Jan. 8 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1790, U.S. President George Washington gave the first State of the Union address. Advertisement In 1815, the forces of U.S. Gen. Andrew Jackson decisively defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, the closing engagement of the War of 1812. In 1867, the U.S. Congress approved legislation that allowed black African Americans to vote in the District of Columbia. In 1889, US patent #395,791 is issued to Herman Hollerith for his "Art of Compiling