It was the Granite Railway in Quincy, MA.
- 1908 - The New York board of education banned the act of whipping students in school.
- 1917 - Republican Jeanette Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
- 1933 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt gave his inauguration speech in which he said "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself."
- 1954 - In Boston, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital reported the first successful kidney transplant.
- 1997 - U.S. President Clinton barred federal spending on human cloning.
- 2002 - Canada banned human embryo cloning but permitted government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
- 2012 - Vladimir Putin won re-election in Russia's presidential election.
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