TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

1943

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French General Charles de Gaulle opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.

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1784

The United States ratified the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War; Britain followed suit in April.

1914

Ford Motor Co. greatly improved its assembly-line operation by employing an endless chain to pull each chassis along at its Michigan plant.

1963

George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with the pledge, “Segregation forever!” — a view Wallace later repudiated.

1964

Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, in a brief televised address, thanked Americans for their condolences following the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, nearly two months earlier.

1968

The Green Bay Packers of the NFL defeated the AFL’s Oakland Raiders, 33-14, in the second AFL-NFL World Championship game.

1970

Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.

1994

President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed an accord to stop aiming missiles at any nation.

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.

2013

Lance Armstrong ended a decade of denial by telling Oprah Winfrey during an interview that he’d used performanceenhancing drugs.