1945: Just months before he died -- and a few more months before the end of World War II -- President Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated for an unprecedented fourth term. Read how the relationship between Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill helped the allies win the war, on HistoryNet.com.
U.S. President Roosevelt, left, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, met here in an unprecedented history making war conference, are pictured on the lawn of the Hotel ANFA in Casablanca, January 14, 1943, the scene of the historic meeting. It was here that the now famous phrase was uttered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Unconditional Surrender" from the enemy in his historic conference with Sir Winston Churchill.
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Also in history today:
1567: Portuguese forces drove the French out of Rio de Janeiro once and for all, but the victorious commander, Estácio de Sá, is mortally wounded by an arrow in the eye.
1839: In the Battle of Yungay, the Chilean-Peruvian Restoration Army under Manuel Bulnes decisively defeated and destroyed the Peru-Bolivian Confederation army led by Bolivian Marshal Andrés de Santa Cruz.
