Also on this day: Utah is admitted as the 45th state.The U.S. Supreme Court, in Gonzalez v. Williams, rules that Puerto Ricans are not illegal immigrants and can enter the United States freely; however, the court stops short of declaring them citizens. (Puerto Ricans would receive U.S.
citizenship in March 1917.)President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, calls for legislation to provide assistance for the jobless, elderly, impoverished children and the handicapped.
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin makes the cover of Time as the magazine’s 1942 "Man of the Year." During the Korean War, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces recapture the city of Seoul.
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