On January 14, 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt (left) became the first president to travel on official business by airplane. Crossing the
Atlantic by air, Roosevelt flew in a Boeing 314 Flying Boat dubbed
the Dixie Clipper (below) to a World War II strategy meeting with
Winston Churchill at Casablanca in North Africa.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (left) with Winston Churchill at the
Casablanca Conference, January 22, 1943.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

MIKE GRACIA

   
Patsy Cline (born Virginia Patterson Hensley)
(September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963)

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Patsy Cline Plane Crash Site Inscription.

            ROSS SIMPSON

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
(November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965)

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, the British leader who guided
Great Britain and the Allies through the crisis of World War II, died in
London at the age of 90.

Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993)

Marshall served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991
and was the Court’s first African-American justice.

   
    
  
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Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married on this day in
1954. The marriage only lasted nine months.