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January 8
1815The Battle of New Orleans, the last battle in the War of 1812, was fought. 1918Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points peace program. 1958Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at age 14. 1959Charles de Gaulle became the first president of France's Fifth Republic. 1964President Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty. 1982The AT&T Bell System telephone monopoly agreed to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies and split itself into seven "Baby Bells." 1998The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, was sentenced to life in prison. 
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