TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SATURDAY, JAN. 14, the 14th day of 2017. There are 351 days left in the year. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1967, the “Summer of Love” unofficially began with a “Human Be-In,” a gathering of tens of thousands of young people for a counterculture event at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
In 1784, the United States ratified the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War; Britain followed suit in April 1784. In 1900, Puccini’s opera “Tosca” had its world premiere in Rome.
In 1927, the Paramount silent romantic comedy “It,” starring Clara Bow (who became known as “The ‘It’ Girl”), had its world premiere in Los Angeles.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Gen. Charles de Gaulle opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.
In 1952, NBC’s “Today” show premiered, with Dave Garroway as the host, or “communicator.”
In 1954, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married at San Francisco City Hall. (The marriage lasted about nine months.) In 1963, George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with the pledge “Segregation forever!” — a view Wallace later repudiated.
In 1969, 27 people aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, off Hawaii, were killed when a rocket warhead exploded, setting off a fire and additional explosions.
In 1975, the House Internal Security Committee (formerly the House Un-American Activities Committee) was disbanded.
In 1994, President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed an accord to stop aiming missiles at any nation; the leaders joined Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk in signing an accord to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Blues singer Clarence Carter is 81. Singer Jack Jones is 79. Actress Faye Dunaway is 76. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd is 65. Rock singer Geoff Tate (Queensryche) is 58. Movie writer-director Steven Soderbergh is 54. Actress Emily Watson is 50. Rapper-actor LL Cool J is 49. Actor Jason Bateman and rock singermusician Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) are 48. Actor Kevin Durand is 43. Rock singer-musician Caleb Followill (Kings of Leon) and actor Zach Gilford are 35. Actor-singer Grant Gustin is 27.