(Saturday, January 26, 1991) — “The First Time” by Surface peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two consecutive weeks (Jan. 26, Feb. 2, 1991).
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Louisiana becomes sixth Southern state to secede from the Union 160 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 26 1861)
Video: 'Louisiana in the Civil War'
(Saturday, January 26, 1861; 11 weeks after the 1860 United States presidential election) — 81 days after Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the presidential election of 1860 on a platform which opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories, Louisiana became the sixth state to secede today when delegates to the Secession Convention meeting in Baton Rouge voted 113 to 17 to leave the Union.
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