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What happened in history on this day: January 14?
On January 14 in ...
- 1784 - Revolutionary War ends; US Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris.
- 1794 - Doctor Jessee Bennet of Edom, Virginia, USA, performs first successful Cesarean section operation, on his wife.
- 1799 - Eli Whitney receives US government contract for 10,000 muskets.
- 1813 - Gideon Hawley becomes first state school superintendent in US (New York).
- 1847 - Conspiracy in New Mexico against US.
- 1861 - Fort Pikens, Florida, falls into state hands.
- 1861 - Treasury Secretary Philip F. Thomas resigns after disagreeing with President Buchanan's policies on South Carolina.
- 1863 - Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teched, Louisiana.
- 1864 - Battle of Cosby Creek, Tennessee.
- 1864 - USA Army General Tecumseh Sherman begins his march to the South.
- 1868 - North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh.
- 1875 - The Specie Resumption Act is enacted in the US, calling for the resumption of specie payments (gold, silver) at par on United States notes.
- 1878 - US Supreme Court rules race separation on trains is unconstitutional.
- 1914 - Henry Ford introduces the assembly line, for Model T Ford automobiles.
- 1936 - L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America.
- 1938 - National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia formed (New York).
- 1943 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin Roosevelt meet at Casablanca, Morocco, over eleven days. The decision is made to attack the island of Sicily. British Bomber Command is directed to focus on submarine bases on the Biscay coast in the short term, and submarine construction yards as long term targets.
- 1946 - The United States announces its total expenditure during the war: US$200 billion.
- 1950 - US recalls all consular officials from China.
- 1952 - Snow storm in Sierra Nevada kills 26.
- 1961 - US President Dwight Eisenhower signs an executive order prohibiting any person subject to the jurisdiction of the USA from holding gold abroad, with exception of gold coins of recognized collector value.
- 1963 - George C Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!".
- 1967 - 20,000 attend the Human Be-In, San Francisco, California, USA.
- 1967 - New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
- 1969 - 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers.
- 1975 - USSR breaks trade agreement with US.
- 1979 - US President Jimmy Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday.
- 1981 - The Federal Communications Commissions frees radio stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish.
- 1985 - Sixteen indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees.
- 1994 - U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin Accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
- 2000 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98, a level never reached before (the peak of the Dot-com bubble).
- 2009 - American department store chain Gottschalks files to reorganize under bankruptcy protection.
- 2009 - American apparel chain Goody's files for bankruptcy to liquidate its remaining 282 stores.
Births on January 14
- 1898 - Birth of Helen Flint in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Sea Devils, Married Before Breakfast).
- 1906 - Birth of William Bendix in New York City, New York, USA; actor (The Life of Riley radio show (1944-51), The Life of Riley TV show (1953-58), Lifeboat, Babe Ruth Story).
- 1908 - Birth of Russ Columbo in Camden, New Jersey; singer (NBC Radio) (dies 1934).
- 1909 - Birth of Joseph Walton in Losey, Wisconsin, USA; film director (Damned, Accident).
- 1915 - Birth of Mark Goodson in Sacramento, California, USA; game show tycoon (Goodson-Todman productions, Beat the Clock, Family Feud, Match Game, Password, The Price is Right, To Tell the Truth, I've Got A Secret, What's My Line?) (dies 1992).
- 1919 - Birth of Andy Rooney in Albany, New York, USA; CBS news correspondent (60 Minutes).
- 1921 - Birth of Mark Lawrence in Washington DC, USA; pianist (Alice Pearce).
- 1924 - Birth of Guy Williams in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Zorro - Zorro, Lost in Space, Bonanza, Disneyland).
- 1926 - Birth of Frank Aletter in Long Island, New York, USA; actor (General Hospital, Bringing Up Buddy, Mac - It's About Time, Tom - Nancy).
- 1926 - Birth of Thomas Tryon in Hartford, Connecticut, USA; actor/novelist (I Married a Monster from Outer Space, Cardinal, All That Glitters, John Slaughter - Texas John Slaughter, The Virginian).
- 1929 - Birth of Billy Walker in Ralls, Texas; country singer ("Charlie's Shoes" (1966), "Funny How Time Slips Away", "Cross the Brazos at Waco" (1964)) (dies 2006).
- 1936 - Birth of John Paul Cain in Sweetwater, Texas, USA; PGA golfer (1989 Greater Grand Rapids).
- 1938 - Birth of Jack Jones in Los Angeles, California, USA; singer (The Love Boat Theme).
- 1940 - Birth of Julian Bond in Nashville, Tennessee, USA; American politician (Democrat-Georgia), civil rights leader.
- 1941 - Birth of C L "Gibby" Gilbert Junior in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA; PGA golfer (1976 Danny Thomas).
- 1941 - Birth of Marjoe Gortner in Long Beach, California, USA; actor (Speak Up America, Falcon Crest).
- 1941 - Birth of [Dorothy] Faye Dunaway in Bascom, Florida, USA; actress (Chinatown, Bonnie and Clyde, Alias, A Will of Their Own, It Had to be You).
- 1942 - Birth of Carol Bellamy in Planfield, New Jersey, USA; City Council President-Democrat-New York City, 1978-85.
- 1943 - Birth of Holland Taylor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (The Practice, Bossom Buddies, Camilla - Naked Truth, Two and a Half Men, The Practice).
- 1943 - Birth of Ronald Hunter in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Lazarus Syndrome).
- 1948 - Birth of Carl Weathers in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; actor (Apollo Creed - Rocky, In the Heat of the Night, Street Justice, Fortune Dane).
- 1949 - Birth of Christine Belford in Amityville, New York, USA; actress (Banacek, Empire, Beverly Hills 90210).
- 1949 - Birth of Lawrence Kasdan in Miami, Florida, USA; director/writer (Accidental Tourist).
- 1966 - Birth of Daniel J Schneider in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; actor (Dennis - Head of the Class).
- 1968 - Birth of Fred[ric] Honebein in San Francisco, California, USA; rower (Olympics-5th-1996).
- 1968 - Birth of L L Cool J [James Todd Smith] in Saint Albans, New York, USA; rapper (Bigger and Deffer).
- 1969 - Birth of Jason Kent Bateman in Rye, New York; actor (David - Valerie, Hogan Family, Arrested Development).
- 1970 - Birth of Steve Cooke in Kanai, Hawaii; pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates).
- 1973 - Birth of Rod Myers in Conroe, Texas, USA; outfielder (Kansas City Royals).
- 1974 - Birth of Nancy Napolski in Hinsdale, Idaho, USA; air rifle (Olympics-1996).
- 1980 - Birth of Cory Gibbs; American soccer player.
Deaths on January 14
- 1970 - John J "Johnny" Murphy, American baseball pitcher (New York Yankees) and general manager (New York Mets), dies at age 61 of a heart attack.
- 1977 - Anaïs Nin, Cuban/American writer (Delta of Venus), dies at age 73.
- 1978 - Death of Kurt Gödel in Princeton, New Jersey, USA (born in 1906 in Brünn, Austria); mathematician who developed "Gödel's proof" which shows that mathematics can have internal contradictions.
- 1984 - Ray Kroc, founder of MacDonalds/owner San Diego Padres, dies at age 82 (born 1902).
- 1986 - Death of Donna Reed of pancreatic cancer at age 64; actress (Donna Reed Show TV show, Dallas TV show) (born 1921).
- 1987 - Death of Douglas Sirk (original name, Claus Detlef Sierck) in Lugano, Switzerland (born in Hamburg, Germany), at age 86; film director with Universal Studios. His credits include Magnificent Obsession (1954), There's Always Tomorrow (1955), Written on the Wind (1956), The Tarnished Angels (1957), and Imitation of Life (1959).
- 1994 - Esther Ralston, US actress (Tin Pan Alley, San Francisco Docks), dies at age 91.
- 2006 - Death of Jim Gary, American sculptor (born 1939).
- 2006 - Death of Shelley Winters at age 85 in Beverly Hills, California, USA; actress (Roseanne TV show, Oscar winner) (born 1920).
- 2007 - Death of Darlene Conley at age 72 in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Sally Spectra - The Bold and the Beautiful, Gunsmoke, Mary Tyler Moore, The Young and the Restless, Capitol, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives).
- 2009 - Ricardo Montalban, Mexican-born American actor (The Colby's, Mr. Roarke - Fantasy Island, Khan Noonien Singh - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), dies at age 88 of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles, California.
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