Also on this date
the United States ratified the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War; Britain followed suit in April 1784.
In 1784,
In 1943,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French General Charles de Gaulle opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.
In 1952,
NBC’s “Today” show premiered, with Dave Garroway as the host, or “communicator.”
In 1954,
Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married at San Francisco City Hall. (The marriage lasted about nine months.)
In 1963,
George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with the pledge, “Segregation forever!” — a view Wallace later repudiated.
In 1967,
the “Summer of Love” unofficially began with a “Human Be-In” involving tens of thousands of young people at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
In 1970,
Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
In 1975,
the House Internal Security Committee (formerly the House Un-American Activities Committee) was disbanded.
In 1994,
President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed an accord to stop aiming missiles at any nation; the leaders joined Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk in signing an accord to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.
In 2010,
President Barack Obama and the U.S. moved to take charge in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, dispatching thousands of troops along with tons of aid.
Rescue workers scrambled aboard the Costa Concordia cruise liner, seeking to help some 4,200 passengers a day after the ship ran aground and tipped over off Italy’s Tuscan coast; the death toll eventually reached 32.
Protesters gathered in Washington and other cities to denounce President-elect Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant stance and his pledge to build a wall on the Mexican border.
A team of researchers sent by the World Health Organization arrived in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to investigate its origins.
Associated Press