| On this date in: |
| 1639 |
Connecticut’s first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, was adopted. |
| 1784 |
The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War. |
| 1898 |
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” under the pen name Lewis Carroll, died in Guildford, England, at age 65. |
| 1952 |
NBC’s “Today” show premiered. |
| 1953 |
Josip Broz Tito was elected president of Yugoslavia by the country’s Parliament. |
| 1954 |
Baseball player Joe Dimaggio and actress Marilyn Monroe were married at San Francisco City Hall. |
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| 1963 |
George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of “segregation forever.” |
| 1970 |
Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. |
| 1993 |
Late-night TV talk show host David Letterman announced he was moving from NBC to CBS. |
| 1994 |
President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed accords in Moscow to stop aiming missiles at any nation and to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine. |
| 2004 |
Former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow pleaded guilty to conspiracy as he accepted a 10-year prison sentence. |
| 2004 |
J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. struck a deal to buy Bank One Corp. for $58 billion. |
| 2004 |
President George W. Bush unveiled a plan to send astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond. |
| 2005 |
Army Specialist Charles Graner Jr., the reputed ringleader of a band of rogue guards at the Abu Ghraib prison, was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of abusing Iraqi detainees. (He was later sentenced to 10 years in prison.) |
| 2005 |
A European space probe sent back the first detailed pictures of the frozen surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan. |
| 2008 |
Republican Bobby Jindal, the first elected Indian-American governor in the United States, took office in Louisiana. |
