Today In History

Fri., Jan. 14, 2000

In 1784: The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.

In 1943: President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.

In 1963: George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of “segregation forever.”

In 1969: 25 crew members of the U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise were killed in an explosion that ripped through the ship off Hawaii.

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