January 14
1639 - The first constitution of Connecticut, Fundamental Orders, was adopted.
1784 - The United States ratified a treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.
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.
1898 - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pen name Lewis Carroll, died in Guildford, England, at age 65.
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 and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met at the Casablanca Conference during World War II.
1952 - NBC's "Today" show premiered.
1953 - Josip Broz Tito formally became the first president of the Republic of Yugoslavia.
1954 - Marilyn Monroe married baseball legend Joe DiMaggio.
1963 - George Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama, promising "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.
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 Un-American Activities Committee) was disbanded.
1990 - The Simpsons premiered on television.
1993 - Late-night TV host David Letterman announced he was moving from NBC to CBS.
1994 - President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed accords in Moscow to stop aiming missiles at any nation and to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.
2004 - Former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow pleaded guilty to conspiracy as he accepted a 10-year prison sentence.
2004 - J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. struck a deal to buy Bank One Corp. for $58 billion.
2005 - Army Specialist Charles Graner Jr., the reputed ringleader of a band of rogue guards at the Abu Ghraib prison, was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of abusing Iraqi detainees. (He was later sentenced to 10 years in prison.)
2005 - A European space probe sent back the first detailed pictures of the frozen surface of Saturn's moon, Titan.
2008 - Republican Bobby Jindal takes office as governor of Louisiana, the first elected Indian-American governor in U.S. history.
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.
2011 - The national Republican Party ousted chairman Michael Steele and chose Wisconsin party chief Reince Priebus to lead in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election.
2020 - As House Democrats prepared to send articles of impeachment to the Senate for the trial of President Donald Trump, they released a trove of documents obtained from a close associate of Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, including a handwritten note that mentioned asking Ukraine’s president to investigate “the Biden case.”
2020 - “Jeopardy” viewers saw veteran Ken Jennings beat James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter to capture the $1 million prize in the fourth night of the show’s “Greatest of All Time” tournament.
Birthdays
28 - Molly Tuttle (singer)
31 - Grant Gustin (actor)
31 - Kacy Catanzaro (gymnast / professional wrestler)
32 - Jonathan Osser (actor)
35 - Matt Riddle (professional wrestler)
36 - Jake Choi (actor)
39 - Zach Gilford (actor)
45 - Ward Horton (actor)
46 - Jordan Ladd (actor)
47 - Kevin Durand (actor)
52 - Jason Bateman (actor)
52 - Dave Grohl (singer)
53 - LL Cool J (actor/rapper)
54 - Tom Rhodes (actor/comedian)
54 - Emily Watson (actress)
57 - Dan Schneider (actor)
57 - Shepard Smith (news anchor)
57 - Mark Addy (actor)
69 - Maureen Dowd (columnist)
73 - Carl Weathers (actor)
78 - Holland Taylor (actor)
80 - Faye Dunaway (actress)
83 - Jack Jones (singer)
85 - Clarence Carter (singer)
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Today in Sports History - January 14
1948 - Plastic helmets were prohibited in the NFL.
1961 - Willard Dewveall of the Chicago Bears becomes the first NFL player to leave for the AFL.
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).
1973 - The Miami Dolphins became the first NFL to finish a season undefeated after defeating the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII to end with a perfect 17-0 record.
1974 - The World Football League was founded.
1985 - Martina Navratilova won her 100th tournament. She joined Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert Lloyd as the only professional tennis players to win 100 tournaments.
1987 - Catfish Hunter and Billy Williams are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1989 - Bobby Knight won his 500th career victory as a college basketball coach.
1990 - Joe Montana (San Francisco 49ers) set an NFL record when he threw his 30th and 31st post-season touchdown passes. Terry Bradshaw held the previous record of 30.
2002 - Barry Bonds signed a five-year, $90 million contract with the San Francisco Giants.
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.
2020 - Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora is fired amid Major League Baseball's investigation into sign-stealing by the Houston Astros; Cora was previously the Astros' bench coach before moving to Boston.
1639 - The first constitution of Connecticut, Fundamental Orders, was adopted.
1784 - The United States ratified a treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.
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.
1898 - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pen name Lewis Carroll, died in Guildford, England, at age 65.
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 and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met at the Casablanca Conference during World War II.
1952 - NBC's "Today" show premiered.
1953 - Josip Broz Tito formally became the first president of the Republic of Yugoslavia.
1954 - Marilyn Monroe married baseball legend Joe DiMaggio.
1963 - George Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama, promising "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.
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 Un-American Activities Committee) was disbanded.
1990 - The Simpsons premiered on television.
1993 - Late-night TV host David Letterman announced he was moving from NBC to CBS.
1994 - President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed accords in Moscow to stop aiming missiles at any nation and to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.
2004 - Former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow pleaded guilty to conspiracy as he accepted a 10-year prison sentence.
2004 - J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. struck a deal to buy Bank One Corp. for $58 billion.
2005 - Army Specialist Charles Graner Jr., the reputed ringleader of a band of rogue guards at the Abu Ghraib prison, was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of abusing Iraqi detainees. (He was later sentenced to 10 years in prison.)
2005 - A European space probe sent back the first detailed pictures of the frozen surface of Saturn's moon, Titan.
2008 - Republican Bobby Jindal takes office as governor of Louisiana, the first elected Indian-American governor in U.S. history.
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.
2011 - The national Republican Party ousted chairman Michael Steele and chose Wisconsin party chief Reince Priebus to lead in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election.
2020 - As House Democrats prepared to send articles of impeachment to the Senate for the trial of President Donald Trump, they released a trove of documents obtained from a close associate of Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, including a handwritten note that mentioned asking Ukraine’s president to investigate “the Biden case.”
2020 - “Jeopardy” viewers saw veteran Ken Jennings beat James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter to capture the $1 million prize in the fourth night of the show’s “Greatest of All Time” tournament.
Birthdays
28 - Molly Tuttle (singer)
31 - Grant Gustin (actor)
31 - Kacy Catanzaro (gymnast / professional wrestler)
32 - Jonathan Osser (actor)
35 - Matt Riddle (professional wrestler)
36 - Jake Choi (actor)
39 - Zach Gilford (actor)
45 - Ward Horton (actor)
46 - Jordan Ladd (actor)
47 - Kevin Durand (actor)
52 - Jason Bateman (actor)
52 - Dave Grohl (singer)
53 - LL Cool J (actor/rapper)
54 - Tom Rhodes (actor/comedian)
54 - Emily Watson (actress)
57 - Dan Schneider (actor)
57 - Shepard Smith (news anchor)
57 - Mark Addy (actor)
69 - Maureen Dowd (columnist)
73 - Carl Weathers (actor)
78 - Holland Taylor (actor)
80 - Faye Dunaway (actress)
83 - Jack Jones (singer)
85 - Clarence Carter (singer)
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Today in Sports History - January 14
1948 - Plastic helmets were prohibited in the NFL.
1961 - Willard Dewveall of the Chicago Bears becomes the first NFL player to leave for the AFL.
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).
1973 - The Miami Dolphins became the first NFL to finish a season undefeated after defeating the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII to end with a perfect 17-0 record.
1974 - The World Football League was founded.
1985 - Martina Navratilova won her 100th tournament. She joined Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert Lloyd as the only professional tennis players to win 100 tournaments.
1987 - Catfish Hunter and Billy Williams are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1989 - Bobby Knight won his 500th career victory as a college basketball coach.
1990 - Joe Montana (San Francisco 49ers) set an NFL record when he threw his 30th and 31st post-season touchdown passes. Terry Bradshaw held the previous record of 30.
2002 - Barry Bonds signed a five-year, $90 million contract with the San Francisco Giants.
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.
2020 - Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora is fired amid Major League Baseball's investigation into sign-stealing by the Houston Astros; Cora was previously the Astros' bench coach before moving to Boston.
