America’s first president George Washington addressed the
assembled Congress with the first State of the Union on this
day in history, Jan. 8, 1780.
Washington’s address took place at Federal Hall in New York
City — and addressed a variety of topics including national
defense, foreign policy, economics and education.
Federal Hall in New York City.
MIKE GREACIA
On January 7, 1999, the impeachment trial of President Bill
Clinton, formally charged with lying under oath and
obstructing justice, began in the Senate. As instructed
in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution, Supreme Court Chief
Justice William Rehnquist was sworn in to preside (below),
and the senators were sworn in as jurors. Congress had only
attempted to remove a president on one other occasion:
the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson,
who incurred the Republican Party’s wrath after he proposed
a conservative Reconstruction plan.
Alan Robert Copeland (October 6, 1926 – December 28, 2022)
(Hollywood Reporter) – Alan Copeland, the songwriter, Grammy-
winning arranger and ultra-smooth vocalist known for his many
years with The Modernaires and performances on Your Hit Parade
and The Red Skelton Hour, died December 28 in an assisted living
facility in Sonora, California. He was 96.
As recently as this fall, Copeland was still singing and playing
keyboards in a quartet called Now You Hazz Jazz.
Bessie Hendricks was the oldest living person in the US and
fourth in the world, according to Gerontology Research Group
before she passed away at Shady Oaks Care Center in Lake
City, Iowa, Tuesday at age 115.
Hendricks was born in that city on Nov. 7, 1907, and she grew
up on a farm. She later went on to raise five children, two of
whom she outlived.
