Updated January 13, 2012, 1:28 pm
On Jan. 14, 1943, President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.
On Jan. 14, 1875, Albert Schweitzer, the Alsatian-German doctor who received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize , was born. Following his death on Sept. 4, 1965, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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1639 Connecticut’s 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 “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” under the pen name Lewis Carroll, died in Guildford, England, at age 65. 1952 NBC’s “Today” show premiered. 1953 Josip Broz Tito was elected president of Yugoslavia by the country’s 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 Saturn’s moon, Titan. 2008 Republican Bobby Jindal, the first elected Indian-American governor in the United States, took office in Louisiana. Current Birthdays
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Director Steven Soderbergh turns 49 years old today.
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Actress Holland Taylor turns 69 years old today.
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1938 Jack Jones, Singer, turns 74 1938 Allen Toussaint, R&B singer, songwriter, turns 74 1940 Julian Bond, Civil rights activist, turns 72 1941 Faye Dunaway, Actress, turns 71 1947 Bev Perdue, Governor of North Carolina, turns 65 1948 T-Bone Burnett, Rock singer, producer, turns 64 1948 Carl Weathers, Actor, turns 64 1949 Lawrence Kasdan, Screenwriter, director, turns 63 1952 Maureen Dowd, Columnist, turns 60 1964 Shepard Smith, Broadcast journalist (“The Fox Report”), turns 48 1967 Emily Watson, Actress, turns 45 1968 LL Cool J, Rapper, actor, turns 44 1969 Jason Bateman, Actor (“Arrested Development”), turns 43 1969 Dave Grohl, Rock singer, musician (Foo Fighters), turns 43 1982 Caleb Followill, Rock musician (Kings of Leon), turns 30
Historic Birthdays
Albert Schweitzer 1/14/1875 – 9/4/1965 Alsatian/German physician.Go to obituary »
60 Benedict Arnold 1/14/1741 – 6/14/1801
American patriot/traitor64 Henry Baldwin 1/14/1780 – 4/21/1844
American Supreme Court justice54 Berthe Morisot 1/14/1841 – 3/2/1895
French painter/printmaker77 Art Young 1/14/1866 – 12/29/1943
American cartoonist61 Hugh Lofting 1/14/1886 – 9/26/1947
English/American author100 Hal Roach 1/14/1892 – 11/2/1992
American producer/director74 John Dos Passos 1/14/1896 – 9/28/1970
American writer/journalist86 Carlos Romulo 1/14/1899 – 12/15/1985
Philippine diplomat76 Sir Cecil Beaton 1/14/1904 – 1/18/1980
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