TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Jan. 15, 1943

Work was completed on the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of War. ALSO ON THIS DATE

1777

The people of New Connecticut declared their independence.

1929

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was born.

1947

The mutilated remains of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, who came to be known as the “Black Dahlia,” were found in a vacant Los Angeles lot; her slaying remains unsolved.

1961

A U.S. Air Force radar tower off the New Jersey coast collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean during a severe storm, killing all 28 men aboard.

1967

The Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League 35-10 in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game, retroactively known as Super Bowl I.

1978

Two students at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman, were slain in their sorority house.

1989

NATO, the Warsaw Pact and 12 other European countries adopted a human rights and security agreement in Vienna, Austria.

1993

A historic disarmament ceremony ended in Paris with the last of 125 countries signing a treaty banning chemical weapons.