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Today in History ~ January 14
Events1639 - The first constitution of Connecticut - the "Fundamental Orders" - was adopted
1690 - Clarinet invented, Germany
1699 - Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches"
1724 - Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne
1784 - Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War. [H]
1794 - Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom Va, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife
1799 - Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets
1858 - French emperor Napoleon III escaped an attempt on his life.
1864 - General Sherman begins his march to the South
1873 - "Celluloid" registered as a trademark
1878 - US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional
1896 - Carlo Ponzi who had an entire type of crime named after him: the "Ponzi scheme."immigrates to America from Italy. [H]
1897 - 6,960-m (22,834') Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) 1st climbed
1900 - Puccini's opera "Tosca" received a mixed reception at its world premiere in Rome.
1914 - Henry Ford introduces assembly line, allowing completion of one Model-T Ford every 90 minutes
1918 - Finland & USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar [last major western nations to do this.]
1935 - Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use
1943 - President Franklin Roosevelt & Winston Churchill opened a 10 day wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco, concerning WW II
1943 - Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw
1949 - Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die
1950 - US recalls all consular officials from China
1952 - "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV
1953 - Yugoslavia elects it's 1st president (Marshal Tito)
1954 - NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio marries actress Marilyn Monroe
1956 - Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti"
1960 - US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant
1963 - George C Wallace sworn in as governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!" [H]
1967 - NY Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments (and in fact,.... they were!)
1967 - Sonny & Cher release "Beat Goes On"
1969 - 25 crew members of the U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise were killed in an explosion that ripped through the ship off Hawaii.
1972 - "Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV
1976 - "Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC)
1976 - Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves
1980 - After being released from government control, gold reached a new record price, exceeding $800 an ounce.
1981 - FCC frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish
1985 - The British pound sank to a record low, $1.11, and the Bank of England raised interest rates to halt the decline.
1985 - M Navratilova is 3rd to win 100 tennis tournaments (Connors & Evert)
1990 - "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV
1991 - Two PLO leaders and a third man were killed in Tunis. Al Fatah, the PLO's main-line faction, blamed a dissident group for the assassinations.
1992 - Historic Mideast peace talks continued in Washington, with Israel and Jordan holding their first-ever formal negotiations, and the Israelis continuing exchanges with Palestinian representatives.
1993 - David Letterman accepted a multimillion-dollar deal to move his late night talk show to CBS in August after his NBC contract expires.
1997 - The House ethics committee's ranking Democrat, Jim McDermott of Washington state, removed himself from the investigation of Speaker Newt Gingrich, bowing to pressure that built quickly concerning his role in the handling of an illegally taped phone call involving the House leader.
2000 - Thousands of Cubans marched in Havana to demand that 6-year-old refugee Elian Gonzalez be returned to his father in Cuba. The boy’s mother had drowned as they tried to enter the United States.
2002 - The leader of a Palestinian militia was killed by a bomb near his home on the West Bank, an act blamed on Israel and touching off a new wave of violence in the Middle East.
Birthdays Today
1730 - William Whipple, merchant/judge (Declaration of Independence signer)
1741 - Benedict Arnold (American General in Revolutionary War: traitor, conspired with British; name synonymous with treason)
1791 - Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm; 2' 2")
1874 - Thornton Waldo Burgess, author of "Peter Rabbit,"
1875 - Albert Schweitzer (philosopher, musician, physician, humanitarian: winner of Nobel Peace Prize [1952])
1892 - Hal Roach (producer, writer, director: One Million B.C., Road Show)
1906 - William Bendix (actor: Babe Ruth Story, Blackbeard the Pirate, The Detective Story, The Life of Riley)
1908 - Russ Columbo (singer, bandleader, songwriter: You Call It Madness, Let's Pretend There's A Moon, Prisoner of Love)
1917 - Billy Butterfield (musician: trumpet; founding member of World's Greatest Jazz Band)
1919 - Andy Rooney (writer: Pieces of My Mind; syndicated columnist; TV commentator: 60 Minutes)
1924 - Actor Guy Williams ("Lost In Space")
1926 - Tom Tryon (actor: Texas John Slaughter, The Cardinal, In Harm's Way, The Longest Day)
1929 - Billy Walker (singer: 'masked singer': Thank You for Calling, Charlie's Shoes, Word Games)
1931 - Caterina Valente (singer: The Breeze and I, Malaguena)
1936 - Ludmila Pinayeva, USSR, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1964, 1968, 1972)
1937 - Sonny Siebert (baseball)
1938 - Jack Jones (singer: Lollipops and Roses, Wives and Lovers, The Impossible Dream, Lady, The Race is On, Love Boat theme)
1940 - Julian Bond (legislator: Georgia [1965]; civil rights leader: helped found Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
1941 - Faye Dunaway (Academy Award-winning actress: Network [1976]; The Arrangement, Chinatown, The Deadly Trap, Little Big Man, Mommie Dearest, Three Days of the Condor, etc.)
1941 - Gibby Gilbert (golfer)
1943 - Astronaut Shannon Lucid
1944 - Graham Marsh (golfer)
1945 - Evangelist-turned-actor-and-singer Marjoe Gortner
1947 - Gene Washington (football: Minnesota Vikings WR: Super Bowl IV)
1948 - Actor Carl Weathers
1969 - Jason Bateman (actor: Little House on the Prairie, Breaking the Rules, Necessary Roughness, A Taste for Killing)
Famous deaths
1742 - Edmund Halley,English astronomer who's genius was eclipsed by Newton, observed the comet that now bears his name dies at 85,
1898 - Author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as "Alice in Wonderland" creator Lewis Carroll, died in Guildford, England, less than two weeks before his 66th birthday.
1957 - Humphrey Bogart, actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny), dies at 57
1978 - Blossom Rock, actress (Grandmamma-Addams Family), dies at 81
1984 - Ray Kroc, founder of MacDonalds/owner San Diego Padres, dies at 81
1986 - Donna Reed, actress (Donna Reed Show, Dallas), dies of cancer at 64
1996 - Eric Briault, educationalist, dies at 84
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