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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Jan. 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records (originally Tamla Records) in Detroit.
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• On this date:
• In 1519, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.
• In 1773, the first public museum in America was organized in Charleston, S.C.
• In 1828, the United States and Mexico signed a Treaty of Limits defining the boundary between the two countries to be the same as the one established by an 1819 treaty between the U.S. and Spain.
• In 1912, textile workers at the Everett Mill in Lawrence, Mass., most of them immigrant women, walked off the job to protest wage cuts.
• In 1915, the House of Representatives rejected, 204-174, a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.
• In 1932, Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate after initially being appointed to serve out the remainder of the term of her late husband, Thaddeus.
• In 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma, ruled that state law schools could not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race.
• In 1964, leftist rebels in Zanzibar began their successful revolt against the government.
• In 1969, the New York Jets of the American Football League upset the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League 16-7 in Super Bowl III, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami.
• In 1971, the groundbreaking situation comedy "All in the Family" premiered on CBS television.
• In 1986, the shuttle Columbia blasted off with a crew that included the first Hispanic-American in space, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
• In 2010, Haiti was struck by a magnitude-7 earthquake, killing as many as 300,000 residents and leaving over 1.5 million people homeless.
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• Ten years ago: President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vicente (vih-SEN'-tay) Fox forged agreement on the contentious issues of immigration and Iraq, meeting in Monterrey before the opening of a 34-nation hemispheric summit. The cruise ship Queen Mary 2 set sail for the United States on its maiden voyage. Singer-songwriter Randy VanWarmer died in Seattle at age 48.

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