January 5, 1933. After years of planning, construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge, a process that proves to be challenging in its own right.

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January 4, 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson outlines his plan for a “Great Society” in his State of the Union address.

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January 3, 1911. After three London policemen are killed trying to stop a robbery, the murderers are tracked down to East London where a deadly armed siege begins.

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January 2, 1981: Police arrest a man named Peter Sutcliffe for a routine traffic violation in Sheffield, England. But they soon realize that he is a mass murderer known as the Yorkshire Ripper.

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January 1, 1892: 17-year-old Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant to enter the United States through a new immigration station on Ellis Island.

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On today's Saturday Matinee, we go to the theater to learn why Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, The Woman in White, was one of the legendary composer's least successful productions.

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December 29, 1170: Archbishop Thomas Becket becomes a martyr after he is brutally killed by four knights in Canterbury Cathedral.

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December 28, 1832. John C. Calhoun resigns as Vice President of the United States after clashing with President Andrew Jackson.

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