DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Friday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2022. There are 351 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1784: The United States ratified the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War; Britain followed suit in April 1784.
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.
1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French General Charles de Gaulle opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.
1952: NBC’S “Today” show premiered, with Dave Garroway as the host, or “communicator.”
1954: Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio
were married at San Francisco City Hall. (The marriage lasted about nine months.)
1963: George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with the pledge, “Segregation forever!” – a view Wallace later repudiated.
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.
1967: The “Summer of Love” unofficially began with a “Human Be-in” involving tens of thousands of young people at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
1970: Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
1975: The House Internal Security Committee (formerly the House Unamerican Activities Committee) was disbanded.
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.
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.
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.
Blues singer Clarence Carter is 86. Singer Jack Jones is 84. Actor Faye Dunaway is 81. Actor Holland Taylor is 79. Singer-producer T-bone Burnett is 74. Actor Carl Weathers is 74. Singer Geoff Tate (Queensryche) is 63. Director Steven Soderbergh (“Erin Brockovich,” “Ocean’s Eleven”) is 59. TV anchor Shepard Smith is 58. Actor-producer Dan Schneider (“Head of the Class”) is 58. Rapper Slick Rick is 57. Actor Emily Watson (“Breaking the Waves”) is 55. Actor-comedian Tom Rhodes (“Mr. Rhodes”) is 55. Guitarist Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne, Black Label Society) is 55. Rapper-actor LL Cool J is 54. Actor Jason Bateman is 53. Musician Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters and of Nirvana is 53.