Friday, January 14, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY


JANUARY 14
1954:New York Yankees slugger Joe DiMaggio and movie star Marilyn Monroe are wed at San Francisco City Hall. Their marriage will end in divorce less than a year later.

1784: The Treaty of Paris is officially ratified by the Continental Congress at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, formally ending hostilities between Great Britain and the newly created sovereign United States.

1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first president to travel by airplane on official business as a passenger aboard the "Dixie Clipper," a Pan American Boeing 314 Flying Boat. Roosevelt arrives in Morocco to meet with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and other Allied leaders to discuss strategy in World War II at the Casablanca Conference.

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