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On this day: January 1

POSTED: 01:21 PM PST Dec 31, 2012 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Dec 31, 2012

Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, Ellis Island opens, the Rose Bowl becomes the first college bowl game, Hank Williams dies, and the Y2K panic fizzles out, all on this day.

OTD January 1 - J Edgar Hoover — 9 / 36

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1895: J. Edgar Hoover is born in Washington, D.C. Hoover, seen here in 1961, would become director of the Bureau of Investigation, the predecessor to the FBI, in 1924, and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972.

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OTD January 1 - Emancipation Proclamation

OTD January 1 - Tournament of Roses Parade

OTD January 1 - Ellis Island

OTD January 1 - J Edgar Hoover

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OTD January 1 - euro

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