Friday, January 14th The 014th day of 2011. There are 351 days left in the year. | |
Today's Highlights in History | |||
See a larger version of this front page. | On Jan. 14, 1943, President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill opened a wartime conference in Casablanca. (Go to article.) | ||
On January 14, 1882, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Apocalypse. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) |
On this date in: | |
1639 | Connecticut's first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, was adopted. |
1784 | The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War. |
1898 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pen name Lewis Carroll, died in Guildford, England, at age 65. |
1952 | NBC's "Today" show premiered. |
1953 | Josip Broz Tito was elected president of Yugoslavia by the country's Parliament. |
1954 | Baseball player Joe Dimaggio and actress Marilyn Monroe were married at San Francisco City Hall. |
1963 | George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of "segregation forever." |
1970 | Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. |
1993 | Late-night TV talk show host David Letterman announced he was moving from NBC to CBS. |
1994 | President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed accords in Moscow to stop aiming missiles at any nation and to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine. |
2004 | Former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow pleaded guilty to conspiracy as he accepted a 10-year prison sentence. |
2004 | J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. struck a deal to buy Bank One Corp. for $58 billion. |
2004 | President George W. Bush unveiled a plan to send astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond. |
2005 | Army Specialist Charles Graner Jr., the reputed ringleader of a band of rogue guards at the Abu Ghraib prison, was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of abusing Iraqi detainees. (He was later sentenced to 10 years in prison.) |
2005 | A European space probe sent back the first detailed pictures of the frozen surface of Saturn's moon, Titan. |
2008 | Republican Bobby Jindal, the first elected Indian-American governor in the United States, took office in Louisiana. |
Current Birthdays | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Holland Taylor turns 68 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello Actress Holland Taylor turns 68 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Historic Birthdays | |
Albert Schweitzer | |
1/14/1875 - 9/4/1965 Alsatian/German physician (Go to obit.) | |
60 | Benedict Arnold 1/14/1741 - 6/14/1801 American patriot/traitor |
64 | Henry Baldwin 1/14/1780 - 4/21/1844 American Supreme Court justice |
54 | Berthe Morisot 1/14/1841 - 3/2/1895 French painter/printmaker |
77 | Art Young 1/14/1866 - 12/29/1943 American cartoonist |
61 | Hugh Lofting 1/14/1886 - 9/26/1947 English/American author |
100 | Hal Roach 1/14/1892 - 11/2/1992 American producer/director |
74 | John Dos Passos 1/14/1896 - 9/28/1970 American writer/journalist |
86 | Carlos Romulo 1/14/1899 - 12/15/1985 Philippine diplomat |
76 | Sir Cecil Beaton 1/14/1904 - 1/18/1980 American photographer |
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