Today In History

Sat., Dec. 12, 1998

In 1870: Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina became the first black lawmaker sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives.

In 1913: Authorities in Florence, Italy, announced that the “Mona Lisa,” stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1911, had been recovered.

In 1917: Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb.

In 1975: Sara Jane Moore pleaded guilty to a charge of trying to kill President Ford in San Francisco the previous September.

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