TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2019 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1699 - English sea explorer William Dampier sets out to chart the northwest coast of Australia.

1784 - The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.

1812 - The first public water mill in New South Wales is opened.

1830 - Captain Charles Sturt finds that the Murrumbidgee River flows into the Murray.

1841 - The highest flood in Brisbane’s recorded history occurs.

1858 - French emperor Napoleon III escaped an attempt on his life.

1878 - Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for Britain’s Queen Victoria.

1907 - An earthquake killed over 1000 people in Kingston, Jamaica.

1954 - Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married. The marriage only lasted nine months.

1985 - Martina Navratilova won her 100th tournament. She joined Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert Lloyd as the only professional tennis players to win 100 tournaments.

1993 - The British government pledged to introduce legislation to criminalise invasions of privacy by the press.

1996 - Jorge Sampaio was elected president of Portugal.

2000 - A U.N. tribunal sentenced five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 massacre of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village. Birthdays

Benedict Arnold 1741 Henri Fantin-Latour 1836 Albert Schweitzer 1875 Cecil Beaton 1904 William Bendix 1906 Russ Columbo 1908 Mark Goodson 1915

Billy Butterfield (World’s Greatest Jazz Band) 1917 Andy Rooney 1919

Tom Tryon 1926

Billy Walker 1929 Caterina Valente 1931 Clarence Carter 1936 Sonny Siebert 1937 Billie Jo Spears 1937 Jack Jones 1938

Allen Toussaint 1938 Julian Bond 1940

Faye Dunaway 1941 Gibby Gilbert 1941