Today In History
In 1789: Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.
In 1861: Delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.
In 1932: New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid.
In 1938: The Thornton Wilder play “Our Town” opened on Broadway.
In 1945: President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a wartime conference at Yalta.
In 1974: Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif., by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
In 1983: Singer Karen Carpenter died at age 32.
In 1987: Pianist Liberace died at age 67.
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