@rh18bold:Today in History

Today is Wednesday, January 13, the 13th day of 2010. There are 352 days left in the year.

On this date

In 1945, Soviet forces began a huge, successful offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe.

In 1991, in a crackdown on rebel Lithuania, Soviet troops backed by tanks stormed the main television station in the capital Vilnius, killing at least 11 people.

In 1993, former East German leader Erich Honecker, under whom the Berlin Wall was built, left a Berlin prison to fly to Chile after a court freed him because he was dying.

Thought for Today

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." — Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, English author (1717-1797).