Section: Not a single day without an event #January_14 #Holidays Feast of Divina Pastora (Barquisimeto) Feast of the Ass (Medieval Christianity) National Flag Day (Georgia) National Forest Conservation Day (Thailand) Old New Year Ratification Day (United States) Sidereal winter solstice celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; marking the transition of the Sun to Capricorn, and the first day of the six months Uttarayana period. (see April 14): Magh Bihu (Assam) Maghi (Punjab, #Haryana, Himachal Pradesh) Makar Sankranti (India) Maghe Sankranti (Nepal) The first day of Pongal, a Tamil New Year. (Tamil) Uttarayan (Uttarakhand, Gujarat and Rajasthan) Events 1639 - Connecticuts first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, was adopted. 1784 - The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War. 1898 - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote Alices Adventures in Wonderland under the pen name Lewis Carroll, died in Guildford, England, at age 65. 1952 - NBCs Today show premiered. 1953 - Josip Broz Tito was elected president of Yugoslavia by the countrys Parliament. 1954 - Baseball player Joe Dimaggio and actress Marilyn Monroe were married at San Francisco City Hall. 1963 - George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of segregation forever. 1970 - Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. 1993 - Late-night TV talk show 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. 2004 - President George W. Bush unveiled a plan to send astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond. 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 Saturns moon, Titan. 2008 - Republican Bobby Jindal, the first elected Indian-American governor in the United States, took office in Louisiana. Historic Birthdays Benedict Arnold 1/14/1741 - 6/14/1801 (American patriot/traitor) Henry Baldwin 1/14/1780 - 4/21/1844 (American Supreme Court justice) Berthe Morisot 1/14/1841 - 3/2/1895 (#French painter/printmaker) Art Young 1/14/1866 - 12/29/1943 (American cartoonist) Hugh Lofting 1/14/1886 - 9/26/1947 (English/American author) Hal Roach 1/14/1892 - 11/2/1992 (#American producer/director) John Dos Passos 1/14/1896 - 9/28/1970 (American writer/journalist) Carlos Romulo 1/14/1899 - 12/15/1985 (Philippine diplomat) Sir Cecil Beaton 1/14/1904 - 1/18/1980 (American #photographer)
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