Saturday, January 12, 2013 Today in History - Saturday, Jan. 12,
2013 Today is Saturday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2013. There are
353 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan.
12, 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Sipuel v. Board of Regents
of University of Oklahoma, ruled that state law schools could
not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race. On
this date: In 1519, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died. In
1773, the first public museum in America was organized in
Charleston, S.C. In 1828, the United States and Mexico signed a
Treaty of Limits defining the boundary between the two countries
to be the same as the one established by an 1819 treaty between
the U.S. and Spain. In 1912, textile workers at the Everett Mill
in Lawrence, Mass., (most of them immigrant women) walked off
the job to protest wage cuts. In 1915, the House of
Representatives rejected, 204-174, a constitutional amendment
giving women the right to vote. In 1932, Hattie W. Caraway
became the first woman elected