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'''January 14'''
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'''January 14''' in history:
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* 1639, the "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that
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created a government, is adopted in Connecticut
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* 1784, during the American Revolutionary War: The United States
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ratifies a peace treaty with England
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* 1832, American author Edgar Allan Poe publishes his first short
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story,
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"Metzengerstein"
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* 1858, Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt
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* 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United
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States to travel via airplane while in office when he travels to meet
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Winston Churchill at the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and
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study the next phase of the war
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* 1950, the first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight
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* 1951, the National Football League has its first Pro Bowl Game (Los
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Angeles, California)
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* 1967, the Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate
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Park, launching the Summer of Love. Between 20,000 to 30,000 people
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attend
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* 1973, Super Bowl VII: The Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington
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Redskins. The Dolphins become the first NFL team to go undefeated in a
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season
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* 1975, teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson,
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aka "the Black Panther"
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* 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin
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sign the Kremlin accords
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* 1998, Whitewater prosecutors questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton at the
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White House for 10 minutes about the gathering of FBI background files
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on past Republican political appointees
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* 2000, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches a record high of
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11,722.98
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* 2003, Kmart Corp. announced its biggest round of cutbacks yet, saying
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it would close 326 more stores and eliminate 37,000 more jobs in hopes
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of getting out of bankruptcy by the end of April 2003. (Kmart emerged
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from Chapter 11 protection in May 2003.)
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* 2004, the national flag of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag",
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was restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years
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