Ten things that happened on January 16, 2001:
- My niece Hannah and I had dinner together at TGI Friday's in Leesburg
- President Bill Clinton awarded former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War
- Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, assassinated
- Jose Canseco signed a contract with the Anaheim Angels
- Citigroup reported fourth-quarter earnings before nonrecurring charges of $3.3 billion, a 12 percent increase
- President-elect George W. Bush announced that George J. Tenet would remain as director of central intelligence.
- The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the nomination of John Ashcroft as Attorney General
- Seth P. Waxman made his final argument representing the government as Solicitor General before the U.S. Supreme Court
- The prosecutors in the impeachment trial of Philippine president Joseph Estrada resigned after the Senate voted against allowing evidence considered critical to their case
- My niece Mary Elizabeth "Libby" Heaton was born
Nos. 1 and 10 are related; I was tasked with picking up Hannah from school and babysitting while my sister-in-law was giving birth to Libby. And just in case you doubt my story, here is documentary evidence that today is her birthday, or at least that there is a massive conspiracy to make people think today is her birthday:
