Today is Tuesday, January 12, the 12th day of 2010. There are 353 days left in the year.

On this date

In 1519, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.

In 1773, the first public museum in America was organised, in Charleston, S.C.

In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that state law schools could not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race.

In 1966, US President Lyndon B. Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the US should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there was ended.

Thought for Today

"Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable." — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian spiritual and independence leader (1869-1948).