01-14-2008, 01:17 PM
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January 14th
83 BC ~ Birthday of Marcus Antonius (Marc Anthony), Roman politician.
1784 ~ The Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American War of Independence.
1857 ~ Birthday of Albert Schweitzer, Christian Missionary & winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1952.
1898 ~ Death of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - who wrote ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Writer & Mathematician.
1943 ~ President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.
1954 ~ Baseball player Joe Dimaggio and actress Marilyn Monroe were married at San Francisco City Hall.
1957 ~ Death of Humphrey Bogart, Actor.
1978 ~ Death of Kurt Gödel, Mathematician.
1993 ~ Whitewater prosecutors questioned first lady Hillary Clinton at the White House about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees.
2005 ~ The Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan.
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