Today in history: January 29

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last updated 8 January 2015

Jan. 29, 1834: Andrew Jackson became the first president to use federal troops to put down labor unrest — workers building the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal were angry over working conditions and low pay.

Jan. 29, 1843: William McKinley was born. He was the 25th president, serving between 1897 and 1901. McKinley was the third president to be assassinated. In the wake of his death, Congress asked the Secret Service to protect POTUS. The Secret Service responded to the McKinley assassination by assigning, in 1902, two fulltime agents to the White House detail. The Secret Service had informally protected presidents prior to McKinley’s murder, and only on a part-time basis.

Jan. 29, 2002: In his State of the Union speech, President Bush unveiled the term "Axis of Evil" to describe North Korea, Iran, and Iraq.

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Bush accused them of being rogue states that harbored, financed, or aided terrorists. But Bush did nothing to prevent North Korea from successfully testing a nuclear weapon in 2006, and was unable to prevent Iran from making progress with its own nuclear program.

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"Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear." — George W. Bush

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