Today in History Today is Sunday, Jan. 31, the 31st day of 2021. There are 334 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 31, 1865, the U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing slavery, sending it to states for ratification. (The amendment was adopted in December 1865.) On this date: In 1863, during the Civil War, the First South Carolina Volunteers, an all-Black Union regiment composed of many escaped slaves, was mustered into federal service at Beaufort, South Carolina. In 1919, baseball Hall-of-Famer Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo (KAY’-roh), Ga. In 1929, revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his family were expelled from the Soviet Union. In 1945, Pvt. Eddie Slovik, 24, became the first U.S. soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion as he was shot by an American firing squad in France. In 1950, President Harry S. Truman announced he had ordered...
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