Today in History, January 13th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 13th!</p>

<p>1794
President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union.</p>

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1808
Salmon P. Chase, U.S. senator, secretary of the treasury and chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Cornish, N.H. </p>

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1846
President James Polk dispatches General Zachary Taylor and 4,000 troops to the Texas Border as war with Mexico looms.</p>

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1862
President Lincoln names Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of War.</p>

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1893
Britains Independent Labor Party, a precursor to the Labor Party, first met.</p>

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1898
Novelist Emile Zolas Jaccuse a defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew falsely convicted of treason was published in a Paris newspaper.</p>

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1900
To combat Czech nationalism, Emperor Fr...