FDR becomes the first president to fly while in office, Joltin' Joe and Marilyn Monroe elope, Bogie dies, and the Miami Dolphins cap off a perfect season, all on this day.
5 / 46
German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons
1875: Albert Schweitzer, the theologian and physician who would receive the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life," is born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire but now Haut-Rhin, France.