TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS THURSDAY, JAN. 14, the 14th day of 2021. There are 351 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French General Charles de Gaulle opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.
In 1784, the United States ratified the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War; Britain followed suit in April 1784.
In 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.
In 1914, Ford Motor Co. greatly improved its assembly-line operation by employing an endless chain to pull each chassis along at its Highland Park, Michigan, plant.
In 1963, George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with the pledge “Segregation forever!” — a view Wallace later repudiated.
In 1964, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, in a brief televised address, thanked Americans for their condolences and messages of support following the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, nearly two months earlier.
In 1968, the Green Bay Packers of the NFL defeated the AFL’s Oakland Raiders, 33-14, in the second AFLNFL World Championship game (now referred to as Super Bowl II).
In 1970, Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
In 1972, the situation comedy “Sanford and Son,” starring Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson, premiered on NBC-TV. 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.
In 2010, President Barack Obama and the U.S. moved to take charge in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, dispatching thousands of troops along with tons of aid.
In 2013, Lance Armstrong ended a decade of denial by confessing to Oprah Winfrey during a videotaped interview that he’d used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Blues singer Clarence Carter is 85. Actor Faye Dunaway is 80. Actor Carl Weathers and singer-producer T-Bone Burnett are 73. Movie writer-director Lawrence Kasdan is 72. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd is 69. Rock singer Geoff Tate (Queensryche) is 62. Movie writer-director Steven Soderbergh is 58. Rapper Slick Rick is 56. Actor Emily Watson, actor-comedian Tom Rhodes and rock musician Zakk Wylde are 54. Rapper-actor LL Cool J is 53. Actor Jason Bateman and rock singermusician Dave Grohl are 52. Actor Kevin Durand is 47. Retro-soul singersongwriter Marc Broussard, rock singermusician Caleb Followill (Kings of Leon) and actor Zach Gilford are 39. Actor Jake Choi is 36. Actor-singer Grant Gustin is 31. Singer/guitarist Molly Tuttle is 28.