DAILY ALMANAC

Today is Monday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2019. There are 351 days left in the year.

Highlights in history

• In 1784, the United States ratified the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War; Britain followed suit in April 1784.

• In 1898, author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson — better known as "Alice in Wonderland" creator Lewis Carroll — died in England at 65.

• In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French General Charles de Gaulle opened a wartime conference in Casablanca. • In 1967, the 1960s "Summer of Love" unofficially began with a "Human Be-in" involving tens of thousands of young people who gathered at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

• 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 a pact to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.

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