On this day, Jan. 9 … The Illinois House votes 114-1 to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who is accused of soliciting bribes for political appointments, including Barack Obama's vacant U.S.
Senate seat after Obama was elected president. (The Illinois Senate would unanimously vote to remove Blagojevich from office 20 days later.) Also on this day: Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union, the same day the Star of the West, a merchant vessel bringing reinforcements and supplies to Federal troops at Fort Sumter, S.C., retreats because of artillery fire.
Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, is born in Yorba Linda, Calif.The County of Los Angeles opens the country’s first public defender’s office..
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