Today is Thursday, Jan. 1, the first day of 2015. There are 364 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 1, 1975, a jury in Washington found Nixon administration officials John N. Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Robert C. Mardian guilty of charges related to the Watergate cover-up; a fifth defendant, Kenneth Parkinson, was acquitted, and Mardian's conviction for conspiracy was later overturned on appeal.
On this date:
In 1515, Louis XII, King of France, died; he was succeeded by Francis I.
In 1660, Englishman Samuel Pepys (peeps) began keeping his famous diary.
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states shall be "forever free."
In 1913, the U.S. Parcel Post system went into operation.