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Five Things You Need to Know Today: Jan. 23

Do you know who has a birthday today?

  1. City of Falls Church City Council will hold a meeting at 7:30 p.m. inside City Hall. Here is the agenda for the meeting.
  2. According to Capital News Service, A Senate committee has approved compromise legislation to allow Virginians to hunt on Sundays. The Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee voted 11-4 to lift the state’s ban on Sunday hunting. The bill recommended by the panel would permit hunting on Sundays only on private land in Virginia. The measure now goes to the full Senate for consideration.
  3. On this day in 1973, President Richard Nixon announced an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War.
  4. On this day in 2011, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari launched an emergency polio immunization program targeting 32 million children under age 5.
  5. If today is your birthday, you share it with actress Mariska Hargitay (48-years-old) and John Hancock (275-years-old). Happy birthday!

If there is something we missed and you feel should be in our Five Things, let us know in the comment box below. We would love to have your input!

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