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On This Day in HistoryFriday, January 14th
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On Jan. 14, 1943, President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill opened a wartime conference in Casablanca. (Go to article.)On Jan. 14 , 1875Albert Schweitzerthe Alsatian-German doctor who received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, was born. Following his death onSept. 4 , 1965, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. |Other Birthdays)
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On January 14, 1882Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Apocalypse. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)

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1639Connecticut's first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, was adopted.
1784The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.
1898Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pen name Lewis Carroll, died in Guildford, England, at age 65.
1952NBC's "Today" show premiered.
1953Josip Broz Tito was elected president of Yugoslavia by the country's Parliament.
1954Baseball player Joe Dimaggio and actress Marilyn Monroe were married at San Francisco City Hall.
1963George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of "segregation forever."
1970Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
1993Late-night TV talk show host David Letterman announced he was moving from NBC to CBS.
1994President 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.
2004Former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow pleaded guilty to conspiracy as he accepted a 10-year prison sentence.
2004J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. struck a deal to buy Bank One Corp. for $58 billion.
2004President George W. Bush unveiled a plan to send astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond.
2005Army 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.)
2005A European space probe sent back the first detailed pictures of the frozen surface of Saturn's moon, Titan.
2008Republican 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.

92Andy Rooney
Commentator ("60 Minutes")
73Jack Jones
Singer
73Allen Toussaint
R&B singer, songwriter
71Julian Bond
Civil rights activist
70Faye Dunaway
Actress
64Bev Perdue
Governor of North Carolina
63T-Bone Burnett
Rock singer, producer
63Carl Weathers
Actor
62Lawrence Kasdan
Screenwriter, director
59Maureen Dowd
Columnist
48Steven Soderbergh
Director
47Shepard Smith
Broadcast journalist ("The Fox Report")
44Emily Watson
Actress
43LL Cool J
Rapper, actor
42Jason Bateman
Actor ("Arrested Development")
42Dave Grohl
Rock singer, musician (Foo Fighters)
29Caleb Followill
Rock musician (Kings of Leon)
Historic Birthdays
Albert Schweitzer
 
1/14/1875 - 9/4/1965
Alsatian/German physician 

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60Benedict Arnold
1/14/1741 - 6/14/1801
American patriot/traitor

64Henry Baldwin
1/14/1780 - 4/21/1844
American Supreme Court justice

54Berthe Morisot
1/14/1841 - 3/2/1895
French painter/printmaker

77Art Young
1/14/1866 - 12/29/1943
American cartoonist

61Hugh Lofting
1/14/1886 - 9/26/1947
English/American author

100Hal Roach
1/14/1892 - 11/2/1992
American producer/director

74John Dos Passos
1/14/1896 - 9/28/1970
American writer/journalist

86Carlos Romulo
1/14/1899 - 12/15/1985
Philippine diplomat

76Sir Cecil Beaton
1/14/1904 - 1/18/1980
American photographer

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