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- 1790 George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address.
- 1815 Jackson's militias beat British regulars in Battle of New Orleans.
- 1889 Herman Hollerith patents punch-card tabulating machine -- his company becomes IBM.
- 1942 Stephen W. Hawking born: wheelchair, voice synthesizer, and quantum gravity.
- 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson declares his "War on Poverty".
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The Battle of New Orleans!
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