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Today's featured article Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh president of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837. He was a frontier lawyer and briefly served in the House of Representatives and the Senate, representing Tennessee. He became a wealthy planter who owned hundreds of African-American slaves during his lifetime. In 1801, he was appointed colonel of the Tennessee militia and was elected its commander. In the War of 1812 against the British, Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 made him a national hero. He later commanded U.S. forces in the First Seminole War, which led to the annexation of Florida from Spain. He was elected president in 1828, defeating John Quincy Adams in a landslide. In 1830, he signed the Indian Removal Act. This act displaced tens of thousands of Native Americans from their ancestral homelands east of the Mississippi and resulted in thousands of deaths. Jackson's legacy remains controversial, and opinions on his legacy are frequently polarized. (Full article...) Recently featured: Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh Freston causewayed enclosure William Robinson Brown On this day... January 20: Day of Nationwide Sorrow in Azerbaijan (1990); Inauguration Day in the United States (2025); Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States (2025) Roller coasters 1265 – Simon de Montfort summoned local representatives to the Palace of Westminster to attend a parliament, now considered to be the forerunner of the House of Commons of England. 1840 – William II became King of the Netherlands after his father William I abdicated the throne. 1885 – LaMarcus Adna Thompson, sometimes called the "Father of Gravity", patented the roller coaster (pictured). 1945 – World War II: In an operation that took nearly two months to complete, Germany began the evacuation of at least 1.8 million people from East Prussia in anticipation of the advancing Soviet Red Army. 2018 – A group of Taliban gunmen attacked and took hostages at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle that left at least 21 people dead. Sebastian Münster (b. 1488) Agnes Mary Clerke (d. 1907) Yolanda González (b. 1961) Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh (b. 1965) More anniversaries: January 19 January 20 January 21

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