THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Today is Sunday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2024. There are 352 days left in the year.
Birthdays: Blues singer Clarence Carter is 87. Singer Jack Jones is 86. Actor Faye Dunaway is 83. Actor Holland Taylor is 81. Actor Carl Weathers is
76. Singer-producer T-Bone Burnett is 76. Movie writer-director Lawrence Kasdan is 75. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd is 72. Movie writer-director Steven Soderbergh is 61. Actor Mark Addy is
60. Former Fox News Channel anchorman Shepard Smith is
60. Actor Emily Watson is 57. Actor-comedian Tom Rhodes is
57. Rapper-actor LL Cool J is 56. Actor Jason Bateman is 55. Rock singer-musician Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana) is 55. Actor Kevin Durand is 50. Actor Ward Horton is 48. Actor Emayatzy Corinealdi is 44. Retro-soul singer-songwriter Marc Broussard is 42. Rock singermusician Caleb Followill (Kings of Leon) is 42. Actor Jake Choi is 39. Singer-guitarist Molly Tuttle is 31.
▶ In 1784, the United States ratified the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War; Britain followed suit in April.
▶ In 1882, a group from the social elite of Boston formally established The Country Club of Brookline, offering for members-only horseback riding, shooting, tennis, and the newest sport, golf. It was the first such club in the United States.
▶ In 1914, Ford Motor Co. greatly improved its assemblyline operation by employing an endless chain to pull each chassis along at its Highland Park, Mich., plant.
▶ In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and French General Charles de Gaulle opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.
▶ In 1952, NBC’s “Today” show premiered, with Dave Garroway as host. ▶ n 1954, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married at San Francisco City Hall.
▶ In 1963, George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with the pledge, “Segregation forever!” — a view he 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 Kennedy, nearly two months earlier.
▶ In 1967, the Sixties’ “Summer of Love” unofficially began with a “Human Be-In” involving tens of thousands of young people at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
▶ In 1970, Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
▶ In 1975, the House Internal Security Committee (formerly the House Un-American Activities Committee) was disbanded.
▶ In 1994, President 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 Obama and the United States moved to take charge in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, dispatching thousands of troops along with tons of aid.
▶ In 2013, cyclist 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.
▶ In 2022, the Australian government revoked the visa of tennis star Novak Djokovic for a second time as he fought to compete in the Australian Open despite being unvaccinated for COVID-19.