Today in HistoryTODAY is Tuesday, January 9, the ninth day of 2007. There are 356 days left in the year.

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In 1957, Anthony Eden resigned as British prime minister; he was succeeded by Harold Macmillan.

In 1964, anti-US rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and three US soldiers.

In 1972, reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, speaking by telephone from the Bahamas to reporters in Hollywood, said a purported biography of him by Clifford Irving was a fake.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“One’s lifework, I have learned, grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it, and first thing you know, you’ll have made a life out of it. A good life, too.” — Theresa Helburn, American theatrical producer (1887-1959).