"On Jan. 22,1998, Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in Sacramento, California, to being the Unabomber responsible for three deaths and 23 injuries in a mail-bombing campaign. In return for the pleas in federal court, he received a sentence of life in prison without parole. Also on this date: In 1901, Britain's Queen Victoria died at age 81 after a reign of more than 63 years; she was succeeded by her eldest son, Edward VII."
"In 1953, the Arthur Miller drama The Crucible opened at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York. In 1973, former President Lyndon B. Johnson died at his Texas ranch at the age of 64. Also in 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Roe v. Wade decision, declared a nationwide constitutional right to abortion. (The court would overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, in the decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.)"
On Jan. 22, 1998, Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty to being the Unabomber, responsible for three deaths and 23 injuries, and received life without parole. In 1901 Queen Victoria died at 81 and was succeeded by Edward VII. Allied forces landed at Anzio, Italy, in 1944. KTLA-TV in Los Angeles launched in 1947 as the first commercially licensed TV station west of the Mississippi. In 1953 The Crucible opened in New York. In 1973 Lyndon B. Johnson died and the Supreme Court issued Roe v. Wade; Roe was overturned in 2022 by Dobbs. In 2006 Kobe Bryant scored 81 points. A 2017 tornado outbreak killed at least 16.
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