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2A Daily News – Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Dec. 18, the 352nd day of 2013. There are 13 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 18, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, was declared in effect by Secretary of State William H. Seward. On this date: In 1787, New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1892, Tchaikovsky's ballet ''The Nutcracker'' publicly premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered secret preparations for Nazi Germany to invade the Soviet Union. (Operation Barbarossa was launched in June 1941.) In 1958, the world's first communications satellite, SCORE (Signal Communication by Orbiting Relay Equipment), nicknamed ''Chatterbox,'' was launched by the United States aboard an Atlas rocket. In 1971, the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced in Chicago the founding of Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity). In 1972, the United States began heavy bombing of North Vietnamese targets during the Vietnam War. (The bombardment ended 11 days later.) In 1998, the House debated articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton. South Carolina carried out the nation's 500th execution since capital punishment resumed in 1977. In 2011, the last convoy of heavily armored U.S. troops left Iraq, crossing into Kuwait in darkness in the final moments of a nine-year war. Ten years ago: Two federal appeals courts ruled the U.S. military could not indefinitely hold prisoners without access to lawyers or American courts. Five years ago: W. Mark Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who'd revealed himself as ''Deep Throat'' three decades after the Watergate scandal, died in Santa Rosa, Calif., at age 95. Today's Birthdays: Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark is 86. Actor-producer Roger Smith is 81. Blues musician Lonnie Brooks is 80. Actor Roger Mosley is 75. Rock singer-musician Keith Richards is 70. Movie producerdirector Steven Spielberg is 67. Movie reviewer Leonard Maltin is 63. Actor Ray Liotta is 58. Comedian Ron White is 57. Actor Brad Pitt is 50. Professional wrestlerturned-actor ''Stone Cold'' Steve Austin is 49. Country/rap singer Cowboy Troy is 43. Rapper DMX is 43. Thought for Today: ''No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.'' — Sara Teasdale, American author and poet (18841933). BUSINESS OPERATORS! Make sure your business is included in the Tehama County 2014 Professionally Designed Business Website for only BUSINESS CHRONOLOGY $399? Promotional Feature Details online at http://tinyurl.com/pwvymz7 or call your Daily News Account Executive (530) 527-2151 Published in the DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U NTY S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Wednesday, January 1 Space Reservation Deadline: Thursday, December 26 Call your Daily News advertising representative today (530) 527-2151 or email advertise@redbluffdailynews.com Built by Wehrenberg Design, a national digital design firm, certified by The Daily News.