This day in history On January 23 1789 Georgetown College was established as the first Catholic college in the U.S. The school is in Washington, DC. 1845 The U.S. Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman doctor in the United States. She is granted her medical degree from Geneva Medical College (now Hobart College) in Geneva, New York. 1907 Charles Curtis becomes the first U.S. senator of Native-American Ancestry. He will serve as senator of Kansas until 1929 (taking a two-year hiatus from 1913-1915), when he will resign to become vice president of the United States. 1950 The Israeli Knesset approved a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. 1964 The 24th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. This amendment eliminated the poll tax in federal elections. 1973 President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end the Vietnam War. 1977 The first night of the groundbreaking mini-series, Roots, airs on ABC. It will become the most-watched television mini-series in history. 1978 Sweden banned aerosol sprays because of potential damage to the environment. They were the first country to do so. 1997 Madeline Albright is sworn in as the first female U.S. secretary of state. 1997 A judge in Fairfax, VA, sentenced Mir Aimal Kasi to death for an assault rifle attack outside the CIA headquarters in 1993 that killed two men and wounded three other people. 1997 A British woman received a record £186,000 damages for Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). 2002 A van used by the remaining two fugitives of the Texas 7 was recovered in Colorado Springs, CO. A few hours later police surrounded a hotel where the convicts were hiding. Patrick Murphy Jr. and Donald Newbury were taken into custody the next morning without incident. 2002 John Walker Lindh returned to the U.S. under FBI custody. Lindh was charge with conspiring to kill U.S. citizens, providing support to terrorists and engaging in prohibited transactions with the Taliban while a member of the al-Quaida terrorist organization in Afghanistan. 2003 North Korea announced that it would consider sanctions an act of war for North Koreas reinstatement of its nuclear program.
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