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Monday, January 14, 2008

This Day in History

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[January 14, 2008]  (AP)  Today is Monday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2008. There are 352 days left in the year.

Today's highlight in history:

On Jan. 14, 1784, the United States ratified a peace treaty with England, ending the Revolutionary War.

On this date:

In 1639, the first constitution of Connecticut -- the "Fundamental Orders" -- was adopted.

In 1858, French emperor Napoleon III escaped an attempt on his life.

In 1900, Puccini's opera "Tosca" had its world premiere in Rome.

In 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French General Charles de Gaulle opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.

In 1952, NBC's "Today" show premiered, with Dave Garroway as the host, or "communicator," as he was officially known.

In 1953, Josip Broz Tito was elected president of Yugoslavia by the country's Parliament.

In 1963, George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of "segregation forever."

In 1968, the Green Bay Packers of the NFL defeated the AFL's Oakland Raiders, 33-14, in Super Bowl II.

In 1969, 27 people aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise were killed in an explosion that ripped through the ship off Hawaii.

In 1970, Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.

Ten years ago: Whitewater prosecutors questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House for 10 minutes about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees. (Sources quoted the first lady as saying she knew nothing about any such collection of files.) NBC agreed to pay Warner Brothers $13 million per episode to retain the highly rated TV show "ER."

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Five years ago: Kmart Corp. announced its biggest round of cutbacks yet, saying it would close 326 more stores and eliminate 37,000 more jobs in hopes of getting out of bankruptcy by the end of April 2003. (Kmart emerged from Chapter 11 protection in May 2003.) Thousands of General Electric Co. employees across the country began a two-day strike to protest higher health insurance costs.

One year ago: President Bush, facing opposition from both parties over his plan to send more troops to Iraq, said on CBS' "60 Minutes" that he had the authority to act no matter what Congress wanted. On "Fox News Sunday," Vice President Dick Cheney asserted that lawmakers' criticism would not influence Bush's plans and he dismissed any effort to "run a war by committee." Actress Darlene Conley, feisty fashion mogul Sally Spectra on "The Bold and the Beautiful," died in Los Angeles at age 72.

Today's birthdays: CBS commentator Andy Rooney is 89. Blues singer Clarence Carter is 72. Country singer Billie Jo Spears is 71. Singer Jack Jones is 70. Singer-songwriter Allen Toussaint is 70. NAACP Chairman Julian Bond is 68. Actress Faye Dunaway is 67. Actress Holland Taylor is 65. Actor Carl Weathers is 60. Singer-producer T-Bone Burnett is 60. Movie writer-director Lawrence Kasdan is 59. Rock singer Geoff Tate (Queensryche) is 49. Movie writer-director Steven Soderbergh is 45. Actor Mark Addy is 44. Fox News Channel anchorman Shepard Smith is 44. Rapper Slick Rick is 43. Actor Dan Schneider is 42. Actress Emily Watson is 41. Actor-comedian Tom Rhodes is 41. Rock musician Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne Band) is 41. Rapper-actor LL Cool J is 40. Actor Jason Bateman is 39. Rock singer-musician Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) is 39. Actress Jordan Ladd is 33. Rock musician Joe Guese (The Click Five) is 25.

Thought for today: "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." -- John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (1806-1873)

[Associated Press]

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