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• Nobody allowed as few points or gave up as few yards as the Seahawks.
• And nobody won as many games as those clubs, either.
• What a way to finish the season. When the AFC champion Broncos (15-3) play the NFC champion Seahawks (15-3) on Feb. 2 at what could be a chilly MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., it will be the first Super Bowl since 1991 pitting the league's highest-scoring team in the regular season against the team that was scored on the least, according to STATS.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Monday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2014. There are 345 days left in the year. This is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Jan. 20, 1981, Iran released 52 Americans it had held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.
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• On this date:
• In 1265, England's first representative Parliament met for the first time.
• In 1649, King Charles I of England went on trial, accused of high treason (he was found guilty and executed by month's end).
• In 1887, the U.S. Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.
• In 1936, Britain's King George V died; he was succeeded by Edward VIII.
• In 1942, Nazi officials held the notorious Wannsee conference, during which they arrived at their "final solution" that called for exterminating Jews.
• In 1954, "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial," a play by Herman Wouk based on part of his novel "The Caine Mutiny," opened on Broadway. The National Negro Network, America's first black-owned radio network, began broadcasting over 20 stations (however, it folded the following year).
• In 1961, John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States.
• In 1964, Capitol Records released the album "Meet the Beatles!"
• In 1986, the United States observed the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
• In 1989, George H.W. Bush was sworn in as the 41st president of the United States; Dan Quayle was sworn in as vice president.
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