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Jan 16, 2009

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World Events

• Churchill and Roosevelt hold the Casablanca Conference.
  
  
• Mussolini is deposed and placed under arrest (July).
  
  

U.S. Events

• President freezes prices, salaries, and wages to prevent inflation .
  
  
• Withholding tax on wages introduced. Background: History of the Income Tax in the United States
  
  
• The Pentagon is completed and becomes the largest office building in the world.
  
  
• The Chinese Exclusion Acts of 1882 and 1902 are repealed permitting immigration and naturalization of Chinese.
  
  

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Events

• Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opens and changes American musical theater by combining entertainment and serious subjects. Agnes de Mille choreographs the musical, capturing the essence of American folk dance.
• Radio classic Amos 'n' Andy is canceled after 15 years and more than 4,000 consecutive shows.

Science

• Selman Waksman discovers streptomycin and coins the term antibiotic.
• Doctors begin to use the pap test to detect cervical cancer.

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