It was on January 8, 1790, President George Washington discussed 
the nation’s economic and military future in the first State of the
Union Address.

ROSS SIMPSON

President George W. Bush’s first State of The Union Speech on
this day in 2002.

A bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, AL, killing an
off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse on this day in
1998.  Eric Rudolph (below) was charged with this bombing and
three other attacks in Atlanta.

Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Raven" was published for the first time in the "New York Evening Mirror on this day in 1845.

Edgar Allan Poe 
(January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)

On this day in 1936, Ty Cobb received the most votes of any player
on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, receiving 222 out of
a possible 226 votes (98.2%); no other player received a higher percentage of votes until Tom Seaver in 1992. In 1999, editors at
the Sporting News ranked Ty Cobb third on their list of "Baseball’s
100 Greatest Players".

TY COBB, BABE RUTH, HONUS WAGNER, CHRISTY
MATHEWSON, WALTER JOHNSON.

Oprah Winfrey (Orpah Gail Winfrey) is 64 today.

Television host and producer Oprah Winfrey was named the
most influential woman in the world by TIME magazine and
hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated syndicated
program on air, from 1986 to 2011. She was crowned Miss Black
Tennessee while in college and began co-anchoring the evening
news when she was nineteen. Oprah became the world’s first
female black billionaire and the richest self-made American
woman. She had a net worth over $2 billion in 2013.

The first issue, June 2000.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790)

On this day in 1945, Soviet and Polish forces liberated Warsaw
during World War II.

In his farewell address on this day in 1961, President Eisenhower
warned against the rise of "the military-industrial complex."

More than 6,000 people were killed when an earthquake with a
magnitude of 7.2 devastated the city of Kobe, Japan on this
day in 1995.

Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947)

Al Capone was the best known gangster in the 1920’s.

Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.) 
(January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016)

Ali became a boxing icon as well as a peace activist.  He was
known as "The Greatest," recording 56 career wins, 37 of them
by knockout, in his 61 professional bouts. In 1960, he won the
gold medal in the light heavyweight class at the Summer
Olympic Games in Rome. His boxing style was described as
fast, strong, and graceful, and he developed the famous slogan
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."

President George W. Bush presents the Presidential
Medal of Freedom to boxer Muhammad Ali in 2005.

ROSS SIMPSON

              
                Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)

                      
                              Published originally in January 1845.

The first class of baseball “Hall of Famers” was comprised of 
Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and
Walter Johnson.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790)