On this day, Jan. 14
1858 Napoleon III, emperor of the French, and his wife, Empress Eugenie, escaped an assassination attempt led by Italian revolutionary Felice Orsini, who was later captured and executed. 1913 The famous evangelist Billy Sunday held a revival meeting in a tabernacle erected for that purpose on the site of present-day Heinz Chapel.
1937 With 500 business guests in attendance, the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp. formally opened a new $10 million plant in Homestead, a 100-inch semi-continuous plate mill with a capacity of 729,000 tons per year.
1968 The Green Bay Packers of the NFL defeated the AFL’s Oakland Raiders, 33-14, in the second AFL-NFL World Championship game (now referred to as Super Bowl II).
1990 Pittsburgh City Council gave final approval to an ordinance for recycling newspapers, plastic, glass and aluminum cans. 2013 Lance Armstrong ended a decade of denial by confessing to Oprah Winfrey during a videotaped interview that he had used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France. Some items are from Stefan Lorant’s “Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City” (digital.library.pitt.edu/chronology).
— Compiled by Rick Nowlin
Today’s birthdays:
Blues singer Clarence Carter, 85. Singer Jack Jones, 83. Actor Faye Dunaway, 80. Actor Holland Taylor, 78. Actor Carl Weathers, 73. Singer-producer T-Bone Burnett, 73. Movie writer-director Lawrence Kasdan, 72. Pulitzer Prizewinning columnist Maureen Dowd, 69. Rock singer Geoff Tate (Queensryche), 62. Movie writer-director Steven Soderbergh, 58. Actor Mark Addy, 57. Actor/producer Dan Schneider, 57. Rapper Slick Rick, 56. Actor Emily Watson, 54. Actor-comedian Tom Rhodes, 54. Rock musician Zakk Wylde, 54. Rapper-actor LL Cool J, 53. Actor Jason Bateman, 52. Rock singer-musician Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters), 52. Actor Kevin Durand, 47. Actor Jordan Ladd, 46. Actor Emayatzy Corinealdi, 41. Retro-soul singer-songwriter Marc Broussard, 39. Rock singer-musician Caleb Followill (Kings of Leon), 39. Actor Zach Gilford, 39. Actor Jake Choi, 36. Actor Jonathan Osser, 32. Actor-singer Grant Gustin, 31. Singer/guitarist Molly Tuttle, 28.
Thought for today: “If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.” — Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll),
English author (1832-1898)