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| Saturday,
January
01,
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AP Highlight in History:
On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states were free.
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| On this date in: |
| 1797 | Albany became the capital of New York state, replacing New York City. |
| 1892 | The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York opened.
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| 1898 | Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island were consolidated into New York City. |
| 1901 | The Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed. |
| 1945 | France was admitted to the United Nations. |
| 1953 | Country singer Hank Williams Sr., 29, died of a drug and alcohol overdose while en route to a concert in Canton, Ohio. |
| 1958 | Treaties establishing the European Economic Community went into effect. |
| 1959 | Fidel Castro led Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista.
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| 1979 | The United States and China held celebrations in Washington and Beijing to mark the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. |
| 1984 | AT&T was divested of its 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement. |
| 1990 | David Dinkins was sworn in as New York City's first black mayor. |
| 1993 | Czechoslovakia peacefully split into two new countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. |
| 1994 | The North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect. |
| 1998 | An anti-smoking law went into effect in California, prohibiting people from lighting up in bars. |
| 1999 | The euro became the official currency of 11 European countries. |
| 2000 | The calendar switched over to 2000 with none of the computer glitches that had been predicted. |
| 2004 | Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf won a vote of confidence validating his five-year term as president. |
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| Today's Birthdays: |
| Actor Frank Langella turns 65 years old today. |
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| J.D. Salinger | Author | 86 |
| Ernest Hollings | U.S. senator, D-S.C. | 83 |
| Country Joe McDonald | Rock singer-musician | 63 |
| Don Novello | Comedian-writer | 62 |
| Rick Hurst | Actor | 59 |
| Steve Ripley | Country singer (The Tractors) | 55 |
| Grandmaster Flash | Rapper | 47 |
| Ren Woods | Actress | 47 |
| Dedee Pfeiffer | Actress | 41 |
| Embeth Davidtz | Actress | 39 |
| Morris Chestnut | Actor | 36 |
| Verne Troyer | Actor (''Austin Powers'' movies) | 36 |
| Paul Thomas Anderson | Screenwriter-director | 35 |
| Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., turns 58 years old today. |
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