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• On this date:
• In 1821, the first native-born American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, died in Emmitsburg, Md.
• In 1896, Utah was admitted as the 45th state.
• In 1904, the Supreme Court, in Gonzalez v. Williams, ruled that Puerto Ricans were not aliens and could enter the United States freely; however, the court stopped short of declaring them U.S. citizens. (Puerto Ricans received U.S. citizenship in 1917.)
• In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, called for legislation to provide assistance for the jobless, elderly, impoverished children and the handicapped.
• In 1943, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin appeared on the cover of Time as the magazine's 1942 "Man of the Year."
• In 1944, Ralph Bunche became the first African-American officer at the State Department as he was appointed to a post in the Near East and African Section.
• In 1951, during the Korean War, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces recaptured the city of Seoul (sohl).
• In 1960, author and philosopher Albert Camus (al-BEHR' kah-MOO') died in an automobile accident in Villeblevin, France, at age 46.
• In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his State of the Union address in which he outlined the goals of his "Great Society."
• In 1974, President Richard Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
• In 1989, in an incident reminiscent of a 1981 confrontation, two U.S. Navy F-14 fighters shot down a pair of Libyan MiG-23 fighters in a clash over international waters off the Libyan coast.
• In 2007, Nancy Pelosi was elected the first female speaker of the House as Democrats took control of Congress.
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• Ten years ago: In Iowa, seven of the nine Democratic presidential hopefuls participated in a feisty, first debate of the election year. Afghans approved a new constitution. Georgians overwhelmingly elected Mikhail Saakashvili (sah-kahsh-VIH'-leh) president, two months after he'd led protests that forced Eduard Shevardnadze (sheh-vahrd-NAHD'-zeh) to step down. Louisiana State University won college football's Sugar Bowl, defeating Oklahoma 21-14.
• Five years ago: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson announced he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama's commerce secretary amid

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