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Today in History: Thursday, January\u00a0 14, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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AP Highlight in History:<\/span>
\nOn Jan. 14, 2011, Tunisian protesters enraged over soaring unemployment and corruption drove President Zine El Abdine Ben Ali from power after 23 years of iron-fisted rule.
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1639<\/td>\nConnecticut’s first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, was adopted.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1784<\/td>\nThe United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1898<\/td>\nCharles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” under the pen name Lewis Carroll, died in Guildford, England, at age 65.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1952<\/td>\nNBC’s “Today” show premiered.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1953<\/td>\nJosip Broz Tito was elected president of Yugoslavia by the country’s Parliament.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1954<\/td>\nBaseball player Joe Dimaggio and actress Marilyn Monroe were married at San Francisco City Hall.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1963<\/td>\nGeorge C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of “segregation forever.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1970<\/td>\nDiana Ross and the Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/td>\nLate-night TV talk show host David Letterman announced he was moving from NBC to CBS.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/td>\nPresident 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nFormer Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow pleaded guilty to conspiracy as he accepted a 10-year prison sentence.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nJ.P. Morgan Chase and Co. struck a deal to buy Bank One Corp. for $58 billion.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nPresident George W. Bush unveiled a plan to send astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nArmy 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.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nA European space probe sent back the first detailed pictures of the frozen surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nRepublican Bobby Jindal, the first elected Indian-American governor in the United States, took office in Louisiana.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Today’s Birthdays:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Rock singer-musician Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) turns 47 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Jack Jones<\/td>\nSinger<\/td>\n78<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Allen Toussaint<\/td>\nR&B singer, songwriter<\/td>\n78<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Julian Bond<\/td>\nCivil rights activist<\/td>\n76<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Faye Dunaway<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Holland Taylor<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
T-Bone Burnett<\/td>\nRock singer, producer<\/td>\n68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carl Weathers<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lawrence Kasdan<\/td>\nScreenwriter, director<\/td>\n67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maureen Dowd<\/td>\nColumnist<\/td>\n64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shepard Smith<\/td>\nBroadcast journalist (“The Fox Report”)<\/td>\n52<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emily Watson<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LL Cool J<\/td>\nRapper, actor<\/td>\n48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jason Bateman<\/td>\nActor (“Arrested Development”)<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Caleb Followill<\/td>\nRock musician (Kings of Leon)<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zach Gilford<\/td>\nActor (“The Mob Doctor,” “Friday Night Lights”)<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Director Steven Soderbergh turns 53 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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