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In 1782, the United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
In 1803, Spain completed the process of ceding Louisiana to France, which had sold it to the United States.
In 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was born in Florida, Mo.
In 1874, British statesman Sir Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace.
In 1939, the Winter War began as Soviet troops invaded Finland. The conflict ended the following March with a Soviet victory.
In 1940, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were married at the Byram River Beagle Club in Greenwich, Conn. The marriage ended in divorce in 1960.
In 1954, Ann Elizabeth Hodges of Oak Grove, Ala., was slightly injured when an 8½-pound chunk of meteor crashed through the roof of her house, hit a radio cabinet, then hit her as she lay
napping on a couch.
In 1966, the former British colony of Barbados became independent.
In 1982, the Michael Jackson album “Thriller” was released by Epic Records. The motion picture “Gandhi,” starring Ben Kingsley as the Indian nationalist leader, had its world premiere in New Delhi.
In 1990, the horror-thriller film “Misery,” starring James Caan and Kathy Bates, was released by Columbia Pictures.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actor Robert Guillaume is 88. Radio talk show host G. Gordon Liddy is 85. Country singer-recording executive Jimmy Bowen and movie director Ridley Scott are 78. Movie writer-director Terrence Malick is 72. Rock musician Roger Glover (Deep Purple) is 70. Playwright David Mamet is 68. Actress Margaret Whitton is 65. Actor Mandy Patinkin is 63. Musician Shuggie Otis is 62. Country singer Jeannie Kendall is 61. Singer Billy Idol and historian Michael Beschloss are 60. Actor-director Ben Stiller is 50. Rock musician Mike Stone is 46. Actress Sandra Oh is 45. Singer Clay Aiken is 37. Actor Billy Lush is 34. Actress Elisha Cuthbert is 33. Actress Kaley Cuoco and model Chrissy Teigen are 30. Actress Christel Khalil is 28. Actress Rebecca Rittenhouse (TV: “Blood & Oil”) is 27. Actress Adelaide Clemens is 26.