Thursday, January 22

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Today in History

1807   President Thomas Jefferson exposes a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest. 
1813   During the War of 1812, British forces under Henry Proctor defeat a U.S. contingent planning an attack on Fort Detroit
1863   In an attempt to out flank Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, General Ambrose Burnside leads his army on a march to north Fredericksburg, but foul weather bogs his army down in what will become known as "Mud March." 
1930   Admiral Richard Byrd charts a vast area of Antarctica. 
1944   U.S. troops under Major General John P. Lucas make an amphibious landing behind German lines at Anzio, Italy, just south of Rome. 
1971   Communist forces shell Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the first time.
1973   Rowe v. Wade Supreme Court decision is announced.   President Johnson passes way.
1979   Abu Hassan, the alleged planner of the 1972 Munich raid, is killed by a bomb in Beirut. 
1982   President Ronald Reagan formally links progress in arms control to Soviet repression in Poland.