January 14 1639 The first constitution of Connecticut, Fundamental Orders, was adopted. 1741 Benedict Arnold was born. 1784 The United States ratified treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War. 1875 Albert Schweitzer was born. 1886 Hugh Lofting was born. 1896 John Dos Passos was born. 1925 Yukio Mishima was born. 1940 Julian Bond was born. 1943 President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill meet at the Casablanca Conference. 1952 Maureen Dowd was born. 1952 NBCs Today show premiered. 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 Alabamas governor, promising segregation forever. 1970 Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. 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. 1993 Late-night TV talk show host David Letterman announced he was moving from NBC to CBS. 1994 President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed accords in Moscow to stop aiming missiles at any nation and to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine. 2004 President George W. Bush unveiled a plan to send astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond. 2008 Bobby Jindal took office as governor of Louisiana as the first elected Indian-American governor of the U.S.
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