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January 12, 1915:  Congress establishes Rocky Mountain National Park.

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January 31, 1865: The House of Representatives approved the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery in the United States. (Image courtesy Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZC4-2521)

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January 30, 1815:  The Library of Congress — destroyed when the British burned Washington — was reestablished with Jefferson’s personal library containing 1500 volumes.

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January 29, 2002: In his State of the Union address, President Bush labels Iraq, Iran, and North Korea an “axis of evil.”

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January 28,1962: Navy Yard, 14th & Colorado, Bureau Engraving, Calvert Street Loop, 17th & Penna. Ave SE & Union Station street car lines abandoned. Last street car pulls into Navy Yard carhouse ending 99 1/2 years of street railway service in the Nation’s Capital.

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January 27, 1888: The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.

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January 26, 1992: The Washington Redskins beet the Buffalo Bills 37-24 in Super Bowl XXVI.

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January 25, 1961: President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television.

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January 24, 1993: The first African-American to sit on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall, died.

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January 23, 1789: Georgetown University is established.