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Jan 14, 1784: Continental Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris
On this day in 1784, the Continental Congress ratifies the Second Treaty of Paris, ending the War for Independence.
In the document, which was known as the Second Treaty of Paris because the Treaty of Paris was also the name of the agreement that had ended the Seven Years' War in 1763, Britain officially agreed to recognize the independence of its 13 former colonies as the new United States of America.
In addition, the treaty settled the boundaries between the United States and what remained of British North America. U.S. fishermen won the right to fish in the Grand Banks, off the Newfoundland coast, and in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Both sides agreed to ensure payment to creditors in the other nation of debts incurred during the war and to release all prisoners of war. The United States promised to return land confiscated during the war to its British owners, to stop any further confiscation of British property and to honor the property left by the British army on U.S. shores, including Negroes or slaves. Both countries assumed perpetual rights to access the Mississippi River.
Despite the agreement, many of these issues remained points of contention between the two nations in the post-war years. The British did not abandon their western forts as promised and attempts by British merchants to collect outstanding debts from Americans were unsuccessful as American merchants were unable to collect from their customers, many of whom were struggling farmers.
In Massachusetts, where by 1786 the courts were clogged with foreclosure proceedings, farmers rose in a violent protest known as Shay's Rebellion, which tested the ability of the new United States to maintain law and order within its borders and instigated serious reconsideration of the Articles of Confederation.
Jan 14, 1980: United Nations vote "deplores" Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
In a crushing diplomatic rebuke to the Soviet Union, the U.N. General Assembly votes 104 to 18 to "deplore" the Russian intervention in Afghanistan.
The resolution also requested the "immediate, unconditional and total withdrawal of the foreign troops from Afghanistan." The immense margin of victory for the resolution indicated the worldwide disapproval for the December 1979 Soviet invasion and installation of a pro-communist puppet regime in Afghanistan.
The General Assembly's resolution had no direct impact on the Soviet Union's actions. Russia had earlier vetoed a similar resolution introduced in the Security Council. However, the size of the General Assembly vote and the nations that voted for the resolution indicated that Cold War world politics might be changing. Non-aligned nations (nations in the United Nations that claimed "non-alignment" with either the West or the communist bloc) and other Third World nations voted 78 to 9 in favor of the resolution (28 others abstained or were absent).
Even the fiery rhetoric of the Cuban delegate (Cuba presided over the non-aligned nations) failed to sway many voters to defeat the proposal. "We know," he declared, "the historic role of the Soviet Union and of United States imperialism." Several representatives from Asian, African, and Latin American nations—nations that had traditionally maintained a more or less neutral attitude toward the East-West conflict—did condemn the Soviet action in Afghanistan.
The resolution was a victory for U.S. diplomats, who had been pushing for a statement from the international organization denouncing the Soviet invasion. The successful and overwhelming passage of the resolution indicated that Cold War alignments were perhaps undergoing an important and far-reaching alteration. Many of the so-called non-aligned nations and Third World countries were appalled by the Soviet action and drew closer to the United States. With the Cold War itself destined to last another decade, U.S. relations with such nations would take on more significance than ever before.
Jan 14, 1915: South African troops occupy Swakopmund in German Southwest Africa
As part of an attempt to display its loyalty to the British empire and, perhaps more importantly, enlarge its own sphere of influence on the African continent, South Africa sends troops to occupy Swakopmund, a seaside town in German-occupied Southwest Africa (modern-day Namibia).
When war broke out in 1914, South African Prime Minister Louis Botha immediately pledged full support for Britain, antagonizing a portion of South Africa's ruling Afrikaner (or Boer) population, who were still resentful of their defeat, at the hands of the British, in the Boer War of 1899-1902.
That conflict had pitted the Boers, descendants of South Africa's Dutch settlers who controlled two republics—the gold-rich Transvaal and the Orange Free State—against the colonial armies of Great Britain. A stiff Boer resistance, including an extensive campaign of guerrilla warfare, had ultimately been repressed by brutal methods—including concentration camps—introduced by the British commander in chief, Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener (who later became Britain's minister of war). Under the terms of the Treaty of Vereeniging, which ended the Boer War in 1902, the Boer republics were granted eventual self-government as colonies of the British empire. They received their own constitutions in 1907 and in 1910 the British Parliament's South Africa Act established the Union of South Africa as a united self-governing dominion of the British empire. Botha, the leader of the South African Party, became its first head of government.
In 1914, Botha and Minister of Defense Jan Smuts, both generals and former Boer commanders, were looking to extend the Union's borders further on the continent. Invading German Southwest Africa would not only aid the British—it would also help to accomplish that goal. The plan angered some Afrikaners, who were resentful of their government's support of Britain against Germany, which had been pro-Boer in their war against the British. Several major military leaders resigned over their opposition to the invasion of the German territory and open rebellion broke out in October 1914. It was quashed in December and the conquest of Southwest Africa, carried out by a South African Defense Force of nearly 50,000 men, was completed in only six months.
On July 9, 1915, Germans in Southwest Africa surrendered to South African forces there; 16 days later, South Africa annexed the territory. At the Versailles peace conference in 1919, Smuts and Botha argued successfully for a formal Union mandate over Southwest Africa, one of the many commissions granted at the conference to member states of the new League of Nations allowing them to establish their own governments in former German territories. In the years to come, South Africa did not easily relinquish its hold on the territory, not even in the wake of the Second World War, when the United Nations took over the mandates in Africa and gave all other territories their independence. Only in 1990 did South Africa finally welcome a new, independent Namibia as its neighbor.
Jan 14, 1639: The first colonial constitution
In Hartford, Connecticut, the first constitution in the American colonies, the "Fundamental Orders," is adopted by representatives of Wethersfield, Windsor, and Hartford.
The Dutch discovered the Connecticut River in 1614, but English Puritans from Massachusetts largely accomplished European settlement of the region. During the 1630s, they flocked to the Connecticut valley from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and in 1638 representatives from the three major Puritan settlements in Connecticut met to set up a unified government for the new colony.
Roger Ludlow, a lawyer, wrote much of the Fundamental Orders, and presented a binding and compact frame of government that put the welfare of the community above that of individuals. It was also the first written constitution in the world to declare the modern idea that "the foundation of authority is in the free consent of the people." In 1662, the Charter of Connecticut superseded the Fundamental Orders; though the majority of the original document's laws and statutes remained in force until 1818.
Jan 14, 1973: Undefeated Dolphins beat Redskins in Super Bowl VII
On January 14, 1973, the Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins 14-7 at the Los Angeles Coliseum in Super Bowl VII, becoming the first team in National Football League (NFL) history to finish with an undefeated season.
Despite their perfect regular season record, Coach Don Shula’s Dolphins were three-point underdogs in the game, according to the bettors. The Redskins came into Super Bowl VII with an 11-3 regular-season record and playoff victories over the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys, who had defeated Miami in the previous year’s Super Bowl. Washington was led by quarterback Bill Kilmer, while Shula gave the starting nod to quarterback Bob Griese over the 38-year-old Earl Morrall, who had led the Dolphins to nine consecutive victories after Griese broke his ankle in the fifth game of the season.
On their third possession of the game, Miami scored on a pass from Griese at the Washington 28 to wide receiver Howard Twilley at the five-yard line. Cutting inside and then outside, Twilley faked his Redskins defender, Pat Fischer, and ran the ball in for a score. By halftime, Miami led 14-0 after Kilmer threw an interception to set up the Dolphins’ second touchdown on a one-yard run by Jim Kiick.
A measure of excitement entered the game late in the fourth quarter, when the Dolphins kicker Garo Yepremian botched a field goal attempt, then tried to throw a 42-yard pass after his kick was blocked. Redskins cornerback Mike Bass intercepted the pass and ran 49 yards into the end zone for his team’s only touchdown, with 2:07 left in the game. In general, however, the Miami defense, despite lacking any big-name stars, remained impenetrable throughout the game, harassing Kilmer and holding the Redskins to a total of only 228 yards. Miami safety Jake Scott, who caught two of three Dolphins interceptions, was voted the game’s Most Valuable Player, as his team wrapped up their 17th straight victory and the first-ever undefeated season in the NFL.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
1129 - Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the
Council of Troyes.
1301 - Andrew III of Hungary (1290-1301) dies at 50, ending
the Arpad dynasty in Hungary.
1501 - Martin Luther, age 17, enters the University of
Erfurt.
1514 - Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery.
1526 - Charles V & Francis I sign Treaty of Madrid,
forcing Francis to give up claims to Burgundy, Italy & Flanders
1539 - Spain annexes Cuba.
1601 - Church authorities burn hebrew books in Rome
1639 - 1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders)
adopted in Hartford, published by Rodger Ludlow
1641 - United East Indian Company conquerors city of
Malakka, 7,000 killed
1659 - Battle at Elvas: Portuguese beat Spanish
1690 - Clarinet invented, in Nurnberg, Germany
1699 - Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly
persecuting "witches"
1717 - German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to
death in Amsterdam
1724 - Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne
1739 - England & Spain signs 2nd Convention of Pardo
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army leaves Glasgow [OS=Jan
3]
1783 - Congress ratifies peace treaty between US &
England
1784 - Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies Treaty of
Paris
1785 - Mozart completes "Dissonantenkwartet" (opus
10)
Pope Leo XPope Leo X
1794 - Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom Va, performs 1st successful Cesarean section
operation on his wife
1799 - Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000
muskets
1799 - King of Naples flees before advancing French armies
1813 - Gideon Hawley becomes 1st state school superintendent
in US (NY)
1814 - King of Denmark cedes Norway to King of Sweden by
treaty of Kiel
1822 - Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by
Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrius Ypsilanti.
1858 - French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his
life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed
1861 - Ft Pikens, FL falls into state hands
1863 - Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche Louisiana
1864 - Battle of Cosby Creek, TN
1864 - General Sherman begins his march to the South
1868 - NC constitutional convention meets in Raleigh
1868 - SC constitutional convention, meets with a black
majority
1873 - "Celluloid" registered as a trademark
1873 - P B S Pinchback elected to Senate
1874 - I D Shadd elected Speaker of lower house of Miss
legislature
1878 - US Supreme court rules race separation on trains
unconstitutional
1897 - 6,960-m (22,834') Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) 1st
climbed
1898 - Joe Darling hits the 1st six in Tests (out of the
ground)
Composer Giacomo PucciniComposer Giacomo Puccini 1900 -
Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca," premieres in Rome
1905 - Hubbell, Shubert & Smith's musical
"Fontana," premieres in NYC
1907 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than
1,000.
1908 - Roger Hartigan scores century on Test debut v Eng
Adelaide (116)
1909 - Coöp. Far. Central Management forms
1912 - Raymond Poincaré becomes premier of France
1914 - Henry Ford introduces an assembly line for Model T
Fords
1916 - Dutch South Sea dike cracks
1918 - Finland & USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian)
calendar
1919 - John McGraw, Charles A Stoneham, & Judge MCQuade
buy NY Giants
1924 - Allies direct Fiume (Rijeka) in Italy
1925 - Alban Berg's atonale opera "Wozzeck,"
premieres in Berlin
1927 - Toronto Maple Leafs 1st hat trick (Hap Day) vs NY
Rangers
1929 - Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign
1932 - 1st totalisator (to record racetrack bets) in US
installed, Hialeah
Ford Motor Company Founder Henry FordFord Motor Company
Founder Henry Ford 1932 - Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race
1935 - Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use
1936 - L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of
America
1938 - National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms
(NY)
1939 - All commercial ferry service to East Bay ends
1939 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica
1940 - Commissioner Kenesaw Landis gives free agency to 91
Detroit Tigers
1940 - NFL Pro Bowl: Green Bay beats NFL All-Stars 16-7
1942 - Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in
Borneo
1943 - Alex Smart (Mont) is 1st NHLer to score hat trick in
his 1st game
1943 - FDR & Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca
concerning WW II
1943 - Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw
1944 - Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow
1946 - 2 jetties collapse in Ganges-160 Hindu pilgrims are
crushed
1949 - Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa;
142 die
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1950 - "As the Girls Go" closes at Winter
Garden Theater NYC after 420 perfs
1950 - US recalls all consular officials from China
1951 - NFL Pro Bowl: 1st since 1942, Americans beat
Nationals 28-27
1952 - "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway
& Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV
1952 - Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends
1952 - Snow storm in Sierra Nevada kills 26
1953 - Vaughan William's "Sinfonia Antartica,"
premieres in Manchester
1953 - WALA TV channel 10 in Mobile, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Yugoslavia elects it's 1st president (Marshal Tito)
1954 - Sandy Wilson's musical "Boyfriend,"
premieres in London
1954 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
1955 - Heitor Villa-Lobos' 8th Symphony, premieres in Phila
1956 - Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad
1956 - Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti"
1960 - Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded
Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis PresleySinger & Cultural
Icon Elvis Presley 1960 - US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant
1961 - Chic Bear Willard Dewveall becomes 1st NFLer to join
AFL
1962 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 31-30
1963 - George C Wallace sworn in as governor of Alabama, his
address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation
forever!"
1964 - 14th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-107 at
Boston
1964 - Bapu Nadkarni 32-27-5-0 v England, 21 maiden overs in
a row
1964 - Jacqueline Kennedy's 1st public appearance (TV) since
assassination
1966 - David Bowie releases his 1st record (Can't Help
Thinking About Me)
1967 - 20,000 attend Human Be-In, SF
1967 - Earthquake in Sicily kills 231
1967 - NY Times reports Army is conducting secret germ
warfare experiments
1967 - Sonny & Cher release "Beat Goes On"
1968 - Superbowl II: Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders,
33-14 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB
1969 - 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die
during maneuvers
1969 - Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days
later
Goddess of Pop Cher
Goddess of Pop Cher 1969 - An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii
kills 27 people.
1971 - John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by
299 runs
1972 - "Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx
premieres on NBC TV
1972 - WMAH TV channel 19 in Biloxi, MS (PBS) begins
broadcasting
1972 - WMAU TV channel 17 in Bude, MS (PBS) begins
broadcasting
1972 - WMAW TV channel 14 in Meridian, MS (PBS) begins
broadcasting
1973 - Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted on drugs
in Calif
1973 - Superbowl VII: Miami Dolphins beat Wash Red Skins,
14-7 in LA
1973 - Tap dancer Roy Castle measured at 1440 taps/min on
BBC TV
1973 - Superbowl MVP: Jake Scott, Miami, S
1974 - World Football League founded
1975 - Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance
record-98 m
1975 - USSR breaks trade agreement with US
1976 - "Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts
on ABC (later NBC)
1976 - Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves
1978 - Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, SF)
Clergyman and Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King
Jr.Clergyman and Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King Jr. 1979 - Pres
Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday
1980 - Shakuntala Devi, mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in
28 sec
1981 - FCC frees stations to air as many commercials an hour
as they wish
1984 - Madonna 1st sings "Holiday" on American
Bandstand
1985 - 16 indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central
American refugees
1985 - M Navratilova is 3rd to win 100 tennis tournaments
(Connors & Evert)
1985 - British pound (£) sinks to record low $US1.11
1986 - Constitution of Guatemala takes effect
1986 - Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected
president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
1987 - Catfish Hunter & Billy Williams are elected to
Baseball Hall of Fame
1989 - "Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes
Theater NYC after 297 perfs
1989 - 1,000 muslims burn Salman Rushdies' "Satanic
Verses" in Bradford England
1989 - 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in
Paris
1989 - Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants
kidnapped
1990 - "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV
Pop Star MadonnaPop Star Madonna 1990 - 11th ACE Cable
Awards
1990 - Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace
in Gulf
1991 - "Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on
CBS-TV
1991 - Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as president of
Guatemala
1991 - Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys
Calif
1991 - Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR
1993 - "Anna Christie" opens at Criterion Theater
NYC for 54 performances
1993 - David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC
to CBS
1993 - Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die
1994 - Inna Lassovskaya triple-jumps ladies world record
(14.61m)
1994 - Kathleen Kinmont files for divorce from Lorenzo Lamas
1994 - Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands
1995 - 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe
Slovo
1995 - 16th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 23 awards
1996 - "Holiday" closes at Circle in Sq Theater
NYC after 49 performances
Comedian David LettermanComedian David Letterman 1996 -
"Swinging On a Star" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 97 perfs
1996 - Liselotte Neumann wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament
of Golf Champions
1998 - 100th episode of "Ellen," airs
1998 - Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault
charge
1998 - Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about
an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis).
2000 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian
Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian
village.
2001 - Jennifer Lopez scored her first UK No.1 single with
'Love Don't Cost A Thing.'
2004 - The national flag of Georgia, the so-called
"five cross flag", was restored to official use after a hiatus of
some 500 years.
2005 - Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan.
2011 - Stampede near Sabarimala in Kerala, India kills 104
devotees and injures 100 more
2011 - Ben Ali, former Tunisian president, fled the country
to Saudi Arabia after popular protests (dubbed as Jasmine Revolution)
requesting his departure.
2012 - Suicide bomber kills 53 and injures 130 in Basra,
Iraq
2012 - Ma Ying-jeou wins re-election as President of the
Republic of China with 51% of the vote
1639 - Connecticut's first constitution, the "Fundamental Orders," was adopted. 1784 - The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War. 1858 - French emperor Napoleon III escaped an attempt on his life. 1873 - John Hyatt's 1869 invention ‘Celluloid’ was registered as a trademark. 1878 - Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for Britain's Queen Victoria. 1882 - The Myopia Hunt Club, in Winchester, MA, became the first country club in the United States. 1907 - An earthquake killed over 1,000 people in Kingston, Jamaica. 1939 - "Honolulu Bound" was heard on CBS radio for the first time. 1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office. He flew from Miami, FL, to French Morocco where he met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss World War II. 1951 - The first National Football League Pro Bowl All-Star Game was played in Los Angeles, CA. 1952 - NBC's "Today" show premiered. 1953 - Josip Broz Tito was elected president of Yugoslavia by the country's Parliament. 1954 - Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married. The marriage only lasted nine months. 1954 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator. The new company was called the American Motors Corporation. 1963 - George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama. 1969 - An explosion aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise off Hawaii killed 25 crew members. 1972 - NBC-TV debuted "Sanford & Son." 1973 - The Miami Dolphins defeated the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII and became the first NFL team to go undefeated in a season. 1985 - Martina Navratilova won her 100th tournament. She joined Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert Lloyd as the only professional tennis players to win 100 tournaments. 1985 - Former Miss America, Phyllis George, joined Bill Kurtis as host of "The CBS Morning News". 1986 - "Rambo: First Blood, Part II" arrived at video stores. It broke the record set by "Ghostbusters", for first day orders. 435,000 copies of the video were sold. 1993 - Television talk show host David Letterman announced he was moving from NBC to CBS. 1993 - The British government pledged to introduce legislation to criminalize invasions of privacy by the press. 1994 - U.S. President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed Kremlin accords to stop aiming missiles at any nation and to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine. 1996 - Jorge Sampaio was elected president of Portugal. 1996 - Juan Garcia Abrego was arrested by Mexican agents. The alleged drug lord was handed over to the FBI the next day. 1998 - 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. 1998 - In Dallas, researchers report an enzyme that slows the aging process and cell death. 1999 - The impeachment trial of U.S. President Clinton began in Washington, DC. 1999 - The U.S. proposed the lifting of the U.N. ceilings on the sale of oil in Iraq. The restriction being that the money be used to buy medicine and food for the Iraqi people. 2000 - A U.N. tribunal sentenced five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 massacre of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village. 2000 - The Dow Jones industrial average hit a new high when it closed at 11,722.98. Earlier in the session, the Dow had risen to 11,750.98. Both records stood until October 3, 2006. 2002 - NBC's "Today" celebrated its 50th anniversary on television. 2002 - Actor Brad Renfro, 19, was arrested after being stopped on a traffic violation. He was charged with public intoxication and driving without a license. 2004 - In St. Louis, a Lewis and Clark Exhibition opened at the Missouri History Museum. The exhibit featured 500 rare and priceless objects used by the Corps of Discovery. 2005 - A probe, from the Cassini-Huygens mission, sent back pictures during and after landing on Saturn's moon Titan. The mission was launched on October 15, 1997.
1639 The first constitution of Connecticut, Fundamental Orders, was adopted. 1784 The United States ratified treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War. 1943 President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill meet at the Casablanca Conference. 1953 Tito formally became the first president of the Republic of Yugoslavia. 1954 Marilyn Monroe married baseball legend Joe DiMaggio. 1963 George Wallace sworn in as Alabama's governor, promising "segregation forever." 1973 The Miami Dolphins became the first NFL team to go undefeated and have a perfect season by beating the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII. 1990 The Simpsons premiered on television. 2008 Bobby Jindal takes office as governor of Louisiana as the first elected Indian-American governor of the U.S.
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