December 2 - Six of the seven Trucial States combine in an act of union to found the United Arab Emirates. FedEx, the logistics and delivery service, founded in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. January 14 - Guillermo de Torre, Spanish Dadaist author (b. Guillermo León Valencia, 21st President of Colombia (b. Christie's auctions a diamond known as Deepdene; it is later found to be artificially colored. Mehra, Jagdish; Rechenberg, Helmut (December 28, 2000). The Historical Development of Quantum Theory. The Canadiens became only the second team in NHL history to win the Cup in game Cherry Charm 7 on the road, and did so after the home team had won each of the previous six games in the series. April 3 - Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. David Sarnoff, American radio and television pioneer (b. February 3 - Jay C. Flippen, American actor (b. February 25 - Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist (b.