January 15th 1929. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior is born in Atlanta. King's non-violent campaign to a legal segregation of African-Americans in the south included the March on Washington.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. "
1973. President Richard Nixon suspends all U.S. offensive action in Vietnam, citing progress at peace talks in Paris. That's where a peace agreement is signed days later, paving the way for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam.
1559. England's Queen Elizabeth I whose country role's on the world's stage during her long rule is crowned in London's Westminster Abbey.
1943. Work is completed on the Pentagon, home of the Defense Department and one of the world's largest office buildings.
And 1967. The first Super Bowl takes place in Los Angeles, with the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-to-10.
Today in history, January 15th. Carload Bradley. The Associated Press.
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